| Term | Definition |
|---|
| amenity | that which is pleasant or agreeable; attractive features, customs (ant) unpleasantness, disagreeableness |
| aperture | an opening, gap, hole; orifice (ant) closure, blockage, occlusion |
| dissidence | difference of opinion; discontent (syn) disagreement, dissent, disaffection (ant) aggreement, harmony, concord |
| epicurean | devoted to the pursuit of pleasure; fnd of good food, comfort, and ease; with discriminating tastes; a person with discriminating tastes (syn) hedonisic, sybaritic, discriminating (ant) asceti, self-denying, abstemious |
| improvident | not thrifty; failing to plan ahead (syn) prodigal, spendthrift, extravagant (ant) thrifty, frugal, economical, cautious |
| iniquity | wickedness, sin; a grossly immoral act, evil, crime (ant) probity, rectitude, uprightness |
| inviolable | sacred; of such a character that it must not be broken, injured, or profaned (syn) sacrosanct, unassailable (ant) vulnerable, assailable |
| mutable | open to or capable of change, fickle, changeable, variable (ant) changeless, steadfast, constant |
| nascent | just beginning to exist or develop; having just come into existence (syn) budding, incipient, embryonic (ant) dying, moribund, senescent |
| obeisance | a deep bow or other body movement indicating respect or submission; deference, homage (syn) respect, honor (ant) disrespect, irreverence, disregard |
| panegyric | formal or elaborate praise; a tribute (syn) tribute, encomium, testimonial (ant) diatribe, tirade, philippic |
| pillory | a device for publcly punishing offenders; a means for exposing one to public contempt or ridicule; to expose to public contempt or ridicule (ant) priase, extol, laud, acclaim |
| pittance | woefully meager allowance, wage, portion (syn) modicum, trifle (ant) fortune |
| presage | to foreshadow or point to a future event; to predict; a warning or indication of the future (syn) augur, portend, foretell |
| progeny | descendants, offspring, children, followers, disciples (syn) issue, posterity (ant) ancestors, forebears, antecendents |
| promulgate | to proclaim or issue officially; to make known far and wide, announce (ant) withdraw, retract, abrogate, nullify |
| rectitude | uprightness, righteousness; correctness (syn) probity, intergrity (ant) iniquity, heinousness |
| restive | restless, hard to manage, balky, uneasy, fidgety, recalcitrant (ant) serence, unruffled, docile |
| seraphic | angelic, heavenly, celestial, cherubic (ant) devilish, impish |
| subsist | to have existence; to remain alive, manage to make a living or maintain life; to persist or continue (syn) last, survive, sustain |
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