| Term | Definition |
|---|
| bilk | swindle or cheat |
| abdicate | formally give up |
| charlatan | a quack or a person who lies |
| circumnavigate | travel or maneuver around |
| diabolical | wicked or devilish |
| animosity | ill will or bad feelings |
| elite | very select |
| obtuse | slow in understanding |
| plethora | a lot of |
| goad | to provoke or to prod |
| fiasco | a total disaster |
| nemesis | bitter enemy |
| remedial | designed to help or cure |
| restive | disobedent or impatient |
| serene | peaceful or calm |
| zenith | the peak or high point |
| theme | the message, can't be one word |
| belligerent | war-like, aggresive, like to fight and argue |
| clandestine | secretive, hidden, concealed from view |
| didactic | intended to instruct |
| aberration | something out of the ordinary, something abnormal |
| conjecture | a guess |
| diffident | timid, shy |
| elocution | the art of public speaking |
| harbinger | a precurser something that suggests something is going to happen later on |
| indefatigable | tireless |
| paucity | shortage |
| esoteric | hard to understand |
| pilfer | steal things of little value |
| respite | a brief period of rest |
| tacit | silent or unspoken |
| sycophant | a brown-nosed |
| trepidation | fear |
| elucidate | clarify, to explain |
| arduous | difficult |
| copious | distrust |
| adroit | skillful |
| bequeath | leave as in a will |
| debilitate | to weaken |
| egregious | really bad |
| auspicious | very positive |
| disparage | inslut |
| fastidious | extremely maticulous, really had to please (aka mr. kitchen) |
| languid | slugish |
| juggernaut | a destructive force |
| nocturnal | at night |
| hyperbole | obvious exaggeration |
| ignominious | disgraceful |
| placate | to calm or to sooth |
| trite | over used |
| antipathy | anger |
| chagrin | a feeling of humiliation or disappointment |
| catharsis | emotional release |
| delineate | to explain, to outline, or sketch with words |
| aesthetic | having to do with beauty |
| capitulate | to surrender |
| edification | enlightenment or instruction |
| garrulous | extreme talkative |
| pejorative | critical |
| eloquence | ability to speak well |
| nullify | to cancel or void |
| exacerbate | to make worse |
| ostentatious | showy |
| sagacious | wise |
| voracious | ravishness |
| inundation | overwhelming |
| abide | wait paitently |
| ambivalent | conflicting emotions |
| dichotomy | a division into two |
| diurnal | happens during day |
| pithy | brief, forceful, to the point |
| espouse | adopt a belief |
| gregarious | outgoing |
| hapless | unlucky |
| disseminate | distribute |
| accrue | to grow or accumulate |
| barrage | a constant stream of |
| compunction | remorse or regret |
| droll | amusing |
| abject | hopeless;miserable |
| comely | attractive ,good looking |
| disconcerting | distrubing ,upsetting |
| aspersion | delivering a false accusation |
| bandy | to exchange words or blows |
| credence | believed factual |
| deleterious | harmful |
| ameliorate | to improve or upgrade |
| beleaguer | to harass someone to feel beaten-down |
| congenial | friendly |
| ebullient | cheerful;full of life |
| cavalier | arrogence with disrespect to something |
| culpable | deserving blame or held accountable |
| despondent | very sad |
| exculpate | to free from blame or guilt |
| foible | small weakness |
| Impugn | suggest someone can't be trusted |
| neophyte | a beginner or novice |
| pernicious | causing great harm |
| perfunctory | done without feeling or emotion |
| perspicacious | perseptive of a stud (sharp, intelligent) |
| abate | to lesson or deminish |
| aggrandize | to increase in power or rank or make someone or something appear bigger |
| anathema | someone or something thats detested |
| Assiduous | delight and pleasant |
| avarice | extreme greed |
| bovine | having to do with cattle, stupid or dull |
| carpricious | impulse, whimsical, spur of the moment |
| circumlocution | to say in a around about manner |
| collusion | secret corporation among a group usually for something illegal |
| conjure | to summon or call upon as though by magic |
| talon | claw |
| emphatic | forceful |
| contravene | to go against |
| cupidity | greed |
| effrontery | arrogence |
| ancillary | of lesser importance |
| augment | to increase in size |
| amalgamate | to combine into a unit |
| bellicose | likes to fight |
| covert | hidden |
| diatribe | verbal or written attack |
| obtrusive | forcing opinion or self on others |
| juxtapose | to place side by side |
| opaque | light can't pass through it/can't see through |
| pontificate | talk you know it all without qualification |
| inconoclast | a rebel |
| endemic | specific to a place or group |
| dogmatic | stubborn arrogant |
| interpolate | to insert something often unneccessarily |
| consummate | to finalize |
| construe | to translate the meaning of |
| depravity | moral corruption |
| despotism | an ordinary rule |
| laconic | to the point |
| malaise | feeling of illness |
| nuance | very slight difference |
| alacrity | cheerful readiness |
| bombast | speech or writing with long words to impress others |
| chicanery | tricky |
| ascribe | to assign cause |
| demur | protest |
| estrange | to alienate |
| jingoism | extreme patriotism |
| deciduous | shedding or losing folliage at end of growing period |
| lugubrious | very sad |
| clemency | mercy |
| apocryphal | probably not true, but widely believed so |
| Estrange | to alienate |
| jingoism | extreme patriotism |
| demar | protest |
| bombast | speech or writing with long words to impress others |
| chicanery | tricky |
| ascribe | to assign cause |
| malaise | feeling of illness |
| nuance | very slight difference |
| alacrity | cheerful, readiness |
| despotism | an ordinary rule |
| laconic | to the point |
| consummate | to finalize |
| construe | to translate the meaning of |
| depravity | moral corruption |
| dogmatic | stubborn, arrogant |
| interpolate | to insert something, often unnecessary |
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