39. opprobrium: a state of extreme dishonor

40. platitude: a trite or obvious remark

41. prevaricate: (v.) to lie, tell an untruth; to mislead on purpose

42. probity: uprightness; honesty; incorruptibility

43. propitiate: to soothe or satisfy; to appease

44. qualified: limited or restricted

45. recalcitrant: marked by stubborn resistance to authority

46. recant: formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usuallyunder pressure

47. recondite: difficult to understand; profound

48. refractory: stubbornly resistant to authority or control

49. reprobate: a person without moral scruples, scoundrel

50. repudiate: refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid

51. secrete: hide away or cache; produce and release a substanceinto an organism

52. specious: seemingly reasonable but incorrect; misleading (oftenintentionally)

53. stint: be thrifty; set limits

54. striated: marked with parallel bands; grooved

55. torpor: laziness; inactivity; dullness

56. tortuous: marked by repeated turns and bends

1. ameliorate: to improve

2. appropriate: acquire; take possession of for one's own use

3. attenuate: make thin; weaken

4. austere: severe or stern in manner; without adornment or luxury,simple, plain; harsh or sour in flavor

5. burgeon: grow and flourish

6. buttress: (v.) to support, prop up, strengthen; (n.) a supportingstructure

7. coda: concluding section of a musical or literary composition

8. cogent: convincing

9. complaisant: trying to please; obliging; willing to please others

10. condone: overlook; forgive; give tacit approval; excuse

11. contrite: extremely apologetic, remorseful, repentant

12. craven: cowardly; a coward

13. deference: courteous regard for people's feelings

14. desiccate: dry up

15. desultory: aimless; haphazard; digressing at random

16. diffuse: to spread or scatter freely or widely; wordy, long-winded, or unfocused; scattered or widely spread

17. dirge: a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as amemorial to a dead person

18. disabuse: correct a false impression; undeceive; free from awrong belief

19. disinterested: unprejudiced; free from bias and self-interest;objective

20. dissemble: make believe with the intent to deceive

21. distend: expand; swell out

22. divest: strip; deprive

23. dogmatic: opinionated; holding stubbornly to one's opinion;arbitrary; doctrinal

24. eclectic: selecting what seems best of various styles or ideas

25. effrontery: shameless boldness, impudence

26. elegy: a mournful poem, esp. one lamenting the dead

27. engender: to cause, to produce, to create

28. facetious: joking (often inappropriately); humorous

29. fatuous: foolish; inane

30. felicitous: appropriate, apt, well chosen; marked by well-beingor good fortune, happy

31. forestall: prevent by taking action in advance

32. goad: to drive or urge on

33. gouge: overcharge

34. inchoate: in an initial stage; not fully formed

35. inured: made tough by habitual exposure

36. levity: feeling an inappropriate lack of seriousness

37. morose: showing a brooding ill humor

38. obdurate: showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings

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