Abeyance Abrogate Abscond Abstinence Abstruse Accolade Acquit Adjure Adumbrate Aegis Aggrieve Akimbo Alacrity Alchemy Ambulatory

Ameliorate Anathema Ancillary Anomie Antipodal Apocryphal Apoplexy Apostasy Ascetic Assiduous Assignation Bacchanal Bandy Bathos Behemoth Belie Besmirch Bilious Bivouac Bon Vivant Bowdlerize Brook Bumptious Byzantine Cabal Cachet Calumny -

a temporary suspension of activity to repeal, to set aside, to nullify to leave quickly and secretively voluntarily refraining from eating certain foods or drink hard to understand or grasp award or honor, high praise personal clothing, accessories, or equipment to find not guilty, to conduct oneself to command or urge solemnly and earnestly to suggest partly, to give a hint of things to come to distress, to mistreat protection, patronage

Accouterments

having ones hands in a bent position on the hips, a process of transformation that is seemingly magical able to walk or move about to make better, to ease or improve something or someone loathed or intensely dislike subsidiary, subordinate instability caused by an erosion of value or lack of purpose situated on opposite side of the earth or being exactly opposite false, spurious, of doubtful origin a stroke resulting from loss of blood of the brain, a judge, one who decides hermitlike, self-denial, austere hardworking, busy, diligent a secret meeting, a tryst, or something assigned a drunken reveler or orgy to toss and forth, to exchange, to use in a glib way a transition from the illustrious to the commonplace, overdone pathos,

cheerful readiness, liveliness or eagerness

something that is enormous, or monstrous in size and power to stain or soil ( commonly as to reputation )

to run counter to, to show something as false ill-tempered, cranky, angry a temporary encampment someone who enjoys luxurious living to censor prudishly pushy, conceited, noisily self-assertive extremely intricate or complicated in structure a secret group of conspirators, a clique a mark of distinction, a quality that says prestige slander, deliberate false statements

to tolerate, to put up with something

Capricious Castigate Cataclysm Cavil Chary Chicanery Chimerical Clout Cogitate Comport -

whimsical, fanciful, impulsive to punish, chastise, criticize severely a violent upheaval, an earthquake, a flood careful, cautious, wary

to quibble, to raise trivial objections deception or trickery wildly fanciful, absurd wordy language, an indirect, roundabout expression

Circumlocution

influence, a forceful blow to ponder over, to mediate, to think to behave remorse, feeling uneasy after having done something accompanying, attending, going along with a large, disastrous fire argumentative over a point, quarrelsome a procession, a group of attendants an intimate group of people with a common interest to wish for with envy a disaster or violent breakdown to kill or destroy a large part of harmful to prey upon, to plunder with violence if necessary to discern, to see something, to teach sight of to dry out division into two often contradictory parts a dabbler, someone with a superficial knowledge (usually of the arts) to confuse, deceive to make uneasy to break up, to squander, to indulge excessively in sensual pleasure occurring during the day, happens everyday comic, sometimes crude, informal verse a file of documents, letters and records severe, exceedingly harsh having a nice, agreeable, melodious sound exhausted, lost vitality, over refined vigor, distinctive, elegant style oval, obscure in expression a eulogy or expression of high praise native, belonging to a specific region to weaken, to sap the strength boredom, listlessness, lack of interest to settle in snugly, to hide in a secure place

Compunction Concomitant Conflagration Contentious Cortege Coterie Covet Debacle Decimate Deleterious Depredate Descry Desiccate Dichotomy Dilettante Discomfit Disquiet Dissipate Diurnal Doff Doggerel Dossier Draconian Dulcet Effete lan Elliptical Encomium Endemic Enervate Ennui Ensconce -

to take off (usually clothing) as a sign of greeting

Ersatz Erudite Espy -

an inferior substitute scholarly, deeply learned, well read to glimpse, to descry, to catch sight of the belief in the superiority of ones race or ethnic group vanishing, happening for the briefest moment an excellent model, a typical example urgent, demands prompt action to rip up by the roots, to abolish, to annihilate humorous, joking in a somewhat inappropriate or clumsy manner animals lacking responsibility, ineffective fertile, productive, fruitful wild, like a wild animal, savage to impede, restrain, hamper

Ethnocentric Evanescent Exemplar Exigent Extirpate Facetious Fauna Feckless Fecund Feral Fetter Fey Foment Forswear Fusillade Gainsay Gamin Garrulous Gestalt Gesticulate Gird Halitosis Hidebound Histrionic Hoary Husbandry Ignominious Imbroglio Impervious Impugn Implacable Inchoate Iniquitous Insouciant Interregnum Impecunious -

otherworldly, magical, touched to whip, or to punish as if by whipping to stir up, to incite retract, renounce or recant a rapid outburst, spray of gunfire to deny, to speak or act against a street urchin, a slim girl with an impish charm talkative to divide into election districts to gain political advantage to gesture, especially when speaking a structure, whose parts cannot stand alone

Flagellate

Gerrymander

to invest with authority, to brace bad breath excessively rigid, dry and stiff, inflexible overly dramatic, theatrical, deliberately affected gray or white with age, ancient, stale a system of natural healing the judicious used of resources, livestock farming disgraceful and dishonorable without money, penniless does not allow something to pass through, impenetrable to attack the integrity of something not capable of being appeased or mollified just beginning, not organized or orderly, incomplete evil, unjust nonchalant, lighthearted, unconcerned the period between two successive governments, a difficult and confused situation, a complicated disagreement

Homeopathy

Intransigent Inveterate Irascible Itinerant Junta Largess Lassitude Leitmotif Levee Libation Libidinous Lope Macerate -

uncompromising, stubborn habitual, deeply rooted or established

hot-tempered, cranky moving from place to place a massive, unstoppable object a generous giving of gifts, philanthropy a weariness, listlessness, a state of lethargy a dominant or recurring theme or emotion an embankment designed to prevent a river from flooding a pouring of a liquid for a religious ceremony, a drink lustful, lascivious to soften by soaking, to cause to waste away scheming activity foe an evil purpose the humorous misuse of a word that sound very much like the word intended an illegal act especially by a public official to enroll, most particularly in college overly sentimental sweetly flowing dishonest, deceitful a poisonous swamp vapor, a harmful influence or atmosphere environment, surroundings merry, gleeful bitingly sarcastic, incisive, caustic in manner being in a dying or decaying condition to expose political misconduct generous nearsightedness, lacking foresight a wealthy, influential person coming into existence, being born a beginner, a novice showing favoritism to friends or family, as in granting positions in jobs or politics stingy, small in a mean way the belief that there are no values or morals in the universe, a blissful, painless state, harmful, unwholesome, stinking, putrid to bewilder, to puzzle stubborn fawning, subservient, servile a work of art, the sum of an artists work emotionally unpredictable, give to rapid changes in mood to run at steady, easy pace a small group that rules a country after a coup detat

Juggernaut

Machination Malapropism Malfeasance Martinet Maudlin Mellifluous Mendacious Mercurial Miasma Milieu Mirthful Mordant Moribund Muckrake Munificent Myopia Nabob Nascent Neophyte Nepotism Niggardly Nihilism Nirvana Noisome Nonplus Obdurate Oeuvre Obsequious Matriculate

one who adheres strictly to rules

Officious Omniscient

unnecessarily helpful, meddlesome, interfering all knowing, infinite awareness eating or absorbing everything, feeding on both animal and vegetable Substances burdensome, oppressive, troublesome damning, extremely critical, disgraceful

Omnivorous Onerous Onus Opus Oscillate Ossify Palliate Pallid Panacea Panegyric Paradigm Patina Patois Penury Perfidious Perfunctory Perorate Perquisite Petulant Phantasm Phlegmatic Piquant Placebo Plebeian Pluralism Portent Pregnant Prescient Prevaricate Privation Probity Profligate Propinquity Protean Prepossess Opprobrious

burden, blame, obligation a creative work, musical composition to swing back and forth to become rigid, to be come set in ones ways to hide the seriousness of something with excuses or apologies, lacking color, wan a remedy that cures everything lofty praise, eulogistic writing a model or example stingy surface discoloration caused by age and oxidation, a language used by a particular population that differs from standard Speech next to last extreme poverty an expedition, wandering careless, unenthusiastic, done merely as duty a privilege or perk that goes along with a job shrewd, astute, showing strong powers of discernment cranky, ill tempered, irritable, peevish an apparition, phantom calm, indifferent, not easily aroused pungent, charmingly provocative a fake medication common, vulgar, low class a society in which distinct group function together, but retain their identities an omen, a sign of something coming, a foreshadowing highly significant, overflowing, rich in significance to cause to be preoccupied, to influence, positively, in advance having foresight to deviate from the truth honesty, uprightness corrupt, degenerate, wildly extravagant nearness in place or time, kinship readily assuming different shapes or characters lack of comforts, poverty, a state of being deprived faithless, untrustworthy to make a long, formal speech, to sum up a speech

Parsimonious

Penultimate Peregrination

Perspicacious

Provenance Prowess Prurient Puissance Punctilious Putrefy Quiescence Raffish Rarefied Recidivism Recondite Redoubtable Remuneration Repartee Reprobate Reticent Ribald Rife Rout Rubric Ruminate Sagacious Sallow Sally Sangfroid Sartorial Saturnine Savant Scofflaw Scotch Secrete Sententious Shibboleth Simper Sinuous Slatternly Somnolent Spate Spelunker Salubrious -

origin, source, proof of posting ownership exceptional skill or strength, military valor power, strength meticulously attentive to detail, exacting to rot

lascivious, have lustful thoughts or desires

state of rest or inactivity jaunty, sporty, disreputable, vulgar, characterized by a careless Unconventionality a re-establishment of good relations

Rapprochement Recalcitrant -

esoteric, interesting to only a few stubbornly defiant and resistant of authority the act of repeating an offense hard to understand, abstruse, over ones head formidable, fearsome, deserving of respect payment, recompense

a quick, witty reply, spirited conversation a morally unprincipled person, a scoundrel restrained, reluctant, uncommunicative vulgar or indecent language

widespread, abounding, occurring frequently to put to flight, to scatter, to cause a huge defeat heading, title, category to muse upon wise shrewd a sickly, greenish-yellow tone a rushing attack, witty repartee, a brief excursion favorable to health extraordinary composure in the face of danger relating to dress or fashion sullen, gloomy, depressed a scholar, a very knowledgeable person one who is continually breaking the law to put an end to to give off, to conceal preachy, pompous, using wise sayings excessively a distinctive word or behavior that typifies a group, a slogan to smile foolishly something that is an essential condition of winding, having many curves squalid, a slovenly woman drowsy, sleepy a sudden outburst a cave explorer

Sine qua non

Stalwart Striated

unwavering, robust, sturdily built marked with thin lines or grooves turmoil unique, of its own kind, in a class by itself arrogant, overbearing, condescending sneaky, secret a flatterer, a self-serving yes-man a form oflogic in which major and minor premises are made and a conclusion drawn, forestlike, wooded the combined force of two distinct elements that is more powerful then each alone boldness, rashness, audacity to compromise, to draw something out in order to gain time advancing a point of view, biased fearful, easily frightened in title only fashionable, trendy, aristocratic tasty, sexually attractive, luscious hostile, aggressive, savage displeasure or resentment, shade to move smoothly in a wavelike manner lending money at a high interest rate empty, lacking intelligence whim, an unpredictable action boastful, pompous faade, coating, outward appearance to honor, to worship, to respect truthful, honest covered with green plants, leafy acting for another, sharing in an experience of another through the Imagination a thick or sticky consistency of a liquid corrosive, biting, bitterly scathing someone who wastes, a spendthrift shriveled, withered custom, habit full-figured, plump the mood or spirit of the times a gentle breeze an moment, a short period of time

Sturm and drang Sui generis Supercilious Surreptitious Sycophant Syllogism Sylvan Synergy Temerity Temporize Tendentious Timorous Titular Tony Trice Truculent Umbrage Undulate Usury Vacuous Vagary Veneer Venerate Veracious Verdant Vicarious Viscosity Vitriolic Wastrel Wizened Wont Zaftig Zeitgeist Zephyr Vainglorious -

Toothsome