Pygmalion Vocabulary

(of a person or their tendencies) not able to be corrected, improved, or reformed.

• Incorrigible

• Inveterate

• Pedantic

• Didactic

(of an action or gesture) carried out with a minimum of effort or reflection.

• Sanguinary

• Remonstrance

• Perfunctorily

• Pedantic

lying stretched out on the ground with one's face downward.

• Prostrate

• Extricate

• Bilious

• Brusquely

having a particular habit, activity, or interest that is long-established and unlikely to change.

• Unassailable

• Mendacity

• Inveterate

• Incorrigible

a feeling of offense or deep resentment.

• Brusquely

• Dudgeon

• Remonstrance

• Mendacity

excessively concerned with minor details and rules or with displaying academic learning.

• Bilious

• Didactic

• Pedantic

• Unassailable

involving or causing much bloodshed.

• Sanguinary

• Prostrate

• Bilious

• Brusquely

free (someone or something) from a constraint or difficulty.

• Extricate

• Remonstrance

• Inveterate

• Mendacity

abrupt or offhand in speech or manner.

• Didactic

• Remonstrance

• Bilious

• Brusquely

spiteful; bad-tempered.

• Bilious

• Didactic

• Inveterate

• Incorrigible