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abominate

v. to hate, loathe, abhor, detest

accolade

n. praise, honor, award, applause, recognition

acrimonious

adj. bitter, harsh, caustic, angry

ambrosial

adj. delicious, delightful, divine, delectable, heavenly

aplomb

adj. assurance, poise, nonchalance, confidence, calm

bellicose

adj. quarrelsome, provocative, pugnacious, argumentative

bizarre

adj. grotesque, eccentric, odd, fantastic

cajole

v. to coax, tease, wheedle, entice, persuade

charlatan

n. fraud, fake, imposter, cheat, knave

consternation

n. dismay, terror, fear, astonishment, horror

convolution

n. turn, winding, twist, bend, circumvention

daunt

v. to frighten, dismay, intimidate, unnerve, alarm

deduce

v. to assume, infer, reason, conclude by logical inference

didactic

adj. preachy, sermonizing, pedantic, teacher-like

effigy

n. an image of a person, esp. a rude representation of a hated person

emaciated

adj. thin, gaunt

emetic

n. medicine which causes vomiting, disgorging

ethnic

adj. racial, pertaining to a group, cultural

fallacious

adj. wrong, faulty, mistaken, erroneous

fidelity

adj. loyalty, faithfulness, devotion, allegiance

germane

adj. closely related, pertinent, relevant, appropriate

heinous

adj. terrible, abominable, totally reprehensible, horrible

iconoclast

n. attacker of traditional ideas, wrecker, ridiculer

inane

adj. silly, lacking sense, stupid

injunction

n. a court order, command, enjoining, decree

intrinsic

adj. necessary, essential, inherent, organic, fundamental, basic

lascivious

adj. lustful, lewd, wanton, sexy

mendacious

adj. false, untruthful, lying, prevaricating

moribund

adj. in the process of dying, inactive, becoming outmoded

noxious

adj. harmful to or destructive of living things

objurgatory

adj. rebuking, upbraiding, chiding, berating

ossify

v. to harden, settle, rigidify, congeal

paragon

n. model, perfect example, prototype

paramour

n. a lover, esp. one in an adulterous relationship

peremptory

adj. commanding, dictatorial, imperious, ordering

phlegmatic

adj. sluggish, imperturbable, calm, torpid

portentous

adj. foretelling, presaging, fore-boding, prodigious with news

precocious

adj. ahead of one's age level, prematurely brilliant, forward

pugnacious

adj. quarrelsome, belligerent, combative, bellicose, aggressive

repertoire

n. list of pieces that a person or group can perform

rusticate

v. to stay in the country, to become rural

scintillate

v. to twinkle, sparkle, shine brilliantly

staid

adj. correct, sober, decorous, serious, prim and proper

supercilious

adj. snobbish, vain, pompous, haughty

synthesis

n. combination, reconciliation, fusion, summary, abstract

undulate

v. to move up and down, ripple, wiggle

urbane

adj. polite, refined, sophisticated, metropolitan, suave

vegetate

v. to live unthinkingly, to merely exist, to lie fallow

vehement

adj. violent, passionate, furious, forceful

vindictive

adj. mean, spiteful, revengeful, hateful