| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Peccadillo | a small sin or fault |
| Impeccable | having no flaws |
| Peccant | violating a moral law; sinful |
| Pejorative | negative and critical; insulting |
| Impair | To cause to diminish, as in strength, value, or quality |
| Malign | to speak of maliciously; insult |
| Malinger | to pretend to be sick in order to avoid something |
| Malaise | a sense of unease; depression |
| Negligent | not properly attentive |
| Negligible | unimportant; insignificant |
| Negate | to cancel the effect of; nullify |
| Jocose | cheerful; merry |
| Jocular | characterized by joking |
| Festoon | to drape or adorn festively |
| Fete | to honor with a banquet or feast |
| Bacchic | of or related to a wild celebration |
| Bacchanal | a drunken party or celebration |
| Plaintive | sorrowful; expressing or evoking mourning or sadness |
| Plaint | a lament or complaint |
| Elegy | a song or poem memorializing something or someone |
| Elegiac | mourning that which is lost or past; sorrowful |
| Somnolent | drowsy; sleepy |
| Soporific | causing sleep or fatigue |
| Sopor | sleep; drowsiness |
| Languid | lacking energy; weak |
| Languish | to waste away |
| Languor | lack of physical or mental energy |
| Vigilant | on the alert; watchful |
| Vigilante | someone who takes law enforcement into his or her own hands |
| Acquiesce | to give in |
| Requiem | a song or religious service for the dead or lost |
| Quittance | a repayment; compensation |
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