ludicrous - laughable; ridiculous; trifling
profusion - great amount; plenty; overabundance; excess; lavish expenditure; Ex. profusion of choices; ADJ.
profuse: plentiful; copious; giving or given abundantly; extravagant
serpentine - winding; twisting; of or like a serpent; Ex. serpentine course of the river; N. serpent: snake
clamor - loud continous noise; continuous demand or complaint made by a large number of people; V: make a clamor; express (a demand) continually and loudly; ADJ. clamorous
exiguous - small in amount; minute
pragmatist - practical person; N. pragmatism: pragmatic way of dealing with things
brood - sit on in order to hatch; think deeply or worry anxiously; N: the young of certain animals; group of young birds hatched at one time
founder - fail completely; sink; CF. flounder
haughtiness - pride; arrogance; ADJ. haughty
ossify - change or harden into bone; become hard and unchanging in one's ideas
profusion - great amount; plenty; overabundance; excess; lavish expenditure; Ex. profusion of choices; ADJ.
profuse: plentiful; copious; giving or given abundantly; extravagant
serpentine - winding; twisting; of or like a serpent; Ex. serpentine course of the river; N. serpent: snake
clamor - loud continous noise; continuous demand or complaint made by a large number of people; V: make a clamor; express (a demand) continually and loudly; ADJ. clamorous
exiguous - small in amount; minute
pragmatist - practical person; N. pragmatism: pragmatic way of dealing with things
brood - sit on in order to hatch; think deeply or worry anxiously; N: the young of certain animals; group of young birds hatched at one time
founder - fail completely; sink; CF. flounder
haughtiness - pride; arrogance; ADJ. haughty
ossify - change or harden into bone; become hard and unchanging in one's ideas