|
 abduct | to kidnap |
| acumen | keenness and quickness in understanding and dealing with a situation |
| affable | agreeable |
| alienate | to make unfriendly |
| amenity | attractiveness |
| apprise | to inform |
| artifice | trickery or craft |
| atone | to make amends for |
| beget | to cause or produce |
| bestow | to give or present |
| brash | rude |
| chary | careful |
| clandestine | surreptitious |
| competent | well qualified |
| conjoin | unite |
| contrive | to plan |
| covert | secret |
| defy | to challenge |
| denigrate | to blacken |
| despot | a tyrant |
| disenchant | to set free from an illusion |
| dissuade | to turn (a person) aside by persuasion |
| eccentric | odd |
| engender | to produce |
| equipoise | equality |
| evoke | to call forth or summon |
| fanfare | showy display |
| formidable | causing fear or dread |
| grovel | to lower oneself to please another |
| ignominious | shameful |
| impromptu | without preparation or advance thought |
| indigent | poor |
| insidious | more dangerous than seems evident |
| irreproachable | blameless |
| loquacious | very talkative |
| misanthrope | someone who hates mankind |
| nullify | to make valueless or useless |
| pallid | having an extremely pale complexion |
| perquisite | privilege |
| precarious | insecure |
| profound | deep |
| quantify | to measure or determine in terms of amount or magnitude |
| relent | to become less severe |
| retaliation | revenge |
| sedentary | fixed to one spot |
| stratagem | a trick or deception |
| swindler | a cheat |
| treachery | betrayal of trust, faith or allegiance |
| uphold | to maintain or fight for |
| vindictive | revengeful |