Licentious
lacking legal or moral restraints
Propriety
The quality or state of being proper or suitable; true nature
Fastidious
Showing or demanding excessive delicacy or care
Reflecting a meticulous, sensitive, or demanding attitude
Concord
An agreement or harmony between people or groups or agreement between words in gender, number, case, person, or any other grammatical category that affects the forms of the words.
Colloquial
Used in or characteristic of familiar and informal conversation; using conversational style
Decorum
iterary and dramatic propriety; good taste, propriety, and orderliness in conduct
Prowess
Distinguished bravery or Extraordinary ability
disdainful
expressing contempt for something or someone considered to be inferior
Analogous
similar or comparable to something else either in general or in some specific detail OR
similar in a way that invites comparison; showing an analogy or likeness
Revelatory
of or relating to revelation : serving to reveal something
Prefix: re- (again, back, backward), suffix: ory- (relating to)
Discerning
showing insight and understanding: discriminating.
prefix: dis- ("apart","away", "asunder")
Root: cern ("separate", "decide")
Suffix: -ing ("in the present")
Congenial
Pleasant, agreeably suited to one's nature, tastes, or outlook;
existing or associated together harmoniously
Prefix: "con-", meaning ---> with, together
Suffix: "-al", meaning ---> pertaining to
Root: "gen-", meaning ---> race, kind, family, or birth
Aesthetic
of, relating to, or dealing with aesthetics or the beautiful
Evanescent
tending to become imperceptible
unassailable
not liable to doubt, attack, or question
un- (not, against, opposite)
-able (able to be, capable of, worthy of)
Paradox
An argument that apparently derives self-contradictory conclusions by valid deduction from acceptable premises.
Antithesis
Direct opposite
Sardonic`
Disdainfully or skeptically humorous: derisively mocking.
Fallow
left untilled or unsown after plowing; not in use and inactive
Hegemony
preponderant influence or authority over others : DOMINATION
Languid
(adj.) drooping; without energy, sluggish
Ferocity
the quality or state of being ferocious, exhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality
Linguistic.
Of or relating to language.
root = lingu (language, tongue), suffix = -ic (relating to).
Propagate
to cause to continue or increase by sexual or asexual reproduction ; to foster growing knowledge of, familiarity with, or acceptance of (something, such as an idea or belief)
Abhorrence
State of repulsion or loathing.
root meaning strong dislike; -ence suffix meaning quality or state
Deprecate
To express disapproval of/ make little of
Conjecture
Inference formed without proof or sufficient evidence.
Con=together, ject=throw, ure=act or process of
Quizzical
Showing that you do not understand something or that you find something strange or amusing; expressive of puzzlement, curiosity, or disbelief
Syllogism
A form of logical reasoning, where 2 premises that are given to be true lead to one conclusion.