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Calumny slander Abrogate to void; cancel; end Abcission sudden termination Abjuration to recant under oath Egregious conspicuously bad Exiguous inadequately; scanty Puissance power Officious overly obliging Apostate one who gives up his faith Dessicant a substance that induces dryness Perfidy deliberate breach of faith; treachery Epistemology the study of knowledge Aberration deviation from the norm Abeyance temporary inactivity Acceration a gradual increase in the amount of something Amenable responsive to suggestion Asperity roughness; severity Assay analysis; examination Assiduous hard-working Aver to declare as true Cadge to beg; obtain something to which one is not entitled Commensurate corresponding in size, degree, or duration Convivial festive; sociable Denigrate to speak ill of; belittle Desultory inconsistent; irregular; aimless Dissemble to conceal Divest to get rid of Espouse to choose to follow/support something Excoriate to denounce Exigent urgent Extant currently existing Fatuous foolish; smug Foment to agitate Gainsay to deny/contradict Garrison a military post Immutable not subject to change Impetus a stimulus Inchoate poorly formed Inimical harmful or unfriendly Insular isolated; narrow-minded Interpolate to insert or introduce between Inundate to quickly overwhelm or exceed capacity Inure to habituate; get used to Irascible easily angered Lambaste to scold; to beat Obdurate firm; stubborn Obviate to render unnecessary Parse to break down into components Mendicant a beggar Quixotic foolishly impractical Refulgent shining brightly Surfeit excess; to supply to excess Fulminate to loudly attack or denounce Apocryphal of dubious authenticity; fictitious Improvident not having foresight; spendthrift; thoughtless Approbation an expression of praise Axiomatic taken as a given Paean a song or hymn of praise and thanksgiving Prescience foreknowledge of events Stymie to block; to thwart Virulent extremely harmful; antagonistic Perspicacious acutely perceptive Prevaricate to lie; mislead Ossified turn into bone; become stagnant or rigid Anomalous deviating from what is standard Ascetic practicing self-denial; one who practices self-denial Bucolic rustic; characteristic of rural areas Burgeon to grow rapidly; flourish Ebullience the quality of overflowing with enthusiasm Impecunious lacking funds Inveigle to obtain by deception or flattery Penurious penny-pinching; thrifty Redoubtable awe-inspiring; worthy of honor Opprobrium disgrace; contempt; scorn Chary cautious; wary Nescience Lack of knowledge or awareness Acumen keen; accurate insight Halcyon calm Hegemony the consistent dominance of one ideology over others Polemical controversial; argumentative Spurious lacking validity; false Acerbic having sour/bitter taste/character; sharp Contiguous adjacent Dilettante one with superficial interest in a branch of knowledge Obfuscate to confuse; to bewilder Proclivity inclination Profligate excessively wasteful; recklessly extravagant Renege to go back on a promise Sedulous diligent; hardworking Untenable indefensible; not viable Variegated multicolored Vituperate to use harsh language Abstemious sparing esp. in eating and drinking Anathema something/someone loathed; formal curse or excommunication Ancillary subordinate; providing assistance Apposite suitable; pertinent Arrant unmitigated; very bad Catholic universal; embracing everything Cavil to quibble; raise trivial objections Contumely rudeness; arrogance Coterie a select group of close associates Doggerel comic, loose verse Epicure a person with refined taste in wine and food Evince to show; manifest Fulsome insincere; repulsive Hermetic impervious to external influence; airtight Ineluctable unavoidable Inveterate habitual; deeply rooted Licentious lewd; amoral Noisome offensive/disgusting; noxious Patina surface discoloration Presage to foreshadow Privation poverty Ligneous wood-like Limn to draw; to outline in detail; to describe List to tilt Lubricious lewd; slippery; greasy Meet fitting; proper Meretricious plausible but false/insincere; gaudy Minatory menacing Nice exacting; fastidious Otiose lazy; futile Panegyric formal/elaborate praise Pellucid transparent; easy to understand; limpid Perorate to speak formally Plangent pounding; resounding Prolix verbose Propitiate to appease Pulchritude physical beauty Pusillanimous cowardly; craven Saturnine melancholy; sullen Sidereal relating to the stars Sinecure a position requiring little work; usually providing an income Stentorian extremely powerful and loud Stygian gloomy; dark Tendentious argumentative; biased Turbid murky; opaque Vagary whim Voluble fluent Antediluvian of or relating to the period before the biblical flood Lionization look on/treat like a celebrity Sartorial of or relating to a tailor or tailored clothes Capitulate surrender Vitiate to make faulty or defective Rapacious aggressively greedy Pertinacious holding firmly to an opinion/course of action Denouement the result of a complex series of events Putative commonly accepted; supposed; reputed Quay wharf; pier Redolent fragrant; reminiscent Apogee the highest point in the development of something; climax Duress threats to force someone to do something against their will Abstruse difficult to understand; obscure Prosaic commonplace Arcane understood by few; secret Ribald vulgar; characterized by crude humor Ignominious shameful; disgraceful Recondite little known Detritus debris Mien demeanor Timorous fearful; timid Imputed to attribute; ascribe blame Panned criticize severely Temerity recklessness Turpitude depravity Arrogate to claim without justification August majestic; venerable Imbib to drink Laconic concise Edify to enlighten; educate Usury practice of lending money at exorbitant rates Verdant covered with green plants; inexperienced Nadir low point Adumbrate to foreshadow vaguely Anodyne soothing Asseverate to allege Beatify to bless; make happy; to regard ad saintly Celerity speed Coeval of the same period; coexisting Orotund full in sound; pompous Contretemps a mishap Contumacious rebellious; disobedient Descry to discriminate; discern Desuetude disuse Desultory disconnected; occurring haphazardly Diaphanous delicate; insubstantial Diurnal occurring daily/in the daytime Encomium formal expression of praise; a tribute Exegesis critical examination; explication Expiate to atone Hirsute hairy; shaggy Hoary gray/white with age; ancient; stale Importune to urge with annoying persistence; to trouble Insouciant nonchalant Jejune vapid; uninteresting; childish Lassitude weakness Emend make corrections and improvements to Sequestration the act of segregating Nostrum an alleged cure-all Peripatetic moving from place to place Pith significance Probity integrity Quaff to drink heartily Quotidian ordinary; occurring daily Recalcitrant defiant Specious appearing to be genuine but actually deceptive Subsume to contain Tangential slightly connected; superficially relevant Unalloyed pure; complete Collusion secret agreement or cooperation Impinge to strike; to have an effect; infringe Equivocal open to interpretation Palliative make less severe; moderate Nugatory of no consequence; having no no force Salubrious promoting health/well-being Splenetic marked by bad temper Obstreperous noisy and difficult to control Leviathan something enormous and powerful; a sea monster Obloquy abusive criticism Seditious resistant to lawful authority Cabal a small group working in secret Imprecation a curse Myopic shortsighted Diffident shy Amortize to liquidate (a debt) at fixed intervals Recidivistic habitually relapsing into former criminal or antisocial behavior Dastard a malicious coward Alacrity eagerness Mordant bitingly sarcastic Bellicose warlike Propitious favorable; advantageous Libertine unrestrained by convention or morality Iconoclastic attacking or seeking to overthrow popular or traditional beliefs Temerity boldness Predilection partiality; preference Amity friendship Denude lay bare Largesse generosity Equanimity calmness; composure Dilatory slow to act Sybarite a person devoted to pleasure and luxury