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Deride

Treat with contempt; mock

Seraphic

Angelic; sweet

Diatribe

Abusive; condemnatory speech

Discern

To recognize

Pare

Trim off excess

Curmudgeon

A cranky person

Missive

A written note or letter

Lumber

To move slow and awkwardly

Maelstrom

Whirlpool

Encomium

Warm praise

Fractious

Rebellious

Droll

Amusing in a subtle way

Wily

Clever; deceptive

Obviate

To prevent

Dither

To act confusedly

Dissemble

To present a false appearance

Mollify

Make less severe

Bilk

Cheat or defraud

Ribald

Humorous in a vulgar way

Hoary

Very old

Cabal

A secret group trying to overturn something

Impetuous

Quickly act without thinking

Imprecation

A curse

Innocuous

Harmless

Noisome

Stinky

Arrogate

To claim without justification

Ingratiate

to please to seek something in return

Itinerant

Wandering from place to place

Circumspect

Cautious

Apostate

Someone who renounces a belief

Molt

To shed hair

Profligate

Corrupt; degenerate

Solecism

Grammatical mistake

Tawdry

Cheap; showy

Surly

Rude and bad tempered

Fallow

Dormant; unused

Pithy

Profound yet concise

Harold

Upbraid

To scold sharply

Pariah

An outcast

Desultory

Jumping from one thing to the other

Pastiche

A piece of literature imitating other works

Impiuos

Not devoted

Blithe

Joyful and without appropriate thought

Distend

To swell

Laud

To glorify

Obdurate

Difficult to persuade

Jingoism

Belligerent support of ones country

Affected

Phony

Leery

Suspicious

Listless

Lacking energy and enthusiasm

Blight

To afflict; to destroy

Abase

To humble; to disgrace

Oblique

Indirect or evasive

Caustic

Sarcastic in a sharp way

Vestige

A trace amount; remnants

Expurgate

To censor

Rejoinder

A quick response

Perfunctory

Done in a routine way

Slake

To calm down or moderate

Levity

Inappropriate lack of seriousness

Vituperate

To abuse verbally

Overwrought

Agitated; overdone

The lawyer on the phone

Parley

Discussion between two enemies

Legerdemain

Trickery

The kid trying to ... His mom

Abeyance

Temporary suppression

Phalanx

A tight group

Requite

To repay

Impecunious

Poor

Banal

Boring

Repast

Meal

Lassitude

Diminished energy

Scintilla

A trace amount

Fatuous

Stupid

Lissome

Flexible

A yoga teacher

Cloying

Sickly sweet

A new couple

Cosset

To pamper

Lampoon

To ridicule with satire

Dirge

A funeral hymn

Orotund

Pompous; rich and full in sound

Glib

Fluent in an insincere manner

Tirade

Long and harsh speech

Wanton

Undisciplined; reckless

Perfidious

Willing to betray someone

Impervious

Impossible to penetrate

Frugality

Tending to be cheap

Torpor

Extreme mental and physical sluggishness

Waver

To fluctuate between choices

Abeyance

Temporary suppression

Epicure

A person with refined taste

Vim

Vitality and energy

Occlude

To stop; to prevent the passage of something

Iconoclastic

One who oposes established beliefs

Paragon

Model of excellence or perfection

Plucky

Courageous; splunky

Iniquity

A sin, an evil act

Dilatory

Intended to delay

Impugn

To call into question

Lavish

Extremely generous or extravagant

Repose

Relaxation

Dilate

To make lager

Flag

To decline in vigor

Sedition

Behavior that promotes rebellion against the state

Demur

To express doubts or objections

Panegyric

Elaborate praise

Imbue

To infuse

Stentorian

Extremely loud

Brash

Self-assertive in a rude way

Ubiquitous

Found everywhere

Menagerie

Collection of animals

Aquiescent

Submissive