| Term | Definition |
|---|
| compendious | summarizing completely and briefly |
| curt | brief and to the point |
| pithy | concise and full of meaning |
| succinct | Concise. |
| taciturn | habitually silent |
| fealty | Loyalty |
| probity | uprightness; honesty; incorruptibility |
| idiosyncrasy | a personal peculiarity; something unique to an individual |
| peripatetic | walking or traveling about; itinerant |
| stultify | verb - to make someone or something appear absurd, useless, worthless |
| vitiate | to corrupt |
| adage | wise saying; proverb |
| apothegm | wisdom |
| bromide | cliche, platitude |
| platitude | a trite or obvious remark |
| sententious | given to excessive moralizing, pithy phrases or maxims |
| truism | self-evident truth |
| retrograde | To cause to deteriorate or to move backward. |
| rescind | cancel |
| renege | to fail to honor a commitment; to go back on a promise |
| recidivism | relapse into antisocial or criminal behavior |
| discursive | digressing, rambling |
| expatiate | wander freely |
| recreant | a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc. |
| timorous | timid; fearful about the future |
| penultimate | next to the last |
| eon | an immeasurably long period of time |
| antecede | precede |
| anterior | before and also prior |
| fortnight | two weeks |
| millenium | a period of 1000 years |
| dictum | authorative statement; maxim |
| epigram | a witty saying |
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