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(n) the expession of approval or favorable opinion, praise; official approval |
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| (v.) to make easier or milder, relieve; to quiet, calm, to put an end to, appease, satisfy, quench |
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| (n) a combination, union, or merger for some specific purpose |
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| (n) decline, decay, or deterioration; a condition or period of time of decline or decay; excessive self indulgement |
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| (v) to draw forth, bring out from some source (sunch as another person) |
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| (v) to attempt to dissuade someone from some course of action by earnest reasoning |
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| (adj) used so often as to lack freshness or originality |
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| (n) a gap, opening or break (in the sense of having something missing) short rest |
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| (n) a hint, indirect suggestion or reference (often in a derogotory sense) |
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| (v) to plea on the half or someone else; to serve as a third party or go between in an arguement |
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| (adj) wearied, worn out, dulled |
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| (adj) causing shock , horror, or revulsion; sensational; pale or sallow in color; terrible or passionate in intensity or lack of restraint |
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| (adj) peevish, annoyed by trifles, easily irritated and upset |
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| (adj) worthy of merit or reward; deserving recognition and praise |
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| (n) perk or special right |
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| (adj) pertaining to an outlying area; local; narroe in mind or outlook, contrified in the sense of being limited backward; of simple, plain design that originated in the country side; (n) a person with a norrow point of view or outlook; a person from an outlying area; a soldier from a colony |
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| (v) to make a pretnse or, imitate, to show the outer signs of somthing |
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| (v) to rise above or beyond, exceed |
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| (n) shade cast by trees; foliage giving shade; overshadowing influence or power; offense, resentment; a vague suspision |
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| (adj) excessively smoot or smug; trying to too hard to give an impression of earnestness, sincerity, or piety; fatty, oily; pliable |
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| (v) to have an extreme dislike or hatred toward somthing; loath, abhor, despise, detest |
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| (n) the modification of social patterns; blending of cultures; traits or structures of one group of people |
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| (adj) resulting from chance rather than from inherent cause or character; accidental, incidental, fortuitous |
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| (adj) resulting from chance rather than from inherent cause or character; accidental, incidental, fortuitous |
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| (v) to assign or refer to; attribut, impute or credit |
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| (adj) roundabout, not direct, indirect, meandering, winding |
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| to sympathize with, have pitty or sorrow for, share feelings of distress; empathize |
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| (v) to direct or order, to prescribe a course of action in an authoritative way; to prohibit, bid, charge, command adjure |
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| (v) to make eay; cause progress faster; accelertate, facilitate, make faster |
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| (v) to make ammends; make up for; to avert; redeem, atone, make reparation |
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| (n) state of great excitement, agitation or turbulence (v) to be in or work into such a state; tp be produced by alcholol; (n) turmoil, unrest |
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| (adj) resulting from or marked by a lack of atention; unitentional, accidental, unconsidered |
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| (adj) existing in name only; not real; to small to be considered or taken seriously; titular, token, trifilg, inconsequential |
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| (adj) nondecisive or definite; unwilling to tke a clear position; or to say yes or no; cagey, uninformitive, playing it safe, playing close to the vest |
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| (v) to steal somthing that has been given into ones trust; to take improperly for ones own use; embezzle, defraud, misappropiate |
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| (n) natural or habitiual inclitation or tendancy; natural, bent, penchant, propensity |
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| (n) composure and coolness (especially in trying situations) poise, self assurance, equanimity |
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| (adj) resistant to lawful authority, having the purpose of overlfowing an established government; mutinous; rebelious, subersive |
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| (adj) thin, slender, not dense; lacking clarity or sharpness; of sligh importance or significiance; lacking a sound base, poorly supported, flimsy, insubstancial, vague, hazy |
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| (adj) bitter sarcasti; highly caustic or biting, withering, acerbic, mordant |
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| (v) use coaxking or flattery to gain some desired end; cajole, inveigh, sweet-talk |
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| (v) to improve make better, correct a flaw or short-coming; amend |
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| (n) poise assurance, great self-confidence; perpindicularity; composure, levelheadedness |
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| (adj) pompous or overblown in language; full of high sounding words to conceal a lack of ideas; inflated, pretentious |
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| (adj) inexperienced, immature, green, raw, unfinished, not fully developed |
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| (n) salive flowing from the mouth; foolish aimless talk or thinking; (v) drool, utter nonsense |
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| (n) example of, summary, model, highest quality |
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| (V) to urge strongly, advise earnestly; implore, entreat, adjure |
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| (adj) by virtue of holding office or authority |
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| (v) violate, trespass, go beyond recognized bounds, encroach, impinge |
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| (v) make oneslef agreeable and gain favor or acceptance; cozy up to, curry favor with |
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| intruder, one who goes where he or she is not wanted or has no right to be, meddler or buttinsky |
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| (adj) belonging to someone or somthing by its naturel inherent; originating in an organ or part; immanent |
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| (v) to make a violent attack in words, express strong dissaproval; rail, harangue, fulminate, remonstrate |
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| (n) weariness of body ot mind; lack of energy, lethargy, torpor, languor |
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| period of 1000 years, period of great joy |
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| (adj) mysterious, magical, supernatural, secret, hidden from view, not dteactable; (v) hide conceal eclipse; (n) matters of the supernatural; esoteric, abtrus, arcane |
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| (v) to sreap through, penetrate, soak through |
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| (v) fall as moisture, bring about suddenly (adj) charachterized by excessive haste (n) moisture; product of a process |
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| strict, severe; ungernt, binding, compelling; tough, stern, imperitive |
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| (v) think or believe without cetain evidence; (n) belife based without definate proof; infer gather, inference, presumption |
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| (n) general pardon for an offense againt a government; forgiveness or absolution |
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| (n) self government, political control |
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| (adj) self evident, expressing univerally accepted priciple or rule |
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| (v) to adorn or embellish; to diplay conspocuously, proclaim widely |
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| (n) warning or caution to prevent misunderstanding or discourage behavior |
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| (adj) fair, just, showing prociples of justice |
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| (v) to free from entanglements or difficulties; to remove with effort |
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| (v)to steal in a sneaky way in petty amounts |
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| (v) to mock, treat with contempt |
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| (adj) tending to be troublesome; unruly, quarrelsome, contrary, unpredictable |
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| (n) rule of conduct or action |
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| (adj) benificial, helpful, healthful, wholesome |
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| (adj) bitterly severe, withering, causing great harm |
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| (v) to whip or punish severely; (n) a cause or suffering; source of sever punishment or critisism |
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| (adj) funereal, typical of the tomb, gloomy or dismal |
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| (adj) tending to cause sleep; relating to sleepiness or lethargy; (n) somthing that induces sleep |
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| (adj) extremely strict in regard to moral standards and conduct; prudish, puritanical |
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| (adj) lasting only a short time, fleeting (n) one who stays only a short time |
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| (adj) not easily carried, handled or manages because of size and complexity |
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| (adj) dull, uninteresting, tiresome, lacing in sharpness, flavor, liveliness, or force |
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| (adj) pleasant, curteous, agreeable, cordial, amicable, easy to talk to |
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| (v) to increase in greatness power or wealth; intensify, to amplify |
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| (adj) shapless, formless, unconstructured, nebulous, inchoate |
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| (adj) illegal traffic, smuggled goods, bootleg, somthing probited or illicit |
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| (adj) scholarly, well-educated, learned, bookish, well-read |
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| (adj) thin, light, sheer, airy, feather like, delicate, light cloth or gauze |
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| (v) to find out by reasoning, to hint, to suggest, to presume, to insinuate |
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| (adj) impossible of being understood, incomprehensable, impossible to see through |
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| (adj) narrow minded, provincial, relating to, stubborn, thick headed |
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| (adj) irreversable, incapable of being changed, set in stone, concrete |
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| (n) natural incliantion, natural bend, proclivity, leaning towards |
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| (adj) petulant, peevish, cranky, complaining. ornery, annoying |
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| (v) to argue, protest, dispute, epostualate, plead, or beg with someone against somthing |
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| (v) to disown, to reject, to deny |
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| (adj) able to return to orginal state, springy, elastic like, bouncy, unwilling to change, difficult to alter |
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| (v) to echo, re-echo, resound, to reflect repeatedly, to happen over again |
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| (adj) coarsly abusive, vulgar, or low in language, filthy, obscene, rough in speech |
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| (adj) persistent, showing determintation, tireless, resilient, not easily dissuaded |
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| (adj) thin or cheap in texture, cheap, cheesy, inferior, slimy, sneaky or untrustworthy |
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| (adj) abnormal, irregular, departing from the usual, unlike the norm, unique, one of a kind |
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| (n) a damaging or derogartory statement; the act of slandering or defaming someone or something |
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| (adj) extrely strange, unusual, atypical, unique, anomalous |
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| (adj) blunt, abrupt, with no formalities, to the point, not politically correct |
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| (v) to coax, persuade throug hflattery or artiface, to decieve with soothing thoughts or false promises, hoodwink or trick by making false promises |
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| (v) to punish severely; critisize severly |
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| (v) to plane with ingenuity, invent, to bring about as a result of a scheme or plan, conspire |
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| (n) a leader who exploits popular prejudices and false claims in order to gain power |
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| (v) to free from deception or error, set right in ideas or thinking, to fix or repair flaws |
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| (n) weariness and dissatisfication from a lack or interst, boredom |
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| (n) a chain or shackle placed on the feet, any sort of confining or restrictions used to bind (v) to chain or shackle; to render elpless or impotent |
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| (adj) hateful, very wicked, evil, offensive, grotesque (as in a grotesque crime) |
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| (adj) not subject o change, irrevocable, constant, sucure |
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| (n) one who rebels or rises against authority or government; (adj) rising in revolt, refusing to accept authority, surging or rushing on |
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| (n) a delusion marked a fakse sense of power, wealth, or talent; one who has such delusions |
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| (n) a position requiring very little work, and easy job |
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| (adj) stealthy, secret, intended to escape observation; made or accomplished by fraud |
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| (v) to go beyond a limit or law; to sin or break a law |
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| (v) to change from one nature, form, or substance ro another; transform |
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| (adj) performed, suffered, or (adj) otherwise experienced by one person in the place of another |
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