| imimitable | one of a kind |
| iniquity | gross injustice; wickedness |
| innervate | to supply with nerves |
| inscrutable | incapable of being discovered or understood |
| insensible | unconscious; unresponsive |
| insouciant | unconcerned; carefree |
| interdict | to prohibit; to forbitd; to band |
| inveigh | to attack verbally |
| inveterate | deep-rooted; ingrained |
| involute | intricate; complex |
| jejune | vapid; uninteresting; immature; puerile |
| jibe | to agree |
| jocose | humorous; gay; blithe |
| labile | readily open to change |
| lassitude | listlessness. languor |
| limn | to draw; to outline indetail |
| limpid | transparent; serene; clear |
| lubricious | lewd; wanton; greasy |
| luculent | easily understood |
| macerate | to waste away; to soften or wear away by excessive fasting |
| maculate | marked with spots or blotches; impure |
| maunder | to digress |
| mellifluous | sweetly flowing, usually used to decsribe use of words |
| meretricious | cheap; gaudy; tawdry |
| mettle | strength of spirit |
| mettlesome | courageous; high-spirited |
| militate | to have weight; to bear on |
| minatory | menacing; threatening |
| multifarious | varied; motley |
| natty | trimly neat and tidy; smart |
| nonplused | baffled; in a quandry; |
| nostrum | panacea; cure-all |
| nugatory | trifling; inconsequential |
| obloquy | abusively detractive language; sharp criticism |
| obstreperous | noisy; loud |
| officious | meddlesome; pushy in one's services |
| ostensible | seeming; appearing as such |
| overweening | presumptuosly arrogant |
| palliate | to make something appear less serious |
| panegyric | formal praise; eulogy |
| parsimonious | cheap; miserly |
| peremptory | admitting of no contradiction; haughty; imperious |
| perigee | closest or lowet point; nadir |
| peripatetic | itinerant; traveling; nomadic |
| peroration | the concluding part of a speech; grandiloquent speech |
| petrous | like a rock; hard; stony |
| phlegmatic | impassive; stoical; lethargic |
| pillory | to punish; to hold up to public scorn |
| piquant | agreeably pungent; stimulating |
| pique | resentment; to annoy, irritate, or offend |
| plangent | pounding; thundering |
| plumb | to measure the depth; to examine critically |
| prate | to chatter; to babble |
| precept | rule establishing standards of conduct |
| precis | concise summary of essential points |
| preempt | to replace; to supersede; to appropriate |
| profligate | spendthrift; prodigal; wildly extravagant |
| prolix | long-winded; verbose |
| propinquity | nearness in time or place; affinity of nature |
| propitiate | to appease; to conciliate |
| proscribe | to ostracize; to banish |
| provident | frugal; looking to the future |
| puissance | power; strength |
| punctilious | precise; paying attention to trivialities |
| pusillanimous | cowardly; craven |
| querulous | habitually complaining; whining |
| raffish | tawdry; flashy; vulgar; base |
| ramify | to be divided or subdivided; to branch out |
| rapacious | voracious; greedy |
| rebus | riddle; a representation of words by pictures or symbols |
| recidivism | relapse into antisocial or criminal behavior |
| recondite | abstruse; profound; arcane |
| recreant | coward; cowardly |
| recumbent | leaning; resting; prone |
| redolent | fragrant; suggestive or evocative |
| refractory | stubborn; unmanageable |
| regale | to delight or entertain |
| remonstrate | to protest; to object |
| repine | to feel or express dejection or discontent |
| repudiate | to disown; to disavow |
| salacious | obscene |
| salutary | wholesome; causing improvement; favorable to health |
| sanctimony | self-righteousness |
| satiate | to surfeit |
| seine | a large net dragged to catch fish |
| seminal | like a seed; constituting a source |
| sententious | aphoristic or moralistic |
| sidereal | astral; relating to stars |
| simper | to smirk; a silly smile |
| sinuous | winding; undulating |
| slake | to satisfy or quench |
| sodden | soaked or drenchedl dull |
| sophistry | fallacious reasoning; faulty logic |
| splenetic | bad-tempered; irritable |
| stentorian | extremely loud and powerful |
| stint | to restrain; to be sparing or frugal |
| striated | striped; grooved; banded |
| succor | assistance; relief in time of distress |
| sundry | various; miscellaneous; separate |
| supercillious | disdainful; arrogant; haughty |
| supine | mentally or morally slack; lying on one's back |
| suppliant | asking humbly |
| tamp | to plug; to drive in or down by a series of blows |
| tautology | a repitition; a redundancy |
| tendentious | biased; showing marked tendencies |
| timorous | timid; fearful |
| toady | sycophant; flatterer |
| torrid | scorching; ardent; passionate |
| tumid | swollen |
| turbid | roiled; muddy clouded to the point of being opaque |
| turgid | swollen; tumid; thick; pompous |
| turpitude | depravity; prurience |
| untoward | perverse; unruly; unseemly |
| upbraid | to scold; to censure |
| vaunt | to brag or boast |
| venal | capable of being bought or bribed |
| vitiate | to pervert; to debase; to spoil |
| volubility | fluency; verbosity |
| welter | to writhe; to toss about |
| wend | to go; to proceed |