vocab 3

proclivity

inclination; natural tendency

prodigious

marvelous, enormous

profligate

dissipated, wasteful; wildly immoral

relinquish

give up something with reluctance; yield

resplendent

dazzling, glorious, brilliant

sectarian

relating to a religious faction or sub-group

stagnant

motionless

stoic

impassive, unmoved by joy or grief

terse

concise, abrupt, pithy

vilify

slander

vindictive

out for revenge

voluble

fluent, talkative

whimsical

capricious

surreptitious

secret, hidden

sequester

isolate

reproach

express disproval of

raze

destroy completely

propitious

favorable, fortunate

pretentious

ostentatious

precocious

advanced in development

oblivion

obscurity, forgetfulness

mutability

ability to change in form, fickleness

mollify

soothe

misanthrope

one who hates mankind

mercurial

capricious, changing, fickle