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- ambrosial
- extremely pleasing to the senses, divine (as related to the gods) or delicious (n: ambrosia)
- barefaced
- unconcealed, shameless, or brazen
- cadge
- to get something by taking advantage of someone
- caprice
- impulse (adj: capricious)
- complaisant
- willingly compliant or accepting of the status quo (n: complaisance)
- corroborate
- to strengthen or support: "The witness corroborted his story." (n: corroboration)
- depredation
- the act of preying upon or plundering: "The depredations of the invaders demoralized the population."
- descry
- to make clear, to say
- disabuse
- to free a person from falsehood or error: "We had to disabuse her of the notion that she was invited."
- dispassionate
- calm; objective; unbiased
- hapless
- unfortunate
- headlong
- headfirst; impulsive; hasty. impulsively; hastily; without forethought: "They rushed headlong into marriage."
- imperious
- commanding
- improvidence
- an absence of foresight; a failure to provide for future needs or events: "Their improvidence resulted in the loss of their home."
- ineffible
- undescribable; inexpressible in words; unspeakable
- ingenuous
- unsophisticated; artless; straightforward; candid: "Wilson's ingenuous response to the controversial calmed the suspicious listeners."
- inhibit
- to hold back, prohibit, forbid, or restrain (n: inhibition, adj: inhibited)
- insipid
- lacking zest or excitement; dull
- leviathan
- giant whale, therefore, something very large
- lugubrious
- weighty, mournful, or gloomy, especially to an excessive degree: "Jake's lugubrious monologues depressed his friends."
- obdurate
- hardened against influence or feeling; intractable.
- perfidious
- deliberately treacherous; dishonest (n: perfidy)
- petulant
- easily or frequently annoyed, especially over trivial matters; childishly irritable
- phlegmatic
- not easily excited; cool; sluggish
- prodigal
- rashly wasteful: "Americans' prodigal devotion to the automobile is unique."
- propitiate
- to conciliate; to appease: "They made sacrifices to propitiate angry gods."
- Pulchritudinous
- beautiful (n: pulchritude)
- reproof
- the act of censuring, scolding, or rebuking. (v. reprove).
- sanguine
- cheerful; confident: "Her sanguine attitude put everyone at ease."(Sangfroid (noun) is a related French word meaning unflappibility. Literally, it means cold blood)
- sate
- to satisfy fully or to excess