| Term | Definition |
|---|
| levity | n. lightness, inconstancy, lack of weight |
| plagiarism | n. plagiaristic; adj. piracy; copying what somebody else has written or taking somebody else's idea and trying to pass it off as original; something copied |
| epigram | n. short poem or statement expressing a pointed observation, adage, witticism, maxim, motto, saying, moral |
| extemporize | v. to perform with little or no practice; improvise |
| peremptory | adj. imperative, urgent, dictatorial |
| contiguous | adj. adjacent, sharing a boundary; touching |
| innuendo | n. a hint, usually derogatory, insinuation |
| homogeneity | n. a state of being similar or like in nature, uniformity |
| meretricious | adj. attracting attention in a vulgar manner; deceitfully alluring; gaudy |
| ineffable | adj. indescribable; inexpressible |
| truculent | adj. savage and cruel; fierce; defiant, belligerent |
| redolent | adj. odorous; aromatic; fragrant. (redolent of garlic or roses) and: evocative, suggestive (redolent of autumn). Use with "with" or "of" |
| amorphous | adj. shapeless, vague |
| pander | v. to act as a go-between, to pimp, to cater to the lowest tastes and desires; n. pimp, procurer |
| turgid | adj. bombastic, declamatory, large, tumid, bloated in style, swollen, distended |
| dilatory | adj. laggard, dawdling, slow |
| vacuous | adj. asinine, fatuous, inane, mindless, empty, hollow |
| inviolate | adj. intact (virginal) sacrosanct |
| portentous | adj. prodigious; fateful, foreboding; of ominous significance; grandiloquent, overblown |
| vicariously | adv. indirectly, done through a substitute |
| garrulous | adj. chatty, gabby, loquacious, voluble, marked by flow of speech |
| swank | adj./n. chic (swanky: flashy, flaunting, stylish) |
| languid | adj. dreamy, lethargic |
| corpulent | adj. obese, weighty, rotund |
| somnambulate | v. to sleepwalk |
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