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Abdicate- verb to cast off or relinquish
Aberration- noun a state or condition markedly different from the norm
Abject- adj. sunk to a low condition or in miserable circumstances
Abolish - verb do away with
Abridge - verb lessen, diminish, or curtail; reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
Abstemious - adj. sparing in consumption of especially food and drink; marked by temperance
Accent - verb put stress on; utter with an accent; to stress, single out as important
Accolade - noun a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction
Acrimonious- adj. caustic, biting or rancorous in language or expression
Acquiesce - verb to agree or express agreement; rest satisfied
Acumen - noun shrewdness shown by keen insight
Affable - adj. friendly; outgoing disposition
Affirmation - noun a statement asserting the existence or the truth of something
Alacrity - noun liveliness and eagerness; youthful energy
Alleviate - verb provide physical relief, as from pain; make easier
Aloof - adj. remote in manner; distant
Amass - verb collect or gather; get or gather together
Ambiguous - adj. having more than one possible meaning; often misleading
Ambivalence - noun mixed feelings or emotions
Ambulatory - noun a covered walkway;adj. relating to or adapted for walking; able to walk about
Ameliorate - verb get better; to make better
Amity - noun a cordial disposition; a state of friendship and cordiality
Anchor - noun a central cohesive source of support and stability;verb fix firmly and stably

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Antagonize- verb provoke the hostility of; act in opposition to
Antediluvian - adj. so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period; of or relating to the period before the biblical flood;noun
a very old person
Apathy - noun the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally; an absence of enthusiasm
Apocryphal- adj. doubtful authenticity
Arcane - adj. requiring secret or mysterious knowledge
Ascendancy - noun the state that exists when one person or group has power over another
Atrophy - noun any weakening or degeneration
Augment - verb enlarge or increase; grow or intensify
Avuncular - adj. like an uncle in kindness or indulgence; being or relating to an uncle

Bane- noun something causes misery or death

Belie - verb represent falsely; be in contradiction with
Bellicose - adj. having or showing a ready disposition to fight
Belittle - verb lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of; express a negative opinion of; cause to seem less serious;
Belligerence - noun hostile or warlike attitude or nature; a natural disposition to be hostile
Benign - adj. pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence; kindness of disposition or manner; not dangerous to health
Bizarre - adj. conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual
Blatant- adj. noisy in a vulgar or offensive manner
Blunder - noun an embarrassing mistake;verb utter impulsively; make one's way clumsily or blindly
Brevity - noun the attribute of being brief or fleeting; the use of brief expressions
Bucolic - adj. relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle;noun a short descriptive poem of rural or pastoral
life; a country person;adj. used of idealized country life
Bungle - verb spoil by behaving clumsily or foolishly;noun an embarrassing mistake;verb make a mess of, destroy or ruin
Burgeon - verb grow and flourish

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Callous- verb make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals;adj. emotionally hardened
Cajole- verb to deceive or persuade with false pretenses
Candid - adj. openly straightforward and direct without reserve or secretiveness; informal or natural
Cantankerous - adj. having a difficult and contrary disposition; stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate
Capitulate - verb surrender under agreed conditions
Capricious - adj. determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason; changeable
Censure - noun harsh criticism or disapproval; the state of being excommunicated;verb rebuke formally
Chagrin - noun strong feelings of embarrassment;verb cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of
Charlatan- noun a quack or one showing false pretenses
Chicanery - noun the use of tricks to deceive someone
Churlish - adj. having a bad disposition; surly; rude and boorish
Clairvoyant - noun someone who has the power of clairvoyance;adj. foreseeing the future
Clemency - noun leniency and compassion shown toward offenders
Coalesce - verb fuse or cause to grow together; mix together different elements
Cohere - verb cause to form a united, orderly, and aesthetically consistent whole; come in close contact
Complacent - adj. contented to a fault with oneself or one's actions
Compress - verb squeeze or press together; make more compact by or as if by pressing
Confide - verb reveal in private; tell confidentially; confer a trust upon
Confound - verb mistake one thing for another; be confusing or perplexing to
Congeal - verb to change from a liquid to solid state
Congenial - adj. used of plants; suitable to your needs or similar to your nature
Contaminant - noun a substance that violates the purity of an item
Converge - verb come together so as to form a single product; move or draw together at a certain location
Convivial - adj. occupied with or fond of the pleasures of good company
Copious - adj. large in number or quantity; affording an abundant supply
Corroborate - verb support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm; establish or strengthen as with new evidence
or facts
Corrugated - adj. shaped into alternating parallel grooves and ridges
Corrupt - verb alter from the original;adj. lacking in integrity
Cowardice - noun lacking courage
Cupidity- noun greed and strong desire for wealth
Cursory - adj. hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
Credence - noun the attitude that something is believable and should be accepted as true
Cryptic - adj. having a puzzling terseness; of an obscure nature; having a secret or hidden meaning
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Daunt- verb cause to lose courage

Dauntless - adj. invulnerable to fear or intimidation
Debilitate - verb make weak
Delusion - noun deception by creating illusory ideas; a mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea;
Decorous - adj. dignified in conduct, manners or disposition
Deplete - verb use or exhaust resources
Deviate- verb to stray from the norm or standard
Derelict- adj. abandoned duty or neglected by owner or occupant
Dictum - noun an authoritative declaration; an opinion voiced by a judge on a point of law not directly bearing on
the case in question and therefore not binding
Didactic - adj. designed or intended to teach; making moral observations
Discrepancy - noun a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions; an event that departs from
expectations
Disdain - noun lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike;verb reject with contempt
Disentangle - verb smoothen and neaten; free from involvement
Disingenuous - adj. not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness
Distend - verb swell from or as if from internal pressure; cause to expand as it by internal pressure
Docile - adj. easily handled or managed; ready and willing to be taught
Drawback - noun the quality of being a hindrance
Dubious - adj. not convinced; fraught with uncertainty or doubt; open to doubt or suspicion

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Edict- noun a proclamation having the force of law

Efface- verb make inconspicuous; remove completely from recognition or memory
Effervescent - adj. marked by high spirits or excitement; bubbly and engaging
Eloquent– adj. marked for forceful or fluent expression; well-spoken
Enhance - verb increase; make better or more attractive
Enigmatic - adj. resembling an oracle in obscurity of thought; not clear or understandable
Entourage - noun the group following and attending to some important person
Ephemeral - adj. lasting a very short time;noun anything short-lived
Epitome - noun a brief abstract in a book or journal; a standard or typical example
Equilibrium - noun a stable, balanced system
Equivocate - verb be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information
Erudite- adj. well read or esteemed for knowledge
Eschew- verb to avoid or shun
Eulogy- noun praise; a speech full of praise at a funeral
Euphonious - adj. having a pleasant sound; pleasing in sound; not harsh or strident
Evacuate - verb excrete or discharge from the body; empty completely;
Evanescent - adj. tending to vanish like vapor
Exacerbate - verb exasperate or irritate; make worse
Expedite - verb process fast and efficiently; speed up the progress of; facilitate
Expendable - adj. able to be spent or done away with;
Exclude - verb prevent from being included or considered or accepted; prevent from entering
Exculpate- verb to clear from fault or guilt
Extol - verb praise, glorify, or honor

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Facilitate- verb make easier; increase the likelihood of (a response); be of use

Fathom - noun understanding or comprehension; also a unit of length equal to 6 cubic feet
Fallow - noun cultivated land that is not seeded for one or more growing seasons;adj. undeveloped but potentially
useful; left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season
Famished - adj. extremely hungry
Fastidious - adj. giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness; having
complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures
Fidelity – noun the quality of being faithful
Fertile - adj. capable of reproducing; marked by great fruitfulness; bearing in abundance especially offspring;
intellectually productive
Flourish - verb grow stronger; move or swing back and forth; gain in wealth
Foible - noun a behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual
Foster - verb help develop, help grow
Fraudulent - adj. intended to deceive
Frivolous- adj. of little importance or lacking seriousness
Frugal - adj. avoiding waste; spendthrift
Fruitful - adj. productive or conducive to producing in abundance; productive of profit
Fruitless - adj. unproductive of success
Furtive - adj. marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed; secret and sly or
sordid
Futile - adj. producing no result or effect; unproductive of success

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Garner- verb store grain;noun a storehouse for threshed grain or animal feed;verb assemble or get
together; acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions
Gaudy - adj. marked by conspicuous display; tastelessly showy
Generic - noun any product that can be sold without a brand name;adj. applicable to an entire class
or group
Genre - noun a class of art having a characteristic form or technique; a kind of literary or artistic
work
Germane - adj. relevant or appropriate
Glean - verb gather, as of natural products; to pick over in search of relevant materials
Gluttony - noun eating to excess; habitual eating to excess
Glib - adj. artfully persuasive in speech; having only superficial plausibility; marked by lack of
intellectual depth
Grandiose - adj. impressive because of unnecessary largeness or grandeur; used to show
disapproval
Gratuitous - adj. without cause; unnecessary and unwarranted; costing nothing
Gregarious - adj. enjoying of other peoples’ company or discourse
Grotto - noun a small cave
Guile - noun the use of tricks to deceive someone; the quality of being deceitful
Gusto - noun vigorous and enthusiastic enjoyment
Gullible - adj. easily tricked because of being too trusting; naive and easily deceived or tricked

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Hackneyed- adj. repeated too often; over familiar through overuse

Harbinger - noun an indication of the approach of something or someone;verb foreshadow or
presage
Haughty- adj. blatantly and disdainfully proud
Hefty - adj. of considerable weight and size; large in amount or extent or degree; rugged and
powerful
Hiatus - noun a missing piece; an interruption in time
Hideous - adj. so extremely ugly as to be terrifying; grossly offensive to decency or morality;
causing horror
Hilarity - noun great merriment or enjoyment
Hinder - verb put at a disadvantage
Hone - verb make perfect or complete
Humane - adj. marked or motivated by concern with the alleviation of suffering;
Husbandry - noun the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock
Hyperbole - noun extravagant exaggeration
Hybrid - noun mixed offspring; produced by cross-breeding; mixture of words
Hypocritical - adj. professing feelings or virtues one does not have

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Iconoclast- noun someone who attacks cherished ideas or traditional institutions; a destroyer of images used in
religious worship
Idiosyncratic - adj. peculiar to the individual
Imperial - adj. belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler; befitting or belonging to an emperor or empress;
Impudent - adj. marked by casual disrespect; improperly forward or bold
Incite- verb to provoke
Inchoate - adj. only partly in existence; imperfectly formed
Inconspicuous - adj. not prominent or readily noticeable
Incorrigible - adj. impervious to correction by punishment
Indignant - adj. angered at something unjust or wrong
Indolent - adj. slow to heal or develop and usually painless; disinclined to work or exertion; lazy
Insolent - adj. unrestrained by convention or propriety; marked by casual disrespect
Intuition - noun instinctive knowing
Innocuous - adj. producing no injury; harmless
Invocation - noun the act of appealing for help; an incantation used in conjuring or summoning a devil; a prayer
asking God's help as part of a religious service; calling up a spirit or devil
Ineffable - adj. too sacred to be uttered; defying expression or description
Irascible - adj. characterized by anger; quickly aroused to anger
Ironic - adj. characterized by often poignant difference or incongruity between what is expected and what actually
is; humorously sarcastic or mocking
Irrefutable - adj. impossible to deny or disprove

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Jargon- noun specialized technical terminology; a characteristic language of a

particular group
Jeopardize- verb to expose to danger or risk
Jettison - verb throw as from an airplane; throw away
Jocular - adj. characterized by jokes and good humor;adv. with humor
Judicious - adj. marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in
practical matters
Juxtapose - verb place side by side

Kindle- verb cause to start burning; catch fire; call forth

Kinetic - adj. characterized by motion; relating to the motion of material bodies
and the forces associated therewith; supplying motive force
Kudos - noun an expression of approval and commendation

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Laconic- adj. brief and to the point; without many words

Lackadaisical - adj. idle or indolent especially in a dreamy way; lacking spirit or liveliness
Languid - adj. lacking spirit or liveliness
Laud- verb to give praise or highly approve
Lax - adj. emptying easily or excessively; lacking in rigor or strictness; not taut or rigid
Leniency - noun lightening a penalty or excusing from a chore by judges or parents or teachers; a
disposition to yield to the wishes of someone; mercifulness as a consequence of being lenient or
tolerant
Levity - noun a manner lacking seriousness; feeling an inappropriate lack of seriousness
Levitate - verb be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity;
Listless - adj. lacking zest or vivacity; marked by low spirits; showing no enthusiasm
Loquacious - adj. full of trivial conversation
Lucid - adj. having a clear mind; transparently clear; easily understandable; transmitting light; able
to be seen through with clarity; capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and
consistent manner
Lugubrious - adj. excessively mournful

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Magnanimous- adj. generous and understanding and tolerant; noble and generous in spirit
Maladroit - adj. clumsy; lacking dexterity or physical coordination
Malleable- adj. capable of being shaped or bended
Maxim- noun a general truth or proverbial statement
Mellifluous - adj. pleasing to the ear; flowing in nature
Mendacious- adj. lying or deceitful demeanor
Mendicant- noun a beggar
Mettle - noun the courage to carry on
Mercurial - adj. liable to sudden unpredictable change
Misanthrope- noun a person who hates or distrusts humankind
Miscreant - noun a person without moral scruples
Mitigate - verb make less severe or harsh; to lessen the seriousness or extent of
Mobile - adj. capable of changing quickly from one state or condition to another; moving or capable of moving
Mollify - verb make less rigid or softer; make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else
Morbid - adj. suggesting an unhealthy mental state; caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology;
suggesting the horror of death and decay
Motley - verb make something more diverse and varied;adj. consisting of a haphazard assortment of different
kinds
Mundane - adj. ordinary, often boring
Munificent - adj. very generous; giving;
Myopic- adj. lacking foresight; narrow-minded
Myriad - noun a large indefinite number;adj. too numerous to be counted

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Nadir- noun an extreme state of adversity; the lowest point of anything

Narcissistic - adj. characteristic of those having an inflated idea of their own
importance; often selfish
Nebulous - adj. lacking definition or definite content; lacking definite form
Nefarious - adj. extremely wicked
Negligible - adj. so small as to be meaningless; insignificant; not worth considering
Nepotism - noun favoritism shown to relatives or close friends by those in
power, usually for jobs
Nexus - noun a connected series or group; the means of connection between things
linked in series
Nomad- noun an individual who roams about without purpose or residence
Nonchalant - adj. marked by blithe unconcern
Nostalgia - noun longing for something past; a longing, retrospective view
Nullify - verb make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of; show to be invalid;
declare invalid

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Obdurate- adj. showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing
Oblivion - noun the state of being disregarded or forgotten; total forgetfulness
Obsequious - adj. attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner; attempting to win favor from influential
people by flattery
Obscure - verb make difficult to perceive by sight;adj. not clearly understood or expressed
Onerous - adj. not easily borne; wearing
Onus - noun an onerous or difficult concern
Obtuse- adj. lacking sharpness or intellectual ability
Odyssey - noun a long wandering and eventful journey; a Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer)
describing the journey of Odysseus after the fall of Troy
Opaque - adj. not clear; not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy; not clearly understood or
expressed
Opacity - noun the degree to which something reduces the passage of light; more obscure
Opulent - adj. rich and superior in quality
Oscillate - verb move or swing from side to side regularly; be undecided about something; waver between
conflicting positions or courses of action
Ostentatious - adj. intended to attract notice and impress others; of a display that is tawdry or vulgar
Overt - adj. open and observable; not secret or hidden

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Palpable- adj. capable of being perceived by the senses or the mind; especially capable of being handled or felt
Pacify - verb fight violence and try to establish peace; cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of
Panacea - noun a cure-all; a remedy for all difficulties
Pander - verb arrange for sexual partners for others;verb yield (to); give satisfaction to
Parsimony - noun extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily; extreme stinginess
Patent - noun a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention; an official document granting a right or privilege;verb make
open to sight or notice;adj. open; affording free passage
Paucity - noun an insufficient quantity or number
Pedantic - adj. marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects
Penchant - noun a strong liking or fondness
Penury - noun a state of extreme poverty or destitution
Petulant - adj. easily irritated or annoyed
Perfidy - noun betrayal of a trust; an act of deliberate betrayal
Perfunctory - adj. hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough; as a formality only
Peripatetic- adj. often moving or wandering from place to place
Peripheral - adj. the outer area; related to the key issue but not of central importance
Pilfer - verb make off with belongings of others; steal
Placate - verb to soothe or mollify
Placid - adj. free from disturbance; living without undue worry; taking life easy; not easily irritated
Precise - adj. sharply exact or accurate or delimited
Premeditated - adj. characterized by deliberate purpose and some degree of planning
Pretentious - adj. making claim to or creating an appearance of importance or distinction; intended to attract notice and impress
others; of a display that is tawdry or vulgar
Prevalent - adj. widely accepted, favored or practiced
Probity - noun complete and confirmed integrity; having strong moral principles
Proclivity - noun a natural inclination
Prodigal - noun a recklessly extravagant consumer;adj. marked by rash extravagance; very generous
Prodigious - adj. so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe; far beyond what is usual
Proximity - noun the property of being close together
Prudence - noun discretion in practical affairs; knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress
Profuse - adj. produced or growing in extreme abundance
Provoke - verb provide the needed stimulus for; evoke or provoke to appear or occur; call forth emotions or feelings
Pugnacious - adj. ready and able to resort to force or violence; tough and callous by virtue of experience
Pulverize - verb make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust; destroy completely
Puerile- adj. juvenile and immature
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Quagmire- noun in a tough position; mired with difficulty

Queasy - adj. causing or fraught with or showing anxiety; feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit
Querulous - adj. habitually complaining
Quip - noun witty remark;verb make jokes
Quirk - noun a strange habit;verb twist or curve abruptly
Quixotic - adj. foolishly impractical; often unpredictable

Rant- verb talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner;noun pompous or pretentious talk or writing
Recalcitrant - adj. marked by stubborn resistance to authority; stubbornly resistant to authority or control
Recant - verb formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure
Reciprocal- adj. shared or felt on both sides
Reclusive - adj. providing privacy or seclusion; withdrawn from society; seeking solitude
Remedy - noun a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain;verb provide relief for;noun act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil;verb
set straight or right
Replete - verb fill to satisfaction;adj. filled or permeated; filled to satisfaction with food or drink
Rescind - verb annul by recalling or rescinding
Resolute - adj. firm in purpose or belief; characterized by firmness and determination
Respite - noun a pause from doing something; a pause for relaxation; the act of reprieving
Reserve - noun the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary; something kept back or saved for future use or a
special purpose;
Rhetoric - noun study of the technique and rules for using language effectively; using language effectively to please or persuade; loud and confused
and empty talk; high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation
Ruffle - verb pleat or gather into a ruffle; disturb the smoothness of; erect or fluff up; trouble or vex
Rupture - noun the act of making a sudden noisy break; a personal or social separation

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Saccharine- adj. overly sweet

Salubrious - adj. favorable to health of mind or body; promoting health; healthful
Sardonic - adj. disdainfully or ironically humorous; scornful and mocking
Scrutinize - verb examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification; to look at critically or searchingly, or in minute detail
Sedulous - adj. marked by care and persistent effort
Seditious - adj. in opposition to a civil authority or government; arousing to action or rebellion
Skepticism - noun doubt about the truth of something; the disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge
Somber - adj. grave or even gloomy in character; lacking brightness or color; dull
Sovereign - noun a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right;adj. greatest in status or authority or power; not controlled
by outside forces
Sparse - adj. not dense; not thickly settled
Specify - verb decide upon or fix definitely; be specific about; determine the essential quality
Spontaneous - adj. happening or arising without apparent external cause; said or done without having been planned or written in
advance
Spurn - verb reject with contempt
Squander - verb spend extravagantly; spend thoughtlessly; throw away or waste
Stimulus - noun any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action
Stringent - adj. demanding strict attention to rules and procedures
Stymie - noun a thwarting and distressing situation;verb hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of
Subtle - adj. faint and difficult to analyze; able to make fine distinctions
Succinct - adj. briefly giving the gist of something
Summary - noun a brief statement that presents the main points in a concise form;
Summon - verb call in an official matter, such as to attend court; ask to come; gather or bring together
Sumptuous - adj. rich and superior in quality
Surreptitious - adj. conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods; marked by quiet and caution and secrecy;
Sycophant- noun a servile, self-seeking flatterer
Symbiotic - adj. used of organisms living together but not necessarily in a relation beneficial to each; cooperative relationship

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Taciturn- adj. disinclined to talk or speak

Tangent - noun often unrelated; a straight line or plane that touches a curve or curved surface at a point but does
not intersect it at that point
Tantamount - adj. being essentially equal to something
Tawdry - adj. cheap and shoddy; tastelessly showy
Tenacious - adj. sticking together; good at remembering; stubbornly unyielding
Tenuous - adj. very thin in gauge or diameter; having thin consistency; having little substance or significance
Tranquil- adj. free from agitation or worry; calm
Transient - noun in Physics, a short-lived oscillation in a system caused by a sudden change of voltage or current or
load; lasting a very short time
Truculence - noun obstreperous and defiant aggressiveness
Truncate- verb to shorten
Turbulence - noun unstable flow of a liquid or gas; a state of violent disturbance and disorder; instability

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Usurp- verb to seize or hold in possession by force without right

Venturesome- adj. disposed to venture or take risks

Venality - noun prostitution of talents or offices or services for reward; associated with bribery
Venerable - adj. impressive by reason of age; profoundly honored
Verbose - adj. using or containing too many words
Vex- verb to bring trouble to, or annoy
Viable - adj. capable of life or normal growth and development; capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they
are
Vibrancy - noun having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant
Vilification - noun a rude expression intended to offend or hurt; slanderous defamation
Virulence - noun extreme hostility; extreme harmfulness

Wanton- noun lewd or lascivious woman;verb behave extremely cruelly and brutally
Wary - adj. marked by keen caution and watchful prudence; openly distrustful and unwilling to confide
Willful - adj. habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition; done by design
Wily - adj. marked by skill in deception
Whet - verb make keen or more acute; sharpen by rubbing
Wont - noun a pattern of behavior acquired through frequent repetition; an established custom
Whittle - verb cut small bits or pare shavings from

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Z

Zany- noun a buffoon in one of the old comedies; adj. like a clown; ludicrous, foolish
Zealot - noun a fervent and even militant proponent of something
Zenith - noun the point above the observer that is directly opposite the nadir on the imaginary sphere against which celestial bodies
appear to be projected
Zephyr - noun (Greek mythology) the Greek god of the west wind; a slight refreshing wind
Zest - verb add herbs or spices to;noun vigorous and enthusiastic enjoyment

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