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- abandon
- total lack of inhibition
- abate
- to decrease, reduce
- abet
- to aid, act as an acomplice
- abjure
- to renounce under oath, to abondon forever, to abstain from
- abnegate
- to give up, to deny oneself
- abortive
- ending without results
- abscond
- to leave quickly in secret
- abstemious
- done sparingly, consuming in moderation
- accede
- to express approval, to agree to
- acclivity
- an incline or upward slope
- accretion
- to grow in size, an increase in amount
- acme
- the highest level or degree
- actuate
- to put into motion; to motivate or influence to activity
- acuity
- sharp vision or preception characterized by attention to detail
- acumen
- sharpness of insight, mind and understanding
- adept
- extremely skilled
- adjure
- to appeal to
- admonish
- to warn or caution gently in order to correct something
- adroit
- skillful; accomplished
- adulation
- excessive flattery or admiration
- adumbrate
- to give hint or indication of something to come
- aerie
- a nest built high in the air; an elevated, excluded dwelling
- affected
- phony, artificial
- aggreate
- a collective mass, the sum total
- algorithm
- an established procedure for solving a problem or equation
- alimentary
- pertaining to food, nutrition, or digestion
- allay
- to lessen, ease, reduce in intensity
- amity
- friendship, good will
- amorphous
- having no definite form
- animus
- a feeling of animosity or ill will
- anodyne
- a source of comfort; a medicine that relieves pain
- anomaly
- a deviation from the common rule
- anthropomorphic
- suggesting human characteristics for animals and inanimate things
- antiquated
- too old to be fashionable or useful
- aphorism
- a short state of a principle
- aplomb
- self-confident assurance; poise
- apostate
- one who renounces religious faith
- apposite
- strikingly appropriate or well adapted
- apprise
- to give notice to; inform
- appropriate
- to assign to a particular purpose, allocate
- arable
- suitable for cultivation
- arcane
- secret, obscure, known only to a few
- arrears
- unpaid, overdue debts or bille; neglected obligations
- arrogate
- to claim without justification; to claim for oneself without right
- askance
- with disapproval; with a skeptical sideways glance
- assent
- to agree, as to a proposal
- atavistic
- characteristic of a former era, ancient
- autocrat
- a dictator
- aver
- to declare to be true, to affirm
- avuncular
- like an uncle in behavior, especially in kindness and warmth
- awry
- crooked, askew, amiss
- balk
- to stop short and refuse to go on
- ballast
- a sturcture that helps to stabilize or steady
- beatific
- displaying calmness and joym relation to a state of celestial happiness
- becalm
- to stop the progree of, to soothe
- becloud
- to make less visible, to obscure, or blur
- bedraggle
- soiled, weat and limp; dilapidated
- beget
- to produce, especially as an effect or outgrowth; to bring about
- behemoth
- something of monstrous size or power; huge creature
- berate
- to scold harshly
- bilious
- ill-tempered, sickly, ailing
- blasphemous
- cursing, profane; extremely irreverent
- blithely
- merrily, lightheartedly cheerful; without appropriate thought
- bombastic
- high sounding but meaningless; ostentatiously lofty in style
- bovine
- relating to cows; having qualities characteristic of a cow
- broach
- to mention or suggest for the first time
- bucolic
- pastoral, rural
- burnish
- to polish; to make smooth and bright
- bursar
- a treasurer or keeper of funds
- cache
- a hiding place
- cacophony
- a jarring, unpleasant tone
- calumny
- a false and malicious accusation; misrepresentation
- cantakerous
- having a difficult, uncooperative, or stubborn disposition
- captious
- marked by the tendency to point out trivial faults; intended to confuse in an argument
- cataclysmic
- severely destructive
- caucus
- a closed committee with a political party; a private committee meeting
- caustic
- burning, sarcastic
- cede
- to surrender possesion of somethin
- celerity
- speed, haste
- censorious
- critial, tending to blame and condemn
- certitude
- assurance. freedom from doubt
- cessation
- a temporary or complete halt
- chary
- watchful, cautious, extremely shy
- chimerical
- fanciful, imaginary, impossible
- circuitous
- indirect, roubabout
- cloying
- sickly sweet; excessive
- coagulate
- to clot; to cause to thicken
- cogent
- logically forceful; compelling, convincing
- commute
- to change a penalty to a less severe one
- complacent
- self-satisfied, smug
- concomitant
- existing concurrently
- concord
- agreement
- condole
- to grieve; to express sympathy
- confluence
- the act of two things floring together, the junction or meeting place where two things meet
- consanguineous
- having the same lineage or ancestry; related by blood
- consternation
- an intense state of fear or dismay
- constituent
- component, part, citizen, voter
- contemptuous
- scornful
- contiguous
- sharing a boundary, neighboring
- continence
- self-control, self-restraint
- convalesce
- to recover gradually from an illness
- coquette
- a flirtatious woman
- coterie
- an intimate group of persons with a similar purpose
- contervail
- to act or react with equal force
- covert
- secretive; not openly shown
- cull
- to select, weed out
- dearth
- lack, scarcity, insufficiency
- curt
- abrupt, short with words
- debacle
- a sudden, disastrous collapse or defeat; a total, ridiculous failure
- declaim
- to speak loudly and vehemently
- defamatory
- injurious to the reputation
- demagogue
- a leader, rabble-rouser, usually appealing to emotion or prejudice
- denizen
- an inabitant, a resident
- deride
- to laugh at contemptuously, to make fun of
- digress
- to turn aside, especially from the main point; to stray from subject
- diluvial
- pertaining to a flood
- discomfit
- disconcert, to make one lose one's composure
- discrete
- individually distinctive, seperate
- disingenuous
- fiving a false appearance of simple frankness, misleading
- disinterested
- fair-minded, unbiased
- dispassionate
- unaffected by bias or stron emotions; not personally or emotionally invulved in something
- dissident
- disagreeing with an estrablished religious or political system
- doctrinaire
- rigidly devoted to theories without regard for practicality; dogmatic
- dogged
- stubbornly persevering
- doleful
- sad, mournful
- dour
- sullen and gloomy, stern and severe
- effluvia
- waste; odorous fumes given off by waste
- elegy
- a mournful poem, usually about the dead
- elude
- to avoid cleverly, to escape the perception of
- emollient
- soothing, especially to the skin
- emulate
- to strive to equal or to imitate
- encumber
- to weigh down, to burden
- enjoin
- to direct or impose with urgent appeal, to order with empasis; to forbid
- epochal
- momentous, highly significant
- eponymous
- giving one's name to a place, book, restaurant
- equivocate
- to aboid committing oneself in what one says to be deliberately unclear
- ersatz
- being an artificial and inferior substitute or imitation
- eschew
- to shun, to avoid
- espouse
- to take up and support as a cause; to marry
- espy
- to catch sight of, glimpse
- euphemism
- an inoffensive and agreeable expressions that is substituted for one that is sonsidered offensive
- suthanasia
- the practice of ending the life of terminally ill individuals; assissted suicide
- excoriate
- to censure scathingly; to express strong disapproval of
- expound
- to explain or describe in detail
- expunge
- to erase; to eliminate completely
- extirpate
- to root out, eradicate, literally or figuratively, to destroy wholly
- extrapolation
- using known data and information to determin what will happen in the future; prediction
- extrinsic
- external, unessential; originating from the outside
- extrude
- to form or shape something by pushing it out, to for out, especially through a small opening
- facetious
- witty, humurous
- facile
- easily accomplished, seeming to lack sincerity or depth; arrived at without due effort
- fallacious
- tending to deceive or mislead; based on fallacy
- febrile
- feverish, marked by intense emotion or activity
- feckless
- ineffective, worthless
- feign
- to pretend, to five false appearance of
- feral
- suggestive of a wil beast, no domesticated
- fictive
- fictional, relating to imaginative creation
- fitful
- intermittent, lacking steadiness; characterized by irrgular bursts of activity
- flippant
- marked by disrespectful lightheartedness or casualness
- flout
- to scorn, to disregard with contempt
- fodder
- raw material, as for artistic creation, readily abundant ideas or images
- forego
- to precede, to go ahead of
- forgo
- to do without, to abstain from
- formidable
- fearsome, dauting; tending to inspire awe or wonder
- fortitude
- strength of mind that allows on to encounter adversity with courage
- fortuitous
- by chance, especially by favorable chance
- frenetic
- frantic, frenzied
- fulsome
- abundant; flattering in an insincere way
- furlough
- a leave of absence, espcially granted to soldier or a prisoner
- furtive
- sly, with hidden motives