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| (adj) moderate, sparing (as in eating and drinking); characterized by abstinence and self-discipline |
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| temperate, sober, moderate |
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| indulgent, immoderate, intemperate |
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| (adj) deserving of blame or correction |
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| blameworthy, discreditable, reprehensible |
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| commendable, laudable, meritorious |
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| (adj) likely but not certain to happen, possible; dependent on uncertain events or conditions; happening by chance; (n) a representative group forming part of a larger body |
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| (adj) conditional, dependent; (n) a detachment |
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| (adj) independent of, unconnected with, certain |
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| (v) to confirm, make more certain, bolster, substantiate, verify |
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| (adj) refute, contradict, undermine, discredit |
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| (n) an inhabitant, resident; one who frequents a place |
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| resident, dweller, habitué |
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| alien, outsider, stranger, foreigner |
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| (adj) passing aimlessly from one place tor subject to another, rambling, roving, nomadic |
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| digressive, diffuse, wandering, episodic |
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| short and to the point, succinct |
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| (v) to scatter or to spread widely |
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| disperse, publicize, broadcast, circulate |
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| bring together, concentrate, muster, conceal, hide |
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| (adj) poorly dressed, shabby; lacking smartness and good taste |
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| frumpy, tacky, frowsy, drab |
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| chic, stylish, elegant, fashionable |
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| (adj) highly colored, reddish; excessively ornate, showy |
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| flushed, ruddy, flowery, frilly, flamboyant |
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| pale, ashen, pallid, sallow, austere, stark |
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| (v) to impose by fraud; to pass of as worthy or genuine; tp bring about by stealth; dishonesty, coercion |
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| pass off, palm off, fob off |
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| (adj) awkward, lacking in social graces, tactless, clumsy |
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| inept, uncouth, maladroit |
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| adroit, tactful, diplomatic, politic |
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| (n) an opinion different from accepted belief; the denial of an idea that in generally held sacred |
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| unorthodox belief, heterodoxy |
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| (v) to impress on the mind by repetition, teach persistently and earnestly |
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| instill, implant, infuse, ingrain, imbue |
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| efface, extirpate, root out |
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| (adj) capable of being touched or felt; easily seen, heard, or recognized |
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| tangible, plain, obvious, manifest |
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| intangible, insubstantial, incorporeal |
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| (adj) having a sympathetic insight or understanding, capable of keen appreciation |
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| insightful, discerning, observant |
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| dense, thick, obtuse, dim-witted |
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| (adj) extremely harmful; deadly, fatal |
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| injurious, deleterious, baleful, noxious |
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| harmless, innocuous, salutary, salubrious |
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| (adj) leaping, jumping, or springing forth; prominent, standing out, conspicuous; (n) a projection of bulge, a land form that projects upward or outward |
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| (adj) striking, notable, protrusive, obvious |
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| (adj) inconspicuous, recessive |
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| (v) to satisfy completely; to dill to excess; (adj) to full, satisfied |
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| (v) gratify, cloy, surfeit, gorge |
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| (v) starve, deprive entirely of |
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| (v) to make or become dry withered; to char or scorch the surface of; to harden or make unfeeling; to parch, desicate, singe |
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| (adj) deceptive, apparently food or valid but lacking real merit |
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| deceptively plausible, sophistic, casuistic |
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| valid, sound, solid, genuine |
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