| franchise | a privledge |
| fraudulent | deceitful |
| fraught | emotional |
| gaunt | thin and bony |
| genial | having a friendly manner |
| glib | performed with ease |
| glint | to gleam/flash briefly |
| grievous | causing grief/pain |
| guile | a skillful deceite |
| guise | a false appearence |
| gullible | easily fooled |
| hackneyed | overfamiliar through overuse |
| haphazard | mere chance |
| hapless | unfortunate |
| haughty | scornfully and condescendingly proud |
| antonym | a word that has opposite meaning to that of another word |
| apt | quick to learn/understand |
| arbitrate | to judge |
| artifact | an object made by humans |
| assimilate | to make similar |
| attest | to put under oath |
| auspicious | marked by success |
| baleful | portending evil |
| bauble | a small, showy ornament of little value |
| beck | a gesture of beckoning |
| benefactor | one that gives aid [usually financially] |
| berate | to scold angrily and at length |
| bisect | to cut |
| boon | a timely blessing/benefit |
| brusque | discourteously blunt |
| caprice | an impulsive change of mind |
| caste | a social system based on rank in society |
| cede | to surrender possession of, usually by treaty |
| cessation | a bringing/coming to an end |
| chagrin | embarrassment, caused by failure |
| clamber | to climb with difficulty |
| coagulate | to cause transformation of [a liquid/solid] for example |
| concord | a treaty establishing peaceful relations |
| conflict | a state of open, often prolonged fighting |
| congruent | correspoding, similar |
| consign | to turn over permanetly to anothers charge |
| constraign | to keep with close bounds |
| contentious | controversial |
| coy | tending to avoid people and social situations, reserved |
| cunning | delicatly pleasing |
| decadent | being in a state of decline/decay |
| deft | quick and skillful |
| deign | to think it appropiate to one's dignity |
| deluge | a great flood |
| demagogue | a leader who obtains power through deciete |
| derive | to obtain |
| dichotomous | divided/diving into two parts |
| dichotomy | a division into two usually contradictory parts |
| dote | to show excessive fondness/love |
| dour | marked by sterness/harshness |
| drudgery | tedious work |
| dupe | an easily decieved person |
| effervescent | emitting small bubbles of gas |
| embryology | the branch of biology that deals with the formation and development of living organisms |
| enigma | a riddle |
| erroneous | derived from error |
| euphoria | a feeling of great happiness |
| evolution | a gradual process of change |
| exalt | to raise in rank |
| exemplary | worthy of imitation |
| expedient | something contived/used to meet an urgent need |
| extort | to obtain from another through intimidation |
| fallacy | a false notion |
| farce | a light dramatic work |
| fervent | glowing [with emotion?] |
| filial | of/relating to/befitting a son/daughter |
| foretaste | an advance token/warning |
| foretell | to predict |
| abate | to lessen |
| acrimonious | bitter/sharp tone |
| adept | an expert |
| adorn | to decorate with |
| advocate | one who argues for a cause |
| aesthetic | an artistic sensibility |
| affable | easy to speak to |
| alienate | to cause to become unfriendly/hostile |
| allele | an of several forms of a gene |
| alliance | a bond/tie |
| alpha | the first, beginning |
| altruism | selflessness |
| amalgamate | blend/unite |
| ambiguous | may have several meanings or answers |
| anarchy | a state or society without government or law |