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abject anachronistic bombastic

of the most contemptible kind chronologically misplaced ostentatiously lofty in style


aberration anathema cajole
a state or condition markedly different a formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied influence or urge by gentle urging,
from the norm by excommunication caressing, or flattering
abjure annex callous
formally reject or disavow a formerly held attach to emotionally hardened
belief antediluvian calumny
abnegation of or relating to the period before the a false accusation of an offense
the denial and rejection of a doctrine or biblical flood camaraderie
belief antiseptic the quality of affording easy familiarity
abrogate thoroughly clean and free of disease- and sociability
revoke formally causing organisms candor
abscond apathetic the quality of being honest and
run away, often taking something or showing little or no emotion or animation straightforward
somebody along antithesis capitulate
abstruse exact opposite surrender under agreed conditions
difficult to penetrate apocryphal carouse
accede being of questionable authenticity engage in boisterous, drunken
yield to another's wish or opinion approbation merrymaking
accost official acceptance or agreement carp
approach and speak to someone arbitrary any of various freshwater fish of the family
aggressively or insistently Cyprinidae
based on or subject to individual discretion
accretion or preference caucus
an increase by natural growth or addition arboreal meet to select a candidate or promote a
acumen policy
of or relating to or formed by trees
shrewdness shown by keen insight cavort
arcane
adamant play boisterously
requiring secret or mysterious knowledge
impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, circumlocution
archetypal
reason an indirect way of expressing something
of an original type after which other things
admonish are patterned circumscribe
scold or reprimand; take to task arrogate draw a geometric figure around another
adumbrate figure
seize and take control without authority
describe roughly or give the main points or circumvent
ascetic
summary of surround so as to force to give up
someone who practices self denial as a
adverse spiritual discipline clamor
in an opposing direction aspersion utter or proclaim insistently and noisily
advocate a disparaging remark cleave
a person who pleads for a person, cause, or assiduous separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp
idea instrument
marked by care and persistent effort
affluent cobbler
atrophy
having an abundant supply of money or a person who makes or repairs shoes
possessions of value a decrease in size of an organ caused by
disease or disuse cogent
aggrandize powerfully persuasive
bane
embellish; increase the scope, power, or cognizant
importance of something causing misery or death
bashful having or showing knowledge or
alacrity understanding or realization
liveliness and eagerness self-consciously timid
commensurate
alias beguile
corresponding in size or degree or extent
a name that has been assumed temporarily influence by slyness
complement
ambivalent bereft
something added to embellish or make
uncertain or unable to decide about what sorrowful through loss or deprivation perfect
course to follow blandishment compunction
amenable flattery intended to persuade a feeling of deep regret, usually for some
disposed or willing to comply bilk misdeed
amorphous cheat somebody out of what is due,
having no definite form or distinct shape especially money
concomitant derivative emollient
following or accompanying as a a compound obtained from another a substance with a soothing effect when
consequence compound applied to the skin
conduit despot empirical
a passage through which water or electric a cruel and oppressive dictator derived from experiment and observation
wires can pass diaphanous rather than theory
conflagration so thin as to transmit light emulate
a very intense and uncontrolled fire didactic strive to equal or match, especially by
congruity imitating
instructive, especially excessively
the quality of agreeing; being suitable and enervate
dirge
appropriate weaken mentally or morally
a song or hymn of mourning as a memorial
connive to a dead person enfranchise
form intrigues (for) in an underhand disaffected grant freedom to, as from slavery or
manner servitude
discontented as toward authority
consign engender
discomfit
give over to another for care or call forth
safekeeping cause to lose one's composure
ephemeral
constituent disparate
anything short-lived, as an insect that lives
one of the individual parts making up a fundamentally different or distinct in only for a day
composite entity quality or kind
epistolary
construe dispel
written in the form of letters or
make sense of; assign a meaning to to cause to separate and go in different correspondence
directions
contusion equanimity
disrepute
an injury in which the skin is not broken steadiness of mind under stress
the state of being held in low esteem
contrite equivocal
divisive
feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for open to two or more interpretations
sins or offenses dissenting with the majority opinion
espouse
contentious dogmatic
choose and follow a theory, idea, policy,
showing an inclination to disagree pertaining to a code of beliefs accepted as etc.
authoritative
contravene evanescent
dour
go against, as of rules and laws tending to vanish like vapor
showing a brooding ill humor
convivial evince
duplicity
occupied with or fond of the pleasures of give expression to
good company the act of deceiving or acting in bad faith
exacerbate
corpulence duress
make worse
the property of excessive fatness compulsory force or threat
exhort
covet eclectic
spur on or encourage especially by cheers
wish, long, or crave for selecting what seems best of various styles and shouts
or ideas
cupidity execrable
edict
extreme greed for material wealth unequivocally detestable
a formal or authoritative proclamation
dearth exigent
ebullient
an insufficient quantity or number demanding immediate attention
joyously unrestrained
debacle expedient
egregious
a sudden and violent collapse appropriate to a purpose
conspicuously and outrageously bad or
debauch reprehensible expiate
a wild gathering involving excessive elegy make amends for
drinking expunge
a mournful poem; a lament for the dead
debunk remove by erasing or crossing out or as if
elicit
expose while ridiculing by drawing a line
call forth, as an emotion, feeling, or
defunct response extraneous
no longer in force or use; inactive embezzlement not belonging to that in which it is
demagogue contained
the fraudulent appropriation of funds or
a leader who seeks support by appealing to property extol
popular passions emend praise, glorify, or honor
denigrate make corrections to extant
charge falsely or with malicious intent still in existence; not extinct or destroyed
or lost
expurgate inchoate licentious
edit by omitting or modifying parts only partly in existence; imperfectly lacking moral discipline
considered indelicate formed linchpin
fallacious incontrovertible a central cohesive source of support and
containing or based on incorrect reasoning impossible to deny or disprove stability
fatuous incumbent litigant
devoid of intelligence necessary as a duty or responsibility; a party to a lawsuit
fetter morally binding maelstrom
a shackle for the ankles or feet inexorable a powerful circular current of water
flagrant not to be placated or appeased or moved maudlin
by entreaty
conspicuously and outrageously bad or effusively or insincerely emotional
reprehensible inimical
maverick
foil not friendly
someone who exhibits independence in
hinder or prevent, as an effort, plan, or injunction thought and action
desire a judicial remedy to prohibit a party from mawkish
forbearance doing something
effusively or insincerely emotional
good-natured tolerance of delay or inoculate
maxim
incompetence inject or treat with the germ of a disease to
render immune a saying that is widely accepted on its own
fortuitous merits
occurring by happy chance insidious
mendacious
fractious working or spreading in a hidden and
usually injurious way given to lying
easily irritated or annoyed modicum
instigate
garrulous a small or moderate or token amount
provoke or stir up
full of trivial conversation morass
insurgent
gourmand a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks
in opposition to a civil authority or
a person who is devoted to eating and government underfoot
drinking to excess mores
interlocutor
grandiloquent the conventions embodying the
a person who takes part in a conversation
lofty in style fundamental values of a group
intimation
gratuitous munificent
a slight suggestion or vague understanding
unnecessary and unwarranted very generous
inure
hapless multifarious
cause to accept or become hardened to
unfortunate and deserving pity having many aspects
invective
hegemony nadir
abusive language used to express blame or
the dominance or leadership of one social censure the lowest point of anything
group over others negligent
intransigent
heterogenous characterized by undue lack of attention or
impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests,
consisting of elements that are not of the or reason concern
same kind neophyte
inveterate
iconoclast any new participant in some activity
habitual
someone who attacks cherished ideas or noisome
institutions irreverence
a mental attitude showing lack of due offensively malodorous
idiosyncratic
respect noxious
peculiar to the individual
knell injurious to physical or mental health
impecunious
the sound of a bell rung slowly to obdurate
not having enough money to pay for announce a death
necessities stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing
laconic
impetuous obfuscate
brief and to the point
characterized by undue haste and lack of make obscure or unclear
thought largesse
obstreperous
impinge liberality in bestowing gifts
noisily and stubbornly defiant
infringe upon legerdemain
officious
impute an illusory feat
intrusive in a meddling or offensive
attribute or credit to libertarian manner
inane an advocate of freedom of thought and onerous
speech
devoid of intelligence not easily borne; wearing
ostensible predilection rife
appearing as such but not necessarily so a predisposition in favor of something excessively abundant
ostracism preponderance sanctimonious
the act of excluding someone from society exceeding in heaviness; having greater excessively or hypocritically pious
by general consent weight sanguine
palliate presage confidently optimistic and cheerful
lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or a foreboding about what is about to happen scurrilous
extent of probity expressing offensive reproach
panacea complete and confirmed integrity semaphore
hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases proclivity an apparatus for visual signaling
paradigm a natural inclination serendipity
a standard or typical example profligate good luck in making unexpected and
pariah unrestrained by convention or morality fortunate discoveries
a person who is rejected from society or promulgate sobriety
home
state or announce the state of being sober and not intoxicated
partisan by alcohol
proscribe
a fervent and even militant proponent of solicitous
something command against
protean full of anxiety and concern
paucity
taking on different forms solipsism
an insufficient quantity or number
prurient the philosophical theory that the self is all
pejorative that exists
expressing disapproval characterized by lust
spurious
pellucid puerile
plausible but false
transparently clear; easily understandable displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity
staid
penchant pugnacious
characterized by dignity and propriety
a strong liking ready and able to resort to force or
violence stolid
penurious having or revealing little emotion or
pulchritude
excessively unwilling to spend sensibility
physical beauty, especially of a woman
pert subjugate
punctilious
characterized by a lightly saucy or make subservient; force to submit or
impudent quality marked by precise accordance with details subdue
pernicious quaint surfeit
exceedingly harmful attractively old-fashioned indulge (one's appetite) to satiety
pertinacious quixotic surreptitious
stubbornly unyielding not sensible about practical matters marked by quiet and caution and secrecy
phlegmatic quandary swarthy
showing little emotion state of uncertainty in a choice between naturally having skin of a dark color
unfavorable options
philanthropic tangential
recalcitrant
of or relating to charitable giving of superficial relevance if any
stubbornly resistant to authority or control
pithy tome
redoubtable
concise and full of meaning a large and scholarly book
inspiring fear
platitude toady
relegate
a trite or obvious remark a person who tries to please someone to
assign to a lower position gain an advantage
plaudit
remiss torpid
enthusiastic approval
failing in what duty requires in a condition of biological rest or
plenitude
reprieve suspended animation
a full supply
postpone the punishment of a convicted travesty
plethora criminal a composition that imitates or
extreme excess reprobate misrepresents a style
portent a person without moral scruples trenchant
a sign of something about to happen rescind having keenness and forcefulness and
potentate penetration in thought
cancel officially
a ruler who is unconstrained by law trite
requisition
preclude repeated too often; overfamiliar through
an authoritative request or demand
overuse
make impossible, especially beforehand
truculent
defiantly aggressive
turpitude
a corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or
practice
ubiquitous
being present everywhere at once
umbrage
a feeling of anger caused by being
offended
upbraid
express criticism towards
utilitarian
having a useful function
veracity
unwillingness to tell lies
vestige
an indication that something has been
present
vicissitude
a variation in circumstances or fortune
vilify
spread negative information about
virtuoso
someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any
field
vitriolic
harsh, bitter, or malicious in tone
vituperate
spread negative information about
vociferous
conspicuously and offensively loud
wanton
a lewd or lascivious person
winsome
charming in a childlike or naive way
yoke
join with stable gear, as two draft animals
zephyr
a slight wind
wily
marked by skill in deception
tirade
a speech of violent denunciation

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