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Abase: lower, humiliate
Abash: to embarrass
Abate: to lessen
Abominate: to loathe, hate
Abstruse: profound; difficult to understand
Accentuate: to strees, emphasize
Acclivity: sharp incline of a hill
Accolade: award, honor
Accost: to approach and speak to
Adroit: skillful
Adulate: to flatter and praise so much it's sickening
Adulterate: to make impure
Adumbrate: to foreshadow by disclosing only partially
Adverse: hostile, opposed, unfavorable
Advocate: to urge, recommend
Aesthetic: artistic, pertaining to a sense of what is beautiful
Affected: fake
Affinity: attraction
Affluent: rich
Affray: public brawl
Agape: open-mouthed
Aghast: horrified
Agile: able to movev in a quick and easy fashion
Alacrity: cheerful promptness
Alias: false name
Alimentary: supplying nourishment
Allay: to soothe, to make more bearable
Alleged: stated without proof
Alleviate: to make more bearable
Allude: to refer indirectly
Allusion: a reference to something
Altercation: a violent dispute
Amass: to collect, to get a bunch of
Ambulatory: able to walk
Ameliorate: to improve a bad situation
Amity: peaceful relations, friendship
Amnesia: loss of memory
Amok: freaked out and violently pissed off
Amorphous: shapeless
Anthropoid: humanlike
Antipathy: hatred, aversion, dislike
Apathetic: indifferent, showing lack of interest
Apathy: indifference, lack of interest
Apex: tip, peak, summit, way up there
Appease: to soothe, placate
Arbitrary: chosen at random or without apparent reason
Ardor: heat, passion, zeal
Askew: crooked, off to one side
Assuage: to easy, pacify
Astute: shrewd, wise, observing
Attribute: (n) a characteristic, usually a good one (v) to explain by indicating a cause
Atypical: not typical
Audacity: boldness
August: majestic, awe-inspiring
Austerity: severity, strictness
Averse: opposed, unwlling
Avuncular: a funky word meaning "like an uncle"
Awry: twisted, crooked, out of whack, askew, wrong
Bacchanalian: orgiastic, like wild drunken reveory
Baleful: something that exerts an evil influence or foreshadows evil
Baneful: something that is poisonous or deadly
Barrister: Lawyer
Bawdy: obscene, coarse, humourous
Beatific: displaying or imparting joy
Begrudge: to envy, to resent
Beguile: trick
Belated: delayed, late
Bellicose: violent, warlike
Benevolent: kind
Berate: to scold severely
Bereft: lacking something needed
Betroth: to become engaged
Biennial: every two years
Bland: not stimulating, dull
Blandishment: flattery
Blighted: ruined, destroyed, withered
Boisterous: rowdy
Bombastic: grandiloquent (wordy, pompous) in speech or writing
Braggadocio: cockiness, a braggart
Brevity: briefness
Brusque: brief, curt, gruff, discourteous
Bucolic: pastoral, typical of farms and rural life
Bumptious: self-assertive
Burgeon: to grow, sprout, flourish
Burnish: to polish
Cache: hiding place
Cacophonous: sounding discordant, terrible and generally unpleasant to listen to
Cadaver: corpse
Cajole: to coax
Callous: unfeeling, unsympathetic
Calumniate: to slander
Calumny: slander, defamation
Candor: frankness, candidness
Cantankerous: ill-natured, quarrelsome
Capacious: spacious
Capitulate: to surrender
Capricious: unpredictable, following whim
Captious: fault-finding
Carrion: rotting flesh
Castigate: to punish
Cathartic: cleansing, allowing a release of tension or emotion
Caustic: burning, characterized by a bitter wit
Cauterize: to burn tissue
Cavil: to raise unnecessary or trivial objecctions
Celerity: switfness, speed
Celestial: pertaining to sky or heaven, divine
Celibate: without sex, unmarried
Censor: (v) to remove inapproriate stuff (n) someone who censors things
Censure: to criticize, blame
Cerebration: thought
Chagrin: embarrassment
Chaos: sate of utter confusion
Charlatan: quack, someone who pretends he's someone he's not
Chaste: pure, unspoiled, virginal
Chicanery: trickery
Chimerical: far out, bizarre, really heady
Choleric: hot-tempered, easily made "hot under the collar"
Churlish: boorish, rude
Ciliated: having tiny hairs
Circuitous: roundabout, not direct
Clemency: mildness of temper
Cogent: clear, logical, well-thought out
Cogitate: to think about deeply and carefully
Cognizant: fully informed and aware, conscious
Comely: attractive, agreeable
Comestible: food
Commensurate: equal, proportionate
Commiserate: to sympathize, be miserable together
Comport: to behave in a particular way
Compunction: strong uneasiness caused by guilt
Concupiscence: sexual desire, lust, sensuality
Concurrent: at the same time
Congenital: exisiting at birth
Conjecture: statement made without adequate evidence
Conjugal: pertaining to marriage
Contort: twist, bend
Contrition: remorse, repentance, bitter regret felt owing to wrongdoing
Controversial: of, relating to, or causing dispute
Convoke: to call together, to cause to assemble
Corp-: a rood meaning "body"
Corporal: of the body, bodily
Corpulent: obese, having a fat body
Corroborate: to testify in agreement
Countermand: to cancel a command
Covert: concealed, secret
Cower: to quiver, shrink from fear
Crass: uncultured
Credulity: gullibility
Crestfallen: dejected
Crux: main point, central issue, heart of the matter
Cull: to select, weed out
Cumbersome: burdensome, troublesome, clumsy
Cupidity: greed, avarice
Cursory: hasty, careless, hurried
Cynical: distrusting, contemptuous, pessimistic
Daunt: overcome with fear, intimidate, discourage
Debase: reduce in quality or value, adulterate, corrupt, degrade
Declivity: downward slope
Defamation: false or unjustified injury of good reputation
Deference: respectful or courteous regard, politeness
Deft: dexterous, nimble, skillfull, clever
Deprecate: express earnest disaproval of, belittle
Despondency: depression of spirits, dejection
Desultory: lacking in consistency, random
Deterrent: intereferes with or delays action, restraint
Discern: recognize, distinguish, discriminate
Dissipation: wasting by misuse, diversion, amusement
Diurnal: daily, common, everyday
Dogma: system or principles, doctrine, opinion, rule
Dogmatic: opinionated
Domicile: place of residence, dwelling
Dubious: doubtful, indecisive
Effervescent: bubbling, vivacious, lively
Effigy: crude representation
Effusion: unrestrained expression
Enervation: deprive of force or strength, weaken
Enfranchise: to set free, liberate, admit to citizenship
Ephermeral: lasting a very short time, short-lived; momentary
Equanimity: mental/emotional stability or composure; calmess
Estrange: turn away in feeling or affection; separate
Ethereal: extremely delicate
Exculpate: to clear from a charge or guilt; excuse
Facile: moving, acting, working, etc. with ease
Fastidious: excessively particular, critical, or demanding
Fatuous: foolish, silly
Ferocity: a ferocious quality or state, savage fierceness
Fervent: having or showing great warmth or intensity of spirit, feeling, etc.
Fervid: enthusiastic
Flaccid: soft & limp, not firm, lacking force, weak
Foreboding: to foretell or predict
Furrow: narrow groove made in the ground
Furtive: secretive
Gaunt: extremely thin or bony; emaciated
Gratuitous: without charge or payment
Gravity: serious or critical nature