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Apposite
Suitable; apt; relevant
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Guffaw
Boisterous laughter
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Truncate
To shorten by cutting
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Relegate
To banish; to put to a lower position
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Callow
Being young or immature
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Accede
To comply with; to consent to
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Transpire
To take place; to come about
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Placate
To appease or pacify
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Craven
Coward; abject person
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Serrated
Having a saw toothed edge
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Arable
Suitable (as land) for plowing
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Juncture
Critical point; meeting
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Welter
A confused mass; turmoil
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Solace
Hope; comfort during a time of grief
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Succumb
To give in; to yield; to collapse
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Salient
Noticeable; prominent
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Docile
Manageable; obedient; gentle
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Pedestrian
Mediocre; ordinary
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Ameliorate
To improve or make better
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Consecrate
To sanctify; to make sacred; to immortalize
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Cajole
To coax with insincere talk
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Macerate
To soften by steeping in liquid (including stomach juices)
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Augment
To increase or add to; to make larger
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Gibber
To speak foolishly
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Dissent
To disagree; to differ in opinion
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Disparate
Unequal; dissimilar; different
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Contiguous
Touching; adjoining and close, but may not be touching
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Zealot
Believer; enthusiast; fan
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Nettle
To annoy; to irritate
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Render
To deliver; to provide
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Respite
Recess; rest period
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Wooden
To be expressionless or dull
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Epitome
Model; typification; representation
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Arcane
Obscure; secret; mysterious
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Bereft
Hurt by someone's death
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Profusion
Great amount; abundance
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Blithe
Happy; cheery; merry
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Voluble
Fluent (characterized by a great flow of words; talkative)
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Impervious
Impenetrable; not allowing anything to pass through; unaffected
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Antipathy
A natural dislike or repugnance
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Upshot
The final act or result
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Contravene
To act contrary to; to oppose or contradict
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Ungainly
Clumsy and unattractive
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Implacable
Unwilling to be pacified or appeased
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Truculent
Fierce; savage; cruel
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Abstruse
Hard to understand; deep; recondite
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Petulant
Peevish; cranky; rude
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Immutable
Unchangeable; permanent
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Amalgamate
To mix; to merge; to combine
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Cant
Insincere or hypocritical statements of high ideals; the jargon of a particulat group or occupation
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Fortuitous
Happening accidentally
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Vilify
To speak abusively of
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Tepid
Lacking warmth, interest, enthusiasm; luke warm
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Innocuous
Harmless; innocent
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Desecrate
To profane; violate the sanctity of
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Knavery
Rascality; trickery
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Convoke
To call to assemble
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Breadth
The distance from one side to another
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Undermine
To weaken; to ruin
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Intercede
To plead on the behalf of another; to mediate
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Constrain
To force, compel; to restrain
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Chastise
To punish; to discipline; to admonish; to rebuke
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Stridency
Harshness or shrillness sound
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Bastion
A fortified place or strong defense
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Tenuous
Thin; slim; delicate; weak
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Anecdote
A short account of happenings
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Conglomeration
Mixture; collection
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Sordid
Filthy; base; vile
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Stoic
Detached; unruffled; calm; austere indifference to joy, grief, pleasure, or pain
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Foist
To falsely identify as real
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Ratify
To make valid; confirm
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Debacle
Disaster; collapse; a rout
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Discourse
To converse; to communicate in an orderly fashion
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Somber
Dark and depressing; gloomy
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Subjugate
To dominate or enslave
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Cogitate
To think hard; to ponder; to meditate
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Reticent
Silent; reserved; shy
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Incredulous
Skeptical; unbelieving
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Repast
Food that is eaten
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Pious
Religious; devout; dedicated
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Recalcitrant
Stubbornly rebellious
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Rebuff
A blunt refusal to offered help
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Antagonism
Hostility; opposition
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Raucous
Disagreeable to the sense of hearing; harsh; hoarse
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Jocund
Happy; cheerful; genial; gay
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Obsequious
Servilely attentive; fawning
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Veracious
Conforming to fact; accurate
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Polemicist
A person skilled in argument
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Stanza
Group of lines in a poem having a definite pattern
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Phlegmatic
Without emotion or interest
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Tensile
Undergoing or exerting tension
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Indelible
That which cannot be blotted out or erased
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Tyranny
Absolute power; autocracy
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Laconic
Sparing of words; terse, pithy
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Pejorative
Making things worse
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Adversaries
An enemy; foe
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Diverge
To separate; to split
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Parsimony
A tendency to be over careful in spending
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Parsimonious
Very frugal; unwilling to spend
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August
To be imposing or magnificent
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Inchoate
Not yet fully formed; rudimentary
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Torpid
Lacking alertness and activity; lethargic
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Innuendo
Hint; insinuation
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Repudiate
To reject; to cancel
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Noxious
Harmful to one's health
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Nostrum
A questionable remedy
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satire
a novel or a play that uses humor or irony to expose folly
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determinate
distinct limits
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imbue
to dye or to permeate
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nefarious
villainous or wicked
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tacit
not voiced or expressed
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malediction
curse; evil spell
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knotty
to be puzzling or hard to explain
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munificent
very generous in giving; lavish
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dirge
a hymn for a funeral; a song or poem expressing lament
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pallor
lack of facial color
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misanthrope
a hater of mankind
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mercurial
quick; changeable; fickle
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assuage
to lessen or calm
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paradigm
model; prototype; pattern
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conceit
an exaggerated personal opinion
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apocryphal
counterfeit; of doubtful authorship or authenticity
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scanty
inadequate; sparse
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malefactor
an evil person
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reproach
to blame and thus make feel ashamed; to rebuke
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catalyst
anything which creates a situation in which change can occur
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saunter
to walk at leisurely pace; to stroll
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condone
to overlook; to forgive
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percussion
striking one object against another
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consternation
amazement or terror that causes confusion
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coagulate
to become a semisolid, soft mass; to clot
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lecherous
impure in thought and act
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caprice
a sudden, unpredictable, or whimsical change
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sequester
to separate or segregate
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