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aberrant deviate, abnormal abeyance suspended action abscond depart secretly and hide abstemious sparingly eating and drinking adulterate make impure by adding inferior or tainting substances alacrity cheerfulness, eagerness ambivalence state of having contradictory or emotional attitudes ameliorate improve anachronism something or someone misplaced in time analogous comparable anomalous abnormal, irregular antipathy aversion, dislike apprise inform approbation approval appropriate to take possession of arduous hard and strenuous artless open and honest ascetic practicing self-denial assiduous diligent assuage ease, lessen, satisfy sooth attenuate weaken, reduced in strength austere forbiddingly stern; severely simple; unornamented aver state confidently banal obvious and dull belie contradictory boorish rude and insensitive burgeon grow and flourish burnish polish and make shiny cacophonous having an unpleasant sound capricious impulsive and unpredictable castigation severe criticism or punishment chicanery trickery coagulation thicken, blood clotting cogent convincing commensurate Equal compendium brief, comprehensive summary compliant disposed or willing to comply conciliatory appeasing; soothing; showing willingness to reconcile condone to forgive or overlook an offense contention assertion; claim; thesis; struggling; competition aggrandize to increase in greatness, power, or wealth candid impartial and honest in speech decorum appropriateness of behavior or conduct deference respect desiccate remove water from desultory marked by lack of definite plan or regularity or purpose; jumping from one thing to another; rambling, aimless, haphazard diatribe abusive speech diffident lacking self-confidence dilatory intending to delay dilettante an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge dirge mournful speech disabuse free somebody (from an erroneous belief) disparate fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind dissemble make believe with the intent to deceive dogma firmly held opinion - often religious dogmatic dictatorial one's opinions eclectic selecting what seems best of various styles or ideas efficacy effectiveness emulate to copy enervate to weaken engender to produce ephemeral short-lived equanimity calmness equivocate be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information erudite having or showing profound knowledge esoteric intended for or understood by only a small group euphemism an inoffensive expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive exacerbate make worse, intensify, provoke exculpate free from blame exigency a pressing or urgent situation facetious playfully humorous fatuous foolish fawning attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery felicitous marked by good fortune fervor passion flag become less intense fledgling any new participant in some activity flout To mock, treat with contempt foment try to stir up public opinion forestall act in advance of gainsay to deny goad urge on grandiloquent puffed up with vanity gregarious Sociable guileless not deceitful or crafty harangue a long, strongly expressed speech or lecture iconoclastic attacking cherished traditions idolatry the worship of idols refractory stubbornly resistant to authority or control; hard to manage; disobedient immutable unchangeable impassive having or revealing little emotion or sensibility imperturbable not easily excited; emotionally steady implacable unable to be appeased or pacified inchoate not fully formed; disorganized indigence a state of extreme poverty or destitution indolent habitually lazy or inactive ingenuous innocent, simple; frank, sincere insinuate to suggest or hint slyly insipid lacking interest or significance, not pleasing to the sense of taste insularity the state of being isolated or detached intractable Stubborn, difficult to manage intransigence refusal to moderate a position or to compromise inundate to flood inured accustomed; hardened invective abusive language irascible characterized by anger laconic brief and to the point lassitude a feeling of lack of interest or energy levity feeling an inappropriate lack of seriousness loquacious Talkative magnanimity generosity malingerer someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity mendacious Lying; untruthful; habitual lying misanthrope hater of humanity mollify soothe mundane belonging to this earth or world obdurate stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing obsequious attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner obviate to anticipate and prevent; to remove, dispose of officious intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner onerous burdensome opprobrium state of disgrace resulting from public abuse paragon model of excellence or perfection of a kind paucity scarcity penchant a strong inclination or liking penury extreme poverty; stinginess perfidious treacherous, disloyal, tending to betray pervasive spreading throughout phlegmatic slow-moving, sluggish; unemotional platitude a trite or obvious remark precarious Not safe or secure; dangerously uncertain precipitate done with very great haste and without due deliberation precursor forerunner prevaricate to lie pristine in original, long-ago state; uncorrupted probity uprightness; honesty; incorruptibility prodigal a recklessly extravagant consumer proliferate cause to grow or increase rapidly propensity a natural inclination propitiate appease, make peace with propriety correct or appropriate behavior proscribe prohibit; ostracize; banish; outlaw qualified limited or restricted quiescent being quiet or still or inactive rarefied having low density recalcitrant marked by stubborn resistance to authority recant formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure recluse one who lives in solitude recondite difficult to understand; profound, abstruse relegate assign to a lower position reproach to blame for something; a disgrace reprobate marked by immorality repudiate refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid rescind annul by recalling; cancel reticent inclined to keep silent; reserved salubrious promoting health sanction official permission or approval secrete place out of sight solicitous showing hovering attentiveness, concerned specious plausible but false stigma a symbol of disgrace or infamy stint supply sparingly and with restricted quantities stipulate specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement stolid not easily moved mentally or emotionally; dull, unresponsive subpoena a court order requiring appearance and/or testimony supposition a hypothesis that is taken for granted tacit unspoken, silent; implied, inferred tenuous having thin consistency torpor Laziness; inactivity; dullness tortuous marked by repeated turns and bends, not straightforward transgression violation of a law; sin; V. transgress: go beyond (a limit); violate; do wrong truculence aggressiveness; ferocity vacillate waver; fluctuate veracious truthful vituperative abusive; scolding welter turmoil; bewildering jumble zealot fanatic defunct no longer existing or functioning inveigling to entice; to lure opining to hold or express an opinion fulminating Speaking against something, shouting or explosive recidivism habitual relapse into crime vestige a trace or evidence of something that once existed divesting removing habiliments clothing claque a group of followers hired to applaud at a performance decrepitude a state of deterioration due to old age or long use bluster vain and empty boasting swagger act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner delectable extremely pleasing to the sense of taste codify arrange and set down in writing officiate perform duties attached to a particular office or place or function denigrating minimize, defame imbibition the act of consuming liquids lugubrious excessively mournful lucubration laborious study or thought, especially at night; the result of such work mettle the courage to carry on euphuistic highly elaborate way of speaking fastidious giving and careful attention to detail perfunctory hasty and without attention to detail fortuitous occurring by happy chance; accidental ubiquitous being present everywhere at once instigate serve as the inciting cause of splenetic very irritable churlish rude and boorish periphrasis a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things; unclear pernicious exceedingly harmful exsiccated to dry up espied catch sight of, glimpse disinterred removed from the grave comestible any substance that can be used as food pulchritudinous used of persons only, physically beautiful esculent eatable; fit for consumption craven cowardly delineate to portray, sketch, depict