| Term | Definition |
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| abstemious | sparing (usually in cating or drinking); temperate...ant: gluttonous |
| advocacy | support of an idea or cause...ant: opposition |
| auspicious | favorable...syn: propitious, ant: ill-omened |
| austere | strict, stern; unadorned, ascetic...syn: severe, ant: indulgent |
| baseness | the quality of lacking higher values...syn: vileness, servility, unworthiness |
| bestow | to grant or to give...ant: deprive |
| blasphemous | irreverent, profane...ant: sacred, reverent |
| celestial | pertaining to the sky or heavens...ant: earthly |
| cherubic | innocent, wholesome, angelic...ant: fiendish |
| contentious | quarrelsome, stirring controversy...syn:bellicose, belligerent, pugnacious, ant: congenial, harmonious |
| credulous | believing on slight evidence, gullible...ant: suspicious |
| desolate | deserted, without inhabitants, barren...ant: populous |
| dilligent | characterized by steady, attentive and energetic effort in a pursuit or study...syn: industrious, assiduous, sedulous |
| disdain | intense dislike, to treat with scorn or contempt, to refect as unworthy...syn: (to be) arrogant, haughty, high-handed, insolent, lordly, ant: favor, admiration, to love |
| divination | foretelling the future by means of magic |
| endow | to provide with income or property, to supply with a talent or quality |
| enmity | absolute hatred...syn: animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, hostility, rancor |
| expedious | done with speed and efficiency...ant: sluggish |
| firebrand | a person who stirs up trouble...ant: peacemaker |
| harmonious | showing accord, melodious...ant: discordant |
| heed | to give attention to...ant: pay no attention to |
| homage | a reverential regard; respect shown by external action...syn: honor, reverence, deference, obeisance, ant: disrespect |
| ignoble | of lowly origin, without honor...syn: abject, mean, sordid, ant: noble, grand, lofty |
| impertinent | insolently rude, not within the proper bounds of good taste or manners...syn: intrusive, meddlesome, obtrusive, officious, ant: reverent, respectful |
| indulgent | lenient, especially toward oneself...ant: harsh, strict |
| industrious | skillfully busy or occupied...syn: assiduous, diligent, sedulous, ant: slothful, indolent |
| insolence | insulting or contemptuous behavior...syn: arrogance, haughtiness, high-handedness, impertinence |
| inveterate | firmly established, habitual, deep-rooted...ant: readily changeable |
| knotty | so complicated that it can probably not be solved; full of knots...syn: abstruse, complex, intricate, recondite, ant: easy to solve, uncomplicated |
| loathe | to detest...syn: abhor, abominate, ant: to adore |
| malign | to utter injuriously misleading reports about...syn: traduce, asperse, vilify, calumniate, defame, ant: to extol |
| mettle | courage or spirit...syn: resolution, tenacity, ant: lack of courage |
| mutinous | rebellious, unruly...ant: agreeagle, compatible |
| odious | deserving hate or contempt...ant: respectable |
| paragon | a model of excellence or perfection |
| penitent | showing or feeling regret for wrongdoing, repentant...syn: compunctual, contrite, remorseful, ant: unrepentant |
| perdition | eternal damnation, utter ruin...ant: salvation |
| perfidious | calculated to deceive;deceitful;treacherous...ant: honest, trustworthy |
| potent | powerful, having a strong effect...ant: ineffectual |
| prescient | knowledge of events before they happen, foresight...ant: unaware |
| promontory | land or rock projecting into a body of water |
| quaint | unusual in character or appearance...syn: eccentric, peculiar, queer, unique, ant: ordinary |
| reputable | having a good reputation...ant: disreputable, notorious, infamous |
| requite | to make repayment or to return...ant: to withhold |
| slothful | lazy, indolent...syn: bovine, ant: industrious |
| sovereign | possessed of controlling power...syn: predominant, paramount, preponderant, ant: without power |
| subtle | delicate, elusive, not obvious...ant: obvious, gross, blunt |
| summon | to call together, to send for or to request to appear...syn: convene, convoke, muster, ant: to turn away |
| supplant | to take the place of...syn: displacee, supersede |
| supple | easily bent, elastic, pliable...syn: resilient, ant: rigid |
| surfeited | fed or supplied to excess...syn: cloyed, glutted, gorged, palled, sated, satiated, ant: starved |
| temperate | exercising self-control...ant: extreme |
| tempestuous | turbulent, stormy...ant: calm |
| trifling | not significant, frivolous...ant: important, significant |
| unmitigated | not made less severe or intense...syn: unrelieved |
| upbraid | to scold harshly, to reproach...syn: berate, rail at, revile, vituperate, ant: to praise |
| vexation | discomfort or distress...ant: pleasantry |
| virtuous | having excellent morals, righteous...syn: ethical, noble, ant: depraved |
| vouchsafe | to grant in a condescending manner...ant: to refuse to grant |
| wanton | immoral, lewd...ant: moral |
| warranted | justified...ant: unjustified |
| zenith | the highest point overhead, peak...ant: lowest point |
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