12491544185 | allocation | allowance, portion, share | 0 | |
12491544186 | ascetic | practicing self-denial; austere | 1 | |
12491547309 | beguile | charm or enchant (someone), sometimes in a deceptive way | 2 | |
12491547310 | crass | coarse, unfeeling; stupid | 3 | |
12491547311 | defray | to supply the money for; to pay | 4 | |
12491585775 | dint | force; power; a dent | 5 | |
12491592158 | enjoin | to direct or order; to prescribe a course of action in an authoritative way; to prohibit | 6 | |
12491592159 | envoy | (n.) a representative or messenger (as of a government) | 7 | |
12491594873 | interloper | one who moves in where he or she is not wanted or has no right to be, an intruder | 8 | |
12491594874 | vicarious | (adj.) performed, suffered, or otherwise experienced by one person in place of another | 9 | |
12491597498 | admonish | (v.) to caution or advise against something; to scold mildly; to remind of a duty | 10 | |
12491597499 | akimbo | (adj.) - with hands on hips and elbows extending outward | 11 | |
12491600321 | lassitude | (n.) weariness of body or mind, lack of energy | 12 | |
12491600322 | licentious | promiscuous and unprincipled in sexual matters | 13 | |
12491600323 | muse | to think about in a dreamy way, ponder | 14 | |
12491600324 | pecuniary | (adj.) consisting of or measured in money; of or related to money | 15 | |
12491603754 | plight | (n.) a sorry condition or state; (v.) to pledge, promise solemnly | 16 | |
12491603755 | presumptuous | too forward or bold; overstepping proper bounds | 17 | |
12491603756 | subversive | (adj.) intended to undermine or overthrow; (n.) one who advocates or attempts to undermine a political system | 18 | |
12491603757 | vacuous | lacking ideas or intelligence | 19 | |
12491603758 | avocation | a hobby or minor occupation | 20 | |
12491606170 | capricious | given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behavior | 21 | |
12491606171 | disparity | inequality; difference | 22 | |
12491606172 | efficacy | the ability to produce a desired or intended result | 23 | |
12491606173 | epistle | a letter or literary composition in letter form | 24 | |
12491606174 | hospice | a shelter for travelers, orphans, or the ill or destitute | 25 | |
12491608836 | impetus | a moving force, impulse, stimulus | 26 | |
12491608837 | moribund | (adj.) dying, on the way out | 27 | |
12491608838 | reticent | not revealing one's thoughts or feelings readily | 28 | |
12491608839 | vacillate | (v.) to swing indecisively from one idea or course of action to another; to waver weakly in mind or will | 29 | |
12491608840 | akin | (adj.) related by blood; having similar qualities or character | 30 | |
12491611058 | corroborate | (v.) to confirm, make more certain, bolster, substantiate, verify | 31 | |
12491611059 | inexorable | impossible to stop or prevent | 32 | |
12491611060 | insipid | lacking flavor; dull; not at all stimulating | 33 | |
12491613130 | nefarious | (adj.) wicked, depraved, devoid of moral standards | 34 | |
12491613131 | physiognomy | facial features | 35 | |
12491613132 | retinue | a group of advisers, assistants, or others accompanying an important person | 36 | |
12491613133 | suppliant | (adj.) asking humbly and earnestly; (n.) one who makes a request humbly and earnestly, a petitioner, suitor | 37 | |
12491615221 | tedium | dullness; monotony; boredom | 38 | |
12491615222 | torrid | very hot and dry | 39 | |
12491615223 | affront | an action or remark that causes outrage or offense | 40 | |
12491615224 | blase | (adj.) indifferent, bored as a result of having enjoyed many pleasures; apathetic | 41 | |
12491617529 | cajole | (v.) to coax, persuade through flattery or artifice; to deceive with soothing thoughts or false promises | 42 | |
12491617530 | choleric | (adj.) easily made angry, bad-tempered | 43 | |
12491617531 | encumber | (v.) to weigh down or burden (with difficulties, cares, debt, etc.); to fill up, block up, hinder | 44 | |
12491617532 | feckless | (adj.) lacking in spirit and strength; ineffective, weak; irresponsible, unreliable | 45 | |
12491619901 | impasse | blocked path; dilemma with no solution | 46 | |
12491619902 | indolent | wanting to avoid activity or exertion; lazy | 47 | |
12491619903 | lugubrious | looking or sounding sad and dismal | 48 | |
12491619904 | ribald | (adj.) irreverently mocking; coarse, vulgar, or indecent in language | 49 | |
12491619905 | adulation | excessive praise or admiration | 50 | |
12491619906 | censure | harsh criticism or disapproval | 51 | |
12491622278 | dissemble | (v.) to disguise or conceal, deliberately give a false impression | 52 | |
12491622279 | dissimulation | concealment of one's thoughts, feelings, or character; pretense | 53 | |
12491622280 | droll | amusing in an odd or whimsical way | 54 | |
12491622281 | expectorate | cough or spit out phlegm from the throat or lungs | 55 | |
12491622282 | palpate | examine (a part of the body) by touch, especially for medical purposes. | 56 | |
12491622283 | peremptory | (adj.) having the nature of a command that leaves no opportunity for debate, denial, or refusal; offensively self-assured, dictatorial; determined, resolute | 57 | |
12491624650 | pusillanimous | contemptibly cowardly or mean-spirited | 58 | |
12491624651 | surfeit | an excessive amount of something | 59 | |
12491624652 | diurnal | active during the day | 60 | |
12491627562 | extricate | (v.) to free from entanglements or difficulties; to remove with effort | 61 | |
12491627563 | ignominious | deserving or causing public disgrace or shame | 62 | |
12491627564 | mitigate | to make milder or softer, to moderate in force or intensity | 63 | |
12491627565 | palpitate | to pulsate with unusual rapidity from exertion, emotion, disease, etc.; flutter | 64 | |
12491627566 | phlegmatic | calm; sluggish; unemotional | 65 | |
12491634719 | propitious | lucky; favorable | 66 | |
12491634720 | allay | (v.) to calm or pacify, set to rest; to lessen or relieve | 67 | |
12491637821 | capacious | (adj.) able to hold much, roomy | 68 | |
12491637822 | prostrate | lying stretched out on the ground with one's face downward | 69 | |
12491641328 | acquiesce | (v.) to accept without protest; to agree or submit | 70 | |
12491641329 | amity | friendship; friendly relations | 71 | |
12491641330 | arduous | difficult; requiring much effort | 72 | |
12491641331 | gestalt | an organized whole that is perceived as more than the sum of its parts. | 73 | |
12491641332 | inundate | (v.) to flood, overflow; to overwhelm by numbers or size | 74 | |
12491643281 | perjury | lying under oath | 75 | |
12491643282 | perspicuity | clearness or lucidity, as of a statement | 76 | |
12491643283 | preposterous | ridiculous, senseless | 77 | |
12491643284 | trepidation | (n.) fear, fright, trembling | 78 | |
12491647226 | voluble | (adj.) characterized by a ready flow of words; glib, fluent | 79 |
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