| Term | Definition |
|---|
| abate | to reduce in intensity or amount (syn) decrease, diminish, dwindle, ebb, lessen, reduce, wane (ant) to increase |
| amity | friendship (ant) hostility |
| auspicious | favorable (syn) propitious (ant) ill-omened |
| baseness | the quality of lacking higher values (syn) vileness, servility, unworthiness |
| bedlam | a place of scene of wild and mad uproar; an extremely confusing scene (ant) a peaceful and calm scene |
| beguile | to decieve, mislead, to persuade with charm (syn) delude (ant) to enlighten |
| bestow | to grant or give (ant) deprive |
| clamor | loud noise or shouting (ant) quiet |
| contentious | quarrelsome, stirring controversy (syn) bellicose, belligerent, pugnacious (ant) congenial, harmonious |
| credulous | believing on slight evidence, gullible (ant) suspicious |
| debauchery | moral corruption (syn) abasement, corruption, debasement, depravity, perversion (ant) temperance |
| defile | to make dirty, to desecrate, to pollute (syn) contaminate, taint (ant) to enhance |
| degeneration | a state of decline (syn) decadence, decline (ant) progress |
| depravity | moral corruption, a wicked or perverse act (syn) abasement, corruption, debasement, perversion (ant) noble behavior |
| derision | scoffing at, mockery, ridicule (ant) applause |
| diffidence | shyness, reserve, unassertiveness (syn) bashfulness, modesty (ant) confidence |
| diffuse | to spread in all directions (ant) to bring together |
| diligent | steady, attentive, energetic effort in pursuit or study (syn) industrious, assiduous, sedulous |
| discern | to differentiate between two or more things (ant) to ignore, to be oblivious |
| disdain | intense dislike; treat with scorn or contempt, to reject as unworthy (syn) to be arrogant, haughty, high-handed, insolent, lordly (ant) favor, admiration; to love |
| dotard | a senile person (ant) youth |
| endow | to provide with income or property, to supply with a talent or quality |
| engender | to cause, produce, create (ant) to squelch |
| enmity | absolute hatred (syn) animosity, animus, antagonism, hostility, rancor (ant) love, admiration |
| entreaty | a plea, an earnest request (syn) adjuration, appeal, suit, importunity, supplication (ant) denial |
| felicitous | happy or delightful (ant) sad, gloomy, morose |
| forbearance | patience, lenience (ant) impatience |
| galling | very irritating (ant) soothing |
| guile | deceitfulness, duplicity (ant) openness, candor |
| heralded | announced or publicized (ant) unnanounced |
| hideous | very ugly, offensive, shocking (ant) delightful |
| impertinent | insolentl rude, not within the proper bounds of good taste or manners (syn) intrusive, meddlesome, obtrustive, officious (ant) reverent, respectful |
| impetuous | violent, hasty, rash, impulsive (ant) reserved |
| ingenuity | cleverness, inventiveness, resourcefulness (syn) adroitness, cunning, deftness, dexterity (ant) lack of cleverness |
| insolence | insulting or contemptuous behavior (syn) arrogance, haughtiness, high-handedness, impertinence |
| kindle | to start a fire, to stir up (ant) to douse |
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