| Term | Definition |
|---|
| circumlocution | Indirect or roundabout expression. |
| periphrastic | roundabout and unnecessarily wordy |
| prolix | Verbose. |
| rhetoric | loud and confused and empty talk |
| turgid | Excessively ornate or complex in style or language Swollen or distended, as from a fluid |
| defer | give in respectfully; submit; delay till later; exempt temporarily; N. deferment; CF. show respect, comply with, courteous |
| mitigate | To make milder or more endurable. |
| propitiate | appease |
| slake | make less active or intense |
| sonorous | producing a deep or full sound |
| esurient | devouring or craving food in great quantities |
| impecunious | poor, penniless |
| encomium | a formal expression of praise |
| extol | To praise in the highest terms. |
| fawn | try to gain favor by cringing or flattering |
| fey | possessing or displaying a strange and otherworldly aspect or quality. |
| harbinger | something that indicates what is to come; a forerunner |
| portentious | foreshadowing, foretelling evil |
| presage | To foretell. |
| prescient | foresight |
| fetter | shackle, to bind, to chain |
| forfend | to ward off or avert |
| occlude | shut, close |
| perspicacious | acutely insightful and wise |
| forlorn | sad and lonely; wretched; desolate |
| lugubrious | mournful, excessively sad |
| threnody | a sad poem or song |
| untoward | not favorable or fortunate; also, improper. |
| renitent | stubborn |
| refractory | resistant to authority or control |
| fetid | smelly |
| noxious | harmful; CF. obnoxious |
| salutary | Beneficial. |
| dither | act nervously |
| teeter | Hesitate |
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