| Term | Definition |
|---|
| ribald | someone characterized by witty hints at sexual content |
| bawdy | humorously coarse language or allusions; risque is near synonym |
| prurient - prurient paparazzis | an inappropriate variety of interest in sexual matters, such as overt curiosity about other people's private lives |
| profligate | wild; behavior that may be in the monetary or the sexual realm |
| tryst | secret meeting planned by lovers; often a couple whose love is not approved by society |
| dissolute | person whose sense of moral restraint has dissolved |
| racy - rated R racy | something bordering on the improper; rough synonym for ribald or risque |
| dalliance | playful flirtation |
| carnal | matters relating to the physical, particularly to the sexual |
| smut | figurative dirt; obscenity, pornogrophy |
| evanescent | disappearing like vapor; a fragrance or something as love |
| ephemeral | anything short-lived or fleeting; hold interest for only a passing amount of time |
| chronic | long duration; frequently recurring |
| dilatory | tending towards postponing or delaying |
| diurnal | ocurring in a twenty-four-hour period; daily; occuring or active in the daytime, rather at night |
| antiquated | very old; too old to be fashionable, obsolete |
| archaic - latin is archaic | ancient; out of use altogether |
| passe | no longer current or out of fasion; it has come and gone |
| gloaming | dusk or twilight |
| anachronism | fairly common literary technique of representing someone or something as existing in other than chronological or historical order |
| obfuscate | to make confusing or difficult to understand |
| melee | a brawl; confused and violent battle |
| anarchy | absence of any form of political authority; absence of order or control |
| bedlam | any place of situation of utter confusion or noisy uproar |
| confounded | confused; or to damn someone or something |
| convoluted | confusing; intricate or complicated |
| perturbed | to throw into confusion; to be anxious, agitated, or confused |
| labyrinthine | something that has the qualities of a labyrinth or maze |
| awry | away from the correct course; amiss; synonym is askew - twisted to one side |
| quagmire | difficult predicament |
| terrestrial | being from another planet |
| firmament | refers to the sky, heavens; used in religious, historical, or poetic context |
| ethereal | heavenly, delicate, insubstantial, as if tehy were "of the air" |
| celestial | sky; extremely good; "heavenly" |
| conflagration | really big fire; something conspicuously offensive, as if it were on fire |
| incendiary | substances that can cause a fire; figuratively inflames |
| torrid | intensely hot, burning |
| febrile | fever |
| deluge | a flood or a heavy rain |
| sodden | something literally soaked or something so dull and unimaginative that one might imagine a flood had carried away anything potentially good |
| banter | good-humored, playful conversation |
| badinage | more lightweight conversation; synonym for banter |
| repartee - emphasizing reply | light exchange of conversation emphasizing the retort or reply of the person addressed |
| gingerly | cautious, delicate approact to something |
| lambent | lightness of light; something flickering or glowing; lick of light |
| leaven | lighten; alleviate - to lighten the pain or burden of something |
| elucidate | make clear through explanation; to shed light on the subject |
| epiphany | instant perception, sudden comprehension, spontaneous revelation |
| diaphanous | cloth that is so fine in texture; easily seen through |
| benighted | person or argument in moral or intellectual darkness |
| diatribe | bitter, abusive lecture |
| harangue | long, pompous, public speech with a particular point of view |
| tirade -torture tirade/martyr | angry or violent speech, denouncing someone or something |
| rant | an angry or violent speech or writing that inspires anger or violence |
| vituperation | sustained speech of harshly abusive language |
| castigate | to harshly scold; criticize severly; punish |
| fulminate - fulminate of mercury | to issue an explosive verbal attack in speech or writing |
| excoriate | to remove the skin but to censure strongly |
| admonish | gently caution; warn |
| invective | description of harsh and abusive language |
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