abridge

compendium

cursory

syllabus

synopsis

terse

apace

abrupt

headlong

impetuous

precipitate

abet

advocate

ancillary

bolster

corroborate

countenance

espouse

mainstay

munificent

proponent

stalwart

sustenance

bilious

dudgeon

irascible

pettish

petulant

pique

querulous

umbrage

waspish

dilettante

fledging

neophyte

novitiate

proselyte

tyro

burgeoning

callow

engender

inchoate

incipient

nascent

acerbic

acidulous

acrimonious

asperity

caustic

mordacious

mordant

trenchant

audacious

courageous

dauntless

banal

fatous

hackneyed

insipid

mundane

pedestrian

platitude

prosaic

quotidian

trite

bacchanalian

debauchery

depraved

dissipated

iniquity

libertine

libidinous

licentious

reprobate

ribald

salacious

sordid

turpitude

capricious

mercurial

volatile

counterpart

emulate

facsimile

factitious

paradigm

precursor

quintessence

simulated

vicarious

asperision

belittle

berate

calumny

castigate

decry

defamation

deride

derisive

diatribe

disparage

excoriate

gainsay

harangue

impugn

inveigh

lambaste

objurgate

obloquy

opprobrium

pillory

rebuke

remonstrate

reprehend

reprove

revile

tirade

vituperate

bereave

cadaver

defunct

demise

dolorous

elegy

knell

lament

macabre

moribund

obsequies

sepulchral

wraith

abnegate

abstain

ascetic (religious related, self-denial, monks)

spartan (disciplined, undaunted)

stoic (unmoved by emotions)

temperate (self-restrained)

authoritarian

despotic

dogmatic

hegemonic

imperious

peremptory

tyrannical

abstruse

ambiguous

arcane (arcaic)

bemusing (biwitched, bothered, and biwildered)

cryptic

enigmatic

esoteric

inscrutable

obscure

opaque

paradoxical

perplexing

recondite (little known, obscure)

turbid (thick or dense, muddled with sediment)

defile

fetid

invidious (hateful remarks)

noisome (offensive in odor, harmful or injurious)

odious (hateful, detestful)

putrid 

rebarbative (causing annoyance, repellant)

articulate

cogent

eloquent

evident

limpid

lucid

pellucid (transparent)

aberrant (abnormal)

anachronism

anomalous

discrete

eclectic

esoteric

iconoclast

abash

chagrin

compuction

contrition

diffidence

expiate

foible

guacherie

rue

equitable

equity

tantamount (equivalent as in value or force)

apocryphal

canard

chicanery

dissemble

duplicity

equivocate

erroneous

ersatz

fallicious

feigned

guile

mendacious

mendacity

perfidy

prevaricate

specious

spurious

conjugal (marriage, husband and wife)

consanguine (sangre, blood relatives)

distaff (a spinning wheel, or woman)

endogamous

filial

fratricide

progenitor

scion (a descnedant, "cion")

ardor/ardent

doctrinate

fervid

partisan

tendentious (tendencia)

zealot

absolve

acquit

exculpate

exonerate

expiate

palliate

redress

vindivate

chortle

droll

facetious

flippant

gibe

jocular

levity

raillery

riposte

simper

abatement

aperture

fissure

hiatus

interregnum

interstice

lull

orifice

rent

respite

rift

altruistic

beneficient

clement

largess (generous bestowal of gifts)

magnanimous

munificient

philanthropic

unstinting

avaricious

covetous

mercenary (working or acting just for money)

miserly

penurious (extermely poor or stingy)

rapacious (siezing or plundering)

venal (open to bribery)

asperity

baleful

dour

fell

malevolent

mordant

sardonic

scathing

truculent

vitriolic

vituperation

baleful

baneful

deleterious

inimical

injurious

insidious

minatory

perfidious

pernicious

cacophony

din

dissonant

raucous

strident

abhorrence

anathema

antagonism

antipathy

destestation

enmity

loathing

malice

odium

rancor (bitter, ill-willed)

beneficial

salubrious

salutary

dither (a trembling or vibration of fear)

oscillate

teeter

vacillate

waver

antithetic

churlish

curmudgeon

irascible

malevolent

misanthropic

truculent

vindictive

cerdulous

gullible

ingeneous

naive

novitate

tyro

disingenous

dissemble

fulsome (overdoing it, "fulsome praise")

ostensible (outwards apprearance vs. truth)

unctuous (oily, greasy)

appraise

ascertain

assay

descry (to discover, percieve)

peruse (to examine in detail)

indolent

inert

lacksidasical

languid

lassitude

lethargic

phlegmatic

quiescent

slothful

torpid

adventitious

amulent (luck charm)

auspicious (prosperous, fortunate)

fortuitous

kismet (fate,destiney)

optimum

portentous (momentous, amazing)

propitiate (to make favorably inclined)

propitious (favorable conditions)

providential

talisman (charm)

admonish

cavil

belabor

enjoin

exhort

harangue

hector

martinet

remonstrate

reproof (act of censuring and rebuking)

fetid

noisome (offensive or disgusting)

noxious (harmful or injurous to to health)

askance (with a side glance)

awry (turn or twist to one side)

careen (the car careened around the corner)

carom (strike and rebound)

circuitous

circumvent

gyrate

labyrinth

meander

oblique

serrated

sidle

undulating

vortex

bombastic

circumlocution

garrulous

grandiloquent

loquacious

preiphrastic

prolix

rhetoric

turgid

verbose

ameliorate (to improve)

appease

assuage

defer

mitigate

mollify (to pacify in feeling or temperment)

placate

propitiate

satiate (to satisfy to the full extent)

slake (to cool or refresh)

sooth

euphonious

harmonious

melodious

sonorous

destitute

esurient

impecunious

indigent

acclaim

accolade (award, honor)

aggrandize

encomium (formal praise, eulogy)

eulogize

extol

fawn

laud/laudatory

venerate/veneration

augur

auspice

fey

harbinger

portentous

presage

prescient

prognosticate

discomfort (an abscence of comfort)

encumber

fetter (a chain/shackle on the feet)

forfend (to fend off)

hinder

impede

inhibit

occlude

astute

canny

erudite

perspicacious (keen mental perception)

disconsolate

doleful

dolor

elegiac

forlorn (sorrowful, melancholy)

lament

lugubrious

melancholy

morose

plaintive

threnody (poem, speech, song of lemantation)

implacable

inexorable

intractable

intransigent

obdurate

obstinante

recalcitrant

refractory

renitent

untoward

vexing

compendious

curt

laconic

pithy

succinct

tactiturn

anachronism (not chronological)

antecede

antedate

anterior

archaic

diurnal

eon (indefinately long period of time)

ephemeral

fortnight

millenium

penultimate

synchronous

temporal

craven (cowardly)

diffident (lacking confidence, timid)

pusillanimous

recreant (cowardly or craven)

timorous

trepidation (trembling of fear)

candor

candid

fealty

frankness

indisputable

indubitable

legitamate

probity

sincere

veracious

verity

aberration

anomaly

inconoclast

idiosyncrasy

ambulatory (adapted for walking, "limb")

itinerant (traveling from place to place)

peripatetic (walking or traveling about)

discursive

expatiate

forage

itinerant

peregrination

peripatetic

sojourn (a temporary stay)

adulterate

enervate

exacerbate

inhibit

obviate

stulify

undermine

vitiate

adage

aphorism

apothegm (short instructive saying)

axiom

bromide (a platitude or trite saying)

dictum

epigram

platitude

sententious

truism

abeyance

abjure

abnegation

abortive

abrogate

decamp

demur

recant

recidivism

remission

renege

rescind

retrograde