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- Milieu
- environment or setting
- Ruction
- a quarrel; a disturbance; an uproar; a riot
- Lampoon
- a composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way
- Occlude
- shut, close
- Portend
- To indicate as being about to happen, especially by previous signs.
- Buxom
- full figured
- Mendacious
- given to lying
- Proselytize
- convert to another faith or religion
- Polemical
- argumentative
- Furtive
- [adj] sneaking, hidden
- Votary
- a person who vows to live a life of religeous service (such as a monk or nun)
- Apocryphal
- untrue, made up
- Insensate
- Lacking sensibility or depth of understanding; naive, foolish
- Promulgate
- to make known by public declaration, announce officially
- Dossier
- a collection of papers containing detailed information about a particular person or subject (usually a person's record)
- Garish
- too bright or showy; gaugy
- Venial
- easily excused or forgiven
- Urbane
- elegant, refined in manners
- Deign
- do something that one considers to be below one's dignity
- Sophomoric
- juvenile; immature
- Babel
- a confusion of voices and other sounds
- Amity
- Friendship.
- Accede
- to agree or express agreement
- Palliative
- a remedy that improves but doesn't cure
- Vilify
- spread negative information about
- Vacillate
- be undecided about something
- Amorphous
- having no definite form or distinct shape
- Duplicity
- n. deception
- Infinitesimal
- infinitely or immeasurably small
- honorarium
- a payment for a service
- Astute
- clever, quick at seeing to get an advantage
- Corrigible
- capable of being corrected
- Burgher
- a member of the middle class
- Opulent
- Wealthy.
- Casuistry
- moral philosophy based on the application of general ethical principles to resolve moral dilemmas
- Countermand
- cancel, revoke
- Bravura
- brilliant and showy technical skill
- Demagogue
- person who appeals to people's prejudice; false leader of people; CF. demagoguery
- Stolid
- showing very little emotion
- Platitude
- n. A written or spoken statement that is flat, dull, or commonplace.
- Diffident
- lacking self-confidence
- Vantage
- the quality of having a superior or more favorable position
- Pedantic
- showy about knowledge
- Remonstrate
- to say or plead in protest, complaint, or objection; to protest or object: The young mother _____________________d against those who wished to ban young children from flying airplanes
- Perceptible
- you can "capture" it with your senses
- Protean
- versatile, able to take any form
- Umbrage
- a feeling of anger caused by being offended
- Avocation
- secondary or minor occupation
- Parapet
- a wall for protection
- Askance
- with a sideways or indirect look (with disapproval or distruct); Ex. look askance at
- Panache
- a feathered plume on a helmet
- Bunco
- a swindling game or scheme
- Ablution
- a washing or cleansing of the body, especially as part of a religious rite
- Venomous
- poisonous; spiteful, mean
- Peonage
- a system by which debtors are bound in servitude to their creditors until debts are paid
- Presage
- a sign of something about to happen
- Nascent
- coming into existence; emerging
- Malediction
- curse
- Suffuse
- spread over
- Elucidation
- the process of making a plan clear
- Unctuous
- (adj.) excessively smooth or smug; trying too hard to give an impression of earnestness, sincerity, or piety; fatty, oily; pliable
- Ennui
- listlessness and dissatisfaction resulting from lack of interest; the feeling of being bored by something tedious
- Obtrusive
- undesirably noticeable
- Amenity
- agreeable ways or manners (the quality of being agreeable or pleasant)
- Pusillanimous
- Without spirit or bravery.
- Cynosure
- anything that attracts attention; object of interest
- Gist
- the point general sense
- Aperture
- Hole.
- Martinet
- strict person
- Chimerical
- imaginary; fanciful
- Officious
- volunteering one's services when they are neither asked for nor needed; meddlesome
- Apothegm
- brief instructive saying
- Ribald
- vulgar, indescent speech