- Abeyance: temporary inactivity or cessation
- Admonish: to caution/advise or to scold
- Agog
- Agminate: gathered/clustered
- Ambidextrous
- Ambrosia: drink of the gods
- Ambulatory: capable of walking
- Amorphous: having no definite shape
- Anaconda
- Antediluvian: of or belonging to the time before the biblical Flood, chiefly humorous, ridiculously old fashioned
- Apotheosis: epitome/quintessence or elevation of person to god
- Arbitrary: random
- Arcane: mysterious, understood by very few
- Arid: without moisture/barren
- Ascertain: learn with certainty
- Ascetic: a person who devotes their life to contemplation or religion/ideals
- Assiduous: constant, unrelenting
- Attenuate: to weaken the force or effect of
- Avuncular: uncle-like
- Bane: something that spoils
- Cachinnate: to laugh loudly
- Cadaverous: like a corpse
- Calamity: a disaster
- Callipygian: having well-shaped buttocks
- Cantankerous
- Capacious: spacious, large
- Capitulate: surrender
- Caprice: a sudden change
- Caustic: critical/sarcastic or capable of burning/corroding
- Celerity
- Celestial: pertaining to the sky/spiritual-ness/the heavens
- Cellar
- Chivalrous
- Chronicle
- Circuitous: roundabout, not direct
- Circumlocutions: a roundabout or indirect way of speaking
- Click
- Coalesce: recover
- Consternation: sudden and alarming amazement/dread
- Contempt: scorn
- Contiguous: near/teaching or almost but not quite touching
- Corporeal: of the physical body
- Coruscate: to emit flashed of light
- Cupidity: greed
- Defenestration: the act of throwing a thing or especially a person, out of a window
- Deluge
- Delusion
- Denizen: someone who frequents a place or a resident
- Despot: tyrant/ absolute ruler
- Diabolic
- Diadem: crown
- Diaphanous: very sheer and light, nearly transparent
- Dichotomy: division into two groups
- Dirigible
- Discern: make out
- Dissimulate: to conceal
- Diurnal: like nocturnal only for daytime
- Draconian: rigorous, severe, or cruel
- Ducal: pertaining to a duke
- Ecclesiastical: pertaining to the church
- Effulgence: shining forth brilliantly, radiant
- Egregious: extraordinarily bad
- Ellipsis: an omission
- Elucidate: to make clear
- Elysium: the mythical abode of the blessed after death
- Emaciated: unhealthily thin
- Emetic: a medicine that causes vomiting
- Emissary: an agent sent on a mission
- Endotic: The opposite of exotic, anything so familiar that we fail to register it, so that those who are least at home in a culture often perceive it best
- Enervate: to weaken
- Ensconced: covered/ snuggly settled
- Entrepreneur
- Ephemeral: fleeting
- Epicurean
- Epitome: quintessential
- Ersatz: serving as a substitute
- Erudite: learned or scholarly
- Esoteric: private/ belonging to a select few
- Ethereal: delicate or celestial
- Equivocal: allowing the possibility of many meanings, doubtful, delivered with the intent to misguide
- Espouse: adopt a cause or marry
- Evince
- Exacerbate: embitter
- Exigent: urgent
- Expostulate: to reason with earnestly or argue
- Fathom
- Fecund: fruitful, capable of producing
- Fungible: something that is easily replaceable, expendable
- Gambol
- Gesticulate: to make animated gestures
- Harbinger
- Hegemony: leadership, predominance
- Hermetic: sealed airtight, not affected by outward influence; pertaining to alchemy
- Heterotopia: an idea of a space that is totally other, that is simultaneously physical and mental ie when you see yourself in a mirror
- Hubris: arrogance
- Idiosyncrasy: a peculiar habitual mannerism
- Imbibe: to drink (esp. alcoholic beverage) or to soak up
- Imbroglio: a misunderstanding of a bitter nature
- Imperturbable
- Inanition: fatigue due to starvation
- Incipient: at the beginning stage
- Incognito
- Inculcating
- Indecorous: violating good taste
- Indelible: marks that cannot be erased
- Ineffable: unable to be described in words
- Ineluctable: incapable of being evaded
- Inexorable: unyielding/unalterable
- Inherit
- Inimical: unfriendly or harmful (as in to health)
- Insatiable
- Intrepid: resolutely fearless
- Inure: to toughen up
- Ire: wrath
- Lacuna: a gap or missing part
- Lethargy
- Littoral: pertaining to the sea
- Lugubrious: mournful, dismal, gloomy
- Lull
- Malaise: a condition of bodily weakness or discomfort
- Meretricious: alluring due to flashiness, tawdry
- Metastasis: spread
- Meticulous
- Miasma: a noxious, foreboding, or death like atmosphere
- Mingle
- Misanthropic
- Moiety: a part or share
- Moribund: near death
- Mundane
- Murmur
- Myopic: shortsighted, narrow minded
- Necropolis: a cemetery
- Niggardly: stringy
- Nugatory: of no real value, worthless
- Obviate: to anticipate and prevent
- Olfaction: sense of smell
- Onerous: burdensome/oppressive
- Orison
- Oscillate: to swing back and forth as a pendulum
- Ostentatious: uber fancy, for showing off purposes
- Palpable
- Parable: an allegorical story used to convey a message
- Parsimony: extreme frugality
- Paucity: smallness
- Penultimate: second to last
- Perfidy: breach of faith, treachery
- Perpetuate: continue
- Pestilential
- Petulant
- Phantasmagorical: a shifting series of illusions, as in a dream
- Picayune: of little value/ petty
- Pinnacle
- Piquant: stimulating, attractive
- Placate
- Plangent: a resounding sound (often plaintive)
- Plethora
- Polemic: a controversial argument
- Pontificate: to speak in a dogmatic or pompous manner
- Postulate: demand/claim
- Pragmatic: practical point of view
- Presentiment: a feeling that something (bad) is about to happen
- Prodigal: recklessly extravagant
- Profligate: a person who does an injustice so his/her own possessions by not valuing them enough
- Puerile: pertaining to childhood
- Pugnacious: inclined to quarrel
- Pythonic: giant, monumental
- Quintessential: the most perfect embodiment of
- Quotidian (blues): everyday/common
- Raconteur: a skilled story-teller
- Rancor: bitter resentment
- Rapacious: given to seizing for plunder
- Recalcitrance: hard to manage, not compliant, resisting authority
- Redolent: fragrant, having a pleasant odor
- Repugnance: strong distaste/ aversion
- Reticent: disposed to be silent/restrained/reluctant
- Ribald: indecent or vulgar speech
- Riparian: relating to / dwelling on a (bank of a) river
- Rover
- Rue: regret
- Sacrosanct: extremely sacred
- Sagacity: acuteness of mental discernment
- Salient: prominent or conspicuous
- Salubrious: healthful
- Sanguine: cheerfully optimistic/ red
- Sarcophagus
- Saturnine: sulky, gloomy, or taciturn in temperament
- Sconce
- Scruples: a moral that inhibits certain actions
- Seismic: caused by nature/an earthquake
- Sentiment
- Sepulchral: of or pertaining to a tomb/burial
- Sinecure: a position that requires little work
- Sobriquet: nickname
- Solicitous: anxious/concerned or eager
- Soliloquy
- Somatic: of the body, physical
- Somnambulism: sleepwalking
- Somniferous: inducing sleep
- Soporific: causing sleepiness
- Sordid
- Speculate
- Spurious: not genuine/ illegitimate / counterfeit
- Stagger
- Stelliferous- having or abound with stars
- Streperous: loud, boisterous
- Subsequent
- Subtleties
- Sully:stain
- Sumptuous
- Sunder: to separate/part
- Supercilious: haughtily disdainful
- Superfluous: wholly unnecessary
- Supplicate: to pray humbly or to ask
- Surfeit: excess
- Surmise: conjecture, to guess without conclusive evidence
- Surreptitiously: done by stealth
- Sycophant: a servile flatterer
- Synecdoche: a figure of speech in which a part is used to represent a whole, or vice versa
- Tabernacle: a large place of worship
- Taciturn: inclined to silence
- Tangential: something that is lies in the peripheral focus, or seems unrelated
- Terrapin: turtle like
- Timbre
- Torpor: sluggish inactivity, lethargy, or inertia
- Truculent: savagely brutal
- Tumult
- Ululate: to howl (lamenting)
- Usurp: to seize and hold without permission
- Unctuous: excessive piousness
- Ursine: bear-like
- Usury: the practiced of lending money at a REALLY high rate of interest3
- Uxorious: pertaining to wife
- Vacant: empty
- Vacuity
- Vapid
- Vehement
- Venerable: commanding respect because of great age or dignity
- Vertiginous: spinning, whirling
- Vestige
- Vicarious
- Vicissitude: a change in the state of things
- Visceral
- Welter: to roll, tumble, or toss as of waves
- Whimsical: given to fanciful notions
- Zenith: high point
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