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| Abhor | to regard with extreme repugnance or aversion; detest utterly; loathe; abominate. |
| Adulterate | to debase or make impure by adding inferior materials or elements; use cheaper, inferior, or less desirable goods in the production of (any professedly genuine article): |
| Alienate | to make indifferent or hostile:to turn away; transfer or divert:to transfer or convey, as title, property, or other right, to another: |
| allocate | to set apart for a particular purpose; assign or allot: |
| amend | to change for the better; improve: |
| Amicable | characterized by or showing goodwill; friendly; peaceable: |
| animosity | a feeling of strong dislike, ill will, or enmity that tends to display itself in action |
| apathy | lack of interest in or concern for things that others find moving or exciting. absence or suppression of passion, emotion, or excitement. |
| apprehensive | 1. uneasy or fearful about something that might happen: |
| Ardent | intensely devoted, eager, or enthusiastichaving, expressive of, or characterized by intense feeling; passionate; fervent: |
| artifice | a clever trick or stratagem; a cunning, crafty device or expedient; wile. trickery; guile; craftiness. |
| ascertain | to find out definitely; learn with certainty or assurance; determine: |
| assiduous | constant; unremitting: |
| augment | to make larger; enlarge in size, number, strength, or extent; increase: |
| averse | having a strong feeling of opposition, antipathy, repugnance, etc.; opposed: |
| benevolent | characterized by or expressing goodwill or kindly feelings: desiring to help others; charitable: |
| bequeath | to hand down; pass on. |
| brash | hasty; rash; impetuous. |
| buffet | v. to strike against or push repeatedly: |
| buffet | n. a blow, as with the hand or fist. |
| capricious | subject to, led by, or indicative of a sudden, odd notion or unpredictable change; erratic |
| chaos | a state of utter confusion or disorder; a total lack of organization or order. |
| chastise | to criticize severely. |
| chivalrous | having the qualities of chivalry, as courage, courtesy, and loyalty. |
| cogent | to the point |
| commend | to cite or name with approval or special praise: |
| commodious | spacious and convenient; roomy |
| compatible | able to exist together with something else |
| condolence | expression of sympathy with a person who is suffering sorrow, misfortune, or grief. |
| consecrate | to make or declare sacred; set apart or dedicate to the service of a deity: |
| copious | large in quantity or number; abundant; plentiful: |
| corrosive | eating away; sharply sarcastic; caustic |
| craven | adj. cowardly; contemptibly timid; pusillanimous. |
| craven | n. a coward. |
| craven | v. to make cowardly. |
| culinary | adj. of, pertaining to, or used in cooking or the kitchen. |
| decrepit | weakened by old age; feeble; infirm:worn out by long use; dilapidated: |
| deft | dexterous; nimble; skillful; clever: |
| deride | to laugh at in scorn or contempt; scoff or jeer at; mock. |
| destitute | adj. without means of subsistence; lacking food, clothing, and shelter. 2. deprived of, devoid of, or lacking (often followed by of |
| deviated | to turn aside, as from a route, way, course, etc. to depart or swerve, as from a procedure, course of action, or acceptable norm. |
| deviated | adj. characterized by deviation or departure from an accepted norm or standard, as of behavior. |
| deviated | a person or thing that departs from the accepted norm or standard. |
| discern | to perceive by the sight or some other sense or by the intellect; see, recognize, or apprehend:to distinguish or discriminate. |
| discrepancy | an instance of difference or inconsistency: |
| dour | sullen; gloomy severe; stern: |
| duplicity | an act or instance of such deceitfulness. |
| emaciate | to make abnormally lean or thin by a gradual wasting away of flesh. |
| exhilarate | to enliven; invigorate; stimulate: to make cheerful or merry. |
| extant | in existence; still existing; not destroyed or lost |
| extirpate | to remove or destroy totally;to pull up by or as if by the roots |
| exult | to show or feel a lively or triumphant joy; rejoice exceedingly; be highly elated or jubilant |
| fallow | adj. (of land) plowed and left unseeded for a season or more; uncultivated. not in use; inactive: |
| fallow | n. land that has undergone plowing and harrowing and has been left unseeded for one or more growing seasons. |
| fallow | v. to leave (land) unseeded after ploughing and harrowing it |
| feasible | capable of being done, effected, or accomplished: |
| fortitude | mental and emotional strength in facing difficulty, adversity, danger, or temptation courageously |
| gibe | n. a taunting or sarcastic remark. |
| gibe | v. to taunt; deride. |
| gnarled | bent; twisted. having a rugged, weather-beaten appearance |
| guise | v. to dress; attire: |
| guise | n. general external appearance; aspect; semblance: |
| harass | to disturb persistently; torment, as with troubles or cares; bother continually; pester; persecute. to trouble by repeated attacks, incursions, etc., as in war or hostilities; harry; raid. |
| holocaust | a great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire. |
| implicate | to show to be also involved, usually in an incriminating manner to connect or relate to intimately; affect as a consequence |
| inclement | severe, rough, or harsh; stormy. |
| indemnity | compensation for damage or loss sustained. |
| indomitable | that cannot be subdued or overcome, as persons, will, or courage; unconquerable: |
| infallible | free from error: absolutely dependable |
| ingenuous | artless; innocent; naive. sincere. |
| inkling | a slight suggestion or indication; hint; intimation |
| inter | to put into the earth. to place (a dead body) in a grave or tomb; bury. |
| intimation | a hint; suggestion |
| ironic | coincidental; unexpected: |
| jeopardy | peril or danger |
| limpid | clear, transparent, or pellucid, as water, crystal, or air: |
| liquidate | to settle or pay (a debt): to eliminate |
| martinet | a strict disciplinarian |
| meticulous | taking or showing extreme care about minute details; precise; thorough |
| multifarious | numerous and varied |
| negligible | so small, trifling, or unimportant that it may safely be neglected or disregarded: |
| nostalgia | a wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one's life, to one's home or homeland, or to one's family and friends; a sentimental yearning for the happiness of a former place or time |
| obsolete | of a discarded or outmoded type;no longer in general use; fallen into disuse out of date |
| obviate | to anticipate and prevent or eliminate (difficulties, disadvantages, etc.) by effective measures; render unnecessary: |
| ominous | threatening having the significance of an omen |
| omnipotent | having very great or unlimited authority or power. |
| omnivorous | eating all kinds of foods indiscriminately. Having a wide variety of tastes |
| opulent | abundant or plentiful |
| palatable | acceptable or agreeable to the mind or feelings: |
| parsimonious | frugal or stingy. |
| pinnacle | n. a lofty peak. |
| pinnacle | v. crown. |
| poignant | affecting or moving the emotionspungent to the smell |
| precedent | n. any act, decision, or case that serves as a guide or justification for subsequent situations. |
| precedent | adj. going or coming before anterior. |
| premeditated | done deliberately; planned in advance: |
| pungent | piercing or sharp-pointed. |
| quandary | a state of perplexity or uncertainty, especially as to what to do; dilemma. |
| quintessence | the pure and concentrated essence of a substance. the most perfect embodiment of something. |
| rampant | growing luxuriantly, as weeds. in full sway; prevailing or unchecked: |
| rancor | bitter, rankling resentment or ill will; hatred; malice. |
| recalcitrant | resisting authority or control; not obedient or compliant; refractory. |
| reiterate | to say or do again or repeatedly; repeat, often excessively. |
| remiss | negligent, careless, or slow in performing one's duty, business, etc. |
| renegade | n. a person who deserts a party or cause for another. |
| renegade | adj. traitorous. |
| reprehensible | deserving of reproof, rebuke, or censure; blameworthy. |
| reprisal | retaliation against an enemy, for injuries received, by the infliction of equal or greater injuries. |
| retrogress | to go backward into an earlier and usually worse condition |
| revel | to take great pleasure or delight (usually followed by in ) |
| revel | n. boisterous merrymaking or festivity |
| scrutinize | to examine in detail with careful or critical attention. |
| solace | n. something that gives comfort, consolation, or relief |
| solace | v. to comfort, console, or cheer (a person, oneself, the heart, etc.). to alleviate or relieve (sorrow, distress, etc.). |
| somber | gloomily dark; shadowy; dimly lighted: |
| sophomoric | intellectually pretentious, overconfident, conceited, etc., but immature |
| spontaneous | coming or resulting from a natural impulse or tendency; without effort or premeditation; natural and unconstrained; unplanned: |
| squalid | neglected and filthy. |
| stately | majestic; imposing in magnificence, elegance, etc.: |
| stultify | to make, or cause to appear, foolish or ridiculous. |
| suave | smoothly agreeable or polite; agreeably or blandly urbane. |
| supercilious | haughtily disdainful or contemptuous, as a person or a facial expression. |
| supple | characterized by ease in bending characterized by ease, responsiveness, and adaptability in mental action.servile. bending readily without breaking or becoming deformed |
| suppress | stop (a practice, custom, etc.).to stop or arrest (a flow, hemorrhage, cough, etc.). |
| tepid | moderately warm; lukewarmcharacterized by a lack of force or enthusiasm |
| truculent | fierce; cruel; savagely brutalbrutally harsh; vitriolic; scathingaggressively hostile; belligerent. |
| turbulent | being in a state of agitation or tumult; disturbed: characterized by, or showing disturbance, disorder, etc. given to acts of violence and aggression |
| unkempt | not combeduncared-for or neglected; disheveled; messyunpolished; rough; crude |
| venial | able to be forgiven or pardoned; not seriously wrong, as a sin (opposed to mortal ). excusable; trifling; minor: |
| verbatim | adv. in exactly the same words; word for word |
| verbatim | adj. corresponding word for word to the original source or textskilled at recording or noting down speeches, proceedings, etc., with word-for-word accuracy: |
| vociferous | crying out noisily; clamorous. |
| volumnious | of ample size, extent, or fullness: |
| waive | to refrain from claiming or insisting on; give up; forgo: to put aside for the time; defer; postpone; dispense with:to put aside or dismiss from consideration or discussion: |
| warily | in a wary manner. watchful; being on one's guard against danger. arising from or characterized by caution |
