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- remunerate
- To pay (a person) a suitable equivalent in return for goods provided, services rendered, or losses incurred; recompense.
- unprepossessing
- creating an unfavorable or neutral first impression
- consummate
- Complete or perfect in every respect
- vintner
- A wine merchant.
- harangue
- A long pompous speech, especially one delivered before a gathering.
- cord
- A unit of quantity for cut fuel wood
- prescience
- Knowledge of actions or events before they occur; foresight.
- percipient
- Having the power of perceiving, especially perceiving keenly and readily.
- profligate
- Recklessly wasteful; wildly extravagant.
- spendthrift
- One who spends money recklessly or wastefully.
- redress
- Satisfaction for wrong or injury; reparation.
- restitution
- The act of restoring to the rightful owner something that has been taken away, lost, or surrendered.
- winnow
- To separate the chaff from (grain) by means of a current of air.
- chaff
- The dry bracts enclosing mature grains of wheat and some other cereal grasses, removed during threshing.
- dregs
- The sediment in a liquid
- silage
- Fodder prepared by storing and fermenting green forage plants in a silo.
- feral
- Existing in a wild or untamed state.
- visceral
- From the gut.
- slothful
- Lazy.
- jeopardy
- Danger.
- urbanity
- A smooth, polished character.
- pliant
- Supple, flexible, bending easily
- ostentatious
- Extremely showy.
- brazen
- Bold.
- peremptory
- Putting an end to all debate or action; authoritative.
- laudatory
- Expressing praise.
- decry
- To openly disparage or belittle, censure.
- delude
- Deceive.
- inter
- To place in a grave or tomb; bury.
- sprightly
- Lively, animated, vivacious.
- corporeal
- Of the flesh.
- acrimonious
- Bitter and sharp in language or tone; rancorous: an acrimonious debate between the two candidates.
- torpid
- Slow, apathetic, sluggish.
- germane
- relevant
- aseptic
- Free from disease-causing germs.
- dour
- Sullen, gloomy.
- deign
- Condescend.
- preeminent
- Superior to or notable above all others; outstanding.
- sectarian
- Adhering or confined to the dogmatic limits of a sect or denomination; partisan.
- desultory
- Half-hearted; inconsistent
- sententious
- Terse and energetic in expression; pithy.
- perdition
- Damnation.
- raconteur
- One who tells stories and anecdotes with skill and wit.
- retinue
- The retainers or attendants accompanying a high-ranking person.
- drake
- Male duck.
- tonic
- A medicine the revitalizes and strengthens.
- inundate
- To cover with water, especially floodwaters.
- ruminate
- To turn a matter over and over in the mind.
- brood
- Worry about something at great length.
- paean
- A song of praise.
- dirge
- A song of mourning.
- manse
- A large stately residence.
- rectory
- The house in which a parish priest or minister lives.
- potentate
- Monarch
- votary
- A person bound by religious vows
- vicar
- a Roman Catholic priest who acts for another higher-ranking clergyman
- peregrinate
- To journey or travel from place to place, especially on foot.
- predestination
- previous determination as if by destiny or fate
- gyrate
- To revolve around a fixed point or axis.
- laxity
- Lack of discipline; carelessness
- proclivity
- A natural propensity or inclination; predisposition.
- rancor
- bitter hate
- check
- to hinder or restrain
- stultify
- To render useless or ineffectual; cripple.
- promulgate
- Publicly promote
- propitiate
- to conciliate or make favorably inclined
- antedate
- predate
- satiate
- fulfill
- perfidy
- falseness; a deliberate breach of trust
- mollify
- To allay or calm
- puissant
- mighty, powerful, potent
- antithetical
- contrasting or opposing
- penury
- great poverty
- munificence
- generosity
- disenfranchise
- deprive of voting rights
- vitiate
- To reduce the value or impair the quality of.
- misogyny
- Hatred of women
- tribulation
- hardship
- prattle
- To talk freely and carelessly
- dietetics
- The science of nutrition
- hydrology
- The science of water movements
- resplendent
- briliantly colored
- pallid
- pale or lacking in color
- ineffable
- something that can't be expressed in words
- excrutiate
- To inflict great pain or torment
- enrapture
- To put someone in a state of ecstasy
- chary
- Very wary, shy
- deft
- Quick and skillful; adroit.
- tight-lipped
- frank
- adulterate
- Corrupt, make more impure
- palliate
- lessen, make less serious
- abject
- miserable, pitiful
- vapid
- Lacking liveliness, animation, or interest; dull
- surly
- # Sullenly ill-humored; gruff.
- affectation
- A pretense or artificial behavior
- effrontery
- impudence
- imprecation
- curse
- impugn
- To attack with words
- turgid
- Swollen or bloated; overly ornate or full of meaningless rhetoric
- inebriety
- State of being intoxicated
- equanimity
- calmness
- factious
- dissenting
- arduous
- difficult
- interdict
- forbid
- chimerical
- unreal
- lassitude
- A state or feeling of weariness, diminished energy, or listlessness.
- felicity
- happiness
- torpor
- A state of mental or physical inactivity or insensibility.
- unfettered
- free and unrestrained
- obloquy
- disgrace or public censure
- recompense
- Amends made, as for damage or loss.
- callow
- immature
- enervate
- weaken
- dilatory
- not prompt
- enfeeble
- To deprive of strength; make feeble.
- circumspect
- Heedful of circumstances and potential consequences; prudent.
- mores
- accepted rules of social behavior
- martinet
- one who insists on strict obedience of all regulations
- paragon
- A model of excellence or perfection of a kind; a peerless example
- extemporaneous
- spontaneous
- injudicious
- unwise or imprudent
- perturbation
- confusion or disorder
- contemporaneous
- Originating, existing, or happening during the same period of time
- crotchety
- complaining, grouchy or irritable
- intrigue
- plot and scheme; arouse interest
- trenchant
- perceptive
- incipient
- Beginning to exist or appear
- frenetic
- frantic
- apposite
- fitting; characterized by relevance
- nettle
- irritate
- ennoble
- to make noble or excellent
- recant
- to take back a statement
- umbrage
- offense or displeasure
- primacy
- the state of being first or foremost.
- maleficent
- producing harm or evil
- palpable
- obvious
- execrate
- to curse, denounce or detest
- abrade
- To wear down or rub away by friction; erode.
- spurious
- false or counterfeit
- antiquated
- old
- munificent
- generous
- slovenly
- messy, careless
- fulsome
- disgusting or offensively excessive
- fastidious
- Possessing or displaying careful, meticulous attention to detail.
- subsume
- To classify, include, or incorporate in a more comprehensive category or under a general principle
- conflate
- combine
- numismatist
- coin collector
- bibliophile
- book collector
- boor
- crude, vulgar person
- stoic
- someone unaffected by emotion
- sublimate
- To modify the natural expression of (a primitive, instinctual impulse) in a socially acceptable manner.
- ruffle
- To disturb the smoothness or regularity of; ripple.
- curmudgeon
- grumpy person
- plutocrat
- One whose wealth gives him power or influence
- arboreal
- relating to trees
- hyperbole
- exaggeration
- simile
- expression of comparison using "like" or "as"
- expansive
- broad and encompassing
- imperiousness
- quality of being overbearing or domineering
- illimitable
- limitless
- circumscribed
- limited
- belie
- to misrepresent; to expose as false
- timorous
- timid
- inured
- made used to by long exposure
- retort
- talk back
- mitigate
- to lessen; make less severe
- equable
- uniform, steady, unvarying, or even
- meager
- Deficient in quantity, fullness, or extent; scanty.
- inveterate
- long-standing, deeply rooted, or persistent
- piquancy
- the quality of being pleasantly pungent in taste or smell
- meritorious
- Deserving reward or praise; having merit.
- controvert
- to contradict or refute (an argument)
- buttress
- support (an argument)
- hallmark
- a seal
- whit
- the smallest particle imaginable
- confounded
- confused; befuddled
- bemused
- dazed or lost in thought
- wizened
- dried up, withered
- compunction
- remorse
- contravention
- violation
- foolhardy
- overly courageous
- intrepid
- bold
- anatomize
- to discuss or examine to the most minute detail
- stymie
- To thwart; stump
- dote
- to care to the point of excess
- discordant
- disagreeing or not harmonious
- graver
- a tool used to cut into metal
- rotundity
- roundness
- gaunt
- thin
- sedulity
- industriousness
- protagonist
- a character in a drama
- tortuous
- winding, crooked
- maladroit
- clumsy
- opulence
- richness and luxury
- petulant
- Unreasonably irritable or ill-tempered; peevish.
- complacent
- satisfied or smug
- preternatural
- abnormal; supernatural
- pariah
- outcast
- lion
- one welcomed and respected by society
- gull
- A person who is easily tricked or cheated; a dupe.
- peripatetic
- wandering or itinerant
- stolid
- hard to move to emotion
- episodic
- Composed of a series of episodes
- amalgam
- A combination of diverse elements; a mixture
- denigrate
- To attack the character or reputation of; speak ill of; defame.
- certitude
- The state of being certain; complete assurance; confidence.
- dogmatism
- Arrogant, stubborn assertion of opinion or belief.
- garrulous
- Given to excessive and often trivial or rambling talk; tiresomely talkative.
- jocular
- Characterized by joking
- epitomize
- to serve as a typical example of
- scabbard
- sword holder
- abstemious
- refraining from overindulgence in food or drink
- sate
- To satisfy (an appetite) fully.
- pandemic
- epidemic
- nosegay
- A small bunch of flowers; a bouquet.
- picayune
- insignificant, not worthy of attention
- hector (v)
- to bully
- maelstrom
- whirlpool
- conflagration
- large fire
- tenable
- defendable
- largess
- great generosity; liberality in giving
- parsimony
- stingyness
- penchant
- a strong and continued liking for something
- engender
- To bring into existence; give rise to
- acclivity
- an upward slope
- rectitude
- correct conduct; moral virtue
- depravity
- Moral corruption or degradation.