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1. Abscond (v) To depart suddenly and secretly, as for the purpose of escaping arrest.
2. Adversity - (n) Hardship, difficulty; opposition
3. Aggravate (v) to make worse/intensify something
4. Arduous (adj) hard to do, requiring much effort
5. Belie (v) to contradict, to give a false impression
6. Bombast - (n) speech or writing that sounds grand or important but has little meaning
7. Castigation (n) Severe criticism or punishment
8. Censure (v) to criticize harshly
9. Chicanery (n) trickery, fraud, deception
10. Coercive (adj) Forcing someone to do something against their will; intimidate
11. Condemn (v) to express strong disapproval of
12. Conspire (v) to plan together secretly to do something wrong or illegal
13. Covert (adj) secret or hidden
14. Cower (v) To crouch or shrink away from in fear or shame
15. Craven (adj) lacking courage-coward
16. Denigrate (v)to attack the reputation of; to speak ill of
17. Denounce (v) to criticize publicly
18. Discomfit (v) to embarrass, unsettle
19. Disingenuous (adj) not candid; insincere; not honest
20. Exacerbate (v) to make (a problem, bad situation, or negative feeling) worse.
21. Fraud (n) a deliberate deception intended to produce unlawful gain
63. Emollient - (adj./n.) soothing, esp. to the skin; making less harsh; mollifying; an agent that softens or smooths the
skin
64. Empirical - (adj.) based on observation or experiment
65. Enigmatic - (adj.) mysterious; obscure; difficult to understand
66. Ephemeral - (adj.) brief; fleeting
67. Esoteric - (adj.) intended for or understood by a small, specific group
68. Eulogy - (n) a speech honoring the dead; expression of approval or commendation
69. Exonerate - (v) to remove blame
70. Facetious - (adj.) playful; humorous
71. Fallacy - (n) an invalid or incorrect notion; a mistaken belief
72. Furtive - (adj.) marked by stealth; covert; surreptitious
73. Gregarious - (adj.) sociable; outgoing; enjoying the company of other people
74. Harangue - (v./n.) to deliver a pompous speech or tirade; a long, pompous speech
75. Heretical - (adj.) violating accepted dogma or convention
76. Hyperbole - (n) an exaggerated statement, often used as a figure of speech
77. Impecunious - (adj.) lacking funds; without money
78. Incipient - (adj.) beginning to come into being or to become apparent
79. Inert - (adj.) unmoving; lethargic; sluggish
80. Innocuous - (adj.) harmless; causing no damage
81. Intransigent - (adj.) refusing to compromise
82. Inveigle - (v) to obtain by deception or flattery
83. Morose - (adj.) sad; sullen; melancholy
105. Ubiquitous - (adj.) existing everywhere at the same time; constantly encountered; wide-spread
106. Urbane - (adj.) sophisticated, refined, elegant
107. Vilify - (v) to defame; to characterize harshly
108. Viscous - (adj.) thick; sticky
109. Acumen - (n) keen, accurate judgement or insight; shrewdness
110. Adulterate - (v) to reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients
111. Amalgamate - (v) to combine several elements into a whole
112. Archaic - (adj.) outdated; associated with an earlier, perhaps more primitive time
113. Aver - (v) to state as a fact; to declare or assert
114. Bolster - (v) to provide support or reinforcement
115. Bombastic - (adj.) pompous; grandiloquent
116. Diatribe - (n) a harsh denunciation
117. Dissemble - (v) to disguise or conceal; to mislead
118. Eccentric - (adj.) departing from norms or conventions
119. Endemic - (adj.) characteristic of or often found in a particular locality, region, of people
120. Evanescent - (adj.) tending to disappear like vapor; vanishing
121. Fervent - (adj.) greatly emotional or zealous
122. Fortuitous - (adj.) happening by accident or chance
123. Germane - (adj.) relevant to the subject at hand; appropriate in subject matter
124. Grandiloquence - (n) pompous speech or expression
125. Hackneyed - (adj.) rendered trite or commonplace by frequent usage
167. Reverent - (adj.) marked by, feeling or expressing a feeling of profound awe and respect
168. Rhetoric - (n) the art or study of effective use of language for communication and persuasion
169. Salubrious - (adj.) promoting health or well-being
170. Solvent - (adj.) able to meet financial obligations; able to dissolve another substance
171. Specious - (adj.) seeming true, but actually being fallacious; misleadingly attractive; plausible but false
172. Spurious - (adj.) lacking authenticity or validity; false; counterfeit
173. Subpoena - (n) a court order requiring appearance and/or testimony
174. Succinct - (adj.) brief; concise
175. Superfluous - (adj.) exceeding what is sufficient or necessary
176. Surfeit - (n/v) an overabundant supply; excess; to feed or supply to excess
177. Tenacity - (n) the quality of adherence to something valued; persistent determination
178. Tenuous - (adj.) having little substance or strength; flimsy; weak
179. Tirade - (n) a long and extremely critical speech; a harsh denunciation
180. Transient - (adj.) fleeting; passing quickly; brief
181. Zealous - (adj.) fervent; ardent; impassioned; devoted to a cause (a zealot is a zealous person)
182. Acerbic - (adj.) having a sour or bitter taste or character; sharp; biting; vitriolic
183. Aggrandize - (v) to increase in intensity, power, influence or prestige
184. Alchemy - (n) a medieval science aimed at the transmutation of metals, esp. base metals into gold (an alchemist is
one who practices alchemy)
185. Amenable - (adj.) agreeable; responsive to suggestion
186. Anachronism - (n) something or someone out of place in terms of historical or chronological context
187. Astringent - (adj./n) having a tightening effect on living tissue; harsh; severe; something with a tightening effect on
tissue
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