ABSCOND

(v.)  To depart clandestinely; to steal off and hide.

ABERRANT

(adj.) Deviating from the norm.

ALACRITY

(n.) Eager and enthusiastic willingness

ANOMALY

(n.) Deviation from the normal order, form, or rule; abnormality.

APPROBATION

(n.) An expression of approval or praise

ARDUOUS

(adj.) Strenous, taxing; requiring significant effort

ASSUAGE

(v.) To ease or lessen; to appease or pacify.

AUDACIOUS

(adj.) Daring and fearless, recklessly bold.

AUSTERE

(adj.) Without adornment; bare; severely simple.

AXIOMATIC

(adj.) Taken as a given; possessing self-evident truth.

CANONICAL

(adj.) Following or in agreement with accepted, traditional standards.

CAPRICIOUS

(adj.) Inclined to change one's mind impulsively; erratic, unpredictable.

CENSURE

(v.) To criticize severely; to officially rebuke.

CHICANERY

(n.) Trickery or subterfuge.

CONNOISSUER

(n.) An informed and astute judge in matters or taste; expert.

CONVOLUTED

(adj.) Complex or complicated.

DISABUSE

(v.) To undeceive; to set right.

DISCORDANT

(adj.) Conflicting; dissonant or harsh in sound.

DISPARATE

(adj.) Fundamentally distinct or dissimilar.

EFFRONTERY

(n.) Extreme boldness; presumptuousness.

ELOQUENT

ENERVATE

(v.) To weaken; to reduce in vitality

ENNUI

(n.) Dissatisfaction and restlessness resulting from boredom or apathy.

EQUIVOCATE

(v.) To use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent.

ERUDITE

(adj.) Very learned; scholarly.

EXCULPATE

(v.) Exonerate; to clear of blame.

EXIGENT

(adj.) Urgent, pressing; requiring immediate action or attention.

EXTEMPORANEOUS

(adj.) Improvised; done without preparation.

FILIBUSTER

(n.) Intentional obstruction; using prolonged speech to delay legislative action.

FULMINATE

(v.) To loudly attack or denounce.

INGENIOUS

(adj.) Artless; frank and candid; lacking in sophistication.

INURED

(adj.) Accustomed to accepting something undesired.

IRASCIBLE

(adj.) Easily angered; prone to temperamental outbursts.

LAUD

(v.) To praise highly.

LUCID

(adj.) Clear; easily understood.

MAGNANIMITY

(n.) The quality of being generous noble in mind and heart; forgiving.

MARTIAL

(adj.) Associated with war and the armed forces.

MUNDANE

(adj.) Of the world; typical of or concerned with the ordinary.

NASCENT

(adj.) Coming into being; in early developmental stages.

NEBULOUS

(adj.) Vague; cloudy; lacking clearly defined form.

NEOLOGISM

(n.) A new word, expression, or usage; the creation or use of new words or senses.

NOXIOUS

(adj.) Harmful, injurious.

OBTUSE

(adj.) Lacking sharpness of intellect; not clear or precise in thought or expression.

OBVIATE

(v.) To anticipate and make unnecessary.

ONEROUS

(adj.) Troubling; burdensome.

PAEAN

(n.) A song or hymn of praise and thanksgiving.

PARODY

(n.) A humorous imitation intended for ridicule or comic effect.

PERENNIAL

(adj.) Recurrent through the year or many years; happening repeatedly.

PERFIDY

(n.) Intentional breach of faith; treachery.

PERFUNCTORY

(adj.) Cursory; done without cause or interest.

PERSPICACIOUS

(adj.) Acutely perceptive; having keen discernment.

PRATTLE

(v.) To babble meaninglessly; to talk in an empty and idle manner.

PRECIPITATE (adj.)

(adj.) Acting with excessive haste or impulse.

PRECIPITATE (v.)

(v.) To cause or happen before anticipated or required.

PREDILECTION

(n.) A disposition in favor or something; preference.

PRESCIENCE

(n.) Foreknowledge of events; knowing of events prior to their occurring.

PREVARICATE

(v.) To deliberately avoid the truth; to mislead.

QUALMS

(n.) Misgivings; reservations; causes for hesitancy.

RECANT

(v.) To retract a previously held belief.

REFUTE

(v.) To disprove; to successfully argue against.

RELEGATE

(v.) To forcibly assign to a lower place or position.

RETICENT

(adj.) Quiet; reserved; reluctant to express thoughts and feelings.

SOLICITIOUS

(adj.) Concerned and attentive; eager.

SORDID

(adj.) Characterized by filth, grime, or squalor; foul.

SPORATIC

(adj.) Occurring only occasionally or in scattered instances.

SQUANDER

(v.) To waster by spending or using irresponsibly.

STATIC

(adj.) Not moving, active, or in motion; at rest.

STUPEFY

(v.) To stun, baffle, or amaze.

STYMIE

(v.) To block; thwart.

SYNTHESIS

(n.) The combination or parts to make a whole.

TORQUE

(n.) The forces that causes rotation.

TORTUOUS

(adj.) Winding, twisting, excessively complicated.

TRUCULENT

(adj.) Fierce and cruel; eager to fight.

VERACITY

(n.) Truthfulness, honesty.

VIRULENT

(adj.) Extremely harmful or poisonous; bitterly hostile or antagonistic.

VORACIOUS

(adj.) Having an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit; ravenous.

WAVER

(v.) To move to and fro; to be unsettled in opinion.