verb

to renounce or reject solemnly, to recant, to avoid

Genera wanted to offer me a full time positon, but I abjured.

verb

to foreshadow vaguely or intimate, to suggest or outline sketchily, to obscure or overshadow

For dumb people, oranges adumbrate death in the Godfather. For smart people, it foreshadows death.

noun

a solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse, accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing

Romanians generally consider gypsies to be anathema, any thing but with thema.

adj/noun

soothing, something that assuages or allays pain or comforts

The smell of iodine is a not anodyne for me. Its awful.

noun

farthest or highest point, culmination, zenith

They got to the apogee on the mountain! Gee that's high!

noun

one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions

The apostals would never apostate their state of love with God.

noun

deification, glorification to godliness, an exalted example, a model of excellence or perfection

The apostels serve as an apotheosis of Christian behavior, minus Judas that is.

noun

severity, rigor, roughness, harshness, acrimony, irritability

verb

to aver, allege, assert

I asserverate that my ass is great.

adj

diligent, hard-working, sedulous

I sit on my assiduous ass and just do it.

noun

omen, portent

The crying mother Mary's are considered to be auguries.

adj

belligerent, pugnacious, warlike

I become bellicose when drinking and show my belly.

verb

to slander, make flase accusations

Shia LeBouf caluminates him on Wall Street.

calumny means slander, aspersion

adj

dispoed to point out trivial faults, calculated to confuse or entrap in argument

Javier's captious arguments decieve me until I loose the argument.

verb

to find fault without good reason

I cavil with Javier just to pick a fight. How cavilier of me.

noun

speed, alacrity

think accelerate

Spanish: accelerar

noun

an illusion, originally an imaginary fire-breathing she-monster

think chimeny | chimera

adj

insubordinate, rebellious

think "con too much" "going too far"

contumely

means insult of scorn

noun

rout, fiasco, complete faliure

My first attempt at a souffle was a total debacle.

noun

an outcome or solution, the unraveling of a plot

The denouement is where the man finds a way to conquer the woman's heart in an unexpected twist.

verb

to discriminate or discern

I cry when people descry against me as I am a gringa.

noun

disuse

"After years of desetude, my French skills were finally put to use."

adj

random, aimless, marked by lack of a plan or purpose

"Her desultory performance impressed no one"

adj

transparent, guazy

think ph | light, see through

adj

reserved, shy, unassuming, lacking in self-confidence

When speaking Spanish, Anca can turn rather diffident different to her outgoing personality.

noun

a song of grief or lamentation

We listened to the slow, funeral dirge.

think dirge: dirt: coffin: funeral

noun

glowing and enthusiastic praise: tribute, eulogy

In good company, my parents frequently resort to encomium.

in company | encomium

verb

to shun or avoid

She chose to eschew cashews as they made her sick.

verb

to censure scathingly, to upbraid

Ex-corrupte government of Romania excoriated everything.

ex-cor

verb

denounce, feel loathing for, curse, declare to be evil

Romanians execrate gypsies, some declaring that they are so evil, they must exit the country in crates

Think gypsies in crates

noun

critical examination, explication

The exegesis after Genesis didn't provide any explanations.

verb

to atone or make amends for

Kim Kardashian has expiated her movie career by good clothing line and husband.

verb

to destroy, exterminate, cut out, exscind

We finally extirpated the termites.

adj

silly, inanely foolish

I would ignore such a fatuous comment.

adj

quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory, irritable

When it comes to learning fractions, I can get a bit fractious. Watch out!

verb

to deny, dispute, contradict, oppose

Javier enjoys to gainsay everything I say. He loves being the Anti-Anca's Advocate.

adj

unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic

If heterodox means unorthodox, I wonder what homodox would mean.

noun

difficult or embarrasing situation

Embrigarse is always a bit embarassing the day after.

embrigar | imbroglio

adj

not easily exhaustible, tireless, dogged

fatigue: un fatiguable

adj

certain, inevitable

It was ineluctable that the cute Lucy would break the table

Lucy table | inelucytable

adj

one of a kind, peerless

Noone can imitate him, he´s inimitable.

adj

unconcerned, carefree, heedless

adj

deep rooted, ingrained, habitual

inbeded: inveted: inveterated

adj

vapid, uninteresting, nugatory, childish, immature, puerile

Like children chasing June bugs, you are very jejune.

adj

greasy, slippery

lubricant

noun

a beggar, supplicant

Some people view the beneficiaries of Medicare to be mendicant.

adj

cheap, guady, tawdry, flashy, showy

Fabulous Delicious had on some meretricious jewlery.

adj

menacy, threatenin

reminds you of the Minotaur, a threatening creature indeed

noun

low point, perigee

Nadal has reached a nadir. Oh dear!

adj

baffled, bewildered, at a loss for what to do

Bewitched, nonplussed, and bewildered

Not a plus

adj

noisily and stubbornly defiant, agressively boisterous

Ostriches are often obstreperous with anyone but their parents

Think agressive ostriches

adj

tending to become more rigid, conventional, sterile and reactionary with age, litterally turned into a bone

fossil | ossified

My dad is on his way to becoming ossified.

verb

to make something seem less serious, to gloss over, to make less severe or intense

"Don't worry pal, everything will be all right!" she palliated

noun

formal praise, eulogy, encomium

panegyrical means expressing elaborate praise

gyric: churchy, formal praise

adj

cheap, miserly

A Parisian lives parsimoniously if he has my budget.

adj

transparent, easy to understand, limpid

When Meridith´s mom is lucid she´s pellucid when she speaks.

noun

the concluding part of a speech, flowery, rhetorical speech

Obama is a great speaker becuase the final peroration is impacting on everyone.

adj

pounding, thundering, resounding

The sound of the plates banging was plangent.

adj

long-winded, verbose

prolixity means verbosity

Mikhail Gorbachev is famous for his prolixity.

verb

to appease, to conciliate

propitious means auspicious, favorable

adj

childish, immature, jejune, nugatory

You little jejune nuggat! You're so puerile, juvenil.

noun

power, strength

pussiant means powerful, strong

Women (pussy) are pussiant.

adj

cowardly, craven

verb

to protest, object

"demonstrate" remonstrate

adj

having sound judgement, perceptive, wise, like a sage

Gaga, my sage, is so sagacious.

adj

lustful, lascivious, bawdy

The sala was filled with salacious people wanting all the Oscar goodies.

adj

remedial, wholesome, causing improvment

Salud: remedy, remedial, causing improvment

adj

cheerful, confident, optimistic

Sangria makes me sanguine because of the alcohol and because it makes me happy!

adj

gloomy, dark, sullen, morose

When I think of Saturn and the galaxy, I become saturnine and creeped out.

adj

aphoristic or moralistic, epicgrammatic, tending to moralize excessively

Presumtuous people are usually sententious regarding other peoples morality, but not their own.

adj

extremely loud and powerful

The stentorian dinosaur stormed through the forest.

adj

gloomy and dark

Stars | stygain

noun

toady, servile, self-seeking flatterer, parasite

adj

biased, showing marked tendencies

He showed his marked political tendencies obviously. He's now marked by his tendentious behavior.

adj

timid, fearful, diffident

noun

novice, greenhorn, rank amateur

Tyra is a tyro when it comes to talk shows.

verb

to corrupt, debase, spoil, make ineffective

The vicious villian vititated the good guys plans.

adj

fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language

The talkative child was voluble in many languages, including one of his own.