c.c. 17
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- civil
- of a citizen or state, polite
- vacillate
- to waver or be changeable
- veracity
- truthfulness
- juvenile
- youthful, for chidren, immature
- repartee
- rapid, witty conversation or reply
- bathos
- anticlimax, false or excessive pathos
- rancor
- bitter hatred, ill will
- lucrative
- profitalbe, remunerative
- burlesque
- a comic imitation or takeoff
- intrepid
- fearless, dauntless
- galvanize
- to stimulate, excite
- levity
- light-mindedness, frivolity
- retribution
- merited punishment, requital
- ostracize
- to banish, exclude
- articulate
- spoken distinctly, able to express
- venomous
- poisionous, spiteful
- hilarity
- boisterous levity
- gluttony
- indulgence to excess, especially in eating
- empirical
- based on experience or experiment
- fluctuation
- rise and fall, continual variation
- oblivious
- unconscious, unmindful
- morose
- gloomy, sour
- scrutinize
- to examine closely
- pallid
- pale, wan
- bohemian
- loose, arty, unconventional
- ardent
- ferveant or zealous, burning
- hypocrisy
- pretense of being what one is not, sham
- enumeical
- worldwide, universal, church-uniting
- perversity
- willfulness in nonconformity or wrongdoing, obstinacy
- satire
- ridicule, especially in literary form
- nefarious
- very wicked or evil
- inference
- conclusion, deduction
- parnoid
- characterized by suspiousness and a feeling of being persecuted
- nuture
- to nourish, foster,rear
- depravity
- moral corruptness, debasement
- incipient
- in the early or beginning stages, commencing
- jocularity
- good-natured, playful joyousness
- celestial
- heavenly, of the sky
- culpable
- blameworthy, deserving blame
- fallacy
- false reasoning, mistaken idea
- credible
- believable
- temerity
- rashness or reckless boldness
- sanguine
- hopeful or confident, bloody
- pernicious
- highly injurious, deadly
- flippancy
- pertness, lightly disrespectful talk or action, sauciness
- nether
- down, below
- futile
- useless, ineffectual
- complacent
- self-satisfied, contented, smug
- benign
- kindly, mild and gentle
- eccentric
- odd peculiar
- incorrigible
- incapable of reform, unmanageable
- vicious
- evil, destructive, savage
- faciousness
- witty levity
- transfigure
- to transform, glorify
- venial
- pardonable, excusable
- turbulent
- disorderly, tumultuous
- vigilant
- alert to danger, watchful
- catatonic
- marked by stupor or muscular rigidity, often alternating with excitement
- irony
- ild sarcasm, a grimly humorous effect or words, or a situation opposite to what one expects
- venerate
- to regard with deep respect, revere
- militant
- resolute, combative, eager to flight
- platable
- tasty, savory, agreeable
- ludicriousness
- laughableness, ridiculousness
- subterfuge
- a trick, scheme, or artifice
- heresy
- belief(s) differing from accepted view
- pious
- outwardly religious, godly
- utility
- usefulness, something useful
- indolence
- love of ease, laziness
- iterate
- to utter again, repeat
- ubiquitous
- everywhere present
- tolerant
- forebearing, respectful
- prevaricate
- to evade the truth. lie or quibble
- derision
- ridicule, mockery
- belligerent
- quaralsome or warlike, engaged in warfare
- morale
- spirit, state of courage or confidence
- provident
- exercising foresight, thrifty
- laconic
- concise. terse, pithy
- vitiate
- to contaminate, debase, or render worthless
- mercenary
- acting from desire for money