SELECTED WORDS FROM THE BOOK
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS
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PART TWO
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ANONYMOUS: having or giving no name, marked by lack of individuality or personality
AROUSE: roused to action, stir up
BAFFLE: to defeat or check by confusing or puzzling
ESSAY: an analytic or interpretative literary composition use, dealing with its subject from a limited or personal point of view
EXPEL: to force out
EXPLICIT: free from all vagueness and ambiguity
FELLOWSHIP: a group of people with the same interests or experiences
MALADY: disease or disorder of the body or mind, ailment
OBSESSION: a compulsive, often unreasonable idea or feeling
PRINCIPLE: basic truth or law
RELATE: to respond esp. favorably
SOCIETY: any organized group of people joined together because of work, interests, etc. in common
TRADITION: information, beliefs and customs handed down by each generation to the next
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DESTINE: predetermine
EMERGE: to rise from an obscure or inferior condition
TENET: belief
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CODIFY: systematize
DEVOTE: to center the attention or activities of
DILEMMA: unsatisfactory alternative, predicament
ENDORSE: express approval
PRODIGIOUS: extraordinary in bulk, quantity, or degree
PROPOSE: intend
RALLY: to come together
STARTLE: surprise or alarm
TWOSCORE: forty
UNSTINTED: no restrictions or limitations
VIRTUALLY: for all practical purpose
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ERRATIC: characterized by lack of consistency, regularity, or uniformity
HARMONY: agreement, balanced interrelationship
PERPLEX: puzzle
SCORE: set of twenty
SUBSTANCE: the real or essential part or element of anything; essence, reality, or basic matter
UNIQUE: the only one of its kind
WELTER: turmoil
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ACCEPT: to receive with consent
BANKRUPTCY: utter failure
BEDROCK: the solid rock underlying unconsolidated surface material
CONSEQUENCE: result
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CREDITOR: person to whom money or dues are due
DEVASTATE: bring to ruin, overwhelm
HUMBLE: not proud, arrogant, or assertive
HUMILIATION: to reduce to a lower position in one's own eyes or other's eyes
IMMENSE: very large, huge
INSTINCT: behavior that is mediated by reactions below the conscious level
LIBERATION: release
PERCEIVE: to grasp mentally, recognizee, observe
PRECARIOUS: dependent on chance
PROVIDENCE: God
RAPACIOUS: excessively grasping, living on prey
SELF-SUFFICIENCY: being able to maintain oneself without outside aid
STARK: strong
UNMANAGEABLE: having trouble with personal relationships, unable to control emotional nature, being prey to misery and depression, having a feeling of uselessness, being full of fear and unhappiness, not being able to of real help to others
UTTER: complete, total, absolute
WARP: deform
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ALLERGY: an abnormal reaction to a food or chemical substance
APPARENT: clear to the understanding
ASSAIL: attack
COMPULSION: obsession
CONDEMN: sentence, criticize
DOUBLE-EDGED: having two cutting edges
FERVOR: intensity
LIABILITY: drawback
RELENTLESS: persistent
SELF-CONFIDENCE: trust in oneself or one's abilities
SMITTEN: afflicted suddenly and injuriously
SPONSOR: a guide
SUBTLE: difficult to understand, crafty
TAPROOT: one that has a deep central position in line of growth or development
TYRANT: a ruler who exercises absolute power oppressively or brutally
ULTIMATELY: eventually
UNPALATABLE: distasteful
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ATTITUDE: a feeling or emotion toward a fact or state
HELL: a place or state of torment or wickedness, a generalized term of abuse
LITERAL: exact
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ADVOCATE: one that pleads the cause of another
CONVICTION: strong belief
INSIST: to take a resolve stand or course
LASH: drive
MEDITATION: serious contemplation or reflection, listening for
directions
PRAYER: any act or communication with God
PROSPECT: a mental picture of something to come
RESTITUTION: a making good of or giving an equivalent for some injury
RIGOROUSLY: rigidly, severely harsh, strictly
SACRIFICE: destruction or surrender of something for sake of something else
SELF-CENTERED: independent of outside force or influence
TOLERANCE: the act of allowing something
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BELLIGERENT: inclined to or exhibiting assertiveness, hostility, or combativeness
CHERISH: to hold dear, feel or show affection for
FAITH: firm belief in something for which there is no proof, complete confidence, trust
MAJESTY: greatness or splendor of quality or character
MIRACLE: divine intervention in human affairs
OOZE: to emit or give out slowly
PHILOSOPHY: the most general beliefs, concepts, and attitudes, of an individual
PRIMORDIAL: first created or developed
RENOUNCE: to give up
SANITY: rationally, sensibly
SAVAGE: not under human control
SMART: to feel or endure stress
SPEARHEAD: a leading element, force, or influence in an undertaking or development
UNIVERSE: the world of human experience
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ATHEIST: a person who believes there is no God
DEBATE: regulated discussion of a proposition between two matched sides
JUNCTURE: a point of time
PIECEMEAL: one piece at a time, gradually
RESIGN: to give up deliberately
VENERATE: to regard with reverential respect or with admiring
deference
WORSHIP: extravagant respect or admiration for or devotion to an object of esteem
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INFILTRATE: to enter or become established in gradually or unobtrusively
QUEST: to search for
THRESHOLD: the place or point of entering or beginning
TREAD: to walk along, follow
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AGNOSTIC: a person who believes that God is unknown and probably
unknowable
BEWILDERED: confused
DEFIANT: being resistant of opposition, being contrary to
FORMIDABLE: having qualities that discourage approach or attack
MILITANT: aggressive active
PLIGHT: condition
PREJUDICE: opinions adverse to anything without just grounds or
before sufficient knowledge is obtained
PROFOUND: deep-seated
TRANSFORM: to change in character or condition
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ABSTRACT: difficult to understand
AMBITION: desire to achieve a particular end
ATTRIBUTE: an inherent characteristic
EXHILARATE: to make cheerful
PRECOCIOUS: exceptionally early in development or occurrence
THEOLOGICAL: the study and interpretation of God and of religious beliefs, faiths, practices and experiences
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BEATITUDE: any of the declarations made in the Sermon of the Mount (Matthew: 5:3-12)
BEGAT: a genealogical list (the Old Testament)
BELABOR: to beat soundly
BESET: surround
BIGOT: one obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his own church, party, belief or opinion
CONTEMPT: the act of despising
EGO: self-esteem
GLOAT: to observe or think about something with great and often greedy or malicious satisfaction
HANDSOME: moderately large
HUMILITY: not being proud, arrogant, or assertive
HYPOCRISY: a feigning to be what one is not or to believe what one does not
MORALITY: a doctrine or system of principles of right and wrong in behavior
PLUMP: to drop, sink, or come in contact suddenly or heavily
PRIDEFUL: full of pride
PROPOSITION: point to be discussed, a project or situation
requiring some action
SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS: convinced of one's own righteousness esp. in contrast with the actions and beliefs of others
SHORTCOMING: deficiency, flaw, fault
SIN: an offense against religious or moral law
WALK: manner of living
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CALAMITY: a major misfortune or loss, disaster
CATASTROPHE: the final event of the dramatic action esp. of a tragedy
CHARACTERISTIC: serving to reveal and distinguish the individual character
DEFY: to resist attempts at
FALLACY: a false idea
GREED: excessive or reprehensible acquisitiveness
PSYCHIATRIST: a person trained in psychology (the science of mind and behavior)
RECRIMINATE: to make a retaliatory charge
REEK: a strong or disagreeable fume or odor
RELY: to have confidence based on experience, to be dependent
TRANSCEND: to rise above or go beyond the limits of
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AMEND: compensation for a loss or injury
APPRAISE: to evaluate the worth, significance, or status
DEVOUT: devoted to religion or to religious duties
EMOTIONALISM: undue indulgence in or display of emotion
GRACE: unmerited divine assistance
IMPLORE: to call or pray for earnestly
OBSERVANCE: a customary practice, rite, or ceremony
PLEDGE: a biding promise or agreement to or forbear
QUALITY: degree of excellence
SCRUPULOUS: punctiliously exact
SUPERFICIAL: concerned only with the obvious or apparat, shallow
VALIANT: courageous
WALLOW: to devote oneself entirely
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ABET: encourage
IRRATIONAL: lacking usual or normal mental clarity or coherence
MORAL: of or relating to principles of right or wrong in behavior
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AFFIRMATIVE: positive assertion
AVAIL: profit
EARNEST: serious and intent mental state
REFLECTION: a thought, idea, or opinion formed as a result of meditation
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FOUNDERING: becoming disabled
MISGIVING: a feeling of doubt or suspicion
THEORY: a belief, policy, or procedure proposed or followed as the basis of action
VESSEL: a person into whom some quality is infused
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BOLSTER: support or reinforce
EGOTISM: valuing everything only in reference to one's personal interest
ENTITY: being
FRUSTRATE: to make ineffectual
IRON LUNG: a device for artificial respiration in which rhythmic alternations in the air pressure in a chamber surrounding a patient's chest force air into and out the lungs
LOGIC: formal principles of reasoning
MARVEL: something that causes wonder or astonishment
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NONENTITY: something that does not exist
POLIO: an acute infectious virus disease characterized by fever, motor paralysis, and atrophy of skeletal muscles
TRUST: assured reliance on the character, ability, strength, or truth of someone or something
UNCONSCIOUS: not knowing or perceiving, not aware
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ACID TEST: severe or crucial test
CONTEMPLATE: to view or consider with continued attention
FRAGMENT: a part broken off
IMPOSE: establish or make prevail by force
JUGGERNAUT: a massive inexorable force or object that crushes whatever is in its path
PERSIST: going on resolutely or stubbornly in spite of opposition
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BALEFUL: large bundle of goods
BEACHHEAD: an area on hostile shore occupied to secure further landing of troops and supplies
BINGE: a drunken revel, spree
INTOLERANT: excessive
MONOTONY: tedious sameness
PSYCHOLOGIST: a person trained in psychology (the science of mind and behavior)
RUDIMENT: beginning
SALERNO: Italy
VIRTUE: conformity to a standard of right
WEAN: to detach from a cause of dependence or preoccupation
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ACUTE: seriously demanding urgent attention
BROOD: to dwell glumly on a subject
MUSTER: comprise
REMORSE: a gnawing distress arising from a sense of guilt for past wrongs
VICTIMIZED: made a victim of
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BOMBARD: to assail vigorously or persistently
CONFORM: to be obedient or compliant
DEFLATE: reduce in size or importance
EXERT: to put forth
PERSUADE: to move by argument to a belief
REVELATION: an enlightening or astonishing disclosure
SUSTAIN: to keep up, prolong
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SERENITY: total calmness, tranquility
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ASSET: resource
DOMINATE: rule, control
INVENTORY: a list of traits, preferences, attitudes, interests, or abilities used to evaluate personal characteristics
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TYRANNIZE: to exercise arbitrary oppressive power, oppress
VIGOR: intensity of action or effect
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CONTENT: freedom from care or discomfort
DEFORMITY: a moral flaw or defect
DISILLUSION: the condition of being disenchanted
HOARD: hide
IMPERIOUS: intensely compelling, urgent
LOT: one's way of life
MISER: one who lives miserably in order to hoard his wealth
RECLUSE: a person who leads a secluded or solitary life
SQUARELY: in a straightforward or honest manner
TACKLE: to set about dealing with
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BALK: to stop short and refuse to proceed
BLAZE: a sudden outburst
COLD: lacking warm feeling, unemotional
DOMINATION: supremacy over another
ESCAPE: avoid
EVOKE: call forth or up
LEGITIMATE: conforming to recognized principles or accepted rules and standards
PASSION: emotion as distinguished from reason
PERVERSE: arising from or indicative of stubbornness
POMP: a show of magnificence
PRESTIGE: commanding position in men's minds
PURSUIT: seeking
RAMPAGE: a course of violent, riotous, or reckless action or behavior
REVOLUTION: a sudden, radical, or complete change
REVULSION: a strong pulling or drawing away
SNUB: rebuke
VAINGLORY: vain display or show
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APT: inclined
BOG: impede
CHARACTER DEFECT: deficiency, fault, flaw of character
CLUTCH: to grasp or hold
DEFECT: deficiency, fault, flaw
DISPOSITION: temperamental makeup
EXTINCTION: elimination of a response by not reinforcing it
GENUINE: sincerely and honestly felt or experienced
GRANDIOSE: absurd exaggeration
MELANCHOLY: depression of spirits, dejection, sad
MORBID: abnormally susceptible to or characterized by gloomy or unwholesome feelings
OBLIVION: an act or instance or forgetting
PERSPECTIVE: see clearly
PRIDE: self-resect, inordinate self-esteem, conceit
PROBE: a penetrating or critical investigation, inquiry
REVIVE: to restore to consciousness or life
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SELF-LOATHING: extreme disgust of self
TEMPERAMENTAL: marked by excessive sensitivity and impulsive changes of mood
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CHINK: a small cleft, slit, or fissure
EXHIBITIONISM: the act or practice of behaving so as to attract attention to oneself
INDIGNATION: anger aroused by something unjust, unworthy, or mean
OBJECTIVE: expressing or involving the use of facts without distortion by personal feeling or prejudices
RESENTMENT: ill will felt because of a real or imagined wrong
SELF-JUSTIFICATION: making excuses for oneself
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AD INFINITUM: without end or limit
ALIBI: a plausible excuse usually intended to avert blame or punishment
DISMAL: disastrous, dreadful
GRUDGE: a deep-seated resentment
HUMILIATING: extremely destructive to one's self-respect or dignity
HURDLE: barrier, obstacle
SELF-PITY: dwelling on one's sorrows or misfortunes
VENGEFUL: vindictive
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ABOUND: to be present in large numbers
CONFIDENCE: trust
CONSCIOUS: having mental faculties undulled by sleep, faintness or stupor
ENVY: painful or resentful awareness of an advantage enjoyed by another joined with a desire to possess the same advantage
GLARING: painfully and obtrusively obvious
GLUTTONY: excess in eating or drinking
IMMORAL: a positive and active opposition to what is right and wrong in behavior
LUST: an intense longing, craving
MALADJUSTMENT: poor, faulty, or inadequately adjustments
PONDER: think about
SLOTH: laziness
SPURRED: incited to action
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BOGEYMEN: monstrous imaginary figures used in threatening children
COVET: to wish for enviously
PERVERT: to cause to turn aside or away from what is good or true or morally right
PROCRASTINATE: to put off intentionally and habitually
TESTIMONY: open acknowledgement
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ABSOLVE: to set free from obligation or the consequences of guilt
ANEW: in a new or different form
ASTRAY: off the right path
ELUDE: avoid, escape
FLAWS: weakness in something immaterial
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JEOPARDIZE: to expose to danger
SURVEY: to examine as to condition, situation, or value
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BLUFF: deceive
EXTRAVAGANT: exceeding the limits of reason or necessity
GRIPE: to complain with a sustained grumbling
INFERIORITY: feeling of little or less importance, value, or merit
JUGGLE: to engage in manipulation
MANIPULATE: to control or play upon by artful, unfair, or insidious means esp. to one's own advantage
PROMISCUITY: not restricted to one sexual partner
RECKLESSLY: marked by lack of proper caution
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ALTER: to make different without changing into something else
CROSS-EXAMINE: to examine by a serious of questions designed to check or discredit the answers to previous questions
GNAW: to wear away by persistent biting or nibbling
RUTHLESS: merciless, cruel
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COMPREHEND: to grasp the nature, significance, or meaning of
CONSCIENTIOUS: careful
EGOMANIA: the quality or state of being extremely concerned with the individual rather than society
FESTER: to undergo or exist in a state of progressive deterioration
HABITUAL: doing, practicing, or acting in some manner by force of habit
INCESSANT: continuing
PERSECUTION: the condition of being persecuted, harassed, or annoyed
PITFALL: hidden or not easily recognized danger or difficulty
RETALIATE: to get revenge
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ABASH: embarrass
AMBUSH: lie in wait, surprise
TANGIBLE: substantially real, material
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AGGRAVATE: to make worse, increase
CONTRARY: opposite in character, tending to be an opposing course
DRAMATIC: striking in appearance or effect
INTENSE: existing in an extreme degree
RELUCTANCE: holding back
TORMENT: extreme pain or anguish of mind or body
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DISTRESS: anguish of body or mind, trouble
MUDDLE: confuse
PERILOUS: dangerous
RESOLVE: to reach a firm decision about
SKIMP: to give insufficient or barely sufficient attention or effort to
VALIDATE: to support or corroborate on a sound or authoritative basis
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APARTNESS: holding different opinions
BACCHUS: the Greek god of wine
BOOMERANG: an act or utterance that backfires on its originator
CANDOR: honest or sincere expression
CRAVE: to want greatly
EXTEMPORANEOUS: composed, performed, or uttered on the spur of the moment
ISOLATE: to set apart from others, solitary
KINSHIP: relationship
LONELY: being without company, cut off from others
PANG: a sharp attack of mental anguish
SURMOUNT: overcome
TORTURE: something that causes agony or pain
VITAL: of the utmost importance
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CONFIDE: to show confidence by imparting secrets
DELUSION: the act of misleading the mind
DIVIDEND: bonus
GRANDEUR: the quality or state of being grand
SELF-DELUSION: tricking or lying to oneself
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CATALOG: a complete enumeration of items arranged systematically
with descriptive details
DRAMATIZE: to put on an act
EXAGGERATE: overstate
HANDICAP: a disadvantage that makes achievement unusually difficult
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ARRANT: extreme
DELUDE: to mislead the mind or judgement of
EMBARRASS: to cause to experience a state of self-conscious distress
INFALLIBLE: incapable of error
NOVICE: beginner
RATIONALIZATION: bring into accord with reason or cause something to seem reasonable, providing plausible but untrue reasons for conduct
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PRUDENCE: the ability to govern and discipline oneself by the use of reason
RESOLUTION: courage
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MIRACULOUS: supernatural
SUBSIDE: to become less
TRANQUIL: free from disturbance or turmoil
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DISPUTE: debate
RESERVATION: a limiting condition
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ABHOR: reject, loathe
BENT: strongly inclined, determined
MANIA: craze
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OBSTINATE: not easily subdued, remedied, or removed
PRESERVE: to keep safe from injury, harm, or destruction
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DERELICTION: fault, shortcoming
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AGONIZE: to suffer agony, torture, or anguish
BRAGGART: a loud arrogant boaster
CHRONIC: constantly present, frequently recurring
DISMAY: to deprive of courage, resolution, and initiative through the pressure of sudden fear or anxiety or great perplexity
EXULT: to be extremely joyful
MASQUERADE: an action or appearance that is mere disguise or outward show
SCORN: an object of extreme disdain, contempt, or derision
SUMMON: to call upon for specified action
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ASSASSINATE: to injure or destroy unexpectedly and treacherously
BARBED: characterized by pointed and biting criticism
CONVENTIONAL: usage or custom esp. in social matters
DEFINITE: unquestionable
EXCURSION: deviation from a direct, definite, or proper course
IMAGINARY: existing only in imagination, lacking factual reality
PROCLAIM: to declare publicly
SYLLABLE: a unit of spoken language
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DISPOSE: to settle a matter finally
IMPLICATION: something implied
OBLIGED: forced
STRIVE: to devote serious effort or energy
SUNDRY: miscellaneous
VENTURE: an undertaking involving chance
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HAZARDOUS: involving or exposing one to risk
PARDON: excuse
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ADVERSITY: a condition of suffering, destitution,or affliction
BLESSING: a thing conductive to happiness or welfare
MILLENNIUM: period of 1,000 years
NODDING: bending downward or forward
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CULTURE: enlightenment and excellence of taste acquired by intellectual and aesthetic training
DEPRECATE: to express mild or regretful disapproval
DESTINY: fate
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ANCHORAGE: a means of securing, a source of reassurance
BARREN: unproductive of results or gain
DESPAIR: utter lose of hope
GROVEL: to give oneself over to what is base or unworthy
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AVERSION: a feeling or dislike toward something with a desire to avoid or turn from it
CONSTERNATION: amazement of dismay that hinders or throws into confusion
DOGS: holds back, ruins
EQUILIBRIUM: state of intellectual or emotional balance
GOAD: something that urges or stimulates into action
RECOIL: to draw back through fear or distaste
SHEER: pure, unmixed
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COERCE: force
GRUDGING: unwilling, reluctant
PERCEPTION: to gain awareness or understanding of
PLAGUE: an epidemic disease causing a high rate of mortality
SAINT: angel, one eminent for piety or virtue
WAYSIDE: the side of or land adjacent to a road or path
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BLUDGEON: to overcome by aggressive argument
BUSH-LEAGUE: belonging to a inferior class or group of its kind
EVAPORATE: disappear
UNREMITTING: constant
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ACTIVATOR: something that makes something active or more active
BANISH: to clear away
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BACKTRACK: to reverse a position or stand
DEBRIS: the remains of something broken down or destroyed
FASCINATE: to be irresistibly attractive
UNSPARING: hard, ruthless
WAKE: a track or path left
WANE: to decrease in size or extent, dwindle
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BEDEVIL: to change for the worse
FETCH: to cause to come after and bring or take back
TOSSPOT: drunkard
TRIUMPHANTLY: rejoicing for or celebrating victory
WOE: condition of deep suffering from misfortune, affliction or grief
WRETCHED: extremely or deplorably bad or appearing mean, miserable, or contemptible
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BENDER: spree
BY-GONES: those gone by in the past bygone
CASUAL: feeling or showing little concern
CONSPIRE: to act in harmony
DEFER: delay
EXHAUSTIVE: testing all possibilities or considering all elements
FAVOR: approving consideration or attention
HINDER: to make slow or difficult the progress of
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CONSCIOUSNESS: the quality or state of being aware
EXTRICATE: to free or remove from an entanglement of difficulty
PARAMOUNT: superior to all others
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CALLOUS: feeling no emotion
GROSS: glaringly noticeable usu. because of inexcusable badness or objectionableness
LAVISH: expending or bestowing profusely
NEGLECT: to give little attention or respect to
RANSACK: to examine closely and carefully
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FALTER: to hesitate in purpose or action
FORTIFY: to add mental or moral strength, encourage
STEADFAST: not subject to change
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CONFIDENT: certain
LAURELS: honor, good name, recognition
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ALTERNATE: to perform by turns or in succession
ASTONISH: surprise
BEAM: proceeding or operating correctly
CONTRAST: comparison of similar objects to set off their dissimilar
qualities
DISCRETION: good judgement, caution
EPISODE: incident
HARROW: torment
OBLIGATION: something that one is bound to do
REHASH: to talk over or discuss again
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ATMOSPHERE: a surrounding influence or environment
DREAD: to feel extreme reluctance to meet or face
EVASION: the act or an instance of evading
INSATIABLE: incapable of being satisfied
PESSIMISM: an inclination to emphasize adverse aspects, conditions, and possibilities or to expect the worse possible outcome
PLAUSIBLE: appearing worthy of belief
PRELIMINARY: something that precedes or is introductory or preparatory
SKEPTICAL: doubtful
TEMPT: to induce to do something
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CONSULT: to ask the advice or opinion
CROSS: an affliction that tries one's virtue, steadfastness, or patience
FORTHRIGHT: going straight to the point without ambiguity or hesitation
GENEROUS: characterized by a noble or forbearing spirit
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COMMISSION: an act of committing something
DISTINGUISH: to mark as separate or different
DREARILY: gloomy
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GROOVE: a fixed routine
OMISSION: something neglected or left alone
REVIEW: to look at or study again
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AXIOM: a general truth widely accepted on it's intrinsic merit
JAG: a state or feeling of exhilaration or intoxication
WRATH: strong vengeful anger
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SIDESTEP: avoid
SULK: to be moodily silent
TIRADE: delayed speech
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ASSERT: to state or declare positively and often forcefully or aggressively
ELATE: to fill with joy or pride
ESTEEM: worth, value
RADICAL: extreme, marked by a considerable departure from the usual or traditional
VIGILANCE: alertly watchful esp. to avoid danger, watchful
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CONVERT: to alter for more effective utilization
KEYNOTE: the fundamental or central fact, idea, or mood
STIMULATE: to excite to activity or growth or to greater activity
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ELUSIVE: hard to comprehend or define
PERMEATE: to spread or diffuse through
PERPLEX: puzzle
SCRUTINY: a searching study
SYMPATHY: an affinity, association, or relationship between persons wherein whatever affects one similarly affects the other
TURMOIL: an utterly confused or extremely agitated state or condition
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CONSCIENCE: the sense of consciousness of the normal goodness or blameworthiness of one's own conduct, intentions, or character together with a feeling or obligation to do right or good
ESSENCE: the individual, real, or ultimate nature of a thing
GRATITUDE: thankfulness
REGRET: to be very sorry for
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SLIGHT: to treat as slight or unimportant
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SCHEME: a plan, design
SCOFF: to show contempt by derisive acts or language, mock
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GLIMPSE: to take a brief look
REALM: possibility of
TROVE: a valuable collection
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BIAS: a highly personal and unseasoned distortion of judgement, prejudiced
CHANNEL: a means of communication or expression
CLASSIC: of recognized value, serving as a standard of excellence
DISCORD: active quarrelling
SAVOR: enjoy
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ENVISION: to picture oneself
MAGNIFICENT: exceptionally fine
PARTAKE: to take part in
REVEL: to take intense satisfaction
RUEFUL: mournful, regretful
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ASPIRATION: a strong desire to achieve something high or great
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MERIT: to be worthy of or entitled or liable to
PETITION: an earnest request
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CRISIS: an unstable or crucial time or state of affairs whose outcome will make a decisive difference for better or worse
DISCONCERT: to throw into confusion
DOMESTIC: of or relating to the household or the family
PROFFER: to present for acceptance
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CONCEIT: excessive appreciation of one's own worth or virtue
DISTORTED: twisted out of the true meaning or proportion
HAVOC: wide and general destruction
ILLUSION: something that misleads or deceives
PRESUMPTION: something taken to be true
SUPPOSITION: assumption
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DUBIOUS: questionable as to value
THEME: a subject or topic of connected speech or writing
TOLERANCE: the act of allowing something
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PARADOX: a statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true
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KEEN: intellectually alert
RELINQUISH: to give up
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PREDICT: to declare in advance
TRANSLATE: to bear, remove, or change from one place, state, form, or appearance to another
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SUSPICIOUS: distrustful
UNSPECTACULAR: not sensational
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ARDENT: characterized by warmth of feeling typically expressed in eager zealous support or activity
COMPETENT: capable, skilled
REBUFF: to refuse or check sharply
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BEREAVEMENT: the state of fact of being deprived of something
DERANGED: to disturb the operation or functions of
DURABLE: able to exist for a long time without significant deterioration
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BLISS: complete happiness
SLANG: language peculiar to a particular group
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DRASTIC: severe
FORTITUDE: strength
INFIDELITY: marital unfaithfulness or an instance of it
REVISE: to look over again in order to correct or improve
STRIDE: without becoming upset
TEMPER: exercise control over
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FALLIBLE: capable of making a mistake
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CHARITY: kindly liberality and helpfulness
FARE: go, travel
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COMPEL: to drive or urge forcefully or irresistibly
EBB: to fall from a higher to lower level or from a better to a worse state
VAIN: foolish, silly
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DISCONTENT: dissatisfaction
ERR: to violate an accepted standard of conduct
IMPASSE: a predicament affording no obvious escape
SCRAPE: a disagreeable predicament
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CAMPUS: the grounds and building of a university, college, or school
ENHANCE: to make greater
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ENTERPRISE: a project or undertaking that is esp. difficult, complicated, or risky
PRODIGY: an extraordinary, marvelous, or unusual accomplishment, deed, or event
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ACQUISITION: the act of acquiring
CLAMORED: noisily shouted, insisted loudly
HAUNT: to recur constantly and spontaneously
SPECTACLE: an object of curiosity or contempt
SPECULATIVE: marked by questioning curiously
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ABSURD: ridiculous, unreasonable
EMINENT: famous
REEF: a hazardous obstruction
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BOAST: brag
COW: to intimidate with threats or show of strength
PLUNGE: to act with reckless haste
PROD: incite to action
VERDICT: opinion
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GLORY: praise, honor, or distinction, extended by common consent
PERISH: to become destroyed or ruined
PROMINENT: widely and popularly known
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ANARCHY: absence of order
ARTERY: a channel of transportation on communication; esp. the principal channel in a branching system
REPROACH: to express disappointment in or displeasure with for conduct that is blameworthy or in need or amendment
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ANARCHIST: one who rebels against authority or established order
ANVIL: a heavy;, usually steel-faced iron block on which metal is shaped
DAWN: to begin to be perceived or understood
DEVIATE: to stray esp, from a standard, principle, or topic
FRAIL: easily broken or destroyed, fragile
LICENSE: a freedom that allows or is used with irresponsibility
STALEMATE: a drawn contest, deadlock
VERGE: something that borders, limits, or bounds
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HAMLET: a small village
INCREDIBLE: too extraordinarily and improbable to be believed
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MUTTER: to utter sounds or words indistinctly or with the lips partly closed
NAIVE: deficient in worldly wisdom or informed judgement esp. credulous
NEBULOUS: indistinct, vague
SPECULATIVE: marked by questioning curiously
VAGUE: not clearly defined, grasped, or understood
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AVALANCHE: a large mass of snow, ice, earth, rock or other material in swift motion down a mountainside or over a very deep or overhanging place
BASK: to take pleasure or derive enjoyment
BEACH: to make a person incapable or ineffective
BENIGN: showing kindness and gentleness
ENTREAT: to plead with esp. in order to persuade
ETHICAL: conforming to accepted professional standards of conduct
HIERARCHY: a body of persons in authority
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PANHANDLER: one who stops people on the street and asks for money, beg
PINE: to yearn intensely and persistently esp. for something unattainable
POLITIC: of, relating to, or concerned with the making as distinguished from the administration of governmental policy
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BELATED: delayed beyond the usual time
DECREE: an order use. having the force of law
DEMOCRACY: the absence of hereditary or arbitrary class distinctions or privileges
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DICTATOR: one ruling absolutely
EMPHATIC: tending to express oneself in forceful speech or to take decisive action
PRIVILEGE: a right or immunity granted as a peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor
SENATOR: a member of an assembly or council usu. possessing high deliberative and legislative functions
SUMMARY: done without delay or formality
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BOARD: daily meals
CONNIVE: to cooperate secretly or have a secret understanding
DEPOSE: to remove from a throne or other high position
HEMORRHAGE: to undergo heavy or uncontrollable bleeding
INEVITABLY: incapable of being avoided or evaded
MANDATE: an authoritative command
THERAPIST: a person trained in methods of treatment and rehabilitation other than the use of drugs or surgery
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BOWL: to overwhelm with surprise
DRAWING ACCOUNT: an account showing payments made to an employee in advance of actual earnings or for traveling expenses
LAY: not of or from a particular profession
PROPRIETOR: one who has the legal right or exclusive title to something, owner
TWINGE: moral or emotional sharp attack of mental anguish
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TIMID: lacking in boldness or determination
WANE: to decrease in size or extent, dwindle
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WELLING: flow from
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VIVID: graphic
WITLESS: mentally deranged
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CATER: to supply what is required or desired
GRIM: stern or forbidding in action or appearance
GROUNDLESS: having no foundation
HYPOTHETICAL: conditional
INTIMATE: marked by very close association, contact, or familiarity
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CONCEIVABLE: imaginable
CREED: a brief authoritative formula of religious belief
LANGUAGE: the words, their pronunciation, and the methods of combining them used and understood by a considerable community
PRONOUNCE: to declare authoritatively or as an opinion
RACE: a class or kind of people unified by community of interests, habits, or characteristics
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BREW: to bring about
FATE: an inevitable and often adverse outcome, condition, or end
STIGMATIZE: to mark with shame or discredit
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BLASPHEMY: irreverence toward something considered sacred or inviolable
BRASH: lacking restraint and discernment, tactless
BROWBEAT: bully
ENGULF: to flow over and enclose
EXTOL: to praise highly
MALARKEY: insincere or foolish talk
PIOUS: marked by conspicuous religiosity
SALABLE: capable of being fit to be sold
SARCASM: a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain
SHEAF: something resembling a sheaf of grain, bound together
SHIVER: tremble
STIGMA: a mark or shame or discredit
TRIBUTE: a gift or service showing respect, gratitude, or affection
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ANGUISH: extreme pain or distress of body or mind
FEVER: a state of heightened or intense emotion or activity
FRATERNAL: of, relating to, or involving brothers
HOLE UP: to place in or as if in a refuge or hiding place
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FOREGATHER: to come together in a social group
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AUTONOMY: the quality or state of being self-governing; esp. the right of self-government, self-directing
CHAOS: state of utter confusion
GIDEON: an interdenominational organization whose activities include the placing of Bibles in hotel rooms
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AFFILIATE: to bring or receive into close connection or association
CONTROVERSY: quarrel, strife
INNOVATION: the introduction of something new, novelty
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ALAS: used to express unhappiness, pity, or concern
ALLAY: to make quiet
CONSERVATIVE: one who adheres to traditional methods or views
DISSENT: to differ in opinion
ELOQUENCE: speech marked by force and persuasiveness
PITCH: to throw, went on, to sell or advertise
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STREAMLINE: organize
SWARM: a large number of animate or inanimate things massed together and usu. in motion
YEARN: to long persistently, wistfully, or sadly
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ACME: the highest point or stage
ARCHITECT: one who designs buildings and superintends their construction
CHOKEDAMP: a carbon dioxide mixture occurring as a mine gas and incapable of supporting life or flame
PUNGENT: being to the point
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RADIANT: marked by expression of love, confidence, or happiness
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ANIMATE: to move to action
BESTOW: to convey as a gift
LEGACY: something received from an ancestor or predecessor or from the past
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FOURSQUARE: going straight to the point without uncertainty or hesitation
PROSELYTE: to recruit members
REHABILITATE: to restore to a condition of health or useful and constructive activity
SECT: a dissenting or formal division in or separation from a
church or religious body esp. one regarded as extreme
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DERELICT: a person no longer able to support himself, bum
QUARANTINED: to isolate from normal relations or communication
SKID ROW: a district of cheap saloons and flophouses frequented by vagrants an alcoholics
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BOGGED: impede
FLING: to move in a markedly short and abrupt or headlong manner
IDEALIST: one that places ideals before practical considerations
NEUROSIS: a functional nervous disorder without demonstrable physical injury or harm
PARANOID: characterized by a tendency on the part of an individual toward excessive or irrational suspiciousness and distrustfulness of others
UNCOMPROMISING: making on concessions, inflexible
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AGITATE: to stir up public discussion of, to attempt to arouse public feeling
IMPERATIVE: not to be avoided or evaded, urgent
IMPLANTED: to set permanently or deeply
MIRE: entangle
THUMP: to make a vigorous endorsement
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ANONYMITY: the quality or state of having no name, being marked by lack of individually or personality
PLUMB: absolutely
SHRIEK: to cry out in a high-pitched voice
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COLLECTIVE: denoting a number of persons or things considered as one group or whole
WROUGHT: deeply stirred
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ADOLESCENCE: the state or process of growing up
ASTOUND: overwhelmed with astonishment or amazement
BENEFACTOR: one that makes a gift or bequest
ENDOW: to provide or equip gratuitously, to furnish with an income
EXPLOIT: to take advantage of
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HASSLE: a heated argument often prolonged in time
PROTEST: a complaint, objection, or display or unwillingness usu. to an idea or a course of action
WAXED: increased, grew
CUBICLE: a small partitioned space
DISTRAUGHT: agitated with doubt or mental conflict
FRANTIC: marked by fast and nervous, disordered, or anxiety- driven activity
PENDULUM: a body suspended from a fixed point so as to swing freely to and from under the action of gravity and commonly used to regulate movements
RANT: to talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner
TOUSLE: a tangled mess
VIRTUOUS: morally excellent, righteous
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AGENDA: a list, outline, or plan of things to be considered or done
CLINK: to give out a slight sharp short metallic sound
TRUSTEE: one to whom something is entrusted
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SHRUG: to raise or draw in the shoulders esp. to express aloofness, indifference, or dislike
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CON: in opposition
EMBED: to make something an integral part
ERA: a period set off or typified by some prominent figure or characteristic feature
INTEGRITY: firm adherence to a code or esp. moral value
PRO: supporting
PRUDENT: marked by wisdom
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CONTENTION: rivalry
DECRY: to express strong disapproval
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CLEAVAGE: partially split or divided
DISENCHANT: to free from illusion
DISPEL: scatter
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FUROR: rage
HABITABLE: capable of being lived in
HOSPITABLE: offering a pleasant or sustaining environment
PROVOKE: to stir up purposely
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DIPLOMATIC: employing tact and conciliation esp. in situations of stress
IRATE: roused to or given to intense and usu. openly displayed anger
PITCH: to sell or advertise
SHRILL: to utter or emit an acute piercing sound
SHUN: to avoid deliberately and esp. habitually
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ULTRA CONSERVATIVE: one who extremely adheres to traditional methods or views
WAIL: complain
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BUFFET: to contend against
GUST: sudden outburst
LURK: to lie in wait in a place of concealment esp. for an evil purpose
MAUL: to injure by beating
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BRAND: mark with disapproval
INEBRIATE: addicted to excessive drinking
ONSLAUGHT: an esp. fierce attack
TOPER: a drunk
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BENEVOLENT: marked by or disposed to doing good
CONTRADICT: to go counter, opposite
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METE: to assign by measure, allot
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BRAT: an ill-mannered annoying child
DETERIORATE: to make inferior in quality or value
DICTATE: to issue an order
DISSOLUTION: terminator or destruction by breaking down
STERN: having a definite hardness or severity of nature or manner
VEST: to give to a person a legally fixed immediate right or present of future enjoyment of
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ENTRENCH: to establish soundly
EXPEDITER: a person who accelerates the process or progress of
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ASUNDER: apart from each other in position
CINCH: a certainty to happen
EMBATTLE: to arrange in order of battle, prepare for battle
HOLOCAUST: a through destruction
IMMINENT: ready to take place
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CONCEIVE: to cause to begin, originate
FLOURISH: to achieve success
PHARISEE: one pretending to be what one is not or to believe what one does not esp. the false assumption of an appearance of conforming to a standard or right
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ABOLISH: to do away with, to destroy completely
CRUSADE: a remedial enterprise undertaken with zeal and enthusiasm
DIN: a loud continued noise
PUNY: slight or inferior in power, size, or importance
ROW: a noisy disturbance or quarrel
TEMPERANCE: habitual moderation in the indulgence of the appetites or passions, moderation in or abstinence from the use of intoxicating drink
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CORNERSTONE: the most basic element
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LEGIONS: multitude
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SYMBOLIZE: to represent
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AGGRIEVED: troubled or distressed in spirit
BUTTONHOLE: to detain in conversation by or as if by holding on to the outer garments of
INTEMPERANCE: lack of moderation
PHENOMENON: an exceptional, unusual, or abnormal person, thing or occurrence
SPECTACULAR: sensational
VAUDEVILLE: stage entertainment consisting of various unrelated acts
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CIVIC: of or relating to a citizen, a city, citizenship, or civil affairs
INSTITUTION: an established organization
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ALTITUDE: an elevated region
BESIEGED: press with requests
MANTLE: something that covers, enfolds, or envelops
MESSIAH: a professed or accepted leader of some hope or cause
PART TWO
ALPHABETICALLY
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ABASH: embarrass
ABET: encourage
ABHOR: reject, loathe
ABOLISH: to do away with, to destroy completely
ABOUND: to be present in large numbers
ABSOLVE: to set free from obligation or the consequences of guilt
ABSTRACT: difficult to understand
ABSURD: ridiculous, unreasonable
ACCEPT: to receive with consent
ACID TEST: severe or crucial test
ACME: the highest point or stage
ACQUISITION: the act of acquiring
ACTIVATOR: something that makes something active or more active
ACUTE: seriously demanding urgent attention
AD INFINITUM: without end or limit
ADOLESCENCE: the state or process of growing up
ADVERSITY: a condition of suffering, destitution,or affliction
ADVOCATE: one that pleads the cause of another
AFFILIATE: to bring or receive into close connection or association
AFFIRMATIVE: positive assertion
AGENDA: a list, outline, or plan of things to be considered or done
AGGRAVATE: to make worse, increase
AGGRIEVED: troubled or distressed in spirit
AGITATE: to stir up public discussion of, to attempt to arouse public feeling
AGNOSTIC: a person who believes that God is unknown and probably
unknowable
AGONIZE: to suffer agony, torture, or anguish
ALAS: used to express unhappiness, pity, or concern
ALIBI: a plausible excuse usually intended to avert blame or punishment
ALLAY: to make quiet
ALLERGY: an abnormal reaction to a food or chemical substance
ALTER: to make different without changing into something else
ALTERNATE: to perform by turns or in succession
ALTITUDE: an elevated region
AMBITION: desire to achieve a particular end
AMBUSH: lie in wait, surprise
AMEND: compensation for a loss or injury
ANARCHIST: one who rebels against authority or established order
ANARCHY: absence of order
ANCHORAGE: a means of securing, a source of reassurance
ANEW: in a new or different form
ANGUISH: extreme pain or distress of body or mind
ANIMATE: to move to action
ANONYMITY: the quality or state of having no name, being marked by lack of individually or personality
ANONYMOUS: having or giving no name, marked by lack of individuality or personality
ANVIL: a heavy;, usually steel-faced iron block on which metal is shaped
APARTNESS: holding different opinions
APPARENT: clear to the understanding
APPRAISE: to evaluate the worth, significance, or status
APT: inclined
ARCHITECT: one who designs buildings and superintends their construction
ARDENT: characterized by warmth of feeling typically expressed in eager zealous support or activity
ARRANT: extreme
AROUSE: roused to action, stir up
ARTERY: a channel of transportation on communication; esp. the principal channel in a branching system
ASPIRATION: a strong desire to achieve something high or great
ASSAIL: attack
ASSASSINATE: to injure or destroy unexpectedly and treacherously
ASSERT: to state or declare positively and often forcefully or aggressively
ASSET: resource
ASTONISH: surprise
ASTOUND: overwhelmed with astonishment or amazement
ASTRAY: off the right path
ASUNDER: apart from each other in position
ATHEIST: a person who believes there is no God
ATMOSPHERE: a surrounding influence or environment
ATTITUDE: a feeling or emotion toward a fact or state
ATTRIBUTE: an inherent characteristic
AUTONOMY: the quality or state of being self-governing; esp. the right of self-government, self-directing
AVAIL: profit
AVALANCHE: a large mass of snow, ice, earth, rock or other material in swift motion down a mountainside or over a very deep or overhanging place
AVERSION: a feeling or dislike toward something with a desire to avoid or turn from it
AXIOM: a general truth widely accepted on it's intrinsic merit
BACCHUS: the Greek god of wine
BACKTRACK: to reverse a position or stand
BAFFLE: to defeat or check by confusing or puzzling
BALEFUL: large bundle of goods
BALK: to stop short and refuse to proceed
BANISH: to clear away
BANKRUPTCY: utter failure
BARBED: characterized by pointed and biting criticism
BARREN: unproductive of results or gain
BASK: to take pleasure or derive enjoyment
BEACH: to make a person incapable or ineffective
BEACHHEAD: an area on hostile shore occupied to secure further landing of troops and supplies
BEAM: proceeding or operating correctly
BEATITUDE: any of the declarations made in the Sermon of the Mount (Matthew: 5:3-12)
BEDEVIL: to change for the worse
BEDROCK: the solid rock underlying unconsolidated surface material
BEGAT: a genealogical list (the Old Testament)
BELABOR: to beat soundly
BELATED: delayed beyond the usual time
BELLIGERENT: inclined to or exhibiting assertiveness, hostility, or combativeness
BENDER: spree
BENEFACTOR: one that makes a gift or bequest
BENT: strongly inclined, determined
BENIGN: showing kindness and gentleness
BENEVOLENT: marked by or disposed to doing good
BEREAVEMENT: the state of fact of being deprived of something
BESET: surround
BESIEGED: press with requests
BESTOW: to convey as a gift
BEWILDERED: confused
BIAS: a highly personal and unseasoned distortion of judgement, prejudiced
BIGOT: one obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his own church, party, belief or opinion
BINGE: a drunken revel, spree
BLASPHEMY: irreverence toward something considered sacred or inviolable
BLAZE: a sudden outburst
BLESSING: a thing conductive to happiness or welfare
BLISS: complete happiness
BLUDGEON: to overcome by aggressive argument
BLUFF: deceive
BOARD: daily meals
BOAST: brag
BOG: impede
BOGEYMEN: monstrous imaginary figures used in threatening children
BOGGED: impede
BOLSTER: support or reinforce
BOMBARD: to assail vigorously or persistently
BOOMERANG: an act or utterance that backfires on its originator
BOWL: to overwhelm with surprise
BRAGGART: a loud arrogant boaster
BRAND: mark with disapproval
BRASH: lacking restraint and discernment, tactless
BRAT: an ill-mannered annoying child
BREW: to bring about
BROOD: to dwell glumly on a subject
BROWBEAT: bully
BUFFET: to contend against
BUSH-LEAGUE: belonging to a inferior class or group of its kind
BUTTONHOLE: to detain in conversation by or as if by holding on to the outer garments of
BY-GONES: those gone by in the past bygone
CALAMITY: a major misfortune or loss, disaster
CALLOUS: feeling no emotion
CAMPUS: the grounds and building of a university, college, or school
CANDOR: honest or sincere expression
CASUAL: feeling or showing little concern
CATALOG: a complete enumeration of items arranged systematically
with descriptive details
CATASTROPHE: the final event of the dramatic action esp. of a tragedy
CATER: to supply what is required or desired
CHANNEL: a means of communication or expression
CHAOS: state of utter confusion
CHARACTER DEFECT: deficiency, fault, flaw of character
CHARACTERISTIC: serving to reveal and distinguish the individual character
CHARITY: kindly liberality and helpfulness
CHERISH: to hold dear, feel or show affection for
CHINK: a small cleft, slit, or fissure
CHOKEDAMP: a carbon dioxide mixture occurring as a mine gas and incapable of supporting life or flame
CHRONIC: constantly present, frequently recurring
CINCH: a certainty to happen
CIVIC: of or relating to a citizen, a city, citizenship, or civil affairs
CLAMORED: noisily shouted, insisted loudly
CLASSIC: of recognized value, serving as a standard of excellence
CLEAVAGE: partially split or divided
CLINK: to give out a slight sharp short metallic sound
CLUTCH: to grasp or hold
CODIFY: systematize
COERCE: force
COLD: lacking warm feeling, unemotional
COLLECTIVE: denoting a number of persons or things considered as one group or whole
COMMISSION: an act of committing something
COMPEL: to drive or urge forcefully or irresistibly
COMPETENT: capable, skilled
COMPREHEND: to grasp the nature, significance, or meaning of
COMPULSION: obsession
CON: in opposition
CONCEIT: excessive appreciation of one's own worth or virtue
CONCEIVABLE: imaginable
CONCEIVE: to cause to begin, originate
CONDEMN: sentence, criticize
CONFIDE: to show confidence by imparting secrets
CONFIDENCE: trust
CONFIDENT: certain
CONFORM: to be obedient or compliant
CONNIVE: to cooperate secretly or have a secret understanding
CONSCIENCE: the sense of consciousness of the normal goodness or blameworthiness of one's own conduct, intentions, or character together with a feeling or obligation to do right or good
CONSCIENTIOUS: careful
CONSCIOUS: having mental faculties undulled by sleep, faintness or stupor
CONSCIOUSNESS: the quality or state of being aware
CONSEQUENCE: result
CONSERVATIVE: one who adheres to traditional methods or views
CONSPIRE: to act in harmony
CONSTERNATION: amazement of dismay that hinders or throws into confusion
CONSULT: to ask the advice or opinion
CONTEMPLATE: to view or consider with continued attention
CONTEMPT: the act of despising
CONTENT: freedom from care or discomfort
CONTENTION: rivalry
CONTRADICT: to go counter, opposite
CONTRARY: opposite in character, tending to be an opposing course
CONTRAST: comparison of similar objects to set off their dissimilar qualities
CONTROVERSY: quarrel, strife
CONVENTIONAL: usage or custom esp. in social matters
CONVERT: to alter for more effective utilization
CONVICTION: strong belief
CORNERSTONE: the most basic element
COVET: to wish for enviously
COW: to intimidate with threats or show of strength
CRAVE: to want greatly
CREDITOR: person to whom money or dues are due
CREED: a brief authoritative formula of religious belief
CRISIS: an unstable or crucial time or state of affairs whose outcome will make a decisive difference for better or worse
CROSS: an affliction that tries one's virtue, steadfastness, or patience
CROSS-EXAMINE: to examine by a serious of questions designed to check or discredit the answers to previous questions
CRUSADE: a remedial enterprise undertaken with zeal and enthusiasm
CUBICLE: a small partitioned space
CULTURE: enlightenment and excellence of taste acquired by intellectual and aesthetic training
DAWN: to begin to be perceived or understood
DEBATE: regulated discussion of a proposition between two matched sides
DEBRIS: the remains of something broken down or destroyed
DECREE: an order use. having the force of law
DECRY: to express strong disapproval
DEFECT: deficiency, fault, flaw
DEFER: delay
DEFIANT: being resistant of opposition, being contrary to
DEFINITE: unquestionable
DEFLATE: reduce in size or importance
DEFORMITY: a moral flaw or defect
DEFY: to resist attempts at
DELUDE: to mislead the mind or judgement of
DELUSION: the act of misleading the mind
DEMOCRACY: the absence of hereditary or arbitrary class distinctions or privileges
DEPOSE: to remove from a throne or other high position
DEPRECATE: to express mild or regretful disapproval
DERANGED: to disturb the operation or functions of
DERELICT: a person no longer able to support himself, bum
DERELICTION: fault, shortcoming
DESPAIR: utter lose of hope
DESTINE: predetermine
DESTINY: fate
DETERIORATE: to make inferior in quality or value
DEVASTATE: bring to ruin, overwhelm
DEVIATE: to stray esp, from a standard, principle, or topic
DEVOTE: to center the attention or activities of
DEVOUT: devoted to religion or to religious duties
DICTATE: to issue an order
DICTATOR: one ruling absolutely
DILEMMA: unsatisfactory alternative, predicament
DIN: a loud continued noise
DIPLOMATIC: employing tact and conciliation esp. in situations of stress
DISCONCERT: to throw into confusion
DISCONTENT: dissatisfaction
DISCORD: active quarrelling
DISCRETION: good judgement, caution
DISENCHANT: to free from illusion
DISILLUSION: the condition of being disenchanted
DISMAL: disastrous, dreadful
DISMAY: to deprive of courage, resolution, and initiative through the pressure of sudden fear or anxiety or great perplexity
DISPEL: scatter
DISPOSE: to settle a matter finally
DISPOSITION: temperamental makeup
DISPUTE: debate
DISSENT: to differ in opinion
DISSOLUTION: terminator or destruction by breaking down
DISTORTED: twisted out of the true meaning or proportion
DISTINGUISH: to mark as separate or different
DISTRAUGHT: agitated with doubt or mental conflict
DISTRESS: anguish of body or mind, trouble
DIVIDEND: bonus
DOGS: holds back, ruins
DOMESTIC: of or relating to the household or the family
DOMINATE: rule, control
DOMINATION: supremacy over another
DOUBLE-EDGED: having two cutting edges
DRAMATIC: striking in appearance or effect
DRAMATIZE: to put on an act
DRASTIC: severe
DRAWING ACCOUNT: an account showing payments made to an employee in advance of actual earnings or for traveling expenses
DREAD: to feel extreme reluctance to meet or face
DREARILY: gloomy
DUBIOUS: questionable as to value
DURABLE: able to exist for a long time without significant deterioration
EARNEST: serious and intent mental state
EBB: to fall from a higher to lower level or from a better to a worse state
EGO: self-esteem
EGOMANIA: the quality or state of being extremely concerned with the individual rather than society
EGOTISM: valuing everything only in reference to one's personal interest
ELATE: to fill with joy or pride
ELOQUENCE: speech marked by force and persuasiveness
ELUDE: avoid, escape
ELUSIVE: hard to comprehend or define
EMBARRASS: to cause to experience a state of self-conscious distress
EMBATTLE: to arrange in order of battle, prepare for battle
EMBED: to make something an integral part
EMERGE: to rise from an obscure or inferior condition
EMINENT: famous
EMOTIONALISM: undue indulgence in or display of emotion
EMPHATIC: tending to express oneself in forceful speech or to take decisive action
ENDORSE: express approval
ENDOW: to provide or equip gratuitously, to furnish with an income
ENGULF: to flow over and enclose
ENHANCE: to make greater
ENTERPRISE: a project or undertaking that is esp. difficult, complicated, or risky
ENTITY: being
ENTREAT: to plead with esp. in order to persuade
ENTRENCH: to establish soundly
ENVISION: to picture oneself
ENVY: painful or resentful awareness of an advantage enjoyed by another joined with a desire to possess the same advantage
EPISODE: incident
EQUILIBRIUM: state of intellectual or emotional balance
ERR: to violate an accepted standard of conduct
ERRATIC: characterized by lack of consistency, regularity, or uniformity
ESCAPE: avoid
ESTEEM: worth, value
ESSAY: an analytic or interpretative literary composition use, dealing with its subject from a limited or personal point of view
ESSENCE: the individual, real, or ultimate nature of a thing
ETHICAL: conforming to accepted professional standards of conduct
EVAPORATE: disappear
EVASION: the act or an instance of evading
EVOKE: call forth or up
EXAGGERATE: overstate
EXCURSION: deviation from a direct, definite, or proper course
EXERT: to put forth
EXHAUSTIVE: testing all possibilities or considering all elements
EXHIBITIONISM: the act or practice of behaving so as to attract attention to oneself
EXHILARATE: to make cheerful
EXPEDITER: a person who accelerates the process or progress of
EXPEL: to force out
EXPLICIT: free from all vagueness and ambiguity
EXPLOIT: to take advantage of
EXTEMPORANEOUS: composed, performed, or uttered on the spur of the moment
EXTINCTION: elimination of a response by not reinforcing it
EXTOL: to praise highly
EXTRAVAGANT: exceeding the limits of reason or necessity
EXTRICATE: to free or remove from an entanglement of difficulty
EXULT: to be extremely joyful
FAITH: firm belief in something for which there is no proof, complete confidence, trust
FALLACY: a false idea
FALLIBLE: capable of making a mistake
FALTER: to hesitate in purpose or action
FARE: go, travel
FASCINATE: to be irresistibly attractive
FATE: an inevitable and often adverse outcome, condition, or end
FAVOR: approving consideration or attention
FELLOWSHIP: a group of people with the same interests or experiences
FERVOR: intensity
FESTER: to undergo or exist in a state of progressive deterioration
FETCH: to cause to come after and bring or take back
FEVER: a state of heightened or intense emotion or activity
FLAWS: weakness in something immaterial
FLING: to move in a markedly short and abrupt or headlong manner
FLOURISH: to achieve success
FOREGATHER: to come together in a social group
FORMIDABLE: having qualities that discourage approach or attack
FORTHRIGHT: going straight to the point without ambiguity or hesitation
FORTIFY: to add mental or moral strength, encourage
FORTITUDE: strength
FOUNDERING: becoming disabled
FOURSQUARE: going straight to the point without uncertainty or hesitation
FRAGMENT: a part broken off
FRAIL: easily broken or destroyed, fragile
FRANTIC: marked by fast and nervous, disordered, or anxiety- driven activity
FRATERNAL: of, relating to, or involving brothers
FRUSTRATE: to make ineffectual
FUROR: rage
GENEROUS: characterized by a noble or forbearing spirit
GENUINE: sincerely and honestly felt or experienced
GIDEON: an interdenominational organization whose activities
include the placing of Bibles in hotel rooms
GLARING: painfully and obtrusively obvious
GLASSILY: dull, lifeless
GLIMPSE: to take a brief look
GLOAT: to observe or think about something with great and often greedy or malicious satisfaction
GLORY: praise, honor, or distinction, extended by common consent
GLUTTONY: excess in eating or drinking
GNAW: to wear away by persistent biting or nibbling
GOAD: something that urges or stimulates into action
GRACE: unmerited divine assistance
GRANDEUR: the quality or state of being grand
GRANDIOSE: absurd exaggeration
GRATITUDE: thankfulness
GREED: excessive or reprehensible acquisitiveness
GRIM: stern or forbidding in action or appearance
GRIPE: to complain with a sustained grumbling
GROOVE: a fixed routine
GROSS: glaringly noticeable usu. because of inexcusable badness or objectionableness
GROUNDLESS: having no foundation
GROVEL: to give oneself over to what is base or unworthy
GRUDGE: a deep-seated resentment
GRUDGING: unwilling, reluctant
GUST: sudden outburst
HABITABLE: capable of being lived in
HABITUAL: doing, practicing, or acting in some manner by force of habit
HAMLET: a small village
HANDICAP: a disadvantage that makes achievement unusually difficult
HANDSOME: moderately large
HARMONY: agreement, balanced interrelationship
HARROW: torment
HASSLE: a heated argument often prolonged in time
HAUNT: to recur constantly and spontaneously
HAVEN: place of safety
HAVOC: wide and general destruction
HAZARDOUS: involving or exposing one to risk
HELL: a place or state of torment or wickedness, a generalized term of abuse
HEMORRHAGE: to undergo heavy or uncontrollable bleeding
HIERARCHY: a body of persons in authority
HINDER: to make slow or difficult the progress of
HOARD: hide
HOLE UP: to place in or as if in a refuge or hiding place
HOLOCAUST: a through destruction
HOSPITABLE: offering a pleasant or sustaining environment
HUMBLE: not proud, arrogant, or assertive
HUMBLED: made not proud, arrogant, or assertive
HUMILIATING: extremely destructive to one's self-respect or dignity
HUMILIATION: to reduce to a lower position in one's own eyes or other's eyes
HUMILITY: not being proud, arrogant, or assertive
HURDLE: barrier, obstacle
HYPOCRISY: a feigning to be what one is not or to believe what one does not
HYPOTHETICAL: conditional
IDEALIST: one that places ideals before practical considerations
ILLUSION: something that misleads or deceives
IMAGINARY: existing only in imagination, lacking factual reality
IMMENSE: very large, huge
IMMINENT: ready to take place
IMMORAL: a positive and active opposition to what is right and
wrong in behavior
IMPASSE: a predicament affording no obvious escape
IMPERATIVE: not to be avoided or evaded, urgent
IMPERIOUS: intensely compelling, urgent
IMPLANTED: to set permanently or deeply
IMPLICATION: something implied
IMPLORE: to call or pray for earnestly
IMPOSE: establish or make prevail by force
INCESSANT: continuing
INCREDIBLE: too extraordinarily and improbable to be believed
INDIGNATION: anger aroused by something unjust, unworthy, or mean
INEBRIATE: addicted to excessive drinking
INEVITABLY: incapable of being avoided or evaded
INFALLIBLE: incapable of error
INFERIORITY: feeling of little or less importance, value, or merit
INFIDELITY: marital unfaithfulness or an instance of it
INFILTRATE: to enter or become established in gradually or unobtrusively
INNOVATION: the introduction of something new, novelty
INSATIABLE: incapable of being satisfied
INSIST: to take a resolve stand or course
INSTINCT: behavior that is mediated by reactions below the conscious level
INSTITUTION: an established organization
INTEGRITY: firm adherence to a code or esp. moral value
INTEMPERANCE: lack of moderation
INTENSE: existing in an extreme degree
INTIMATE: marked by very close association, contact, or familiarity
INTOLERANT: excessive
INVENTORY: a list of traits, preferences, attitudes, interests, or abilities used to evaluate personal characteristics
IRATE: roused to or given to intense and usu. openly displayed anger
IRON LUNG: a device for artificial respiration in which rhythmic alternations in the air pressure in a chamber surrounding a patient's chest force air into and out the lungs
IRRATIONAL: lacking usual or normal mental clarity or coherence
ISOLATE: to set apart from others, solitary
JAG: a state or feeling of exhilaration or intoxication
JEOPARDIZE: to expose to danger
JUGGERNAUT: a massive inexorable force or object that crushes whatever is in its path
JUGGLE: to engage in manipulation
JUNCTURE: a point of time
KEEN: intellectually alert
KEYNOTE: the fundamental or central fact, idea, or mood
KINSHIP: relationship
LANGUAGE: the words, their pronunciation, and the methods of combining them used and understood by a considerable community
LASH: drive
LAURELS: honor, good name, recognition
LAVISH: expending or bestowing profusely
LAY: not of or from a particular profession
LEGACY: something received from an ancestor or predecessor or from the past
LEGIONS: multitude
LEGITIMATE: conforming to recognized principles or accepted rules and standards
LIABILITY: drawback
LIBERATION: release
LICENSE: a freedom that allows or is used with irresponsibility
LITERAL: exact
LOGIC: formal principles of reasoning
LONELY: being without company, cut off from others
LOT: one's way of life
LURK: to lie in wait in a place of concealment esp. for an evil purpose
LUST: an intense longing, craving
MAGNIFICENT: exceptionally fine
MAJESTY: greatness or splendor of quality or character
MALADJUSTMENT: poor, faulty, or inadequately adjustments
MALADY: disease or disorder of the body or mind, ailment
MALARKEY: insincere or foolish talk
MANDATE: an authoritative command
MANIA: craze
MANIPULATE: to control or play upon by artful, unfair, or insidious means esp. to one's own advantage
MANTLE: something that covers, enfolds, or envelops
MARVEL: something that causes wonder or astonishment
MASQUERADE: an action or appearance that is mere disguise or outward show
MAUL: to injure by beating
MEDITATION: serious contemplation or reflection, listening for
directions
MELANCHOLY: depression of spirits, dejection, sad
MERIT: to be worthy of or entitled or liable to
MESSIAH: a professed or accepted leader of some hope or cause
METE: to assign by measure, allot
MILITANT: aggressive active
MILLENNIUM: period of 1,000 years
MIRACLE: divine intervention in human affairs
MIRACULOUS: supernatural
MIRE: entangle
MISER: one who lives miserably in order to hoard his wealth
MISGIVING: a feeling of doubt or suspicion
MONOTONY: tedious sameness
MORAL: of or relating to principles of right or wrong in behavior
MORALITY: a doctrine or system of principles of right and wrong in behavior
MORBID: abnormally susceptible to or characterized by gloomy or unwholesome feelings
MUDDLE: confuse
MUSTER: comprise
MUTTER: to utter sounds or words indistinctly or with the lips partly closed
NAIVE: deficient in worldly wisdom or informed judgement esp. credulous
NEBULOUS: indistinct, vague
NEGLECT: to give little attention or respect to
NEUROSIS: a functional nervous disorder without demonstrable physical injury or harm
NODDING: bending downward or forward
NONENTITY: something that does not exist
NOVICE: beginner
OBJECTIVE: expressing or involving the use of facts without distortion by personal feeling or prejudices
OBLIGATION: something that one is bound to do
OBLIGED: forced
OBLIVION: an act or instance or forgetting
OBSERVANCE: a customary practice, rite, or ceremony
OBSESSION: a compulsive, often unreasonable idea or feeling
OBSTINATE: not easily subdued, remedied, or removed
OMISSION: something neglected or left alone
ONSLAUGHT: an esp. fierce attack
OOZE: to emit or give out slowly
PANG: a sharp attack of mental anguish
PANHANDLER: one who stops people on the street and asks for money, beg
PARADOX: a statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true
PARAMOUNT: superior to all others
PARANOID: characterized by a tendency on the part of an individual toward excessive or irrational suspiciousness and distrustfulness of others
PARDON: excuse
PARTAKE: to take part in
PASSION: emotion as distinguished from reason
PENDULUM: a body suspended from a fixed point so as to swing freely to and from under the action of gravity and commonly used to regulate movements
PERCEIVE: to grasp mentally, recognizee, observe
PERCEPTION: to gain awareness or understanding of
PERILOUS: dangerous
PERMEATE: to spread or diffuse through
PERPLEX: puzzle
PERSECUTION: the condition of being persecuted, harassed, or annoyed
PERISH: to become destroyed or ruined
PERPLEX: puzzle
PERSIST: going on resolutely or stubbornly in spite of opposition
PERSPECTIVE: see clearly
PERSUADE: to move by argument to a belief
PERVERSE: arising from or indicative of stubbornness
PERVERT: to cause to turn aside or away from what is good or true or morally right
PESSIMISM: an inclination to emphasize adverse aspects, conditions, and possibilities or to expect the worse possible outcome
PETITION: an earnest request
PHARISEE: one pretending to be what one is not or to believe what one does not esp. the false assumption of an appearance of conforming to a standard or right
PHENOMENON: an exceptional, unusual, or abnormal person, thing or occurrence
PHILOSOPHY: the most general beliefs, concepts, and attitudes, of an individual
PIECEMEAL: one piece at a time, gradually
PINE: to yearn intensely and persistently esp. for something unattainable
PIOUS: marked by conspicuous religiosity
PITCH: to throw, went on, to sell or advertise
PITFALL: hidden or not easily recognized danger or difficulty
PLAGUE: an epidemic disease causing a high rate of mortality
PLAUSIBLE: appearing worthy of belief
PLEDGE: a biding promise or agreement to or forbear
PLIGHT: condition
PLUMB: absolutely
PLUMP: to drop, sink, or come in contact suddenly or heavily
PLUNGE: to act with reckless haste
POLIO: an acute infectious virus disease characterized by fever, motor paralysis, and atrophy of skeletal muscles
POLITIC: of, relating to, or concerned with the making as distinguished from the administration of governmental policy
POMP: a show of magnificence
PONDER: think about
PRAYER: any act or communication with God
PRECARIOUS: dependent on chance
PRECOCIOUS: exceptionally early in development or occurrence
PREDICT: to declare in advance
PREJUDICE: opinions adverse to anything without just grounds or
before sufficient knowledge is obtained
PRELIMINARY: something that precedes or is introductory or preparatory
PRESERVE: to keep safe from injury, harm, or destruction
PRESTIGE: commanding position in men's minds
PRESUMPTION: something taken to be true
PRIDE: self-resect, inordinate self-esteem, conceit
PRIDEFUL: full of pride
PRIMORDIAL: first created or developed
PRINCIPLE: basic truth or law
PRIVILEGE: a right or immunity granted as a peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor
PRO: supporting
PROBE: a penetrating or critical investigation, inquiry
PROCLAIM: to declare publicly
PROCRASTINATE: to put off intentionally and habitually
PROD: incite to action
PRODIGIOUS: extraordinary in bulk, quantity, or degree
PRODIGY: an extraordinary, marvelous, or unusual accomplishment, deed, or event
PROFFER: to present for acceptance
PROFOUND: deep-seated
PROMINENT: widely and popularly known
PROMISCUITY: not restricted to one sexual partner
PRONOUNCE: to declare authoritatively or as an opinion
PROPOSE: intend
PROPOSITION: point to be discussed, a project or situation
requiring some action
PROPRIETOR: one who has the legal right or exclusive title to something, owner
PROSELYTE: to recruit members
PROSPECT: a mental picture of something to come
PROTEST: a complaint, objection, or display or unwillingness usu. to an idea or a course of action
PROVIDENCE: God
PROVOKE: to stir up purposely
PRUDENCE: the ability to govern and discipline oneself by the use of reason
PRUDENT: marked by wisdom
PSYCHIATRIST: a person trained in psychology (the science of mind and behavior)
PSYCHOLOGIST: a person trained in psychology (the science of mind and behavior)
PUNGENT: being to the point
PUNY: slight or inferior in power, size, or importance
PURSUIT: seeking
QUALITY: degree of excellence
QUARANTINED: to isolate from normal relations or communication
QUEST: to search for
RACE: a class or kind of people unified by community of interests, habits, or characteristics
RADIANT: marked by expression of love, confidence, or happiness
RADICAL: extreme,marked by a considerable departure from the usual or traditional
RALLY: to come together
RAMPAGE: a course of violent, riotous, or reckless action or behavior
RANSACK: to examine closely and carefully
RANT: to talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner
RAPACIOUS: excessively grasping, living on prey
RATIONALIZATION: bring into accord with reason or cause something to seem reasonable, providing plausible but untrue reasons for conduct
REALM: possibility of
REBUFF: to refuse or check sharply
RECKLESSLY: marked by lack of proper caution
RECLUSE: a person who leads a secluded or solitary life
RECOIL: to draw back through fear or distaste
RECRIMINATE: to make a retaliatory charge
REEF: a hazardous obstruction
REEK: a strong or disagreeable fume or odor
REFLECTION: a thought, idea, or opinion formed as a result of meditation
REGRET: to be very sorry for
EHASH: to talk over or discuss again
REHABILITATE: to restore to a condition of health or useful and constructive activity
REVILE: to restore to consciousness or life
RELATE: to respond esp. favorably
RELENTLESS: persistent
RELINQUISH: to give up
RELUCTANCE: holding back
RELY: to have confidence based on experience, to be dependent
REMORSE: a gnawing distress arising from a sense of guilt for past wrongs
RENOUNCE: to give up
REPROACH: to express disappointment in or displeasure with for conduct that is blameworthy or in need or amendment
RESENTMENT: ill will felt because of a real or imagined wrong
RESERVATION: a limiting condition
RESIGN: to give up deliberately
RESOLVE: to reach a firm decision about
RESOLUTION: courage
RESTITUTION: a making good of or giving an equivalent for some injury
RETALIATE: to get revenge
REVEL: to take intense satisfaction
REVELATION: an enlightening or astonishing disclosure
REVIEW: to look at or study again
REVISE: to look over again in order to correct or improve
REVIVE: to restore to consciousness or life
REVOLUTION: a sudden, radical, or complete change
REVULSION: a strong pulling or drawing away
RIGOROUSLY: rigidly, severely harsh, strictly
ROW: a noisy disturbance or quarrel
RUDIMENT: beginning
RUEFUL: mournful, regretful
RUTHLESS: merciless, cruel
SACRIFICE: destruction or surrender of something for sake of something else
SAINT: angel, one eminent for piety or virtue
SALABLE: capable of being fit to be sold
SALERNO: Italy
SANITY: rationally, sensibly
SARCASM: a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain
SAVAGE: not under human control
SAVOR: enjoy
SCRAPE: a disagreeable predicament
SCHEME: a plan, design
SCOFF: to show contempt by derisive acts or language, mock
SCORE: set of twenty
SCORN: an object of extreme disdain, contempt, or derision
SCRUPULOUS: punctiliously exact
SCRUTINY: a searching study
SECT: a dissenting or formal division in or separation from a
church or religious body esp. one regarded as extreme
SELF-CENTERED: independent of outside force or influence
SELF-CONFIDENCE: trust in oneself or one's abilities
SELF-DELUSION: tricking or lying to oneself
SELF-JUSTIFICATION: making excuses for oneself
SELF-LOATHING: extreme disgust of self
SELF-PITY: dwelling on one's sorrows or misfortunes
SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS: convinced of one's own righteousness esp. in contrast with the actions and beliefs of others
SELF-SUFFICIENCY: being able to maintain oneself without outside aid
SENATOR: a member of an assembly or council usu. possessing high deliberative and legislative functions
SERENITY: total calmness, tranquility
SHEAF: something resembling a sheaf of grain, bound together
SHEER: pure, unmixed
SHIVER: tremble
SHORTCOMING: deficiency, flaw, fault
SHRIEK: to cry out in a high-pitched voice
SHRILL: to utter or emit an acute piercing sound
SHRUG: to raise or draw in the shoulders esp. to express aloofness, indifference, or dislike
SHUN: to avoid deliberately and esp. habitually
SIDESTEP: avoid
SIN: an offense against religious or moral law
SKEPTICAL: doubtful
SKID ROW: a district of cheap saloons and flophouses frequented by vagrants an alcoholics
SKIMP: to give insufficient or barely sufficient attention or effort to
SLANG: language peculiar to a particular group
SLIGHT: to treat as slight or unimportant
SLOTH: laziness
SMART: to feel or endure stress
SMITTEN: afflicted suddenly and injuriously
SNUB: rebuke
SOCIETY: any organized group of people joined together because of work, interests, etc. in common
SPEARHEAD: a leading element, force, or influence in an undertaking or development
SPECTACLE: an object of curiosity or contempt
SPECTACULAR: sensational
SPECULATIVE: marked by questioning curiously
SPONSOR: a guide
SPURRED: incited to action
SQUARELY: in a straightforward or honest manner
STALEMATE: a drawn contest, deadlock
STARK: strong
STARTLE: surprise or alarm
STEADFAST: not subject to change
STERN: having a definite hardness or severity of nature or manner
STIGMA: a mark or shame or discredit
STIGMATIZE: to mark with shame or discredit
STIMULATE: to excite to activity or growth or to greater activity
STREAMLINE: organize
STRIDE: without becoming upset
STRIVE: to devote serious effort or energy
SUBSIDE: to become less
SUBSTANCE: the real or essential part or element of anything; essence, reality, or basic matter
SUBTLE: difficult to understand, crafty
SULK: to be moodily silent
SUMMARY: done without delay or formality
SUMMON: to call upon for specified action
SUNDRY: miscellaneous
SUPERFICIAL: concerned only with the obvious or apparat, shallow
SUPPOSITION: assumption
SURMOUNT: overcome
SURVEY: to examine as to condition, situation, or value
SUSPICIOUS: distrustful
SUSTAIN: to keep up, prolong
SWARM: a large number of animate or inanimate things massed together and usu. in motion
SYLLABLE: a unit of spoken language
SYMBOLIZE: to represent
SYMPATHY: an affinity, association, or relationship between persons wherein whatever affects one similarly affects the other
TACKLE: to set about dealing with
TANGIBLE: substantially real, material
TAPROOT: one that has a deep central position in line of growth or development
TEMPER: exercise control over
TEMPERAMENTAL: marked by excessive sensitivity and impulsive changes of mood
TEMPERANCE: habitual moderation in the indulgence of the appetites or passions, moderation in or abstinence from the use of intoxicating drink
TEMPT: to induce to do something
TENET: belief
TESTIMONY: open acknowledgement
THEME: a subject or topic of connected speech or writing
THEOLOGICAL: the study and interpretation of God and of religious beliefs, faiths, practices and experiences
THEORY: a belief, policy, or procedure proposed or followed as the basis of action
THERAPIST: a person trained in methods of treatment and rehabilitation other than the use of drugs or surgery
THRESHOLD: the place or point of entering or beginning
THUMP: to make a vigorous endorsement
TIMID: lacking in boldness or determination
TIRADE: delayed speech
TOLERANCE: the act of allowing something
TOLERATE: to endure or resist the action of
TOPER: a drunk
TORMENT: extreme pain or anguish of mind or body
TORTURE: something that causes agony or pain
TOSSPOT: drunkard
TOUSLE: a tangled mess
TRADITION: information, beliefs and customs handed down by each generation to the next
TRANQUIL: free from disturbance or turmoil
TRANSCEND: to rise above or go beyond the limits of
TRANSFORM: to change in character or condition
TRANSLATE: to bear, remove, or change from one place, state, form, or appearance to another
TREAD: to walk along, follow
TRIBUTE: a gift or service showing respect, gratitude, or affection
TRIUMPHANTLY: rejoicing for or celebrating victory
TROVE: a valuable collection
TRUST: assured reliance on the character, ability, strength, or truth of someone or something
TRUSTEE: one to whom something is entrusted
TURMOIL: an utterly confused or extremely agitated state or condition
TWINGE: moral or emotional sharp attack of mental anguish
TWOSCORE: forty
TYRANNIZE: to exercise arbitrary oppressive power, oppress
TYRANT: a ruler who exercises absolute power oppressively or brutally
ULTIMATELY: eventually
ULTRA CONSERVATIVE: one who extremely adheres to traditional methods or views
UNCOMPROMISING: making on concessions, inflexible
UNCONSCIOUS: not knowing or perceiving, not aware
UNIQUE: the only one of its kind
UNIVERSE: the world of human experience
UNMANAGEABLE: having trouble with personal relationships, unable to control emotional nature, being prey to misery and depression, having a feeling of uselessness, being full of fear and unhappiness, not being able to of real help to others
UNPALATABLE: distasteful
UNREMITTING: constant
UNSPARING: hard, ruthless
UNSPECTACULAR: not sensational
UNSTINTED: no restrictions or limitations
UTTER: complete, total, absolute
VAGUE: not clearly defined, grasped, or understood
VAIN: foolish, silly
VAINGLORY: vain display or show
VALIANT: courageous
VALIDATE: to support or corroborate on a sound or authoritative basis
VAUDEVILLE: stage entertainment consisting of various unrelated acts
VENERATE: to regard with reverential respect or with admiring
deference
VENGEFUL: vindictive
VENTURE: an undertaking involving chance
VERDICT: opinion
VERGE: something that borders, limits, or bounds
VESSEL: a person into whom some quality is infused
VEST: to give to a person a legally fixed immediate right or present of future enjoyment of
VICTIMIZED: made a victim of
VIGILANCE: alertly watchful esp. to avoid danger, watchful
VIGOR: intensity of action or effect
VIRTUALLY: for all practical purpose
VIRTUE: conformity to a standard of right
VIRTUOUS: morally excellent, righteous
VITAL: of the utmost importance
VIVID: graphic
WAIL: complain
WAKE: a track or path left
WALK: manner of living
WALLOW: to devote oneself entirely
WANE: to decrease in size or extent, dwindle
WARP: deform
WAYSIDE: the side of or land adjacent to a road or path
WAXED: increased, grew
WEAN: to detach from a cause of dependence or preoccupation
WELLING: flow from
WELTER: turmoil
WITLESS: mentally deranged
WOE: condition of deep suffering from misfortune, affliction or
grief
WORSHIP: extravagant respect or admiration for or devotion to an object of esteem
WRATH: strong vengeful anger
WRETCHED: extremely or deplorably bad or appearing mean
WROUGHT: deeply stirred
YEARN: to long persistently, wistfully, or sadly