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Abscond

To depart clandestinely; to steal off and hide

Aberrant

Deviating from the norm

Alacrity

Eager and enthusiastic willingness

Anomaly

Deviation from normal order; abnormality

Approbation

An expression of approval or praise

Arduous

Strenuous, taxing; requiring significant effort

Assuage

To ease or lessen; appease or pacify

Audacious

Daring, fearless, bold

Austere

Without adornment; bare; severely simple; ascetic

Axiomatic

Given, posessing self-evident truth

Canonical

Following/in agreement with accepted, traditional standards

Capricious

Impulsive, erratic, unpredictable

Censure

To criticize severely; to officially rebuke

Chicanery

Trickery, subterfuge

Connoisser

Expert; informed and astute judge

Convoluted

Complex or complicated

Disabuse

Rid of error, set right, undeceive

Discordant

Conflicting; dissonant or harsh in sound

Disparate

Fundamentally distinct or dissimilar

Effrontery

Extreme boldness; presumptuousness

Eloquent

Well-spoken, expressive, articulate

Enervate

To weaken, reduce in vitality

Ennui

Dissatis and restlessness resulting from boredom or apathy

Equivocate

To use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent

Erudite

Scholarly, well-read/learned

Exculpate

Exonerate, clear of blame

Exigent

Urgent, pressing; requiring immediate action or attention

Extemporaneous

Improvised; done without preparation

Filibuster

Intentional obstruction, esp. By prolonged speech in legislature

Fulminate

To loudly attack or denounce

Ingenuous

Artless; frank and candid, lacking in sophistication

Inured

Becoming used to something unpleasant, accepting something undesirable.

Irascible

Easily angered, short-tempered

Laud

Praise highly

Lucid

Clear, easily understood

Magnanimity

The quality of being generously noble in mind and heart; forgiving

Martial

Associated with war, armed forces.

Mundane

Ordinary, of the world

Nascent

Coming into being, in early developmental stages

Nebulous

Vague, cloudy, lacking clearly defined form

Neologism

Creation of new words, expressions, usages.

Noxious

Harmful; injurious

Obtuse

Lacking sharpness of intellect; not clear or precise in thought or expression

Obviate

To anticipate and make unnecessary

Onerous

Troubling; burdensome

Paen

A song or hymn of praise and thanks

Parody

A humorous imitation intended for ridicule or comic effect

Perennial

Happens repeatedly, recurring through the year or many years

Perfidy

Intentional breach of faith, trust; treachery

Perfunctory

Cursory, done without care or interest

Perspicacious

Acutely perceptive; having keen discernment

Prattle

Babble on

Precipitate

Acting with excessive haste or impulse

Predilection

A disposition in favor of something

Prescience

Foreknowledge of events, knowing before something occurs.

Prevaricate

Mislead, deliberately avoid the truth

Qualms

Misgivings

Recant

To retract, esp. A previously held belief

Refute

Disprove, successfully argue against

Relegate

To forcibly assign, especially to a lower place or position

Reticent

Quiet reserved; reluctant to express thoughts or feelings

Solicitous

Concerned and attentive; eager

Sordid

Foul, characterized by filth, grime or squalor

Sporadic

Scattered, occuring occasionally

Squander

To waste by spending or using irresponsibly

Static

Unchanging, unmoving

Stupefy

Shock into silence, stun, baffle, amaze

Stymie

To block, thwart

Synthesis

Combination of parts to make whole

Torque

A force that causes rotation

Tortuous

Excessively complicated, winding

Truculent

Fierce and cruel, eager to fight

Veracity

Honesty

Virulent

Dangerous, harmful, poisonous, hostile

Voracious

Insatiable appetite for activity, pursuit

Waver

Move to and fro, be unselttled in opinion