adj. markedly different from an expected norm
Aberrant
adj. characterized by self-denial or abstinence, as in the use of drink, food
Abstemious
v. To represent beforehand; to foreshadow
Adumbrate
adj. not in sympathy with; not desiring to associate with others
Aloof
a person or thing detested or loathed
Anathema
a person who forsakes his religion, cause, party, etc.
Apostate
intensity of passion or affection
Ardor
harshness of temper or tone
Asperity
adj. promising success; favorable
Auspicious
to lie in or be exposed to a pleasant warmth or situation
Bask
manifesting a warlike spirit
Belligerent
inflated or extravagant language
Bombast
to make brilliant or shining
Burnish
to talk in a singsong, preaching tone with affected solemnity; to use insincere, especially conventional expressions of enthusiasm for high ideals, goodness, or piety
Cant
to punish
Castigate
to treat as a baby or an invalid
Coddle
adj. pertaining to or peculiar to common speech as distinguished from literature
Colloquial
harmony
Concord
a critical judge of art, especially one with thorough knowledge and sound judgement of the art
Connoisseur
the horn of plenty, representing peace and prosperity
Cornucopia
avarice
Cupidity
to represent by sketch or outline
Delineate
to ridicule
Deride
not connected with what precedes
Desultory
to enlarge in all directions
Dilate
v. To look upon with disfavor
Discountenance
anything made of clay and baked in a kiln or dried in the sun
Earthenware
a lyric poem lamenting the dead
Elegy
to misappropriate money
Embezzle
a riddle
Enigma
a person or thing which possesses to a high degree the characteristics of a group or class
Epitome
to destroy thoroughly
Eradicate
fleeting
Evanescent
contributing to personal advantage
Expedient
to render extinct
Extinguish
idiotic
Fatuous
loyalty
Fidelity
unduly devoted to dress and the niceties of manners
Foppish
economical
Frugal
given to constant trivial talking
Garrulous
duplicity
Guile
one or that which foreruns and announces the coming of a person or thing
Harbinger
an image-breaker
Iconoclast
to cause or become worse
Impair
calm
Imperturbable
accidental
Inadvertent
vague
Indistinct
candid
Ingenuous
authoritative act of prohibition
Interdict
to utter vehement censure
Inveigh
wrath
Ire
v. To wander from place to place
Itinerate
lack of vitality or energy
Lassitude
wanton
Licentious
ill will
Malevolence
overly cautious
Meticulous
a small or token amount
Modicum
gloomy
Morose
wicked in the extreme
Nefarious
slanting, indirectly stated
Oblique
a feeling of complete repugnance
Odium
the state of being scornfully reproached
Opprobrium
a formal and elaborate eulogy, written or spoken
Panegyric
a small breach of propriety or principle
Peccadillo
walking about
Peripatetic
religious
Pious
full or complete
Plenary
to indicate as being about to happen
Portend
to foretell
Presage
to have original purity; untouched
Pristine
adj. produced or displayed in overabundance
Profuse
adj. providing carefully for the future
Provident
n. a puzzling predicament
Quandary
adj. given to seizing for plunder or greed
Rapacious
adj. becoming raw and sore again
Recrudescent
v. to force or keep back
Repel
adj. necessary
Requisite
adj. respectful
Reverent
adj. prominent or conspicuous
Salient
n. a very lascivious person
Satyr
diligent in application
Sedulous
comfort in grief, trouble, or calamity
Solace
causing drowsiness or drowsy
Soporific
not easily stirred or moved mentally
Stolid
more than is needed
Superfluous
a summary
Synopsis
full of twists, turns, or bends
Tortuous
nervous uncertainty of feeling
Trepidation
a sense of injury
Umbrage
excessive, pretentious vanity
Vainglory