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- abdicate
- to give up position, right, power
- abjure
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to reject,
abandon formalities - ablution
- act of cleansing
- abnegate
- to deny, renounce
- abrogate
- to abolish, invalidate
- abstemious
- consuming moderatly
- abstruse
- difficult to understand
- abut
- to touch, be in contact with
- acerbic
-
bitter, sharp in taste
or temper - acme
- highest point, summit
- acquiesce
- to agree/comply
- adroit
- skillful, accomplished, highly competent
- adumbrate
- to sketch, to outline in a shadowy way
- aerie
- nook or nest built high in the air
- altruism
- unselfishly concerned for others' welfare
- ambulatory
- itenerant, walking around
- amortize
- to diminsh by installment payments
- ancillary
- accessory, subordinate, helping
- antediluvian
- prehistoric, before the biblical flood, ancient beyond measure
- anthropomorphic
- attribuuting human qualities to non humans, having human qualities
- aplomb
- poise, confidence
- apostate
- one who renounces a religious faith
- apothegm
- a short, instructive saying
- apotheosis
- deification, glorified ideal
- arboreal
- relating to trees, living in trees
- assidious
- dligent, persistent, hard working
- bacchanalian
- drunkenly festive
- balk
- to shirk, refuse, prevent
- beatific
- saintly, angelic
- behemoth
- huge creature
- benison
- blessing
- bifurcate
- divide into two parts
- bilious
- easile irritated, related to bile
- bonhomie
- good natured geniality, atmosphere of good cheer
- bulwark
- defense wall, anything serving as a defense
- cajole
- to flatter coax, persuade
- calamitous
- disastrous, catastrophic
- calumny
- false and malicious accusation, misrepresentation, slander
- canard
- a lie
- carom
- to strike and rebound
- cavalcade
- a procession
- chagrin
- shame, emberassment, humiliation
- charlatan
- quake, fake
- chattel
- piece of personal property
- chimirical
-
fanciful, imaginary, visionary,
impossible - choleric
- easily angered, short tempered
- churlish
- rude
- cistern
- tank for rainwater
- coalesce
- to grow together, cause to unite as one
- coffer
- strongbox, large chest for money
- cognomen
- family name, any name, nickname
- comeliness
- physical grace and beauty
- commodious
- roomy, spacious
- compunctious
- feeling guilty, having misgivings
- conciliatory
- overcoming distrust, hostility
- conflagration
- big destructive fire
- congenial
- similar in tastes, habits
- consanguineous
- of the same orgin, related by blood
- contentious
- quarrelsome, disagreeable, belligerent
- contumacious
- rebellious
- corpulence
- obesity, fatness, bulkiness
- corrugate
- to mold in shape with parellel grooves and ridges
- cosset
- to pamper, treat with care
- coterie
- small group of people with similar purpose
- coven
- group of witches
- curmudgeon
- cranky person
- declivity
- downward slope
- deleterious
- harmpul, destructive, detrimental
- deluge
- flood
- demagogue
- leader, rabble-rouser who appeals to emotion, prejudice
- denigrate
- slur, blacken someones reputation
- descry
- to discover, reveal
- diaphanous
- allowing light to show through, delicate
- dictum
- authoritative statement, popular saying
- didactic
- exessively instructive
- diluvial
- relating to a flood
- diminutive
- small
- discomfit
- to cause perplexity and embarassment
- distaff
- female branch of family
- dither
- to move or act confusedly without clear purpose
- diurnal
- daily
- doctrinaire
- rigidly devoted to theories
- dolor
- sadness
- doughty
- couragous
- droll
- amusing in a wry, subtle way
- dyspeptic
- suffering from indigestion, gloomy and irritable
- ebullient
- exhilarated
- effluvia
- outpouring of gasses, vapors
- egregious
- conspiciously bland
- emmend
- to correct a text
- emollient
- soothing qualities, for skin
- encomium
- warm praise
- endemic
- belonging to a particular area
- ennui
- boredom, lack of interest, energy
- epicure
- person with refined taste in food/wine
- epotome
- representative of an entire group, summary
- ersatz
- fake
- eschew
- to abstain from, avoid
- evince
- to show clearly, display, signify
- exorcise
- expel evil spirits
- expatiate
- to wander, discuss, describe at length
- expiate
- to attone for, make ammends for
- expunge
- to erase, eliminate completely
- expurgate
- to censor
- extemporaneous
- unrehearsed, spur of the moment
- extol
- to praise
- extrapolate
- to estimate
- facetious
- witty in an inappropriate way
- fatuous
- stupid, smugly foolish
- fealty
- intense loyalty
- fecund
- fertile, fruitful, productive
- fetid
- foul-smelling, putrid
- fey
- dooomed
- filch
- to steal
- filial
- appropriate for a child
- flaccid
- limp, flabby, weak
- foliate
- to grow, sprout leaves
- forswear
- to repudiate, renounce, disclaim
- fracas
- noisy dispute
- fractious
- unruly, rebellious
- frenetic
- wildly frantic, fenzied
- fulminate
- to explode with anger
- fulsome
- excessive, overdone, sickeningly abundant
- furtive
- secret, stealthy
- gainsay
- to deny
- gambol
- dance or skip playfully
- gauche
- crude, socially awkward
- germinate
- to begin to grow
- gibe
- to make heckling taunting remarks
- glib
- fluent in an insincere manner, offhand, casual
- gnostic
- having to do with knowledge
- grandiloquence
- pompous talk, fancy but meaningless
- gratuitous
- free, voluntary
- gustatory
- relating to sense of taste
- hackneyed
- worn out by over-use
- harangue
- a pompous speech
- hegemony
- leadership, domination, usually by a country
- heretical
- opposed to an established religious orthodoxy
- hermetic
- tightly sealed
- hoary
- very old, whitish or gray from age
- husband
- to farm, manage carefully and thriftfully
- idiosyncracy
- peculiarity of temperament, excentricity
- ignominious
- disgraceful, dishonerable
- ilk
- type, kind
- illusory
- unreal, deceptive
- imbue
- to infuse, dye, wet, moisten
- impecuniuous
- poor, having no money
- imperious
- arrogantly self absorbed, domineering, overbearing
- impolitic
- unwise
- impromptu
- spontanous, without rehearsal
- impugn
- to call into quesiton, attack verbally
- incarnate
- having bodily form
- incendiary
- combustible, flammable
- inculcate
- to teach, impress the mind
- inculpate
- to plabe, charge with a crime
- indefatigable
- never tired
- indigent
- very poor
- indolent
- habitually lazy, idle
- undubitable
- unquesitonable
- inert
- unable to move, tending to inactivity
- infalliable
- incapable of making a mistake
- ingenious
- original, clever, inventive
- ingratiate
- to bring one'self into another's good graces
- ingress
- entrance
- innuendo
- indirect and sly criticism
- insidious
- sly, treacherous, devious
- insuperable
- insurmountable
- interdict
- to forbid, prohibit
- interlocutor
- someone taking a part in a dialogue
- interloper
- trespasser, meddling in other's affairs
- internecine
- deadly to both sides
- interpolate
- to insert, change by adding new words or material
- interstice
- a space between things
- intimation
- clue, suggesiton
- intrepid
- fearless
- intrinsic
- inherent, internal
- inure
- to harden, accustom
- inveterate
- confirmed, deeply rooted
- invidious
- likely to provoke ill will
- itenerant
- wandering from place to place
- jibe
- to shift suddenly from one side to the other
- jingoism
- beligerent support of one's country
- jocular
- jovial, playful, humorous
- juggernaut
- huge force destroying everything in its path
- jurisprudence
- philosophy of law
- kismet
- fate
- knell
- sound of a funeral bell, omen of death, failure
- lachrymose
- tearful
- lambaste
- disaprove angrily
- lapidary
- relating to precious stones
- largess
- generosity, gift
- lassitude
- lethargy, sluggishness
- legerdemain
- trickery
- levity
- humour, frivolty, gaiety
- lexiocon
- dictionary, list of words
- libidinous
- lustful
- licentious
- immoral, unrestrained by society
- limpid
- clear and simple in style
- liniment
- medicinal liquid used to ease pain
- lionize
- to treat as a celebrity
- lissome
- easily flexed, limber in style
- lugubrious
- sorrowful, mournful
- macabre
- gruesome, producing horror
- machination
- plot or scheme
- malaproprism
- humorous misuse of a word
- malevolent
- ill-willed, causing evil or harm to others
- manifold
- diverse, varied, compromised of many parts
- martinet
- strict disciplinarian, one who rigidly follows the rules
- maudlin
- overly sentimental
- mawkish
- sickeningly sentimental
- megalomania
- mental state with delusions of wealth and power
- mendacious
- dishonest
- mendicent
- begger
- mercurial
- quick, shrewd, unpredictable
- meretorious
- deserving praise/reward
- minatory
- menacing, threatening
- mnemonic
- relating to memory, designed to assist memory
- molt
- to shed hair, skin, outer layer periodically
- mordacious
- caustic biting
- mote
- small particle, speck
- multifarious
- diverse
- munificient
- generous
- nadir
- lowest point
- nascent
- starting to develop
- nebulous
- vague. cloudy
- necromancy
- black magic
- nefarious
- vicious, evil
- neologism
- new word, expresison
- neophyte
- novice, beginner
- nihilism
- belief that existience and all traditional values are meaningless
- noisome
- stinking, putrid
- noxious
- harmful, unwholesome
- numismatics
- coin collecting
- obfuscate
- confuse, obscure
- obstreperous
- troublesome, unruly
- omnipotent
- having unlimited power
- omniscient
- having infinte knowledge
- oscillate
- move back and forth
- ouster
- explusion, ejection
- paean
- song of praise, thanksgiving
- palliate
- to make less serious, ease
- panacea
- cure-all
- panegyric
- elaborate praise, formal hymmn of praise
- panoply
- impressive array
- parley
- discussion, usually between two enemies
- parochial
- of limites scope or outlook provincial
- parsimony
- stinginess
- pastiche
- piece of literature or music imitating other works
- phalanx
- massed group of soldiers, people, or things
- philistine
- narrow-minded person, someone lacking appreciation for art or culture