| Term | Definition |
|---|
| sage | a wise person |
| appease | to make peace or satisfy with concessions |
| remorse | sadness & bitter regret |
| digress | to stray from the main subject |
| instigate | to urge or provoke |
| indulgent | lenient, satisfying one's desires and whims |
| tangible | capable of being touched; real & concrete |
| jeopardy | danger or risk |
| predeccesor | one coming before another in time |
| frivolous | unworthy of serious attention, flippant |
| pivotal | vitally important; crucial |
| scrupulous | very careful, consentious, moral |
| refute | to disprove |
| respite | halt or delay; relief from something disagreeable |
| stoic | indiffrent to, or unaffected by , pleasure or pain |
| volatile | changeable and unstable |
| peripheral | at the boundary or edge; relatively unimportant |
| hedonistic | devoted to pursuing pleasure |
| idiom | a pecluliar, untranslatable expression in a language |
| benefactor | one who gives generous financial, or other, aid |
| brevity | briefness, or concise expression |
| apocryphal | of doubtful origin; counterfeit |
| virtuoso | one w/ masterly, accomplished skill in any field |
| slander | to defame or speak maliciously about a person |
| animosity | bitter hostility or hatred |
| deplete | to use up or exhaust |
| amity | friendly relations |
| stringent | rigorous or severe standards; strict |
| voluminous | having enormous volume, size or number |
| auspicious | prosperous; favorable or fortunate |
| assuage | to ease or lessen(usually pain) |
| prodigious | enormous, or extaordinary and marvelous |
| torpor | apathy, dullness, extreme sluggishness |
| furtive | secretive |
| supercilious | disdainful or arrogant |
| prudent | wise or careful in handling practical matters |
| verbose | wordy, usually dull and windy speech |
| pedestrian | ordinary, commonplace, or undistinguished |
| innocuous | harmless |
| fanatic | one possessed by excessive or irration zeal |
| fickle | changeable, unpredictable |
| lethargy | sluggeshness, drowsiness, indiffrence |
| hackneyed | overused, banal, trite |
| amass | to collect or accumulate |
| willful | stubborn; imposing one's will |
| bastion | fortress |
| trepidation | a state of apprehension or dread |
| desecrate | to subject to sacrilage or to profane |
| fortuitous | accidental or by chance |
| vehement | urgent, forceful or intense |
| enhance | to increase the value or beauty of; to make better |
| retract | to take back a statement; or to pull backwards |
| ambiguous | uncertain or unclear in meaning |
| paucity | scarcity; a small quantity |
| rescind | to cancel; revoke; terminate |
| subtle | not immediatley obvious; elusive |
| zealous | enthusiastic; devoted to a cause |
| benign | not causing harm; kindly and gracious |
| recalcitrant | stubbornly disobedient to authority |
| emulate | To try to imitate or exceed |
| innumerable | too many to be counted |
| meander | to follow a winding course or wander aimlessly |
| authoritarian | favoring absolute obedience to authority |
| brawn | muscular power or bulk |
| contrite | remorseful or apologetic |
| exemplify | to illustrate by or serve as an example |
| facilitate | to make easier; to aid or assist |
| hypothetical | theoretical for the sake of the argument |
| laconic | using few words; terse |
| ambulatory | capable of walking or moving about |
| diffident | being shy or timid |
| drone | to speak in a monotonous voice |
| gullible | easily decieved; disposed to believe readily |
| marred | changed spoiled or bruised |
| nullify | make ineffective or invalid |
| parsimony | unusual or excessive frugality or stinginess |
| propriety | proper and appropriate behavior |
| rejuvenate | to restore youthful or appearance |
| skeptical | questioning or disbelieving |
| tenacious | persistant or stubborn |
| animated | alive; liveliness |
| authentic | genuine or real |
| bias | a prejudice or a nonneutral position or stance |
| blithe | free spirited or cheerful |
| dearth | scarcity or lack |
| divert | to turn away from a course or direction; or to amuse |
| enthrall | to thrill or to charm |
| heed | to pay attention to |
| hinder | to holdback, abstruct or prevent |
| irascible | prone to outbursts of temper; irritable |
| merger | a join or union |
| nostalgia | longing for old days and homesickness |
| pretentious | ambitious or making an extravigantly outer show |
| saccharine | falsely sweet/sickeningly |
| stanza | division of a poem consisting of a series of lines |
| veneration | respect or reverance |
| villify | to defame |
| impervious | incapable of being effected or penetrated |
| impetuous | impulsive or brash |
| implement | carry out or accomplish |
| acrid | harsh tasted or smell |
| acrimonious | hostile in speech or manner |
| affinity | a positive attraction between people or things |
| affluent | wealthy |
| agrarian | having to do with land or farming |
| alacrity | speed or quickness |
| altruism | selfless concern about the wellfare of others |
| ambience | a feeling or mood associated with a particular person, place or thing; atmosphere |
| faux pas | blunder or mistake |
| pernicious | highly destructive; deadly or wicked |
| cacophony | unpleasant noise; use of jarring sounds |
| candor | honest and sincere expression |
| capricious | fickle and unpredictable |
| chagrin | distress or mind caused by humiliation, failure or dissapointment |
| charisma | special magnetic charm or appeal |
| compendium | breif summary of a larger work or of a field of knowledge |
| culpable | responsible for a wrong or error; blameworthy |
| deleterious | suddenly and unexpectedly harmful; pernicious |
| epitome | example that represents an entire class |
| exacerbate | to make angry ro irritated |
| facetious | witty |
| requisite | essential; or necessary |
| hiatus | a break |
| bucolic | relating to or typical of rural life |
| insidious | evil or wicked |
| machination | art of plotting, a crafty scheme designed for a sinister end |
| mellifluous | sweetly or smoothly flowing |
| morose | gloomy |
| nefarious | treterous or spreading in a subtle sly manner |
| ostentatious | extravagent display or showiness |
| perjury | voluntarily lying under oath |
| peruse | to study or read carefully |
| serendipity | finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for |
| magnanimous | generous |
| ubiquitious | existing or being everywhere at the same time |
| precept | command or principle intented as a general rule of action |
| superfluous | excess or superfluity |
| sanguine | confident; optimistic or relating to blood |
| vicarious | experience thru another persons actions |
| plethora | extra beyond what it is required or sufficient |
| placate | to calm the anger of another |
| tenacious | persistant or stubborn |
| surreptitous | performed secretly; cunningly |
| precedent | act that serves as justification for another one |
| transient | short-lived, fleeting; or stopping only briefly |
| substansive | substansial or large |
| temerity | boldness or rationous |
| cogent | pertinent; relevent or valid |
| vestige | a visible trace of something that once existed |
| inept | lacking in fitness or aptitude |
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