1Abeyance
Suspension of activity
2Abrograte
To formally revoke an agreement or arrangement
3Abscond
To leave secretly
4Abstruse
Difficult to understand; obscure
6Adulate
To praise too greatly
7Apocryphal
Of questionable authenticity
8Augur
To indicate by signs; to predict from an omen
9Beget
To make children; to cause
10Bestial
Showing a lack of human sensibility; like an animal
12Capitulate
To surrender, to give up or give in
13Captious
Overly critical and complaining
14Cavil
To raise trivial objections; to bicker
15Charlatan
One who feigns knowledge or ability; an imposter
16Chary
Extremely cautious or hesitant
17Compunction
Feelings of shame or regret
18Consanguinity
A relationship by blood
19Consumate
to bring to a state of completion or perfection
20Conture
fashion designs; fashionable clothing
21Contusion
A bruise; an injury where the skin is not broken
22Coterie
A group of people with a common interest
23Cynosure
The center of attention; something that serves to guide or direct
24Defenestrate
To throw out of a window
25Descant
To talk or write at length
27Disputatious
Likely to or causing heated arguments
28Diurnal
Active during the daytime
30Effervescent
Bubbling, excited
31Elegy
A sorrowful poem or speech
32Emollient
Soothing; a soothing substance
33Encomium
A formal expression of praise, a eulogy
34Enfranchise
To grant privileges of citizenship, especially the right to vote
36Espouse
To support or adopt
37Excoriate
To criticize severly
38Exigent
Critical, requiring immediate action
39Expropriate
To take arbitrarily by force
40Fatuous
stupid or foolish in a self-satisfied way
42Gamin
A child who roams the streets
43Hapless
Having persistent bad luck
44Hermetic
Sealed tightly; protected from outside influence
45Immure
To imprision; to incarcerate
46Imprecate
To pray for evil; to invoke a curse
47Inculcate
To teach by frequent repetition
48Ineffable
Impossible to describe in words
49Inexorable
Impossible to stop
51Malinger
To pretend to be ill to a avoid a responsibility
52Meretricious
Attractive in a superficial manner but without real value
53Neologism
A newly invented word or phrase
54Nostrum
A hypothetical cure-all that may have no true efficacy
55Overweening
Arrogant; excessive
56Paroxysm
A sudden uncontrollable spasm
58Penitent
Regretful for one's sins
59Perfidious
Intending to betray
60Perspicacious
Keen in observation and understanding
61Philippic
A violent verbal attack
62Plaintive
Expressive of sorrow or woe
63Potentate
A powerful ruler; an important person
64Prodigious
Enormous; exceptional
65Progenitor
An ancestor in the direct line
67Psychophant
A person who serves and flatters someone for personal gain
68Pusillanimous
Contemptibly cowardly
69Raiment
Clothing, garments
71Rebarbative
Serving or tending to repel
72Remuneration
A payment; the act of paying
73Repine
To express discontent
74Riposte
A quick and witty reply
75Sacrilege
Improper or disrespectful treatment of something sacred
76Salacious
Characterized by lust
77Saturnine
Melancholy, gloomy, morose
78Scion
A young descendant or heir
79Sedantary
Characterized by sitting
80Sequester
To separate or segregate
82Sophistry
A flawed argument
83Suppliant
To make a request humbly and earnestly
84Tableau
A picturesque display
85Temporize
To stall or act evasively in order to gain time
86Toady
A person who tries to please others to gain a personal advantage
87Verdant
Green with vegetation; green; inexperienced