| Term | Definition |
|---|
| untenable | unable to be believed |
| casuistry | use of clever arguments to deceive people, chicanery |
| choleric | bad tempered ,easily made angry |
| circuitous | roundabout,devious |
| complaisant | willing to please or affably agreeable |
| copious | in great quantities or bounteous |
| corporeal | physical rather than spiritual , material |
| embellish | to decorate something to make it more attractive or adorn |
| endemic | prevalent in or indigenous |
| enigma | a riddle or bewilderment |
| exculpate | prove guiltless or absolve |
| exonerate | to free from blame or absolve |
| expiate | to make amends for something you have done or absolve |
| expunge | to cancel or annihilate |
| expurgate | to remove parts of a written |
| extricate | to free or disentangle |
| penitent | repentant,sorrowful,contrite |
| perfidious | treacherous,faithless |
| perfunctory | cursory,superficial,shallow |
| peripatetic | roaming,itinerant,roving |
| pernicious | causing great injury,destruction,fatal |
| pertinacious | stubborn,persistent |
| philistine | a person does not like or understand art,literature,music |
| phlegmatic | a calm,stuggish temperament |
| plagiarize | to take(ideas, writings etc) from (another) and pass them off as one's own |
| plenitute | abundance,plenty |
| polemic | argumentation |
| prodigious | enormous,huge or amazing |
| profligite | extremely wasteful |
| prognostication | prediction,forecast |
| propitiate | conciliate,appease |
| prosaic | dull and not showing any imagination |
| pugnacity | combativeness,aggression,belligerence,hostility |
| pusillanimous | frightened,cowardly |
| quintessence | the perfect example |
| abash | cause to feel embarrassed,disconnected or ashamed |
| abdicate | to renounce or relinquish |
| aberrant | deviating from the proper or expected course or abnormal |
| aberration | a deviation from the normal or typical or strangeness |
| abhor | regard with disgust or hatred |
| accustomed | familiar as by practice use or habit ,acquainted |
| adroit | skillful or clever |
| affliction | severe pain or suffering ,adversity |
| allay | calm or pacify |
| ambivalence | uncertainty or vacillation |
| ameliorate | to improve or amend |
| amiable | having a pleasant and friendly disposition |
| amicable | affable or genial cordial |
| avarice | immoderate desire for wealth or cupidity |
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