| Term | Definition |
|---|
| aberrant | departing from the right, normal, or usual course; deviating from the ordinary, usual, or normal type; exceptional; abnormal |
| abscond | to depart secretly and hide oneself especially to avoid capture and legal prosecution |
| aesthetic | concerning a sense of the beautiful; characterized by a love of beauty |
| amalgamate | to blend or combine |
| append | to add as a supplement; to fix or attach as a pendant |
| arcane | known/understood by very few; mysterious, secret, obscure |
| atrophy | a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part; degeneration, decline, or decrease, as from disuse |
| audacious | extremely bold, recklessly brave; extremely original |
| avarice | insatiable greed for riches; inordinate, miserly desire to gain and hoard wealth |
| axiomatic | pertaining to or the nature of an axiom; self-evident, obvious |
| bedlam | a scene or state of wild uproar and/or confusion; an insane asylum or madhouse |
| belie | to misrepresent; to act unworthy according to the standards of tradition, faith, ancestry, etc...; to lie about, slander |
| berserk | destructively or frenetically violent; mentally or emotionally upset; unrestrained such as with enthusiasm or appetite |
| buffoon | a person who amuses other by tricks, jokes, odd gestures and postures, etc... |
| captious | apt to notice and make much of trivial faults or defects; faultfinding, difficult to please |
| captivate | to attract and hold the attention or interest of, as by beauty or excellence; enchant |
| cater | to provide or supply what amuses, is desired, or gives pleasure |
| chauvinism | zealous and aggressive patriotism or blind enthusiasm for military glory; biased devotion to any group, attitude, or cause |
| clandestine | characterized by, done in, or executed with secrecy or concealment, esp. for purposes of subversion or deception |
| clemency | the quality of being clement; disposition to show forbearance, compassion, or forgiveness in judging or punishing; leniency; mercy; mildness; temperateness |
| cognate | related by birth, of the same parentage; descended from the same language or form; allied or similar in nature or quality |
| colloquium | an informal meeting for the exchange of views; an academic seminar on a broad field of study |
| commodious | spacious, roomy; suitable, handy |
| construe | to give the meaning or intention of; explain, interpret |
| contrite | cause by or showing sincere remorse |
| conundrum | a riddle whose answer is or involves a pun or play on words |
| convivial | friendly, agreeable; fond of feasting, drinking, and merry company; jovial |
| corpulent | large or bulky of body, portly, stout, fat |
| corpus | a large or complete collection of writings; the body of a person or animal, esp. when dead |
| covert | concealed, secret, disguised; under the protection of one's husband; a shelter or hiding place |
| cryptic | having a hidden or ambiguous meaning; mysterious |
| debilitate | to make weak or feeble; enfeeble |
| deleterious | injurious to health; harmful |
| diffuse | to pour out and spread, as a fluid; to spread or scatter widely or thinly; disseminate |
| diminutive | small, little, tiny; a small thing or person |
| dispense | to deal out, distribute; to administer |
| dour | sullen; gloomy; severe; stern; barren, rocky, infertile or otherwise difficult or impossible to cultivate |
| draconian | unusually severe or cruel; rigorous |
| ebullience | high spirits; exhilaration; exuberance; a boiling over, overflow |
| eccentricity | an oddity or peculiarity, as of conduct |
| edict | proclamation or decree issued by a sovereign or other authority; command, order |
| emanate | to flow out, issue, or proceed, as from a source or origin; to send forth; emit |
| equanimity | mental or emotional stability or composure, esp. under pressure; calmness |
| exhort | to urge, advise, or caution earnestly; admonish urgently |
| expatiate | to enlarge in discourse or writing; be copious in description or discussion; to move or wander about intellectually, imaginatively, etc.. without restraint |
| expendable | capable of being sacrificed in order to accomplish objective; considered to not be worth keeping or maintaining |
| farce | a light, humorous play in which the plot depends on skillfully exploited situation rather than upon development of character |
| gamut | the entire scale or range |
| garrulous | pointlessly or annoyingly talkative; wordy; rambling |
| grotesque | odd or unnatural in shape, appearance, or character; fantastically ugly or absurd; bizarre |
| hackneyed | made commonplace or trite; overdone; overused |
| halcyon | calm; peaceful; tranquil; rich; wealthy; happy; joyful; carefree |
| histrionic | of or pertaining to actors or acting; deliberately affected or self-consciously emotional; overly dramatic in behavior or speech |
| homonym | a word the same as another in sound and spelling but different in meaning |
| ignominy | disgrace; dishonor; public contempt; shameful or dishonorable quality or conduct or an instance of this |
| impeccable | faultless; flawless; irreproachable; not liable to sin; incapable of sin |
| impend | to be imminent; be about to happen; to threaten or menace; to hand or be suspended |
| impervious | not permitted penetration or passage; incapable of being injured or impaired |
| inadvertent | unintentional; not attentive; heedless |
| incongruous | out of keeping or place; inappropriate; unbecoming |
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