| Term | Definition |
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| Acquiesce | assent tacitly; submit or comply silently or without protest; agree; content |
| Belie | to show to be false; contradict |
| Calumnious | involving, or using calumny; slanderous; defamatory |
| Desultory | lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected; fitful |
| Droll | amusing in an odd way; whimsically humorous; waggish |
| Emissary | A representative sent out on a mission or errand |
| Equivocation | the use of equivocal or ambiguous expressions, esp. in order to mislead or hedge |
| Garish | crudely or tastelessly colorful, showy, or elaborate, as clothes or decoration |
| Infuse | to introduce, as if by pouring; cause to penetrate; install (usually followed by into) |
| Nonchalant | coolly unconcerned, indifferent or unexcited; casual |
| Pulsate | to expand and contract rhythmically, as the heart; beat; throb |
| Qualm | an uneasy feeling or pan of conscience as to conduct; compunction |
| Reiterate | to say or do again or repeatedly; repeat, often, excessively. |
| Transfix | to make or hold motionless with amazement, awe, terror, etc. |
| Voracious | craving or consuming large quantities of food |
| Accept | to take or receive |
| except | with the exclusion of; excluding; save; but |
| Raise | to move to a higher position; lift up; elevate |
| rise | to get up form a lying, sitting, or kneeling posture; assume an upright position |
| Aggregation | A group or mass of distinct or varied things, persons, etc. |
| Amiss | out of the right or proper course, order, or condition; improperly; wrongly; astray |
| Castigate | to criticize or reprimand severely |
| Daunt | to overcome with fear, intimidate |
| Depreciate | to reduce or lessen in the value of |
| Epitaph | a commemorative inscription on a tomb or mortuary monument about the person buried at the sight |
| Felicity | the state of being happy |
| Impeccable | faultless or flawless; irreproachable |
| Lilting | a cheerful or lively manner of speaking; in which the pitch of voice varies pleasantly |
| Perdition | the state of final spiritual ruin; loss of soul; damnation |
| Proficient | well advanced or competent in any art, science or subject; skilled |
| Rapt | deeply engrossed or absorbed |
| Suave | smoothly agreeable and courteous |
| Tactual | of or pertaining to the sense of touch |
| Versatile | capable of or adapted for turning easily from one to another |
| Precede | to go before, as in place, order, rank, importance or time |
| Proceed | to go forward or onward, especially after an interruption |
| Everyone | every person, every body |
| Every one | every single one, every separate individual thing |
| Accede | to give consent, approval, or adherence; agree; assent |
| Acumen | keen insight; shrewdness of business matters |
| Behoove | to be necessary or proper for, as for moral or ethical considerations; be incumbent on |
| Catapult | to propel forward |
| Collateral | a security pledged for the payment of a loan |
| Dearth | an inadequate supply; scarcity; lack |
| Demagogue | a person, esp. an orator or political leader, who gains power and popularity by arousing emotions, passions, and prejudices of the people. |
| Echelon | a level of command, authority or rank |
| Entreat | to ask (a person) earnestly; beseech; implore; beg |
| Hone | to sharpen or improve |
| Inexorable | unyielding; unalterable; not to be persuaded |
| Nabob | any very wealthy, influential or powerful person |
| Peruse | to read through with thoroughness or care |
| Quandary | a state of perplexity or uncertainty, esp. as to what to do; dilemma |
| Rueful | causing sorrow or pity; pitiable; deplorable |
| Affect | to act on; produce an effect or change in |
| Effect | to bring about to effect a resolution, to effect change, etc. |
| Allusion | a passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication |
| Illusion | something that deceives by producing a false or misleading impression of reality. |
| Delusion | an act or instance of deluding: a false belief or opinion. |
| Antithesis | opposition; contrast: antonym: same |
| Apocryphal | of doubtful authorship or authenticity |
| Cadence | rhythmic flow of a sequence of sounds or words |
| Circumvent | to go around or bypass |
| Denigrate | to speak damagingly of; criticize in a derogatory manner; sully; defame |
| Dire | causing or involving great fear or suffering; dreadful; terrible: |
| Expostulate | to reason earnestly with someone against something that person intends to do or has done; remonstrate |
| Filial | , pertaining to, or befitting a son or daughter |
| Indiscriminate | not discriminating; lacking in care, judgment, selectivity, etc antonym: selective |
| Nascent | beginning to exist or develop |
| Pall | a cloth, often of velvet, for spreading over a coffin, bier, or tomb. Esp. with darkness or gloom |
| Portentous | full of unspecified significance: ominous |
| Requiem | Also called Requiem Mass. the Mass celebrated for the repose of the souls of the dead. |
| Superfluous | more than enough; overabundant; extra |
| Usurp | to seize and hold (a position, office, power, etc.) by force or without legal right |
| Adapt | to make suitable to requirements or conditions; adjust or modify fittingly |
| Adopt | to choose or take as one's own; make one's own by selection or assent |
| Paradigm | a set of forms all of which contain a particular element, esp. the set of all inflected forms based on a single stem or theme |
| Paragon | a model or pattern of excellence or of a particular excellence |
| Avaricious | characterized by avarice; greedy; covetous. Antonym: giving, generous, charitable |
| Beatific | bestowing bliss, blessings, happiness, or the like: beatific peace. |
| Castellated | Architecture. built like a castle, esp. with turrets and battlements. |
| Contrition | sincere penitence or remorse. |
| Demise | decease. |
| Diatribe | a bitter, sharply abusive denunciation, attack, or criticism Antonym: Compliment |
| Enclave | to form a circle about; encircle; surround, collect |
| Encompass | to form a circle about; encircle; surround, collect |
| Imminent | likely to occur at any moment; impending |
| Inexplicable | not explicable; incapable of being accounted for or explained. |
| Opaque | difficult to understand, obscure |
| Pedagogical | of or pertaining to a pedagogue (a teacher; schoolteacher) or pedagogy or the art or science of teaching |
| Prodigal | wastefully or recklessly extravagant |
| Sullen | showing irritation or ill humor by a gloomy silence or reserve. |
| Surcease | to cease from some action; desist. To bring or come to an end. Antonym continue, begin |
| Advice | an opinion or recommendation offered as a guide to action, conduct, etc |
| Advise | an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason. |
| Prejudice | an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason. |
| Prejudiced | to affect with a prejudice, either favorable or unfavorable |
| Alternate | to interchange repeatedly and regularly with one another in time or place; rotate (usually fol. by with) |
| Alternative | a choice limited to one of two or more possibilities, as of things, propositions, or courses of action, the selection of which precludes any other possibility |
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