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- abate
- to reduce in amount, degree or severity
- abscond
- to leave secretly
- adulterate
- to make impure
- aggrandize
- to increase in power, influence and reputation
- anachronism
- an obsolete or archaic form
- antipathy
- aversion
- apathy
- lack of interest or emotion
- austere
- severe or stern in appearance; undecorated
- banal
- predictable; cliched, boring
- bombastic
- pompous in speech and manner
- capricious
- changing one's mind quickly and often
- castigate
- to punish or criticize harsly
- chicanery
- deception by means of craft or guile
- cogent
- convincing and well reasoned
- convoluted
- intricate and complicated
- corroborate
- to provide supporting evidence
- credulous
- too trusting; gullible
- deference
- respect; courtesy
- desiccate
- to dry out thoroughly
- desultory
- jumping from one thing to another; disconected
- diatribe
- an abusive, condemnatory speech
- diffident
- lacking self-confidence
- dilatory
- inclined to delay or procrastinate
- dilettante
- someone with an amateurish and superficial interest in a topic
- disabuse
- to set right; to free from error
- dissemble
- to present a false appearance; to disguise one's real intentions or character
- dogma
- a firmly held opinion, often a religious belief
- dogmatic
- dictatorial in one's opinions
- dupe
- to deceive; a person who is easily deceived
- eclectic
- selecting from or made up from a variety of sources
- efficacy
- effectiveness
- elegy
- a sorrowful poem or speech
- enervate
- to reduce in strength
- engender
- to produce, cause or bring about
- enigma
- a puzzle; a mystery
- ephemeral
- lasting a short time
- equivocate
- to use expressions of double meaning in order to mislead
- erudite
- learned, scholarly, bookish
- esoteric
- known or understood by only a few
- estimable
- admirable
- eulogy
- speech in prase of someone
- exculpate
- to clear from blame; prove innocent
- exigent
- urgent; requiring immediate action
- fawn
- to grovel
- foment
- to arouse or incite
- guile
- deceit or trickery
- iconoclast
- one who opposes established beliefs, customs and institutions
- impervious
- impossible to penetrate; incapable of being affected
- impetuous
- characterized by sudden rash action or emotion
- inchoate
- not fully formed; disorganized
- ingenuous
- showing innocence or childlike simplicity
- inimical
- hostile, unfriendly
- insipid
- lacking interest or flavor
- intransigent
- uncompromising; refusing to be reconciled
- irascible
- easily made angry
- laconic
- using few words
- malinger
- to evade responsibility by pretending to be ill
- misanthrope
- a person who dislikes others
- mitigate
- to soften, to lessen
- mollify
- to calm or make less severe
- obdurate
- hardened in feelings; resistant to persuasion
- obsequious
- overly submissive and eager to please
- obviate
- to prevent; to make unnecessary
- occlude
- to stop up; to prevent the passage of
- onerous
- troublesome and oppresive; burdensome
- opprobrium
- the disgrace incurred by shameful conduct
- paragon
- model of excellence or perfection
- perfidious
- willing to betray one's trust
- perfunctory
- performed merely as routine duty
- philanthropy
- charity; a desire or effort to promote goodness
- plethora
- excess
- precipitate
- to throw violently or bring about abruptly; lacking deliberation
- prevaricate
- to lie or deviate from the truth
- prodigal
- lavish, wasteful
- proliferate
- to increase in number quickly
- propitiate
- to conciliate; to appease
- propriety
- correct behavior, obedience to rules and customs
- prudence
- wisdom, caution or restraint
- quiescent
- motionless
- repudiate
- to reject the validity of
- reticent
- silent, reserved
- soporific
- causing sleep or lethargy
- specious
- deceptively attractive; seemingly plausible but fallacious
- stigma
- a mark of shame or discredit
- stolid
- unemotional; lacking sensitivity
- taciturn
- silent, not talkative
- torpor
- extreme mental and physical sluggishness
- veracity
- filled with trust and accuracy
- atrohpy
- the wasting away of body tissue
- abdicate
- to renounce or relinquish a throne
- abstruse
- hard to understand; secret, hidden
- acerbic
- sour or astringent in taste, harsh in temper
- acrid
- sharp or biting to the taste or smell
- acrimonious
- caustic, stinging or bitter in nature
- exacerbate
- to increase bitterness or violence
- litigate
- to make the subject of a lawsuit
- adjoin
- to be next to and joined with
- altruist
- a person unselfishly concerned for the welfare of others
- amatory
- of or pertaining to lovers or lovemaking
- amity
- friendship; peaceful harmony
- inamorata
- a female lover
- animus
- hostile feeling or attitude
- magnanimous
- generous in forgiving an isult or injury
- philanderer
- one who carries on flirtations
- androgynous
- being both male and female
- androgen
- any substance that promotes masculine characteristics
- apogee
- the highest or most distant point
- apostasy
- a total desertion of one's religion, principles, party, cause, etc.
- bemoan
- to express pity for
- belligerent
- warlike, given to waging war
- benign
- having a kindly disposition
- benevolent
- desiring to do good to others
- bilateral
- pertainging to or affecting two or both sides
- decadent
- decaying; deteriorating
- percipient
- having perception; discerning; discriminating
- capitulate
- to surrender unconditionally or on stipulated terms
- concentric
- having a common center
- circumambulate
- to walk about or around
- circuitous
- roundabout, indirect
- preclude
- to prevent the presense of
- conciliate
- to placate, win over
- accretion
- an increase by natural growth
- credulity
- willingness to believe or trust too easily
- recumbent
- lying down; reclining; leaning
- inculpate
- to charge with fault
- incursion
- a hostile entrance into a place
- cursory
- going rapidly over something; hasty; superficial
- deferential
- respectful; to yield judgment to
- dichotomy
- division into two parts, kinds, etc.
- deign
- to think fit or in accordance with one's dignity
- disseminate
- to scatter or spread widely
- promulgate
- to make known by open declaration
- diffuse
- to spread widely or thinly
- doctrinate
- a particular principle advocate, as of a government or religion
- indoctrinate
- to imbue someone with learning
- indolence
- showing a disposition to avoid exertion; slothful
- doleful
- sorrowful, mournful
- induce
- to move or lead by influence
- dour
- sullen, gloomy
- dystrophy
- faulty or inadequate nutrition or development
- epigram
- a witty or pointed saying tersely expressed
- epithet
- a word of phrase, use invectively as a term of abuse
- invective
- of, relating to, or characterized by insult or abuse
- obsolescent
- becoming obsolete
- convalescent
- recovering from illness
- eugenics
- improvement of qualities of race by control of inherited characteristics
- euphony
- pleasantness of sound
- affable
- friendly, courteous
- ineffable
- too great for description
- effigy
- sculpture or model or person
- fiduciary
- of a trust; held or given in trust
- conflagration
- a large destructive fire
- effluence
- flowing out of
- confluence
- merging into one
- forestall
- to prevent by advance action
- refractory
- stubborn, rebellious
- fractious
- irritable, peevish
- fusillade
- continuous discharge of firearms or outburst of criticism
- infusion
- liquid extract so obtained
- congenital
- existing or as such from birth
- miscegenation
- interbreeding of races
- heterogeneous
- of other origin; not originating in the body
- heterodox
- different from acknowledged standard; holding unorthodox opinions or doctrines
- hypocritical
- affecting virtues or qualities one does not have
- indigent
- deficient in what is requisite
- interloper
- someone who intrudes in the domain of others
- abject
- utterly hopeless, jumiliating or wretched
- subjugate
- to conquer
- rejoinder
- to reply, retort
- abjure
- to renounce on oath
- adjure
- to beg or command
- predilection
- preference, liking
- elocution
- art of clear and expressive speaking
- grandiloquent
- pompous or inflated in language
- delude
- to mislead the mind of judgment of, deceive
- ablution
- act of cleansing
- magnate
- a powerful or influential person
- maxim
- an expression of general truth or principle
- malign
- to speak harmful untruths about, to slander
- maladroit
- clumsy, tactless
- malfeasance
- misconduct or wrongdoing often committed by a public official
- minatory
- menacing, threatening
- admonish
- to counsel against something; caution
- remonstrate
- to say or plead in protect, objection or reproof
- permutation
- a complete change; transformation
- nascent
- starting to develop
- autonomy
- independence, self-governance
- neophyte
- a recent convert
- oblique
- having a slanting or sloping direction
- obstreperous
- noisily defiant, unruly
- obtuse
- not sharp, pointed or acute
- obfuscate
- to render indistinct or dim
- panegyric
- formal or elaborate praise at an assembly
- panoply
- a wide-ranging and impressive array or display
- apartheid
- any system or caste that separates people according to race
- empathy
- the identification with the feelings or thoughts of others
- impassive
- showing or feeling no emotion
- sociopath
- a person whose behaviour is antisocial and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility
- pathogenic
- causing disease
- paucity
- smallness of quantity; scarcity; scantiness
- pusillanimous
- lacking courage or resulution
- puerile
- childish, immature
- pertinacious
- resolute
- perspicacious
- shrewd, astute
- peripatetic
- walking or traveling about; itinerant
- petulant
- showing sudden irritation, esp. over some annoyance
- philology
- the study of literary texts to establish their authenticity and determine their meaning
- complacent
- self-satisfied, unconcerned
- complaisant
- inclined or disposed to please
- duplicity
- deceitfulness in speech or conduct; double-dealing
- supplicate
- to make humble and earnest entreaty
- expound
- to set forth in detail
- disport
- to divert or amuse oneself
- importune
- to urge or press with excessive persistence
- precocious
- unusually advanced or mature in mental development or talent
- presentiment
- a feeling of anticipation over a future event
- precept
- a commandment given as a rule of action or conduct
- reprehensible
- deserving rebuke or censure
- reprisals
- retaliation against an enemy
- proselytize
- to convert of attempt to recruit
- propound
- to set forth for consideration
- provident
- having or showing foresight
- approbation
- praise, consideration
- reprobate
- a depraved or wicked person
- probity
- honesty, high-mindedness
- pugnacious
- to quarrel or fight readily
- impugn
- to challenge as false
- compunction
- a feeling of uneasiness for doing wrong
- punctilious
- strict or exact in the observance of formalities
- querulous
- full of complaints
- perquisite
- a gratuity, tip
- disquiet
- a lack of calm or peace
- acquiesce
- to comply, give in
- quiescence
- the condition of being at rest, still, inactive
- derision
- to act of mockery
- abrogate
- to abolish by formal means
- arrogate
- to claim unwarrantably or presumptuously
- salient
- prominent or conspicuous
- insolent
- boldly rude or disrespectful
- exult
- to show or feel triumphant joy