| Term | Definition |
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| aberrant | markedly different from an accepted norm, markedly different from an accepted norm |
| abstemious | sparing in consumption of especially food and drink |
| adamant | not capable of being swayed or diverted from a course |
| affable | easy-going; friendly; diffusing warmth and friendliness |
| agile | moving quickly and lightly |
| agog | eager; highly excited |
| aloof | reserved, indifferent; remote in manner |
| ambidextrous | equally skillful with each hand |
| ambiguous | having more than one possible meaning |
| antediluvian | very old; of or relating to the period before the Biblical flood |
| arboreal | of or relating to or formed by trees |
| ascetic | practicing great self-denial |
| assiduous | diligent; hard-working; marked by care and persistent effort |
| astute | shrewd; clever; marked by practical hardheaded intelligence |
| audacious | bold; fearless; disposed to venture or take risks |
| auspicious | favorable; promising; tending to favor or bring good luck |
| austere | severely simple; unadorned; of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor |
| banal | commonplace; obvious and dull |
| bellicose | warlike; having or showing a ready disposition to fight |
| belligerent | quarrelsome; someone who fights (or is fighting) |
| benign | good; kind of heart; pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence |
| blithe | joyous; carefree and happy and lighthearted |
| boisterous | noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline |
| boorish | rude; ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance |
| buoyant | tending to float (literally); also: light-hearted |
| callow | lacking experience of life; without experience of the world |
| candid | honest, straightforward, informal, natural |
| capacious | roomy, large |
| cognizant | aware of, taking notice |
| conciliatory | overcoming distrust or hostility; tending to reconcile |
| conspicuous | clearly visible; standing out |
| contiguous | touching or joining at the edge or boundary |
| contrite | deeply sorrowful, repentant; feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses |
| copious | plentiful; abundant; large in number or quantity (especially of discourse) |
| corporeal | physical; of a material nature; affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit |
| counterfeit | fake; made to resemble something else |
| covert | secret or hidden; concealed, especially for an evil purpose |
| crass | coarse;(to describe people): so unrefined as to be lacking in discrimination and sensibility |
| credulous | easily deceived; showing a lack of judgment or experience |
| deleterious | harmful; morally or physically bad |
| diaphanous | transparent; see-through |
| didactic | having to do with teaching; instructive (especially excessively) |
| dialtory | slow; tending to cause delay |
| disconsolate | hopelessly sad; cheerless; causing dejection |
| discreet | marked by prudence or modesty and wise self-restraint; judicious |
| disheveled | disordered; disorderly; untidy |
| distraught | deeply agitated especially from emotion; bewildered; very, very upset |
| dogmatic | opinionated; rigidly fixed in opinion; characterized by arrogant assertion of unproved or unprovable principles |
| dubious | doubtful; open to doubt or suspicion |
| dormant | sleeping; resembling sleep |
| ebullient | enthusiastic; joyously unrestrained |
| egregious | extreme; conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible |
| epicurean | devoted to pleasure; furnishing gratification of the senses |
| errant | straying from the right course or from accepted standards; roving or wandering, as in search of adventure or opportunity for gallant deeds. |
| erratic | irregular, unpredictable, inconsistent |
| erroneous | incorrect, mistaken, inaccurate |
| erudite | having or showing profound knowledge; scholarly |
| euphonious | having a pleasant sound |
| evanescent | fleeting, brief, transient, short-lived |
| exhaustive | thorough, complete |
| exorbitant | extravagant, greater than reasonable; greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation |
| expedient | contributing to personal advantage, serving to promote your interest |
| extant | still in existence |
| extemporaneous | with little or no preparation or forethought; done without much preparation |
| extraneous | not essential; not pertinent to the matter under discussion |
| facetious | cleverly amusing in tone; playfully humorous |
| fallacious | illogical, wrong, unsound |
| facile | arrived at without due care or effort; performing adroitly, effortless |
| fatuous | idiotic; complacently or inanely foolish |
| fervid | intense; characterized by intense emotion |
| flamboyant | richly and brilliantly colorful; elaborately or excessively ornamented |
| flippant | having a light, pert, trifling disposition; lacking proper seriousness |
| foppish | affecting extreme elegance in dress and manner; exessively refined and fastidious |
| florid | gaudy, extremely ornate; flushed with red |
| frugal | thrifty, cheap, economical |
| garrulous | talkative; given to constant, trivial talking |
| germane | relevant, pertinent; appropriate or fitting |
| gregarious | sociable, outgoing |
| gullible | credulous; naive and easily deceived or tricked |
| hackneyed | cliched, warn out by overuse |
| halcyon | calm, peaceful, tranquil; prosperous, golden |
| heinous | shocking, wicked, terrible |
| hirsuite | hairy; having a hairy covering |
| ignoble | completely lacking nobility in character or quality or purpose |
| ignominious | shameful; disgraceful |
| imminent | close in time; impending, near at hand |
| immutable | unchangeable |
| impassive | unmoved; showing no emotions |
| imperious | insisting on obedience; domineering; overbearing |
| imperturbable | calm, undisturbable |
| impervious | impenetrable, nonporous, nothing gets through it |
| impetuous | impulsive, acts without thinking |
| implacable | incapable of being pacified; can't be calmed down |
| implicit | implied, not stated outright |
| impromptu | with little or no preparation or forethought; said or done on the impulse of the moment |
| inadvertent | accidental |
| inane | silly, ridiculous |
| incessant | unceasing, without stopping |
| inchoate | not yet fully formed, rudimentary, elementary; only partially existing; incipient |
| incipient | beginning to exist or appear; inchoate |
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