| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Abate | to reduce in intensity or amount |
| Accent | to stress, to give prominence to to emphasize |
| Allusion | implied or indirect reference, to hint |
| Beleaguer | to harass |
| Conglomerate | a mixture of many things |
| Credulous | believing on slight evidence, gullible |
| Cynical | given to fault finding, sneering and sarcasm; exhibiting mocking disbelief |
| Decorousness | proper behavior |
| Demure | serious, reserved, coy |
| Desolate | deserted, without inhabitants, barren |
| Despairing | Hopeless, despondent, discouraged |
| Eclectic | coming from a variety of diverse sources |
| Elegiac | Mournful expressing sorrow |
| Emulate | to try to equal or to be like, usually through imitation |
| Endow | to provide with income or property, to supply with a talent or quality |
| Exhaust | to use up, to drain |
| Exquisite | perfect, or close to perfect in a lovely or delicate way |
| Fiasco | a total failure and a mess |
| Flower | to develop fully |
| Fluid | smooth and effortless (adj) |
| Fugitive | a person who is elusive or hard to find, wandering |
| Giddy | dizzy |
| Gravity | seriousness or importance |
| Hideous | very ugly, offensive or shocking |
| Hypocrite | one who is insincere or deceitful |
| Immutable | unchanging |
| Imperious | extremely overbearing |
| Implacable | incapable of being appeased |
| Indolence | Laziness |
| Induce | to bring on or bring about |
| Insolence | insulting or contemptuous behavior |
| interminable | having, or seeming to have no end; wearisomely protracted |
| Jaunty | stylish and lively in manner or appearance |
| Jeopardize | to expose to danger |
| Lament | to mourn or express sorrow in a demonstrative manner |
| Luxuriant | abundant in growth, very fertile |
| Muse | to ponder |
| Mutability | the degree to which something is likely to change |
| Oblivion | state of being forgotten |
| Obscure | difficult to see, vague |
| Ominous | threatening |
| Paragon | A model of excellence or perfection |
| Peal | a loud ringing, especially of bells |
| Precarious | dangerous or risky; not a secure situation |
| Precipitate | to cause to speedily occur, to throw headlong |
| Purse | to pucker or tighten ones lips |
| Quaint | unusual character or appearance |
| Querulous | constantly complaining, whining |
| Revere | to honor, to regard with respect |
| Rhapsodize | to express in an overly enthusiastic manner |
| Satiric | characterized by satire (a branch of literature ridiculing vice or folly) |
| Stagnant | not flowing, foul from not moving |
| Stupefy | to dull the senses as to put in a stupor |
| Sublimate | to refine or transform a primitive impulse in to one socially acceptable |
| Subtle | delicate, elusive, not obvious |
| Supercilious | haughty, vain and arrogant |
| Tentative | not fully worked out, provisional, uncertain |
| Tenuous | flimsy, barely attached |
| Translucence | the quality of allowing the passage of light, but not allowing a clear view |
| Transparent | quality of being able to be seen through, clear |
| Trivia | insignificant matters |
| Turgid | swollen |
| Unobtrusive | not really noticeable, inconspicuous |
| Unwitting | not intentional, without knowledge |
| Urban | having to do with a city or characteristics of a city |
| Utter | to express by speaking |
| Vacuity | emptiness as in lack of intelegence |
| Vagrant | a wanderer without a home |
| Vestiges | remnants, traces, remains |
| Vivacious | full of life, very animated |
| Vivid | bright, distinct or clear |
| Vulgarity | something offensive to good taste and refinement |
| Whim | a sudden and impulsive action |
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