| Term | Definition |
|---|
| abeyance | suspended action |
| abstemious | sparing in eating and drinking; temperate |
| admonish | warn, reprove (!) |
| aggregate | gather, accumulate |
| antipathy | aversion, dislike |
| appease | pacify or soothe, relieve |
| artless | open and honest |
| attenuate | make thinner; weaken or lessen (in density, force, degree) |
| belie | contradict; give a false impression |
| boorish | rude; insensitive |
| burnish | make shiny by rubbing; polish |
| buttress | to support; prop up |
| coagulate | thicken, congeal, clot |
| compendium | brief, comprehensive summary (!) |
| conciliatory | reconciling, soothing |
| condone | to overlook; forgive, give tacit approval; excuse |
| craven | cowardly |
| daunt | intimidate; frighten |
| default | failure to act |
| deference | courteous regard for another's wish (!) |
| delineate | portray; depict; sketch (!) |
| denigrate | make to appear worse |
| derivative | unoriginal; obtained from another source |
| desultory | aimless; haphazard; digressing at random |
| diffidence | shyness |
| digression | wandering away from the subject |
| dirge | lament with music |
| discerning | mentally quick and observant; having insight |
| discredit | defame; destroy confidence in; disbelieve (!) |
| discrepancy | lack of consistency; difference (!) |
| disingenuous | lacking genuine candor; insincere |
| disjointed | lacking coherence; separated at the joints |
| dismiss | eliminate from consideration; reject |
| disseminate | distribute; spread; scatter |
| dissolution | disintegration; looseness in morals |
| distend | expand; swell out |
| distill | purify; refine; concentrate |
| divest | strip; deprive |
| document | to provide written evidence (verb) |
| dormant | sleeping; lethargic; latent |
| dupe | someone easily fooled (!) |
| elicit | draw out by discussion (!) |
| embellish | adorn, ornament; enhance, as a story |
| emulate | imitate; rival |
| engender | to cause; produce |
| equanimity | calmness or temperament; composure |
| euphemism | mild expression in place of an unpleasant one |
| extrapolation | projection; conjecture |
| fatuous | brainless; inane; foolish, yet smug |
| flag | droop; grow feeble (verb) (!) |
| fledgling | inexperienced |
| foment | stir up; instigate (!) |
| forestall | prevent by taking action in advance |
| gainsay | deny |
| goad | urge on |
| gouge | overcharge |
| guileless | without deceit; artless |
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