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Contrite
Regretful, penitent; seeking forgiveness.
The judge looked favorably on the defendant's contrite plea for leniency.
Synonyms: Apologetic
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Quotidian
Occuring or recurring daily
- The nonprofit organization stries to supply the quotidian needs of people in remote parts of developing countries
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- Synonyms:ordinary, everyday
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Implacable
Not capable of being appeased, or significantly changed
Sadly, Iriina is an implacable pessimist and will never see the brighter side of any situation.
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Exigent
Urgent; pressing; requiring immediate action or attention
Ive already missed two payments, so writing a check to the gas company is my most exigent priority.
Synonyms: Crucial, Dire, Imperative.
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Forswear
To renounce; repudate
Synonyms: Diavow
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Boisterous
- loud, noisy; lacking restraint
- Synonyms: raucous
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Nugatory
No Value or Importance
Synonyms: Piddling
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Cursory
Hasty; done with little attention.
Synonyms: Hurried
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Harrow
To Distress; to cause agony to
Synonyms: torment
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Importune
To ask incessantly; to beg; to nag
Synonyms: Exhort
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Prevaricate
To deliberately avoid the truth; mislead
Synonyms: misinform, deceive, hedge.
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Ignominious
Shameful; undignified
Synonyms: humiliating
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Stygian
Gloomy, Dark
Synonyms: Infernal
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Surefit
Excess,
Synonyms: overabundance, surplus
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Inimical
damaging, harmful, or injurious; hostile, adverse or unfriendly
Synonyms: deleterious
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Ebullience
the quality of lively or entusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings.
Synonyms: effervescence
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Toady
Sycophant; flatterer
Synonyms: Flunky
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Epicutre
One devoted to sensual pleasure, particularly food and drink
Synonyms: gourmet
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Untrammeled
not hampered or impeded
Synonyms: unrestrained
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Renege
Withdraw, to fail to honor a commitment; to break a promise.
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Solicitous
concerned and attentive; eager
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Slake
to satisfy or quench
Synonyms: abate
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Ostentatious
Pretentiousness
Synonyms: showy
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Didactic
intended to teach or instruct
Synonyms: pedagogic
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Gauche
Crude; Awkward
Synonyms: Tactless
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Idyll
A carefree, lightheared pastoral or romantic scene
Synonyms: carefree scene
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recalcitrant
Obstinately resistant to authroty; difficult to manage
Synonyms: Defiant, rebellious.
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Detraction
Slandering, verbal attacks; aspersion
Synonyms: disparagement
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Parsimonious
cheap; miserly
Synonyms: Stingy
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Felicitous
Well Chosen
Synonyms: Appropriate
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Trenchant
Sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating
Synonyms: incisive
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Errant
Wandering; straying
Synonyms: Roving
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Occlude
to obstruct or block
Synonyms: clog, congest
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Obloquy
Sharp criticism; abusively detractive language
Synonyms: calumny
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Vacillate
to move indecisevly b/t one course of action or opinion and another
Synonyms: waver.
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