Kaplan(2)
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- galvanize
- to shock; to arouse awareness
- gamely
- spiritedly, bravely
- gauche
- lacking social refinement
- grandiloquence
- pompous talk; fancy but meaningless language
- gregarious
- outgoing, sociable
- grotto
- small cave
- harange
- to give a long speech
- hedonist
- one who pursues plasure as a goal
- hegemony
- the domination of one state or group over its allies
- heretical
- departing from accepted beliefs or standards, oppositional
- hiatus
- a gap or interruption in space, time, or continuity
- histrionics
- deliberate display of emotion for effect; exaggerated behavior calculated for effect
- hubris
- excessive pribe or self-confidence
- husband
- to manage economicalled; to use sparingly
- ignoble
- having low moral standards, not noble in character
- illusory
- producing illusion, deceptive
- imbibe
- to recieve into the mind and take in
- impassive
- absent of any external sign of emotion, expressionless
- imperious
- commanding, domineering; urgent
- imperturbable
- unshakably calm and steady
- implacable
- inflexible; not capable of being changed or pacified
- importunate
- troublesome urgent; extremely persistent in request or demand
- imprecation
- a curse
- impudent
- marked by cocky boldness or disregarded for others
- impugn
- to call into question; to attack verbally
- impute
- to lay the responsibility or blame for, often unjustly
- incandescent
- shining brightly
- incarnadine
- red, expecially blood red
- inchoate
- being only partly in existent; imperfectly formed
- incipent
- beginning to exist or appear; in an intial stage
- incorrigible
- incapable of being corrected or amended; difficult to control or manage
- incredulous
- unwilling to accept what is true, skeptical
- indomitable
- incapable of being conquered
- ingratiate
- to gain favor with another by deliverate effort, to seek to please somebody so as to gain an advantage
- inherent
- involving the seential character of something, built-in, inborn
- inquest
- an investigation, an inquiry
- insenate
- lacking sensibility and understanding, foolish
- insolent
- insltingly arrogant, overbearing
- insular
- characteristic of an isolated people, especially having a narrow viewpoing
- insuperable
- incapable of being surmounted or overcome
- inter
- to bury
- interlocutor
- ones who takes part in conversation
- internecine
- mutually destructive; equally devastating to both sides
- interregnum
- a temporary halting of the usualy operations of government or control
- intimation
- a subtle and indirect hint
- intractable
- not easily managed or manipulated
- intransient
- uncompromising, refusing to abandon an extreme position
- intrepid
- fearless, resolutely conrageous
- inundate
- to cover with a flood; to overwhelm as if with a flood
- inveterate
- firmly established, especially with respect to a habit or attitude
- irascible
- easily angered, hot tempered
- ironic
- poignantly contrary or incongrous to what was expected
- irreverent
- disrespectful in a gently or humorous way
- itinerant
- wandering from place to place; unsettled
- jettison
- to discard, to get rid of as unneseccary or encumbering
- jocular
- playful, humorous
- junta
- a small governing body, especially after a revolutionary seizure of power
- kismet
- destiny, fate
- lampoon
- to ridicule with satire
- largess
- generous giving (as in money) to others who may seem inferior
- laudable
- deserving of praise
- lax
- not rigid, loose; negligent
- levity
- an inappropriate lack of seriousness, overly casual
- lexicon
- a dictionary; a stock of terms pertaining to a particular subject or vocabulary
- libertarian
- one who advocates indivudual rights and freedoms
- libertine
- a free thinker, usually used disparaginly; one without moral restraint
- licentious
- immoral; unrestrained by society
- lilliputian
- very small
- limber
- flexible, capable of being shaped
- lithe
- moving and beding with ease; marked by effotless grace
- loquacious
- talkative