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| Deviation from the common rule |
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| To lessen the intensity; pacify |
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| Something hard to understand; an obscure speech or writing |
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| Subject to two or more interpretations and usually used to mislead or confuse; uncertain as an indication or sign |
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| Having or showing profound knowledge |
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| Ardent; characterized by intense emotion |
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| Transparently clear; easily understandable; having a clear mind;coherent: capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner; |
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| Not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy; impenetrable to sight; not clearly understood or expressed |
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| Pacify: cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of |
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| Bring about abruptly; hurl or throw violentlyhasty: done with very great haste and without due deliberation |
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| a recklessly extravagant consumer |
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| Ardor: a feeling of strong eagerness; excessive fervor to do something or accomplish some end; readiness: prompt willingness |
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| Choose not to consume; refrain from voting |
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| Load: corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones; mixed with impurities |
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| An absence of emotion or enthusiasm; the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally |
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| invulnerable to fear or intimidation; unrestrained by convention or propriety; disposed to venture or take risks; |
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| changeable; determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason; |
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| confirm: establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts;validate: give evidence for; support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm; |
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| dehydrate: preserve by removing all water and liquids from;exsiccate: lose water or moisture;arid: lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless; |
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| call forth; beget: make children; |
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| ephemeron: anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form; lasting a very short time; |
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| fleeceable: naive and easily deceived or tricked;easily tricked because of being too trusting; |
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| all of the same or similar kind or nature; |
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| crisp: brief and to the point; effectively cut short |
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| applaudable: worthy of high praise; |
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| chatty: full of trivial conversation; |
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| extenuate: lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of;make less severe or harsh; |
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| a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit |
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| matter-of-fact: concerned with practical matters;hardheaded: guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory; |
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| correct or appropriate behavior |
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| hover: be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action;fluctuate: move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern; |
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| liable to lead to sudden change or violence; marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments;tending to vary often or widely; |
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| push for something; a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea; |
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| a feeling of intense dislike |
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| support and strengthen; prop up with a pillow or bolster |
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| a loud harsh or strident noise; loud confusing disagreeable sounds |
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| treat or speak of with contempt; |
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| disagreement: a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters; the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; |
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| weaken mentally or morally; disturb the composure of |
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| a formal expression of praise for someone who has died recently |
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| full of trivial conversation; |
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| characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious; lacking in sophistication or worldliness; |
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| deficient in alertness or activity; |
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| easily influenced; capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out; |
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| someone who dislikes people in general |
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| stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing; showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; |
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| a gaudy outward display; lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity; pretentious or showy or vulgar display |
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| a statement that contradicts itself; |
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| generous in assistance to the poor; of or relating to or characterized by philanthropy; |
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| beat around the bush: be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information |
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| reverence: regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of; |
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| pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness; be unsure or weak; |
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