| Term | Definition |
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| abandon | total lack of inhibition |
| abate | to decrease, to reduce |
| abet | to aid;to act as an accomplice |
| abjure | to renounce under oath, to abandon forever, to abstain from |
| abnegate | to give up, to deny to oneself |
| abortive | ending without results |
| abrogate | to annul, to abolish by authoritative action |
| abscond | to leave quickly in secret |
| abstemious | done sparingly, consuming in moderation |
| accede | to express approval, to agree to |
| acclivity | an incline or upward slope, the ascending side of a hill |
| accretion | a growth in size, an increase in amount |
| acme | the highest level or degree attainable |
| actuate | to put into motion, to activate, to motivate or influence to activity |
| acuity | sharp vision or perception characterized by the ability to resolve fine detail |
| acumen | sharpness of insight, mind, and understanding, shrewd judgment |
| adamant | stubbornly unyielding |
| adept | extremely skilled |
| adjudicate | to hear and settle a matter, to act as a judge |
| adjure | to appeal to |
| admonish | to caution or warn gently in order to correct something |
| adroit | skillful, accomplished, highly competent |
| adulation | excessive flattery or admiration |
| adumbrate | to give a hint or indication of something to come |
| aerie | a nest built high in the air, an elevated, often secluded,dwelling |
| affected | phony, artificial |
| aggregate | a collective mass, the sum total |
| algorithm | an established procedure for solving a problem or equation |
| alimentary | pertaining to food, nutrition, or digetsion |
| allay | to lessen, ease, reduce in intensity |
| amity | friendship, good will |
| amorphous | having no definite form |
| animus | a feeling of animosity or ill will |
| anodyne | a source of comfort; a medicine that relieves pain |
| anomaly | a deviation from the common rule, something that is difficult to classify |
| anthropomorphic | suggesting human characteristics for animals and inanimate things |
| antiquated | too old to be fashionable or useful |
| aphorism | a short statement of a principle |
| aplomb | self-confident assurance; poise |
| apostate | one who renounces a religious faith |
| apposite | strikingly appropriate or well adapted |
| apprise | to give notice to, inform |
| appropriate | to assign to a particular purpose, allocate |
| arable | suitable for cultivation |
| arcane | secret, obscure; known only to a few |
| archipelago | a large group of islands |
| arrears | unpaid, overdue debts or bills; neglected obligations |
| arrogate | to claim without justification; to clain for oneself without right |
| askance | with disapproval; with a skeptical sideways glance |
| assent | to agree, as to a proposal |
| atavistic | characteristic of a former era, ancient |
| autocrat | a dictator |
| aver | to declare to be true, to affirm |
| avuncular | like and uncle in behavior, especially in kindness and warmth |
| awry | crokked, askew, amiss |
| balk | to stop short and refuse to go on |
| ballast | a structure that helps to stabilize or steady |
| beatific | displaying calmness and joy, relating to a state of celestial happiness |
| becalm | to stop the progress of, to soothe |
| becloud | to make less visible, to obscure, or blur |
| bedraggle | soiled, wet and limp; dilapidated |
| deget | to produce, especially as an effect or outgrowth; to bring about |
| behemoth | something of monstrous size or power; huge creature |
| beneficent | pertaining to an act of kindness |
| berate | to scold harshly |
| bilious | ill-tempered, sickly, ailing |
| blasphemous | cursing, profane; extremely irreverent |
| blatant | completely obvious and conspicuous, especially in an offensive, crass manner |
| blithely | merrily, lightheartedly cheerful; without appropriate thought |
| bombastic | high-sounding but meaningless; ostentatiously lofty in style |
| bovine | relating to cows; having qualities characteristic of a cow, such as sluggishness or dullness |
| braggart | a person who brags or boasts in a loud and empty manner |
| broach | to mention or suggest for the first time |
| bucolic | pastoral, rural |
| burnish | to polish; to make smooth and bright |
| bursar | a treasurer or keeper of funds |
| cache | a hiding place; stockpile |
| cacophony | a jarring, unpleasant noise |
| calumny | a false and malicious accusation; misrepresentation |
| cantakerous | having a difficult, uncooperative, or stubborn disposition |
| captious | marked by the tendency to point out trivial faults; intended to confuse in an argument |
| cataclysmic | severly destructive |
| catalyst | something that provokes or speeds up significant change, especially without being affected by the consequences |
| caucus | a closed committee within a political party; a private committee meeting |
| caustic | biting, sarcastic |
| cede | to surrender possession of something |
| celerity | speed, haste |
| censorious | critical; tending to blame and condemn |
| certitude | assurance, freedom from doubt |
| cessation | a temporary or complete halt |
| chary | watchful, cautiou; extremely shy |
| chimerical | fanciful; imaginary, impossible |
| circuitous | indirect, roundabout |
| circumvent | to go around; avoid |
| cloying | sickly sweet; excessive |
| coagulate | to clot; to cause to thicken |
| cogent | logically forceful; compelling, convincing |
| colloquial | characteristic of informal speech |
| commute | to change a penalty to a less severe one |
| complacent | self-satisfied, smug |
| compliant | submissive, yielding |
| concomitant | existing concurrently |
| concord | agreement |
| condole | to grieve; to express sympathy |
| conflagration | big, destructive fire |
| confluence | the act of two things flowing together; the junction or meeting place where two things meet |
| consanguineous | having the same lineage or ancestry; related by blood |
| consternation | an intense state of fear or dismay |
| constituent | component, part; citizen, voter |
| constraint | something that restricts or confines within prescribed bounds |
| contemptuous | scornful; expressing contempt |
| contentious | quarrelsome, disagreeable, belligerent |
| contiguous | sharing a boundary; neighboring |
| continence | self-control; self-restraint |
| convalesce | to recover gradually from an illness |
| convergence | the state of separate elements joining or coming together |
| coquette | a flirtatious woman |
| coterie | an intimate group of persons with a similar purpose |
| countervail | to act or react with equal force |
| covert | secretive, not openly shown |
| cull | to select, weed out |
| cumulative | increasing, collective |
| curt | abrupt, short with words |
| dearth | a lack, scarcity, insufficiency |
| debacle | a sudden, disastrous collapse or defeat; a total, ridiculous failure |
| declaim | to speak loudly and vehemently |
| defamatory | injurious to the reputation |
| demagogue | a leader, rabble-rouser, usually appealing to emotion or prejudice |
| denizen | an inhabitant, a resident |
| deride | to laugh at contemptuously, to make fun of |
| diffuse | to spread out widely, to scatter freely, to disseminate |
| digress | to turn aside, especially from the main point; to stray from the subject |
| dilapidated | in disrepair, run down |
| diluvial | pertaining to a flood |
| discomfit | to disconcert, to make one lose one's composure |
| discrete | individually distinct, separate |
| disingenuous | giving a false appearance of simple frankness; misleading |
| disinterested | fair-minded, unbiased |
| dispassionate | unaffected by bias or strong emotions; not personally or smotionally involved in something |
| dissident | disagreeing with an established religious or political system |
| doctrinaire | rigidly devoted to theories without regard for practicality; dogmatic |
| dogged | stubbornly persevering |
| doleful | sad, mournful |
| dour | sullen and gloomy; stern and severe |
| effluvia | waste; odorous fumes given off by waste |
| elegy | a mournful poem, usually about the dead |
| elude | to avoid cleverly, to escape the perception of |
| emollient | soothing, especially to the skin |
| emulate | to strive to equal or excel, to imitate |
| encumber | to weigh down, to burden |
| enjoin | to direct or impose with urgent appeal, to order with emphasis; to forbid |
| epochal | momentous, highly significant |
| eponymous | giving one's name to a place, book, restaurant |
| equivocate | to avoid committing oneself in what one says, to be deliberately unclear |
| ersatz | being an artificial and inferior substitute or imitation |
| eschew | to shun; to avoid (as something wrong or distasteful) |
| espouse | to take up and support as a cause; to marry |
| espy | to catch sight of, glimpse |
| euphemism | an inoffensive and agreeable expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive |
| euthanasia | the practice of ending the life of terminally ill individuals; assisted suicide |
| excoriate | to censure scathingly; to express strong disapproval of |
| exponent | one who champions or advocates |
| expound | to explain or describe in detail |
| expunge | to erase, eliminate completely |
| extirpate | to root out, eradicate, literally or figuratively; to destroy wholly |
| extrapolation | using known data and information to determine what will happen in the future, prediction |
| extrinsic | external, unessential; originating from the outside |
| extrude | to form or shape something by pushing it out, to force out, especially through a small opening |
| facetious | witty, humorous |
| facile | easily accomplished; seeming to lack sincerity or depth; arrived at without due effort |
| fallacious | tending to deceive or mislead; based on a fallacy |
| febrile | feverish, marked by intense emotion or activity |
| feckless | ineffective, worthless |
| feign | to pretend, to give a false appearance of |
| feral | suggestive of a wild beast, not domesticated |
| fictive | fictional, relating to imaginative creation |
| filibuster | to use obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speech making, in order to delay something |
| fitful | intermittent, lacking steadiness; characterized by irregular bursts of activity |
| flippant | marked by disrespectful lightheartedness or casualness |
| flout | to scorn, to disregard with contempt |
| fodder | raw material, as for artistic creation, readily abundant ideas or images |
| forego | to precede, to go ahead of |
| forgo | to do without, to abstain from |
| formidable | fearsome, daunting; tending to inspire awe or wonder |
| fortitude | strength of mind that allows one to encounter adversity with courage |
| fortuitous | by chance, especially by favorable chance |
| frenetic | frantic, frenzied |
| fulsome | abundant; flattering in an insincere way |
| furlough | a leave of absense, especially granted to soldier or a prisoner |
| furtive | sly, with hidden motives |
| galvanize | to shock; to arouse awareness |
| gamely | spiritedly, bravely |
| gauche | lacking social refinement |
| grandiloquence | pompous talk; fancy but meaningless language |
| gregarious | outgoing, sociable |
| grotto | a small cave |
| harangue | to give a long speech |
| hedonist | one who pursues pleasure as a goal |
| hegemony | the domination of one state or group over its allies |
| heretical | the domination of one state or group over its allies |
| heretical | departing from accepted beliefs or standards, oppositional |
| hiatus | a gap or interruption in space, time, or continuity |
| histrionics | deliberate display of emotion for effect; exaggerated behavior calculated for effect |
| hubris | excessive pride or self-confidence |
| husband | to manage economically; to use sparingly |
| hypocrite | one who puts on a false appearance of virtue; one who criticizes a flaw he in fact possesses |
| ignoble | having low moral standards, not noble in character; mean |
| illusory | producing illusion, deceptive |
| imbibe | to receive into the mind and take in, absorb |
| impassive | absent of any external sign of emotion, expressionless |
| imperious | commanding, domineering; urgent |
| imperturable | unshakably calm and steady |
| implacable | inflexible; not capable of being changed or pacified |
| importunate | troublesomely urgent; extremely persistent in request or demand |
| impreciation | a curse |
| impudent | marked by cocky boldness or disregard for others |
| impugn | to call into question; to attack verbally |
| impute | to lay the responsibility or blame for, oftem unjustly |
| incandescent | shining brightly |
| incarnadine | red, especially blood red |
| inchoate | being only partly in existence; imperfectly formed |
| incipient | beginning to exist or appear; in an initial stage |
| incorrigible | incapable of being corrected or amended; difficult to control or manage |
| incredulous | unwilling to accept what is true, skeptical |
| indomitable | incapable of being conquered |
| ingratiate | to gain favor with another by deliberate effort, to seek to please somebody so as to gain an advantage |
| inherent | involving the essential character of something, built-in, inborn |
| inquest | an investigation, an inquiry |
| insensate | lacking sensibility and understanding, foolish |
| insolent | insultingly arrogant, overbearing |
| insular | characteristic of an isolated people, especially having a narrow viewpoint |
| insuperable | incapable of being surmounted or overcome |
| inter | to bury |
| interlocutor | ones who takes part in conversation |
| internecinee | mutually destructive; equally devastating to both sides |
| interregnum | a temporary halting of the usual operations of government or control |
| intimation | a subtle and indirect hint |
| intractable | not easily managed or manipulated |
| intransigent | uncompromising, refusing to abandon an extreme position |
| intrepid | fearless, resolutely courageous |
| inundate | to cover with a flood; to overwhelm as if with a flood |
| inveterate | firmly established, especially with respect to a habit or attitude |
| irascible | easily angered, hot-tempered |
| ironic | poignantly contrary or incongruous to what was expected |
| irreverent | disrespectful in a gentle or humorous way |
| itinerant | wandering from place to place; unsettled |
| jettison | to discard, to get rid of as unnecessary or encumbering |
| jocular | playful, humorous |
| junta | a small governing body, especially after a revolutionary seizure of power |
| kismet | destiny, fate |
| lampoon | to ridicule with satire |
| largess | generous giving (as of money) to others who may seem inferior |
| laudable | deserving of praise |
| lax | not rigid, loose;negligent |
| levity | an inappropriate lack of seriousness, overly casual |
| lexicon | a dictionary; a stock of terms pertaining to a particular subject or vocabulary |
| libertarian | one who advocates individual rights and free will |
| libertine | a free thinker, usually used disparagingly; one without moral restraint |
| licentious | immoral; unrestrained by society |
| lilliputian | very small |
| limber | flexible, capable of being shaped |
| lithe | moving and bending with ease; marked by effortless grace |
| loquacious | talkative |
| marabre | having death as a subject; dwelling on the gruesome |
| macrocosm | the whole universe; a large-scale reflection of a part of the greater world |
| malaise | a feeling of unease or depression |
| malapropism | the accidental, oftem comical, use of a word which resembles the one intended, but has a different, often contradictory meaning |
| malediction | a curse, a wish of evil upon another |
| malevolent | exhibiting ill will; wishing harm to others |
| malfeasance | wrongdoing or misconduct, especially by a public official |
| malleable | easily influenced or shaped, capable or being altered by outside forces |
| mannered | artificial or stilted in character |
| maverick | an independent individual who does not go along with a group |
| mawkish | sickeningly sentimental |
| megalomania | obsession with great or grandiose performance |
| mellifluous | having a smooth, rich flow |
| microcosm | a small scale representation of a larger system |
| milieu | the physical or social setting in which something occurs or develops, environment |
| misanthrope | a person who hates or distrusts mankind |
| misnomer | an error in naming a person or place |
| missive | a written note or letter |
| mitigate | to make less severe, make milder |
| modicum | a small portion, limited quantity |
| mollify | to soothe in temper or disposition |
| mordant | biting and caustic in manner and style |
| mores | fixed customs or manners; moral attitudes |
| morose | gloomy, sullen |
| mote | a small particle, speck |
| mutability | the quality of being capable of change, in form or character; susceptibility of change |
| myopic | lacking foresighe, having a narrow view or long-range perspective |
| nebulous | vague, undefined |
| necromancy | the practice of communicating with the dead in order to predict the future |
| nefarious | intensely wicked or vicous |
| neonate | a newborn child |
| nihilism | the belief that traditional values and beliefs are unfounded and that existence is useless; the belief that conditions in the social organization are so bad as to make destruction desirable |
| nomenclature | a system of scientific names |
| non sequitur | a statment that does not follow logically from anything previously said |
| novel | new and not resembling anything formerly known |
| obdurate | stubbornly persistent, resistant to persuasion |
| obfuscate | to confuse, make obscure |
| obstinate | unreasonably persistent |
| olfactory | relating to the sense of smell |
| oligarchy | a government in which a small group exercises supreme control |
| onus | a burden, an obligation |
| opine | to express an opinion |
| opportunist | one who takes advantage of any opportunity to achieve an end, with little regard for principles |
| opprobrious | disgraceful, shameful |
| ornery | having an irritable disposition, cantankerous |
| oscillate | to swing back and forth like a pendulum; to vary between opposing beliefs or feelings |
| ossify | to change into bone; to become hardened or set in a rigidly conventional pattern |
| ostracize | to exclude from a group by common consent |
| oust | to remove from position by force; eject |
| paean | a tribute, a song or expression of praise |
| palatial | relating to a palace; magnificent |
| palimpsest | an object or place having diverse layers or aspects beneath the surface |
| palpable | capable of being touched or felt; easily perceived |
| paltry | pitifully small or worthless |
| panache | flamboyance or dash in style and action |
| pandemic | occuring over a wide geographic area and affecting a large portion of the population |
| panegyric | elaborate praise; formal hymn of praise |
| paradigm | an outstandingly clear or typical example |
| paragon | a model of excellence or perfection |
| paramount | supreme, of chief importance |
| pare | to trim off excess, reduce |
| pariah | an outcast |
| patent | obvious, evident |
| pathogenic | causing disease |
| patricial | aristocratic |
| patronize | to act as patron of, to adopt an air of condescension toward; to buy from |
| peculate | to embezzle |
| pecuniary | relating to money |
| pellucid | transparently clear in style or meaning, easy to understand |
| penchant | an inclination, a definite liking |
| penitent | expressing sorrow for sins or offenses, repentant |
| penury | an oppressive lack of resources (as money), severe poverty |
| peregrinate | to travel on foot |
| phalanx | a compact or close-knit body of people, animals, or things |
| philistine | a person who is guided by materialism and is disdainful of intellectual or artistic values |
| philology | the study of ancient texts and languages |
| phlegmatic | having a sluggish, unemotional temperament |
| pique | to arouse anger or resentment in; provoke |
| plaintive | expressive of suffering or woe, melancholy |
| platitude | overused and trite remark |
| plebeian | crude or coarse; characteristic of commoners |
| plucky | courageous; spunky |
| politic | shrewd and crafty in managing or dealing with things |
| polyglot | a speaker of many languages |
| pore | to read studiously or attentively |
| portentous | foreshadowing, ominous; eliciting amazement and wonder |
| posit | to assume as real or conceded; propose as an explanation |
| potable | suitable for drinking |
| potentate | a ruler; one who wields great power |
| precarious | lacking in security or stability; dependent on chance or uncertain conditions |
| precipitous | steep |
| presage | something that foreshadows; a feeling of what will happen in the future |
| prestidigitation | a cleverly executed trick or deception; sleight of hand |
| preternatural | existing outside of nature; extraordinary; supernatural |
| primeval | ancient, primitive |
| prodigal | recklessly extravagant, wasteful |
| proffer | to offer for acceptance |
| progenitor | an ancestor in the direct line, forefather; founder |
| proliferate | to grow by rapid production of new parts; increase in number |
| promulgate | to make known by open declaration, proclaim |
| propensity | a natural inclination or preference |
| prosaic | relating to prose (as opposed to poetry); dull, ordinary |
| proscribe | to condemn or forbid as harmful or unlawful |
| prostrate | lying face downward in adoration or submission |
| provincial | limited in outlook, narrow, unsophisticated |
| proxy | a person authorized to act for someone else |
| pseudonym | a fictitious name, used particularly by writers to conceal identity |
| pugilism | boxing |
| puissant | powerful |
| punctilious | concerned with precise details about codes or conventions |
| pundit | one who gives opinions in an authoritative manner |
| purloin | to steal |
| purport | to profess, suppose, claim |
| rancor | bitter hatred |
| rankle | to cause anger and irritation |
| rapacious | taking by force; driven by greed |
| rapt | deeply absorbed |
| rarefy | to make rare, thin, or less dense |
| raze | to tear down, demolish |
| reactionary | marked by extreme conservatism, especially in politics |
| recapitulate | to review by a brief summary |
| recidivism | a tendency to relapse into a previous behavior, especially criminal behavior |
| refract | to deflect sound or light |
| refute | to contradict, discredit |
| relegate | to send into exile, banish; assign |
| remission | a lessening of intensity or degree |
| remuneration | payment for goods or services or to recompense for losses |
| replete | abundantly supplied, complete |
| repose | relaxation, leisure |
| reprehensible | blameworthy, disreputable |
| reprove | to criticize or correct, usually in a gentle manner |
| requite | to return or repay |
| rescind | to repeal, cancel |
| resilient | able to recover quickly after illness or bad luck; able to bounce back to shape |
| resolute | marked by firm determination |
| resplendent | splendid, brilliant |
| reville | to criticize with harsh language, verbally abuse |
| rhetoric | the art of speaking or writing effectively; skill in the effective use of speech |
| rife | abundant prevalent especially to an increasing degree; filled with |
| rostrum | an elevated platform for public speaking |
| saccharine | excessively sweet or sentimental |
| sacrilegious | impious, irreverent toward what is held to be sacred or holy |
| salient | prominent, or notable significance |
| sanctimonious | hypocritically devout; acting morally superior to another |
| satiate | to satisfy (as a need or desire) fully or to excess |
| saturnine | cold and steady in mood, gloomy; slow to act |
| savant | a person of learning; especially one with knowledge in a special field |
| scrupulous | acting in strict regard for what is considered proper; punctiliously exact |
| seamy | morally degraded, unpleasant |
| secular | not specifically pertaining to religion, relating to the world |
| sedition | behavior that promotes rebellion or civil disorder against the state |
| seminal | influential in an original way, providing a basis for further development; creative |
| sequester | to set apart, seclude |
| seraphic | angelic, sweet |
| simian | apelike; relating to apes |
| sinecure | a well-paying job or office that requires little or no work |
| sobriquet | a nickname |
| sojourn | a temporary stay, visit |
| solicitous | anxious, concerned; full of desire, eager |
| sophomoric | exhibiting great immaturity and lack of judgement |
| spartan | highly self-disciplined; frugal, austere |
| specious | having the ring of truth but actually being untrue; deceptively attractive |
| sportive | frolicsome, playful |
| squalid | filthy and degraded as the result of neglect or poverty |
| stalward | marked by outstanding strength and vigor of body, mind, or spirit |
| stasis | a state of static balance or equilibrium, stagnation |
| stint | to be sparing or frugal; to restrict with respect to a share of allowance |
| stipulate | to specify as a condition or requirement of an agreement or offer |
| stratify | to arrange or divide into layers |
| strident | loud, harsh, unpleasantly noisy |
| stringent | imposing severe, rigorous standards |
| stymie | to block or thwart |
| subterranean | hidden, secret; underground |
| sully | to tarnish, taing |
| superfluous | extra, more than necessary |
| supersede | to cause to be set aside; to force out of use as inferior, replace |
| supplant | to replace (another) by force, to take the place of |
| surmount | to conquer, overcome |
| sybarite | a person devoted to pleasure and luxury |
| tactile | producing a sensation of touch |
| tantamount | equal in value or effect |
| tautological | having to do with needless repetition, redundancy |
| tawdry | gaudy, cheap, showy |
| temerity | unreasonable or foolhardy disregard for danger, recklessness |
| tempestuous | stormy, turbulent |
| temporal | having to do with time |
| tenacious | tending to persist or cling; persistent in adhering to something valued or habitual |
| tenet | a principle, belief, or doctrine accepted by members of a group |
| tenuous | having little substance or strength; flimsy, weak |
| terse | concise, brief, free of extra words |
| thwart | to block or prevent from happening; frustrate, defeat the hopes or aspirations of |
| titular | existing in title only; having a title without the functions or responsibilities |
| toady | one who flatters in the hope of gaining favors |
| tortuous | having many twists and turns; highly complex |
| tout | to praise or publicize loudly or extravagantly |
| trajectory | the path followed by a moving object, whether through space or otherwise; flight |
| transient | passing with time, temporary, short-lived |
| transitory | short-lived, existing only briefly |
| tremulous | trembling, timid; easily shaken |
| trounce | to beat severely, defeat |
| truculent | disposed to fight, belligerent |
| turgid | swollen as from a fluid, bloated |
| tutelage | guardianship, guidance |
| uncanny | so keen and perceptive as to seem supernatural, peculiarly unsettling |
| unconscionable | unscrupulous; shockingly unfair or unjust |
| untoward | difficult to handle or work with |
| unsury | the practice of lending money at exorbitant rates |
| variegated | varied; marked with different colors |
| vehemently | marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions |
| veracity | accuracy, truth |
| verbose | wordy |
| veritable | being without question, often used figuratively |
| vernacular | everyday language used by ordinary people; specialized language of a profession |
| vernal | related to spring; fresh |
| vicariously | felt or undergone as if one were taking part in the experience or feelings of another |
| vilify | to slander, defame |
| vim | vitality and energy |
| vindicate | to clear of blame; support a claim |
| virulent | extremely poisonous; malignant; hateful |
| visceral | instinctive, not intellectual; deep, emotional |
| vituperate | to abuse verbally, berate |
| vociferous | loud, noisy |
| volley | a flight of missiles; round of gunshots |
| voluble | talkative, speaking easily, glib |
| wan | sickly pale |
| wanton | undisciplined, unrestrained; reckless |
| wax | to increase gradually; to being to be |
| wield | to exercise authority or influence effectively |
| wily | clever; deceptive |
| winsome | charming, happily engaging |
| worst | to gain the advantage over; to defeat |
| wry | bent or twisted in shape or condition; dryly humorous |
| yen | a strong desire, craving |
| zenith | the point of culmination; peak |
| zephyr | a gentle breeze; something airy or unsubstantial |
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