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| to speak falsely or misleadingly; deliberately misstate or create an incorrect impression; lie |
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| telling lies, especially habitually; dishonest; lying; untruthful: a mendacious person. |
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| habitually speaking the truth; truthful; honest: a veracious witness. |
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| to throw into disorder or confusion; disarrange: He changed his mind and disconcerted everybody's plans |
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| to prove; put beyond doubt or question: The evidence manifests the guilt of the defendant |
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| to caution, advise, or counsel against something |
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| nearness in place, time, order, occurrence, or relation. |
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| the fact or quality of being preponderant; superiority in weight, power, numbers, etc.: The preponderance of votes is against the proposal. |
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| existing in one from birth; inborn; native: innate musical talent. |
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| not easily stirred or moved mentally; unemotional; impassive. |
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| to atone for; make amends or reparation for: to expiate one's crimes. |
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| to assail with contemptuous or opprobrious language; address or speak of abusively. |
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| marked by or attended with ignominy; discreditable; humiliating: an ignominious retreat. |
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| a chain or shackle placed on the feet. |
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| gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood. |
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| to make abnormally lean or thin by a gradual wasting away of flesh. |
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| a natural inclination or tendency: a propensity to drink too much. |
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| suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful. |
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| suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful. |
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| mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner: lugubrious songs of lost love. |
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| a picture, image, or other representation. |
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| a person who attacks cherished beliefs, traditional institutions, etc., as being based on error or superstition. |
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| to put forward or offer for consideration, acceptance, or adoption; set forth; propose: to propound a theory. |
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| respectful submission or yielding to the judgment, opinion, will, etc., of another. |
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| unduly demonstrative; lacking reserve: effusive greetings; an effusive person. |
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| a person who pretends or claims to have more knowledge or skill than he or she possesses; quack. |
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| with a turn or twist to one side; askew: to glance or look awry. |
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| tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation. |
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| distasteful, objectionable, or offensive: a repugnant smell. |
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| deserving or causing hatred; hateful; detestable. |
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| subject to, led by, or indicative of caprice or whim; erratic: He's such a capricious boss I never know how he'll react. |
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| the formation or expression of an opinion or theory without sufficient evidence for proof. |
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| haughtily disdainful or contemptuous, as a person or a facial expression. |
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| respect or reverence paid or rendered: In his speech he paid homage to Washington and Jefferson. |
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| to beg urgently or piteously, as for aid or mercy; beseech; entreat: They implored him to go. |
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| to ask (a person) earnestly; beseech; implore; beg: to entreat the judge for mercy. |
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| of, pertaining to, or affected with lethargy; drowsy; sluggish. |
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| having or showing little or no interest in anything; languid; spiritless; indifferent: a listless mood; a listless handshake. |
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| domineering in a haughty manner; dictatorial; overbearing: an imperious manner; an imperious person. |
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| leaving no opportunity for denial or refusal; imperative: a peremptory command. |
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| lacking self-confidence; timid; shy |
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| having or showing acute mental discernment and keen practical sense; shrewd: a sagacious lawyer. |
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| a false and malicious statement designed to injure the reputation of someone or something: The speech was considered a calumny of the administration. |
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| to instruct or benefit, especially morally or spiritually; uplift: religious paintings that edify the viewer. |
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| to reply to, usually in a sharp or retaliatory way; reply in kind to. |
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| a scolding or a long or intense verbal attack; diatribe. |
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| of or pertaining to money: pecuniary difficulties. |
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| a prolonged outburst of bitter, outspoken denunciation: a tirade against smoking. |
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| to represent fictitiously; put on an appearance of: to feign sickness. |
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| to give a false or misleading appearance to; conceal the truth or real nature of: to dissemble one's incompetence in business. |
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| fierce; cruel; savagely brutal. |
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| light, airy, or tenuous: an ethereal world created through the poetic imagination. |
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| to criticize or reprimand severely. |
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| to find fault with or reproach severely; censure: The military tribunal upbraided the soldier for his cowardice. |
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| to make morally bad or evil; vitiate; corrupt. |
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| extremely attentive to punctilios; strict or exact in the observance of the formalities or amenities of conduct or actions. |
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| lasting a very short time; short-lived; transitory: the ephemeral joys of childhood. |
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| not lasting, enduring, or permanent; transitory. |
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| not mutable; unchangeable; changeless. |
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| offensive or disgusting, as an odor. |
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| courage and fortitude: a man of mettle. |
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| something that a person cannot conquer, achieve, etc.: The performance test proved to be my nemesis. |
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| out of keeping or place; inappropriate; unbecoming: an incongruous effect; incongruous behavior. |
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| to increase the severity, bitterness, or violence of (disease, ill feeling, etc.); aggravate. |
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| to reduce in amount, degree, intensity, etc.; lessen; diminish: to abate a tax; to abate one's enthusiasm. |
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| expressing sorrow or melancholy; mournful: a plaintive melody. |
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| blame or censure conveyed in disapproval: a term of reproach. |
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| to lessen in force or intensity, as wrath, grief, harshness, or pain; moderate. |
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| characterized by injustice or wickedness; wicked; sinful. |
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| resembling an enigma; perplexing; mysterious. |
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| characterized by or requiring a sitting posture: a sedentary occupation. |
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| well-suited for the occasion, as an action, manner, or expression; apt; appropriate: The chairman's felicitous anecdote set everyone at ease. |
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| a person who is new to the circumstances, work, etc., in which he or she is placed; beginner; tyro: a novice in politics. |
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| to assent tacitly; submit or comply silently or without protest; agree; consent: to acquiesce halfheartedly in a business plan. |
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| not to be revoked or recalled; unable to be repealed or annulled; unalterable: an irrevocable decree. |
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| full of fear; fearful: The noise made them timorous. |
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| an aromatic gum or other substance producing a sweet odor when burned, used in religious ceremonies, to enhance a mood, etc. |
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| any sudden, violent outburst; a fit of violent action or emotion: paroxysms of rage. |
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| understood without being openly expressed; implied: tacit approval. |
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| to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things). |
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| causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful: pernicious teachings; a pernicious lie. |
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| great warmth of feeling; fervor; passion: She spoke persuasively and with ardor. |
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| great warmth and earnestness of feeling: to speak with great fervor. |
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| generous in forgiving an insult or injury; free from petty resentfulness or vindictiveness: to be magnanimous toward one's enemies. |
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| the act of departing from the right, normal, or usual course. |
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| to urge, advise, or caution earnestly; admonish urgently. |
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| to strike or blot out; erase; obliterate. |
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| to strike or blot out; erase; obliterate. |
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| characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning: an obsequious bow. |
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