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Zeal
Passion, excitement
Whimsical
Acting in a fanciful or capricious manner; unpredictable
Waver
To fluctuate between choices
Volatile
Easily aroused or changeable; lively or explosive
Vex
To annoy
Verbose
Wordy
Veracity
Filled with truth and accuracy
Venerate
To respect deeply
Vacillate
To sway physically; to be indecisive
Transitory
Temporary, lasting a brief time
Torpor
Extreme mental and physical sluggishness
Tirade
Long, harsh speech or verbal attack
Taciturn
Silent; not talkitive
Tacit
Done without using words
Sublime
Lofty or grand
Stolid
Unemotional; lacking sensitivity
Staunch
Steadfast
Specious
Deceptively attractive; seemingly plausible but fallicious
Soporific
Causing sleep or lethargy
Sentient
Able to perceive by senses
Satiate
To satisfy fully or overindulge
Rhetoric
Effective writing or speaking
Reticent
Silent; reserved
Repudiate
To reject the validity of
Rarefy
To make thinner or sparser
Quixotic
Idealistically romantic
Quiescent
Motionless
Purported
Alleged
Pungent
Sharp and irritating to the senses
Prudence
Wisdom, caution, or restraint
Prosaic
Dull
Propriety
Correct behavior; obedience to rules and customs
Propitiate
To conciliate; to appease
Proliferate
To increase in number quickly
Prodigal
Lavish, wasteful
Pristine
Fresh and clean; uncorrupted
Prevaricate
To lie or deviate from the truth
Preternatural
Supernatural
Precipitate
To throw violently or being about abruptly; lacking deliberation
Portent
Omen
Pragmatic
Practical as opposed to idealistic
Polemic
Argument against
Plethora
Excess
Plastic
Able to be molded, altered or bent
Placate
To soothe or pacify
Philanthropy
Charity; a desire or effort to promote goodness
Permeate
To penetrate
Perfunctory
Done in a routine way; indifferent
Perfidious
Willing to betray one's trust
Pedant
Someone who shows off learning
Paragon
Model of excellence or perfection
Paradox
A contradiction or dilemma
Ostentation
Excessive showiness
Opprobrium
Public disgrace
Opaque
Impossible to see through; preventing the passage of light
Onerous
Troublesome and oppressive; burdensome
Occlude
To stop up; to prevent the passage of
Odious
Detestable
Obviate
To prevent; to make unnecessary
Obstinate
Stubborn; unyielding
Obsequious
Overly submissive and eager to please; fawning
Obdurate
Hardened in feeling resistant to persuasion
Nepotism
Favoring family and friends in business
Naive
Lacking sophistication or experience
Monotony
Lack of variation
Mollify
To calm or make less severe
Mitigate
To soften; to lessen
Misanthrope
A person who dislikes others
Meticulous
Extremely careful about details
Metaphor
A figure of speech comparing two different things; a symbol
Malleable
Capable of being shaped
Malinger
To evade responsibility by pretending to be ill
Luminous
Bright; brilliant, glowing
Lucid
Clear and easily understood
Loquacious
Talkative
Lethargic
Acting in an indifferent or slow sluggish manner
Lavish
To give unsparingly; extremely generous or extravagent
Laud
To give praise; to glorify
Languish
Depressed
Lament
To express sorrow; to grieve
Laconic
Using few words
Irascible
Easily made angry
Inundate
To overwhelm; to cover with water
Intransigent
Uncompromising; refusing to be reconciled
Insipid
Lacking interest or flavor
Innocuous
Harmless
Inimical
Hostile, unfriendly
Ingenuous
Showing innocence or childlike simplicity
Inchoate
Not fully formed; childlike simplicity
Implacable
Unable to be calmed down or made peaceful
Impetuous
Quick to act without thinking; impatient
Impervious
Impossible to penetrate; incapable of being affected
Imperturbable
Not capable of being disturbed
Ignominy
Disgrace, dishonor
Iconoclast
One who opposes established beliefs, customs, and instiutions
Homogenous
Of a similar kind
Gullible
Easily deceived
Guile
Deceit or trickery
Gregarious
Outgoing, sociable
Garrulous
Tending to talk a lot
Frugality
A tendency to be thrifty or cheap
Foment
To arouse or incite
Florid
Excessively decorated or embellished
Fervid
Intensely emotional; feverish
Fawn
To grovel
Fanatical
Acting excessively enthusiastic; filled with extreme, unquestioned devotion
Facetious
Not meant to be taken seriously; humerous
Explicit
Clearly state or shown; forthright in expression
Exonerate
To clear of blame
Exigent
Urgent; requiring immediate action
Exculpate
To clear from blame; prove innocent
Exacerbate
To make worse
Evanescent
Vanishing, fading away
Euphemism
Use of an inoffensive word or phrase in place of a more distasteful one
Eulogy
Speech in praise of someone
Estimable
Admirable
Espouse
Support
Esoteric
Known or understood by only a few
Erudite
Learned, scholarly, bookish
Erratic
Wandering and unpredictable
Equivocate
To use expressions of double meaning in order to mislead
Ephemeral
Lasting a short time
Enumerate
To count, list, or itemize
Enigma
A puzzle; a mystery
Engender
To produce, cause, or bring about
Enervate
To reduce in strength
Emulate
To copy; to try to equal or excel
Eloquent
Persuasive and moving, especially in speech
Elegy
A sorrowful poem or speech
Efficacy
Effectiveness
Eclectic
Selecting from or made up from a variety of sources
Dupe
To deceive; a person who is easily deceived
Dogmatic
Dictatorial in one's opinion
Dogma
A firmly held opinion, often a religious belief
Dissonance
A harsh and disagreeable combination, often of sounds
Dissemble
To present a false appearance; to disguise one's real intentions or character
Disparate
Fundamentally different; entirely unlike
Discern
To perceive; to recognize
Disabuse
To set right; to free from error
Dirge
A funeral hymn or mournful speech
Dilettante
Someone with an amateurish and superficial interest in a topic
Dilatory
Intended to delay
Dilate
To make larger; to expand
Diffident
Lacking self-confidence
Diatribe
An abusive, condemnatory speech
Desultory
Jumping from one thing to another; disocnnected
Desiccate
To dry out thoroughly
Deride
To speak of or treat with contempt; to mock
Deference
Respect; courtesy
Decorum
Appropriateness of behavior or conduct; propriety
Cursory
Hasty
Crescendo
Steadily increasing volume or force
Credulous
Too trusting; gullible
Corroborate
To provide supporting evidence
Convoluted
Intricate and complicated
Condone
To overlook, pardon, or disregard
Commensurate
Equal
Cogent
Convincing and well reasoned
Chicanery
Deception by means of craft or guile
Chauvinist
Someone prejudiced in favor of a group to which he or she belongs
Chaos
Great disorder or confusion
Caustic
Biting in wit
Catalyst
Something that brings about a change in something else
Castigate
To punish or criticize harshly
Capitulate
Yield; give in
Capricious
Changing one's mind quickly and often
Candid
Impartial and honest in speech
Cacophony
Harsh; jarring noise
Bombastic
Pompous in speech and manner
Bolster
To support; to prop up
Banal
Predictable, cliched, boring
Austere
Severe or stern in appearance; undecorated
Audacious
Fearless and daring
Attenuate
To reduce in force or degree; to weaken
Assuage
To make something unpleasant less severe
Articulate
Able to speak clearly and expressively
Ardor
Intense and passionate feeling
Archaic
Ancient; old-fashioned
Arbitrate
To judge a dispute between two opposing parties
Apathy
Lack of interest or emotion
Antipathy
Extreme dislike
Antagonize
To annoy or provoke to anger
Anomaly
Deviation from what is normal
Analogous
Similar or alike in some way; equivalent to
Anachronism
Something out of place in time
Ameliorate
To make better; to improve
Ambiguous
Doubtful or uncertain; able to be interpreted several ways
Amalgamate
To combine; to mix together
Alleviate
To make more bearable
Aggrandize
To increase in power, influence, and reputation
Aesthetic
Concerning the appreciation of beauty
Advocate
To speak in favor of
Accolade
Award
Adulterate
To make impure
Abyss
An extremely deep hole
Abstain
To choose not to do something
Abscond
To leave secretly
Abate
To reduce in amount, degree, or severity
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