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- exacerbate
- to make more violent, bitter, or severe
- pretentious
- making usually unjustified, or excessive claims (as of value or standing); showy, ostentatious
- haughty
- blatantly and disdainfully proud; snooty, conceited
- disdainful
- full of a feeling of contempt for waht is beneath one; scornful
- miff
- to put into ill humor; offend
- machination
- a scheming or crafty action or artul design intended to accomplish some usually evil end
- embroil
- to involve in conflict or difficulties
- vocation
- the work in which a person is regularly employed; career, occupation, profession
- burgeoning
- growing and expanding rapidly
- aesthetics
- a pleasing appearance or effect; beauty
- abhor
- to regard with extreme repugnance; loathe
- cloying
- excessively sweet or sentimental
- berefit
- deprived or robed of possession of something
- ardor
- extreme vigor or energy; intensity
- cognizant
- knowledgeable about something, especially through personal experience; mindful
- cajole
- to persuade with flattery or gentle urging, especially in the face of reluctance
- volubly
- marked by a ready flow of speech
- disparaging
- to speak slightingly about; decry
- discourse
- talk, converse
- genial
- marked by sympathy or friendliness; kindly
- extrenuating
- to mitigate; to lessen or try to lessen the seriousness or extent of by making partial excuses
- crass
- having or indicating such grossness of mind as precludes delicacy and discriminatino
- procure
- to get possession of; obtain by particular care and effort
- rapport
- relation marked by harmony, conformity, accord, or affinity
- emissary
- one designed as the agent of another
- interlocutor
- someone who takes part in a dialogue or conversation
- portentously
- something that foreshadows a coming event
- verdant
- green with growing plants
- perfunctory
- characterized by routine or superificiality
- austere
- stern and cold in appearance or manner
- torpid
- lacking in energy or vigor
- potentate
- one who has the power and position to rule over others; a monarch
- precarious
- characterized by a lack or security or stability that threatens with danger
- periphery
- the external boundary or surface of a body
- presiding
- occupying a palace of authority, acting as president, chairman, or moderator
- preempted
- to take the place of
- formidable
- causing fear, dread, or apprehension
- covet
- to wish for enviously
- usurp
- to take the place of by or as if by force; supplant
- consign
- commit, expecially to a final destination or fate
- upstart
- unknown, insignificant person, low on the totem pole
- mendicant
- beggar
- penurious
- marked by a cramping and oppressive lack of resources (as in money)
- exorbitantly
- excessively; exceedingly
- extricate
- to release from entanglement or difficulty
- feigned
- fictitious, faked; artificial
- efficaciously
- effective; having the power to achieve the desired effect
- inundate
- to overwhelm with abundance; as if with a flood
- dénouement
- finale, conclusion
- coalesce
- to arise from the combination of distinct elements; to unite into a whole
- propensity
- an often intense natural inclination or preference
- surreptitiously
- done, made, or acquired by stealth; secretly, slyly
- anemic
- lackluster, insipid; refer to anemia medical condition
- affront
- to insult especially to the face by behaivor or language
- bourgeois
- marked by a concern for material interests and respectability and a tendency toward mediocrity; usually used disparagingly
- parsimony
- the quality of being careful with money or resources; thrift
- pigeonhole
- a neat catgory that usually fails to reflect actual complexities
- querolous
- arguementative
- indecorous
- not decorous; conflicting with accepted standards of good conduct and good taste
- toady
- one who flatters in hope of gaining favors
- untenavle
- not able to be defended or occupied
- resplendent
- shining brilliantly; characterized by a glowing splendor
- languidy
- lakcing force or quickness of movement; slow
- cacophony
- harsh or discordant sound; dissonance
- kinship
- the quality or state of being kin; relationship
- visceral
- dealing with crude or elemental emotions; instinctive
- lummox
- clumsy person
- jovial
- markedly good-humored, especially as evidenced by jollity and conviviality
- disparity
- containing or made up of fundamentally different and often incongruous elements
- malinger
- to pretend incapacity (as illness) so as to avoid duty or work; shirk
- fritter
- to spend or waste bit by bit on trifles, or without commensurate return
- surfeit
- an overabundant supply; excess
- ascetic
- plain, stark, simple; austere in appearance, manner, or attitude
- pronouncement
- a usually formal declaration of opinion
- encroaching
- to enter by gradual steps or by stealth into the possessions or rights of another
- rectify
- to set right; remedy, correct
- exculpate
- to clear from alleged fault or guilt
- unmitigated
- not lessened; unrelieved
- delineated
- to mark the outline of; demarcated
- feral
- not domesticated or cultivated; wild
- reticent
- restrained in expression, presentation, or appearance
- indignant
- filled with or marked by indignation (anger aroused by something unjust, unworthy, or mean)
- goading
- to incite or rouse as if with a goad; provoking, prodding
- alacrity
- promptness in response; cheerful readiness
- reprehensible
- deserving criticism
- promulgate
- to put (a law) into action or force
- razed
- demolished, destroyed to the ground
- clandestine
- marked by, held in, or conducted with secrecy
- espouse
- to take up and support as a cause; become attached to
- vehemently
- marked by forceful energy
- adulation
- to flatter or admire excessively or lavishly
- couched
- to lay oneself down for rest or sleep
- harangue
- a ranting speech or writing
- pariah
- outcast
- modium
- a small amount
- munificence
- characterized by great liberality or generosity
- insular
- characteristic of an isolated people, especially having a narrow or provincial view point
- jaded
- world-weary, cynical
- vestige
- a trace, mark, or visible sign left by something, a relic
- repose
- to lie at rest
- purportedly
- ostensibly, allegedly
- morass
- something that traps, confuses or impedes
- egregious
- conspicuously bad; flagrant
- pundits
- one who gives opinions in an authoritative manner; critic
- onerous
- involving, imposing, or constituting a burden
- inception
- an act, process, or instance of beginning
- opulent
- lavish, magnificent
- pragmatist
- a person who takes a practical approach to problems and affairs
- exalted
- to raise in status, praise, glorify
- bolster
- to give a boost to
- tabled
- removed from consideration indefinately
- temerity
- nerve, boldness
- supplant
- to supersede another, especially by force or treachery
- remiss
- showing neglect or inattention
- fickle
- marked by lack of steadfastness, constancy, or stability, flip-flop
- augurs
- to fortell
- chide
- to scold
- derisively
- expressing ridicule, scorn, or contempt
- desecrate
- to treat disrespectfully, irreverently, or outrageously
- detritus
- loose material that results directly from disintegration
- unfetter
- emancipate, liberate
- sully
- to make soiled or tarnished
- proponent
- one who argues in favor of soemthing; advocate
- derision
- the use of ridicule or scorn to show contempt
- rancorously
- characterized by bitter, deep-seated ill will
- sagacity
- keen in sense of perception and judgment, discerning
- obstreperous
- marked by unruly or agressive noisiness
- obdurate
- resistant to persuasion or softening influences; stubborn
- ruminate
- to go over in the mind repeatedly and often casually or slowly
- microcosm
- a little world, especially the human race as seen of the world or universe
- reactionary
- ultraconcervative in politics
- nefarious
- flagrantly wicked or impious, evil, malicious
- clairvoyance
- the ability to perceive matters beyond the range of ordinary perception
- variegated
- having discreet markings of different colors
- pallid
- abnormally pale or wan
- squelch
- to completely suppress
- acrimonious
- caustic, biting, or rancorous, especially in feeling language or manner
- drub
- to abuse with words, berate
- enmity
- deep-seated and typically mutual hatred or ill will
- emend
- to correct
- phlegmatic
- having or showing a slow and stolid temperament; apathetic
- enervated
- lacking physical, mental or moral vigor
- consecrate
- to make invoilable or venerable
- facile
- easily accomplished or attained
- indefatigable
- incapable of being fatigued; untiring
- surmise
- a thought or idea based on scanty evidence
- trepidation
- apprehension, fear
- foray
- a brief excursion or attempt, especially outside one's accustomed sphere
- respite
- an interval of rest or relief
- suffuse
- to spread over or through in the manner of fluid or light
- evanescent
- tending to vanish like vapor
- extant
- currently or actually existing
- ponderous
- of very great weight; heavy
- mire
- to cause to get stuck in
- ramshackle
- appearing ready to collapse
- diffident
- hesitant in acting or speaking through lack of self-confidence
- rueful
- mournful, regretful
- gaffe
- a social or diplomatic blunder
- barrage
- a vigorous or rapid outpouring or projection of many things at once
- derelict
- abandoned, especially by the owner or occupant; run-down
- flout
- to treat withcontemptuous disregard
- pander
- cater or exploit the weakness of others
- staunch
- steadfast in loyalty or principle
- sentient
- finely sensitive in perception or feeling; aware
- subversive
- a cause of obverthrow or destruction, especially an attempt to overthrow a government by people working within secretly
- unscrupulous
- not having moral integrity; unprincipled
- furtive
- done by stealth; sly
- linchpin
- a central cohesive source of support and stability
- perfidious
- disloyal or faithless
- epistolary
- contained in or carried on by letter
- revelatory
- serving to reveal something
- cathartic
- characterized by a perification or purgation of the emtions that brings renewal/release from tension
- vacillate
- to waver in mind, will, or feeling; hesitate in choice of opinions or courses
- emanate
- to come out form a source
- frivolity
- playful merriment that lacks substance or purpose
- ostensibly
- represented or appearing as such; plausible rather than demostrably true
- extolled
- praised highly; glorified
- quandary
- a state of perplexity or doubt
- trump
- a card of a suit any of whose cards will win over a card that is not of this suit
- impious
- lacking in recverence or proper respect (ie. in God or parents)
- ensue
- to take place afterward, result
- callow
- lacking adult maturity or experience
- aplomb
- complete and confident composure or self-assurance
- pedantic
- a style of teaching characterized by formality and undue atttention to minutiae
- circumlocutions
- the use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea
- ramification
- consequence, outcome
- cantankerous
- difficult or irritating to deal with
- elocutionist
- one who is effective in the art of public speaking
- proselytize
- to recruit someone to join one's party, institution or cause
- engender
- to cause to exist or develop
- glacial
- devoid of warmth and cordiality
- litigate
- to contest in law
- bane
- a source of harm or ruin, curse
- precocious
- exhibiting mature qualities at an unusually early age
- earmark
- to designate (ie. funds) for a specific use or owner
- revulsion
- a sense of utter distaste or repugnance
- fodder
- inferior or readily available material used to supply a heavy demand
- missive
- written communication; letter
- sycophant
- a servile self-serving flatterer
- spurious
- false, similar to something that is genuine
- transient
- passing through or by a place with only a brief stay or sojourn
- canonical
- conforming to a general rule or acceptable procedure; orthodox
- cohort
- companion, colleague
- trove
- a valuable collection; treasure
- self-aggradizement
- to make oneself appear greater, to praise oneself