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- Abridge
- To cut down, shorten
- Acrimony
- Harshness of speech or manner, expression of great dislike.
- Aggrandizement
- The process of becoming richer or greater.
- Ambivalence
- Contradictory attitudes; uncertainty about what to do.
- Amenity
- An item that increases comfort
- Antiquated
- Old, out of date
- Bequeath
- Leave something to someone by a will; hand down.
- Beseech
- To beg, plead, implore
- Cajole
- Coax, wheedle, or flatter.
- Commodious
- Spacious, roomy.
- Corroborate
- Confirm, support.
- Credulity
- Willingness to believe; faith.
- Criterion
- Standard used in judging.
- Cryptic
- Mysterious, puzzling, secret.
- Deferential
- showing respect for the authority of another person
- Delineate
- Portray.
- Discordant
- Conflicting or inharmonious.
- Disinclination
- Unwillingness.
- Dissonance
- Discord, disagreement.
- Ebullient
- Excited, exuberant; bubbling or boiling.
- Eclectic
- From a wide variety of types or styles.
- Enigma
- Puzzle, mystery.
- Eradicate
- To completely erase or wipe out.
- Erudite
- Learned
- Esoteric
- Rare, special; known only to a chosen few.
- Execrable
- Loathsome, detestable
- Exorbitant
- Beyond reasonable limits, excessive.
- Expedient
- Suitable, practical, politic, advisable, opportune.
- Goad
- To urge, spur, incite to action
- Gravity
- Seriousness, dignity, or significance.
- Gregarious
- Sociable.
- Histrionic
- Theatrical, overly dramatic.
- Implicit
- Understood but not stated (opposite of explicit).
- Incendiary
- (1) a person who agitates (2) inflammatory, causing combustion
- Incessant
- Uninterrupted, continuous.
- Increment
- An enlargement; the process of increasing
- Indict
- Charge with a crime.
- Infamous
- Notoriously bad.
- Innocuous
- Harmless.
- Intractable
- Unruly, stubborn.
- Ironic
- Resulting in an unexpected situation, often the exact opposite of what is expected.
- Loquacious
- Talkative, wordy, garrulous.
- Maelstrom
- A destructive whirlpool which rapidly sucks in objects
- Oblivion
- Forgetfulness or the state of being forgotten.
- Oscillation
- A swinging back and forth, indecision, or wavering.
- Paramount
- greatest in importance, rank, character
- Pedantic
- Showing off knowledge in a narrow and petty way; condescending.
- Perfunctory
- Superficial, cursory, not thorough, routine.
- Pervasive
- Spread throughout; permeating.
- Piety
- Religious devotion; godliness.
- Placate
- Pacify, conciliate, mitigate, appease.
- Preclude
- Make impossible; prevent.
- Profound
- Deep; not superficial.
- Profusion
- Lavish expenditure, large amount.
- Pungent
- Having a pointed, sharp quality; often used to describe smells
- Rebuff
- Snub, reject.
- Reprobate
- One whose conduct is reproachful; scoundrel.
- Reprove
- To scold, rebuke
- Reticence
- Silent, reserved; reluctant to speak.
- Ruminate
- Think about carefully; ponder.
- Rustic
- Pertaining to the countryside; rural, simple, unrefined.
- Sacrilege
- Irreverent treatment of holy things; desecration, blasphemy.
- Sanction
- Approve or ratify.
- Simulated
- Imitated, pretended, feigned.
- Surrogate
- One acting in place of another
- Trepidation
- Fear or trembling.
- Umbrage
- Offense, resentment
- Unbridled
- Unrestrained, uncontrolled.
- Unkempt
- Ungroomed, disheveled.
- Verbose
- Wordy.
- Vitriolic
- Caustic, bitter, cutting.
- Wane
- To decrease in size, dwindle
- Zealot
- Person who shows excessive zeal; fanatic.