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Disconsolate

Without solace

Enervated

Without vigor or energy

Epistle

Letter / correspondence

Calumny

Misrepresentation to cause harm

Chary

Cautious / careful

Aphoristic

Pithy, brief statement

Obsequious

Servile attitude

Meretricious

Misleading, false

Probity

Honesty and fairness

Effrontery

Rudeness

Paucity

Few

Limpid

Clear liquid

Lucid

Clear idea

Desultory

Lacking a plan, purpose, or enthusiasm

Pugnacious

Eager to quarrel

Puerile

Childish

Sedulously

Diligently

Solicitously

Eagerly

Portend

Predict

Fiat

Rule by declaration

Titter

Giggle quietly

Platitudes

A flat dull trite remark

Assiduously

Diligently and industriously

Demogouge

Gaining power through popularity of the mob

Mendacious

Telling lies

Interregnum

Period between reigns or governments

Ingenuous

Naive

Insuperable

Incapable of being overcome

Chicanery

Trickery

Welter

Move temultiously, heave roll


A confused mass

Baleful

Full of malign influences, menacing

Transigient

Stubbornly clinging to one's idea, refusal to compromise

Hidebound

Rigid in belief

Munificent

Giving or generous

Perspicacious

having a ready insight into and understanding of things.

Obviate

Remove a need or difficulty

Pecuniary

relating to or consisting of money.

Prelates

Religious authority

Fulminate

Explode angrily

Connubial

Related to marriage

Perspicacious

Intelligent

Adumtate

To disclose partially

Florid

Complicatedly

Bedizened

Decorated gaudily

Exigent

pressing or pertinent

Obstreperous

Noisy and difficult to control

Truculent

Aggressively defiant

Limned

Outlined

Celerity

Quickly and rapidly

Pedant

a person who is excessively concerned with minor details and rules or with displaying academic learning

Convivial

Lively

Panegyric

a public speech or published text in praise of someone or something.

Exegesis

Lengthy explanation

Encomium

a speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly

Recondite

Obscure or arcane

Opporobriums

Criticism

Blandishments

Flattery

Refractory

Stubborn

Perfidious

Evil

Abstemious

To abstain

Calumny

False statement meant to harm

Dirge

Songs

Fatuos

complacently or inanely foolish; Silly

Stultify

Cause to lose enthusiasm

Bucolic

Having to do with idyllic pastoral environments

Inchoate

Unformed or undeveloped

Avaricious

Greedy

Sidereal

Having to do with the Stars

Stygian

Complete and unfathomable darkness

Mendacious

Not telling the truth

Contrite

Penitent and guilty

Insalubrious

Unhealthful

Minatory

Threatening

Gainsay

Contradict

Scurrilous

Abusive

Extirpate

Root out and destroy

Waggish

humorous in a playful, mischievous, or facetious manner.