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Group (5) - Matching Quizzes
misanthrope 
1
 | (人間嫌い) one who hates or mistrusts mankind |
| (初心者) beginner; person new to a field or activity |
| (ドンキホーテ) idealistic without regard to practicality |
| (閲覧) read or examine, typically with great care |
murky
2
| (閲覧) read or examine, typically with great care |
| (懲罰的損害) punishing; involving punishment; awarding or inflicting punishment |
| (暗い) dark and gloomy; thick with fog; vague |
| (時代遅れ) no longer useful; outmoded; antiquated |
nettle
3
| (頑固) hardened in wrongdoing or wickedness; not giving in to persuasion |
| (出しゃばる) push oneself or one's ideas forward or intrude; stick out or extrude |
| (有無を言わせぬ) offensively self-assured; dictatorial; not allowing contradiction or refusal |
| (イラクサ) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations; vex |
noisome
4
| (誤称) error in naming person or place; name wrongly or unsuitably applied to a person or an object |
| (壊滅させる) destroy completely; scrape or shave off |
| (賛辞) formal or high praise; formal eulogistic composition intended as public compliment |
| (嫌なにおい) foul-smelling; offensive by arousing disgust; harmful or dangerous |
obsession
5
| (不安定な) uncertain; risky; dangerously lacking in security or stability |
| (衒学) marked by narrow focus on or display of learning, especially formal rules and trivial points |
| (頑固) hardened in wrongdoing or wickedness; not giving in to persuasion |
| (執着するのは) compulsive, often unreasonable idea or emotion |
parody
6
| (結婚) relating to money; requiring payment of money |
| (猶予) usually short interval of rest or relief; delay in punishment |
| (はrecapitulate) summarize; repeat in concise form |
| (パロディ) work or performance that imitates another work or performance with ridicule or irony; make fun of |
pedantic
7
| (衒学) marked by narrow focus on or display of learning, especially formal rules and trivial points |
| (推定) act of presuming, or believing upon probable evidence; act of assuming; belief upon incomplete proof |
| (不満) habitually complaining; expressing complaint or grievance |
| (時代遅れ) no longer useful; outmoded; antiquated |
peruse
8
| (保存) living by preying on other animals |
| (有無を言わせぬ) offensively self-assured; dictatorial; not allowing contradiction or refusal |
| (相互) concerning each of two or more persons or things; exchangeable; interacting |
| (閲覧) read or examine, typically with great care |
perverse
9
| (衒学) marked by narrow focus on or display of learning, especially formal rules and trivial points |
| (誤称) error in naming person or place; name wrongly or unsuitably applied to a person or an object |
| (あまのじゃく) stubbornly wrongheaded; directed away from what is right or good |
| (出しゃばる) push oneself or one's ideas forward or intrude; stick out or extrude |
precocious
10
| (早熟) advanced in development; appearing or developing early |
| (報復) something justly deserved; recompense; compensation; punishment for offenses |
| (パロディ) work or performance that imitates another work or performance with ridicule or irony; make fun of |
| (不安定な) uncertain; risky; dangerously lacking in security or stability |