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Cartoon Vocabulary  (List 17)

1.    prodigious (adjective)    enormous in size, quantity, degree; marvelous,
(prah DIJ us)            amazing
Link:    DISH

2.    boor (noun)            a rude person; someone that is unrefined
(BOO er)
Link:  BOAR

3.    forbearance (adjective)    patience
(for BEAR unts)
Link:     FOUR PARENTS

4.    panache (noun)        dashing elegance of manner or style
(pa NASH)
Link:  MUSTACHE

5.    agog (adjective)        highly excited by eagerness
(ah GOG)
Link:  EGGNOG

6.    forthright (adjective)        frank; going straight to the point
(FORTH rite)
Link:  FOURTH FROM THE RIGHT

7.    profound (adjective)        intellectually deep or penetrating; reaching to,
(prah FOUND)        rising from, or effecting the depths of one’s nature
Link:  TOES FOUND

8.    fiasco (noun)            a complete or humiliating failure
(fee AS koh)
Link:      TABASCO

9.    doleful (adjective)        sorrowful; melancholy
(DOHL ful)
Link:  BOWL FULL

10.    opaque (adjective)        impervious to light; dull; hard to understand
(oh PAYK)
Link:  FAKE

Extra 5 words:  symbiosis, tariff, technique, tempo, toxin