| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Abate | diminish, decrease, subside, let up |
| Adulation | adoration, idolization, hero-worship |
| Anathema | malediction, imprecation, abomination |
| Astute | shrewd, acute, sagacious, judicious, wily |
| Avarice | cupidity, rapacity, acquisitiveness |
| Culpable | guilty, delinquent, peccant, blameworthy |
| Dilatory | stalling, slow, tardy, laggard |
| Egregious | glaring, flagrant, blatant |
| Equivocate | to talk out of both sides of one's mouth, palter, hedge |
| Evanescent | ephemeral, transient, transitory |
| Irresolute | indecisive, vacillating, wavering |
| Nebulous | hazy, fuzzy, cloudy, vague, murky, opaque, indeterminate |
| Novice | neophyte, tyro, trainee, apprentice |
| Penury | destitution, want, indigence |
| Pretentious | inflated, ostentatious, affected |
| Recapitulate | review, summarize, sum up, go over |
| Resuscitate | revitalize, reanimate, restore, reactivate |
| Slovenly | unkempt, slatternly, slipshod, lax |
| Supposition | assumption, presumption, hypothesis |
| Torpid | sluggish, lethargic, otiose, languid |
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