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punctillious
lawful
to beard
to brave or defy someone to their face
philistine
a person guided by materialism
perfidy
deceit or disloyalty
puissant
powerful
insouciant
free from care or worry
fey
related to the supernatural
dissemble
to conceal, disguise or hide something
inveterate
habitual
vitiate
reduce in value or effectiveness
unctuous
greasy, oily, smug and falsely earnest
trammel
to impede or hamper
threnody
sad poem or song
supercilious
arrogant, haughty, overbearing
sybarite
person devoted to pleasure and luxury
solipsism
belief that the self is the only reality
solecism
grammatical mistake
sinecure
well-paying job that requires little work
senescent
aging, growing old
scurrilous
vulgar, low, indecent
rococo
very highly ornamented
renitent
resisting pressure, obstinate
recreant
disloyal, cowardly
recondite
known only to a few
rallert
light hearted jousting
quotidian
commonplace
pusillanimous
cowardly
pulchritude
beauty
prurient
lustful
propitious
favorable, advantageoue
promulgate
to make known publicly
probity
honesty, high mindedness
privation
lack of usual necessities or comforts
plaudit
applause
plangent
resounding, plaintive
peculation
theft of money or goods
pastiche
literature or music imitating other works
panoply
impressive array
palliate
to make less serious, mitigate
paean
song of praise or thanksgiving
numismatics
coin collecting
mordacious
caustic, biting
minatory
menacing, threatening
martinet
one who rigidly follows rules
lissome
limber, agile
liniment
medicinal liquid used to ease pain
limpid
clear and simple in style
lapidary
relating to precious stones
jingoism
belligerent support of one's country
internecine
deadly to both sides
insuperable
insurmountable
inculcate
to teach, impress in the mind
husband
to farm, manage carefully and thriftily
gambol
to dance or skip playfully
fey
doomed
fecund
fertile, productive
fatuous
smugly foolish
expiate
to atone for
expatiate
to wander, to discuss at length
encomium
warm praise
emollient
soothing for the skin
dither
to move/act without a clear purpose
coterie
small group of people with similar purpose
contumacious
rebellious
compunctious
feeling guilty
cognomen
family name, nickname
bonhomie
good natured geniality
apothegm
short instructive saying
adumerate
to sketch in a shadowy way
jejune
immature
vitiate
corrupt, spoil
saturnine
heavy, gloomy, sluggish
temerity
recklessness
importune
to urge with excessive persistence
philatelist
one who loves stamps
peripatetic
itinerant
obstreperous
noisily defiant
miscegenation
interbreeding of races
arrant
notorious
efface
to rub or wipe out
apostasy
desertion of values
apocryphal
doubtful authenticity
inamorata
female lover
amatory
pertaining to love
specious
seemingly plausible
propitiate
to appease
opprobrium
public disgrace
intransigent
uncompromising
inchoate
disorganized
foment
to incite
attenuate
weaken
prolix
wordy
panegyric
formal, elaborate praise in writing
dispassionate
unbiased, objective
engender
to bring about
stolid
unemotional (stoic)
lachrymose
tearful or weepy
voluble
talkative
sanguine
cheerful
cosset
pamper
cupidity
greed or desire for goods
phlegmatic
sluggishness of temperment
noisome
stinking
imprecate
to curse
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