Vocabulary

To reduce in amount, degree, or severity

To leave secretly

Syn: Flee, Decamp, Escape

To choose not to do something

Syn: Forbear Refrain Withhold

To speak in favor of

Syn: Back Champion Support

Concerning the appreciation of beauty

Syn: Artistic Tasteful

To increase in power, influence and reputation

Syn: Amplify Dignify Emnoble Magnify Wax Apotheosize Elevate Exalt Swell Augment Enlarge Glorify Uplift

To make more bearable

Syn: Allay Ease Mitigate Assuage Lessen Palliate Comfort Lighten Relieve

To combine; to mix together

Syn: Admx Commingle Fuse Merge Blend Commix Intermingle Mingle Combine Compound Intermix Mix

Doubtful or uncertain; able to be interpreted in several ways

Syn: Cloudy Equivocal Obscure Doubtful Indeterminate Unclear Dubious Nebulous Vague

To make better, to improve

Syn: Amend Pacify Better Upgrade Improve

Something out of place in time

Syn: Archaism Incongruity

Similar or alike in some way equivalent to

Syn: Alike Equivalent similar comparable homogenous corresponding parallel

Deviation from what is normal

Syn: Abberance Deviance Preternaturalness Aberration Deviation Abnormality Irregularity

To anooy or provke to anger

Syn: Clash irritate provoke conflict oppose vex incite pester

Extreme dislike

Syn: animosity aversion repellence animus enmity antagonism hostiliy

Lack of interest or emotion

Syn: Coolness impassivity lassitude phelgm stolidity insenseibility

To judge a dispute b/w two opposing parties

Syn: Adjudge determine referee adjudicate judge rule decide moderate

Ancient, Old fashioned

Syn: Ancient bygone fusty superseded antediluvian outmoded stale superannuated

Intense and passionate feeling

Syn: Devotion Fervidity Fire Zealousness Enthusiasm Fervidness Fervency Fervor Zeal

Able to speak clearly and expressively

Syn: Eloquent Lucid Expressive Silver-Tongued

To make something unpleasant less severe

To reduce in force or degree; to weaken

Syn: Debilitate Enervate Sap Devitalize Enfeeble Thin Unnerve Dilute Rarefy

Fearless and daring

Syn: Adventursome Plucky Valorous Dauntless Gallant Intrepid Doughty Mettlesome Valiant

Severe or stern in appearance; undecoated

Syn: Bleak Dour Harsh Grim Severe

Predictable, boring

Syn: Bland commonplace innocuous musty stereotypic bromidic fatuous insipid hackneyed jejune prosaic vapid

To support; To prop up

Syn: Brace Support Uphold Buttress Sustain

pompous in speech and manner

Syn: Declamatory Grandoise Orotund Fustain High-Flown

Harsh, jarring noise

Syn: Chaos, discord clamor disharmony din noise

Impartial and honest in speech

Syn: Direct Honest Straight Forthright Open Straightforward Frank Undisguised

Changing ones mind quickly and often

Syn: Arbitrary erratic mercurial willful chance fickle random whimsicle

To punish or criticize Harshly

Syn: Admionish Rebuke Reprove Upbriad Chastise Reprimand Scold Chide

Something that brings about a change in something else

Syn: Acerbic trenchant biting mordant

Deception by means of craft or guile

Syn: Artifice Deception Pettifoggery Sophistry Conniving Deviousness shadiness

Convincing and well-reasoned

Syn: Convincing sound persuasive telling solid valid

To overlooked, pardon, or disregard

Syn: Exculpate Remit Excuse Pardon

Inticate and complicated

To provide supporting evidence

Syn: Authenticate Buttress Validate Confirm Verify Substantiate

To trusting; Gullible

Syn: Naive Susceptible Trusting

Steadily increasing in volume or force

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct; propriety

Respectful, Courtasy.

Syn: Courtesy obeisance veneration homage respect honor reverence

To speak of or treat with contempt; to mock

Syn: Gibe ridicule taunt jeer scoff mock sneer

To dry out thoroughly

Syn: Dehydrrate dry

Jumping from one thing to another; disconnected

Syn: Aimless Haphazard purposeless erratic

An abusive, condemnatory speech

Syn: Fulmination Jeremiad Tirade Harangue Malediction Invective Obloquy

Lacking self confidence

To make larger; to expand

Intended to delay

Someone with an amateurish and superficial interest in a topic

Syn: Tyro Dabbler

A funeral hym or mournful speech

Syn: Elegy Lament

To set right; to free from error

To percieve; to recognize

Fundamentally different; entirely unlike

Syn: Variant Divergent

To present a false appearance; to disguise one's real intentions or character

Syn: Camoflauge Masquerade Feign Sham Simulate

A harsh and disagreeable combination, often of sounds

A firmly held opinion; often a religous belief

Dictatorial in one's opinions

Syn: Authoritarian Doctrinaire Magisterial Peremptory Bossy Imperious

To decieve; a person who is easily decieved

Syn: Beguile Cozen Betray Deceive Bluff

Selecting from or made up from a variety of sources

Effectiveness

Syn: Dyamism Proficiency Efficiency

A sorrowful poem or speech

Persuasive and moving, especially in speech

To copy; to try to equal or excel

To reduce in strength

Syn: Debilitate Weaken Enfeeble

To produce, cause, or bring about

A puzzle, a mystery

To count, list or itemize

Lasting a short time

Syn: Evanescent transient fleeting momentary

To use expressions of double meaning in order to mislead

Syn: Ambiguous evasive waffling

Wandering and unpredictable

Learned, scholarly, bookish

Known or understood only by few

Admirable, high regard

Speech in praise of someone

Use on an inoffensive word or phrase in place of a more distasteful one

Syn: Whitewash

To make worse

To clear from blame; prove innocent

Syn: Acquit vindicate clear exonerate

Urgent; requiring immediate action

Acting excessively enthusiastic, filled with extreme unquestioned devotion

To grovel

Syn: Bootlick Pander

Intensly emotional; feverish

Syn: burning vehement impassioned zealous

Excessively decorated or embellished

Syn: Elaborate ostentatious flamboyant rococo ornate

To arouse of incite

Syn: agitate instigate impassion kindle inflame

A tendency to be thrifty or cheap

Tending to talk alot

Syn: Loquacious Effusive

Outgoing, sociable

Syn: Congenial sociable affable

Deciet or trickery

Syn: Artifice duplicity chicanery connivery

One who opposes established beliefs, customs, and institutions

• Not capable of being distubed
• To disturb greatly

Syn: Serene composed Stoical

Impossible to penetrate; incapable of being affected

Quick to act without thinking

Syn: Impulsive reckless precipitate

Unable to be calmed down or peaceful

Syn: Inexorable relentless intransigent remorseless irreconcilable

Not fully formed; disorganized

Showing innocence or childlike simplicity

Syn: artless naive guileless simple

Hostile, Unfriendly

Syn: Recalcitrant Antagonistic Dissident

Harmless

Syn: Benign Harmless Inoffensive

Lacking interest or flavor

Syn: Banal Stale Bland Vapid Dull

Uncomprimising; refusing to be reconciled

Syn: Implacable Obdurate Rigid Unyielding Inexorable Obstinate Unbending Remorseless

To overwhelm; to cover with water

Easily made angry

Cantankerous Irritable

Using few words

Syn: Concise Taciturn Curt Terse Pithy

To express sorrow; to grieve

Syn: Bewail Mourn Deplore Grieve

To give praise; to glorify

To give unsparingly (v); extremely generous or extravagant (adj)

Syn: Bestow Exuberant prodigal confer luxuriant profuse

Talkitive

Syn: Effusive Garrulous Verbose

To evade responsiblity by pretending to be ill

A figure of speech comparing two different things; a symbol

Extremey careful about details

Syn: Conscientious Precise Scrupulous

A person who dislikes others

To soften; To lessen

Syn: Allay Ease Mollify Alleviate Lighten Palliate Assuage Moderate

To clam or make less severe

Lack of variation

Syn: Drone Tedium

Lacking Sophistication or experience

Hardened in feeling; resistant to persuasion

Syn: Inflexible Tenacious Intransigent Unyielding Recalcitrant

Overly submissive and eager to please

Stubborn, Unyielding

To prevent; to make unnecessary

Syn: Forestall Preclude Prohibit

Troublesome and Oppressive; Burdensome

Impossible to see through; preventing the passage of light

Public Disgrace

Syn: Discredit Obloquy Ignominy Dishonor

Excessive showiness

Syn: Conspicuouseness Showiness Flashiness

A contradiction or dilemma

A model of excellence or perfection

Syn: Apotheosis Ideal Standard

Someone who shows off learning

Willing to betray one's trust

Syn: Disloyal Treacherous Faithless Traitorous

Done in a routine way; indifferent

To penetrate

Charity; A desire or effort to promote goodness

Syn: Altruism Humanitarianism

To soothe or pacify

Syn: appease conciliate mollify

Able to be molded, altered or bent

Syn: Ductile Pliant malleable

Practical as opposed to idealistic

To throw violently or bring about abruptly; lacking deliberation

To lie or deviate from the truth

Syn: Equivocate lie perjure

Fresh and clean; uncorrupted

Syn: UNdamaged innocent

Lavish; wasteful

Syn: Extravagant Spendthrift Lavish Wasteful Profligate

To increase in number quickly

To concilate; to appease

Correct behavior; obediance to rules and customs

Syn: Decency Seemliness Decorum Modesty

Wisdom, caution, or restraint

Syn: Astuteness Frugality Thrift Circumspection Discretion

Motionless

Syn: Dormant Latent

To make thinner or sparser

Syn: Attenuate Thin

To reject the validity of

Syn: Disavow Renounce Disclaim Disown

Silent Reserved

Syn: Cool Standoffish Introverted

To satisy fully or overindulge

Causing sleep or lethargy

Syn: Hypnotic Somnolent Narcotic

Deceptively attractive; seemingly plausible but fallacious

Syn: Illusory Spurious Ostensible Plausible

A mark of shame or discredit

Syn: Blemish Stain Blot Taint Opprobrium

Unemotional; lacking sensitivity

Syn: APathetic phlegmatic impassive stoical indifferent

Lofty or Grand

Syn: August Grand Noble Superb

Done without using words

Syn: Implicit Unsaid Implied Unuttered Undeclared

Silent, not talktitive

Syn: Laconic Reticent

Long Harsh Speech or verbal attack

Extreme mental and physical sluggishness

Syn: Apathy Languor

Temporary, lasting a breif time

Syn: Ephemeral Impermanent Evanescent Fleeting

To sway physically; to be indecisive

To respect deeply

Syn: Adore Revere Honor Idolize

Filled with truth and accuracy

Syn: Candor Probity Exactitude Fidelity

To annoy

Syn: Annoy Exasperate Peeve Bother Irk Provoke Chafe Nettle

Easily Aroused or changeable; Lively or explosive

Syn: Capricious Inconsistant Erratic Inconstant Fickle Mercurial

To fluctuate between choices

Syn: Dither Oscillate Falter Vacillate Fluctuate

Acting in a fanciful or caprisious manner: Unpredictable

Syn: Capricious Frivolous Erratic Flippant

Passion Excitement