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pique to cause another's pride to be wounded linguistics the study of language plebeian a commoner; one from the lower class precocious showing early development, especially mental predatory inclined to prey on others prowess superior skill or ability pugnacious eager and ready to fight; quarrelsome purloin to steal pusillanimous cowardly; fearful quell to put an end to; to allay or quiet quixotic very idealistic; impractical; caught up in romantic notions rabble a disorderly crowd; a mob rabid raging; fanatical raconteur a person skilled at telling stories or anecdotes vindictive seeking revenge; bearing a grudge noxious harmful to the health connive to cooperate secretly in wrongdoing chutzpah nerve; audacity liege a lord, master, or sovereign odium hatred crass coarse; tasteless hypercritical overly critical; too severe in judgement fallacy a mistaken notion; a misconception complacent self-satisfied; smug befuddle to confuse; to perplex pandemonium a wild disorder, noise, or confusion parsimonious excessively thrifty; stingy verbose using more words than are needed; wordy laudable worthy of praise; commendable indiscreet not wise or judicious; imprudent, as in speech or action levity lightness of disposition; lack of seriousness hoax a practical joke; a trick amicable friendly; peaceable obstreperous aggressively boisterous; stubborn and defiant enraptured delighted beyond measure marital having to do with marriage bask to lie in or be exposed to warmth genial friendly; amiable charlatan one who pretends to have professional knowledge in order to swindle others mundane commonplace; of the earth and not spiritual fickle likely to change on a whim or without apparent reason juggernaut a terrible, destructive, or irresistible force naive simple in nature; not affected or worldly; especially innocent nocturnal having to do with the night; occurring at night novice a beginner; one who is inexperienced inert unable to act or move; inactive; sluggish circumvent to get around; to bypass clandestine secret acquit to find not guilty of a fault or crime deprecate to express disapproval of barrister lawyer, (British) adulation excessive praise or admiration culinary having to do with the kitchen or cooking bawdy indecent; humorously obscene chastise to punish severely jocose joking; humorous myriad a very large number latent present, but not active; hidden pernicious destructive; deadly frugal thrifty; economical in money matters altercation a heated argument lexicon a dictionary; a specialized vocabulary used in a particular field or place hue a particular shade of a given color galvanize to startle into sudden activity sanction permission; support hyperbole extreme exaggeration for effect and not meant to be taken literally ominous threatening; foreboding evil audacity rude boldness; nerve evince to demonstrate clearly; to prove implacable unable to be appeased or pacified exhort to urge on with stirring words incarcerate to put in prison; to confine incisive sharp; keen; cutting straight to the heart of the matter expedient practical; providing an immediate advantage (especially when serving one's self-interest) pertinent having to do with the subject at hand epistle a letter or literary composition in letter form avid enthusiastic; extremely interested gadfly an irritating and persistent person humility absence of vanity; humbleness dolorous exhibiting sorrow or pain gargantuan of huge or extraordinary size and power arduous difficult; requiring much effort affable friendly; agreeable; easy to talk to grandiloquent pompous or high-flown in speech agrarian having to do with farms, farmers, or the use of land grimace a facial expression of fear, disapproval, or pain harangue a long, strongly expressed speech or lecture formidable arousing fear or awe sycophant a flatterer; one who fawns on others in order to gain favor explicit clearly and openly stated; leaving nothing to the imagination expound to explain in detail; to clarify cajole to persuade with false promises and flattery inscrutable not easily understood; hard to fathom balk to refuse stubbornly or abruptly; to stop short and refuse to go on acrimony ill-natured, bitter hostility dour stern and ill-humored exult to rejoice; to feel triumphant omniscient having unlimited knowledge; all-knowing feasible reasonable; capable of being carried out fiasco a complete, ridiculous failure metier the work one is especially suited for; one's specialty; an occupation fluctuate to rise and fall; to vary irregularly harry to annoy or harass incognito disguised; pretending not to be oneself lethargy lack of energy; sluggishness emulate to strive to be like; to imitate sere dry and withered enhance to increase the value or beauty of something contrite feeling regret for having committed some wrongdoing magnanimous noble; generous in forgiving; free from petty feeling or acts enunciate to pronounce clearly and distinctly collaborate to work with another toward a goal impound to confine; to retain in legal custody impeccable faultless; without sin or blemish evoke to summon forth inane without sense or meaning; silly unctuous exaggeratedly or insincerely polite expatriate one who chooses to live outside of or renounce his or her native country frowzy unkempt heinous hatefully or shockingly evil