Dictionary Defintions

I was cleaning out my room when I found a list of words that I made perhaps a few years ago... A list of words that I meant to find the definition of...

masochism - a sexual perversion characterized by pleasure in being subjected to pain or humiliation especially by a love object

credulity - readiness or willingness to believe especially on slight or uncertain evidence

esoteric - 1 a : designed for or understood by the specially initiated alone b : requiring or exhibiting knowledge that is restricted to a small group ; broadly : difficult to understand 2 a : limited to a small circle b : PRIVATE, CONFIDENTIAL 3 : of special, rare, or unusual interest

terse - 1 : smoothly elegant : POLISHED 2 : devoid of superfluity ;

frivolous - 1 a : of little weight or importance b : having no sound basis (as in fact or law) 2 a : lacking in seriousness b : marked by unbecoming levity

flagrant. - 1 archaic : fiery hot : BURNING 2 : conspicuously offensive ; especially : so obviously inconsistent with what is right or proper as to appear to be a flouting of law or morality

ephemeral - 1 : lasting one day only 2 : lasting a very short time

gregarious - 1 a : tending to associate with others of one's kind : SOCIAL b : marked by or indicating a liking for companionship : SOCIABLE c : of or relating to a social group a of a plant : growing in a cluster or a colony b : living in contiguous nests but not forming a true colony -- used especially of wasps and bees

Other words on the list which I don't have time to look up now...
conscientious, garrulous, scrupulous, vacillate, opulence, censorious, rhetorical, mundane, capricious, surretitios, apathy, erudite, equivocal, deprecate, ambivalence, altruistic, ascetic, decorum, explicit, guile, hedonist


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