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intricate and complicated

" a convoluted argument is not lucid"

CONTRADICT

1. to provide supporting evidence

"her absence corroborated her guilt"

• SUSPICIOUS
• 1. too trusting, gullible

• NO ANT
• 1. steadily increaing volume or force

• IMPROPRIETY
• appropriateness or behavior or conduct

• DISRESPECT
• respect, courtesy

PRAISE

ridicule, pillory;disdain, disparage, denigrate, dismiss, slight; sneer at, scorn, insult

to dry out thoroughly

• KEEN
• jumping from one thing to another; disconnected

casual, cursory, superficial, token, perfunctory, half-hearted, lukewarm;random, aimless, erratic, unmethodical, unsystematic, chaotic,inconsistent, irregular, intermittent, sporadic, fitful.

an abusive condemnatory speech

lacking self confidence

to make larger, expand

intended to delay

someone with an amateurish and superficial interest in a topic

a funeral hymn or mournful speech

to set right, to free from error

to percieve, to recognize

fundamentally different, entirely unlike

to present a flase appearance, to disguise one's real intentions or character

a harsh and disagreeable combination, often of sounds

a firlmy held opinion, often a religious belief

dictatorial in one's opinions

to decieve, a person who is easily duped

selecting from or made up from a variety of sources

effectiveness

a sorrowful poem or speech

persuasive and moving, especially in speech

to copy, to try to equal or excel

to reduce in strength

to produce, cause or bring about

to count, list or itemize

to use expressions of double meaningin in order to mislead

scholarly, learned and bookish

to arouse or incite

one who opposes established beliefs, customs and institutions

not fully formed, disorganized

hostile, unfriendly

uncompromising, refusing to be reconciled

to evade responsibility by pretending to be ill

to calm or make less severe

to prevent, make unnecessary

troublesome and oppresive, burdensome

public disgrace

excessive showiness

model of excellence or perfection

willing to betray one's trust

able to be molded, altered, bent

to throw violently or bring about abruptly, lacking deliberation

to lie or deviate from the truth

to conciliate, to appease

to make thinner or sparser

deceptively attractive, seemingly plausible but fallacious

to annoy