- abattoir: slaughterhouse
- abrogation: to end or cancel (something) in a formal and official way; to fail to do what is required by (something, such as a responsibility)
- abstemious: marked by restraint especially in the consumption of food or alcohol
- adulation: excessive or slavish admiration or flattery
- assiduous: showing great care, attention, and effort
- bellicose: having or showing a tendency to argue or fight
- bivouac: a temporary camp or shelter
- bucolic: of or relating to the country or country life
- cavil: to complain about things that are not important
- convivial: of or relating to social events where people can eat, drink, and talk in a friendly way with others
- corrugated: having a wavy surface
- deleterious: damaging or harmful
- desultory: not having a plan or purpose; done without serious effort
- diffident: lacking confidence; not feeling comfortable around people; very careful about acting or speaking
- dolorous: causing, marked by, or expressing misery or grief
- effete: lacking strength, courage, or spirit
- expropriate: to take (someone's property)
- extirpate: to destroy or remove (something) completely
- fatuous: foolish or stupid
- fauve: vivid in color
- fecund: producing or capable of producing offspring, fruit, vegetation, etc., in abundance; prolific; fruitful
- garrulous: tending to talk a lot; very talkative
- gelid: extremely cold
- genuflect: to kneel on one knee and then rise again as an act of respect; to obey someone with power in a way that is seen as weak
- glabrous: smooth; especially having a surface without hairs or projections
- gravid: pregnant
- hoary: gray or white with or as if with age; extremely old
- imprecation: an offensive word or phrase that people say when they are angry; curse
- incipient: beginning to develop or exist
- inculcation: to cause (something) to be learned by (someone) by repeating it again and again
- indefatigable: able to work or continue for a very long time without becoming tired
- ineluctable: not able to be avoided or changed
- intransigent: completely unwilling to change: very stubborn
- laconic: using few words in speech or writing; concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious
- lapidary: a cutter, polisher, or engraver of precious stones usually other than diamonds; the art of cutting gems
- libertine: a person (especially a man) who leads an immoral life and is mainly interested in sexual pleasure
- louche: not reputable or decent
- lurid: causing shock or disgust: involving sex or violence in a way that is meant to be shocking; shining or glowing with a bright and unpleasant color
- meretricious: attractive in a cheap or false way; tawdrily and falsely attractive; of or relating to a prostitute
- modicum: a small amount
- nebulous: not clear: difficult to see, understand, describe, etc.
- obfuscate: to make (something) more difficult to understand
- obviate: to make no longer necessary: to prevent or avoid
- parsimonious: very unwilling to spend money
- pasquinade: satirical writing
- paucity: a small amount of something; an amount that is less than what is needed or wanted
- pellucid: admitting maximum passage of light without diffusion or distortion; easy to understand
- perambulate: to travel over or through especially on foot: traverse; to make an official inspection of (a boundary) on foot
- peremptory: used to describe an order, command, etc., that you must obey without any questions or excuses; characterized by often imperious or arrogant self-assurance
- perfidious: not able to be trusted; showing that someone cannot be trusted
- persiflage: frivolous bantering talk: light raillery
- piquant: having a pleasant, spicy taste; interesting and exciting
- portentous: giving a sign or warning that something usually bad or unpleasant is going to happen; trying to seem important, serious, or impressive
- portentous: giving a sign or warning that something usually bad or unpleasant is going to happen; trying to seem important, serious, or impressive
- prevaricate: to avoid telling the truth by not directly answering a question
- propitious: likely to have or produce good results
- protuberant: sticking out from a surface usually with a curved or rounded shape
- restive: feeling bored or impatient while waiting for something to happen or change
- reveille: military: a signal given on a musical instrument (such as a bugle or drum) in the early morning to call soldiers or sailors to duty
- sagacity: having or showing an ability to understand difficult ideas and situations and to make good decisions
- sententious: terse, aphoristic, or moralistic in expression
- simian: of or relating to monkeys or apes; like a monkey or ape
- sinecure: a job or position in which someone is paid to do little or no work
- soporific: causing a person to become tired and ready to fall asleep
- suborn: to induce secretly to do an unlawful thing
- supercilious: coolly and patronizingly haughty
- tacit: expressed or understood without being directly stated
- truculent: easily annoyed or angered and likely to argue
- untenable: not capable of being defended against attack or criticism, not able to be occupied
- vertiginous: causing or likely to cause a feeling of dizziness especially because of great height
- vestigial: the last small part that remains of something that existed before; the smallest possible amount of something
- petrichor
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