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- abase
- to humiliate
- abate
- to reduce
- abdicate
- to give up ones throne
- abduct
- to kidnapp
- aberration
- something that differs from the norm
- abet
- to help
- abhor
- to hate
- abide
- to put up with
- abject
- pitiful
- abjore
- to reject
- abnegation
- denial of comfort for onesself
- acrid
- sharp taste, bitter
- adroit
- skillful
- adulterate
- to make impure
- adventitious
- accident
- aegis
- protective sheild
- affectation
- phony attitude
- agape
- open mouthed, suprised
- altruism
- concern for others
- ambiguous
- open to more than one interpretation
- amorphous
- shapless
- antithesis
- exact opposite
- apex
- highest point of something
- apotheosis
- finest example
- auspicious
- signaling favorable or promising results
- avuncular
- like an uncle
- baroque
- overly decorated
- bauble
- showy but useless thing
- beseige
- to overwhelm, to surround and attack
- besmirch
- to make dirty, to stain
- bestial
- savage, brutal
- blanch
- to whiten, make pale
- bland
- mild, tasteless, dull
- bona fide
- in good faith
- boor
- rude and impolite person
- bovine
- pertaining to cows
- bowlderize
- to censor
- bucolic
- referring to the countryside
- callow
- young and inexperienced
- carcinogen
- causing cancer
- carnal
- refering to physical appetite
- carrion
- decaying skin
- cataclysm
- a violent change
- caveat
- a warning
- celibate
- abstaning from intercourse, unamrried
- censure
- to criticize
- chagrin
- embaressment, complete loss of courage
- chimerical
- imaginary
- contiguous
- making contact
- credulity
- willingness to believe too quickly
- debacle
- complete failure
- deference
- respect, consideration
- defile
- to pollute
- demeanor
- behavior
- deride
- to mock or ridicule
- deviate
- to stray
- diadem
- a crown
- diaphanous
- very sheer and light
- dichotomy
- division into two parts
- dross
- refuse or waste
- ebullient
- enthusiastic
- eclectic
- choosing from various sources
- edify
- improve someone morally
- effete
- worn out, barren
- elegy
- sad or mournful poem
- emanate
- to come forth
- emendation
- a correction
- enervate
- to weaken
- ephermal
- lasing only a short time
- erotic
- pertaining to sexual love
- extenuate
- to lessen seriousness by proiding partial excuses
- facetious
- comical
- facticious
- causing disagreement
- fatuous
- foolish
- fecund
- fertile, productive
- ferret
- to search or drive out
- fervent
- eager
- finesse
- skillful
- fop
- extremly fashion conscience man
- fortuitous
- to happen by chance or accident
- fulminate
- to protest
- gambol
- to frolic
- garish
- tastelessly gaudy
- gibe
- to ridicule
- gloat
- to look or think about with great satisfaction
- glower
- to stare angrily
- grandoise
- impressive
- gratuitious
- uneccessary or uncalled for
- gravitas
- seriousness
- grotesque
- absurd
- hackneyed
- common place, overused
- harbinger
- omen or sign
- hedonism
- persuit of happiness
- hegemony
- having influence or domination over
- heterogeneous
- different
- hybrid
- anything of mixed origin
- idiosyncrasy
- peculiar personality trait
- idolatry
- excessive adoration
- ignoble
- dishonorable
- immolate
- to kill someone as a sacrifice
- immutable
- unchangeable
- impair
- to weaken
- impale
- to pierce with a sharp stake through the body
- impecunious
- without money
- impediment
- a barrier
- imperative
- extremly necessary
- imperious
- domineering
- impious
- disrespectful to God
- importune
- to ask persistenty, to beg
- impotent
- powerless, lacking strength
- imprecation
- a curse
- incendiary
- causing to excite
- inimitable
- cannot be imitated
- insuperable
- not able to overcome
- jejune
- without interest, dull
- labyrinth
- a complicated network of winding passages
- laconic
- using few words
- machination
- evil plan
- macroscopic
- visible to naked eye
- maelstrom
- turbulance, agitated state of mind
- malfeasance
- poor conduct especially with public officals
- martintent
- task master
- masochist
- someone who enjoys their own pain
- nebulous
- hazy, vague, uncertain
- neologism
- new word or expression
- nihilism
- rejection of established laws
- non sequitur
- something that does not logically follow
- nubile
- suitable for marriage in age and physical development
- obfuscate
- to confuse, bewilder
- obloquy
- strong disapproval, bad reputation
- olfactory
- relating to smell
- onus
- a burden
- optimum
- best, most favorable, ideal
- opulent
- rich, luxurious, wealthy
- panegyric
- expression of praise
- parochial
- local, narrow, limited
- patent
- evident or obvious
- peccadillo
- minor offense
- pedantic
- showing off ones learning
- pedestrian
- ordinary and dull
- pejorative
- insulting
- perfunctory
- done with care and in a routine
- perspictacity
- keeness of judgement
- platonic
- marked by absence of romance or physical attraction
- polyglot
- someone with knowledge or two or more languages
- pontificate
- speak in a dignified manner
- proletariat
- lower class
- prurient
- lustful thoughts
- psychosomatic
- relating symptoms caused my mental problems
- quagmire
- difficult situation
- quandary
- puzzing situation
- quasi
- resembling, seeming, half
- quiddity
- essential quality
- raiment
- clothing
- rakish
- stylish and confident
- rationalize
- to make an excuse for
- recapitulate
- to summarize
- recondite
- hard to understand
- rectify
- to make correct
- redolent
- having a pleasant odor
- refractory
- difficult to control
- sacroscant
- extremly holy
- sadistic
- deriving form pleasure by inflicting pain on others
- sagacious
- wise
- sanguine
- cheerful, optomistic
- sapient
- wise
- sedition
- rebellion
- shard
- fragment
- specious
- misleading
- tenacious
- strongly held, hard to separate
- truculent
- ferocious
- verisimuilitude
- appearance of truth
- viscous
- like glue
- vociferous
- loud