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- alacrity
- eager and enthusiastic willingness
- approbation
- an expression of approval or praise
- axiomatic
- taken as a give; possessing self-evident truth
- effrontery
- extreme boldness, presumptuousness
- enervate
- to weaken
- ennui
- dissatisfaction and restlessness resulting from boredom or apathy
- equivocate
- to use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent
- exculpate
- exonerate
- exigent
- urgent, pressing; requiring immediate action or attention
- extemporaneous
- improvised; done without preparation
- fulminate
- to loudly attack or denounce
- ingenuous
- artless, frank and candid, lacking in sophistication
- inured
- accustomed to accepting something undesirable
- irascible
- easily angered
- nascent
- coming into being; in early developmental stages
- neologism
- new word, expression
- obviate
- to anticipate and make unnecessary
- paean
- song or hymn of praise
- perfidy
- intentional breach of faith, treachery
- perfunctory
- cursory, done without care or interest
- perspicacious
- acutely perceptive, having keen discernment
- precipitate
- acting with excessive haste or impulse
- prevaricate
- to deliberately avoid the truth
- solicitous
- concerned and attentive
- stymie
- block, thwart
- torque
- force that causes rotation
- tortuous
- winding, twisting, excessively complicated
- truculent
- fierce and cruel, eager to fight
- veracity
- truthfulness
- virulent
- extremely harmful or poisonous, bitterly hostile or antagonistic
- burgeon
- grow rapidly or flourish
- castigation
- severe criticism or punishment
- chary
- wary, cautious
- cogent
- appealing forcibly to the mind or reason, convincing
- dearth
- smallness of quantity or number, scarcity
- demur
- to question or oppose
- disinterested
- free of bias, impartial
- ebullience
- quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings
- emollient
- soothing, making less harsh
- empirical
- based on observation or experiment
- enigmatic
- mysterious, obscure, difficult to understand
- harangue
- to deliver a pompous speech or tirade
- impecunious
- lacking funds, without money
- incipient
- beginning to come into being or to become apparent
- intransigent
- refusing to compromise
- inveigle
- to obtain by deception or flattery
- odious
- evoking intense aversion or dislike
- penurious
- penny-pinching
- pernicious
- extremely harmful, potentially causing death
- prodigious
- abundant in size, force, or extent
- quaff
- to drink deeply
- quiescence
- stillness, motionlessness
- redoubtable
- awe-inspiring, worthy of honor
- torpid
- lethargic, sluggish
- ubiquitous
- existing everywhere at the time time
- urbane
- sophisticated
- aver
- to state as fact, declare
- evanescent
- tending to disappear
- fortuitous
- happening by accident or chance
- germane
- relevant to the subject at hand, appropriate in subject matter
- grandiloquence
- pompous speech or expression
- hackneyed
- rendered trite or commonplace by frequent usage
- halcyon
- calm and peaceful
- hedonism
- devotion to pleasurable pursuits
- impassive
- revealing no emotion
- impunity
- immunity from punishment or penalty
- inchoate
- in an initial stage not fully formed
- infelicitous
- unfortunate, inappropriate
- insipid
- without taste or flavor, lacking in spirit
- mendacity
- the condition of being untruthful
- obdurate
- unyielding
- obsequious
- exhibiting a fawning attentiveness
- pith
- the essential or central part
- platitude
- a superficial remark
- querulous
- prone to complaining or grumbling
- rancorous
- characterized by bitter, long-lasting resentment
- recalcitrant
- obstinately defiant of authority
- salubrious
- promoting health or well-being
- solvent
- able to meet financial obligations
- specious
- seeming true, but actually being fallacious, misleadingly attractive
- spurious
- lacking authenticity or validity, false
- surfeit
- an overabundant supply, excess
- tenuous
- having little substance or strength, flimsy
- amenable
- agreeable, responsive to suggestion
- credulous
- tending to believe too readily
- derision
- scorn, ridicule, contemptuous treatment
- desiccate
- dry out, dehydrate
- dilettante
- one with an amateurish or superficial interest in the arts or a branch of knowledge
- garrulous
- pointlessly talkative
- glib
- nonchalant, superficial
- hubris
- pride
- intractable
- not easily managed, stubborn
- intrepid
- steadfast, courageous
- laconic
- using few words, terse
- obfuscate
- deliberately obscure to make confusing
- probity
- adherence to highest principles
- profligate
- excessively wasteful, recklessly extravagant
- prosaic
- dull, lacking in spirit or imagination
- recondite
- hidden, obscure
- refulgent
- radiant, shiny
- sedulous
- diligent, persistent
- soporific
- causing drowsiness
- spendthrift
- one who spends money wastefully
- tacit
- implied, not explicitly stated
- tout
- to publicly praise or promote
- trenchant
- sharply perceptive, keen
- untenable
- indefensible, not viable
- vexation
- annoyance, irritation
- brook
- to tolerate, endure
- chauvinist
- blindly devoted patriot
- consequential
- pompous
- damp
- to diminish the intensity of sound
- die
- a tool used for shaping
- essay
- to test or try, attempt
- fell
- inhumanly cruel
- flip
- sarcastic (flippant)
- grouse
- to complain, grumble
- guy
- a rope, cord, or cable attached to something as a brace or guide
- intimate
- to imply suggest or insinuate
- list
- to tilt or lean to one side
- meet
- fitting, proper
- mince
- to pronounce or speak affectedly, speak too carefully
- nice
- exacting, extremely precise
- occult
- hidden, concealed
- pied
- multicolored, usually in blotches
- prize
- to pry, to take with force
- rent
- torn, past tense rend
- quail
- to lose courage
- scurvy
- contemptible, despicable
- strut
- the supporting structural cross-part of a wing
- table
- to remove from consideration (table the motion)
- tender
- to proffer or offer (tender resignation)
- wag
- a joker
- apogee
- farthest or highest point
- apotheosis
- deification, glorification to godliness, a model of excellence
- asperity
- severity, rigor, irritability
- asseverate
- to aver, assert, allege
- assiduous
- diligent
- augury
- omen, portent
- bellicose
- belligerent, warlike
- calumniate
- to slander, make a false accusation
- captious
- disposed to point out trivial faults, calculated to confuse in argument
- cavil
- to find fault without good reason
- celerity
- speed, alacrity
- chimera
- an illusion
- descry
- to discriminate or discern
- desuetude
- (noun) disuse
- desultory
- random, aimless
- diaphanous
- transparent
- diffident
- reserved, shy
- eschew
- to shun or avoid
- excoriate
- to censure scathingly
- execrate
- denounce, feel loathing for, curse
- expiate
- to atone or make amends for
- extirpate
- to destroy, exterminate
- gainsay
- to deny, dispute, contradict
- heterodox
- unorthodox, heretical
- imbroglio
- difficult or embarrassing situation
- ineluctable
- certain, inevitable
- insouciant
- unconcerned, carefree
- inveterate
- deep rooted, habitual
- jejune
- vapid, uninteresting, childish
- lubricious
- lewd, wanton, greasy
- meretricious
- cheap, gaudy, tawdry
- minatory
- menacing, threatening
- nonplussed
- baffled, bewildered
- obstreperous
- noisily and stubbornly defiant
- parsimonious
- cheap, miserly
- pellucid
- transparent, easy to understand
- peroration
- the concluding part of a speech, flowery speech
- plangent
- pounding, thundering
- prolix
- long-winded, verbose
- puissance
- power, strength
- pusillanimous
- cowardly
- salacious
- lustful
- sanguine
- cheerful, optimistic
- saturnine
- gloomy, dark, sullen
- sententious
- aphoristic or moralistic, tending to moralize excessively
- stentorian
- extremely loud and powerful
- stygian
- gloomy, dark
- tendentious
- biased
- timorous
- timid
- tyro
- novice