Word			Meaning


compliant		submissive	
flagrant		shockingly bad	
dubious		uncertain	
taciturn		naturally quiet	
arrogant		snooty; thinking one is better than others	
elaborate		thorough and careful	
solicit			to look	for	
engender		to create or bring into existence	
mitigate		to lesson how severe something is	
efface			to get rid of or erase	
indolence		notably lazy	
orthodox		the norm; conventional	
astute			intelligent	
disparage		to lesson the spirit of or to belittle	
preclude		to prevent or shut off	
ameliorate		to make more tolerable	
atrophy		to waste away	
articulate		very clear in speech	
languish		weak	
repress			holding down or back	
tangible		real or touchable	
jeopardy		dangerous	
remorse		regret	
slander			to talk badly about someone	
hedonistic		looking for pleasure or hapiness	
desecrate		to destroy something holy	
obliterate		to wipe away or get rid of	
apathy			a lack of emotion	
abstruse		hard to understand; unclear	
animosity		hostility; ready to flip	
audacity		boldness	
avarice			consumed by money; greed	
blatant			obvious	
charlatan		an imposter; someone who pretends to be someone	
clemency		a reduction of a punishment	
prodigal		wasteful	
scrupulous		obeying moral principles	
torrid			very hot	
dogma			an arogant and dictatorial belief	
vapid			ordinary	
contrite		regretful	
plethora		an abundance	
rend			to tear apart	
ruck			a group	
synergy		combined forces	
saturnine		gloomy, depressed	
poltroon		a coward	
kudos			acclaim	
embrangle		to mix up and confuse	
disabuse		to correct someone	
herculean		huge in size or strength	
pandemonium		confusion	
egregarious		outstandingly bad	
tantalize		to arose hopes or to entice	
catholic		broad-minded	
martial			having to do with the armed forces	
anecdote		a short amusing story	
chagrin			humiliation or embarrassment	
vex			to annoy	
zealous			very eager and devoted	
haggard		tired-looking or worn out	
utopian			visionary, or idealistic	
atone			to make up for something wrong	
lewd			indecent, or obscene	
procrastinate		to put off, or wait until the last minute	
nemesis		an extremely difficult opponent	
incumbent		the current person in office	
narcissism		having an extreme amount of love for oneself	
lethargic		lazy and lacking energy	
laconic			brief and to the point	
denigrate		to defame or attack ones reputation	
accent			to emphasize	
assess			to measure or test	
zany			bizarre	
repudiate		to refuse ones involvement in something	
trivial			not very important	
rejuvenate		to give vigor or strength	
solemn			serious	
elusive			very hard to get or catch	
exemplify		to act as an example	
expedite		to speed up and go quicker	
endorse		to approve and agree with	
expendable		having no additional use	
inadvertent		unintentional	
innate			something inborn or intuitive	
condescend		to talk down to	
corroborate		to support with evidence	
credulous		very gullible	
eloquent		articulate, clear in speech	
summon		to gather and bring together	
provocative		causing excitement	
infer			to deduce or take from something	
agnostic            	someone who believes that it is impossible to know whether God really exists or not.	
bedlam			loud confusion	
dexterous		very skillful and clever	
candid			honest or frank	
fiasco			complete failure	
odyssey		an adventurous journey	
prosaic			dull	
scapegoat		a person that is blamed for someone else's wrongdoing