| Term | Definition |
|---|
| alacrity | cheerful willingness; readiness; liveliness |
| aversion | strong dislike; repugnance; antipathy |
| involuntary | not done of one's own free will; automatic; unintentional; spontaneous (A: voluntary) |
| loath | unwilling; averse; disinclined; reluctant |
| loathe | have an intense aversion to; detest |
| volition | will |
| acclivity | upward slope (A: declivity) |
| acme | highest point; pinnacle; summit |
| apogee | 1) farthest point from the earth in the orbit of a heavenly body (A: perigee); 2) highest point; culmination |
| climatic | arranged in order of increasing force and interest (A: anticlimatic) |
| consummate | perfect; superb; carried to the highest degree |
| eminence | high rank |
| eminent | standing out; notable; famous |
| ethereal | of the heavens; celestial; airy; delicate; intangible |
| exalt | 1) lift up with joy, pride, etc; elate (A: humiliate) 2) raise in rank, dignity, etc.; extol; glorify |
| precipice | very steep or overhanging place; cliff |
| precipitous | 1) steep as a precipice; 2) hasty; rash |
| preeminent | standing out above others; superior |
| sublimate | 1) redirect the energy of a person's bad impulses into socially and morally higher channels; 2) purify; refine |
| sublime | elevated; noble; exalted; uplifting |
| vertex | farthest point opposite the base, as in a triangle or pyramid; apex |
| zenith | 1) highest point; culmination; peak (A: nadir); 2) point in the heavens directly overhead |
| abject | deserving contempt; sunk to a low condition; wretched |
| abysmal | deep; profound; immeasurably great |
| abyss | bottomless depth; immeasurably great space |
| anticlimax | abrupt decline from the dignified or important to the trivial or ludicrous; comedown; bathos (A: climax) |
| chasm | deep breach; wide gap or rift |
| declivity | downward slope (A: acclivity) |
| dregs | most worthless part; sediment at the bottom of a liquid |
| earthy | down-to-earth; realistic; coarse; low |
| humble | 1) of low position or condition; 2) not proud; unpretentious; modest; courteously respectful |
| humiliate | lower the pride, position, or dignity of; abase; degrade; mortify (A: exalt) |
| humility | freedom from pride; humbleness; lowliness; modesty |
| menial | low; mean; subservient; servile |
| nadir | lowest point (A: zenith) |
| plumb | get to the bottom of; ascertain the depth of; fathom |
| profound | very deep; deeply felt; intellectually deep |
| ravine | deep, narrow gorge worn by running water |
| consanguinuity | blood relationship |
| filial | of or like a son or daughter |
| fraternal | of or like a brother |
| genealogy | a person's or family's descent; lineage; pedigree |
| gentility | 1) good manners; 2) gentry; upper class |
| kith and kin | friends and relatives; kindred |
| maternal | of or like a mother |
| nepotism | favoritism to relatives by those in power |
| paternal | of or like a father |
| progenitor | forefather |
| progeny | offspring; children; descendants |
| sibling | one of two or more children of a family |
| aroma | pleasant odor; bouquet |
| aromatic | sweet-scented; fragant |
| fragrant | having a pleasant odor; pleasantly odorous or odoriferous |
| fusty | 1) stale-smelling; musty; moldy; 2) old-fashioned |
| incense | substance yielding a pleasant odor when burned |
| malodorous | ill-smelling; stinking; fetid; unpleasantly odorous |
| noisome | 1)offensive to smell; disgusting; 2) harmful; noxious |
| olfactory | pertaining to the sense of smell |
| pungent | sharp in smell or taste; acrid; biting; stimulating |
| putrid | 1) stinking from decay; 2) extremely bad; corrupt |
| rancid | unpleasant to smell or taste from being spoiled or stale |
| rank | 1) having a strong, bad odor or taste; offensiviely gross or coarse; 2) extreme |
| reek | emit a strong, disagreeable smell; be permeated with |
| scent | smell; perfume |
| scent | get a suspicion of |
| unsavory | 1) unpleasant to taste or smell; 2) morally offensive |
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