1Adulterate
Render (something) poorer in quality by adding another substance.
2Advocate
A person who publicly supports or recommends a particular cause or policy.
3Aggrandize
Increase the power, status, or wealth of.
4Alacrity
Pronunciation: Uh·la·kruh·tee
Cheerful willingness and liveliness.
5Ambivalent
Having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone.
6Ameliorate
Make (something bad or unsatisfactory) better.
7Amenable
Open and responsive to suggestion; easily persuaded or controlled.
8Anachronistic
Belonging to a period other than that being portrayed.
9Audacious
1. Showing a willingness to take surprisingly bold risks.
2. Showing an impudent lack of respect.
10Avaricious
Pronunciation: a·vr·i·shuhs
Having or showing an extreme greed for wealth or material gain.
11Banal
So lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring.
12Benign
1. Gentle and kind.
2. Not harmful to the environment.
13Brazen
Bold and without shame.
14Calumny
The making of false and defamatory statements about someone in order to damage their reputation; slander.
15Candid
Truthful and straightforward; frank.
16Castigate
Pronunciation: ka·stuh·gayt
Reprimand (someone) severely.
17Caustic
1. Sarcastic in a scathing and bitter way.
2. Able to burn or corrode organic tissue by chemical action.
18Construe
Interpret (a word or action) in a particular way.
19Contrite
Feeling or expressing remorse at the recognition that one has done wrong.
20Convoluted
1. (Especially of an argument, story, or sentence) Extremely complex and difficult to follow.
2. Intricately folded, twisted, or coiled.
21Covet
Yearn to possess (something, especially something belonging to another).
22Craven
Contemptibly lacking in courage; cowardly.
23Decorum
Behaviour in keeping with good taste and propriety.
24Deft
Neatly skillful and quick in one's movements.
25Demur
Raise objections or show reluctance.
26Derivative
1. Something which is based on another source.
2. Imitative of the work of another artist, writer, etc., and usually disapproved of for that reason.
27Desiccate
Remove the moisture from (something); cause to become completely dry.
28Diatribe
A forceful and bitter verbal attack against someone or something.
29Incredulous
(Of a person or their manner) Unwilling or unable to believe something.
30Ingenuous
(Of a person or action) Innocent and unsuspecting.