| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Waxing | Increasing in size or fullness (opposite of waning) |
| Solace | Relief from emotional distress |
| Abashed | Ashamed, embarrassed |
| Penitence | Sorrow for sins, faults; repentance; contrition (internal; feeling) |
| Genial | Sympathetically cheerful and cheering |
| Entreat | to beg, implore, beseech; to ask earnestly (for something) |
| Abate | to decrease; diminish |
| Wanton | Undisciplined; unruly; lewd; bawdy |
| Wont | Adj- Accustomed N- custom |
| Exhort | to urge, advise, or caution eagerly |
| Anathema | a ban or curse, vigorous denunciation by ecclesiastical authority |
| Vulgar | Popular, common, ordinary |
| Efficacy | Effectiveness |
| Penance | Self-punishment in order to atone for some wrong doing |
| Dearth | Scarcity |
| Plebeian | Common; commonplace or vulgar |
| Extant | Still existing; not destroyed or lost |
| Consumate | to complete (also adj) |
| Ethereal | heavenly, extremely delicate or refined, light and airy |
| defunct | Dead |
| Inimical | Unfriendly; hostile |
| Inextricable | incapable of being disentangled |
| Perverse | Willfully determined not to do what is expected |
| Ephemeral | lasting a short time; transitory |
| Ludicrous | Ridiculous; foolish; absurd |
| Dissolute | Indifferent to moral restraints; given to immoral or improper conduct |
| Paltry | Petty, Trifling |
| Piquancy | Liveliness, tartness |
| Absolve | forgive someone |
| Sycophantic | Seeking favor by flattery |
| Homage | Respect |
| Obsequious | Overly compliant or differential |
| Timorous | Fearful |
| Amelioration | improvement |
| Plastic | Capable of being molded or shaped |
| Petulance | Peevishness; pettiness |
| Palliate | to relieve without curing; to attempt to mitigate or conceal the gravity of an offense by excuses, apologies etc. |
| Tenaciously | Stubbornly; holding with determination |
| Pious | Having or showing a dutiful reverence towards god |
| Erudite | Scholarly |
| Scurrilous | Tyrannical |
| Obviate | To prevent or eliminate (difficulties, disadvantages etc.) |
| Acquiesce | to agree, to comply, to concur (the acquiesces to...) |
| Choleric | Characterized by anger, irritable |
| Mollify | to pacify, to appease |
| Mutability | Changeability; instability |
| Gratuitous | groundless, unjustified, unprovoked |
| Apotheosize | to deify; to glorify |
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