| Term | Definition |
|---|
| inert | unable to move or act |
| ingratiate | to gain favor with someone |
| paradox | statement or idea that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality express a possible truth |
| dissemble | to conceal one's true motives or thoughts by giving a false or misleading appearance |
| begrudge | to envy or resent the pleasure or good fortune of someone else |
| formidable | causing fear |
| trepidation | a state of alarm, dread, or apprehension |
| reckoning | a count or calculation, settlement of two parties |
| partisan | a biased emotional allegiance to a party, person, group, or cause |
| titillate | to excite or arouse |
| pretense | an act actually pretend of false |
| licentious | sexually unrestrained |
| condemnation | to give someone a legal sentence; to judge someone as guilty;ban use of something |
| lofty | very high or tall, high rank, acting with arrogant or superior manner |
| bewilder | to confuse someone |
| ameliorate | to improve or make something better |
| indignant | angry at unfairness of something |
| avid | eager for or enthusiastic about something |
| civil | polite but often in a way that is cold and formal |
| base | lacking morals, poor or inferior value or quality |
| deference | polite respect, especially putting another person's interest first |
| pious | devoutly religious |
| daft | senseless, stupid, or foolish |
| gingerly | doing something in a very cautious or tentative way |
| forbidding | grim, unfriendly, hostile |
| contentious | tending to argument or strife |
| beckon | to signal, summon, or direct by gesture of head or hand |
| prodigious | extraordinary in size, amount, extent, force, |
| reproach | to find fault with a person |
| effrontery | shameless or impudent boldness |
| immaculate | free from spot or stain |
| qualm | uneasy feeling |
| guile | insidious cunning in attaining goal |
| befuddle | to confuse or perplex |
| lechery | unrestrained or excessive indulgence of sexual desire |
| denounce | to condemn openly as being evil or reprehensible |
| gaunt | extremely thin and bony |
| strive | to exert oneself vigorously; try hard 2. to make strenuous efforts toward any goal |
| flounder | to struggle with stumbling or plunging movements |
| reprieve | a respite from impending punishment |
| adamant | stubbornly unyielding in attitude or opinion in spite of all appeals |
| cleave | to adhere closely, stick, cling |
| quail | to lose heart or courage in difficulty or danger |
| calamity | a great misfortune or disaster |
| incredulous | disbelieving, skeptical, indicating or showing unbelief |
| purge | to rid of whatever is impure or undesirable, cleanse, purify 2. to rid, clear, or free |
| frantic | desperate or wild with excitement |
| merely | only as specified and nothing more |
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