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Aberration deviation from the norm Abeyance temporary suspension Acerbic bitter, harsh Acuity perception (sharp), keeness of mind Admonish to caution, warn Adroit skillful, talented Aesthete appreciates beauty Altruistic self-less, unselfish Ameliorate to improve Amorphous lacking definite form, shape Antediluvian extremely old (ancient) Apocryphal doubtful Arable suitable for farming Ascetic doesn't allow pleasure (monk) Assuage to sooth Atrophy deterioration Avarice greed Aviary large bird cage Avow to admit openly Bilk to escape Broach to approach Buttress support to hold up a wall Celerity swiftness Charlatan fraud Cherubic angelic Churlish vulgar, nasty Circuitious round about, indirect Clandestine mysterious, secretive Commensurate proportionate Concomitant accompany Confluence where two rivers meet Conjugal relating to marriage Contentious argumentative Conundrum riddle Copious abundant, plentiful Corpulence something large Coterie select group, click Credulous gullible Cryptic puzzling, with hidden meaning Curmudgeon stubborn person Dearth shortage, scarcity Demagogue leader who inspires passion Desecrate to destroy something sacred Diatribe denunciation, negative speech Diffidence shyness, modesty Dilatory delayed, tardy Disaffected rebellious Discursive digress, rambling Dissemble to disguise Disparage to put down, berate Dispassionate unemotional Dissonant harsh in sound Dissuade to deter Divination prophecy Dotard senile person (foolish) Duplicity disseptiveness, deceit Egregious really bad, outstanding in bad qualities Elegiac relating to a funeral Elucidate to explain, clarify Emanate to come from ____ Emulate to immitate Enigmatic puzzling Ennui boredom Ephemeral short-lived Epicure person with refined taste Equivocate to be indirect Erudition extensive knowledge Esoteric refined (philosophy) Espouse to support Ethereal heavenly Extol to praise, exhault Fatuous idiotic, foolish Fecund fertile, fruitful Felicity happiness, bliss Fetid smelly Flippant smart-alecy Florid flush Foible weakness, flaw Furtive sneaky, shifty Garish loud, flashy Garner to gather Guile cleverness Hedonism belief in the pursuit of pleasure Heretic person with controversial opinion (religion) Hiatus break Histrionic overly dramatic Hoary turn grey/white with age Iconoclasm rebellion against a religion Immutable unchangeable Impervious unable to penetrate Impregnable unconquerable Impugn to challenge (attack) Inauspicious unfavorable Incipient coming into being (become apparent) Incisive clear, to the point, clever Incorrigible uncontrolable Indecorous lacking good taste Indefatigable tireless Innocuous harmless Inscrutable difficult to understand Insipid lacking energy, ambition Intonate recite with a certain tone Intractable stubborn (unruley), obstinate Intrinsic inherent Inveigh to acuse Inveterate firmly established Irascible easily angered Jettison discard, to get rid of Juncture joint Juxtapose to place contrasting words side by side Laconic concise, short, brief, terse Lampoon satire Largess (generous) gift Lassitude state weariness, tired (mentally) Lethargy state tiredness (physically) Lithe flexible (supple) Lurid gruesome, cause shock, horrid Malevolent melicious, evil Maudlin overly sentimental Meander to wander Meticulous precise Mire bogged (v) or bog (n) Multifarious diverse Mundane typical, average, ordinary, secular, dismal Nefarious extremely wicked Obsequious overly compliant, submissive, obedient, fawning Odious unlikeable, not pleasing Opaque dense Ostentatious garish, pretentious Palpable obvious, tangeable, touchable Paragon model of excellence Pariah social outcast Parochial narrow-minded, provincial Paucity scarcity (dearth) Pedantic overly concerned with rules Pejorative make something worse, belittle Philistine barbaric/barbarous, uncivilized Pique pet peave, vexation Pithy precisely meaningful, succinct, terse Poignant moving, meaningful, touching Polemical controversial, argumentative Precocious advanced Proclivity natural inclination Progeny offspring, decendent Prolific producing abundant work Prosaic dull, lacking imagination Protean diverse Protract to extend, prolong Pugnacity beligernous, natural disposition to be hostile Pulchritude physical beauty Quixotic idealistic, impulsive Rancorous resentful Rarefy to refine, purify Raze to demolish Recalcitrant stubborn Recant to retract Reprobate morally unprinciple person Ribald vulgar Ruminate to reflect, ponder Saccharine eccessively sweet, everly sentimental, too much Savant scholar, learned person Stultify to cropple, render useless Supercilious beyond arrogant, haudy Surfeit to overinduldge Surly churlish, gruff, ill-humoured Taciturn shy, quiet Tantamount equivolant Tenuous flimsy Trepidation aprehention (unsure/dread) Turgid swollen, extensively ornate Turpitude depravity Undulate to move in a wave-like motion Unwieldy difficult to carry Veracity truthfulness, accuracy Verbose wordy, excessive Viable obstanable Virulent toxic, hateful Vociferous noisy, loud Vouchsafe to bestow, avow Zenith hightest point, culmination