10434881542 | Abate | become less in amount or intensity | 0 | |
10434881543 | Abject | Cast off, rejected, cast out, expelled | 1 | |
10434881544 | Ablution | A cleansing with with water or other liquid as a religious ritual | 2 | |
10434881545 | Abominable | Hateful, detestable, loathsome | 3 | |
10434881546 | Acquiesce | To accept, comply, or submit | 4 | |
10434881547 | Adulterate | To make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance | 5 | |
10434881548 | Aloof | Remote in manner | 6 | |
10434881549 | Antiquated | So extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period | 7 | |
10434881550 | Apostate | One who abjures or forsakes his religious faith | 8 | |
10434881551 | Apprehend | Anticipate with dread or anxiety | 9 | |
10434881552 | Approbation | Approval | 10 | |
10434881553 | Arbitress | One who settles disputes | 11 | |
10434881554 | Ardor | feelings of great warmth and intensity | 12 | |
10434881555 | Ascertain | To learn with certainty | 13 | |
10434881556 | Assiduous | Diligent (showing care and persistent effort) | 14 | |
10434881557 | Augment | enlarge or increase | 15 | |
10434881558 | Augury | An event indicating important things to come | 16 | |
10434881559 | Auspicious | Auguring favorable circumstances and good luck | 17 | |
10434881560 | Avarice | Greed for riches and wealth | 18 | |
10434881561 | Bequeath | Hand down or pass on | 19 | |
10434881562 | Candour | Frankness or outspokenness | 20 | |
10434881563 | Caprice | Sudden whim or fancy | 21 | |
10434881564 | Catharsis | the purging of the emotions or relieving of emotional tensions | 22 | |
10434881565 | Clairvoyant | Capable of perceiving through intuition things that cannot be seen | 23 | |
10434881566 | Complacency | A feeling of quiet pleasure or security | 24 | |
10434881567 | Compunction | A feeling of remorse or guilt | 25 | |
10434881568 | Conclave | A private room, inner chamber, closet | 26 | |
10434881569 | Condescend | Assume an air of superiority (in Austen times graciously lowering oneself) | 27 | |
10434881570 | Conjecture | Opinion found on insufficient guess (or to form one) | 28 | |
10434881571 | Contrite | Feeling sorrow or regret for a fault or offense | 29 | |
10434881572 | Countenance | Appearance, especially the look on ones face (or to tolerate/allow) | 30 | |
10434881573 | Credulous | Gullible | 31 | |
10434881574 | Crevice | A crack forming an opening | 32 | |
10434881575 | Decorum | Orderliness, regularity proper behavior, speech, or dress | 33 | |
10434881576 | Decrepit | Worn out by old age | 34 | |
10434881577 | Deference | Respecting the opinion of another | 35 | |
10434881578 | Denounce | To strongly criticize or accuse publicly | 36 | |
10434881579 | Depravity | Complete immorality or evil | 37 | |
10434881580 | Derision | Ridicule, mockery | 38 | |
10434881581 | Despot | a king or other ruler with absolute, unlimited power; any tyrant or oppressor | 39 | |
10434881582 | Discern | To notice or understand something- often something that is not obvious | 40 | |
10434881583 | Discord | Unpleasant sound-especially a combination of sounds that sound wrong together (though sometimes done intentionally in music) | 41 | |
10434881584 | Disdain | A lack of respect- often suggesting distante and an undeserved sense of superiority | 42 | |
10434881585 | Divine | To predict or discover something supernaturally (as if by magic) | 43 | |
10434881586 | Dubious | Objectively doubtful, fraught with doubt or uncertainty | 44 | |
10434881587 | Emphatic | Uttered with emphasis | 45 | |
10434881588 | Enumerate | Name one by one | 46 | |
10434881589 | Ethereal | Characterized by an air-like insubstantiality | 47 | |
10434881590 | Expedient | Something that is useful or helpful | 48 | |
10434881591 | Expostulation | Earnest and kindly protesting | 49 | |
10434881592 | Extol | praise, glorify, or honor | 50 | |
10434881593 | Fastidious | Overly difficult to please | 51 | |
10434881594 | Felicity | Great happiness | 52 | |
10434881595 | Filial | of, pertaining to, or befitting a son or daughter | 53 | |
10434881596 | Fortnight | Two weeks | 54 | |
10434881597 | Gallant | Polite or attentive to women brave | 55 | |
10434881598 | Guile | Cunning (shrewdness and cleverness) and deceitful | 56 | |
10434881599 | Hubris | Excessive pride or arrogance | 57 | |
10434881600 | Ignominy | Dishonor, disgrace, shame | 58 | |
10434881601 | Impertinent | Irrelevant, rude or insolent | 59 | |
10434881602 | Impetuous | Impulsive (acting suddenly without much thought) - often with an unfortunate consequence | 60 | |
10434881603 | Implacable | Not to be appeased or made peace with | 61 | |
10434881604 | Incorporeal | Having no bodily or material structure; not composed of matter, immaterial. | 62 | |
10434881605 | Indignation | Anger aroused by something unjust | 63 | |
10434881606 | Inducement | to persuade into action | 64 | |
10434881607 | Iniquitous | Unjust, wicked | 65 | |
10434881608 | Insipidity | Lacking taste or flavor, dull or flat | 66 | |
10434881609 | Intolerable | Unable to be endured | 67 | |
10434881610 | Jocund | Feeling, expressing, or communicating mirth or cheerfulness; mirthful, merry, cheerful, blithe, gay. | 68 | |
10434881611 | Laudable | Deserving praise, praiseworthy | 69 | |
10434881612 | Mortal | Human (especially merely human); or subject to death | 70 | |
10434881613 | Obdurate | Flinty, hard, stubborn | 71 | |
10434881614 | Odious | Deserving or causing hatred | 72 | |
10434881615 | Opprobrious | Of words, languages, etc.; expressing scorn; reproachful; scorn | 73 | |
10434881616 | Ordinance | A decree or command or law | 74 | |
10434881617 | Ostentation | pretentious or conspicuous show, trying to impress | 75 | |
10434881618 | Panegyric | A formal or elaborate praise | 76 | |
10434881619 | Parricide | the act of killing one's father, mother, or other close relative or a person who commits such an act | 77 | |
10434881620 | Pedantic | Insist on petty details of things they know | 78 | |
10434881621 | Perdition | The fact or condition of being destroyed or ruined; utter destruction, complete ruin. | 79 | |
10434881622 | Perfidy | An act of deliberate betrayal; or such behavior | 80 | |
10434881623 | Piqued | Irritated, aroused or provoked | 81 | |
10434881624 | Precipitance | Rash haste, suddenness, hurried | 82 | |
10434881625 | Primal | Original | 83 | |
10434881626 | Prodigious | Extraordinary in size or degree | 84 | |
10434881627 | Propensity | A natural inclination or tendency | 85 | |
10434881628 | Prudent | Judicious in practical affairs; marked by wisdom | 86 | |
10434881629 | Puissant | Possessed of or wielding power; having great authority or influence; mighty, potent, powerful. | 87 | |
10434881630 | Rapture | Ecstatic state of joy or happiness | 88 | |
10434881631 | Regicide | the act of killing a king | 89 | |
10434881632 | Solace | Comfort during grief | 90 | |
10434881633 | Suppliant | A person who petitions or humbly asks for something | 91 | |
10434881634 | Surmise | To conjecture, presume, suppose | 92 | |
10434881635 | Treatise | A summary of information on a specific topic | 93 | |
10434881636 | Tumult | Violent uproar | 94 | |
10434881637 | Transcendent | Surpassing or excelling others of its kind; going beyond the ordinary limits | 95 | |
10434881638 | Vacuous | Lacking intelligent thought | 96 | |
10434881639 | Venerate | Revere, honor, respect | 97 | |
10434881640 | Wrath | Extreme anger- sometimes implying angry punishment | 98 | |
10434881641 | Zeal | Active interest and enthusiasm | 99 |
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