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wizened - Lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness.
Synonyms: shrunken, withered, wizen, shriveled, shrivelled
Usage: There was nothing left to eat except a few wizened
apples that had been left on the shelf too long.
virid - Bright green with or as if with vegetation.
Synonyms: verdant
Usage: The lake was virid with bright algae on the surface.
lachrymose - Weeping or inclined to weep; causing or tending to
cause tears.
Synonyms: dolorous, weeping, tearful, sorrowful
Usage: He was by turns devout and obscene, merry and lachrymose.
prolix - Tediously prolonged; tending to speak or write at
excessive length.
Synonyms: voluble, wordy
Usage: She was engaged in editing a prolix manuscript, trying
to cut the length by at least a third.
baneful - Causing harm, ruin, or death.
Synonyms: pernicious, pestilent, deadly, harmful
Usage: He made some commonplace observation upon the baneful
effect of the night air at the season.
