A | B |
animated | full of movement |
domestic | devoted to home duties and pleasures |
limitation | something that limits |
covet | to wish for enviously |
deliberate | careful and thorough consideration |
cultivating | fostering, futhering, encouraging |
desolate | deserted, isolated |
wary | marked by keen caution |
usurp | take the place of as if by force; supplant |
consign | commit, especially to a final destination or fate |
debatable | arguable, worthy of debate or consideration |
comrade | intimate friend or associate; companion |
flourish | grand gesture, display, to thrive |
denounce | to pronounce in public to be bad, blameworthy , or evil |
disgruntled | discontent, unhappy |
emphatically | with emphasis, forcefully |
affirming | expressing dedication |
asserted | to declare forcefully |
upstart | unknown, insignificant person |
hospitable | promising or suggesting generous and cordial welcome |
elaborate | give details, expand upon a subject |
protocol | plan of a scientific experiment |
empowering | yielding power or authority |
impulsively | spontaneous, on a whim |
omnipresent | present in all places at all times |
authoritatively | with authority, commandingly, convincingly |
impetuous | impulsive vehemence or passion |
parched | very dry, dehydrated, thirsty |
ubiquitous | existing or being everywhere at the same time |
franchise | the license granted to an individual or group to market a company's goods or services in a particular territory |
encampment | the state of being emcamped (est in a camp) |
perspective | point of view |
deprived | lack of necessities of life or of healthful environmental influences |
mendicant | beggar |
beseech | to beg for urgently or anxiously |
subsist | to have or acquire the necessities of life (e.g. food, clothing) |
penurious | oppressive lack of resources (as in money) |
patrons | customers |
ethnicity | ethnic quality or affiliation |
ostracized | to exclude from a group by common consent |
scurried | scampered, to move in a brisk alternating step |
translucent | clear, transparent |
serendipitously | obtained by serendipity (finding valuable or agreeable things accidently) |
decadent | self-indulged |
archaic | characteristic of an earlier or more primitive time |
dingy | dirty, discolored |
unintelligible | incomprehensible, making no sense |
deflect | to turn from a straight course or fixed direction; bend |
lithe | characterized by easy flexibility and grace |
exorbitantly | excessively, exceedingly |
extricate | to release from entanglement or difficulty |
evade | avoid, dodge |
perspicacity | having acute mental vision or discernment; clear-sighted |
proximity | nearness, closeness |
divulge | reveal, tell |
indiscretion | an act or a remark marked by a lack of discretion (cautious reserve) |
discretionary | left to discretion, cautious reserve in speech |
feigned | fictitions, faked; artificial |
efficaciously | effective; having the power to achieve the desired effect |
inundate | to overwhelm with abundance; as if with a flood |
foraged | searched; rummaged |
corrosive | having the power to break down or eat away at something (also means very sarcastic) |
soluble | able to dissolve in a liquid |
denouement | finale, conclusion |
lull | quiet period |
coalesce | to arise from the combination of distinct elements; to unite into a whole |
enigmatic | something hard to understand or explain; mysterious |
propensity | an often intense natural inclination or preference |
debilitating | impairing the strength of |
bequeathing | handing down, transmitting |
invigorating | stimulating, energizing |