| Term | Definition |
|---|
| aberration | straying away from what is normal |
| accolade | praise approval |
| adulteration | making unpure poorer in quality |
| anguish | severe suffering |
| appease | make quiet or calm |
| apropos | appropriate to the situation apt |
| arrogance | proud superior manner of behaviour |
| assuage | make something (pain desire) less |
| augury | omen sign |
| auspicious | favorable successful prosperous |
| aver | affirm assert prove justify |
| aversion | strong dislike |
| baleful | harmful ominous causing evil |
| baneful | causing harm or ruin pernicious destructive |
| bedizen | to adorn especially in a cheap showy manner |
| blatant | noisy and rough |
| blithe | cheerful casual carefree |
| boorish | crude offensive rude |
| calumny | slander aspersion |
| cantankerous | bad-tempered/quarrelsome |
| coagulation | change to a thick and solid state |
| cohort | a group or band of people |
| commodious | having plenty of space for what is needed |
| commuter | person who travels regularly |
| complaisance | tending to comply obliging willingness to please |
| conjoin | to join together |
| consume | get to the end of |
| conundrum | a riddle dilemma enigma |
| covetous | eagerly desirous |
| curmudgeon | bad-tempered person |
| debacle | a breakup overthrow sudden disaster |
| decree | order given by authority |
| defiance | open disobedience or resistance |
| delineate | to portray depict sketch out |
| derogatory | insulting tending to damage |
| descry | catch sight of see something in the distance |
| deter | discourage hinder |
| diffidence | shyness |
| discreet | careful/prudent |
| dissemble | speak or behave so as to hide something (in mind) |
| dupe | cheat make a fool of |
| dwarf | person or smb much below the usual size |
| ebullience | exuberance outburst of feeling |
| elaborate | worked out with much care in great detail |
| endorse | write one's name on the back of |
| enduring | lasting |
| enervate | weaken deprive of strength attenuate |
| epicurean | devoted to pleasure (sensuous enjoyment) |
| euphoria | elation state of pleasant excitement |
| extirpate | to destroy exterminate cut out exscind |
| extol | praise highly |
| falter | waver/move in an uncertain manner |
| fatuous | without sense foolish self-satisfaction |
| feint | pretend |
| fervor | warmth of feelings earnestness |
| forgery | counterfeit |
| fragrant | sweet-smelling |
| frugal | careful economical |
| fulsome | disgusting offensive due to excessiveness |
| goad | something urging a person to action |
| gorge | eat greedily/narrow opening with a stream |
| gourmand | a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess |
| harangue | a long passionate speech |
| haughty | arrogant conceited |
| hermetic | sealed by fusion |
| hoodwink | trick mislead |
| hubris | arrogant pride |
| iconoclast | person who attacks popular beliefs |
| imperturbable | calm not capable of being excited |
| impromptu | without preparation |
| impute | to attribute to a cause or source ascribe |
| incite | stir up rouse |
| indomitable | not easily discouraged or subdued |
| infuriate | fill with fury or rage |
| intransigence | unwillingness to compromise stubbornness intractability |
| inundate | flood cover by overflowing |
| invective | abusive language curses |
| ire | anger |
| jagged | notched, rough |
| liberality | free giving generosity |
| lithe | bending twisting |
| maudlin | sentimental in a silly or tearful way |
| maul | hurt by rough handling |
| minatory | menacing threatening |
| nascent | coming into existence emerging |
| obviate | to make unnecessary get rid of |
| odium | contempt dislike aversion |
| opprobrious | showing scorn or reproach |
| palatial | magnificent |
| palpability | can be felt touched understood |
| parsimonious | too economical miserly |
| penchant | strong inclination a liking |
| perfunctory | done as a duty without care |
| pernicious | harmful injurious |
| plead | address a court of law as an advocate |
| profuse | abundant/lavish |
| propitiatory | conciliatory appeasing mitigating |
| purvey | provide supply |
| quixotic | generous unselfish |
| quotidian | banal everyday |
| raffish | low vulgar base tawdry |
| recreancy | cowardice a cowardly giving up |
| render | deliver provide represent |
| repine | at be discontented with |
| resilience | quality of quickly recovering the original shape |
| resuscitation | coming back to consciousness |
| retard | check hinder |
| rift | split crack dissension |
| rumple | make rough |
| salutary | remedial wholesome causing improvement |
| sanity | health of mind soundness of judgment |
| savor | taste flavor something |
| scurvy | mean contemptible |
| serrated | having a toothed edge |
| serration | having a toothed edge |
| shrewd | astute showing sound judgement |
| sober | self-controlled |
| stipple | paint with dots |
| sullied | to be stained or discredited |
| surfeit | satiate feed to fulness or to excess |
| taunt | contemptuous reproach hurtful remark |
| tawdry | cheap gaudy showy tacky |
| torment | severe pain or suffering |
| turbulence | being uncontrolled violent |
| untoward | unfortunate inconvenient |
| veneration | regard with deep respect |
| vigilance | watchfulness self-appointed group who maintain order |
| vigilant | member of a vigilance committee |
| vilify | slander say evil things |
| volubility | fluency verbosity easy use of spoken language |
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