| Term | Definition |
|---|
| antipathy | A feeling of intense dislike |
| conglomeration | A sum total of many heterogenous things taken together |
| comely | According with custom or propriety;;;Very pleasing to the eye |
| connoiseur | An expert able to appreciate a field; especially in the fine arts, cognoscenti |
| improvident | Not provident; not providing for the future |
| impugn | Attack as false or wrong; challenge |
| impunity | Exemption from punishment or loss |
| imputation | The attribution to a source or cause |
| impute | Attribute or credit to |
| inane | Devoid of intelligence |
| incarcerate | Lock up or confine, in or as in a jail |
| incarnadine | Make fleshcoloured |
| galvanize | To stimulate to action |
| gambit | An opening remark intended to secure an advantage for the speaker |
| gambol | Play boisterously |
| gamut | A complete extent or range |
| gargantuan | great mass; huge and bulky |
| garish | Tastelessly showy |
| garner | Acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions |
| garnish | Any decoration added as a trimming or adornment |
| garrulity | The quality of being wordy and talkative |
| gasconade | An instance of boastful talk |
| entreat | Ask for or request earnestly |
| entree | The act of entering |
| ephemeral | Anything shortlived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form |
| epigram | A witty saying; quip |
| epistle | A specially long, formal letter |
| epoch | A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event |
| epithet | A defamatory or abusive word or phrase |
| epitome | A standard or typical example |
| equine | Resembling a horse |
| equipage | A vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses |
| equipoise | Equality of distribution |
| immolate | Offer as a sacrifice by killing or by giving up to destruction |
| impasse | A situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible |
| impenitent | Not penitent or remorseful |
| impertinent | Characterized by a lightly pert and exuberant quality |
| imperturbability | Calm and unruffled selfassurance |
| impend | Be imminent or about to happen |
| denouement | The outcome of a complex sequence of events |
| ethnology | The branch of anthropology that deals with the division of humankind into races and with their origins and distribution and distinctive characteristics |
| expiate | atone; Make amends for |
| gauche | Lacking social polish |
| edifice | building |
| facile | Arrived at without due care or effort; lacking depth |
| denounce | Speak out against |
| etymology | A history of a word |
| expunge | Remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line |
| gaudy | Tastelessly showy |
| edify | Make understand |
| factotum | A servant employed to do a variety of jobs |
| depose | Force to leave (an office) |
| eugenic | Pertaining to or causing improvement in the offspring produced |
| expurgate | Edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate |
| gaunt | Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold |
| eerie | Suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious |
| fait accompli | An irreversible accomplishment |
| depravity | corrupt or depraved or degenerate act Moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles |
| eulogistic | Formally expressing praise |
| extant | Still in existence; not extinct or destroyed or lost |
| geisha | A Japanese woman trained to entertain men with conversation and singing and dancing |
| fallow | Left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season |
| deprecate | Express strong disapproval of; deplore |
| eulogy | A formal expression of praise for someone who has died recently |
| extemporaneous | With little or no preparation or forethought |
| genteel | Marked by refinement in taste and manners |
| defray | Bear the expenses of |
| fastidious | Giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness |
| depradation | An act of plundering and pillaging and marauding |
| euphemism | An inoffensive expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive |
| extemporize | Perform without preparation |
| genuflect | Bend the knees and bow in a servile manner |
| deft | Skilful in physical movements; especially of the hands |
| fatalism | A philosophical doctrine holding that all events are predetermined in advance for all time and human beings are powerless to change them |
| deranged | Driven insane |
| euphonious | Having a pleasant sound |
| extenuating | Partially excusing or justifying; exci;[atpru |
| germane | Having close kinship and appropriateness |
| deign | Do something that one considers to be below one's dignity |
| fatuous | Devoid of intelligence |
| faux pas | A socially awkward or tactless act |
| dejure | By right; according to law |
| extol | Praise, glorify, or honour |
| euthanasia | The act of killing someone painlessly |
| derelict | A person unable to support himself |
| deride | Treat or speak of with contempt |
| evince | Give expression to |
| forego | Be earlier in time; go back further |
| delinquent | A young offender |
| fawn | Show submission or fear |
| derision | Contemptuous laughter |
| eviscerate | Surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ |
| fickle | Liable to sudden unpredictable change |
| forgo | Do without or cease to hold or adhere to |
| delirious | Experiencing delirium |
| febrile | Of or relating to or characterized by fever |
| fecund | Capable of producing offspring or vegetation |
| foundling | A child who has been abandoned and whose parents are unknown |
| fidelity | The quality of being faithful |
| exalt | Praise, glorify, or honour |
| dire | Fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless |
| exasperate | Exasperate or irritate |
| fiduciary | A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary |
| fraily | Physically weak |
| impiety | Unrighteousness by virtue of lacking respect for a god |
| feign | Make believe with the intent to deceive |
| dirge | A song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person |
| excruciating | Extremely painful |
| fiend | A cruel wicked and inhuman person |
| fray | A noisy fight |
| impious | Lacking piety or reverence for a god |
| fervent | Characterized by intense emotion |
| disavowal | Denial of any connection with or knowledge of |
| execration | Hate coupled with disgust |
| filch | Make off with belongings of others |
| fritter | Spend frivolously and unwisely |
| impotent | "Lacking power or ability |
| fervid | Characterized by intense emotion |
| exonerate | Pronounce not guilty of criminal charges |
| discerning | Detect with the senses |
| finicky | Exacting especially about details |
| frolicsome | Given to merry frolicking |
| imprecate | Wish harm upon; invoke evil upon |
| fester | A sore that has become inflamed and formed pus |
| discomfit | Cause to lose one's composure |
| expatiate | Add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing |
| firmament | The apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected |
| fetid | Offensively malodorous |
| discordant | Not in agreement or harmony |
| expatriate | Someone voluntarily absent from their home or country |
| flaccid | Lacking in strength or firmness or resilience |
| duress | Compulsory force or threat |
| extricate | Release from entanglement of difficulty |
| fetish | A form of sexual desire in which gratification depends to an abnormal degree on some object or item of clothing or part of the body |
| discreet | Marked by prudence or modesty and wise selfrestraint |
| expedient | Serving to promote your interest, Appropriate to a purpose; practical |
| flagrant | Conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible |
| dyspepsia | A disorder of digestive function characterized by discomfort or heartburn or nausea |
| fabulist | A person who tells or invents fables |
| fetter | A shackle for the ankles or feet |
| exigent | Demanding attention |
| expedite | Speed up the progress of; facilitate |
| eclat | Enthusiastic approval |
| facet | A distinct feature or element in a problem |
| felon | Someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime |
| exodus | A journey by a large group to escape from a hostile environment |
| expletive | Profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger |
| felodese | A person who kills himself intentionally |
| sash | waistband |
| requiem | A song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person |
| exacting | fastidious; giving careful attention |
| coronach | requiem; threnody; A song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person |
| scrimpy | Deficient in amount or quality or extent |
| exiguous | Extremely scanty |
| fastidious | Giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness |
| exhort | Urge on or encourage especially by shouts |
| exogamy | Marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law |
| dirigible | Capable of being steered or directed |
| discombobulate | Cause to be confused emotionally |
| frowsy | Negligent of neatness especially in dress and person; habitually dirty and unkempt |
| slovenly | Negligent of neatness especially in dress and person; habitually dirty and unkempt |
| frugal | Avoiding waste |
| ichthyology | The branch of zoology that studies fishes |
| fugitive | Someone who flees from an uncongenial situation |
| ideation | The process of forming and relating ideas |
| fulminate | Criticize severely |
| endevour | A purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness) |
| furore | An interest followed with exaggerated zeal |
| endue | empower; Give qualities or abilities to |
| furtive | Marked by quiet and caution and secrecy;; |
| enervate | Weaken mentally or morally |
| fusillade | Rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms |
| engender | Call forth |
| ennui | The feeling of being bored by something tedious |
| fustian | Pompous or pretentious talk or writing |
| futile | Producing no result or effect |
| ensconce | Fix firmly |
| entente | A friendly understanding between political powers |
| gab | causerie, Light informal conversation for social occasions |
| gadfly | A persistently annoying person |
| enthrall | Hold spellbound |
| entourage | The group following and attending to some important person |
| gaft | something you say when somethings REALLY ****ING COOL "gee sally look at that gaft kid ...GAFT" |
| gainsay | Take exception to |
| gait | A horse's manner of moving |
| hustings | The activities involved in political campaigning (especially speech making) |
| hyperbole | Extravagant exaggeration |
| achille's heel | A seemingly small but actual mortal weakness |
| hyperborean | Of or relating to the far north |
| rarified | Having low density |
| nemesis | Something causing misery or death |
| pariah | A person who is rejected (from society or home) |
| jurisprudence | The collection of rules imposed by authority |
| neologism | A newly invented word or phrase |
| parlance | A manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language |
| parley | A negotiation between enemies |
| partisan | A fervent and even militant proponent of something |
| nepotism | Favouritism shown to relatives or close friends by those in power (as by giving them jobs) |
| paroxysm | A sudden uncontrollable attack |
| parvenu | A person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class |
| nestle | Move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cosy position |
| parricide | Someone who kills his or her parent |
| passe | Out of fashion |
| nettle | Cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations |
| parry | block; Impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball) |
| pastoral | A musical composition that evokes rural life |
| nexus | means of connection between things linked in series |
| parsimonious | "parsimonious thrift relieved by few generous impulses" |
| pathos | A quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow) |
| niggardly | Petty or reluctant in giving or spending |
| patois | A characteristic language of a particular group |
| niggle | Worry unnecessarily or excessively |
| jaunty | Having a cheerful, lively, and selfconfident air;;;;Marked by uptodateness in dress and manners |
| patrimony | An inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture) |
| nihilism | Complete denial of all established authority and institutions |
| jejune | Displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity |
| patron | A regular customer |
| noctambulism | Walking by a person who is asleep |
| jeremiad | "a jeremiad against any form of government" |
| paucity | An insufficient quantity or number |
| noisome | Causing or able to cause nausea |
| jester | A professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the middle ages |
| pauper | A person who is very poor |
| nominal | A phrase that can function as the subject or object of a verb |
| jettison | Throw away, of something encumbering |
| pecuniary | Relating to or involving money |
| nonage | Any age prior to the legal age |
| jingoism | Fanatical patriotism |
| pedagogue | Someone who educates young people |
| jocose | Characterized by jokes and good humour |
| pedant | A person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit |
| paraphernalia | Equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc. |
| jostle | The act of jostling (forcing your way by pushing) |
| parched | Cause to wither or parch from exposure to heat |
| juggernaut | A massive inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its way |
| obsequy | A funeral rite or ceremony |
| pare | Decrease gradually or bit by bit, Cut small bits |
| junket | Go on a pleasure trip |
| obstinate | Persist stubbornly |
| paregoric | Medicine used to treat diarrhoea |
| juxtapose | Place side by side |
| obstreperous | aggressive, Noisily and stubbornly defiant |
| obtrude | Push to thrust outward |
| insouciant | Marked by blithe unconcern |
| intrepid | Invulnerable to fear or intimidation |
| philology | The humanistic study of language and literature |
| milieu | The environmental condition |
| laconic | Brief and to the point; effectively cut short |
| obviate | Do away with |
| insuperable | Impossible to surmount |
| intrinsic | Belonging to a thing by its very nature |
| phlegmatic | Showing little emotion |
| lambent | "lambent tongues of flame" |
| occlude | Block passage through |
| introspection | The contemplation of your own thoughts and desires and conduct |
| physiognomy | The human face |
| militate | Have force or influence; bring about an effect or change |
| occult | Cause an eclipse of (a celestial body) by intervention |
| irascible | Quickly aroused to anger |
| inundate | Fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid |
| picaresque | Involving clever rogues or adventurers especially as in a type of fiction |
| integument | An outer protective covering such as the skin of an animal or a cuticle or seed coat or rind or shell |
| odious | Unequivocally detestable |
| irate | Feeling or showing extreme anger |
| inured | Made tough by habitual exposure |
| ken | Range of what one can know or understand |
| interlocutor | middleman |
| odoriferous | Morally offensive |
| iridescent | Varying in colour when seen in different lights or from different angles |
| invective | Abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deepseated; ill will |
| panache | Distinctive and stylish elegance |
| kindle | Cause to start burning |
| interloper | Someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission |
| odyssey | A long wandering and eventful journey |
| irony | Witty language used to convey insults or scorn |
| inveigh | Complain bitterly |
| panjandrum | An important or influential (and often overbearing) person |
| kindred | Related by blood or marriage |
| interminable | Tiresomely long; seemingly without end |
| offal | Viscera and trimmings of a butchered animal often considered inedible by humans |
| irreconcilable | Impossible to reconcile |
| inveigle | Influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering |
| panoply | A complete and impressive array |
| kiosk | cubicle |
| internecine | within a group or organization |
| offertory | The offerings of the congregation at a religious service |
| irrefragable | indisputable |
| inveterate | Having a habit of long standing |
| panorama | A picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous scene;A picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous scene |
| kith | Your friends and acquaintances |
| burlesque | charade, mockery |
| officious | Intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner |
| irresolute | Uncertain how to act or proceed |
| invidious | Containing or implying a slight or showing prejudice |
| pantomime | mime |
| kleptomaniac | Someone with an irrational urge to steal in the absence of an economic motive |
| lampoon | mockery, charade |
| irreverent | lack of respect |
| iota | small |
| parable | A short moral story (often with animal characters) |
| knavery | Lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing |
| languid | Lacking spirit or liveliness |
| inneundo | An indirect (and usually malicious) implication |
| itinerant | Travelling from place to place to work |
| paradigm | A standard or typical example |
| knead | Make uniform; Manually manipulate (someone's body), usually for medicinal or relaxation purposes |
| lank | Long and thin and often limp |
| pasquinade | mockery, charade, A composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way |
| inopportune | not Suitable or at a time that is suitable |
| pestilential | Likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease |
| paragon | An ideal instance |
| nonsuch | Model of excellence |
| knell | he sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death or a funeral or the end of something |
| larceny | The act of taking something from someone unlawfully |
| inordinate | Beyond normal limits |
| jargon | A characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves) |
| petrify | Cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned |
| epitome | A standard or typical example |
| knoll | he sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death or a funeral or the end of something |
| largesse | A gift or money given (as for service or out of benevolence); usually given ostentatiously |
| insensate | Devoid of feeling and consciousness and animation |
| jaundiced | Distort adversely |
| pettle | to pet |
| meretricious | Tastelessly showy |
| lascivious | Driven by lust; preoccupied with or exhibiting lustful desires |
| insidious | Beguiling but harmful |
| jaunt | A journey taken for pleasure |
| petulant | Easily irritated or annoyed |
| mete | A line that indicates a boundary |
| labyrinth | Complex system of paths or tunnels in which it is easy to get lost |
| lassitude | A state of comatose torpor (as found in sleeping sickness |
| insinuate | Introduce or insert (oneself) in a subtle manner |
| phenobarbitone | A longacting barbiturate used as a sedative |
| meticulous | Marked by precise accordance with details |
| lacerate | Cut or tear irregularly |
| latent | Potentially existing but not presently evident or realized |
| insipid | Lacking taste or flavour or tang |
| intractable | Not tractable; difficult to manage or mould |
| philatelist | A collector and student of postage stamps |
| mettle | The courage to carry on |
| lackadaisical | Lacking spirit or liveliness |
| lave | Wash or flow against |
| insolent | Marked by casual disrespect, Unrestrained by convention or propriety |
| intransigence | The trait of being intransigent; stubbornly refusing to compromise |
| philanthropist | Someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human wellbeing |
| miasma | An unwholesome atmosphere |
| lackey | A male servant (especially a footman) |
| lecherous | Given to excessive indulgence in sexual activity |
| iniquitous | Characterized by iniquity; wicked because it is believed to be a sin |
| monotheism | Belief in a single God |
| lectern | Desk or stand with a slanted top used to hold a text at the proper height for a lecturer |
| motif | A design that consists of recurring shapes or colours |
| ordain | Order by virtue of superior authority; decree |
| incredulity | Doubt about the truth of something |
| leeway | A permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limit |
| inkling | A slight suggestion or vague understanding |
| moor | Open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss |
| orison | Reverent petition to a deity |
| indefatigable | Showing sustained enthusiastic action with unflagging vitality |
| innate | Not established by conditioning or learning |
| moot | A hypothetical case that law students argue as an exercise |
| mottled | Having spots or patches of colour |
| ornate | Rich in decorative detail |
| indemnify | Secure against future loss, damage, or liability; give security for |
| oligarchy | A political system governed by a few people |
| innocuous | Not injurious to physical or mental health |
| morass | A soft wet area of lowlying land that sinks underfoot |
| mountebank | A flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes |
| orotund | Ostentatiously lofty in style |
| indenture | Formal agreement between the issuer of bonds and the bondholders as to terms of the debt |
| omniscient | Infinitely wise |
| morbid | Suggesting an unhealthy mental state |
| muggy | Hot or warm and humid |
| ossify | Become bony |
| indigence | A state of extreme poverty or destitution |
| onerous | Not easily borne; wearing |
| mordant | Harshly ironic or sinister |
| mugwump | A neutral or uncommitted person (especially in politics) |
| ostentatious | Of a display that is tawdry or vulgar |
| indigenous | Originating where it is found |
| onus | An onerous or difficult concern |
| nonentity | The state of not existing |
| mores | the conventions that embody the fundamental values of a group |
| mulch | A protective covering of rotting vegetable matter spread to reduce evaporation and soil erosion |
| indignation | feeling of righteous anger |
| opprobrious | deserving or bringing disgrace or shame |
| nonplus | Be a mystery or bewildering to |
| morganatic | (of marriages) of a marriage between one of royal or noble birth and one of lower rank; valid but with the understanding that the rank of the inferior remains unchanged and offspring do not succeed to titles or property of the superior |
| mulish | hardheaded Unreasonably rigid in the face of argument or entreaty or attack |
| misogamist | A person who hates marriage |
| indignity | An affront to one's dignity or selfesteem |
| opulence | Wealth as evidenced by sumptuous living |
| nosegay | An arrangement of flowers that is usually given as a present |
| moribund | Not growing or changing; without force or vitality |
| multifarious | Having many aspects |
| missive | A written message addressed to a person or organization |
| indiscriminate | Failing to make or recognize distinctions |
| nostrum | Hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists |
| morose | Showing a brooding ill humour |
| mundane | Found in the ordinary course of events |
| mite | Any of numerous very small to minute arachnids often infesting animals or plants or stored foods |
| infirmity | The state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age) |
| noxious | Injurious to physical or mental health |
| munificent | Very generous |
| mode | How something is done or how it happens |
| porphyry | Any igneous rock with crystals embedded in a finer groundmass of minerals |
| infraction | A crime less serious than a felony |
| nuance | A subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude |
| macerate | Become soft or separate and disintegrate as a result of excessive soaking |
| macabre | Shockingly repellent; inspiring horror |
| murky | Dark or gloomy |
| modicum | A small or moderate or token amount |
| portend | Indicate by signs |
| ingenious | (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action |
| nubile | Of girls or women who are eligible to marry |
| murrain | Any disease of domestic animals that resembles a plague |
| modish | In the current fashion or style |
| portent | A sign of something about to happen |
| ingenuous | Characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious |
| nugatory | Of no real value |
| machinations | A crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends |
| muse | Reflect deeply on a subject |
| mollycoddle | A pampered darling; an effeminate man |
| posterity | All of the offspring of a given progenitor |
| ingrate | A person who shows no gratitude |
| numismatist | A collector and student of money (and coins in particular) |
| maelstrom | A powerful circular current of water (usually the result of conflicting tides) |
| musty | Covered with or smelling of mould |
| mongrel | An inferior dog or one of mixed breed |
| post humous | Occurring or coming into existence after a person's death |
| ingratiate | Gain favour with somebody by deliberate efforts |
| nuptial | Of or relating to a wedding |
| maim | Injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation |
| muster | A gathering of military personnel for duty |
| potentate | potentate A ruler who is unconstrained by law |
| inherent | Existing as an essential constituent or characteristic |
| nurture | Helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community |
| maladroit | Not adroit |
| natation | The act of someone who floats on the water |
| potpourri | A collection containing a variety of sorts of things |
| inimical | Not friendly |
| malediction | The act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult) |
| opulence | Wealth as evidenced by sumptuous living |
| neap | A less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon |
| pragmatic | An imperial decree that becomes part of the fundamental law of the land |
| prate | Idle or foolish and irrelevant talk |
| nefarious | Extremely wicked |
| opus | A musical work that has been created |
| malevolent | Wishing or appearing to wish evil to others; arising from intense ill will or hatred |
| inimitable | Defying imitation; matchless |
| prattle | Idle or foolish and irrelevant talk |
| farrago | A motley assortment of things |
| cutesy | Effusively or insincerely emotional |
| dulcet | Extremely pleasant in a gentle way |
| peroration | A flowery and highly rhetorical oration |
| pious | Having or showing or expressing reverence for a deity |
| mishmash | A motley assortment of things |
| slushy | Effusively or insincerely emotional; Being or resembling melting snow |
| mussitate | Talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice |
| perennial | A plant lasting for three seasons or more |
| perpetrate | Perform an act, usually with a negative connotation |
| piquant | Having an agreeably pungent taste |
| gallimaufry | A motley assortment of things |
| gooey | Effusively or insincerely emotional ; Soft and sticky |
| clack | Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly |
| hotch potch | A motley assortment of things |
| peripatetic | A person who walks from place to place |
| perpetual | Continuing forever or indefinitely |
| pique | A sudden outburst of anger |
| periphrasis | A style that involves indirect ways of expressing things |
| perquisite | An incidental benefit awarded for certain types of employment |
| piscatorial | Relating to or characteristic of the activity of fishing |
| ragbag | motley assortment of things |
| piffle | Trivial nonsense |
| perjury | Criminal offence of making false statements under oath |
| pithy | Concise and full of meaning |
| persiflage | Light teasing |
| perlustrate | inspect with care |
| persona non gratta | A person who for some reason is not wanted or welcome |
| pittance | An inadequate payment |
| perspicacious | Acutely insightful and wise |
| plagiarize | Take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property |
| preempt | Acquire for oneself before others can do so |
| pert | Characterized by a lightly pert and exuberant quality |
| placid | (of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves |
| preeminent | leading |
| bivouac | Temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers |
| craven | An abject coward |
| blandishment | Flattery intended to persuade |
| blase | Uninterested because of frequent exposure or indulgence |
| credo | Any system of principles or beliefs |
| blatant | Without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious |
| crepuscular | Like twilight; dim |
| blather | Foolish gibberish |
| contiguous | Very close or connected in space or time |
| crescendo | a gradual increase in loudness |
| continence | The exercise of self constraint in sexual matters |
| cretin | A person of subnormal intelligence |
| contraband | Goods whose importation or exportation or possession is prohibited by law |
| crone | An ugly evillooking old woman |
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