| Term | Definition |
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| acrimonious | marked by hard or biting sharpness, especially of words, manner, or dispositions; bitter |
| ambiguous | doubtful; inexplicable |
| bellicose | showing readiness to quarrel or fight |
| bovine | related to or resembling the ox or cow |
| bucolic | rustic |
| burgeon | to put forth to sprout |
| burnish | to polish to make shiny by rubbing |
| cadaver | a corpse or dead body, especially of a person |
| callow | undeveloped, inexperienced, immature |
| candid | sincere |
| captious | intended to entrap or confuse |
| carp | to talk in a pevish way |
| castigate | to punish |
| chagrin | vexation disappointment |
| chimerical | imaginary |
| clandestine | secret |
| cloistered | secluded |
| copse | a thicket of small trees |
| corroborate | to support with evidence |
| crass | grossly stupid |
| cursory | superficial |
| debacle | an overthrow |
| deciduous | shedding leaves annually |
| deleterious | harmful |
| dirge | a lament with music |
| dupe | to deceive |
| ecclesiastical | of the church |
| elliptical | resembling an ellipse or flatened circle |
| enigma | a perplexing statement |
| enjoin | to order officially |
| ephemeral | lasting one day |
| epicure | a connoisseur of food and drink |
| ethereal | referring to the upper regions of space |
| fallow | land plowed but not sowed |
| fealty | the duty and loyalty owed by a vassal |
| fetid | stinking foully odorous |
| forensic | characteristic of or suitable for a law court or public debate |
| fortuitous | happening by chance |
| frugal | not wasteful |
| gaqrgoyle | a waterspout or ornament in the form of a carved animal |
| gourmand | a lover of good food |
| harbinger | a person or thing that comes before to announce what is to follow |
| hyperbole | exaggeration for effect |
| imperturbable | unable to be disturbed or excited |
| incognito | with true identity not revealed |
| indigenous | native |
| insurgent | a rebel |
| iniquitous | unjust |
| jingo | a person who boasts of his or her patriotism |
| jocose | humorous |
| jubilant | joyful |
| knell | to ring especially for a death |
| laity | all people not included in the clergy |
| liturgy | the prescribed ritual for public worship |
| madrigal | a short poem which can be set to music |
| mandate | an authority figure |
| mentor | a wise teacher |
| mime | an ancient greek or roman farce |
| minx | a pert and saucy girl |
| mull | to grind |
| munificent | bountiful |
| muse | to ponder |
| nebulous | cloudy |
| nefarious | wrong |
| parable | a simple story from which a moral lesson may be drawn |
| parochial | narrow |
| parsimonious | miserly |
| patrician | a member of the nobility |
| persiflage | light frivolous |
| piquant | agreebly pungent or stimulating |
| piscatorial | of fishes |
| piscine | of or resembling a fish |
| plebescite | an expression of the peoples will by direct ballot |
| pliable | easily bent |
| prelate | a high ranking |
| propitious | favorably inclined |
| prude | a person who is overly modest |
| kleptomaniac | a person with an abnormal impulse to steal |
| laconic | using a minimum of words |
| lexicon | a dictionary |
| lilliputian | tiny |
| maladroit | awkward |
| matriculate | to enroll as a student or candidate |
| medley | a mixture |
| meticulous | excesively |
| motley | of many colors |
| mundane | worldly |
| myopic | near sighted |
| nomenclature | a name or designation |
| ostentatious | showy |
| overt | open |
| perfunctory | done without care or interest |
| plebian | a vulgar coarse person |
| poignant | sharp or biting to taste |
| precarious | uncertain |
| prodigious | impressively great in size |
| prolix | wordy to a tiresome degree |
| propitiate | to cause to be favorably inclined |
| prudent | cautious |
| pulchritude | physical beauty |
| quell | to crush |
| raucous | hoarse |
| recreant | a coward |
| redress | correction |
| rhetorical | relating to the art of speaking or writing |
| rogue | a tramp |
| salubrious | wholesome |
| salvo | a discharge of artillery as a salute |
| sanctuary | a place of refuge |
| slovenly | careless |
| specious | seeming to be good without being so |
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