110718537 | acquiesce | Accept something reluctantly but without protest | |
110718538 | Admonish | to caution, advise, or counsel against something | |
110718540 | adulation | excessive praise or admiration | |
110718541 | affront | to insult especially to the face by behavior or language. | |
110718542 | Akimbo | with hands on hips and elbows extending outward | |
110718543 | Akin | related to or alike | |
110718544 | allay | Diminish or put at rest | |
110718546 | Allocation | to apportion for a specific purpose or to particular persons or things | |
110718548 | ambulatory | Relating to or adapted for walking. | |
110718550 | amity | friendship; peaceful harmony. | |
110718551 | aplomb | imperturbable self-possession, poise, or assurance. | |
110718552 | arduous | requiring great exertion; laborious; difficult | |
110718553 | Ascetic | practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline | |
110718554 | Avocation | secondary or minor occupation | |
110718555 | barrage | an overwhelming quantity or explosion, as of words, blows, or criticisms. | |
110718556 | Beguile | to lead by deception | |
110718557 | blasé | apathetic to pleasure or excitement as a result of excessive indulgence or enjoyment | |
110718558 | brazen | Bold and without shame. | |
110718559 | cajole | to persuade with flattery or gentle urging | |
110718560 | capacious | Having a lot of space inside | |
110718561 | capricious | impulsive, unpredictable | |
110718562 | censure | harsh criticism or disapproval | |
110718563 | choleric | easily moved to often unreasonable or excessive anger | |
110718564 | cognizant | aware; having knowledge. | |
110718565 | collusion | secret agreement for a fraudulent purpose; connivance; conspiracy. | |
110718566 | Corroborate | to support with evidence | |
110718567 | Crass | having or indicating such grossness of mind as precludes delicacy and discrimination | |
110718568 | Defray | to provide for the payment of | |
110718569 | din | a loud, confused noise; a continued loud or tumultuous sound; noisy clamor. | |
110718570 | Dint | power; effort | |
110718571 | disparity | inequality or difference in some respect | |
110718572 | dissemble | to disguise or conceal | |
110718573 | dissimulation | the act of deceiving | |
110718574 | diurnal | of or pertaining to a day or each day; daily | |
110718575 | droll | amusingly odd | |
110718576 | efficacy | the power to produce a desired result | |
110718577 | encumber | to impede or hamper the function or activity | |
110718578 | Enjoin | to direct or impose by authoritative order or with urgent admonition | |
110718579 | ennui | a feeling of utter weariness and discontent resulting from satiety or lack of interest; boredom | |
110718580 | Envoy | a person delegated to represent one government in its dealings with another | |
110718581 | epistle | a letter or form of communication | |
110718582 | exonerate | to relieve, as from an obligation, duty, or task. | |
110718583 | expectorate | clear out the chest and lungs | |
110718584 | extricate | to free or release from entanglement | |
110718585 | feckless | careless or irresponsible | |
110718586 | gestalt | a configuration, pattern, or organized field having specific properties that cannot be derived from the summation of its component parts; a unified whole. | |
110718587 | hegemony | leadership; predominance. | |
110718588 | hospice | a shelter for travelers, orphans, or the ill or destitute | |
110718589 | ignominious | humiliating, disgracing | |
110718590 | impasse | a predicament affording no obvious escape | |
110718591 | impetus | a moving force, impulse, stimulus | |
110718592 | indolent | lazy | |
110718593 | Inexorable | impossible to stop or prevent | |
110718594 | inscrutable | not easily understood; mysterious; unfathomable | |
110718595 | Insipid | lacking taste or flavor or tang | |
110718596 | Interloper | someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission | |
110718597 | inundate | to flood; cover or overspread with water; deluge | |
110718598 | Lassitude | a condition of weariness or debility | |
110718599 | Licentious | lacking moral discipline | |
110718600 | lugubrious | exaggeratedly or affectedly mournful | |
110718601 | mitigate | to make less severe | |
110718602 | moribund | dying | |
110718603 | Muse (Noun) | a state of deep thought or dreamy abstraction | |
110718604 | Muse (Verb) | to think or meditate in silence, as on some subject | |
110718605 | nebulous | lacking definite form, shape, or content; vague or amorphous. | |
110718606 | Nefarious | extremely wicked | |
110718607 | palpate | examine (a body part) by palpation | |
110718608 | palpitate | to cause to throb or beat rapidly | |
110718609 | paradigm | a pattern or model. | |
110718610 | Pecuniary | relating to or involving money | |
110718611 | peremptory | not allowing contradiction or refusal | |
110718612 | perjury | the willful giving of false testimony under oath or affirmation, before a competent tribunal, upon a point material to a legal inquiry. | |
110718613 | perspicuity | clearness or lucidity, as of a statement. | |
110718614 | phlegmatic | not easily excited to action or display of emotion; apathetic; sluggish. | |
110718615 | physiognomy | the art of judging human character by facial features | |
110718616 | Plight | a solemn pledge of fidelity | |
110718617 | preposterous | completely contrary to nature, reason, or common sense; absurd; senseless; utterly foolish | |
110718618 | Presumptuous | assuming too much; arrogant | |
110718619 | prognosticate | to forecast or predict (something future) from present indications or signs; prophesy. | |
110718620 | propitious | presenting favorable conditions | |
110718621 | prostrate | to lay flat on the ground in demonstration of humility or submission | |
110718622 | pusillanimous | cowardly; fearful | |
110718623 | reticent | silent; reserved | |
110718624 | retinue | a group that attends an important person. | |
110718625 | ribald | humorously vulgar | |
110718626 | schism | division or disunion, esp. into mutually opposed parties. | |
110718627 | sedition | incitement of discontent or rebellion against a government. | |
110718628 | Subversive | in opposition to a civil authority or government | |
110718629 | suppliant | asking humbly and earnestly | |
110718630 | surfeit | an excessive amount | |
110718631 | tedium | the feeling of being bored by something tedious | |
110718632 | torrid | intensely hot and dry | |
110718633 | trepidation | tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation. | |
110718634 | unctuous | oily; using excessive flattery. | |
110718635 | urbane | characterized by elegance or sophistication. | |
110718636 | vacillate | be undecided about something | |
110718637 | Vacuous | devoid of significance or point; empty | |
110718638 | Vicarious | suffered or done by one person as a substitute for another | |
110718639 | voluble | characterized by a ready and continuous flow of words; fluent; glib; talkative | |
110718640 | wizened | withered; shriveled |
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