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- abate
- to reduce in amount, degree, or severity
- abscond
- to leave secretly
- abstain
- to choose not to do something
- abyss
- an extremely deep hole
- adulterate
- to make impure
- advocate
- to speak in favor of
- aesthetic
- concerning the appreciation of beauty
- aggrandize
- to increase in power, influence, and reputation
- alleviate
- to make more bearable
- amalgamate
- to combine or mix together
- amalgam
- a mixture, especially of two metals
- ambiguous
- doubtful or uncertain; able to be interpreted serveral ways
- ameliorate
- to make better; to improve
- anachronism
- something out of place in time
- analogous
- similar or alike in some way equivalent to
- anomoly
- deviation from what is normal
- antagonize
- to annoy or provke to anger
- antipathy
- extreme dislike
- ardor
- intense and passionate feeling
- assuage
- to make something unpleasant less severe
- attenuate
- to reduce in force or degree; to weaken
- audacious
- fearless and daring
- austere
- servere or stern in appearance; undecorated
- banal
- predictable, cliched, boring
- bombastic
- pompous in speech and manner
- cacophony
- harsh jaring noise
- candid
- impartial and honest in speech
- capricious
- changing one's mind quickly and often
- chicanery
- deception by means of craft or guile
- cogent
- convincing and well reasoned
- convulted
- intricte and complicated
- corroborate
- to proivde supporting evidence
- credulous
- too trusting; gullible
- crescendo
- steadily increasing volume or force
- deference
- respect
- deride
- to speak of or treat with contempt
- derisive
- in a mocking manner
- desiccate
- to dry out thoroughly
- desultory
- jumping from one thing to another; disconnected
- diffident
- lacking self confidence
- dilate
- to make larger or to expand
- dilatory
- intended to delay
- dillettante
- something with an amateurish and superficial interest in a topic
- dirge
- a funeral hymm or mournful speech
- disabuse
- to set right to free from error
- disparate
- fundmanetally different entirely unlike
- dissemble
- to lie
- dissonance
- a harsh and disagreeable combination, often of sounds
- elegy
- sorrowful poem or speech
- eloquent
- persuasive and moving especially in speech
- enervate
- to reduce in strength
- ephemeral
- lasting a short time
- equivocate
- to use expressions of double meaning in order to mislead
- erudite
- learned, schoarly, bookish
- esoteric
- known or understood by only a few
- estimable
- admirable
- exculpate
- to clear from blame; prove innocent
- exigent
- urgent; requiring immediate action
- fawn
- to grovel
- fervid
- intensely emotional; feverish
- malinger
- to evade responsiblity by pretending to be ill
- misanthrope
- a person who disslikes others
- mollify
- to calm or make less severe
- obdurate
- hardened in feeling; resistant to persuasion
- obsequious
- overly submissive and eager to please
- obviate
- to stop up to prevent the passage of
- opprobbrium
- public disgrace
- ostentation
- excessive showiness
- pedant
- some who shows off learning
- perfidious
- willing to betray one's trust
- perfunctory
- done in routine way
- prodigal
- wasteful, lavish
- propitiate
- to conciliate to apease
- propriety
- correct behavior, obedience to rules and customs
- prudenec
- wisdom, caution, or restraint
- reticient
- silent reserved
- soporific
- causing sleep or lethargy
- specious
- deceptively attractive
- tacit
- done without using words
- torpor
- extreme mental and physical sluggishness
- venerate
- to respect deeply
- veracity
- filled with truth and accuracy
- vex
- to annoy