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Abysmal Approbation Bent (n) Cadge Debacle very deep; very bad approval [opp. disapprobation] inclination; aptitude get by begging disaster speak without preparation or rehearsal [extemporaneous (a)] occupiers of a job or position attack verbally disgusting work (usually artistic) which imitates, or is composed of parts taken from varied sources living in trees; concerned with trees device to separate substances by spinning them at high speed isolated make someone aware of an error in thinking causing; bringing into being [engender (v)] excessive; immoderate [intemperance (n)] Lugubrious Nonplussed Pedagogy Satiate Slake Artless Comeliness Doff Don Erudition Plaintive Suborn Tendentious Tortuous Verbiage Atonement Complaisance Daguerreotype sad; gloomy confused science of education; teaching satisfy; fill completely [satiable (a); satiation (n)] quench; satisfy without effort; without trickery; simple beauty; prettiness [comely (a)] take off (esp. of a hat) put on (esp. of clothes) learning; scholarly knowledge [erudite (a)] sad; mournful bribe dogmatic; biased indirect; winding excessive or meaningless wordiness making amends for sin or crime [atone (v)] flexibility; willingness to please [complaisant (a)] forerunner of the photograph

Extemporize Incumbents Lambaste Noisome

Pastiche Arboreal

Centrifuge Cloistered Disabuse Engendering Intemperate

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Fawn Gregariousness Nascent Paean Reproof behave in a sycophantic way; grovel [fawning (a)] sociability; liking for crowds [gregarious (a)] emerging; newly formed praise; tribute (esp. in song) scolding; criticism [reprove (v)] 1. disease due to lack of vitamin C; 2. contemptible; rascally serving as a guardian [tutelage (n)] cutting; process causing leaves to fall off causing argument [contention (n); contend (v)] weakening [debilitate (v)] quirk; minor weakness beg; solicit [importunate (a)] be relevant to [pertinent (a)] glut; excess sycophant; flatterer hot and steamy true [veracity (n)] Asperity Blowhard Disingenuous Evanescent Intangible Labile Malapropism Posture (v) Proximate Pugnacious Foreshadowed Gaucherie Heterodox Inscrutability Limerick Mannered Pluck (n) Sedulous using harsh or critical tone boastful person crafty short-lived [evanescence (n)] cannot be touched; abstract [intangibility (n)] changing rapidly; unstable use of similar sounding but incorrect word to put on an act immediate; nearest aggressive, ready to fight [pugnacity (n)] indicated a future event [foreshadow (v)] awkwardness [gauche (a)] unorthodox quality of being difficult to comprehend [inscrutable (a)] short amusing poem stylized; pretentious courage persevering; eager and thorough

Scurvy Tutelary Abscission Contentious Debilitating Foible Importune Pertain Slew Toady Torrid Veracious

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Syllogism Vicissitude Acolyte Admonitory Caprices type of logical reasoning unexpected change in fortune or circumstances disciple; follower or attendant scolding [admonition (n)] whimsies; fancies symbol (horn filled with fruit etc.) denoting natural abundance showing respect [deference (n); defer (v)] stubbornness; resistance [intractable (a)] eminent person underling; servant support; strengthen weaken; sap energy clique; small group with common interests decry; criticize; belittle found by experiment or practice contradict exaggeration [hyperbolic (a)] Vulpine Corroborate Exacerbated Exact (v) Faddish Hapless Misconstrue Perennial Rent Shard Xenophobe Modest Prolixity Rebus Sere 1. bashful; unpretentious; 2. not excessive wordiness [prolix (a)] puzzle in which pictures give clues withered; old like a fox [compare with bovine (cow-like); porcine (pig-like), etc.] give supporting evidence [corroboration (n)] made worse [exacerbate (v); exacerbation (n)] to demand; extort whimsical; following a fashion unlucky put a wrong interpretation on something long-lasting torn (past participle of the verb to rend) fragment of pottery person afraid of foreigners

Cornucopia Deferential Intractability Luminary Minion Undergird Vitiate Coterie Denigrate Empirical Gainsay Hyperbole