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| keen, accurate judgment or insight |
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to reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients verb |
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to combine several elements into a whole verb |
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outdated; associated with an earlier, perhaps more primitive, time adjective |
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to state as a fact; to declare or assert verb |
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to provide support or reinforcement verb |
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pompous; grandiloquent adjective |
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a harsh denunciation noun |
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to disguise or conceal; to mislead verb |
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departing from norms or conventions adjective |
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characteristic of or often found in a particular locality, region, or people adjective |
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tending to disappear like vapor; vanishing adjective |
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to make worse or more severe verb |
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greatly emotional or zealous adjective |
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happening by accident or chance adjective |
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relevant to the subject at hand; appropriate in subject matter adjective |
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pompous speech or expression noun |
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rendered trite or commonplace by frequent usage adjective |
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calm and peaceful adjective |
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devotion to pleasurable pursuits, esp. to pleasures of the senses noun |
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the consistent dominance of one state or ideology over others noun |
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one who attacks or undermines traditional conventions or institutions noun |
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given to intense or excessive devotion to something adjective |
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revealing no emotion adjective |
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marked by extreme calm, impassivity and steadiness adjective |
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not capable of being appeased or significantly changed adjective |
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immunity from punishment or penalty noun |
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in an initial stage; not fully formed adjective |
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unfortunate; inappropriate adjective |
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without taste or flavor; lacking in spirit; bland adjective |
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extremely talkative adjective |
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characterized by brightness and emission of light adjective |
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having or showing often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred adjective |
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capable of being shaped or formed; tractable; pliable adjective |
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the condition of being untruthful; dishonesty noun |
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characterized by extreme care and precision; attentive to detail adjective |
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one who hates all other humans noun |
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to make or become less severe or intense; to moderate verb |
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unyielding; hardhearted; intractable adjective |
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exhibiting a fawning attentiveness adjective |
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to obstruct or block verb |
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disgrace; contempt; scorn noun |
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the profession or principles of teaching, or instructing noun |
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overly concerned with the trivial details of learning or education; show-offish about one's learning adjective |
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poverty; destitution noun |
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having the tendency to permeate or spread throughout adjective |
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to yearn intensely; to languish; to lose vigor verb |
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to illegally use or reproduce verb |
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the essential or central part noun |
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precise and brief adjective |
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to appease; to calm by making concessions verb |
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a superficial remark, esp. one offered as meaningful noun |
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to plunge or drop straight down verb |
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controversial; argumentative adjective |
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recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish adjective |
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given or coming forth abundantly; extravagant adjective |
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to grow or increase swiftly and abundantly verb |
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questions; inquiries; doubts in the mind; reservations verb |
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prone to complaining or grumbling; peevish adjective |
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characterized by bitter, long-lasting resentment adjective |
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obstinately defiant of authority; difficult to manage adjective |
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to refuse to have anything to do with; disown verb |
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to invalidate; to repeal; to retract verb |
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marked by, feeling, or expressing a feeling of profound awe and respect adjective |
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the art or study of effective use of language for communication and persuasion noun |
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promoting health or well-being adjective |
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able to meet financial obligations; able to dissolve another substance adjective |
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seeming true, but actually being fallacious; misleadingly attractive; plausible but false adjective |
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lacking authenticity or validity; false; counterfeit adjective |
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a court order requiring appearance and/or testimony noun |
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exceeding what is sufficient or necessary adjective |
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an overabundant supply; excess; to feed or supply to excess noun/verb |
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the quality of adherence or persistence to something valued; persistent determination noun |
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having little substance or strength; flimsy; weak adjective |
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a long and extremely critical speech; a harsh denunciation noun |
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fleeting; passing quickly; brief adjective |
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fervent; ardent; impassioned, devoted to a cause adjective |
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