| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Aberration | a departure from what is normal or typical |
| Abstruse | difficult to understand; very abstract |
| Acrid | unpleasantly pungent in taste or odor |
| Acquiesce | to accept without protest; to agree or submit |
| Acrimonious | full of spite bitter nasty |
| Amenable | willing to agree responsive cooperative |
| Ample | of adequate or more than adequate size extent or amount |
| Appropriated | taking or making use of without authority or right |
| Assimilate | to take in and incorporate as one's own absorb |
| Astute | of keen penetration or discernment sagacious clever |
| Audacious | very bold |
| Austere | sever in manner or appearance stern |
| Bombastic | pretentious inflated speech or writing, lacking in humility |
| Brusque | rough or abrupt in manner or speech curt |
| Callow | immature or inexperienced |
| Corroborate | to support with evidence confirm a claim |
| Defile | to make unclear or impure desecrate |
| Desolate | lonely uninhabited |
| Diffident | lack of faith in oneself, lack of confidence |
| Dilatory | tending to delay or procrastinate |
| Disparage | to belittle to speak poorly of |
| Disparate | distinct in kind essentially different dissimilar unlike |
| Eradicate | to remove or destroy utterly to extirpate |
| Exasperate | to cause irritation or annoyance |
| Exhort | to urge advice or caution earnestly |
| Fallible | prone to make errors |
| Fastidious | exacting meticulous hard to please |
| Fathom | figure out comprehend probe the depth of |
| Fraternize | to associate in a friendly or brotherly way to mix cordially with enemy |
| Futile | having no useful result usless |
| Germane | closely or significantly related, relevant, pertinent |
| Gingerly | very cautious |
| Idiosyncrasy | any personal peculiarity eccentricity |
| Imperative | absolutely necessary urgent a command |
| Impertinent | rude and impolite deliberately disrespectful |
| Incontrovertible | cannot be disproved |
| Indelicate | lacking a sensitivity for the feelings of others tactless |
| Indigence | poverty |
| Insipid | without flavor, tasteless, not exciting, dull |
| Malignant | having an evil influence, very harmful |
| Meddlesome | intruding in others affairs without being asked |
| Misanthrope | one who hates or distrusts mankind |
| Odious | deserving or causing hatred hateful repugnant detestable |
| Opaque | not transparent or translucent |
| Palatable | agreeable to the taste hence acceptable |
| Paragon | a model of excellence |
| Perfidious | treacherous untrustworthy |
| Perfunctory | done in a routine manner |
| Periphery | the external boundary of any surface relative superficial aspects of subject in question |
| Predilection | a liking or preference for something |
| Succor | relief help aid assistance |
| Surreptitious | obtained done by stealth secret or unauthorized |
| Trite | lacking in freshness or effectiveness because of constant use or excessive rept4etition |
| Truculent | fierce cruel savagely brutal |
| Underling | a subordinate especially one of slight importance |
| Veracity | habitual observance of truth in speech or statement truthfulness |
| Viable | capable of living practicable workable |
| Vicarious | felt or enjoyed though imagined participation in the experience of others |
| Recalcitrant | resisting authority or control; refractory |
| Regime | a system/ method of government or rule |
| Revile | to attack with cruel language; call bad names |
| Savory | appetizing to the taste/smell |
| Scrupulous | giving strict attention to what is right; exact and careful |
| Sporadic | occurring occasionally, infrequently, irregularly |
| Spurious | falsified; fake and thus not genuine |
| Squalor | filth and misery |
| Staunch | firm or steadfast in principle, adherence, loyalty |
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