| A | B |
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| ape | an imitator or mimic of somebody or something |
| dun | to press or harass somebody persistently for the settlement of a debt |
| fop | a man who is so obsessed by fashion and vain about his own appearance that he becomes ridiculous |
| gad | to move about or travel in a aimless way |
| hex | a curse |
| ken | somebody's knowledge or understanding |
| pox | a wish that misfortune will come to somebody or something |
| sow | a female pig |
| sow | to plant a seed |
| vex | to annoy or perplex |
| vie | to compete |
| amalgamation | to mix or combine into a whole |
| admixture | a word that means mixture |
| eclectic | made up from a variety of sources |
| catholic | comprehensive |
| motley | similar to eclectic it means composed of a variety of sources |
| corroborate | to bring in new evidence to support an idea or argument |
| asunder | to take apart or into separate pieces. |
| diaspora | a scattering of a nation or culture |
| cleave | to split or cut in two |
| disseminate | to disperse or scatter widely |
| aphrodisiac | food or drugs that allegedly make men and women feel more amorous |
| chthonic | describing something related to forces from the underworld |
| hector | to bully or to try to force someone to do something |
| hermetic | completely sealed |
| Junoesque | a compliment that describes a tall and beautiful women |
| mercurial | that which can travel very fast |
| mnemonic | a memory device to help you recall and retain information |
| muse | the Greek sprits who added inspiration or to lose yourself in your thoughts |
| odyssey | a long trip |
| saturnine | gloomy or even bitterly sarcastic and mocking |
| Magnanimous | meaning “great soul” this adjective means generous and forgiving |
| parsimonious | “to spare” it means someone who is excessively stingy |
| prodigal | “to squander” it means extremely wasteful or extravagant |
| penurious | This adjective means both “stingy and poverty-stricken |
| eleemosynary | This adjective means both contributing to charity and dependent upon charity |
| frugal | This is someone who is extremely economical |
| munificent | This word means “very generous” |
| avaricious | This word means greedy or desirous of gain as in to want too much |
| mean | In this list this word means miserly and stingy not nasty and disagreeable |
| indulgent | In this list this words means lenient or willing to gratify |
| equine | horse-like |
| bovine | cow-like |
| lupine | wolf-lie |
| ursine | bear-like |
| porcine | pig-like |
| simian | ape-like |
| serpentine | snake-like |
| pachyderm | elephant |
| avian | bird-like |
| herpetology | study of reptiles |
| laconic | using very few words |
| taciturn | silent by nature more silent than laconic |
| lapidary | careful and elegant of style |
| pithy | brief and forceful writing or speaking |
| succinct | concise speaking or writing; having the precise words |
| terse | brief and to the point in speaking or writing; having no extra words |
| garrulous | talkative |
| prattling | chattering meaninglessly |
| glib | casual conversation that is insincere |
| prolix | too wordy and perhaps boring |
| maundering | means rambling on in speech |
| indigenous | people or things that are native to a region |
| interloper | meddlers in the affairs of others or non-indigenous species of plants |
| extraneous | coming from the outside; often irrelevant or unimportant |
| inherent | integral to a thing’s or person’s being |
| germane | relevant or closely connected to |
| pariah | a social outcast |
| endemic | native or common to a specific region |
| intrinsic | basic and essential to a person or thing |
| ostracize | expelling a person from a community either literally or figuratively |
| tangential | barely connected or slightly touching |
| ominous | a foreshadowing of the future that describes it in threatening or menacing terms |
| portentous | describes something carrying a sign of the threats of the future and also means pretentious or pompous |
| inauspicious | promising failure or bad luck |
| auspicious | predicting something favorable |
| imminent | something about to occur for good or bad |
| impending | refers to something threatening or not; it is near arrival of the event (see imminent) |
| minatory | always threatening |
| presage | a forewarning or a prediction of something bad |
| bode | a sign of something bad |
| forebode | a sign of something really bad |
| propitiate | forces of good or evil are appeased or calmed |
| harbinger | an early warning or messenger of what’s to come |
| squander | to spend extravagantly |
| dissipation | loss by literal scattering or dispersing or a specialized scattering of one’s energy through trivial pleasures |
| disenfranchise | to deprive of a right or to lose the right to vote |
| forfeiture | a penalty or giving up of something in one’s possession |
| denude | to make bare |
| privation | deprived of basic necessities or comforts |
| divest | getting rid of or taking away |
| renounce | to give up something; literally it means to condemn openly |
| elegiac | expression sadness or regret |
| bereave | to leave desolate usually by death; a sense of abandonment or loss |
