20. Arable suitable for producing crops.21. Arbiter a person empowered to decide matters at issue;

judge; umpire; a person who has the sole orabsolute power of judging or determining.

22. Arbitrary subject to individual will or judgment withoutrestriction; contingent solely upon one'sdiscretion; decided by a judge or arbiter ratherthan by a law or statute; having unlimitedpower; uncontrolled or unrestricted by law;despotic; tyrannical; capricious; unreasonable;unsupported.

23. Arrant downright; thorough; unmitigated; notorious;wandering; errant.

24. Arriviste a person who has recently acquiredunaccustomed status, wealth, or success,especially by dubious means and withoutearning concomitant esteem.

25. Aseptic free from the living germs of disease,fermentation, or putrefaction.

26. Atrabilious gloomy; morose; melancholy; morbid; irritable;bad-tempered; splenetic.

27. Attenuate to weaken or reduce in force, intensity, effect,quantity, or value; to make thin; make slender orfine.

28. Augur soothsayer; prophet; to divine or predict, as fromomens; prognosticate; to conjecture from signsor omens; predict; to argue, talk, or converse; anexcessively talkative person.

29. Bailiwick a person's area of skill, knowledge, authority, orwork.

30. Banausic serving utilitarian purposes only; mechanical;practical.

31. Bearing the manner in which one conducts or carriesoneself, including posture and gestures; the act,capability, or period of producing or bringingforth.

32. Bellwether a person or thing that assumes the leadership orforefront.

33. Benison blessing; benediction.34. Bibulous fond of or addicted to drink; absorbent; spongy.35. Bifurcate to divide or fork into two branches.36. Bombastic pompous and grandiloquent language;

pretentious.37. Boondoggle a product of simple manual skill; work of little

or no value done merely to keep or look busy.38. Bosky covered with bushes, shrubs, and small trees;

woody; shady.

1. Abject utterly hopeless, miserable, humiliating, orwretched; contemptible; despicable; base-spirited; shamelessly servile; slavish.

2. Ablution a cleansing with water or other liquid,especially as a religious ritual; the liquid thusused.

3. Abnegate to refuse or deny oneself (some rights,conveniences, etc.); reject; renounce;relinquish; give up.

4. Acidulous slightly sour; sharp; caustic; moderately acidor tart.

5. Acrimonious caustic, stinging, or bitter in nature, speech,behavior, etc.

6. Admonish to caution, advise, or counsel againstsomething; to reprove or scold, especially in amild and good-willed manner; to urge to aduty; remind.

7. Adventitious associated with something by chance ratherthan as an integral part; extrinsic.

8. Adverse unfavorable or antagonistic in purpose oreffect; opposing one's interests or desire;being or acting in a contrary direction;opposite; confronting.

9. Afflatus inspiration; an impelling mental force actingfrom within; divine communication ofknowledge.

10. Agathism the belief that things ultimately lead to good.11. Agnate related or akin through males or on the

father's side; allied or akin.12. Aleatory of or pertaining to accidental causes; of luck

or chance; unpredictable13. Ana a collection of miscellaneous information, or

an item, about a particular subject, person,place, or thing.

14. Animus strong dislike or enmity; hostile attitude;animosity; purpose; intention; animatingspirit.

15. Antediluvian very old, old-fashioned, or out of date;antiquated.

16. Antinomy opposition between one law, principle, rule,etc., and another (especially two seeminglytrue statements).

17. Aphasia The loss of a previously held ability to speak orunderstand spoken or written language.

18. Aphorism a terse saying embodying a general truth, orastute observation.

19. Apt inclined; disposed; given; prone; likely;appropriate; unusually intelligent; able tolearn quickly and easily.

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39. Braggadocio empty boasting; bragging; a boastingperson; braggart.

40. Brummagem showy but inferior and worthless.41. Caducity the infirmity or weakness of old age;

senility; frailty; transitoriness.42. Canard a false or baseless, usually derogatory story,

report, or rumor.43. Carrion dead and putrefying flesh; rottenness;

anything vile.44. Celerity swiftness; speed.45. Centrifugal moving or directed outward from the center.46. Centripetal directed toward the center.47. Chauvinist a person who is aggressively and blindly

patriotic; a person who believes one genderis superior to the other.

48. Clamor a vehement expression of desire ordissatisfaction; a popular outcry; any loudand continued noise.

49. Claque a group of persons hired to applaud an actor performer; a group of sycophants.

50. Clerisy learned persons as a class; intellectualelites.

51. Comely pleasing in appearance; attractive; fair;proper; seemly; becoming.

52. Compendium a concise treatise; a summary, epitome, orabridgment.

53. Concomitant existing or occurring with something else,often in a lesser way; accompanying;concurrent.

54. Conduit a pipe, tube, or the like, for conveying wateror other fluid.

55. Congenial agreeable, suitable, or pleasing in nature orcharacter; compatible.

56. Courtesan a prostitute or paramour, especially oneassociating with noblemen or men ofwealth.

57. Culvert a drain or channel crossing under a road,sidewalk, etc.; sewer; conduit.

58. Daedal skillful; ingenious; cleverly intricate;diversified.

59. Deciduous falling off or shed at a particular season,stage of growth, etc., as leaves, horns, orteeth; not permanent; transitory.

60. Defalcation misappropriation of money or funds held byan official, trustee, or other fiduciary.

61. Defenestration the act of throwing a thing, especially aperson, out of a window.

62. Deism belief in a God who created the world but hassince remained indifferent to it.

63. Demimonde prostitutes or courtesans in general; a groupcharacterized by lack of success or status.

64. Denouement the outcome or resolution of a doubtful seriesof occurrences, in life or as in a novel ordrama.

65. Denounce to condemn or censure openly or publicly.66. Desist to cease, as from some action or proceeding; to

stop or abstain.67. Despot a king or other ruler with absolute, unlimited

power; autocrat; any tyrant or oppressor.68. Desultory lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible

order, disconnected; fitful; digressing from orunconnected with the main subject; random.

69. Diadem A crown or cloth headband that indicatesroyalty; royal dignity or authority.

70. Diffident lacking confidence in one's own ability, worth,or fitness; timid; shy; restrained or reserved inmanner, conduct, etc.

71. Dolorous full of, expressing, or causing pain or sorrow;grievous; mournful.

72. Downright thorough; absolute; out-and-out; franklydirect; straightforward.

73. Dubious of doubtful quality or propriety; questionable;wavering or hesitating in opinion.

74. clat brilliance of success, reputation, etc.; showy orelaborate display; acclamation; acclaim.

75. Edacious devouring; voracious; consuming.76. Edict a decree issued by a sovereign or other

authority; any authoritative proclamation orcommand.

77. Effeminate (of a man or boy) having traits, tastes, habits,etc., traditionally considered feminine, assoftness or delicacy; characterized by excessivesoftness, delicacy, self-indulgence, etc.

78. Ensue to follow in order; come afterward, especiallyin immediate succession; to follow as aconsequence; result.

79. Ephemeral lasting a very short time; short-lived;transitory.

80. Epicene belonging to, or partaking of thecharacteristics of, both sexes; flaccid; feeble;weak; effeminate; unmasculine.

81. Epitome a person or thing that is typical of or possessesto a high degree the features of a whole class; acondensed account, especially of a literarywork; abstract.

82. Equivocate to use ambiguous or unclear expressions,usually to avoid commitment or in order tomislead; prevaricate or hedge.

83. Err to go astray in thought or belief; bemistaken; be incorrect.

84. Errant deviating from the regular or proper course;erring; straying; moving in an aimless orlightly changing manner.

85. Escarpment cliff, a steep slope resulting from erosion.86. Esculent suitable for use as food; edible.87. Etiolate to cause to become weakened or sickly;

drain of color or vigor.88. Euthenics a science concerned with bettering the

condition of human beings through theimprovement of their environment.

89. Evince to show clearly; make evident or manifest;prove.

90. Exhort to urge, advise, or caution earnestly;admonish urgently.

91. Filial of, pertaining to, or befitting a son ordaughter; noting or having the relation of achild to a parent.

92. Forebode to foretell or predict; be an omen of; to warnor indicate beforehand; portend; to have astrong inner feeling or notion of; have apresentiment of.

93. Forward presumptuous, impertinent, or bold.94. Fustian a stout fabric of cotton and flax; inflated or

turgid language in writing or speaking.95. Galoot an awkward, eccentric, or foolish person.96. Gemeinschaft an association of individuals having

sentiments, tastes, and attitudes incommon; fellowship.

97. Grandiloquent speaking or expressed in a lofty style, oftento the point of being pompous or bombastic.

98. Gregarious fond of the company of others; sociable;pertaining to a flock or crowd.

99. Grig a cricket or grasshopper; a small or youngeel; a lively person.

100. Hedge any barrier or boundary; an act or means ofpreventing complete loss of a bet, anargument, an investment, or the like, with apartially counterbalancing or qualifyingone; to prevent or hinder free movement;obstruct.

101. Hegira any flight or journey to a more desirable orcongenial place.

102. Hodgepodge a heterogeneous mixture; jumble.

103. Homolgate to approve; confirm or ratify.104. Horatory urging to some course of conduct or action;

exhorting; encouraging.105. Hugger-

muggerdisorder or confusion; muddle; secrecy;reticence.

106. Iconoclast a person who attacks cherished beliefs,traditional institutions, etc., as being basedon error or superstition; a breaker ordestroyer of images, especially those set upfor religious veneration.

107. Ignoble of low character, aims, etc.; mean; base; oflow grade or quality; inferior.

108. Imago an adult insect; an idealized concept of aloved one, formed in childhood andretained unaltered in adult life.

109. Impassive without emotion; apathetic; unmoved;calm; serene; unconscious; insensible; notsubject to suffering.

110. Impel to drive or urge forward; press on; propel;incite or constrain to action.

111. Imperturbable incapable of being upset or agitated; noteasily excited; calm.

112. Indeterminate not determinate; not precisely fixed inextent; indefinite; uncertain; not clear;vague; not established; not settled ordecided.

113. Indubitable that cannot be doubted; patently evident orcertain; unquestionable.

114. Ineffable incapable of being expressed or describedin words; inexpressible; not to be spokenbecause of its sacredness; unutterable.

115. Ineluctable inescapable, not to be evaded.116. Inert having no inherent power of action,

motion, or resistance; inactive or sluggishby habit or nature.

117. Inertia inertness, especially with regard to effort,motion, action, and the like; inactivity;sluggishness.

118. Infirm feeble or weak in body or health;unsteadfast, faltering, or irresolute, aspersons or the mind; vacillating; unsoundor invalid, as an argument or a propertytitle..

119. Inimical adverse in tendency or effect; unfavorable;harmful; unfriendly; hostile.

120. Inquietude restlessness or uneasiness; disquietude;disquieting thoughts.

121. Inure to accustom to hardship, difficulty, pain, etc.;toughen or harden; habituate; to come intouse; take or have effect; to become beneficial oradvantageous.

122. Jejune without interest or significance; dull; insipid;juvenile; immature; childish; uninformed;deficient or lacking in nutritive value.

123. Labile apt or likely to change.124. Lachrymose suggestive of or tending to cause tears;

mournful; tearful.125. Lambent running or moving lightly over a surface;

dealing lightly and gracefully with a subject;brilliantly playful; softly bright or radiant.

126. Lissome lithesome or lithe, especially of body; supple;flexible; agile, nimble, or active.

127. Lithe bending readily; pliant; limber; supple;flexible.

128. Loquacious talking or tending to talk much or freely;talkative; chattering; babbling; garrulous;wordy.

129. Luminary a celestial body; a body, object, etc., that giveslight; a person who has attained eminence inhis or her field or is an inspiration to others.

130. Lupine pertaining to or resembling the wolf; savage;ravenous; predatory; any of numerous plantsbelonging to the genus "Lupinus."

131. Luxuriate to enjoy oneself without stint; revel; to growfully or abundantly; thrive; to take voluptuouspleasure.

132. Malinger to pretend illness, especially in order to shirkone's duty, avoid work, etc.

133. Manqu having failed, missed, or fallen short;unsuccessful; unfulfilled or frustrated.

134. Manumit to release from slavery or servitude.135. Matrix something that constitutes the place or point

from which something else originates, takesform, or develops.

136. Medley a mixture, especially of heterogeneouselements; hodgepodge; jumble.

137. Mlange a mixture; medley.138. Mien air, bearing, or demeanor, as showing

character, feeling, etc.139. Minion a servile follower or subordinate of a person in

power; a favored or highly regarded person; aminor official.

140. Monotony wearisome uniformity or lack of variety; thecontinuance of an unvarying sound;monotone.

141. Morose gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a personor mood.

142. Moue a pouting grimace.143. Mugwump a person who is unable to make up his or her

mind on an issue; a person who is neutralon a controversial issue.

144. Nefandous unspeakable, unutterable; appalling.145. Nimbus a cloud, aura, atmosphere, etc., surrounding

a person or thing; a rain cloud.146. Obloquy censure, blame, or abusive language aimed

at a person or thing, especially by numerouspersons or by the general public; disgrace ordiscredit from public blame.

147. Obsequious characterized by or showing servilecomplaisance or deference; fawning;obedient; dutiful.

148. Obstinate firmly or stubbornly adhering to one'spurpose, opinion, etc.; not yielding toargument, persuasion, or entreaty; notyielding readily to treatment, as a disease;not easily controlled or overcome.

149. Obstreperous resisting control or restraint in a difficultmanner; unruly; noisy, clamorous, orboisterous.

150. Offal the parts of a butchered animal that areconsidered inedible by human beings;carrion; viscera; refuse; rubbish; garbage.

151. Opine to hold or express an opinion.152. Oratory skill or eloquence in public speaking; the art

of public speaking.153. Out-and-out complete; total; thoroughgoing.154. Pace with deference to; with the permission of.155. Pachyderm any thick skinned hoofed animal, such as an

elephant; a person who is not sensitive tocriticism, ridicule, etc.; a thick-skinnedperson.

156. Paragon a model or pattern of excellence or of aparticular excellence; quintessence;someone of exceptional merit; an unusuallylarge, round pearl.

157. Paralogism an argument or conclusion violatingprinciples of valid reasoning.

158. Paramour an illicit lover, especially of a marriedperson; any lover.

159. Paroxysm any sudden, violent outburst; a fit of violentaction or emotion.

160. Parvenu a person who has recently or suddenlyacquired wealth, importance, position, or thelike, but has not yet developed theconventionally appropriate manners, dress,surroundings, etc.

161. Pastiche a literary, musical, or artistic piece consistingwholly or chiefly of motifs or techniquesborrowed from one or more sources; anincongruous combination of materials, forms,motifs, etc., taken from different sources;hodgepodge.

162. Percipience having perception; discerning; discriminating.163. Perdition a state of final spiritual ruin; loss of the soul;

damnation; the future state of the wicked; hell;utter destruction or ruin.

164. Pinnacle a lofty peak; the highest or culminating point,as of success, power, fame, etc.; any pointed,towering part or formation, as of rock; to seton or as if on a pinnacle.

165. Plenary full; complete; entire; absolute; unqualified;attended by all qualified members; fullyconstituted.

166. Plethora overabundance; excess; superfluity.167. Pliant bending readily; flexible; supple; adaptable;

easily influenced; yielding to others;compliant.

168. Pluvial of or pertaining to rain, especially much rain;rainy.

169. Poltroon a wretched coward; craven.170. Portend to indicate in advance; to foreshadow or

presage, as an omen does; to signify.171. Precipitate to hasten the occurrence of; bring about

prematurely, hastily, or suddenly; to cast,plunge, or send, especially violently orabruptly.

172. Presage a presentiment or foreboding; something thatportends or foreshadows a future event; anomen, prognostic, or warning indication;prophetic significance; augury; foresight;prescience.

173. Prognosis a forecasting of the probable course andoutcome of a disease, especially of the chancesof recovery; a forecast or prognostication.

174. Prognostic of or pertaining to prognosis; predictive ofsomething in the future; a forecast orprediction; an omen or portent; sign.

175. Proscenium the part of the stage in front of the curtain; thewall frame for the stage; the stage itself; thearch or opening separating the stage from theauditorium together with the area immediatelyin front of the arch.

176. Proselytize to seek to convert someone to a religion, cause,belief, or political position.

177. Pulchritude physical beauty; comeliness.178. Qua as; as being; in the character or capacity of.179. Quandary a state of perplexity or uncertainty, especially

as to what to do; dilemma; predicament.180. Quiddity the quality that makes a thing what it is; the

essential nature of a thing; a trifling nicety ofsubtle distinction, as in argument.

181. Quiescent being at rest; quiet; still; inactive ormotionless; dormant.

182. Quisling a person who betrays his or her own countryby aiding an invading enemy.

183. Quotidian usual or customary; ordinary; everyday; daily;characterized by paroxysms that recur daily.

184. Rarefy to make rare or rarer; make less dense; thinout; to make more refined, spiritual, or exalted.

185. Ratify to confirm by expressing consent, approval, orformal sanction.

186. Retainer a servant or attendant who has served a familyfor many years; A fee paid to secure services, asof a lawyer.

187. Retinue a body of retainers in attendance upon animportant personage; suite.

188. Rhetoric the undue use of exaggeration or display;bombast; the study of the effective use oflanguage; the ability to use languageeffectively; the art of prose in general asopposed to verse; the art of using speech topersuade, influence, or please; oratory; speechor discourse that pretends to significance butlacks true meaning.

189. Sanction authoritative permission or approval, as for anaction; something that serves to support anaction, condition, etc.

190. Saporous full of flavor or taste; flavorful.191. Satrap a subordinate ruler, often a despotic one.192. Sciolism superficial knowledge.193. Senescence growing old; aging; characteristic of old age.194. Sequacious following with smooth or logical regularity;

ready to follow any leader; pliant; slavish;obsequious.

195. Serried pressed together or compacted; crowdedtogether.

196. Serviette a table napkin.197. Shantung a heavy silk fabric with a knobbly surface.

198. Shrew a woman of violent temper and speech;termagant; any of several small, mouselikeinsectivores of the genus Sorex and relatedgenera, having a long, sharp snout.

199. Slavish of or befitting a slave; abjectly submissive;base; mean; ignoble; deliberatelyimitative; lacking originality.

200. Soothsayer a person who professes to foretell events; aseer.

201. Soporific causing or tending to cause sleep; sleepy;drowsy.

202. Specious apparently good or right though lackingreal merit; superficially pleasing orplausible; pleasing to the eye but deceptive.

203. Splenetic irritable; peevish; spiteful; of the spleen.204. Stigma a mark of disgrace or infamy; a stain or

reproach, as on one's reputation; a smallscar or mark such as a birthmark.

205. Stint to be frugal; get along on a scantyallowance; to limit to a certain amount,number, share, or allowance, oftenunduly; set limits to; restrict; a period oftime spent doing something.

206. Stolid not easily stirred or moved mentally;unemotional; impassive.

207. Sublime fear to the point of awe; elevated or lofty inthought, language, etc.; impressing themind with a sense of grandeur or power;inspiring awe, veneration, etc.; supreme oroutstanding; complete; absolute; utter.

208. Subordinate placed in or belonging to a lower order orrank; of less importance; secondary;subservient; subject; dependent.

209. Suite a number of things forming a series or set;a company of followers or attendants; atrain or retinue.

210. Superfluity a superabundant or excessive amount;something superfluous, as a luxury.

211. Superfluous unnecessary or needless; exceeding whatis sufficient or required; being more thanis sufficient or required; excessive.

212. Supervene to take place or occur as somethingadditional or extraneous; to follow closely;to ensue.

213. Surcease to cease from some action; desist; to cometo an end.

214. Tatterdemalion a person in tattered clothing; a shabbyperson; ragged; unkempt or dilapidated.

215. Teleology the doctrine that there is evidence ofpurpose or design in the universe, and espthat this provides proof of the existence ofa Designer.

216. Temerarious reckless; rashness or boldness.217. Tenebrous dark; gloomy; obscure.218. Termagant a violent, turbulent, or brawling woman;

violent; turbulent; brawling; shrewish.219. Terrace a raised level with a vertical or sloping

front or sides faced with masonry, turf, orthe like, especially one of a series of levelsrising one above another; the flat roof of ahouse.

220. Theology the field of study and analysis that treats ofGod and of God's attributes and relationsto the universe; study of divine things orreligious truth; divinity.

221. Thoroughgoing carried out to the full extent; thorough;complete; unqualified.

222. Tor a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rockymountain or hill.

223. Torpor sluggish inactivity or inertia; lethargicindifference; apathy; dormancy, as of ahibernating animal.

224. Transitoriness not lasting, enduring, permanent, oreternal; lasting only a short time; brief;short-lived; temporary.

225. Trilemma a situation, analogous to a dilemma, inwhich there are three almost equallyundesirable alternatives; a quandary posedby three alternative courses of action.

226. Tyro a beginner in learning anything; novice.227. Ukase any order or proclamation by an absolute

or arbitrary authority; an official edict.228. Umpire one selected to settle disputes about the

application of settled rules or usages; aperson agreed on by disputing parties toarbitrate their differences.

229. Unduly excessively; in an inappropriate,unjustifiable, or improper manner;immoderately; in contradiction of moral orlegal standards.

230. Unkempt not combed; uncared-for or neglected;disheveled; messy; unpolished; rough;crude.

231. Usufruct the right to use someone else's property aslong as it is not damaged in the process.

232. Vacillate to waver in mind or opinion; be indecisiveor irresolute; to sway unsteadily; waver;totter; stagger.

233. Vernal of, pertaining to, or suggesting spring; springlike; belonging to or characteristic of youth.234. Vex to confuse; to irritate; annoy; provoke; to torment; trouble; distress; plague; worry; to discuss or debate with vigor or at

great length; to afflict with physical pain.235. Viscera the organs in the cavities of the body, especially those in the abdominal cavity; the intestines, bowels.236. Vituperation verbal abuse or castigation; violent denunciation or condemnation.237. Votary a person who is bound by solemn religious vows; a person who is devoted or addicted to some subject or pursuit; a

devoted follower or admirer.238. Wallow to roll about or lie in water, snow, mud, dust, or the like, as for refreshment; to live self-indulgently; luxuriate; revel; to

flounder about; move along or proceed clumsily or with difficulty; to surge up or billow forth, as smoke or heat.239. Welter

(noun)a confused mass; a jumble or muddle; a state of commotion, turmoil, or upheaval; a rolling, tossing, or tumbling about.

240. Welter(verb)

to roll, toss, or heave; to writhe, or tumble about; wallow, as animals; to lie bathed in or be drenched in something,especially blood; to become deeply or extensively involved, associated, entangled, etc.

241. Winnow to blow off or away; to separate the good from the bad; to subject to some process of separating or distinguishing; sift; toanalyze critically.

242. Wraith an apparition of a living person supposed to portend his or her death; a visible spirit; a ghost or any apparition; aninsubstantial copy of something; something pale, thin, and lacking in substance, such as a column of smoke.

243. Writhe to twist the body about, or squirm, as in pain, violent effort, etc.; to shrink mentally, as in acute discomfort; to twist orbend out of shape or position; distort; contort.

244. Ziggurat massive structure built in the ancient Mesopotamian valley and western Iranian plateau, having the form of a terracedstep pyramid of successively receding stories or levels.

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