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| to hold back from; refrain |
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| absence or suppression of passion, emotion, or excitement |
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| subject to unpredictable and constant change |
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| to produce, cause, or give rise to |
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| deliberately amibguous; especially with the intent to misguide |
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| easily deceived or cheated |
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| deserving praise; praiseworthy; commendable |
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| to lessen in force, severity, or harshness |
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| wastefully or recklessly extravagant |
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| tending or threatening to break out into open violence |
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| to debase or make impure; use cheaper, inferior, or less desirable |
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| to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease |
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| to make more certain; confirm |
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| mystery; a puzzling or inexplicable occurance or situation |
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| characterized by great knowledge; learned or scholarly |
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| corresponding in structure because of a common origin |
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| talking or tending to talk much or freely; talkative |
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| not transparent or translucent; dull |
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| emphasizing practicality and philosophy |
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| conform to established standards of good or proper behavior or manners |
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| fervor for a person, cause, or object; eager, desire, or endeavor |
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| not of the morm; a deviation from the common rule |
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| extremely bold or daring; recklessly brave |
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| to dry thoroughly; to dry out |
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| heated or vehement in spirit and enthusiasm |
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| using few words; expressing much in few words; concise |
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| easily understood; completely intelligeble or comprehensible |
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| a person who makes an excessive or inappropriate display of learning; excessively concerned with minor details of learning |
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| to hasten the occurrence of; bring about prematurely |
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| to waiver in mind or opinion; be indecisive |
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| lasting a very short period of time |
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| to increase in power, nfluence, and reputation |
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| to combine and/or to mix together |
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| to judge a dispute between two opposing parties |
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| lack of interest or emotion |
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| to reduce in force or degree; to weaken |
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| severe or stern in appearance; undecorated |
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| predictable, cliched, boring |
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| Cacophony (think phone) (n) |
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| to punish or criticize harshly |
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| something that brings about a change in something else |
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| someone prejudiced in favor of a group to which he or she belongs |
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| a person who wanders from place to place without a place to go |
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| someone who falsely pretends to know or be something in order to deceive people |
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| convincing and well reasoned |
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| intricate and complicated |
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| to provide supporting evidence |
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| steadily increasing volume or force |
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| appropriateness of behavior or conduct; propriety |
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| to speak of or treat with contempt; to mock |
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| jumping from one thing to another; disconnected |
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| an abusive, condemnatory speech |
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| lacking of self-confident |
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| to make larger; to expand |
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