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Abate

To lessen in intensity or degree

Assuage, mollify, ameliorate

Accolade

An expression of praise

Adulation

Excessive praise; intense adoration

Approbation

Aesthetic

Dealing with, appreciative of, or response to art or the beautiful

Ameliorate

To make better or more tolerable

Ascetic

One who practices self-denial especially as an act of religious devotion

Avarice

greed especially for wealth

Greed

Axiom

A universal recognized principle

Axiomatic

Burgeon

To grow rapidly or flourish

The flood

Bucolic

Rustic or pastoral; characteristic of rual areas and their inhabitants

Cacophony

Harsh, jarring, discordant sound; dissonance

Discordant

Canon

An established set of principles or code of laws, often religious in nature

Castigation

Severe criticism or punishment

Catalyst

A substance that accelerates the rate of a chemical reaction without itself changing; a person or thing that causes change

Caustic

Burning or stinging; causing corrosion

Chary

Wary; cautious; sparing

Cogent

Appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing

Compliance

The willingness to comply with the wishes of others

Contentious

Argumentative; quarrelsome; causing controversy or disagreement

Contrite

Regretful; penitent; seeking forgiveness

Sorry

Culpable

Deserving blame

Dearth

Smallness of quantity or number; scarcity; a lack

Scarcity

Demur

To question or oppose

Oppose

Didactic

Intended to teach or instruct

Discretion

Cautious reserve in speech; ability to make responsible decisions

Disinterested

Free of bias or self-interest; impartial

Dogmatic

Expressing a rigid opinion based on unproved or improvable principles

Ebullience

The quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings

Emotion

Eclectic

Composed of elements drawn from various sources

Variety

Elegy

A mournful poem especially when lamenting the dead

Emollient

Soothing especially to the skin; making less harsh; mollifying; an agent that softens or smoothes the skin

Opposite of astringent

Empirical

Based on observation or experiment

Enigmatic

Mysterious; obscure; difficult to understand

Esoteric, obfuscated,

Ephemeral

Breif; fleeting

Evanescent

Esoteric

Intended for understood by a small, specific group

Eulogy

A speech honoring the dead

Exonerate

To remove blame

Facetious

Playful; humorous

Fallacy

An invalid or incorrect notion; a mistaken belief

Furtive

Marked by stealth; covert; surreptitious

Gregarious

Sociable; outgoing; enjoying the company of other people

Harangue

To deliver a pompous speech or tirade; a long, pompous speech

Three idiots speech

Heretical

Violating accepted dogmas or convention

Hyperbole

An exaggerated statement, often used as a figure of speech

Impecunious

Lacking funds; without money

Wanito

Incipient

Beginning to come into being or to become apparent

Nascent

Inert

Unmoving; lethargic; sluggish

Not moving

Innocuous

Harmless; causing no damage

Docile

Intransigent

Refusing to compromise

Inveigle

To obtain by deception or flattery, toady

What Machiavelli warned against

Morose

Sad; sullen; melancholy

Sad

Odious

Evoking intensive version or dislike

Dislike

Opaque

Impenetrable by light; not reflecting light

Oscillation

The act or state of swinging back and forth with a steady, uninterrupted rhythm

Penurious

Penny-pinching; excessively thrifty; ungenerous

Asians

Pernicious

Extremely harmful; potentially causing death

Inimical

Peruse

To examine with great care

Pious

Extremely reverent or devout; showing strong religious devotion

Precursor

One that proceeds and indicates or announces another

Preen

To dress up; to primp; to groom oneself with elaborate care

Prodigious

Abundent in size, force, or extent; extraordinary

Prolific

Producing large volumes or amounts; productive

Putrefy

To rot; to decay and give off a foul odor

Quaff

To drink deeply

Quiescene

Stillness; motionlessness; quality of being at rest

Inert

Redoubtable

Awe-inspiring; worthy of honor

Sanction

Authoritative permission or approval; a penalty intended to enforce compliance; to give permission or authority to

Satire

A literary work that ridicules or criticizes in human voice through humor or derision

Parody

Squalid

Sordid; wretched and dirty as from neglect

Stoic

Indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain; steadfast

Supplant

To take the place of; supersede

Torpid

Lethargic; sluggish; dormant

Inert

Ubiquitous

Existing everwhere at the same time; constantly encountered; widespread

Urbane

Sophisticated; refined; elegant

Sophisticated

Vilify

To defame; to characterize harshly

Viscous

Thick; sticky