| Term | Definition |
|---|
| acerbic | sharp, forthright |
| aesthetic | concerned with beauty |
| affinity | natural liking |
| beguile | charmed or enchanted |
| coalesce | come together and form one mass or whole |
| contiguous | sharing a common border, touching |
| deign | doing something that one considers to be beneath one's dignity |
| disseminate | spread or disperse |
| dross | something regarded as worthless |
| ergo | therefore |
| extemporaneous | spoken or done without preparation |
| flagellate | to whip; to lash |
| fulminate | criticize severely |
| furlough | a temporary leave of absence from military duty |
| gravitas | High seriousness |
| hector | be bossy towards |
| hermetic | completely sealed |
| inimitable | matchless; not able to be imitated |
| jocular | characterized by jokes and good humor |
| meretricious | tastelessly showy |
| misogyny | hatred of women |
| miscreant | a person without moral scruples |
| palliate | lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of |
| panache | flair, flamboyance |
| pandemic | an epidemic that is geographically widespread |
| plenary | full in all respects |
| plutocrat | someone who exercises power by virtue of wealth |
| polyglot | knowing or using several languages |
| prurient | characterized by lust |
| psychosomatic | describing a disorder having physical symptoms but originating from physcological cause |
| rebuke | an act or expression of criticism and censure |
| recreant | a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc. |
| redoubtable | Formidable. |
| refractory | stubbornly resistant to authority or control |
| requiem | a Mass celebrated for the dead |
| sibilant | a consonant characterized by a hissing sound (like s or sh) |
| succor | assistance in time of difficulty |
| verisimilitude | the appearance of truth |
| viscous | thick, slim,y consistency |
| chaff | worthless products of an endeavour |
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