| Term | Definition |
|---|
| lucrative | profitable, remunerative |
| vacillate | to waver or be changeable |
| articulate | spoken distinctly, able to express |
| provident | excersing foresight, thrifty |
| providentail | fortuanate or lucky |
| scrutinize | to examine closely |
| inscrutable | mysterious, unfathomable, beyond comprehension |
| tolerant | forbearing, respectful |
| galvanize | to stimulate, excite |
| prevaricate | evade the truth, lie, or quibble |
| mendacity | simple, deliberate lying not always intended to mislead |
| fabrication | creative or imaginative lying |
| dublicity | double-dealing, deceptive |
| perjury | deciet or lies, especially in court or under oath |
| counterfeit | deceptive imitation of what it represents |
| simulation | acting or pretending, sometimes to decieve, often to entertain |
| dissimulation | forms of deliberate, unqualified pretense |
| forgery | signature, article, book which seems to be someone elses but is yours |
| hypocrisy | feigning qualities opposite to the ones actually possessed |
| pallid | pale, wan |
| anemic | palness is a result of disese and implies weakness |
| sallow | face is yellowish and looks unhealthy |
| ghastly | very pale, like a ghost |
| cadaverous | face is pale like a corpse |
| hoary | person is white or gray with age |
| ashen | paleness suggests fright or terror |
| livid | face is gray or blue gray, typically from cold or anger |
| mercenary | acting from desire for money |
| miserliness | carries avarice to the point of penuriousness or beyond |
| cupidity | greed or excessive desire for wealth |
| avarice | active, grasping appetite for money or gain |
| niggardliness | stinginess that pays the smallest amount possible for articles purchased |
| parsimoniousness | excessive frugality to the point of niggardliness |
| penuriousness | carries stiginess to the point where one appears poverty-striken |
| iterate | to utter again, repeat |
| reiterate | keep repeating something |
| recapitulate | summarize the main points you have made |
| tautology | needless reiteration of an idea in other words or phrases |
| redundant | wordy, excessive |
| turbulent | disorderly, tumultuous |
| turba | tumalt or crowd |
| turbid | words are muddy or muddled |
| turgid | words are swollen, distended or bombastic to the point of seeming muddled |
| perturb | imply agitation or disorder |
| turbine | creates an orderly but powerful 'disturbance' |
| venerate | to regard with deep respect, revere |
| deference | respectfulness, but not as much as veneration |
| adoration | deep affection with awe and reverence |
| venerable | implies advanced age as well as reverence |
| vitiate | to contaminate, debase, or render worthless |
| debauch | lead someone morally astray in the grosser ways of sensual indulgence |
| deprave | corrupt a person, especially in the sense of debasing his character |
| pervert | turn someone away from right thinking or actions |
| nurture | nourish, foster, rear |
| cherish | cling to something with affection |
| espouse | to adopt and support an idea or cause as one does a husband or wife |
| juvenille | youthful, for children, immature |
| juvenilia | an author's youthful writings |
| puerile | childish in an uncomplimentary sense, adults like Tim |
| ostracize | to banish, exclude |
| banishment | seperation from a country one is in |
| expatriotion | banishing your country by leaving it |
| pious | outwardly religous, godly |
| devout | person is feverent and deeply religous |
| orthodox | person hold closely to tradtional or standard beliefs of practices |
| vicious | evil, destructive, savage |
| villainous | acts of a villian (arson) |
| diabolical | devilish acts (inciting riots) |
| nefarious | very evil acts (robbing blind people) |
| transfigure | to transform, glorify (outward appearance) |
| transmute | complete change in nature or form of a quality or substance |
| metaporphose | complete change of form in a living organism |
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