ABATE

(v.) To lessen in intensity or degree.

ACCOLADE

(n.) An expression of praise.

ADULATION

(n.) Excessive praise; intense adoration.

AETHETIC

(adj.) Dealing with, appreciative of, or responsive to art or the beautiful.

AMELIORATE

(v.) To make better or more tolerable.

ASCETIC

(n.) One who practices rigid self-denial esp. as an act of religious devotion.

AVARICE

(n.) Greed, espeically for wealth.

AXIOM

(n.) A universally recognized princple.

BURGEON

(v.) To grow rapidly or flourish.

BUROLIC

(adj.) Rustic and pastoral; characteristic of rurual areas and their inhabitants.

CACOPHONY

(n.) Harsh, jarring, or discordant sound.

CANON

(n.) An estasblished set of principles or code or law, often in religious contexts.

CASTIGATION

(n.) Severe criticism or punishment.

CATALYST

(n.) A substance that accelerates the rate of chemical reactions without itself changing; a person or thing that causes change.

CAUSTIC

(adj.) Buring or stinging; causing corosion.

CHARY

(adj.) Wary, cautious, or sparing.

COGENT

(adj.) Apealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing.

COMPLAISANCE

(n.) To willingness to comply with the wishes of others.

CONTENTIOUS

(adj.) Argumentative, quarrelsome or causing controversy.

CONTRITE

CULPABLE

(adj.) Deserving blame.

DEARTH

(n.) Smallness of quantity of number; scarcity; a lack.

DEMUR

(v.) To question or oppose.

DIDACTIC

(adj.) Intended to teach or instruct.

DISCRETION

(n.) Cautious reserved in speech; ability to make responsible decisions.

DISINTERESTED

(adj.) Free of bias; impartial.

DOGMATIC

(adj.) Expressing a rigid opinion based on umproven principles.

EBULLIENCE

(n.) The quality of lively expression of thought and feeling.

ECLECTIC

(adj.) Composed of elements drawn from many sources.

ELEGY

(n.) A mournful poem that laments the dead.

EMOLLIENT

(adj. or n.) Soothing to the skin; making less harsh; an agent that soothes the skin or makes less harsh.

EMPIRICAL

(adj.) Based on observation or experiment.

ENIGMATIC

(adj.) Mysterious, obscure, or difficult to understand.

EPHEMERAL

(adj.) Brief; fleeting.

ESOTERIC

(adj.) Intended to be understood by, or directly for, a small group.

EULOGY

(n.) A speech honoring the dead.

EXONERATE

(v.) To remove blame.

FACETIOUS

(adj.) Playful or humorous.

FALLACY

(n.) An invalid notion or mistaken belief.

FURTIVE

(adj.) Marked by stealth; covert; surreptitous.

GREGARIOUS

(adj.) Sociable, outgoing, or enjoying the company of other people.

HARANGUE

(v. or n.) To deliver a pompous speech; a long and pompous speech.

HERETICAL

(adj.) Violating accepted dogma or traditional convention.

HYPERBOLE

(n.) An exaggerated statement, often used as a figure of speech.

IMPECUNIOUS

(adj.) Lacking funds or without money.

INCIPIENT

(adj.) Beginning to come into being or to become apparent.

INERT

(adj.) Unmoving, lethargic, or sluggish.

INNOCUOUS 

(adj.) Harmless or causing no damage.

INTRANSIGENT

(adj.) Refusing to compromise.

INVEIGLE

(v.) To obtain by deception or flattery.

MOROSE

(adj.) Sad, sullen, or melancholy.

ODIOUS

(adj.) Evoking intense aversion or dislike.

OPAQUE

(adj.) Impenetrable by light; not reflecting light.

OSCILLATION

(n.) The act or state of swinging to an fro, with a steady and uniterrupted rhythm.

PENURIOUS

(adj.) Frugal, thrifty, or ungenerous.

PERNICIUOS

(adj.) Extremely harmfull; potentially causing death.

PERUSE

(v.) To examine with great care.

PIOUS

(adj.) Extremely reverent, devout, or showing strong religious devotion.

PRECURSOR

(n.) One that precedes and indicates or announces another.

PREEN

(v.) To dress up, primp, or groom oneself with elaborate care.

PRODIGIOUS

(adj.) Adundant in size, force, or extent; extraordinary.

PROLIFIC

(adj.) Producing large volumes or amounts; productive.

PUTREFY

(v.) To rot, decay, or give off a foul odor.

QUAFF

(v.) To drink deeply.

QUIESCENCE

(n.) Stillness; motionless; quality of being as rest.

REDOUBTABLE

(adj.) awe-inspiring; worthy of honor.

SANCTION

(n. or v.) Authoritative permission or approval; penalty intended to enforce compliance; to give authority or permission to.

SATIRE

(n.) A literary work that ridicules a human through humor or derision.

SQUALID

(adj.) Sordid; wretched and dirty from neglect.

STOIC

(adj.) Unaffected by or indifferent to pleasure or pain; steadfast.

SUPPLANT

(v.) To take the place of; supersede.

TORPID

(adj.) Lethargic; sluggish; dormant.

UBIQUITOUS

(adj.) Exsisting everywhere at the same time; constantly encountered; widespread.

URBANE

(adj.) Sophisticated, refined, or elegant.

VILIFY

(v.) To defame or characterize hashly.

VISCOUS

(adj.) Thick; sticky.