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Adroit - adj. quick or skillful or adept in action or thought;skillful (or showing skill) in adapting means
to ends
Destitute - adj. poor enough to need help from others; completely wanting or lacking.Lacking
resources
Banal - adj.repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
Circuitous - adj. marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or conduct; deviating from a
straight course. Roundabout
Inure - verb cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate. Accept pain. Numbed.
Flout - verb treat with contemptuous disregard; laugh at with contempt and derision. ³Flout a law.´
Running stoplight.
Expiate - verbmake amends for. Apologize through action.
Evanescent - adj. tending to vanish like vapor.Fading away
Enmity - noun the feeling of a hostile person; a state of deep-seated ill-will. Feeling of hostility.
Hatred, feeling of being enemies.
Taciturn - adj. habitually reserved and uncommunicative.
Fete - noun an elaborate party (often outdoors); an organized series of acts and performances
(usually in one place);verb have a celebration
Enervate - verbweaken mentally or morally; disturb the composure of
Respite - nouna pause from doing something (as work); a pause for relaxation; the act of
reprieving; postponing or remitting punishment; an interruption in the intensity or amount of
something; a (temporary) relief from harm or discomfort;verb postpone the punishment of a
convicted criminal, such as an execution
Sordid - adj. meanly avaricious and mercenary; foul and run-down and repulsive; unethical or
dishonest; morally degraded.Filthy, gross morally. Shadowy.
Mitigate - verb make less severe or harsh; lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of
Quixotic - adj. not sensible about practical matters; unrealistic. Over-idealistic.
Proscribe - verbcommand against.
Paragon - noun an ideal instance; a perfect embodiment of a concept; model of excellence or
perfection of a kind; one having no equal
Implacable - adj. incapable of being placated. Never satisfied.
Neophyte - noun a plant that is found in an area where it had not been recorded previously; a new
convert being taught the principles of Christianity by a catechist; any new participant in some
activity. Rookie in life.
Nadir - noun the point below the observer that is directly opposite the zenith on
the imaginary sphere against which celestial bodies appear to be projected; an extreme state of
adversity; the lowest point of anything
Adroit
Destitute
Banal
Circuitous
Inure
Flout
Fete
Expiate
Evenscent