defintion:1. Having or showing pleasant, good-natured personal qualities; affable: an amiable disposition. 2. Friendly; sociable: an amiable greeting; an amiable gathering. 3. Agreeable; willing to accept the wishes, decisions, or suggestions of another or others. 4. Obsolete. Lovable or lovely

sample sentence: The amiable waitress greeted us sweetly then kindly took our orders

defintion:inclined to rule arbitrarily or despotically; overbearing; tyrannical: domineering parents

sentence:the bully at school seemed to be domineering over the smaller kids

Definition:
1. to receive into the Christian church by baptism; baptize.

2. to give a name to at baptism: They christened her Mary

3. to name and dedicate: to christen a ship

4. to make use of for the first time

Example: The priest christened three babies today

definition: a roundabout or indirect way of speaking; the use of more words than necessary to express an idea

sample sentence: "scissors = thing that is used to cut other things."

definition: a person belonging to the same time or period with another or others

sentence: The middle-aged man a contemporary of his wife, since they were both of the baby boomer period

definition:bitterly or sneeringly distrustful, contemptuous, or pessimistic

original sentence: Always viewed as negative, Charley was cynical in most situations

definition: ready to undertake projects of importance or difficulty, or untried schemes; energetic in carrying out any undertaking

sample sentence: Business is in need of enterprising young people

definition: bravery, heroic behavior

original sentence: The soldier ran out onto the field in a display of gallantry

definition: a simple narrative, poem, piece of literature, or depition of the admiration of nature and simplicity of something

sentence: The poet reminisced about the past summer as she wrote her idyll

Definition: suitable for or suggestive of an idyll; charmingly simple or rustic

Original Sentence: One could call his lifestyle idyllic, since he lives in a simple cottage in the pleasant countryside

defintion: not equitable; unjust or unfair: an inequitable decision

sample sentence: The athletes all found the call to be inequitable and they protested

definition:not prudent; lacking discretion; incautious; rash

definition: The quality of being offensively bold

sample sentence: Jerry was very impudent in our discussion

definition: Having to do with James I of England

sentence: Her artwork had a very Jacobean feel to it

Definition: gaiety or jollity, especially when accompanied by laughter

Sample Sentence: He was unable to conceal his mirth

definition : goodwill to fellowmen; especially : active effort to promote human welfare

Original Sentence: Andrew Carnegie became very generous late in his life, performing countless acts of philanthropy

definition: head of a college, religious house, or congregation

original sentence: The rector is the head of many foreign universities

definition: the act of repudiating, the state of being repudiated; (to refuse to have anything to do with, to refuse to accept, to reject as unauthorized or as having no binding force)

original sentence: His friends public act of repudiation enraged him, especially after he had risked his career for him

Definition: dull or somber in sound or colorl dismal or gloomy

sentance: Looking around the cemetery, everyone's sullen faces stared back at me, avoiding eye contact