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| abet | assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing. | |
| abjure | solemnly renounce | |
| abrogate | abolish | |
| abscond | hide or depart suddenly | |
| abstemious | not self-indulgent | |
| actuate | incite | |
| acumen | the ability to make good judgements and quick decisions | |
| ad hominem | rising from emotion | |
| adjutant | assistant | |
| adjuvant | supplementary | |
| admonition | a gentle reproof (censuring, chiding, rebuke) | |
| adroit | displaying physical or mental skill. | |
| agitprop | political propaganda | |
| alacrity | eagerness | |
| amalgam | a blend of diverse things, originally an alloy of mercury with another metal. | |
| amiable | friendly, sociable | |
| amicable | friendly, peaceable | |
| antebellum | before a particular war (American civil) | |
| antinomy | contradiction between beliefs or conclusions that are in themselves reasonable | |
| antipodal | opposite | |
| apocryphal | of doubtful authenticity, although widely circulated as being true | |
| approbation | approval | |
| arbitrary | based solely on personal wishes, feelings, or perceptions, rather than on objective facts, reasons, or principles: an arbitrary decision. | |
| arcane | secret | |
| archaic | antiquated | |
| ardent | enthusiastic | |
| argillaceous | clay-like | |
| artless | without guile or deception | |
| atavistic | reverting to distant hereditary traits or characteristics | |
| august | impressive | |
| auspicious | conducive to success | |
| austere | severe or strict in manner | |
| axiomatic | self-evident | |
| bacchanal | drunken revelry | |
| banal | so lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring | |
| bedizen | adorn | |
| befoul | sully | |
| belie | fail to give a true notion or impression of something | |
| bellicose | demonstrating aggression and willingness to fight | |
| beneficent | resulting in good | |
| beset | surround and harass | |
| bibulous | fond of alcohol | |
| blitz | sudden, energetic, concerted effort on a specific task | |
| bombastic | inflated, pretentious, grandiloquent | |
| bowdlerize | remove material that is considered improper or offensive | |
| Byzantine | excessively complicated | |
| callow | immature | |
| calumny | slander | |
| capitulated | surrender on stipulated terms | |
| capricious | tending to not rely on reason; impulsive/random. | |
| capricious | fickle | |
| capstone | concluding achievement | |
| caveat | warning, admonition | |
| caveat | warning or caution | |
| Charlatan | a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes. | |
| chicanery | the use of trickery to achieve a political, financial, or legal purpose | |
| churlish | rude in a mean-spirited and surly way | |
| circumlocution | roundabout language | |
| climacteric | critical period or event | |
| cloying | excessively sweet or sentimental | |
| cognomen | nickname | |
| collusion | secret or illegal cooperation or conspiracy | |
| colorable | apparently correct or justified | |
| commodious | spacious | |
| confute | disprove | |
| consign | deliver to a person's custody | |
| consternation | feelings of anxiety or dismay, typically at something unexpected | |
| construe | interpret | |
| contempt | the feeling with which a person regards anything considered mean, vile, or worthless | |
| contentious | quarrelsome | |
| convalesce | recover | |
| corozonada | hunch | |
| corpulence | fat | |
| corpulent | very fat | |
| coterie | clique | |
| coup de foudre | sudden unforeseen event, in particular, love at first sight | |
| coup de grace | final blow given to a wounded something | |
| covetous | having, showing great desire to possess something | |
| credo | any creed or formula of belief | |
| crepuscular | relating to twilight | |
| cyclopean | huge | |
| dastardly | cowardly, mean, reprehensible | |
| deductive reasoning | reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect) | |
| deference | respect | |
| defrayal | payment | |
| deleterious | causing harm or damage | |
| deluge | severe flood | |
| derisive | mocking, jeering | |
| diaphanous | light, delicate, translucent | |
| diatribe | tirade, harangue | |
| didactic | instructive | |
| diffident | lacking self-confidence. | |
| dilettante | amateur | |
| diligent | showing care and conscientiousness in one's work or duties | |
| disarming | allay the suspicions of | |
| disparage | belittle | |
| dissolute | lax in morals | |
| dogmatic | adhering rigidly to tenet | |
| edenic | paradisiacal | |
| effulgence | splendor | |
| eidetic | marked by extraordinarily detailed and vivid recall of visual images | |
| elan | flair; energy, style, enthusiasm | |
| eminent | famous, respected | |
| endemic | prevalent in, native to | |
| enervate | cause someone to feel drained of energy or vitality; weaken | |
| enfranchise | give the right to vote to | |
| engender | to cause to exist or develop | |
| ennui | feeling of dissatisfaction and listlessness arising from a lack of occupation or excitement | |
| ensconce | settle firmly or snugly | |
| entomophilous | pollinated by insects | |
| entropic | lack or order or predictability | |
| epicure | gourmet | |
| epidemic | temporarily, widely prevalent | |
| eros | sexual desire | |
| erudite | having or showing great knowledge or learning | |
| esoteric | directed towards a select few. | |
| espouse | adopt or embrace as a cause | |
| ethos | the character or disposition of a community, group, person, etc | |
| evanesce | vanish | |
| evanescent | soon passing out of sight, memory, or existence | |
| exacting | rigorous | |
| expurgate | censor | |
| extirpate | destroy | |
| facetious | treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor; flippant | |
| fastidious | hard to please | |
| fatuous | Devoid of intelligence. | |
| feckless | unthinking and irresponsible | |
| fetor | A distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant. | |
| fey | whimsical, supernatural | |
| filibuster | an action that obstructs progress in a legislative assembly while not technically contravening the required procedures | |
| firmament | sphere or world viewed as a collection of people | |
| Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quote | He allowed himself to be swayed by the conviction that human beings are not both once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves. | |
| gambol | frolic | |
| gauche | tactless, socially awkward | |
| genial | friendly and cheerful | |
| germane | relevant | |
| Gestalt | organized whole perceived as more than the sum of its parts | |
| glean | extract from various sources | |
| glut | excessively abundant supply of something | |
| gravid | pregnant | |
| gumption | initiative | |
| harbinger | forerunner | |
| hegemony | leadership or dominance, esp. by one country or social group over others | |
| hermetic | complete and airtight | |
| heterodox | unconventional | |
| iatrolog | medical word | |
| ignominious | deserving or causing public disgrace or shame | |
| illicit | forbidden by laws, rules, customs | |
| illustrious | well known, respected for past achievements | |
| illustrious | very distinguished | |
| impertinent | unmannerly in conduct | |
| Impetuous | Characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation. | |
| implacable | relentless, unstoppable | |
| impudent | offensively forward in behavior | |
| impuissance | weakness | |
| incendiary | stirring up conflict, very exciting | |
| incommodious | uncomfortable | |
| inculpate | blame | |
| incursion | sudden invasion or attack | |
| indelible | not able to be forgotten or removed | |
| indigent | poor, needy | |
| indignant | feeling or showing annoyance at what is perceived as unfair treatment | |
| indolent | lazy, sluggish | |
| indomitable | not able to be subdued or repressed | |
| inductive reasoning | reasoning from detailed facts to general principles (generalization) | |
| ineffable | too extreme or great to be put in words | |
| ineluctable | inescapable | |
| inexorable | not to be persuaded or moved | |
| inimitable | matchless | |
| iniquities | immoral or grossly unfair behavior | |
| Iniquitous | Wicked because it is believed to be a sin. | |
| insolent | contemptuously rude, disrespectful, or insulting | |
| interminable | never-ending | |
| internecine | mutually destructive | |
| interpolate | insert between fixed points | |
| intransigence | unwilling or refusing to change one's view or to agree | |
| Intrinsic | Basic or essential. Entwined. | |
| inure | deaden the sensibility of (transitive verb) | |
| invective | vehement denunciation | |
| irascible | easily provoked to anger | |
| jejune | naive, simplistic, superficial; dry and uninteresting | |
| kismet | fate | |
| lacustrine | relating to lakes | |
| lade | burden | |
| languid | slow and relaxed | |
| lethalogica | inability to remember the correct word | |
| licentious | promiscuous and unprincipled in sexual matters | |
| ligation | binding | |
| ligneous | woody | |
| lithe | supple, pliant, limber, flexible | |
| logorrhea | talkativeness | |
| lugubrious | looking/sounding sad or dismal | |
| macabre | suggesting the horror of death and decay | |
| machinate | scheme | |
| manifold | many different | |
| mendicancy | begging | |
| mercurial | volatile | |
| meretricious | like or relating to a prostitute (meretricious relationship); deceptively pleasing. | |
| metonymy | a figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated, as in the use of Washington for the United States government or of the sword for military power | |
| miasmic | of a noxious emanation | |
| milieu | surroundings | |
| miserliness | pitiably small or inadequate | |
| mitigate | make less severe, serious, or painful | |
| myriad | inumberable | |
| nexus | a point where a series of connections occur. | |
| nihilistic | a viewpoint that traditional values and beliefs are unfounded and that existence is senseless and useless | |
| noisome | stinking, putrid, noxious or foul. | |
| non sequitur | a reply that has no relevance to what preceded it. | |
| nonsectarian | not involving or relating to a specific religious or political group | |
| normative | establishing, relating to, or deriving from a standard or norm | |
| obfuscate | darken, bewilder, obscure | |
| oblique | slanting, indirectly expressed | |
| obsequious | obedient or attentive to an excessive degree; servile | |
| obtuse | not sensitive, stupid | |
| orthography | conventional spelling system of a language | |
| ostensible | stating or appearing to be true, but not necessarily so | |
| ostensible | appearing outwardly, professed | |
| pandemic | an epidemic that spreads through human populations over a widespread area | |
| paradigm | model or worldview | |
| paroxysm | violent outburst | |
| parsimonious | stingy | |
| pathos | quality that arouses pity or sorrow | |
| pecuniary | relating to money | |
| pedagogy | related to teaching/learning (pedagogue = teacher) | |
| pedantic | bookish | |
| peevish | fretful, irritable, petulant | |
| pejorative | expressing contempt or disapproval | |
| penury | poverty, destitution | |
| peregrinate | travel | |
| perfidious | deceitful and untrustworthy | |
| perfunctory | carried out with a minimum of effort or reflection | |
| pernicious | highly destructive, ruinous | |
| personable | affable, sociable | |
| petit four | small, frosted cake | |
| petulant | childishly sulky or bad tempered | |
| phantasmagoria | succession of illusive images | |
| philharmonic | fond of or devoted to music | |
| philippic | oration full of invective | |
| picayune | trifling | |
| pilosity | hairiness | |
| plaint | lamentation | |
| Platitude | A trite or obvious remark. | |
| plebeian | unrefined, common, vulgar | |
| polyglot | knowing or comprising several languages | |
| pontifical | having to do with bishop/pope | |
| positivistic | maintaining that any statement that cannot be verified empirically is meaningless | |
| pragmatic | practical, matter of fact | |
| preceptor | teacher | |
| preclude | make impossible | |
| premonitory | forewarning (adj) | |
| presentiment | intuitive feeling about the future | |
| prodigal | lavish, wasteful | |
| proem | preface | |
| profligacy | extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources | |
| profligate | recklessly extravagant | |
| propinquity | proximity | |
| propitious | favorable | |
| propriety | state or quality of conforming to conventionally accepted standards of behavior | |
| prurient | lasciviousness (expressive of lust or lewdness) | |
| puerile | childishly silly and trivial | |
| punitive | inflicting punishment | |
| purport | appear or claim to be or do something, especially falsely | |
| quaint | old-fashioned, though in a pleasant way. | |
| quixotic | unrealistic; not sensible about practical matters. | |
| quotidian | daily, ordinary | |
| rancor | bitter animosity, spitefulness | |
| rankle | to cause persistent feelings of bitterness, resentment, or anger. | |
| rapacious | predatory | |
| recapitulate | summarize | |
| redolent | strongly reminiscent or suggestive of something | |
| regnant | reigning | |
| relegate | banish, sent to | |
| reprobate | unprincipled | |
| reprobation | disapproval | |
| repudiate | refuse to acknowledge | |
| resplendent | glorious | |
| Reticence | Not volunteering anything more than necessary. | |
| reticent | uncommunicative | |
| rhetorical | used for persuasive effect | |
| rue | bitterly regret | |
| sardonic | grimly mocking or cynical | |
| scruples | feeling or doubt or hesitation with regard to morality or propriety | |
| scrupulous | very concerned to avoid wrongdoing | |
| sedition | rebellion | |
| sedulity | diligence | |
| sepulchral | gloomy, dismal | |
| seriatum | in sequence | |
| sesquipedalian | using long words | |
| sibylline | foretelling the future | |
| slake | quench | |
| sojourn | visit | |
| solicitous | concerned, anxious | |
| soma | whole body of an organism, excluding its germ cells | |
| somnolence | sleepiness, drowsiness | |
| Spartan | Often used to express austerity as well as strength and seriousness; derives from a city of ancient Greece which was sometimes at war with Athens and sometimes an ally. | |
| stentorian | loud and powerful | |
| stolid | impassive | |
| stolid | impassive, apathetic | |
| supercilious | behaving or looking as though one believes one is superior to others | |
| supplication | plea | |
| surreptitious | clandestine, stealthy | |
| swill | alcohol of inferior quality | |
| tacit | understood or implied without being stated | |
| taciturn | silent | |
| tautology | the saying of the same thing twice in different words | |
| tenacious | stubborn | |
| tendentious | opinionated, biased | |
| tenebrous | dark, shadowy, obscure | |
| thanatos | impulse for destruction, decay, and death | |
| timbre | musical quality | |
| tome | weighty book | |
| torrid | characterized by intense emotion; burning hot. | |
| transient | impermanent | |
| treacly | cloying | |
| trenchant | characterized by or full of force and vigor. | |
| tribulation | cause of great trouble or suffering | |
| trope | figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression | |
| truism | a self-evident, obvious truth | |
| tumid | swollen | |
| turbid | cloudy | |
| umbrage | resentment | |
| unctuous | excessively smooth, smug | |
| unseemly | indecent | |
| untenable | not able to maintained or defended against attack | |
| upbraid | reproach | |
| ursine | bear-like | |
| vacuity | lack of matter or ideas. | |
| variegated | having different colors, motley | |
| venerate | regard with reverence | |
| vernal | spring-like | |
| vestal | chaste | |
| vitreous | glassy | |
| vituperate | to address with harsh, abusive language; scold | |
| winnow | sift | |
| Zeitgiest | the defining spirit of a particular period in history |
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