| Term | Definition |
|---|
| peccadillo | A small sin or fault |
| impeccable | having no flaws; perfect |
| 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 |
| 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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