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alloy (v)
ti commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior
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august
majestic, venerable
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brook (v)
to tolerate; to endure. to countenance
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essay (v)
to attempt; to experiment; to test or try
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fell (adj)
inhumanely cruel
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meet (adj)
proper, fitting
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mince (v)
to speak affectedly; also to take tiny steps aka tiptoe
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pied
multicolored, usually in blotches
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obtain (adj)
to be established, accepted or customary
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prize (v)
to pry, to press or force with a lever
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quail (v)
to lose courage; to turn frightened
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scurvy (adj)
contemptible, despicable
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tender (v)
to proffer or offer
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table (v)
to remove from consideration (parliamentary)
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adumbrate
to foreshadow vaguely or intimate; to suggest or outline sketchily; to obscure or overshadow
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anathema
solemn or ecclesiastical curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing
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anodyne
soothing; something that assuages or allays pain or comforts
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apogee
farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith
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apostate
one who abandons long-hled religious or political convictions
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apotheosis
deification, glorification to godliness; an exalted example; a model of excellence or perfection
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asperity
severity, rigor, roughness, harshness, acrimony, irritability
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asseverate
to aver, allege or assert
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assiduous
diligent, hard-working, sedulous
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bellicose
belligerent, pugnacious, warlike
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calumniate
to slander, make a false accusation
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captios
disposed to point our trivial faults; calculated to confuse or entrap in argument
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cavil (v)
to find fault without good reason
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sententious
aphoristic or moralistic; epigrammatic; tending to moralize excessively
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stentorian
extremely loud and powerful
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tendentious
biased; showing marked tendencies
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tyro
novice, greenhorn, rank amateur
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vitiate
to corrupt, to debase, to spoil, to make ineffective
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voluble
fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language
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