Bent (noun)

Blandish
Bridling controlling. Think
of hardly bridled excitement
Brook
Cajole:
Inveigle
Calumniate/calumny:
Canny:
Coda:
Complaisance:
Consequential
Contemn: scorn or despise
(contempt)
Contrite/contrition:
Countenance: tolerate,
approve of
Cozen
Credulous
Demur
Denigrate/denigration:
Denouement:
Depredate/depredations:
Desuetude:
Desultory:
Detraction:
Didactic:
Dirge
Discomfit
Disparate:
Dissemble:
Dissolution:
Dissolute:
Distrait:
Doctrinaire:
Doggerel:
Dross:
Dulcet:
Ebullience:
Effrontery:
Effusive:
Encomium:
Enormity:
Equanimity:
Equable:

Equivocal:
Errant vs. arrant:
Eschew
Evanescent
Evince
Excoriate:
Exculpate:
Exhort:
Exigent:
Expiate:
Extirpate:
Fastidious:
Fatuous:
Feckless:
Felicitous:
Fetid:
Foment:
Forbear:
Forbearance:
Forestall:
Foreswear:
Disallow:
Fracas:
Fractious:
Fulmination:
Fulminate:
Gainsay:
Gambol:
Garrulous
Glib
Gossamer:
Happenstance:
Hegemony:
Hermeneutic:
Heterodox:
Hirsute:
Homily:
Idyll:
Illiberality:
Imbroglio:
Immutable:
Impecunious:
Impetuous:
Importune: persistent asking,
nagging
Impertinent:

Impugn:
Impute:
Incipient:
Indemnify:
Indolent:
Lazy, sluggish, torpid^
Ineluctable:
Ingenuous:
Inimical:
Hostile, unfriendly^
Inscrutable:
Insensible:
Insipid:
Insouciant:
Insular:
Interdiction:
Intransigent:
Inured:
Inveigh:
Inveigle:
Inveterate:
Invidious:
Irascible:
Jejune: childish, uninteresting,
lacking nutrition
Labile:
Laconic:
Lassitude
Limn:
Malfeasance:
Malinger:
Martinet:
Maunder=ramble
Meander = winding, like
tortuous
Mendacity/mendacious:
Mendicant:
Mercurial=capricious
Metericioussouvenirs,
worthless, tawdry, cheap,
outer appeal
Mettlesome
Miltate: AGAINST
Minatory:
Mince:

Multifarious: varied,
diversified
Nascent = incipient
Natty=tidy
Nettle: annoy, provoke
Nice distinction
Noisome: smelly
Nonplussed: baffled
Nostrum: cure-all=panacea
Obeisance: deference,
deferential gesture
Obfuscate: deliberately
confuse
Obstreperous:
Obtain: hold up
Obviate: the need
Occult: supernatural, hidden (to
hide), beyond comprehension
Officious:
Onerous: task
Opprobrium: contempt,
scorn
Ostensible: seeming as such,
though may not be true reason
(ostensible reasons or purposes)
Overweening: arrogant,
presumptuous
Paean:
Palliate: make appear less
serious, (palliate significance of
something bad) but also to
mitigate boredom
Panacea:
Pandemic
Panegyric
Partisans: biased,
tendentious
Pastoral= bucolic, NOT
parochial
Paucity
Peccadillo (think pequeno)
Pedantic: also excessive
attention to fussy/useless
details
Penchant=predilection=proc
livity

Penitential
Penury
Peremptory vs preempt
Perfidy
Perfunctory
Peripatetic
Perspicacious
Pervasive
Philistine
Phlegmatic=calm, sluggish,
unemotional, stoic
Picaresque
Pillory/pilloried
Piquant
Pique= also provoke, also
irritation/resentment fit of
pique
Plangent= clangorous
Pluck = brave, courageous,
spunk
Poignant
Polemical
Portentous= ominously
indicative
Prate=prattle
Precept
Precipitate
Predilection
Preempt = replace, supersede,
appropriate, as in plans
Preen
Premonitory
Prescience
Prevaricate= deliberately
avoid the truth, mislead
Probity
Prodigious
Propitious
Prodigal = profligate
Prolix
Promulgate:
Propitiate:
Proscribe:
Provident:
Puerile: immature, childish
Punctilious (etiquette)

Pusillanimous
Quiescence=inactive, at rest
Quotidian
Ramify
Ramifications
Rancorous=
Rapacious =voracious,
greedy
Rapacity= avarice= greed
Rarefied = also refined
Recondite:
Reconnoiter
Recumbent=supine kind of
Redolent
Redoubtable
Refulgent
Relegate
Refulgent
Remonstrate =protest, object
repine=pine
restive=restless
risible
salacious , titillating, bawdy,
ribald, prurient, lecherous,
licentious, lubricious,
concupiscent
salient
salutatory:
sanctimony, sanctimonious:
sanguine
sartorial
saturnine, gloomy, dark,
morose
scintillating
sedulous
sere
seminal
simper
sinecure (position)
sinuous= also moving lithely
lithe=limber=lissome
supple=flexible,
bending/moving gracefully
slake
solvent

sophomoric: immature,
pretentious
soporific:
sordid =squalor
specious:
spurious:
splenetic
stentorian=loud and
powerful
stint
stolid = stoic
preclude=prevent from
happening, make impossible ..
obviate
obviate disaster, obviate a
need
obviate=remove, avoid,
prevent
succor hint
supercilious:
supine:
supplant=
supersede=replace
tamp
tautology
tawdry=gaudy, tacky nothing
sexual (tawny) related!
Bawdy=sounds like body
Tenuous
Tepid
Torpid !!!
Torrid=also passionate, hurried
Turgid
Tout=publicy praise,
promote
Vaunt=brag about, boast
Transient: fleeting, brief
Evanescent means
disappearing, vanishing
Trenchant: perceptive
Truculent:

Tumid= turgid
Turbid
Turgid
Turpitude MORAL
TURPITUDE
Umbrage
Untenable:
Untoward: troublesome
unfortunate, adverse
(situation) or untoward
circumstances
Urbane
Usury
Venal/venality: think
vendors
Veracity: opposite of
mendacity (root ver)
Vitiate:
Vituperative
Welter= also toss about,
writhe, turmoil