| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Antecedent | A word or phrase replaced by a substitute; A preceding event, condition, or cause; a model for later developments; parents; ancestors |
| Debauch | To lead away from virtue or excellence |
| Denizen | A person admitted to residence in a foreign country; one that frequents a place |
| Dilatory | Tending or intending to cause delay; Characterized by procrastination; tardy |
| Elicit | To draw forth or bring out |
| Fluctuate | To shift back and forth uncertainly; to ebb or flow in waves. |
| Gaudy | Ostentatiously or tastelessly ornamented; marked by extravagance or sometimes tasteless showiness; outlandish |
| Ineffable | Incapable to be expressed by words; Not to be uttered; taboo |
| Ingratiating | Capable of winning favor; pleasing; Intended in order to gain favor; flattering |
| Insidious | awaiting a chance to entrap; treacherous; Harmful but enticing; seductive; Having a gradual and cumulative effect; subtle |
| Laudable | Worthy of praise; commendable |
| Meretricious | Of or relating to a prostitute; Tawdrily and falsely attractive; gaudy |
| Modish | fashionable; stylish |
| Nebulous | of, relating to, or resembling a galaxy; indistinct; vague |
| Oblivious | lacking remembrance, memory, or mindful attention; Lacking active conscious knowledge or awareness |
| Obstinate | Perversely adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion; not easily subdued, remedied, or removed |
| Perturb | To disturb greatly in mind; disquiet; To throw into confusion; disorder |
| Platonic | Relating to or based on platonic love; of, relating to, or being a relationship marked by the absence of romance or sex |
| Prodigious | exciting amazement or wonder; Extraordinary in bulk, quantity, or degree |
| Recurrent | Running or turning back in a direction opposite to a former course; Returning or happening time after time |
| Rout | A crowd of people; throng; Disturbance; A fashionable gathering |
| Somnambulant | Walking or having the habit of walking while asleep; resembling or having the characteristics of a sleepwalker; sluggish |
| Vulgar | Generally used, applied, or accepted; Vernacular; Lacking in cultivation, perception, or taste; coarse; Of or relating to the common people; plebeian; Offensive in language; earthy |
| Turgid | Being in a state of distension; swollen; tumid; Excessively embellished in style or language; bombastic; pompous |
| Spectroscope | An instrument for forming and examining spectra; especially in the visible region of the electromagnetic |
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