WOW 1-5

Abhor

(verb) To hate deeply; to regard with disgust and loathing.

Abate

(verb) To lessen, reduce, or make an intensity decrease. (opposite of escalate)

Accordance

(noun) Agreement; in harmony with something

Accrue

(verb) To accumulate or increase over time, especially with money or benefits

Adroit

(adj) Skillful and clever, especially in using one's hands or mind

Adulation

(noun) Excessive praise or admiration

Aesthetic

(adj) Concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty

Affably

(adverb) In a friendly, good-natured, and pleasant manner

Affinity

(noun) A natural liking or sympathy for someone or something

Affliction

(noun) Something that causes pain or suffering

Ambiguous

open to more than one interpretation; having a double meaning

Amicable

(adj) characterized by friendliness and good will

Anachronistic

(adj) belonging to a different time period than the one being portrayed

Anecdote

(noun) a short, interesting, or amusing story about a real person or event.

Anguish

severe mental or physical pain or suffering

Antithesis

(noun) the direct opposite of something else

Arid

(adj) extremely dry or barren; lacking in interest or vitality

Assent

(verb) to express approval or agreement, especially with a proposition

Assiduous

(adj) showing great care, attention, and diligence

assimilate

(verb) to take in information or ideas and understand them fully to conform to the customs and attitudes of a group or nation

Avenged

(verb) to inflict harm on someone in retaliation for an injury or wrong done by them

Avenger

(noun) one who takes revenge for an injury or wrong

Babel

(noun) A scene of noise and confusion

Bashful

(adj) reluctant to draw attention to oneself, shy

belligerent

(adj) hostile and aggressive; ready to fight

Benevolent

(adj) well meaning and kindly , generous

Bereft

(adj) Deprived of or lacking something

Beseeching

(adj) Asking someone to do something with a lot of emotion; begging

Blasphemous

(adj) showing disrespect toward something sacred

Bountiful

(adj) large in quantity, abundant

Clemency

noun- mercy; lenience

Commiserate

verb- to express or feel sympathy or pity for someone; to sympathize

competence

noun- the ability to do something successfully or efficiently

Conflagration

noun- and extensive fire that destroys a great deal of land or property

conjectures

noun- an opinion or conclusion formed on the basis of incomplete information; a speculation.

connotation

noun- an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.

consecrate

verb- to make or declare something sacred

conspicous

adj- standing out so as to be clearly visible; attraction attention

contraband

noun- goods that have been imported or exported illegally

copious

adj- abundant in supply or quantity

brazen

bold and without shame

buffeted

to strike or hit repeatedly and violently

calamity

an event causing great and often sudden damage or distress; a disaster

calculating

acting in a way that is selfishly manipulative; scheming

candor

the quality of being open, honest, and frank in expression

catharsis

the process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from strong or repressed emotions

chide

to scold or reprimand

circuitous

longer than the most direct way

clairvoyant

having or exhibiting the ability to see or know things that are beyond the range of ordinary perception

clandestine

kept secret or done secretively, especially because it is illicit