GRE

to renounce or reject solemnly: to recant: to avoid

to foreshadow vaguely or intimate, to suggest or outline sketchily, to obscure or overshadow

a solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing

soothing, something that assuages or allays pain or comforts

farthest or highest point, culmination, zenith

one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions

deification, glorification to godliness, an exalted example, a model of excellence or perfection

severity, rigor, roughness, harshness, acrimony, irritability

to aver, allege, assert

diligent, hardworking, sedulous

omen, portent

belligerent, pugnacious, warlike

to slander, make a false accusation; calumny means slander, aspersion

disposed to point out trivial faults, calculated to confuse or entrap in argument

to find fault without good reason

speed, alacrity, think accelerate

an illusion, originally an imaginary fire-breathing she monster

insubordinate, rebellious, contumely, means insult, scorn, aspersion

rout, fiasco, complete, failure

an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot

to discriminate or discern

disuse

random, aimless, marked by a lack of plan or purpose

transparent, gauzy

reserved, shy, unassuming; lacking in self-confidence

a song of grief or lamentation

glowing and enthusiastic praise, panegyric, tribute, eulogy

to shun or avoid

to censure scathingly, to upload

denounce, feel loathing for, curse, declare to be evil

critical examination, explication

to atone or make amends for

to destroy, exterminate, cut out,

silly, inanely foolish

quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory, irritable

to deny, dispute, contradict, oppose

unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic

difficult or embarrassing situation

not easily exhaustible, tireless, dogged

certain, inevitable

one of a kind, peerless

unconcerned, carefree, needless

deep rooted, ingrained, habitual

vapid, uninteresting, nugatory, childish, immature, puerile

lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery

a beggar, supplicant

cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy, attracting by false show

menacing, threatening (reminds you of the minotaur, a threatening creature indeed)

low point, perigee

baffled, bewildered, at a loss for what to do or think

noisely and stubbornly defiant, aggressively boisterous

tending to become more rigid, conventional, sterile and reactionary with age, literally, turned into bone

to make something seem less serious, to gloss over, to make less severe or intense

formal praise, eulogy, encomium, panegyrical means expressing elaborate praise

cheap, miserly

transparent, easy to understand, limpid

the concluding part of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech

pounding, thundering, resounding

long-winded, verbose

to appease; to conciliate, propitious means auspicious, favorable

childish, immature, jejune, nugatory

power, strength, puissant means powerful, strong

cowardly, craven

to protest, to object

having sound judgement, perceptive wise, like sage

lustful, lascivious, bawdy

remedial, wholesome, causing improvement

cheerful, confident, optimistic

gloomy, dark, sullen, morose

aphoristic or moralistic; epigrammatic tending to moralize excessively

extremely loud and powerful

gloomy, dark

toady, servile, self-seeking flatterer, parasite

biased, showing marked tendencies

timid, fearful, diffident

novice, greenhorn, rank amateur

to corrupt, debase, spoil, make ineffective

fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language