- adj. bitter; angry: acrimonious
- adj. capable; qualified: competent
- adj. cautious; restrained: discreet
- adj. existing in one from birth: innate
- adj. free from cunning or deception: guileless
- adj. honest; open: candid
- adj. showy; gaudy: garish
- adj. unrelated; off the topic: irrelevant
- adj. well spoken: articulate
- n. act of avoiding or eluding: evasion
- n. condemnation or censure: denunciation
- n. consent; agreement: acquiescence
- n. correctness: rectitude
- n. deterioration; worsening; the process of declining in quality: degeneration
- n. distress; misfortune; pain: affliction
- n. great wickedness; outrageous act or offense: enormity
- n. insulting word: invective
- n. poverty; wretchedness: squalor
- n. relief; the act of making something less severe or intense: palliation
- n. right; privilege: prerogative
- n. standards or measures by which something can be judged: criteria
- n. tendency; an innate inclination: propensity
- v. admit; acknowledge: concede
- v. drive away; rid one's mind of: dispel
- v. explain; shed light on: elucidate