| Term | Definition |
|---|
| advocacy | support of an idea or cause |
| affinity | a likeness, a natural relationship, a kinship |
| agile | characterized by ability to move quickly with suppleness and grace |
| alacrity | prompt and cheerful response |
| amiable | friendly, congenial and sociable; civil and urbane |
| anthropophagi | man eating cannibals |
| atone | reconcile |
| baseness | the quality of lacking higher values |
| bauble | trinket |
| beguile | to deceive; to mislead; to persuade with charm |
| bestial | brutal, without reason, having the attributes of a savage |
| bestow | to grant or to give |
| boisterous | blatant, clamorous |
| bombastic | using inflated language, pompous |
| candid | blunt, sincere honesty |
| carnal | marked by sexuality that is often frank and unrelieved by higher emotions |
| castigate | to punish or to subdue by punishment; to criticize with drastic severity |
| censure | strong or vehement expression of disapproval |
| chaste | not engaging in sexual relations |
| chide | to harass or nag |
| circumspect | careful to consider consequences; cautious; prudent |
| clamorous | full of, marked by complaining |
| conceit | imagination; fancy |
| consecrate | to dedicate or to declare sacred |
| construe | to give the meaning or intention of; interpret |
| corrigible | capable of being corrected or reformed |
| credulous | willing to believe or trust too readily |
| cuckold | the husband of an unfaithful wife |
| cunning | skill employed in a shrewd or sly manner |
| cynical | given to faultfinding, sneering, and sarcastic |
| defunct | no longer existing, dead |
| desolate | deserted; without inhabitants; barren |
| dilatory | delaying, slow |
| discern | to differentiate between two or more things |
| discontented | not content or satisfied; restlessly unhappy |
| discord | lack of agreement; tension; strife |
| discourse | communication through words |
| discretion | ability to act on one's own power of individual decision |
| disposition | arrangement or placing |
| distempering | a deranged condition of mind or body |
| dotage | fondness; foolish affection |
| edifying | instructing and improving spiritually or morally |
| embayed | to enclose, surround or envelop |
| enmesh | to entangle |
| entreaty | a plea, an earnest request |
| epithet | a term or phrase describing or characterizing |
| facile | easy; achieved with little difficulty |
| fathom | to grasp or understand |
| fleer | to sneer mockingly |
| fluster | to excite and confuse |
| fondly | in a loving or affectionate way |
| forbearance | patience; lenience |
| forked | horned |
| forswear | renounce an oath; abandon |
| fortitude | strength |
| fraught | a load; cargo; freight |
| fulsome | excess to the point of disgust; extreme lavishness |
| garner | to gather together; to store up |
| gibe | to utter mocking or scoffing words |
| gradation | the process of advancing step by step |
| grange | countryside |
| gravity | seriousness; importance |
| grossly | stupidly; indecently |
| guileless | without deceit |
| harlotry | prostitution |
| hideous | very ugly; offensive; shocking |
| homage | a reverential regard; respect shown by external action |
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