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Recreant
cowardly or craven
Redolent
Fragrant; pleasantly odorous
Limpid
Clear; easily understood
lucid
completely calm; not worried
Droll
Oddly Amusing
Ossified
Hardened
Rarefied
Lofty; high; elevated; exalted
Esoteric
Rare or less dense; thinned
Estimable
Deserving respect or admiration
Esteemable
Verisimilitude
The appearance or semblance of truth
Seeming to be true
August
Majestic
Venerable; eminent
Inspiring admiration
Bovine
Dull
Pastoral
having the characteristics of a rural area
Noisome
Offensive in odor
harmful to health; noxious
Atavistic
Reversion; Regression; Lapse; Throwback
Mephitic
Noxious; poisonous
Offensive to the smell
Divest
Strip or deprive
Elicit
Draw out by discussion
Equanimity
Calmness and composure
Euphemism
A toned down phrase used in place of a worse one
Opprobrious
Disgraceful; shameful
Gainsay
Oppose
Extirpate
Eradicate
Effigy
Depiction of something
Jocund
Happy; gay; blithe
Abrogate
Abolish; repeal; put an end to
Delude
Trick; deceive
Prurient
Erotic; Lascivious
Disquietude
Uneasiness
Abnegate
Deny oneself; relinquish
Unctuous
Smug
Overly Pious
Sonorous
Grandiloquent
Loud, full sound
Belie
Misrepresent
Contradict
Volubility
Can talk fluently without difficulty; glib
Inexorable
Relentless; unyielding
Can’t be persuaded by emotion/entreaties
Impudent
Rude; effrontery
Disaffected
discontent with authority
Refractory
defiant; recalcitrant
Subsume
engulf or consume
Tantamount
Commensurate; equal
Panache
flamboyant; showy
Immutable
Unchangable; unchanging through time
Myopic
Narrow minded
Denigrate
Disparage or defame
Espouse
Adopt or make one’s own
Idiosyncrasy
People’s mannerisms
Scrupulous
Principled
Detail oriented
Incorrigible
Bad beyond correction
Spurn
Reject with contempt
Droll
Oddly amusing
Slake
Allay (something) by satisfying
Pique
Provoke or arouse
Cant
Insincerely expressed
Expiate
Make amends or reparations for
Expatiate
To expound
Propinquity
Near in proximity
Effluvia
Unseen exhalation of vapor
Recidivism
Habitual relapse into a habit (usually crime)
Obstreperous
Recalcitrant; boistrous
Detumescence
Reduction of swelling
Redoubtable
Formidable; demanding respect
contumacious
Intractable; refractory; rebellious
Probity
Honesty; integrity; uprightness
Indigence
Impoverished
Inveterate
Established; habituated; settled in one’s way
Turgid
Swollen; pompous
Quiescent
Being at rest; still; motionless
Impunity
Exempt from punishment
Stolidity
Unemotional; apathetic
Benign (Benignant)
A kind/generous disposition
Dissemble
Conceal; mislead
Etiolate
Weaken; enervate
Surfeit
Excess; Abundance
Perennial
Frequently recurrent
Impassive
Emotionless
Impecunious
Without funds/money
Stint
Frugal
Limit to a certain amount
Doughty
Valiant; resolute
Outlandish
Bizarre; odd; strange
Retrench
Cut down; diminish; curtail; remove
Sophistry
A false Argument
Subtle, tricky, and plausible but fallacious method of reasoning
Sedulous
Assiduous; diligent
Persistent
Preternatural
Supernatural; out of the ordinary course of nature
Abnormal
Teleology
An account of a given thing’s purpose
Explaining why a phenomena works by its purpose or design
Candor
Candid, frank/open/etc.
Grating
Irritating; annoying; offensive
Cadge
Obtain by imposing on another’s generosity or friendship
Obtain by begging
Manducate
Masticate; chew
Anodyne
Something that relieves pain
Iridescent
Colorful
Monocque
Constructed in one piece
Pavonine
Colorful
Parietal
Relating to college/university rules
Attuned
Bring into accord; adjust
Bring “in tune”
Salve
Anything that soothes, mollifies, or relieves
Ardent
Fervent
Passionate
Intense feeling
Zealous
Shallow
Superficial
Dour
Sullen; gloomy
Stern
Concierge
A service person (janitor, door man, warden, etc.)
Curator
The person in charge; manager; superintendent
Anachronism
Something not placed in the correct time period
Effuse
Scattered; profuse; disseminate; shed forth
Prosaic
dull; commonplace; unimaginative
Colored
Embellished; ornamented
Deceptive
Thewy
Of or relating to muscle or sinew
Physical strength
Sinewy
Relating to strength, power, or vigor
Pneumatic
relating to air/gas
Flocculent
woolly
Capitulate
To give up resistance
Surrender
Abash
To destroy self-confidence or poise
Make embarrassed or ashamed
Insolvent
Unable to meet monetary obligations
Exscind
To cut off or out
Obloquy
Censure, blame, or abusive language aimed at a person
Discredit; disgrace
Evince
to show clearly
make evident or manifest
Prove
Ossification
to harden
to become rigid or inflexible in habits/opinions/etc.
Aggrandize
To increase in intensity, power, influence, prestige, etc.
Astringent
Having a tightening effect on living tissue
Harsh; severe
Cynicism
An attitude that all people are motivated by selfishness
Fawn
Flatter or praise excessively
Flout
Show contempt for
Hubris
Overbearing presumption or pride
Arrogance
Impetuous
Hastily or rashly energetic; impulsive and vehement
Obstinate
Stubborn; uncompromising
Ostentatious
Pretentious display or showy
Pervade
Pervasive; to permeate
Pragmatic
Practical rather than idealistic
Proclivity
A natural predisposition or inclination
Propensity
A natural inclination or tendency; penchant
Rarefy
To make to become thin, less dense
To refine
Refulgent
Radiant; shiny; brilliant
Renege
To fail to honor a commitment
To go back on a promise
Sedulous
Diligent; persistent; hard working
Terse
Brief and concise wording
Trenchant
Sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating
Unfeigned
Genuine; not false or hypocritical
Untenable
Indefensible; not viable; uninhabitable
Variegated
Multicolored; different patches of color
Vexation
Annoyance; irritation
Volatile
Changeable; explosive; fickle
Alloy
To commingle.
To debase by mixing with something inferior
Unalloyed means pure
August
Majestic
Venerable
Bent
Inclination
Proclivity
Tendency
Brook
To tolerate or endure
Cardinal
Major
Chauvinist
A blindly devoted patriot
Color
To change
To distort or affect
Consequential
Pompous
Self-important
Damp
As in dampen
To diminish the intensity
Die
A tool for shaping
Essay
To attempt
To experiment
To test or try
Fell (adj.)
Inhumanly cruel
Flag
To sag or droop
To become spiritless
To decline
Flip
Sarcastic, as in flippant
Impertinent
Grouse
To complain or grumble
Guy
A rope/cord/cable attached to something as a support or brace
Intimate
To imply or suggest or insinuate
List
To tilt or lean to one side
Lumber
To move heavily and clumsily
Meet
Fitting or proper
Milk
Exploit
To squeeze every last ounce of
Mince
To pronounce it speak affectedly
To euphemize
To speak too carefully
Nice
Exacting
Fastidious (particular; hard to please)
Extremely precise
Obtain (adj.)
To be established, accepted or customary
Pied
Multicolored
Pine
To yearn
To lose vigor
Plastic
Moldable or pliable
Not rigid
Pluck
Courage, spunk, or fortitude
Prize
To pry or to press or force with a lever
Something taken by force or spoils
Rail
Complain about bitterly
Quail
To lose courage
To turn frightened
Sap
To enervate
A fool or nitwit
Scurvy
Contemptible
Despicable
Singular
Exceptional, unusual, or odd
Stand
A group of trees
Steep
To saturate or completely soak, as in to let a tea bag steep
Strut
The supporting structural cross part of a wing
Table
To remove from consideration
Tender
To proffer or offer
Waffle
To equivocate
To change one’s position
Wag
Wit
Joker
Abjure
To recant
To renounce or reject
To avoid
Anathema
A solemn or ecclesiastical curse
A curse or loathed person or thing
Asseverate
To assert; aver; allege
Augury
Omen, portent
Calumniate
Relating to calumny; to defame or slander
Captious
Disposed to point out trivial faults
Calculated to confuse or entrap in an argument
Cavil
To find fault without good reason
Celerity
Speed, alacrity
Chimera
An illusion; imaginary or fanciful
Contumacious
Insubordinate, rebellious
Contumely means insult, scorn, aspersion
Denouement
An outcome or solution
The unraveling of a plot
Descry
to discriminate or discern
Desuetude
disuse (to stop using)
Desultory
random; aimless; lack of purpose
Execrate
To denounce
To feel loathing for
To curse
Exegesis
Critical examination
Explication
Explicate
To make clear or plain
To explain
Fractious
Quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory, irritable
Heterodox
Unorthodox
Heretical
Iconoclastic
Indefatigable
Not easily exhaustible
Tireless
Dogged
Ineluctable
Certain, inevitable
Inimitable
One of a kind
Peerless (one of a kind)
Jejune
Nugatory; childish; immature and puerile; uninteresting, insipid or vapid
Lubricious
Lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery
Meretricious
Cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy;
Attractive by false show
Minatory
Menacing or threatening
Nadir
Low point
Perigee (nearest point, opposite of apogee)
Palliate
To make less severe or intense
Plangent
Pounding, thundering, resounding
Prolix
Long winded, verbose
Propitiate
To appease
To conciliate
(propitious means auspicious or favorable)
Puissance
Power, strength, powerful
Pusillanimous
Cowardly or craven
Salacious
Lustful
Lascivious
Bawdy
Salutary
Remedial (intending to correct)
Wholesome
Causing improvement
Saturnine
Gloomy, dark, morose, sullen
Sententious
Aphoristic or moralistic
Epigrammatic (terse and ingenious in expression)
Tending to moralize excessively
Stygian
Gloomy or dark
Sycophant
Self-seeking flatterer; parasite
Butt kisser
Tendentious
Biased; showing marked tendencies
Vitiate
To corrupt
To debase (adulterate)
Voluble
Fluent, can speak easily about things
Prolix
Verbose
Epitaph
An inscription on a grave marker
Paragon
A model of excellence
A perfect example
Nadir
Bottom, lowest point
Amortize
Pay off a debt in installments
Idyll
Lighthearted artistic work
Paradigm
Serving as a model or mold (standard, paragon, etc.)
Precept
A rule or commandment
Hermetic
Sealed or isolated
Indelible
That which cannot be forgotten, changed, muted.
Immutable
Strident
Having a shrill, irritating quality or character (especially as in a sound)
Incensed
Pleasant smelling
Adulation or homage
Fetid
Having an offensive odor. Stinky.
Involute
Intricate
Complex
Luculent
Clear or lucid
Convincing or cogent
Convoke
Call together for a meeting
Perspicuous
Lucid; clear
Byzantine
Complex or intricate
Pusillanimous
Lacking courage; timid
Plucky
Courageous
Brave
Meretricious
Tawdry, vulgar, flashy, and tasteless
Based on pretense, deception, or insincerity
Viridian
Blueish-green color
Svelte
Slender and graceful in figure
Suave; lithe; urbane
Lithe
Flexible, limber, pliant
Wheedle
To coax
To obtain by persuasion or flattery
Importune
To beg; to press; to beseech
Adventurism
Defiance or disregard for accepted standards
Rash or irresponsible policies, methods or actions especially taken by a political official
Outlay
An expenditure or spending of something
Gaffes
A blunder or faux pas
A mistake
Imperious
Domineering; arrogantly overbearing
Urgent; imperative
Impious
Disrespectful
Pennate
With wings
Paucity
Scarcity; scant
Decrepitude
Decrepit condition; feeble
Temerity
Recklessly bold; rashness
Rostrum
A platform or stage for speaking; a pulpit
Antithesis
The exact opposite
Opposition; contrast
Extraction
Descent or lineage
To extract.
Pretense
Pretend; give a false show of something
Arbitration
The settlement of a dispute by parties agreeing to terms
A conclusion
Affectation
Pretending to have something you don’t really have (a thing or attribute)
A pretense of actual possession.
Antecedence
Preceded; the act of going before.
Fallow
Inactive; not in use
Facility
Readiness and easiness due to skill, aptitude, practice, etc.
An easy flowing manner
Allusion
Allude; give a passing reference to something
Solstice
A turning point; the furthest and culminating point
Thrall
Slave
Synergy
The interaction of elements that create a greater effect when combined
Syllogism
A subtle and deceptive argument
Deductive reasoning
Avant-Garde
Radical; unorthodox or daring
Antediluvian
Old fashioned; outdated; antiquated; primitive
Superannuated
Retired; too old; antiquated; obsolete
Edacious
Devouring; voracious; consuming
Blandish
To coax; cajole; persuade or influence through flattery
Obsequence (obsequiousness)
Eagerness and willing to comply
Obsequious
Obedient; dutiful; fawning; deferential
Pugnacious
Belligerent; combative; quarrelsome
Diminutive
A small thing or person
Enmity
A feeling of hatred; animosity; antagonism; ill will
Indignant
A feeling characterized by strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting, or base
Terse
Very brief or concise
Outmoded
Out of style
Obsolete
Passé
No longer in style; outmoded
