| Term | Definition |
|---|
| deference | respect, consideration, courtesy |
| sartorial | of of pertaining to men's cothes |
| enigmatic | puzzling, baffling, mystifying, perplexing |
| remit | to return, remand, to subside, abate |
| mawkish | sentimentalized, maudlin, mushy, nauseating |
| profligate | prodigal, improvident, spendthrift |
| requisite | obligatory, incumbent; indispensable |
| cloy | to glut, satiate, surfeit, to nauseate |
| thwart | to frustrate, foil, baffle |
| demeanor | conduct, behavior; bearing, carriage |
| presentiment | a foreboding, premonition, hunch |
| brouhaha | a furor, uproar, hullabaloo |
| bulwark | a stronghold, a citadel, bastion, rampart |
| choleric | irascible, testy, splenetic, bilious |
| bumptious | exhaustive, authoritative |
| mollify | to appease, assuage, placate, pacify |
| adamant | obdurate, implacable, inflexible |
| onus | a burden, obligation, duty; a stigma |
| impromptu | spontaneous, on the spur of the moment |
| curtail | to reduce; to abbreviate, abridge, contract |
| forbearance | restraint, patience, abstinence |
| bumptious | pushy, forward, aggressive, obtrusive |
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