• d: thrifty, not wasteful
• p: froo-gal-i-tee
• s: the student had to learn habits of frugality to survive with enough money throughout the year

• d: integrity, honesty
• p: proh-bi-tee

• d: refusing to agree or compromise, inflexible
• p: in-trans-si-juh nt
• s: the republican was intransigent in the abortion legislature

• d: free from blame, vindicate
• p: ek-skuhl-peyt
• s: the father was exculpated from the murder when his alibi checked out

• d: to make right, correct
• p: fek-tuh-fahy

d: docile, easily managed

• d: willful giving of false testimony under oath
• p: per-juh-ree

s: the court ruled that since the man lied, he would be subjected to the punishment of perjury

• d: resisting authority, not compliant, hard to deal with
• p: ri-kal-si-truh nt

s: the dog was recalcitrant when brought in for a bath

• d: joyous, cheerful, carefree
• p: blayth
• s: the joker acted blithe to increase his tips

• d: to polish, to make smooth
• p: bur-nish
• s: the squire burnished all of the pots until the cook was happy

d: to discharge

d: the substitution of a vulgar expression for one more polite, or mild expression

• d: to make rare, to make more refined/spiritual
• p: rair-uh-fahy

• d: full of twists and turns, intricate, indirect
• p: tawr-choo-uh s
• s: a labyrinth is inherently tortuous both physically and intellectually

• d: doing good
• p: buh-nef-uh-suh nt
• s: The beneficent priest worked to keep his children happy

• d: sharply abusive criticism, harangue
• p: dahy-uh-trahyb

• d: to confuse and deject; to thwart or foil
• p: dis-kuhm-fit

• d: a mournful, sad poem usually for the dead/funerals
• p: el-i-jee

• d: insincere
• p: dis-in-jen-yoo-uh s

• d: to mention separately as if in counting
• p: ih-noo-huh-reyt
• s: let me enumerate the many flaws in your hypothesis

• d: unbiased by personal interest, indifferent
• p: dis-in-tuh-res-tid
• s: a disinterested decision by the referee

• d: foolish or inane, silly, unreal
• p: fach-oo-uh s

s: the fatuous questions that the audience members asked after the lecture suggested to the oceanographer that they had understood little

• d: strict observance of promises; loyality; degree to which an electronic device reproduces its effect
• p: fi-del-i-tee

s: they have never wavered in their fidelity to the cause of freedom

• d: anxious or concerned, eager
• p: suh-lis-i-tuh s

s: I appreciated his solicitous inquiry about by health

• d: to use ambiguous or unclear expressions
• p: ih-kwiv-uh-keyt

s: The applicant seemed to be equivocating when we asked him about his last job.

• d: to give a false/misleading appearance to, to conceal the real nature of
• p: dih-sem-buh l

s: he dissembled happiness at the news that his old girlfriend was getting married—to someone else

• d: to increase the severity of, aggravate
• p: ig-zas-er-beyt

s: The proposed factory shutdown would only exacerbate our unemployment problems.

• d: to reproduce itself, to spread
• p: prop-uh-geyt

s: He propagated the apple tree by grafting.

• d: excess, uncomfortably full
• p: sur-fit

s: <ended up with a surfeit of volunteers who simply got in each other's way>

• d: to soften in feeling or temper, to reduce
• p: mol-uh-fahy

s: He tried to mollify his critics with an apology.

• d: taken, done, used by stealth; sly, shifty
• p: fur-tiv

s: We exchanged furtive smiles across the table.

• d: excessively talkative, wordy
• p: gar-uh-luh s

s: He became more garrulous after drinking a couple of beers.

• d: lacking confidence in one's own ability, shy
• p: diff-i-duh nt

s: She was diffident about stating her opinion.

• d: to speak damagingly of, criticize, defame
• p: den-i-greyt

s: Her story denigrates him as a person and as a teacher.

• d: overly concerned with minute details
• p: puh-dan-tik

s: a pedantic attention to details.

• d: to appease or pacify
• p: pley-keyt

s: The angry customer was not placated by the clerk's apology.

• d: ridicule, mockery
• p: dih-rizh-uh n

s: One of the students laughed in derision at my error.

• d: to free (a person) from deception or error, to set right
• p: dis-uh-byooz

s: <let me disabuse you of your foolish notions about married life>

• d: characterized by great knowledge;
• p: er-yoo-dahyt

s: <the most erudite people in medical research attended the conference>

• d: extraordinary in size, degree, etc.; wonderful or marvelous
• p: pruh-dij-uh s

s: <stage magicians performing prodigious feats for rapt audiences>