- Acerbic (adj.) — Having a sour or bitter taste or character; sharp; biting.
- Aggrandize (verb) — To increase in intensity, power, influence, or prestige.
- Amenable (adj.) — Agreeable; responsive to suggestion.
- Astringent (adj.) — Having a tightening effect on living tissue; harsh; severe; something with a tightening effect on tissue.
- Contiguous (adj.) — Sharing a border; touching; adjacent.
- Credulous (adj.) — Tending to believe too readily; gullible.
- Cynicism (noun) — An attitude or quality of belief that all people are motivated by selfishness.
- Derision (noun) — Scorn, ridicule, contemptuous treatment.
- Desiccate (verb) — To dry out or dehydrate; to make dry or dull.
- Dilettante (noun) — One with an amateurish or superficial interest in the arts or a branch of knowledge.
- Disparage (verb) — To slight or belittle.
- Divulge (verb) — To disclose something secret.
- Fawn (verb) — To flatter or praise excessively.
- Flout (verb) — To show contempt for, as in a rule or convention.
- Garrulous (adj.) — Pointlessly talkative; talking too much.
- Glib (adj.) — Marked by ease or informality; nonchalant; lacking in depth; superficial.
- Hubris (noun) — Overbearing presumption or pride; arrogance.
- Imminent (adj.) — About to happen; impending.
- Immutable (adj.) — Not capable of change.
- Impetuous (adj.) — Hastily or rashly energetic; impulsive and vehement.
- Indifferent (adj.) — Having no interest or concern; showing no bias or prejudice.
- Inimical (adj.) — Damaging; harmful; injurious.
- Intractable (adj.) — Not easily managed or directed; stubborn; obstinate.
- Intrepid (adj.) — Steadfast and courageous.
- Laconic (adj.) — Using few words; terse.
- Mercurial (adj.) — Characterized by rapid and unpredictable change in mood.
- Mollify (verb) — To calm or soothe; to reduce in emotional intensity.
- Obfuscate (verb) — To deliberately obscure; to make confusing.
- Obstinate (adj.) — Stubborn; hard-headed; uncompromising.
- Ostentatious (adj.) — Characterized by or given to pretentious display; showy.
- Pervade (verb) — To permeate throughout.
- Phlegmatic (adj.) — Calm; sluggish; unemotional.
- Plethora (noun) — An overabundance; a surplus.
- Presumptuous (adj.) — Overstepping due bounds; taking liberties.
- Pristine (adj.) — Pure; uncorrupted; clean.
- Probity (noun) — Adherence to highest principles; complete integrity.
- Proclivity (noun) — A natural predisposition or inclination.
- Profligate (adj.) — Recklessly extravagant; wasteful.
- Propensity (noun) — A natural inclination or tendency.
- Prosaic (adj.) — Dull; lacking in spirit or imagination.
- Quixotic (adj.) — Foolishly impractical; marked by lofty romantic ideals.
- Quotidian (adj.) — Occurring or recurring daily; commonplace.
- Rarefy (verb) — To make or become thin, less dense; to refine.
- Recondite (adj.) — Hidden; concealed; difficult to understand; obscure.
- Refulgent (adj.) — Radiant; shiny; brilliant.
- Renege (verb) — To fail to honor a commitment; to go back on a promise.
- Sedulous (adj.) — Diligent; persistent; hard-working.
- Shard (noun) — A piece of broken pottery or glass.
- Soporific (adj.) — Causing drowsiness; tending to induce sleep.
- Subtle (adj.) — Not obvious; elusive; difficult to discern.
- Tacit (adj.) — Implied; not explicitly stated.
- Terse (adj.) — Brief and concise in wording.
- Tout (verb) — To publicly praise or promote.
- Trenchant (adj.) — Sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating.
- Unfeigned (adj.) — Genuine; not false or hypocritical.
- Untenable (adj.) — Indefensible; not viable; uninhabitable.
- Vacillate (verb) — To waver indecisively between one course of action or opinion and another.
- Variegated (adj.) — Multicolored; characterized by a variety of patches of different color.
- Vexation (noun) — Annoyance; irritation.
- Vigilant (adj.) — Alertly watchful.
- Vituperate (verb) — To use harsh condemnatory language; to berate.
- Volatile (adj.) — Readily changing to a vapor; changeable; fickle; explosive.
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