Extra term 2

abjure (verb)

to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid

adumbrate (verb)

to foreshadow vaguely or intimate; to suggest or outline sketchily; to obscure or overshadow

anathema (noun)

a solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) = curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing

anodyne (adj.)/(noun)

soothing; something that assuages or allays pain or comforts

apogee (noun)

farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith

apostate (noun)

one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions

apotheosis (noun)

deification; glorification to godliness; an exalted example; a model of excellence or perfection

asperity (noun)

severity, rigor; roughness, harshness; acrimony, irritability

asseverate (verb)

to aver, allege, or assert

assiduous (adj.)

diligent, hard-working, sedulous

augury (noun)

omen, portent

bellicose (adj.)

belligerent, pugnacious, warlike

calumniate (verb)

to slander, to make a false accusation; calumny means slander, aspersion

captious (adj.)

disposed to point out trivial faults; calculated to confuse or entrap in argument

cavil (verb)

to find fault without good reason

celerity (noun)

speed, alacrity; think accelerate

chimera (noun)

an illusion; originally, an imaginary fire-breathing she-monster

contumacious (adj.)

insubordinate, rebellious; contumely means insult, scorn, aspersion

debacle (noun)

rout, fiasco, complete failure

denouement (noun)

an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot

descry (verb)

to catch sight of

desuetude (noun)

disuse

desultory (adj.)

random; aimless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose

diaphanous (adj.)

transparent, gauzy

diffident (adj.)

reserved, shy, unassuming; lacking in self-confidence

dirge (noun)

a song of grief or lamentation

encomium (noun)

glowing and enthusiastic praise; panegyric, tribute, eulogy

eschew (verb)

to shun or avoid

excoriate (verb)

to censure scathingly, to upbraid

execrate (verb)

to denounce, to feel loathing for, to curse, to declare to be evil

exegesis (noun)

critical examination, explication

expiate (verb)

to atone or make amends for

extirpate (verb)

to destroy, to exterminate, to cut out, to exscind

fatuous (adj.)

silly, inanely foolish

fractious (adj.)

quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory, irritable

gainsay (verb)

to deny, to dispute, to contradict, to oppose

heterodox (adj.)

unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic

imbroglio (noun)

difficult or embarrassing situation

indefatigable (adj.)

not easily exhaustible; tireless, dogged

ineluctable (adj.)

certain, inevitable

inimitable (adj.)

one-of-a-kind, peerless

insouciant (adj.)

unconcerned, carefree, heedless

inveterate (adj.)

deep rooted, ingrained, habitual

jejune (adj.)

vapid, uninteresting, nugatory; childish, immature, puerile

lubricious (adj.)

lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery

mendicant (noun)

a beggar, supplicant

meretricious (adj.)

cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy; attracting by false show

minatory (adj.)

menacing, threatening

nadir (noun)

low point, perigee

nonplussed (adj.)

baffled, bewildered, at a loss for what to do or think

obstreperous (adj.)

noisily and stubbornly defiant, aggressively boisterous

ossified (adj.)

tending to become more rigid, conventional, sterile, and reactionary with age; literally, turned into bone

palliate (verb)

to make something seem less serious, to gloss over, to make less severe or intense

panegyric (noun)

formal praise, eulogy, encomium; panegyrical means expressing elaborate praise

parsimonious (adj.)

cheap, miserly

pellucid (adj.)

transparent, easy to understand, limpid

peroration (noun)

the concluding part of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech

plangent (adj.)

pounding, thundering, resounding

prolix (adj.)

long-winded, verbose; prolixity means verbosity

propitiate (verb)

to appease; to conciliate; propitious means auspicious, favorable

puerile (adj.)

childish, immature, jejune, nugatory

puissance (noun)

power, strength; puissant means powerful, strong

pusillanimous (adj.)

cowardly, craven

remonstrate (verb)

to protest, to object

sagacious (adj.)

having sound judgment; perceptive, wise; like a sage

salacious (adj.)

lustful, lascivious, bawdy

salutary (adj.)

remedial, causing improvement; wholesome

sanguine (adj.)

cheerful, confident, optimistic

saturnine (adj.)

gloomy, dark, sullen, morose

sententious (adj.)

aphoristic or moralistic; epigrammatic; tending to moralize excessively

stentorian (adj.)

extremely loud and powerful

stygian (adj.)

gloomy, dark

sycophant (noun)

toady; servile, self-seeking flatterer; parasite

tendentious (adj.)

biased; showing marked tendencies

timorous (adj.)

timid, fearful, diffident

tyro (noun)

novice, greenhorn, rank amateur

vitiate (verb)

to corrupt, to debase, to spoil, to make ineffective

voluble (adj.)

fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language