1.
Adventitious: accidental
2.
Aesthetic: sensitive to art or beauty; showing good taste
3.
Antecedents: a person or thing that came before
4.
Boisterously: energetically
5.
Cataract: floods of water; waves
6.
Contemptuous: showing disdain, scorn; acting as if someone or thing is considered low, worthless or beneath notice
7.
Contiguous: adjacent; next to each other
8.
Contingency: unforeseen event
9.
Corpulent: fleshy, fat; bulky
10.
Corroborate: to confirm, make certain
11.
Defunct: something no longer living or existing
12.
Demoniac: pertaining to or resembling a demon
13.
Denizen: one who dwells in, or is of certain area
14.
Deranged: driven mad
15.
Dilatory: tardy, slow-moving
16.
Disconcerting: to throw into disorder; to unsettle, to frustrate
17.
Ectoplasm: a ghostly emanation
18.
Euphemisms: a less expressive or direct word substituted for more strong or distasteful
19.
Explicable: easily explained or understood
20.
Expostulation: a complaint or remonstrance
21.
Extemporizing: speaking on the spur of the moment
22.
Fortnight: a time period of two weeks
23.
Fortuitously: by chance
24.
Fractiousness: quarrelsomeness
25.
Garrulous: talkative
26.
Grail: the cup Christ used at the Last Supper, and often sought in medieval rimes, therefore a goal or quest
27.
Grotesque: characterized by distortions in appearance, shape or manner
28.
Harrowed: uncomfortable, distressed, tormented
29.
Hauteur: haughtiness; arrogance
30.
Holocaust: great or widespread destruction of people or animals by fire
31.
Homogeneous: having similarity in some or many aspects
32.
Impetuous: acting suddenly with little thought; impulsive
33.
Incredulously: with disbelief
34.
Indiscreet: careless; lacking discretion
35.
Ineffable: too overwhelming or awesome to be expressed
36.
Ingratiate: to bring oneself into anothers favor or good graces
37.
Innuendo: a derogatory hint or insinuation
38.
Insidious: treacherous, sly, disdainful
39.
Interminable: seemingly endless, unlimited
40.
Intimation: the act of hinting or suggesting indirectly or plainly
41.
Inviolate: keep sacred
42.
Languidly: slowly and listlessly
43.
Laudable: praiseworthy
44.
Meretricious: alluring by false, showy charms
45.
Omnibus: a bus; a book containing a collection of stories, essays, poems, etc/ an anthology
46.
Pasquinade: a satire or sarcastic notice posted in a public place
47.
Pastoral: relating to an idealized, natural setting
48.
Peremptorily: in a harshly decisive manner
49.
Plagiaristic: the act of taking ideas from some one else and passing them off as ones own
50.
Pneumatic: of, or relating to, or using air
51.
Portentous: important; arousing awe or amazement
52.
Postern: a back door gate, a hidden or private entrance
53.
Presumptuous: taking too much for granted
54.
Privy: private, not public, confidential
55.
Proprietary: belonging to
56.
Provincial: countrified, rustic, narrow, limited
57.
Provocation: something that stimulates to action; the cause of resentment or incitement
58.
Punctilious: exact in the observance of forms or rules
59.
Ravage: to devastate, to ruin
60.
Reproach: (v)- to accuse of and blame
(n)- a source or cause of shame
61.
Retribution: deserved punishment for evil done, or sometimes, reward for good done
62.
Septic: dirty, infectious
63.
Solidarity: complete unity of opinion, purpose, interest or feeling
64.
Somnambulate: walking in one's sleep
65.
Stratum: a horizontal layer or section of material
66.
Strident: harsh surrounding; shrill
67.
Substantiality: genuine, true, solid
68.
Sumptuous: involving great expense; costly; lavish
69.
Supercilious: haughty, contemptuous
70.
Transcendent: to go beyond the limits of; to be superior to
71.
Transitory: quickly passing, momentary
72.
Turgid: inflated in language, bombastic swollen
73.
Vestige: a trace of something which once existed
74.
Vicariously: endured, suffered by one person in place of another
