abiotic-noun- non living

abjure -verb- to renounce under oath

ablate -noun- to remove by erosion

ablative -noun- relating to grammar

abrogate -verb -annul by force of law

acerbic- adj -sour, harsh, severe

acicular- adj- having the shape of a needle

acolyte- noun- follower

amphigory- noun- nonsense verse

anneal- verb- heating (glass or metal) and slow cooling

anon- adv- soon, at once

antipodes- noun -exact opposites

apodiotic -adj.- demonstrably true

apostasy -noun- Abandonment of one's religious faith

apotheoses -noun- Exaltation to divine rank or stature

assonance -noun- partial agreement

avatar -noun- incarnation of a deity in human form

avaunt -adv- hence; away

aver -verb -to declare true

avulse -v tr.- to separate, cut or tear off

baccate -adj- resembling a berry

banausic -adjective- --blue collar used pejoratively;

bane -noun- Fatal injury or ruin, poison

bathos -noun- insincere pathos

bedizen -verb tr.- To ornament or dress in a showy or gaudy

benison -noun- benediction

blandish -verb tr.- To coax

bloviate -verb- : to speak or write verbosely and windily

bouquiniste -noun- dealer in second hand books

bowdlerize -v tr.- to expunge

cabbage -verb- FILCH, steal

cadge -verb- to beg or get by begging

callipygian -adj- beautifully proportioned buttocks

calumniate -verb- malign

captious -adj.- excessively critical

catawampus -adj- cater-corner, askew

cephalalgia -noun- headache

chary adj. -risk- adverse

choleric -adj.- bilious, bad temper, cranky

clerisy -noun- intelligentsia

coeval -adj- existing during the same period

colporteur -noun- a peddler of religious books

continence -noun- opposite of incontinent, constraint; moderation

contumacious -adj- Resisting boldly; openly disobedient

corpus delicti -noun- body of the victim

coterminous -adj- same or coincident boundaries

craven -adj- abject fear; cowardly

decorticate -adj- remove the surface layer

denouement -noun- clarification of a dramatic or

narrative plot desuetude -noun- A state of disuse or inactivity.

desultory -adj-- Without purpose or direction

detumescence -noun- lessen swelling

dialectic -noun- logical argument

din -noun- noise

dint -noun- force

disparate -adj- entirely different in kind

disseise -verb- : to deprive wrongfully of seisin : dispossess

dissemble -verb- disguise or conceal

distend -verb- swell out or expand

dross -noun- scummy waste

drub -adj.- to beat to the ground harshly with an object

ebullience -noun- Zestful enthusiasm.

echolalia -noun- involuntary repetition of words

ectropy -n- the opposite of entropy: increasing order

edacious -adj- devoring, voracious consuming

effloresce -verb- to bloom

effulgence -noun- radiant splendor, brilliance

elide -v tr.- To omit or slur over

emend -vt- to edit or change a text.

emesis -noun- an act of vomiting

enjoined -verb -forbid prohibit

eolian -adjective- or eroded by the wind

erstwhile -adverb- formerly

eschatology -noun- study of life after death

escheat -noun- real property taken by the state government

ethos -noun- fundamental spirit of a culture

eupeptic -adj- relating to, or having good digestion CHEERFUL, OPTIMISTIC

evince -noun- to display, reveal

excoriate -verb- wear off skin or to censure scathingly

execration -verb- cursing, to wish evil on someone

exscind -v tr- to cut out or excise

exsiccate -verb- to cause to dry up

extempore -adj.- spur of the moment

facetious -adj.- in a joking manner

fallow -adj- Characterized by inactivity

fawn -adj.- seek favors by whining

feckless -adj- lacking purpose or vitality, feeble or ineffective

fledge -verb- cover with feathers, take care of young bird

flummox -verb- confuse

foist -v. t- interpolate; to pass off (something spurious or counterfeit)

forsworn -verb- renounce an oath

freshet -noun- sudden overflowing of a stream due to rainfall

fugacious -adjective- disappearing before the usual time

fulminate -adj.- thunderous verbal attack

fusty -adjective- saturated with dust and stale odors : musty

gest -noun- adventure or tale

gibbous -adj- having a hump or more than half less than full

glower -verb- to look or stare angrily or sullenly

gratulant -adj.- express joy, expressing gratification

guffaw -noun- a loud or boisterous burst of laughter

harry -verb- to torment by or as if by constant attack

hoary -adj- Very old, stale

imbibe -verb- to drink

immolate -v tr- to kill as a sacrifice

incondite -adj.- badly constructed

indolent -adj- Disinclined to exert oneself; habitually lazy

ineffable -adj- incapable of being expressed

ineluctable -adj- Not to be avoided or escaped; inevitable:

inextirpable -adj- impossible to eradicate

inextremis -noun- near death

ingenuous -adj.- naive, artless

inimical -noun- enemy

Irenic -a.-designed to promote peace; pacific; conciliatory

irredentism -noun- two nations cultural and ethnically related, Hitler

irrefragable -adj- impossible to refute

izzat -noun- personal dignity of honor

jaunty -ADJ- gentil sprightly in manner or appearance : LIVELY

kwanza -noun- African Christmas

labile -adj- unstable likely to undergo change

largesse -noun- gift

legerdemain -noun- slight of hand, adroitness

libidinous -adj- libido, lustful desires

limacine -adj- resembling a slug

limpid -adjective- : transparent b : clear and simple in style

lissome -adj- easily flexed, nimble

lithe -adj- Marked by effortless grace: a lithe ballet

lurid -adj.- gruesome

macedoine -noun- a confused mixture

maculate -v tr.- to spot, blemish or pollute

malaise -adj- feeling of weakness

meliorism -noun- humans can aid in the betterment of the world

manumitted -v- the act of setting free a slave.

mentation -n- the process of thinking (carefully)

meretricious -adj- alluring by false showy charm

minion -noun- servile follower

morass -noun- marsh, swamp

mordant -adj- caustic or sarcastic

motility -noun- inherent power of motion

multifarious -adj- great variety or diversity

muse -verb- to be absorbed in ones thought

mythomania -noun- propensity for lying or exaggerating

neoteric -adj- recent in origin; modern

nescience -noun- ignorance, no science

niggardly -adj- petty in giving or spending

non compos mentis noun not of sound mind

non sequitur -adj.- is not logical

non troppo -noun- moderate pace

nutation -noun- the act of nodding the head

obfuscate -verb- to obscure, to muddle

obnubilate -verb- : becloud" obscure

obstreperous -adj- -noisy, vociferous

obviate -verb- make unnecessary (as an action)

odalisque -noun- a female slave

oenophile -noun- connoisseur of wine

omphaloskepsis -noun- contemplation of one's navel

orgulous -adjective- : proud

palliate -adj- to make something less serious

pellucid -adj- transparent, easily under stood

peregrination -noun- the act of traveling from one country to another

perfidious -adj- treachery

perorate -verb- To speak at great length

perspicacious -adj- keen, clear sighted

petrous -adj-- like a rock

phrenology -noun- skull size related to

intelligence piebald -adj- spotted or incongruent parts

pillory -verb- to punish

piquant -adj- agreeably pungent, spicy

pique -noun- resentment at being slighted

plaintive -adj.-- complaining

pliant -adj- pliable, Yielding readily to influence

plumply -adv- without hesitation

preprandial -adj- suitable before dinner

prevaricate -verb- : to deviate from the truth : equivocate

primogeniture -noun- first born

procrustean -adj- disregard for individual differences

profligate -adj- given up to dissipation and licentiousness

prolix -adj- long and wordy

propinquity -noun- nearness in time, place or relationship

propitiatory -adj- having the power to make atonement

prosaic -adj.- unimaginative qualities

proscribe -verb- To banish or outlaw

puerile -adj- JUVENILE, CHILDISH, SILLY

putative -adjective- : commonly accepted or supposed

quondam -adj- That once was; former:

raffish -adj- tawdry, dissolute

rakish -adj- having a trim streamlined appearance

ramify -verb- to divide or subdivide, to branch

rankle -verb- persistent irritation

raptorial -adj- greedy, Latin one who seizes from rapere

ratiocination -noun- process of reasoning

recalcitrant -adj- defiance of authority or guidance

recreancy -noun- cowardly giving up

recrudescence -noun a new outbreak after a period of abatement

redolent -adj.- emitting an aromatic fragrance

redoubtable -adj- formidable; to be feared or dreaded

redoubtable -adj- to be feared; formidable

reprobate -noun- a depraved, vicious person

ribald -adj- crude humor

ruderal -adj- growing in rubbish or waste

rutilant -adj- bright red

sardonic -adj.- sarcastic mocking

sedulous -adj- diligent

sempiternal -adjective- of never-ending duration : eternal

senescent -adj- growing old

sentencious -adj- short and pithy, trite

shrive -verb- to free from guilt

simon pure -adj- hypocritically pure

sine qua non -adj.- an essential ingredient

sinuous -adj- winding, serpentine, undulating

slake -verb- to satisfy, to allay, to assuage

slenetic -adj- bad temper, irritable

solecism -noun- ungrammatical combination of words, a minor blunder in speech

solipsism -noun- a theory holding that the self is the only existent thing

somatic -noun- corporeal

sophism -noun- plausible but fallacious argument

sophomoric -adj- self assured but immature

sough -verb- to make murmuring or rustling sound

staid -adj- steady

stentorian -adj- extremely loud or powerful

sunder -verb- to break apart into separate parts

supercilious -adj- Feeling or showing haughty disdain

supernal -adj.- celestial; heavenly

tacit -adj- silent

tawdry -adj- cheap, gaudy

temerity -noun-- disregard of danger

tenebrous -adj.- dark or grayish

thaumaturgy -noun- : the performance of miracles

toady -adj.- sycophant

torpid -adj- lethargic

torrid -adj.- hot and parching

truckle -verb- behave like a lowly servant

tumid -adj- swollen, bulging, turgid

turbid -adj- muddy water

turgid -adj- Swollen, bloated, inflated

turpitude -noun- Depravity; baseness

Umbrage -n- umbra a shadow. Jealousy of another,suspicion of injury or wrong; offense; resentment.

untorward -adj- perverse, unruly, unseemly

upbraid -verb- To scold

verve -noun- energy, vivacity, vitality

vespertine -adj- occurring in the evening

vitiate -v tr- reduce the value of or impair the quality

vituperate -verb- criticize harshly or abusively; berate

volplane -verb- to glide in or as if in an airplane

voluble -adj- talking with ease

vulpine -adj- fox like

wheedle -verb tr- persuade or attempt to persuade by flattery