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| to draw away or divert; distract |
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| a person who advocates or believes in anarchy or anarchism |
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| rigorous; unusually severe or cruel |
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| that cannot be doubted; patently evident or certain; unquestionable |
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| done, spoken, performed, etc., without special advance preparation |
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| the act of invoking or calling upon a deity, spirit, etc., for aid, protection, inspiration, or the like; supplication |
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| to make larger; enlarge in size, number, strength, or extent; increase |
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| to expose or excoriate (a claim, assertion, sentiment, etc.) as being pretentious, false, or exaggerated |
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| A supporter of the rights and power of the people or a member of the Populist Party |
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| severe in manner or appearance; uncompromising; strict; forbidding |
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| a feeling of vexation, marked by disappointment or humiliation |
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| a person who takes up an art, activity, or subject merely for amusement, esp. in a desultory or superficial way; dabbler |
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| a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite |
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| an excessively zealous person; fanatic |
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| very skilled; proficient; expert |
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| not friendly, warm, or generous |
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| character or conduct that emphasizes practicality |
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| to regard with extreme repugnance or aversion; detest utterly |
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| lightness of mind, character, or behavior; lack of appropriate seriousness or earnestness |
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| to compel by force, intimidation, or authority, esp. without regard for individual desire or volition |
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| to compel by force, intimidation, or authority, esp. without regard for individual desire or volition |
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| to show to be false; contradict: His trembling hands belied his calm voice. |
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| to strike or press with crushing force; crush down; squash |
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| of warlike character; aggressively hostile; bellicose |
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| one who makes makes something obscure or unclear |
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| severely critical; faultfinding; carping |
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| to make plain or clear; explain; interpret |
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1. abrupt; terse; short: a cryptic note.
2.secret; occult: a cryptic writing. |
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| trifling; frivolous; unimportant |
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1.producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful: a prolific pear tree.
2.producing in large quantities or with great frequency; highly productive: a prolific writer. |
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1.indecent; obscene; lewd: a vulgar work; a vulgar gesture.
2.crude; coarse; unrefined: a vulgar peasant. |
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| of or pertaining to the mental processes of perception, memory, judgment, and reasoning, as contrasted with emotional and volitional processes |
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| any imitation or copy so distorted or inferior as to be ludicrous |
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| the affix added to produce this change, as the -s in dogs or the -ed in played. |
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