Final 3

Chagrin

Humiliation; embarrassed disapponintment

Deride

To ridicule; to laugh at contemptuously

Emigrate

To leave a country permanently

Fidelity

Faithfulness; loyalty

Gregarious

Sociable; enjoying the company of others

Hypothetical

Uncertain; unproven

Imperial

Like an emperor or an empire

Bucolic

Charmingly rural; rustic; country-like

Didactic

Intended to teach; morally instructive; pedantic

Extrapolate

To project or deduce from something known; to infer

Guile

Cunning; duplicity; artfulness

Impervious

Not allowing anything to pass through; impenetrable

Impugn

To attack; especially to attack the truth or integrity of something

Ardent

Passionate; enthusiastic

Bureaucracy

Government

Diffident

Timid; lacking in self-confidence

Gauche

Unskillful; awkward; maladroit

Illicit

Illegal; not permitted

Largess

Generous giving of gifts; generosity; philanthropy

Arduous

Hard; difficult

Bereaved

Deprived or left desolate; especially through death

Latent

Present but not visible or apparent; potential

Loquacious

Talking a lot or too much

Burgeon

To expand; to flourish

Finesse

Skillful maneuvering; subtlety; craftiness

Incessant

Unceasing

Lucid

Clear; easy to understand

Dilettante

Someone with superficial knowledge of the arts; an amateur; a dabbler

Chicanery

Trickery; deceitfulness; artifice; especially legal or political

Culpable

Deserving blame; Guilty

Hegemony

Leadership, especially in one nation over another