| Term | Definition |
|---|
| accost | to approach and speak in a hostile manner |
| acuity | acutness of vision or perception |
| badinage | light playful banter |
| Charlatan | a person who makes elaborate fraudelent claims; a fraud or quack |
| decimate | to destroy or kill a large part of a group (to reduce by one tenth); to inflict desruction |
| derelict | desterted by an owner, abandoned; run-down |
| eclectic | selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources |
| facade | surface apperance (front of a building, ones face) |
| gambit | any stratedy or ploy to gain an advantage |
| histrionic | of or pertaining to actors or acting' overly dramatic |
| inane | lacking sense or substance; empty |
| ludicrous | causing laughter because of absurdity; rediculous |
| mesmerize | to become hypnotic |
| moratorium | an authorized period of delay or waiting' a pause; a legal term |
| nadir | the lowest point |
| omnipresent | simultaneously present everywhere |
| primordial | pertaining to or existing at or from the very beginning; constituting a beggining |
| progeny | a descendant or offspring, as a child, plant, or animal |
| vaiment | clothing; apparel; attire |
| seraphic | of, like, or befitting a seraph (one of the celestial beings hovering above God's throne in Isaiah's vision) |
| benign | of a kind genlte disposition; not milignant (not cancerous) |
| sylvan | of, pertaining to, or inhabiting the woods |
| verdant | of the color green; inexperienced |
| utopian | founded upon or involving idealized perfection. |
| inure | to accustom to hardship, difficulty, pain, etc.; toughen or harden |
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