Esurient

Adj

Hungry, Greedy

The hot dog stand was frequented by esurient students after a long day of study.

Syn: voracious, edacious, gluttonous, rapacious, ravenous

Indolent

Adj

Causing little or no pain

Averse to activity or movement, inclined towards laziness

The sweltering heat brought out the indolent side of even the most productive people.

Syn: idle, lazy, shiftless, slothful

Indigent

Adj

Suffering from extreme poverty

The clinic provides free care for indigent patients.

Syn: abject, poor, destitute, beggarly, necissitous, penurious, skint

Patricians

Noun

Person of high birth (ancient Rome)

The Patriacians in Rome are known for their supercilious grins.

Syn: aristocrat, noble

Plebeians

Noun

Member of the general populace

The Plebians maintained a spiteful attitude towards the few wealthy Patricians of the city. 

Syn: commoners, plebs, townsfolk

Truculent

Adj

Feeling or displaying ferocity, scathingly harsh, aggressively self-assertive

The soccer hooligans became truculent after the loss of their team.

Syn: Cruel, savage, destructive, vitriolic, belligerant

Expatiate

Verb

To speak or move freely at will, to write in length

Once they get going, hippies will expatiate about the issues in government.

Syn: discant, discourse, harangue, talk, lecture

Intransigent

Adj

Refusal to abandon or compromise on an extremes position or attitude.

Severe right-wing people are intrasigent on their stance on gay marriage.

Syn: uncompromising, adamant, hardened, obdurate, inflexible, pat

Piquant

Adj

Aggreeably stimulating to the palate (esp, spicy)

Milder chicken is always better served with a piquant sauce.

Syn: provocative, savory, pert, poignant, zesty

Wistful

Adj

Full of yearning or desire tinged with melancholy.

The old friends had a wistful discussion about high school.

Syn: pensive, inspiring

Descry

Verb/Noun

To catch sight of/Discovery or view from afar

The townsfolk could just descry the ship over the horizon.

Syn: ascertain, detect, discover, locate, visualize

Rancor

Adj

Biiter, deep seeded ill-will.

The Rancor beast's son had rancor for Luke Skywalker for killing his rancorous father. 

Syn: animosity, antipathy, gail, hostility, enmity

Mawkish

Adj

Having an insipid or unpleasant taste, sickly or juvenile sentiment.

The charity's president made a mawkish plea for donations.

Syn: sloppy, corny, mushy, cloying, gooey,

Sanguine

Adj/Noun

Relating to blood/Moderately red

Confident and optimistic

Zoe was sanguine about her and Mal's deal with the sketchy client.

Syn: bloody, confident, murdering, bloodthirsty

Profligate

Adj/Noun

Wildly extravagant.

The wealthy man's profligate/spoiled daughter led a profligate lifestyle.

Syn: prodigal, extravagent, spender, wasteful,

Tremulous

Adj

Affected by tremors, exceedingly sensitive.

The epileptic was tremulous in the strobe light store.

Syn: fainthearted, fearful, mousy, timorous, timid

Whet

Verb/Noun

To sharpen by rubbing on something, to make keen or more acute

Something that makes something sharper

Sex works well to whet males' interest.

Syn:  edge, grind, hone, strop, sharpen

Surfeit

Noun/Verb

Overabundant supply of something, immoderate indulgence

Supply to excess

Strip clubs in Vegas have a surfeit of dancers while clubs back home are lacking.

Syn: excess, fat, overabundance, stuff, gorge

Slake

Verb

To satisfy, quench, crumble

He slaked his thirst by finishing the liter of water.

Allay

Verb

To subdue or reduce in intensity

The cookie temporarily allayed the 3-year old's tantrum.

Syn: alleviate, calm, assuage, mitigate, mollify, palliate

Tyro

Noun

A beginner in learning

The tyro from the culinary school was looking everywhere for the left-handed sauce pan.

Syn: novice, freshman, abecedarian, apprentice, neophyte, novitiate

Banal

Adj

Lacking originality

The story was banal and seen in may story books, but was still enjoyable.

Syn: trite, flat, insipid

Trite

Adj

Hackneyed or boring from much use

That oak bar is old and trite, but not found in modern day.

Syn: banal, hackney, musty, stale, old

Blithe

Adj

Of happy or lighthearted character, lacking due thought or consideration

The smoker was blithe about his health.

Syn: casual, cheerful, canty, eupeptic, winsome

Truncated

Adj/Verb

to cut short/

The English professor had to truncate War and Peace for the class.

Syn: curtailed, abbreviate, shorten,

Sententious

Adj

Given to or abounding in aphoristic (concise statement of a principle), moralistic, or terse in expression

His editorials are known for their smug and sententious style.

Syn: didactic, homiletic, moralistic, preachy

Trenchant

Adj

Sharp; Vigorously effective and articulate; Sharply perceptive

The swordsman's personality complimented his equally trenchant sword.

Syn: penetrating, sharp, distinct, keen, cutting, whetted

Fleetly

Adj

Swift in motion

The ninja fleetly stepped around the traps.

Syn: nimble, brisk, fast, dizzy, hasty, swift

Fitfully

Adj

Erratic or intermittent in character.

Her fitful sleep left her fatigued the next day.

Syn: irregular, aperiodic, choppy, spastic, sporadic

Apocryphal

Adj

Of doubtful authenticity

The biography was apocryphal in origin for the major source was a friend of a friend.

Syn: spurious, doubtful, questionable, dubious

APOCRYPHA: writings NOT included in religious writings.

Sacrosanct

Adj

(Treated as) Most sacred or holy

The most sacrosanct artifacts in the Church are found in Rome.

Syn: hallowed, holy, invioble, unassailable

Rubicund

Adj

Reddish in color

Alcohol gave the pale Asian female a rubicund face.

Syn: ruddy, red, rubor, flush

Collusion

Noun

Secret agreement especially for a illegal or deceitful purpose

The governor was in collusion with the local physicians to keep the organ trafficking secret.

Syn: conspiracy, connivance, complicity

Recreancy

Adj/Noun

Cowardly, unfaithful, craven/A coward

The recreant quickly retreated at the first sound of gunfire.

Syn: dastardly, faithless, untrue

Affected

Adj

Having or showing an attitude that is not genuinely felt, inclined towards

Everyone had to ensure they forced affected laughs at the boss' jokes.

Syn: inclined, disposed, artificial, contrived, feigned, spurious

Artless

Adj

Lacking or made without art, knowledge, or skill; free from guile or craft

Her simple artless charm won people over immediately.

Syn: guileless, ingenuous, genuine, honest, natural, true

Dearth

Noun

An inadequate supply

The dearth of supplies at the refugee camp was unsettling.

Syn: famine, lack, deficit, lacuna, paucity, scarcity

Bravado

Noun

A blistering and swaggering conduct; state of being foolhardy

His stories are always told with bravado when he's around his friends.

Syn: bravery, show off,

Bravura

Noun/Adj

A show of daring or brilliance, requiring skill.

The bravura arrangement of the piece was only accentuated by the exceptional pianist.

Syn: ornate, showy, skillful, adroit, deft, expert, virtuoso

Obdurate

Adj

Stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing; resistent to persuasion

The Navy Seal was known for his obdurate determination.

Syn: callous, indurate, merciless, ruthless, unsparing

Exculpate

Verb

To clear from alleged fault or guilt

The judge exculpated the man after a substantiated evidence was introduced to the case.

Syn: absolve, acquit, exonerate, clear, vindicate

Foment

Verb

To promote the growth or development of

Excessive pull-ups fomented callous build up on his hands.

Syn: rouse, incite, abet, instigate, provoke

Inchoate

Adj

Partly in existence, imperfectly formed

Fresh out of a long relationship, her feelings for the other man were inchoate because she needed more time.

Syn: aborning, budding, inceptive, nascent, incipient

Credulous

Adj

Ready to believe, especially on uncertain evidence.

The criminal was abhorred by the public so much that the jurors were credulous throughout the trial.

Syn: gullible, naive

Obviate

Verb

To anticipate and prevent (as a situation) or make unnecessary (as an action)

The new treatment obviates many of the potential risks of the surgery. 

Syn: avert, prevent, preclude, helps

Exigent

Adj

Requiring immediate aid or action

After her long vacation, she returned to the office with many exigent tasks.

Syn: demanding, clamant, emergent, acute, imperious, pressing

Irascible

Adj

Marked by hot temper, easily provoked

The players were hesistant around the football coach because of his irascible behavior.

Syn: choleric, crabby, cranky, fiery, grouchy

Perfunctory

Adj

Characterized by routine or superficiality

After a while, he was perfunctory about his factory job.

Syn: apathetic, casual, insouciant, indifferent, pococurante

Disparate

Adj

Made up of different elements, distinct quality or character.

3 different artists joined up to make a disparate canvas never before seen.

Syn: different, distinct, unalike

Diffident

Adj

Hesistant in action or speaking

The single male was diffident talking to women after consistenly being shotdown.

Syn: hesistant, unconfident, timid, bashful, coy, demure

Propitiate

Verb

To gain or regain the favor or goodwill of

He bought 12 roses to propitiate his angry girlfriend after their fight.

Syn: assuage, mollify, placate, pacify

Intransigent

Adj

Refusal to compromise

The old coach was intransigent towards any change to his plays.

Syn: adamant, immovable, implacable, obdurate

Opprobrium

Noun

Public disgrace

The local government is going through with the plan regardless of the opprobrium.

Syn: dishonor, disgrace, reflection, scandal

Ingenuous

Adj

Showing innocent or childlike simplicity

Med students have an ingenuous thirst for medicine in the beginning.

Syn: innocent, naive,

Inimical

Adj

Adverse in tendency or effect

The diabolical villain created an inimical environment with his ray guns.

Syn: hostile, unfavorable, noxious, antipathetic, jaundiced

Perfidious

Adj

Deliberately faithless or disloyal

The Russians were betrayed by their perfidious ally in World War II.

Syn: disloyal, fickly, traitorous, deceitful