ACUMEN

(n.) Keen, accurate judgement or insight.

ADULTERATE

(v.) To reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients.

AMALGAMATE

(v.) To combine several elements into a whole.

ARCHAIC

(adj.) Outdated; associated with an earlier or more primitive time.

AVER

(v.) To state as a fact, declare, or assert.

BOLSTER

(v.) To provide support or reinforcement.

BOMBASTIC

(adj.) Pompous; grandiloquent.

DIATRIBE

(n.) A harsh denunciation.

DISSEMBLE

(v.) To disguise or conceal; to mislead.

ECCENTRIC

(adj.) Departing from norms or conventions.

ENDEMIC

(adj.) Characteristic of or often found in a particular locality, region, or people.

EVANESCENT

(adj.) Tending to disappear like vapor; vanishing.

EXACERBATE

(v.) To make worse or more severe.

FERVENT

(adj.) Greatly emotional; zealous.

FORTUITIOUS

(adj.) Happening by accident or chance.

GERMANE

(adj.) Relevant to the subject at hand; appropriate subject manner.

GRANDIOLOQUENCE

(n.) Pompous speech or expression.

HACKNEYED

(adj.) Rendered trite or commonplace by frequent usage.

HALCYON

(adj.) Calm and peacefull.

HEDONISM

(n.) Devotion of pleasurable pursuits esp. regarding the senses.

HEGEMONY

(n.) The consistent dominance of one state or ideology over others.

ICONOCLAST

(n.) One who attacks or undermines traditional conventions or institutions.

IDOLATROUS

(adj.) Given to intense or excessive devotion to something.

IMPASSIVE

(adj.) Revealing no emotion.

IMPERTURBABLE

(adj.) Marked by extreme calm; impassivity; steadiness.

IMPLACABLE

(adj.) Not capable or being appeased or significantly changed.

IMPUNITY

(n.) Immunity from punishment or penalty.

INCHOATE

(adj.) In an initial stage; not fully formed.

INFELICITIOUS

(adj.) Unfortunate; inappropriate.

INSIPID

(adj.) Without taste or flavor; lacking spirit; bland.

LOQUACIOUS

(adj.) Extremely talkative.

LUMINOUS

(adj.) Characterized by brightness and the emission of light.

MALEVOLENT

(adj.) Showing ill will, spite, or hatred.

MALLEABLE

(adj.) Capable of being shaped; tractable; pliable.

MENDACITY

(n.) The condition of being untruthfull; dishonesty.

METICULOUS

(adj.) Characterized by extreme care and precision; attentive to detail.

MISANTHROPE

(n.) One who hates all other humans.

MITIGATE

(v.) To make or become less severe; to moderate.

OBDURATE

(adj.) Unyielding; hardhearted; intractable.

OBSEQUIOUS

(adj.) Exhibiting a fawning attentiveness.

OCCLUDE

(v.) To obstruct or block.

OPPROBRIUM

(n.) Disgrace; contempt; scorn.

PEDAGOGY

(n.) The profession of teaching or instructing.

PEDANTIC

(adj.) Overly converned with the trivial details of learning; show-offish about one's knowledge.

PENURY

(n.) Poverty; destitution.

PERVASIVE

(adj.) Having the tendency to permeate or lose spread throughout.

PINE

(v.) To yearn i\intensely; to languish; to lose vigor.

PIRATE

(v.) To illegally use or reproduce.

PITH

(n.) The essential part; central part.

PITHY

(adj.) Precise and brief.

PLACATE

(v.) To appease; to calm by making concessions.

PLATITUDE

(n.) A superficial remark, esp. one offered as meaningful.

PLUMMET

(v.) To plunge or drop straight down.

POLEMICAL

(adj.) Controvesial; argumentative.

PRODIGAL

(adj.) Recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish.

PROFUSE

(adj.) Given or coming forth abundantly; extravagant.

PROLIFERATE

(v.) To grow or increase swiftly and adundantly.

QUERIES

(n.) Questions; inquiries; doubts in the mind; reservations.

QUERULOUS

(adj.) Prone to complaining or grumbling; peevish.

RANCOROUS

(adj.) Characterized by bitter, long-lasting resentment.

RECALCITRANT

(adj.) Obstinately defiant of authority; difficult to manage

REPUDIATE

(v.) To refuse to have anything to do with; disown.

RESCIND

(v.) To invalidate; to repeal; to retract.

REVERENT

(adj.) Marked by, feeling, or expressing a feeling of profound awe and respect.

RHETORIC

(n.) The art or study or effective use of language for communication and persuasion. 

SALUBRIOUS

(adj.) Promoting health or well-being.

SOLVENT

(adj.) Able to meet financial obligations; able to dissolve another substance.

SPECIOUS

(adj.) Seeming true, but actually being fallacious; misleadingly attractive; plausible but false.

SPURIOUS

(adj.) Lacking authenticity or validity; false; counterfeit.

SUBPOENA

(n.) A court order requiring appearence or testimony.

SUCCINCT

(adj.) Brief; concise.

SUPERFLUOUS

(adj.) Exceeding what is sufficent or necesary.

SURFEIT

(n. or v.) An overbundant supply; excess; to feed or supply to excess.

TENACITY

(n.) The quality of adherence or persistence to something valued; persistent determination.

TENUOUS

(adj.) Having little substance or strength; flimsy; weak.

TIRADE

(n.) A long and extremely critical speech; a harsh denunciation.

TRANSIENT

(adj.) Fleeting; passing quickly; brief.

ZEALOUS

(adj.) Fervent; ardent; impassioned or devoted to a cause.