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- partisan
- Characterized by or exhibiting undue or unreasoning devotion to a party
- optimum
- most favorable; optimal; N: most favorable condition
- obloquy
- slander; disgrace; infamy
- chagrin
- Keen vexation, annoyance, or mortification, as at one's failures or errors.
- tendentious
- having an aim; designed to further a cause
- forage
- food for horses and cattle
- antipathy
- [n] strong feeling of hatred, aversion, revulsion
- dissemble
- To hide by pretending something different.
- inhibit
- To hold back or in.
- indisputable
- uncontestable
- intractable
- unruly, refractory, stubborn
- penultimate
- A syllable or member of a series that is last but one.
- oblique
- Slanting; said of lines.
- meander
- To wind and turn while proceeding in a course.
- quintessence
- The most essential part of anything.
- renege
- to go back on a promise or commitment.
- itinerant
- Wandering.
- molllify
- appease the anger or anxiety of (someone)
- harmonious
- Concordant in sound.
- remonstrate
- To present a verbal or written protest to those who have power to right or prevent a wrong.
- moribund
- On the point of dying.
- equity
- Fairness or impartiality.
- fortuitous
- lucky
- novitiate
- N: period of being a novice; house where novices are trained
- cursory
- Rapid and superficial.
- inscrutable
- Impenetrably mysterious or profound.
- salacious
- lascivious, lustful
- iniquity
- an unjust act, gross wrong or injustice.
- trite
- repeated too often, hackneyed; commonplace
- veracious
- precisely accurate
- corroborate
- establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts, confirm; support
- exonerate
- To relieve or vindicate from accusation, imputation, or blame.
- conjugal
- Pertaining to marriage, marital rights, or married persons.
- caustic
- biting sarcastic or witty
- legitimate
- lawful; (a child) born of a marriage
- eon
- the longest unit of geologic time
- augur
- To predict.
- rebuke
- an act or expression of criticism and censure
- defamation
- a malicious attack
- chortle
- chuckle with delight
- debutante
- young woman making formal entrance into society
- circumvent
- outwit; defeat by behaving more cleverly; outsmart; baffle; avoid; get around
- dauntless
- bold; fearless
- portentous
- foreboding; ominous.
- ancillary
- serving as an aid or accessory; auxiliary; N.
- melodious
- Characterized by a sweet succession of sounds.
- defile
- pollute; make filthy or dirty; corrupt morally; profane; desecrate; N: narrow passage or gorge through mountains
- pernicious
- exceedingly harmful
- erroneous
- mistaken; wrong; incorrect
- cavil
- to raise trivial and frivolous objections
- inchoate
- Incipient.
- derisive
- abusing vocally, mocking
- castigate
- inflict severe punishment on, to chastise, correct by punishing
- arcane
- requiring secret or mysterious knowledge
- kismet
- fate; destiny
- ribald
- wanton, profane, Indulging in or manifesting coarse indecency or obscenity.
- diurnal
- Daily.
- recalcitrant
- marked by stubborn resistance to authority
- expiate
- To make satisfaction or amends for.
- mainstay
- principal support., a central cohesive source of support and stability
- rebarbative
- serving or tending to irritate or repel
- ardent
- Burning with passion.
- nascent
- coming into existence; emerging
- ascetic
- Given to severe self-denial and practicing excessive abstinence and devotion.; hermit-like
- dolorous
- Expressing or causing sorrow or pain.
- sidle
- to move sideways; to advance secretively
- gullible
- credulous.
- amulet
- n. piece of jewellery, etc worn as a charm1(
- asperity
- harshness of manner
- ephemeral
- momentary, fleeting
- discursive
- Passing from one subject to another.
- sonorous
- producing a deep or full sound
- flippant
- Having a light, pert, trifling disposition.
- prolix
- Verbose.
- waver
- vacillate
- terse
- Pithy.
- recidivism
- habitual return to crime (even after being punished);
- prescient
- Foreknowing.
- fervid
- characterized by intense emotion
- insipid
- not pleasing to the sense of taste
- vitriolic
- corrosive, sarcastic
- truculent
- defiantly aggressive, aggressively hostile
- aggrandize
- increase power or rank of; make greater, To cause to appear greatly.
- exhort
- (v.) to urge strongly, advise earnestly
- volatile
- tending to vary often or widely
- nepotism
- favoritism shown to members of one's family.
- fell
- cruel, fierce
- malice
- extreme ill will or spite
- platitude
- a trite or banal statement; unoriginality
- sap
- diminish; weaken; undermine the foundations of (a fortification);
- penurious
- Excessively sparing in the use of money.
- diffidence
- Self-distrust.
- raucous
- Harsh.
- peruse
- to read through or examine carefully
- bombastic
- (adj.) pompous or overblown in language; full of high-sounding words intended to conceal a lack of ideas
- authoritarian
- subordinating the individual to the state; completely dominating another's will; Ex. authoritarian regime/father
- deride
- treat or speak of with contempt, make fun of, ridicule
- foible
- A personal weakness or failing.
- quiescent
- Being in a state of repose or inaction.
- vexing
- stubborn, troublesome; annoying
- vindicate
- To prove true, right, or real.
- banal
- obvious and dull
- fetid
- malodorous
- fatuous
- complacently or inanely foolish
- hegemony
- leadership of one state within a confederacy
- adventitious
- accidental; casual; happening by chance
- pusillanimous
- cowardly; fainthearted
- millennium
- thousand-year period (as in the New Testament); hoped-for period of happiness and prosperity
- obviate
- make unnecessary; get rid of; prevent the occurrence of
- irascible
- Prone to anger.
- sordid
- meanly avaricious and mercenary, Of degraded character or nature.
- temporal
- Pertaining to or concerned with the affairs of the present life.
- mercurial
- liable to sudden unpredictable change
- ostensible
- apparent; appearing as such; professed(pretended); pretended; Ex. ostensible purpose of the expedition
- abatement
- suppression or termination
- renitent
- resisting pressure, obstinate
- perplexing
- puzzling, mystifying, confusing
- novitiate
- state of being a beginner
- fissure
- A crack or crack-like depression.
- verity
- quality of being true; lasting truth or principle
- neophyte
- Having the character of a beginner.
- idiosyncrasy
- A mental quality or habit peculiar to an individual.
- vindictive
- bearing a grudge, feeling or showing a strong tendency toward revenge
- teeter
- move unsteadily, with a rocking motion
- harbinger
- something that indicates what is to come; a forerunner
- contrition
- regret/ remorse
- callow
- Without experience of the world.
- pettish
- showing uncontrolled anger or temper
- compunction
- Remorseful feeling.
- encumber
- To impede with obstacles.
- lambaste
- censure severely or angrily
- sardonic
- Scornfully or bitterly sarcastic.
- fawn (n)
- young deer
- roué
- an elderly debauched man
- rancor
- bitterness, hatred
- abortive
- unsuccessful; fruitless
- cacophony
- A disagreeable, harsh, or discordant sound or combination of sounds or tones.
- lament
- express grief for; mourn
- defer
- To delay or put off to some other time.
- esurient
- hungry; greedy; starving
- mercenary
- Greedy
- burgeoning
- expanding or growing
- covetous
- avaricious
- berate
- censure severely or angrily
- venal
- capable of being corrupted
- unstinting
- very generous
- diatribe
- thunderous verbal attack
- placate
- To bring from a state of angry or hostile feeling to one of patience or friendliness.
- laconic
- marked by the use of few words; terse or concise (antonym garrulous or loquacious)
- abstruse
- obscure; profound; difficult to understand
- stalwart
- a person who is loyal to their allegiance (especially in times of revolt), strong, brawny, steadfast
- tirade
- a speech of violent denunciation, a long angry or violent speech; a diatribe
- abridge
- To make shorter in words, keeping the essential features, leaning out minor particles.
- synopsis
- A syllabus or summary.
- untoward
- Causing annoyance or hindrance., perverse, unruly, unseemly
- belabor
- explain excessively, assail verbally
- beneficial
- Helpful.
- vituperate
- berate, rail against, attack verbally
- gibe
- To utter taunts or reproaches.
- rue
- To regret extremely.
- inexorable
- relentless, unyielding, implacable
- retrograde
- To cause to deteriorate or to move backward.
- threnody
- A poem or song of mourning or lamentation, An elegy
- probity
- uprightness; honesty; incorruptibility
- anathema
- Anything forbidden, as by social usage; a formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication
- odium
- A feeling of extreme repugnance, or of dislike and disgust.
- rescind
- To make void, as an act, by the enacting authority or a superior authority.
- astute
- shrewd; clever
- tyrannical
- Despotic.
- hiatus
- A break or vacancy where something necessary to supply the connection is wanting.
- depraved
- marked by immorality, vile
- eloquent
- Having the ability to express emotion or feeling in lofty and impassioned speech.
- baleful
- deadly or sinister
- fledgling
- an untested beginner; novice
- expiate
- To make satisfaction or amends for.
- dissolute
- unrestrained by convention or morality, Lewd.
- chicanery
- deception by trickery, or sophistry
- noisome
- Very offensive, particularly to the sense of smell.
- forlorn
- sad and lonely, wretched, nearly hopeless; desperate
- evident
- clearly apparent or obvious to the mind or senses
- altruistic
- unselfishly generous; concerned for others;
- simulated
- imitated
- ersatz
- Being an imitation or a substitute, usually an inferior one; artificial
- fawn (v)
- try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
- demur
- to object; to take exception; to delay
- naive
- lacking sophistication
- exacerbate
- make worse, worsen; aggravate; embitter
- dilettante
- one with an amateurish or superficial understanding of a field of knowledge
- scathing
- bitterly severe, withering; causing great harm
- curtail
- To cut off or cut short.
- propitiate
- appease, mitigate
- dour
- sullen, stubborn
- dissonant
- Harsh or disagreeable in sound.
- compendium
- brief, comprehensive summary;
- counterpart
- Something taken with another for the completion of either.
- antagonism
- Mutual opposition or resistance of counteracting forces, principles, or persons.
- proselyte
- One who has been won over from one religious belief to another.
- anomalous
- abnormal; irregular
- libidinous
- driven by lust
- credulous
- disposed to believe on little evidence
- pillory
- punish by placing in a wooden frame, subject to criticism and ridicule
- putrid
- rotten
- mendicant
- A beggar.
- laudatory
- Pertaining to, expressing, or containing praise.
- baneful
- causing harm or ruin, pernicious, destructive
- disparage
- to speak of in a slighting way or negatively; to belittle
- lackadaisical
- Listless.
- recant
- To withdraw formally one's belief (in something previously believed or maintained).
- perfidious
- tending to betray
- prevaricate
- be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information; lie
- contumacious
- willfully obstinate, insubordinate, rebellious
- mendacity
- the tendency to be untruthful, dishonesty
- tantamount
- Having equal or equivalent value, effect, or import.
- precursor
- A forerunner or herald.
- loquacious
- Talkative.
- acquit
- To free or clear, as from accusation.
- churlish
- rude and boorish
- askance
- With a side or indirect glance or meaning.
- rift
- split crack dissension
- assonance
- Resemblance or correspondence in sound.
- eulogize
- To speak or write a laudation of a person's life or character.
- descry
- To discern.
- prognosticate
- predict (according to present indications)
- discomfit
- To put to confusion.
- appease
- to quiet, calm, allay; to pacify or conciliate
- reprehend
- express strong disapproval of, To find fault with.
- philanthropic
- Benevolent.
- petulant
- Displaying impatience.
- curt
- Concise, compressed, and abrupt in act or expression.
- discrete
- separate; unconnected
- platitude
- A written or spoken statement that is flat, dull, or commonplace.
- periphrastic
- expressed in a roundabout way
- absolve
- To free from sin or its penalties.
- apocryphal
- untrue, made up
- despotic
- exercising absolute power; tyrannical
- lull
- become quiet or less active
- consanguine
- Related by blood
- apothegm
- a short, instructive saying or formula
- pithy
- concise and meaningful; substantial; meaty
- denounce
- speak out against, to point out or publicly accuse as deserving of punishment, censure, or odium.
- levity
- Frivolity.
- abstain
- To keep oneself back (from doing or using something).
- wraith
- apparition, ghost
- noxious
- harmful
- paradoxical
- something that appears false or contradictory but is actually correct POSSIBLE ANTONYM SPECIOUS
- circuitous
- indirect, roundabout
- cryptic
- mysterious; hidden; secret
- minatory
- menacing, threatening
- pedestrian
- lacking wit or imagination
- labyrinth
- complex system of communicating chambers and tubes in the inner ear
- miserly
- stingy; mean
- lethargic
- careless attitude that may result from the use of depressants is called what?
- phlegmatic
- Not easily roused to feeling or action.
- anterior
- front end (head)
- abhorrence
- The act of detesting extremely.
- languid
- Relaxed.
- respite
- Interval of rest. , a break; intermission
- palliate
- To cause to appear less guilty.
- trenchant
- cutting; incisive; keen, clearly or sharply defined to the mind; E.G. _______ distinction between right or wrong
- stoic
- indifferent to pleasure or pain; impassive
- sententious
- short and pithy, full of maxims/proverbs
- incipient
- Initial.
- fulsome
- Offensive from excess of praise or commendation.
- assay
- The chemical analysis or testing of an alloy ore.
- spurious
- not genuine; false, counterfeit
- providential
- Effected by divine guidance.
- undermine
- weaken gradually; sap; dig a mine beneath
- acclaim
- enthusiastic approval, VERB: praise vociferously
- turpitude
- a corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice, wickedness, shamefulness
- remission
- Temporary diminution of a disease.
- slothful
- Lazy.
- acerbic
- harsh or corrosive in tone
- distaff
- of, like or pertaining to the female branch of a family or women's work
- venerate
- to regard with feelings of respect and reverence; to revere
- jocular
- jolly, fond of joking
- timorous
- timid by nature or revealing timidity
- plaintive
- mournful and expressing sorrow
- dissemble
- present false appearance; deceive
- orifice
- mouth; opening
- eclectic
- made up of a variety of sources or styles
- indigent
- Poor.
- quirk
- a peculiar way of acting; a sudden twist or turn
- assuage
- to ease or relieve something that hurts or is worrisome
- indolent
- lazy
- lassitude
- (n.) weariness of body or mind, lack of energy
- largess
- generous giving, often accompanied by condescension
- impugn
- to assail with arguments, insinuations, or accusations., dispute or contradict(in an insulting way), gainsay, challenge
- obsequies
- Funeral rites.
- fetter
- to shackle, put in chains
- serrated
- having a toothed edge
- panegyric
- a formal expression of praise
- unctuous
- Oil ; Characterized by affected, exaggerated or insincere earnestness
- compendious
- concise but comprehensive
- ameliorate
- to improve or better
- abeyance
- A state of suspension or temporary inaction.
- inimical
- unfriendly, hostile, harmful, detrimental
- garrulous
- Given to constant trivial talking.
- audacious
- daring; bold
- propitious
- Kindly disposed.
- lugubrious
- mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree
- recreant
- cowardly; also, unfaithful or disloyal.
- sepulchral
- funeral, typical of the tomb; extremely gloomy or dismal
- facsimile
- An exact copy or reproduction.
- reprove
- censure; rebuke
- awry
- adj. Out of the proper form, direction, or position.
- laud
- praise, glorify, or honor
- indubitable
- too obvious to be doubted
- lucid
- easily understood; clear
- iconoclast
- An image-breaker.
- allegiance
- devotion or loyalty to a group, person, or cause
- sustenance
- anything that supports life, the financial means whereby one lives, nourishment or support
- revile
- spread negative information about, attack with abusive language, vilify
- gaucherie
- awkward or socially unacceptable remark
- courageous
- Brave.
- obscure
- Not clear to the understanding, ambiguous
- ambulatory
- able to walk
- succinct
- Concise.
- factitious
- produced by humans or artificial forces
- aberrant
- abnormal or deviant
- aphorism
- Proverb. , a short pithy instructive saying
- mordant
- harshly ironic or sinister, biting; caustic; sarcastic
- fratricide
- fire that injures or kills an ally, a person who kills a sibling or countryman
- endogamous
- pertaining to or characterized by the custom of marrying only within the limits of a clan or tribe
- redress
- To set right, as a wrong by compensation or the punishment of the wrong-doer.
- slake
- to satisfy, to quench; to extinguish
- elegy
- A lyric poem lamenting the dead.
- deleterious
- harmful to living things
- misanthropic
- hating mankind in general
- din
- continued loud noise;
- ingenuous
- naive, young, artless, frank, honest, sincere.
- facetious
- playfully humorous
- curmudgeon
- churlish, miserly individual
- rent (n)
- rip; split
- opaque
- not clearly understood or expressed
- abash
- to embarrass
- impecunious
- Having no money.
- progenitor
- ancestor
- hegemony
- leadership of one state within a confederacy
- detestation
- hate, intense dislike
- clairvoyant
- having foresight; fortuneteller;
- diffident
- lacking self-confidence, overly shy or modest
- Spartan
- Exceptionally brave; rigorously severe.
- ascertain
- find out for certain; make certain
- clement
- Compassionate.
- excoriate
- to flay, strip off the skin; to denounce sharply, censure severely
- torpid
- sleeping, sluggish, lethargic, dormant
- destitute
- Poverty-stricken.
- dither
- to move or act confused without a clear purpose
- vortex
- A mass of rotating or whirling fluid, especially when sucked spirally toward the center.
- odious
- Hateful.
- craven
- adj. Characterized by abject fear; cowardly;
- quotidian
- Everyday, reocurring or recurring
- martinet
- A strict disciplinarian
- forfend
- To ward off.
- belittle
- depreciate, disparage
- feigned
- pretended
- waspish
- very irritable
- umbrage
- A sense of injury.
- accolade
- award of merit
- vacillate
- waver; fluctuate
- portentous
- foreboding; ominous.
- natal
- Pertaining to one's birth.
- magnanimous
- Generous in treating or judging others.
- taciturn
- Disinclined to conversation.
- acidulous
- sharp or bitter-tasting
- acrimonious
- Full of bitterness.
- grandiloquent
- Speaking in or characterized by a pompous or bombastic style.
- verbose
- Wordy.
- dissipated
- indulging excessively in sensual pleasure, unrestrained by convention or morality
- abrupt
- exceedingly sudden and unexpected
- interstice
- (1) a space between things or parts, especially a space between things closely set; (2) an interval of time
- canny
- showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others
- euphonious
- Characterized by agreeableness of sound.
- imperious
- arrogantly domineering or overbearing
- bilious
- of, relating to, or containing bile; ill-humored
- carousal
- revelry in drinking
- epoch
- A interval of time, memorable for extraordinary events.
- querulous
- Habitually complaining.
- fabricate
- make up something artificial or untrue
- abnegate
- To renounce (a right or privilege)., denying of self
- irascible
- characterized by anger, irritable, prone to anger
- interregnum
- period between two reigns
- candid
- frank,sincere;impartial, honest
- bromide
- A dull person with conventional thoughts. A commonplace or conventional saying.
- prognosis
- forecasted course of a disease; prediction;
- prosaic
- lacking wit or imagination, run-of-the-mill
- equitable
- Characterized by fairness.
- doleful
- Melancholy.
- exculpate
- to free from guilt or blame
- debauchery
- a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity, corruption; self-indulgence
- emulate
- To imitate with intent to equal or surpass.
- elegiac
- sad, mournful
- ambiguous
- open to two or more interpretations
- reprobate
- person hardened in sin; one devoid of decency
- articulate
- expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language
- tyro
- beginner; novice
- auspice
- favoring, protecting, or propitious influence or guidance.
- canard
- a deliberately misleading fabrication, false rumor; hoax
- calumny
- malicious misrepresentation; slander
- perfidy
- betrayal of a trust
- antecede
- To precede.
- gainsay
- to contradict; to deny.
- melancholy
- sadness; depression
- harangue
- a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion, A tirade.
- esoteric
- confined to and understandable by only an enlightened inner circle
- inveigh
- to utter vehement censure or invective ; to complain bitterly
- intransigent
- not capable of being swayed or diverted from a course, inflexible, refuse to compromise
- archaic
- characteristic of an earlier period; old-fashioned
- precipitate
- bring about abruptly
- doctrinaire
- unable to compromise about points of doctrine, dogmatic unyielding
- careen
- to turn a ship on its side in order to clean or repair it
- sincere
- without pretending; with honesty and real feeling
- dudgeon
- state or fit of intense indignation
- candor
- the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech, The quality of frankness or outspokenness.
- mendacious
- lying, habitually dishonest
- libertine
- a dissolute person, debauched person, roué
- enervate
- weaken; take away energy from
- specious
- seemingly reasonable but incorrect; misleading (often intentionally)
- reproof
- An expression of disapproval or blame personally addressed to one censured.
- circumlocution
- Indirect or roundabout expression.
- bolster
- support and strengthen; reinforce
- abnegation
- renunciation; self-sacrifice; self-abnegation
- disconsolate
- Grief-stricken.
- carom
- to strike and rebound; also, a glancing off.
- pellucid
- transparent, limpid, easy to understand
- presage
- To foretell.
- rapacious
- Disposed to seize by violence or by unlawful or greedy methods.
- knell
- tolling of a bell, especially to indicate a funeral, disaster
- macabre
- [adj] ghastly, shocking, gruesome, suggesting death or decay
- anachronism
- Anything occurring or existing out of its proper time.
- engender
- To produce.
- duplicity
- acting in bad faith, double-dealing; hypocrisy
- stultify
- deprive of strength or efficiency
- decry
- express strong disapproval of, disparage
- proponent
- a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea, an advocate; a supporter of a position
- rhetoric
- the art of using language effectively and persuasively
- sinuous
- Curving in and out.
- nemesis
- someone seeking revenge; source of downfall or ruin;
- bemusing
- confusing
- objurgate
- censure severely, scold sharply
- capricious
- fickle, whimsical, given to change, unpredictable
- obstinate
- v: persist stubbornly; ADJ: stubbornly adhering to an opinion or course of action
- mundane
- belonging to this earth or world, ordinary, common
- satiate
- To satisfy fully the appetite or desire of.
- abjure
- To recant, renounce, repudiate under oath.
- admonish
- To warn of a fault.
- fey
- possessing or displaying a strange and otherworldly aspect or quality.
- enigmatic
- puzzling, perplexing, inexplicable, not easily understood
- innocuous
- harmless
- hinder
- To obstruct.
- vicarious
- Suffered or done in place of or for the sake of another.
- fortnight
- 2 weeks
- synchronous
- similarly timed; simultaneous with; occurring at the same time;
- licentious
- lacking moral discipline, amoral; lewd and lascivious; unrestrained
- sojourn
- a temporary stay
- dictum
- A positive utterance.
- inert
- Inanimate.
- auspicious
- favorable; promising
- espouse
- adopt, support, advocate
- refractory
- stubborn, unmanageable, intractable
- apace
- adv. with rapid movements
- loathing
- w/ intense hatred
- abet
- assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing
- munificent
- very generous
- insinuate
- to imply; to suggest or hint at indirectly
- turgid
- Swollen.
- enmity
- mutual hatred or ill-will
- impetuous
- adj. violent; hasty; rash; impulsive; without careful thought;
- riposte
- a quick and effective reply by word or act (from fencing)
- mitigate
- To make milder or more endurable.
- erudite
- having or showing profound knowledge
- axiom
- self-evident truth requiring no proof
- beneficent
- Characterized by charity and kindness.
- bereave
- To make desolate with loneliness and grief.
- abrogate
- To abolish, repeal.
- epigram
- A pithy phrasing of a shrewd observation.
- filial
- pertaining to son or daughter
- trepidation
- fear; nervous apprehension
- appraise
- To estimate the money value of.
- limpid
- (of language) transparently clear
- aperture
- Hole.
- vitiate
- take away the legal force of or render ineffective, spoil the effect of , make inoperative
- equivocate
- To use words of double meaning.
- antithetic
- adj. being in direct and unequivocal opposition, hostile
- expatiate
- to roam, wander freely
- salubrious
- healthful
- perspicacious
- (of someone) having insight; penetrating; astute
- remonstrate
- to protest, object
- raillery
- Good-humored satire.
- vociferous
- adj. Making a loud outcry, clamorous; noisy.
- truism
- A statement so plainly true as hardly to require statement or proof.
- gyrate
- To revolve.
- morose
- Gloomy ; ill humored, sullen, melancholy
- fealty
- fidelity; allegiance; faithfulness.loyalty
- countenance
- v : consent to, give permission
- extol
- praise, glorify, or honor
- avaricious
- greedy for wealth
- malevolent
- wishing or appearing to wish evil to others
- propitiate
- appease, mitigate
- decamp
- To leave suddenly or unexpectedly.
- adage
- n. traditional saying; proverb ;
- obdurate
- stubborn; inflexible
- cogent
- appealing strongly to the reason or conscience; convincing
- anachronism
- Anything occurring or existing out of its proper time.
- buttress
- to support
- adulterate
- corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance
- dolor
- Lamentation.
- bacchanalian
- used of riotously drunken merrymaking
- simper
- smirk, smile affectedly
- impede
- to slow the progress of
- turbid
- muddy; not clear; also, confused; disordered.
- zealot
- One who espouses a cause or pursues an object in an immoderately partisan manner.
- demise
- Death.
- syllabus
- Outline of a subject, course, lecture, or treatise.
- insidious
- intended to entrap, Working ill by slow and stealthy means.
- headlong
- excessively quick
- hector
- (n) a bully; (v) to intimidate or dominate in a blustering way
- revelry
- unrestrained merrymaking
- pique
- To excite a slight degree of anger in.
- paradigm
- an example or model
- cadaver
- corpse; dead human body
- ardor
- Intensity of passion or affection.
- fallacious
- based on an incorrect or misleading notion or information
- occlude
- To absorb, as a gas by a metal.
- ponderous
- extremely dull
- mordacious
- biting or given to biting
- invidious
- Showing or feeling envy.
- defunct
- dead; no longer in use or existence
- oscillate
- be undecided about something
- dogmatic
- stubbornly adhering to insufficiently proved beliefs
- enjoin
- To command.
- scion
- an heir
- salutary
- Beneficial.
- peripatetic
- Walking about.
- peremptory
- Precluding question or appeal.
- recondite
- abstruse; not easily understood; profound; secret
- peregrination
- journey; V. peregrinate
- opprobrium
- a state of extreme dishonor, infamy, vilification
- cower
- shrink quivering, as from fear, To crouch down tremblingly, as through fear or shame.
- ludicrous
- Laughable.
- aspersion
- a damaging or derogatory remark
- strident
- [adj] loud, clamoring
- temperate
- moderate; restrained; self-controlled; moderate in respect to temperature; CF. temperance: moderation and self-restraint; abstinence of alcoholic drinks; Ex. temperance society
- guile
- shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
- inhibit
- to put down by force or authority, restrain; prohibit; retard or prevent;
- hackneyed
- repeated too often, overused, cliched
- asperity
- Harshness or roughness of temper.
- droll
- jesting
- encomium
- a formal expression of praise
- antedate
- To assign or affix a date to earlier than the actual one.
- advocate
- speak, plead, or argue in favour of
- undulating
- moving with a wavelike motion;
- disingenuous
- not straightforward; crafty
- promiscuous
- casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior
- talisman
- a trinket or piece of jewelry thought to be a protection against evil; lucky charm
- implacable
- incapable of being pacified; impossible to appease; Ex. _________ enemy