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Fractious

Fresco

Froward

Fulminate

Fulsome

Gainsay

Gambol

Gauche

Glib

Gossamer

Gradiloquent

Gregarious

Grouse

Guileless

Halcyon

Harrowing

Hermetic

Homeostasis

Idolatry

Igneous

Imbroglio

Immutable

Impecunious

Impervious

Impinge

Implacable

Imprecation

Impute

Incursion

Indigence

Indolent

Ineluctable

Ingenous

Insensible

Insouciant

Insularity

Insuperable

Interdict

Internecine

Interpolate

Interregnum

Inveigh

Inveterate

Invidious

Irascible

Jaundiced

Jibe

Labile

Lascivious

Lassitude

Levity

Liberal

Lilliputian

Limn

Limpid

Litany

Lucid

Lucre

Machiavellian

Magnanimity

Malign

Malleable

Megalomania

Menagerie

Mendacious

Mendicant

Meretricious

Metaphysics

Meteorological

Mettle

Militate

Minutia

Mitigate

Mnemonic

Modium

Mollify

Monolithic

Motley

Multifarious

Necromancy

Neophyte

Nonplussed

Nostrum

Nugatory

Obsequy

Officious

Ornithologist

Overweening

Paleontology

Pallid

Pathological

Pellucid

Penury

Peregrination

Peremptory

Perfidious

Perigee

Piety

Piquant

adj. quarrelsome; unruly; rebellious

n. a painting done on plaster

adj. stubbornly contrary; obstinately disobedient

v. to attack loudly; denounce

adj. so excessive as to be disgusting

v. to deny; dispute; oppose

v. to frolic; leap playfully

adj. coarse and uncouth; clumsy

adj. fluent in an insincere way; offhand

adj. sheer; light and delicate, like cobwebs

adj. pompous; bombastic

adj. sociable

v. to complain; n. complaints

adj. free of cunning or deceit; artless

adj. calm and peaceful; happy; golden; prosperous

adj. extremely distressing; terrifying

adj. tightly seald; magical

n. automatic maintenance by an organism of normal temperature

n. idol worship; blind or excessive devotion

adj. produced by fire; volcanic

n. complicated situation; an entanglement

adj. unchangeable

adj. poor; having no money

adj. impossible to penetrate; incapable of being affected

v. to strike; encroach

adj. inflexible; incapable of being pleased

n. curse

v. to relate to a particular cause or source; attribute the failt to; assign as a characteristic

n. sudden invasion

n. poverty

adj. habitually lazy; idle

adj. unavoidable; inevitable

adj. naïve and trusting; ;acking sophistication

adj. unconscious; unresponsive

adj. indifferent; lacking concern or care

n. narrow-mindedness; isolation

adj. insurmountable; unconquerable

v. to forbid; prohibit; to confront and halt the activities

adj. deadly to both sides

v. to insert; change by adding new words or material

n. interval between reigns; gap in continuity

v. to disapprove; protest vehemently

adj. confirmed; long-standing; deeply rooted

adj. likely to provoke ill-will; offensive

adj. easily angered

adj. having a yellowish discoloration of the skin; affected by envy, resentment, or hostility

v. to be in agreement

adj. likely to change

adj. lustful

n. lethargy; sluggishness

adj. light manner or attitude

adj. tolerant; broad-minded; generous; lavish

adj. extremely small

v. to draw; describe

adj. clear; transparent

n. lengthy recitation; repetitive chant

adj. bright; clear; intelligble

n. money or profits

adj. crafty; double-dealing

n. generosity; nobility

v. to speak evil of

adj. impressionable

n. delusions of power or importance

n. a variety of animals kept together

adj. dishonest

n. beggar

adj. gaudy; plausible but false; specious

n. branch of philosophy that investigates the ultimate nature of reality

adj. concerned with the weather

n. courage; endurance

v. to work against

n. petty details

v. to cause to become less harsh, severe, or painful; alleviate

adj. related to mempory; assisting memory

n. limited quantity

v. to soothe

adj. solid and uniform; constituting a single, unified whole

adj. many colored; made up of many parts

adj. diverse

n. black magic

n. novice; beginner

adj. bewildered

n. medicine or remedy of doubtful effectiveness; supposed cure

adj. triffling; invalid

n. funeral ceremony

adj. too helpful; meddlesome

n. scientist who studies birds

adj. presumptuous; arrogant; overbearing

n. study of past geological eras through fossil remains

adj. lacking color or liveliness

adj. departing from normal condition

adj. transparent; translucent; easily understood

n. extreme poverty

n. a wandering from place to place

adj. imperative; leaving no choice

adj. faithless; disloyal; untrustworthy

n. point in orbit that is closest to Earth

n. devoutness

adj. appealingly stimulating; pleasantly pungent; attractive