| A | B |
|---|
| obdurate | stubborn |
| turpitude | wickedness |
| laconic | terse, not talkative |
| osculate | kiss |
| capricious | unpredictable |
| surreptitious | sneaky |
| relegate | send away |
| truculent | brutal, aggressive |
| abstemious | moderate in eating |
| lugubrious | dismal, mournful |
| diffident | timid |
| mercurial | unpredictable |
| nefarious | evil, wicked |
| histrionic | overly theatrical |
| chicanery | trickery, deceit |
| insipid | stupidly dull or silly |
| ligneous | wooden |
| saturnine | sluggish, gloomy |
| zeitgeist | spirit of the times |
| patrician | high class, aristocratic |
| philistine | one who doesn't understand or appreciate aesthetic matters |
| putative | reputed, supposed |
| serendipitous | making a pleasant discovery by accident |
| fulminate | protest loudly and bitterly |
| foment | stir up (trouble) |
| ostreperous | noisy, unruly |
| specious | false, but attractively so |
| perfunctory | done as a duty or routine but without much care or interest |
| ethereal | i theer i al light and delicate |
| sanguine | hopeful, optimistic |
| hermetic | with an airtight closure |
| iniquitous | great injustice, wicked act |
| spurious | not genuine or authentic |
| sedulous | particular, diligently careful |
| motley | diversified in color; of varied character |
| peremptory | masterful, but in a haughty, dictatorial way |
| salubrious | health-giving |
| egregious | outrageously bad, very noticeable in a negative way |
| rue | feel remorse or sorrow |
| inveterate | habitual, firmly established |
| recalcitrant | strongly against authority, tough to handle |
| vitiate | to make imperfect, spoil, weaken the force of |
| dilatory | procratinating, putting something off that should be done right away |
| droll | amusing in an odd way |
| pertinacious | holding firmly to an opinion or course of action |
| prevarication | telling of lies or speaking evasively |
| oubliette | oo blee et secret dungeon w/ entrance only by a trapdoor at the top |
| compunction | misgiving or guilty feeling, a qualm |
| bowdlerized | censor words or scenes considered improper |
| conclave | secret meeting or convention |
| hirsute | extremely hairy or bristly |
| pernicious | having a very harmful effect |
| trenchant | penetrating, strong and effective |
| fulsome | overabundant, nauseatingly so |
| petulant | rude, cranky, ill-tempered |
| biliousness | sickness assumed to be caused by to much bile |
| acerbity | sharpness of speech or manner |
| vagary, vagaries | unpredictable, unexpected occurence(s); capricious act(s) |
| pulchritudinous | beautiful |
| transmogrified | transform, especially in a magical or surprising way |
| sobriquet | soh bri kay nickname |
| solipism | sol ip siz em the philisophical theory that the self is the only knowable |
| munificent | rich, lavish, splendidly generous |
| ineffable | difficult to describe |
| supercilious | with an air of superiority, haughty and scornful |
| recondite | obscure |
| verisimilitude | an appearance of being true |
| ineluctable | cannot be avoided or overcome |
| tenebrous | obscure, dark, gloomy |
| perfidious | treacherous |
| unctous | insincere, oily |
| prosaic | unpoetic, plain |
| parsimonious | stinginess, cheapness |
| suborn | to incite, cause to happen |
| meretricious | gaudy, glitzy, showy |
| pusillanimous | cowardly |
| splenetic | ill-tempered, grouchy |
| dour | sterm, severe, gloomy |
| gelid | icy |
| cavil | carping, insignificant and hurtful criticism |
| credulous | to ready to believe things |
| discrete | discountinuous; individually distinct |
| probity | integrity |
| uncouth | awkward, clumsy in manner |
| flaunt | display proudly or ostentatiously |
| flout | disobey openly and scornfully |
| baleful | meancing, destructive |
| enervate | cause to lose vitality |
| sentient | capable of perceiving and feeling things |
| arboreal | of trees; living in trees |
| redolent | smelling strongly; full of memories |
| disparate | different in kind |
| apathetic | lack of interest or concern |
| querelous | complaining peevishly (in an irritable way) |
| inure | accustom, especially to something unpleasant |
| acquiesce | assent; to agree without protest |
| impecunious | having little or no money |
| felicitous | well-chosen, apt (of words) |
| parsimonious | stingy |
| meretricious | showily attractive but cheap or insincere |
| facile | achieved easily but without attention to quality, superficial |
| abet | encourage or assist in committing an offense |
| ignominious | bringing contempt or disgrace; humiliating |
| patent | obvious, unconcealed |
| haughty | proud of oneself and looking down on others |
| impervious | not able to be penetrated; not influenced by |
| argot | jargon or slang of a class or group, especially of criminals |
