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Abscond

leave hurriedly and secretly to avoid detection

Aberrant

Deviating from the norm

Alacrity

Enthusiam

Anomaly

Deviation from the normal order

Approbation

Approval

Arduous

Strenuous, requires significant effort

Assuage

To appease, lessen severity

Audacious

Fearless and bold

Austere

Unadorned, stern, strict

Axiomatic

self-evident or unquestionable.

Canonical

Following accepted, traditional standards

Capricious

Unpredictable, impulsive

Censure

Formally criticize

Chicanery

Trickery

Connoisseur

Expert judge of taste

Convoluted

Complex

Disabuse

To persuade someone they are wrong

Discordant

Contradictory

Disparate

So different, there is no basis for comparison

Effrontery

Boldness, presumptuousness

Eloquent

Well-spoken

Enervate

To weaken, reduce vitality

Ennui

Restlessness resulting from boredom

Equivocate

Use ambiguous language to deceive

Erudiate

Scholarly

Exculpate

Clear of blame

Exigent

Urgent, demanding

Extemporaneous

Done without preparation

Filibuster

Intentional obstruction to delay legislative action

Fulminate

Loudly denounce / attack

Ingenuous

Innocent, unsuspecting, naive

Inured

Accustomed to something unpleasant

Irascible

Easily angered

Laud

Praise

Lucid

Clear, easily understood

Magnanimity

Generosity (in forgiveness)

Martial

Associated with war

Mundane

Ordinary

Nascent

In the early stages

Nebulous

Vague, lacking defined form

Neologism

Newly coined word or expression

Noxious

Harmful, poisonous

Obtuse

Lacking intellect, slow-witted

Obviate

Prevent, avoid

Onerous

Burdensome

Paean

Hymn of praise / thanksgiving

Parody

Humorous imitation

Perennial

Continually recurring

Perfidy

Deceitfulness, untrustworthiness

Perfunctory

Done with minimal effort / thought

Perspicacious

Perceptive, insightful

Prattle

Babble, talk aimlessly

Precipitate

To cause to happen prematurely

Predilection

Preference

Prescience

Knowing something will happen before it takes place. Foresight

Prevaricate

Mislead, avoid the truth

Qualms

Doubt, worry, or fear

Recant

Retract

Refute

Disprove

Relegate

Assign to an inferior position

Reticent

Quiet, reserved

Solicitous

Showing interest or concern

Sordid

Grimy, foul

Sporadic

Occurring in scattered instances

Squander

To waste recklessly

Static

Unmoving, at rest

Stupefy

Astonish, baffle

Stymie

Hinder progress, thwart

Synthesis

Combination of parts to make a whole

Torque

Force that causes rotation

Tortuous

Lengthy and complex, windy / twisting

Truculent

Quick to argue / fight, aggressive

Veracity

Honesty

Virulent

Harmful or poisonous, hostile

Voracious

Insatiable appetite for something

Waver

Unsettled in opinion, unsettled, unreliable