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Abscond

v. to depart clandestinely; to steal off and hide

Adversity

n. hardship or difficulty; opposition

Aggravate

v. to worsen or intensify

Arduous

adj. strenuous; taxing; requiring significant effort

Belie

v. to give a false impression of; to misrepresent

Bombast

n. self-important or pompous writing or speech

Cacophony

n. harsh, jarring, discordant sound; dissonance

Castigation

n. severe criticism or punishment

Censure

v. to criticize severely; to officially rebuke

Chicanery

n. trickery or subterfuge

Coercive

adj. serving or intended to compel by force or authority

Condemn

v. to blame or denounce

Conspire

v. to secretly work together with the intent to commit a

wrong or illegal act

Covert

adj. hidden; clandestine

Cower

v. shrink in fear; cringe

Craven

adj. contemptibly fainthearted, lacking any courage

Denigrate

v. to blacken; to belittle; to sully; to defame; to

disparage

Denounce

v. to publicly condemn or criticize

Derision

n. scorn; ridicule; contemptuous treatment

Diatribe

n. a harsh denunciation

Discomfit

v. to defeat; to put down

Disingenuous

adj. insincere; lacking in honesty or frankness

Dissemble

v. to disguise or conceal; to mislead

Exacerbate

v. to make worse or more severe; to increase in

violence

Fraud

n. deliberate deceit with the goal of gaining an unlawful

advantage

Furtive

adj. marked by stealth; covert; surreptitious

Garrulous

adj. pointlessly talkative; talking too much

Harangue

v. to deliver a pompous speech or tirade

Impudent

adj. saucy; impertinent; bold and disrespectful

Inopportune

adj. ill-timed; unsuitable; inappropriate

Irascible

adj. easily angered; prone to temperamental

outbursts

Malevolent

adj. having or showing often vicious ill-will, spite, or

hatred

Martial

adj. associated with war and the armed forces

Misanthrope

n. one who hates all other humans

Morose

adj. sad; sullen; melancholy

Obdurate

adj. unyielding; hardhearted; intractabel

Obsequious

adj. exhibiting a fawning attentiveness

Obstinate

adj. stubborn; hardheaded; uncompromising

Onerous

adj. troubling; burdensome

Opprobrium

n. disgrace; contempt; scorn

Pedantic

adj. the parading of learning; excessive attention to

minutiae and formal rules

Perjury

n. the purposeful giving of false or misleading

testimony while under oath

Provoke

v. to incite anger, resentment, or exasperation

Recalcitrant

adj. obstinately defiant of authority; difficult to manage

Secrete

v. to ensconce, conceal, or stow

Specious

adj. seeming true, but actually being fallacious;

misleadingly attractive

Spurious

adj. lacking authenticity or validity; false; counterfeit

Squander

v. to waste by spending or using irresponsibly

Tirade

n. a long and extremely critical speech; a harsh

denunciation

Vexation

n. annoyance or irritation