Zeal
Passion, excitement
Veracity
Filled with truth and accuracy
Vacillate
To sway physically, be indecisive
Taciturn
Silent, non talkative
Tacit
Done without using words
Stolid
Unemotional, lacking sensitivity
Specious
Deceptively attractive, seemingly plausible but fallacious
Soporific
Causing sleep or lethargy
Satiate
To satisfy fully or overindulge
Rarely
To make thinner or sparser
Quiescent
Motionless
Propriety
Correct behavior, obedience to rules and customs
Proliferate
To increase in number quickly
Propitiate
To conciliate to appease
Prodigal
Lavish, wasteful
Prevaricate
To lie or deviate from the truth
Opprobrium
Public disgrace
Paragon
Model of excellence or perfection
Pedant
Someone who shows off learning
Perfidious
Willingness to betray ones trust
Perfunctory
Done in a routine way, indifferent
Onerous
Troublesome and oppressive, burdensome
Obviate
To prevent, to make unnecessary
Obsequious
Overly submissive and eager to please
Obdurate
Hardened in feeling, resistant to persuasion
Misanthrope
A person who dislikes others
Irascible
Easily made angry
Laconic
Using few words
Laud
To give praise, to glorify
Loquacious
Talkative
Malinger
To evade responsibility by pretending to be ill
Iconoclast
One who opposes established beliefs, customs and institutions
Imperturbable
Not capable of being disturbed
Impetuous
Quick to act without thinking
Inchoate
Not fully formed, disorganized
Inimical
Hostile, unfriendly
Equivocate
To use expressions of double meaning in order to mislead
Erudite
Learned, scholarly, bookish
Esoteric
Known or understood by only a few
Estimable
Admirable
Exculpate
To clear from blame, prove innocent
Exigent
Urgent, requiring immediate action
Fervid
Intensely emotional, feverish
Florid
Excessively decorated or embellished
Foment
To arouse or incite
Garrulous
Tending to talk a lot
Dogma
Firmly held opinion, often religious
Efficacy
Effectiveness
Elegy
A sorrowful poem or speech
Enervate
To reduce in strength
Engender
To produce, cause, or bring about
Enigma
A puzzle or mystery
Dissonance
A harsh or disagreeable sound
Dissemble
To present a false appearance, to disguise ones real intentions or character
Dirge
A funeral hymn or mournful speech
Dilettante
Someone with an amateurish and superficial interest in a topic
Dilatory
Intended to delay
Diffident
Lacking self confidence
Desultory
Jumping from one thing to another, disconnected
Chicanery
Deception by means of craft or guile
Cogent
Convincing and well reasoned
Credulous
Too trusting, gullible
Deride
To speak or treat with contempt, to mock
Caustic
Biting in wit
Capricious
Changing ones mind quickly and often
Banal
Predictable, cliched, boring
Antipathy
Extreme dislike
Assuage
To make something unpleasant less severe
Attenuate
To reduce in force or degree, to weaken
Ameliorate
To make better, improve
Amalgamate
To combine, mix together
Aggrandize
To increase in power, influence and reputation
Abscond
To leave secretly
Mellifluous and euphonic
Sweet or pleasing used in reference to speech
Assuaging
Make less intense, satisfy
Trivial
Of little value or importance, person concerned with unimportant things
Inimical
Tending to obstruct or harm or unfriendly/ hostile
Abstruse
Difficult to understand, obscure (esoteric)
Prolific
Present in large numbers or quantities , plentiful
Lucid
Easy to understand, or bright luminous
Prosaic
Lacking poetic beauty or commonplace/unromantic
Gregarious
Fond of company, sociable
Scurrilous
Making or spreading scandalous claims about someone with the intention of damaging their reputation or humorously insulting
Arcane
Understood by few/ mysterious or secret
Lauding
Praise especially in public context
Deriding
Express contempt for, ridicule
Acclamation
Loud and enthusiastic approval to welcome or honor someone in public
Infallibility
Inability to be wrong
Abjured
Solemnly renounce
Chagrin
Distress or embarrassment at having failed or been humiliated
Bemusement
Bewilder or confuse
Altruism
Belief or practice of disinterested or selfless concern for the well being of others
Malfeasance
Wrongdoing especially by a public official
Supercilious
Behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others
Sardonic
Grimly mocking or cynical
Fatuous
Silly, pointless
Ribald
Referring it sexual matters in an amusingly rude or irreverent way
Patronize
Treat with apparent kindness that betrays a feeling of superiority
Toothsome
Temptingly tasty
Ignominious
Deserving or causing public disgrace or shame
Apocryphal
Of doubtful authenticity, although widely circulated as being true
Acumen
Ability to make good judgements and quick decisions, typically in a particular domain
Trenchancy
Incisive or keen or vigorous, effective, energetic
Laconic
Using very few words
Strident
Loud and harsh, grating
Circuitous
Longer than the most direct way
Extirpate
Root out or destroy completely
Recondite
Little known, abstruse
Detritus
Waste or debris
Gaudiness
Vulgarly or cheaply showy
Bedlam
A scene of uproar and confusion
Punctilious
Showing great attention to detail or correct behavior
Vociferous
Vehement or clamorous
Waggish
Humorous in a playful, mischievous or facetious manner
Mien
A persons look or manner especially one of a particular kind indicating their character or mood
Salubrious
Health giving or healthy
Truculent
Eager or quick to argue or fight, aggressively defiant
Panegyrical
A public speech or published text in praise of someone or something
Disquieted
Make someone worried or anxious
Ebullient
Cheerful and full of energy
Phlegmatic
Having an unemotional and stolidly calm disposition
Vacillating
Alternate or waver between different options or actions, indecisive
Catholic
Including a wide variety of things, all embracing
Dilettantish
frivolous or superficial interest
Ambrosial
Pertaining to or worthy of the gods
Apogee
The highest point in developing something, climax or cumulative
Eschewed
Deliberately avoid using, abstain from
Orotund
Full, round, imposing
Laconic
Using very few words
Torrid
Very hot and dry
August
Respected and impressive
Cosseted
Care for and protect in an overindulgent way
Obviate
Remove
Capitulate
Cease to resist a opponent or unwelcome demand, surrender
Picayune
Petty, worthless
Exigency
An urgent need or demand
Conflagration
An extensive fire that destroys a great deal of land or property
Squall
A sudden or violent gust of wind or localized storm
Pithy
Concise and forcefully expressive
Slipshod
Characterized by lack of care, thought or organization
Blithe
Showing casual and cheerful indifference considered to be callous or improper
Parsimonious
Unwilling to spend money or use resources, stingy, frugal
Avaricious
Having or showing extreme greed for wealth or material gain
Penurious
Extremely poor
Rapacious
Aggressively greedy or grasping
Proscribe
Forbid by law