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Diffident Shy; not assertive Fidelity Faithfulness; loyalty Confide To trust (another) with information or a secret Fallacy A misleading or mistaken idea Fallacious Misleading or deceptive Credible Able to be trusted in or believed Credence Trust or belief Credulity Tendency to believe things too quicklyor easily Incredulous Unable to believe something; amazed Dubious Uncertain; doubtful Indubitable Certain beyond doubt or question Redoubtable Worthy of fear or respect; mighty ultimate Surpassing all others; definitive Penultimate Just before the final; next to last Ultimatum A demand threat that is final Infinite without beginning or end Definitive Defining for all others; standard Infinitesimal Extremely small; incalculably or immeasurably small Novel New and different Novice An inexperienced person; amateur Innovative Showing creativity and orginality primal Original; dating from the beginning of existance Primeval Exteremly ancient; of earliest time Primacy Condition of being first in time or importance Aberrant Deviating from a pattern or rule Erroneous wrong or inaccurate Errant Wandering or straying Degrade to lower in dignity or esteem; insult Congress a coming together Egress Act of going out; exit Convene To call together, to assemble covenant A mutual or legal agreement Circumvent to avoid by going around; bypass Cursory Hasty and superficial Precursor That which comes before; forerunner Recourse Help for problem; solution incursion An attack on another territory; a raid Virile Masculine; manly Virtue Right action; moral goodness Virtuoso Someone extraordinarily skilled in a particular art Demagogue A leader who appeals to people's emotion's to gain power Demographic Having certain characteristics in common, such as age, race, or gender Pandemic Having an effect on a large area or region Cosmopolitan Worldly or sophisticated Politicize To give a political character to something Apolitical Having no interest in politics; not political Civility Politeness; courteousness Civic Having to do with the business of a town or community Civilize To make more cultured or refined Dictate to speak aloud in order that one's words may be copied or recorded Dictate To give an order; to make necessary Malediction A recital of words intended to harm; a curse Benediction A blessing Locution Style of action of speaking Eloquent Powerful and expressive Colloquial of or related to informal speech; conversational Evocative Calling forth a vivid image or impression Equivocate To use misleading or confusing language Advocate To argue in favor of Advocate Someone who argues for Exclamatory Having a forceful, excited, or emotional tone Declaim To speak loudly and with feeling Clamorous Characterized by a loud noise or outcry Excruciating Extremely painful; agonizing Crux The most important or decisive point Crucial Extremely necessary; essential Indolent Lazy; averse to work Doleful Sad; mournful Dolorous Mournful; gloomy Acerbic Harsh and biting in tone Acrid Stinging or biting in odor or taste; harsh; irritating Acrimonious Exhibiting harsh sharpness in speech or mood Exacerbate To make worse or more severe Fervent Passionately excited or enthusiastic Fervor Emotional excitement heated enthusiasm Effervescent Highly spirited; animated Impute To assign blame or responsibility for Dispute To disagree with Dispute A disagreement or argument Disreputable Not respectable Connotation An image or idea associated with a word Denotation The dictionary definition of a word Annotate To explain or discuss through a note Irrational Not based on reason or logic Rationale A reason for doing something; explanation Rationalize Justify; give reason for Conscientious Diligent and careful Unconscionable Not obeying moral law; unscrupulous Prescient Showing knowledge of events before they happen Aesthetic Having to do with beauty or order Anesthetic A substance which causes loss of feeling Apathetic Not interested; having no strong emotion towards Empathy Sharing of another's emotions Pathos Power of evoking great sadness or sympathy Antipathy Hostility or hatred Sentient Conscious; aware Sentinel One who watches or guards Presentiment A feeling about something before it happens Tangible About to be grasped or perceived Tactile Pertaining to touch Intact Unbroken; whole Inquisitive Curious; asking many questions Acquisitive Seeking to get things; greedy Requisition (1) Act of ordering or demanding something Requisition (2) to make a request or demand Espouse To support; pledge support to Correspond To be similar to; compare to Despondent Lacking all hope Interrogate To formally question Derogatory Insulting; degrading Arrogant Excessively proud; haughty Abrogate To cancel; to repel Precarious Threatened or unsafe Imprecation A curse Deprecate To show disapproval of Adminition Gentle scolding Premonition A vision; a warning of something before it happens Counsel 1) to advise; make a suggestion to Counsel 2) advice Concilatory Intended to lessen another's anger Reconcile To bring back into agreement Precaution An action taken against danger ahead of time Cautious Careful not to get into danger Cautionary Intended to serve as a warnig Persuasion Habit or type