CHAPTER 12: ANALOGIES of WORDS of UNDESIRABLY HIGH DEGREE

In the following pairs of words, the second word denotes an undesirably higher degree of the first word.

Example: 

To be miserly is to be too frugal. 

To be arrogant is to be too confident.

FRUGAL : MISERLY 

CONFIDENT : ARROGANT 

COMPLAINING : QUERULOUS 

SPENDING : PRODIGAL 

REQUESTING : IMPORTUNATE 

PETITIONING : GROVELING 

INQUIRING : PRYING

QUESTIONING : GRILLING 

PATRIOTIC : CHAUVINISTIC 

THRIFTY : PARSIMONIOUS

COMPLIANT : SERVILE 

TRUSTING : GULLIBLE

TALKATIVE : GARRULOUS 

COMPLIANT : CARPING

GROWING : BURGEONING 

BEATING : PALPITATING 

RECEPTIVE : GULLIBLE 

LAUDATORY : SYCOPHANTIC

INVOLVING : ENTANGLED

ENTHUSIASTIC : ZEALOUS 

PASSIONATE : FANATICAL

IDEALISTIC : QUIXOTIC 

SKEPTICAL : PARANOID 

ADMIRING : IDOLATROUS

ATTENTIVE : OFFICIOUS 

REFINED : SNOBBISH

RESOLUTE : HEADSTRONG 

AMENABLE : DOCILE 

DEVOTED : IDOLATROUS 

SENSITIVE : TOUCHY 

DECOROUS : PRUDISH 

DISCRIMINATING : FASTIDIOUS 

PRINCIPLED : MORALISTIC 

ERUDITE : PEDANTIC 

APPREHENSIVE : TERRIFIED 

AFFECTIONATE : ADORING 

COURAGEOUS : FOOLHARDY 

MUNIFICENT : PROFLIGATE

ASSERTING : BELABORING 

TENDING : FUSSING 

MOTILE : FRENETIC 

BELIEVING : FANATICAL 

BRIGHT : GLARING 

LOUD : DEAFENING 

SWEET : CLOYING 

FRUGAL : PENURIOUS 

COMPLIANT : OBSEQUIOUS

PLAIN : AUSTERE 

CLEAN : STERILIZED 

EXTRACTED : MILKED 

UTILIZED : EXPLOITED