Tiffany Group 2
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- conplaisance
- the willingness to comply with the wishes of others
- contentious
- argumentative; quarrelsome; causing controversy or disagreement
- contrite
- regretful; penitent; seeking forgiveness
- culpable
- deserving blame
- dearth
- smallness of quantity or number; scarcity; a lack
- demur
- to question or oppose
- didactic
- intended to teach or instruct
- discretion
- cautious reserve in speech; ability to make responsible decisions
- disinterested
- free of bias or self-interest; impartial
- dogmatic
- expressing a rigid opinion based on unproved or improvable principles
- ebullience
- the quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings
- eclectic
- composed of elements drawn from various sources
- elegy
- a mournful poem, esp. one lamenting the dead
- emollient
- soothing, esp. to the skin; making less harsh; mollifying; an agent that softens or smoothes the skin
- empirical
- based on observation or experiement
- enigmatic
- mysterious; obscure; difficult to understand
- abate
- to lessen in intensity or degree
- accolade
- an expression of praise
- adultation
- excessive praise; intense adoration
- aesthetic
- dealing with, appreciative of, or responsive to art or the beautiful
- ameliorate
- to make better or intolerable
- ascetic
- one who practices rigid self-denial, esp. as an act of religious devotion
- avarice
- greed, esp. for wealth
- axiom
- a universally recognized principle
- burgeon
- to grow rapidly or flourish
- bucolic
- rustic and pastoral; characteristic of rural areas and their inhabitants
- cacophony
- harsh, jarring, discordant sound; dissonance
- canon
- an established set of principles or code of laws, often religious in nature
- castigation
- severe criticism or punishment
- catalyst
- a substance that accelerates the rate of a chemical reaction without itself changing; a person or thing that causes change
- caustic
- burning or stinging; causing corrosion
- chary
- wary; cautious; sparing
- cogent
- appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing
- ephemeral
- brief; fleeting
- esoteric
- intended for or understood by a small, specific group
- eulogy
- a speech honoring the dead
- exonerate
- to remove blame
- facetious
- playful; humerous
- fallacy
- an invalid or incorrect notion; a mistaken belief
- furtive
- marked by stealth; covert; surreptitious
- gregarious
- sociable; outgoing; enjoying the company of other people
- harangue
- to deliver a pompous speech or tirade; a long, pompous speech
- heretical
- violating accepted dogma or convention
- hyperbole
- an exaggerated statement, often used as a figure of speech
- impecunious
- lacking funds; without money
- incipient
- beginning to come into being or to become apparent
- inert
- unmoving; lethergic; sluggish
- innocuous
- harmless; causing no damage
- intransigent
- refusing to compromise
- inveigle
- to obtain by deception or flattery
- morose
- sad; sullen; melancholy
- odious
- evoking intense aversion or dislike
- opaque
- impenetrable by light; not reflecting light
- oscillation
- the act or state of swinging back and forth with a steady, uninterrupted rhythm
- penurious
- penny-pinching; excessively thrifty; ungenerous
- pernicious
- extremely harmful; potentially causing death
- peruse
- to examine with great care
- pious
- extremely relevent or devout; showing strong religious devotion
- precursor
- one that precedes and indicates or announces another
- preen
- to dress up; to primp; to grrom one-self with elaborate care
- prodigious
- abundant in size, force, or extent; extraordinary
- prolific
- producing large volumes or amounts; productive
- putrefy
- to rot; to decay and give off a foul odor
- quaff
- to drink deeply
- quiescence
- stillness; motionlessness; quality of being at rest
- redoubtable
- awe-inspiring; worthy of honor
- sanction
- authoritative permission or approval; a penalty intended to enforce compliance; to vie permission or authority to
- satire
- a literary work that ridicules or criticizes a human vice through humor or derision
- squalid
- sordid; wretched and dirty as from neglect
- stoic
- indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain; steadfast
- supplant
- to take the place of; supercede
- torpid
- lethargic; sluggish; dormant
- ubiquitous
- existing everywhere at the same time; constantly encountered; wide-spread
- urbane
- sophisticated; refined; elegant
- vilify
- to defame; to characterize harshly
- viscous
- thick; sticky