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Second-rate: Of inferior or mediocre quality or value
Striate: Marked with striae; striped, grooved, or ridged; to mark with a line or band, as of different color or texture
Semitic: Of, relating to, or constituting a subgroup of the Afro-Asiatic language group that includes Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic, and Aramaic; of or relating to the Semites or their languages or cultures
Skulduggery: Crafty deception or trickery or an instance of it; verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way
Veracious: Honest; truthful; accurate; precise; consistently telling the truth; conforming to fact
Vacillate: To sway from one side to the other; oscillate
Wane: to decrease gradually in size, amount, intensity, or degree; decline
Sham: A fraudulent imitation; a display of insincere behavior; to behave affectedly or insincerely or take on a false or misleading appearance of; to assume a false appearance or character; dissemble; a decorative cover made to simulate an article of household linen and used over or in place of it
Saunter: To walk at a leisurely pace; stroll; leisurely pace; leisurely walk or stroll; stroll; walk in a confident manner; act of walking, especially for pleasure
Specimen: A bit of tissue or blood that is taken for diagnostic purposes; individual, item, or part representative of a class, genus, or whole
Superfluity: Overabundance; excess
Vouchsafe: To condescend to grant or bestow (a privilege, for example); deign; to let have as a favor, prerogative, or privilege; to descend to a level considered inappropriate to one's dignity; ose; grant
Virile: Of, relating to, or having the characteristics of an adult male; having or showing masculine spirit, strength, vigor, or power; capable of performing sexually as a male; potent; manly
Sumptuous: Of a size or splendor suggesting great expense; lavish; luxurious, splendid; rich and superior in quality
Sully: To mar the cleanness or luster of; soil or stain; to defile; taint
Uncouth: Crude; unrefined; awkward or clumsy; ungraceful; archaic; foreign; unfamiliar; clumsy, uncultivated; lacking in delicacy or refinement
Saga: A long detailed report; epic tale, long story
Swath: A path or strip; the space created by the swing of a scythe or the cut of a mowing machine
Visa: An official authorization appended to a passport, permitting entry into and travel within a particular country or region; to endorse or ratify (a passport)
Titillate: To stimulate by touching lightly; tickle; to excite (another) pleasurably, superficially or erotically
Slattern: an untidy, dirty woman
Unbridled: Unrestrained; uncontrolled; lacking in moral restraint; being without restraint
Tirade: A long angry or violent speech, usually of a censorious or denunciatory nature; a diatribe
Shrivel: To become or make much less or smaller; dwindle; to become or make shrunken and wrinkled, often by drying; to lose or cause to lose vitality or intensity; dehydrate, dry up
Sojourn: to reside temporarily; temporary residence
Untactful: Lacking sensitivity and skill in dealing with others; lacking or showing a lack of what is fitting and considerate in dealing with others
Timorous: Full of apprehensiveness; timid; easily frightened
Symphony: Pleasing agreement, as of musical sounds; harmony, especially of sound or color
Tincture: An alcoholic, hydroalcoholic, or ethereal solution of a drug; something that imparts color; coloring or dyeing substance; a pigment; quality that colors, pervades, or distinguishes; to stain or tint with a color; to infuse, as with a quality; impregnate
Zealot: excessive enthusiasm or u can say excessive zeal; or fanatic
Unsubstantiated: Unsupported by other evidence
Vitiate: To reduce the value or impair the quality of; to corrupt morally; debase; to make ineffective; invalidate
Slipshod: Marked by carelessness; sloppy or slovenly.
Tantamount: Agreeing exactly in value, quantity, or effect; same; equivalent in effect or value
Salient: Readily attracting notice; describing any projecting part or member, as a salient corner; springing; jumping; a military position that projects into the position of the enemy; projecting angle or part
Uncanny: Peculiarly unsettling, as if of supernatural origin or nature; so keen and perceptive as to seem preternatural; of a mysteriously strange and usually frightening nature; very strange, unusual
Tactic: a plan for attaining a particular goal; Syn
Trail: To allow to drag or stream behind, as along the ground:
Vulgaris: Being of the usual type; common
Turmoil: A state of extreme confusion or agitation; commotion or tumult; chaos
Testy: Irritated, impatient, or exasperated; peevish; touchy; easily annoyed
Vaporous: Extravagantly fanciful; high-flown; so light and insubstantial as to resemble air or a thin film
Taciturn: Disinclined to speak or inclined to silence; untalkative
Topography: Concerned with topography; the character, natural features, and configuration of land; surface features of a place or region
Senility: Old age; mental and physical deterioration associated with aging; loss of faculties
Wilt: Sag, fail; to become limp or flaccid
Sybarite: a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses
Satirize: A literary work in which human vice or folly is attacked through irony, derision, or wit
Temerity: Foolhardy disregard of danger; recklessness; nerve, audacity; rash or presumptuous daring
Stagnant: Not moving or flowing; motionless; showing little or no sign of activity or advancement; not developing or progressing; inactive; lacking vitality or briskness; sluggish or dull; motionless
Votary: One zealously devoted to a religion
Vitriolic: similar to as in tarnishing an image
Vilify: to make vicious and defamatory statements about
Surly: bad tempered; unfriendly
Stultify: To render useless or ineffectual; cripple; to cause to appear stupid, inconsistent, or ridiculous; to allege or prove insane and so not legally responsible
Thunderous: Producing thunder or a similar sound; loud and unrestrained in a way that suggests thunder; extremely ominous
Termagant: A person, traditionally a woman, who persistently nags or criticizes
Wretched: So objectionable as to elicit despisal or deserve condemnation; terrible, very bad; of very inferior quality; miserable
Slothful: Disinclined to work or exertion; lazy
Tributary: A stream that flows into a larger stream or other body of water; making additions or yielding supplies; contributory; secondary; branch
Surreptitious: Obtained, done, or made by clandestine or stealthy means; acting with or marked by stealth; trickily secret; conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods; marked by quiet and caution and secrecy
Unsubstantial: Lacking material substance; insubstantial; lacking firmness or strength; flimsy; lacking basis in fact; lacking material form or substance; unreal
Turpitude: Depravity; baseness; a base act
Tactile: of the sense touch; of or relating to or proceeding from the sense of touch, Producing a sensation of touch
Shuck: A husk, pod, or shell, as of a pea, hickory nut, or ear of corn The shell of an oyster or clam
Voluptuous: Giving, characterized by, or suggesting ample, unrestrained pleasure to the senses; well-developed, erotic; having fullness of beautiful form
Slake: to satisfy (a craving); quench; to lessen the force or activity of; moderate; to cool or refresh by wetting or moistening; to combine (lime) chemically with water or moist air; make less active or intense
Sunder: To break or wrench apart; sever; a division or separation; to crack or split into two or more fragments by means of or as a result of force, a blow, or strain
Succor: Assistance in time of distress; relief; one that affords assistance or relief; to give assistance to in time of want, difficulty, or distress
Spurn: To be unwilling to accept, consider, or receive; to kick at or tread on disdainfully
Trepidation: A state of alarm or dread; apprehension; an involuntary trembling or quivering; anxiety, worry
Vigorate: Strong, energetic, and active in mind or body; robust.
Witless: Lacking intelligence or wit; foolish; (of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment
Stench: A strong, foul odor; a stink; a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant
Transitoriness: The quality or state of being transitory; speedy passage or departure
Vigilance: Alert watchfulness; carefulness
Venerate: To regard with respect, reverence, or heartfelt deference
Whet: To sharpen (a knife, for example); hone; make more keen; stimulate; sharpen; arouse; excite
Tedium: The quality or condition of being tedious; tediousness or boredom; dullness, monotony; state or condition of being bored; monotony
Swarthy: Having a dark complexion or color; of a complexion tending toward brown or black; dark-complexioned
Stupor: A state of reduced or suspended sensibility; state of mental numbness, as that resulting from shock; a daze; condition of dullness, often resulting from stress; unconsciousness
Sacrilege: Desecration, profanation, misuse, or theft of something sacred; irreverence
Tawdry: showy or gaudy but without real value
Stentorian: extremely loud
Stolid: Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; impassive; apathetic, stupid; without emotion or interest
Vehement: Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid
Stature: The natural height of a human or animal in an upright position; achieved level; status; importance
Trenchant: Forceful, effective, and vigorous; caustic; cutting; distinct; clear-cut; possessing or displaying perceptions of great accuracy and sensitivity; sarcastic, scathing; having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought, expression, or intellect
Yawn: To open the mouth wide and breathe in deeply especially when one is sleepy; to open the mouth wide with a deep inhalation, usually involuntarily from drowsiness, fatigue, or boredom
Unscrupulous: Devoid of scruples; oblivious to or contemptuous of what is right or honorable.
Splurge: to indulge in an extravagant expense or luxury
Signatory: Bound by signed agreement; one that has signed a treaty or other document; someone who signs and is bound by a document
Tintinnabulation: the ringing or sounding of bells
Stalwart: Having or marked by imposing physical strength.
Tractable: Easily managed or controlled; governable; willing to carry out the wishes of others; manageable
Truculent: Disposed to fight; pugnacious; expressing bitter opposition; scathing; disposed to or exhibiting violence or destructiveness; fierce; belligerent, hateful; defiantly aggressive
Supercillious: Overly convinced of one's own superiority and importance; arrogant, stuck-up
Versed: Acquainted through study or experience; knowledgeable or skilled; experienced, informed
Veto: To forbid or prohibit authoritatively; refusal of permission
Therapeutic: Having or exhibiting healing powers; healing; serving to cure
Toady: A person who flatters or defers to others for self-serving reasons; a sycophant; tray to gain favor by cringing or flattering
Terse: Brief and to the point; effectively concise
Thaw: Change from a frozen solid to a liquid by gradual warming; unfreeze, warm
Voraciousness: Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous; having or marked by an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit; greedy
Sprain: A painful wrenching or laceration of the ligaments of a joint; to injure a (bodily part) by twisting; injury to a joint, with possible rupture of some of the ligaments or tendons but without dislocation or fracture; an injury caused by twisting a muscle or ligament in a joint without putting the bones out of place
Vicissitudinous: Full of, or subject to, changes
Treacle: Cloying speech or sentiment; a medicinal compound formerly used as an antidote for poison
Ungainly: Lacking grace or ease of movement or form; clumsy; Difficult to move or use; unwieldy; awkward; lacking dexterity and grace in physical movement; difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape
Seal: A device for impressing characteristic marks into a soft surface, often to indicate ownershipSeals may be in the form of stamps or cylinder seals; authentication; stamp; ensure, finalize; make airtight; affix a seal to in order to prove authenticity or attest to accuracy, legal weight, quality, or another standard
Suppliant: Asking humbly and earnestly; beseeching; one praying humbly for something
Void: An empty space
Temper: To make or become less severe or extreme; temporary state of mind or feeling; person's customary manner of emotional response; angry outburst; tendency to become angry or irritable; prevailing quality, as of thought, behavior, or attitude; angriness; bad mood; calmness; calm, moderate; harden
Scrimp: To economize severely; be excessively sparing with or of; to cut or make too small or scanty; spend as little as possible; save money; be severely sparing in order to economize
Vulgar: Common, general; rude, offensive
Solitary: alone
Sanction: Formal and explicit approval, Official permission or approval, The act of final authorization; Syn
Splint: A rigid device used to prevent motion of a joint or of the ends of a fractured bone; thin, flexible wooden strip, such as one used in the making of baskets or chair bottoms; plate or strip of metal; bony enlargement of the cannon bone or splint bone of a horse; hin piece split off from a larger piece; a splinter; a rigid appliance for the fixation of displaced or movable parts; a support or brace used to fasten or confine; metal, acrylic resin, or modeling compound fashioned to retain in position teeth that may have been replanted or have fractured roots
Seldom: Not often; infrequently or rarely
Vex: To trouble the nerves or peace of mind of, especially by repeated vexations; distress, bother; disturb or annoy; to cause perplexity in; puzzle; to debate or discuss (a question, for example) at length; to toss about or shake up
Shadowy: Lacking distinctness; faint; lacking substance; unsubstantial; relating or resembling a shadow; full of shade; dark; lacking clarity; indistinct
Vivify: To give or bring life to; animate; to make more lively, intense, or striking; to make alive
Sanctimonious: Feigning piety or righteousness; of or practicing hypocrisy; self-righteous, hypocritical about one's own holiness
Voluble: Marked by a ready flow of speech; fluent; turning easily on an axis; rotating; talkative
Seraph: A celestial being having three pairs of wings; the first of the nine orders of angels in medieval angelology
Talon: the claw of a bird of prey
Tarpaulin: Material, such as waterproofed canvas, used to cover and protect things from moisture; a waterproof cloth, esp one used in large sheets for covering anything exposed to the weather
Vapid: Lacking liveliness, animation, or interest; dull; lacking taste, zest, or flavor; flat; uninteresting
Substantiate: to support with proof or evidence; verify
Thwart: To prevent from accomplishing a purpose; stop, hinder; oppose and defeat the efforts, plans, or ambitions of; seat across a boat on which a rower may sit
Transitory: existing or lasting only a short time; short-lived or temporary
Starry-eyed: Having a naively enthusiastic, overoptimistic, or romantic view; unrealistic; unrealistically or naively optimistic
Vociferous: Making, given to, or marked by noisy and vehement outcry; loud, insistent
Unction: anointing with oil in a religious fashion sanction; Excessive but superficial compliments given with affected charm, Smug self-serving earnestness; Syn
Wanton: Careless; cruel, malicious
Somber: Dark; gloomy; dull or dark in color; melancholy; dismal; serious; grave; sad; depressing
Tessellated: decorated with small pieces of colored glass or stone fitted together; a mosaic floor;having a checkered or mottled appearance
Vicissitude: a change or variation The quality of being changeable; mutability
Untenable: Incapable of being defended or justified
Willowy: Slender and graceful; planted with or abounding in willows
Volition: The act or an instance of making a conscious choice or decision; a conscious choice or decision
Scrutiny: A close, careful examination or study; close observation; surveillance
Tortuous: Full of plot twists
Schism: A separation or division into factions; disunion; discord; state of disagreement and disharmony; condition of being divided, as in opinion; interruption in friendly relations
Truculence: A disposition or apparent disposition to fight, especially fiercely; ferociously cruel actions or behavior; obstreperous and defiant aggressiveness
Whimsy: An odd or fanciful idea; a whim; quaint or fanciful quality; an impulsive, often illogical turn of mind; the trait of acting more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment
Suture: The process of joining two surfaces or edges together along a line by or as if by sewing
Unrealizable: Impossible to achieve
Vim: Ebullient vitality and energy; an imaginative lively style
Shun: To avoid deliberately; keep away from; avoid; ignore
Saturnine: melancholy or sullen; gloomy
Superficiality: Trivial; insignificant
Seethe: To churn and foam as if boiling; be in a state of turmoil or ferment; be violently excited or agitated; be angry and silently fixated on a problem; be very angry; be in a state of emotional or mental turmoil
Toil: To labor continuously; exhausting labor or effort; something that binds, snares, or entangles one; an entrapment; hard work; walk heavily, slowly, and with difficulty; to exert one's mental or physical powers, usually under difficulty and to the point of exhaustion
Unswerving: Constant; steady
Scad: A large number or amount often used in the plural; an indeterminately great amount or number; any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae
Tempestuous: Violently disturbed or agitated, as by storms; tumultuous; stormy; wild
Tenacity: firmness or persistence
Scepter(sceptre): A staff held by a sovereign as an emblem of authority; ruling power or authority; sovereignty; invest with royal authority; a king's staff of office, the sign and symbol of his authority
Splay: An outward bevel around a door or window that makes it seem larger; spread open or apart; turn outward; move out of position; turned outward in an ungainly manner
Serrated: Notched like the edge of a saw; saw-toothed; serrate
Skein: a length of thread or yarn wound in a loose long coil; a flock of geese or similar birds in flight
Tantalizing: Enticingly in sight, yet often out of reach; arousing desire or expectation for something unattainable or mockingly out of reach; very pleasantly inviting
Tardy: Occurring, arriving, acting, or done after the scheduled, expected, or usual time; late; moving slowly; sluggish
Thrifty: Practicing or marked by the practice of thrift; wisely economical; industrious and thriving; prosperous; growing vigorously; thriving, as a plant; not wasteful
Wedding: Marriage rite
Shoal: A shallow part of a body of water: shallow; measuring little from bottom to top or surface
Vulgarian: A vulgar person, especially one who makes a conspicuous display of wealth; an unrefined, rude person; a vulgar person (especially someone who makes a vulgar display of wealth)
Unbridl: To free from restriction or restraint.
Transgression: A violation of a law, command, or duty; exceeding of due bounds or limits; relative rise in sea level resulting in deposition of marine strata over terrestrial strata; an act or instance of breaking a law or regulation or of nonfulfillment of an obligation or promise; violation, misbehavior
Titanic: Having great stature or enormous strength; huge or colossal; of enormous scope, power, or influence
Sangfroid: coolness and composure, especially in trying circumstances
Sustenance: The act of sustaining; the condition of being sustained; the supporting of life or health; maintenance
Torpor: state of being inactive and having no energy
Skittish: Feeling or exhibiting nervous tension; very nervous; lively; shy
Sobriquet: An affectionate or humorous nickname; an assumed name; a familiar name (often a shortened version of a person's given name)
Trite: Lacking power to evoke interest through overuse or repetition; hackneyed; without freshness or appeal because of overuse;silly, commonplace
Solemn: Deeply earnest, serious, and sober; gloomy; somber; performed with full ceremony; invoking the force of religion; sacred
Vivacious: lively
Swagger: To walk with exaggerated or unnatural motions expressive of self-importance or self-display; a proud stiff pompous gait; discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate; act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner
Succinct: Marked by or consisting of few words that are carefully chosen; brief, to the point; briefly giving the gist of something
Unctuous: Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness; slippery; greasy; affectedly and self-servingly earnest; too polite in speech or manner
Vault: A room or compartment, often built of steel, for the safekeeping of valuables; a burial place or receptacle for human remains; to move off the ground by a muscular effort of the legs and feet; act of jumping
Skimp: To deal with hastily, carelessly, or with poor material; be stingy or very thrifty; scanty; be cheap or frugal about; give barely enough or not enough attention, funds or effort
Screen: To cut off from sight: block; to shelter, especially from light; to examine (material) and remove parts considered harmful or improper for publication or transmission; hide, protect; a detachment of troops or ships detailed to cover the movements of the main body
Tenacious: Holding or tending to hold persistently to something, such as a point of view; holding together firmly; cohesive; clinging to another object or surface; adhesive; tending to retain; retentive; sticky; strong
Vile: Very evil; unpleasant; so objectionable as to elicit despisal or deserve condemnation; heavily soiled; very dirty or unclean; extremely unpleasant to the senses or feelings; having or proceeding from low moral standards; offensive, horrible; loathsome; disgusting
Vestige: A visible trace, evidence, or sign of something that once existed but exists or appears no more; a trace of something absent, lost, or vanished; the remnant of a structure that functioned in a previous stage of species or individual development
Trademark: A name, symbol, or other device identifying a product, officially registered and legally restricted to the use of the owner or manufacturer; distinctive characteristic by which a person or thing comes to be known; label (a product) with proprietary identification; register (something) as a trademark
Spartan: Resolute in the face of pain or danger or adversity; unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment; practicing great self-denial; austere; laconic; simple
Triad: A group of three; a chord of three tones, especially one built on a given root tone plus a major or minor third and a perfect fifth; set of three similar things considered as a unit
Secular: Someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person; Syn -layman, profane
Spate: A sudden rush or flood; sudden or rapid flowing outward; an abundant, usually overwhelming flow or fall, as of a river or rain
Xerophagy: dry eating or fasting
Synopsis: summary or outline
Topical: Of or belonging to a particular location or place; local; currently of interest; contemporary
Sylvan: Relating to or characteristic of woods or forest regions; abounding in trees; wooded
Wary: On guard; watchful; characterized by caution; vigilantly attentive; trying attentively to avoid danger, risk, or error; careful, cautious; openly distrustful and unwilling to confide
Sober: Exercising moderation and self-restraint in appetites and behavior; having or indicating an awareness of things as they really are; full of or marked by dignity and seriousness; calm, peaceful; dull; not partaking of alcohol; having a serious attitude
Trifling: Of slight worth or importance; frivolous or idle; insignificant, worthless; contemptibly unimportant; the deliberate act of wasting time instead of working
Yokel: An uneducated country person; clumsy, unsophisticated person; a rustic; a bumpkin
Votary: A person bound by vows to live a life of religious worship or service; a faithful follower; an enthusiast
Teem: To be full of things; abound or swarm; to be or become pregnant; bear young; give birth to; be abundantly filled or richly supplied
Thrive: To make steady progress; prosper; grow vigorously; flourish
Tandem: an arrangement of two or more objects or persons one behind another, A bicycle with two sets of pedals and two seats
Sagitta: A constellation in the Northern Hemisphere near Aquila and Vulpecula
Volatile: Following no predictable pattern; explosive, changeable; having a tendency to evaporate rapidly; flying or capable of flying; ephemeral; fleeting; inconstant; fickle; lighthearted; flighty
Urbanity: Refined, effortless beauty of manner, form, and style; refinement and elegance of manner; polished courtesy; polished courtesy; elegance of manner
Slatternly: slovenly; untidy
Unwonted: Not habitual or ordinary; unusual; not accustomed; unused; rare
Tame: Brought from wildness into a domesticated or tractable state; not timid; submissive; docile; fawning; insipid, flat; sluggish; languid; inactive; to tone down; soften; to subdue or curb; dull, uninteresting; domesticated, compliant
Sate: To satisfy (an appetite) fully; to satisfy to excess; fill to satisfaction
Tactual: Of, relating to, or arising from the sense of touch; producing a sensation of touch; tactile
Sycophant: A servile self-seeker who attempts to win favor by flattering influential people; one who flatters another excessively
Sturdy: Having or showing rugged physical strength; substantially made or built; stout; marked by resoluteness or determination; firm; solid, durable; strong and hardy
Terrestrial: Earthly
Stygian: Gloomy and dark; infernal; hellish
Slight: Small in degree, especially of probability; to think, represent, or speak of as small or unimportant; to refuse to pay attention to (a person); treat with contempt; to fail to care for or give proper attention to; act or instance of neglecting; act that offends a person's sense of pride or dignity; insult, disrespect; offend; thin, small in build; to pay little or no attention to
Topple: To push or throw over; overturn or overthrow; to totter and fall; fall or knock over; overthrow; fall down, as if collapsing; to undergo capture, defeat, or ruin
Tort: damage, injury, or a wrongful act done willfully, negligently, or in circumstances involving strict liability, but not involving breach
Tiresome: Causing fatigue or boredom; wearisome; arousing no interest or curiosity; irritating, exasperating; so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
Strut: To walk with pompous bearing; swagger.
Teetotaler: One who abstains completely from alcoholic beverages; a total abstainer; practice of refraining from use of alcoholic liquors
Strait: A narrow channel joining two larger bodies of waterOften used in the plural with a singular verb; A position of difficulty, perplexity, distress, or needOften used in the plural; crisis, difficulty
Speculative: risky; based on guesswork rather than knowledge
Sagittal: Of or relating to the suture uniting the two parietal bones of the skull;

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