Tier 2: #101-200 Mklass

Scintillate

Sparkle; flash; be animated; be full of life

Aghast

Filled with great surprise or fear; horrified

Extraneous

Irrelevant, unrelated, or unnecessary

Scrupulous

Extremely careful, principled, meticulous

Tutelage

Guardianship; training; function of a tutor; instruction

Sublime

Of such excellence or grandeur as to inspire great admiration or awe

Peripatetic

Walking about from place to place (to work); moving

Allegorical

Symbolic

Melancholy

Gloomy; morose; blue

Infelicity

Unsuitability; inappropriateness

Buttress

To support

Tacit

Implied, not directly spoken

Pugnacious

Belligerent, aggressive

Benevolent

Kind, considerate

Dichotomy

Division into two opposite parts; split

Haughty

Arrogant

Ameliorative

Improving; making better

Stately

Graceful, dignified

Seethe

Be violently disturbed; boil

Residual

Remaining; left over; of a residue

Aberrant

Unusual, atypical, abnormal

Fledgling

Beginner, tyro

Stipulate

State as a necessary condition; specify

Perspicacious

Insightful, clever, able to see clearly

Frugal

Living economically, without wasting resources

Anomie

Social disorder; lack of norms

Debonair

Friendly, charming, and fashionably dressed

Seminal

Related to seed; creative; providing a basis for further development

Illuminate

To brighten, to bring light to

Felicity

Happiness; appropriateness (of a remark, choice, etc.)

Splenetic

Peevish, easily irritated

Figment

Something imagined or invented; not real

Miscellany

Mixture of writings on various subjects; collection of various items

Tractable

Obedient, easily controlled

Antithetical

Directly opposed

Proliferate

To grow rapidly, to expand

Implacable

Cannot be appeased; relentless

Temerity

Boldness, audacity

Refute

Disprove; prove to be false

Unerring

Perfect, infallible, without errors

Tangible

Able to be touched; real; concrete; palpable

Trenchant

Keen, sharp, effective

Ephemeral

Temporary, transient

Apostasy

Abandonment of belief

Zeal

Passion, enthusiasm

Insensate

Without feeling; lacking sense; foolish

Intrinsic

Natural, innate

Contend

Struggle; compete; assert earnestly

Predecessor

Former occupant of a post

Recant

To retract or take back a statement

Quintessential

Representing the most perfect or typical example of a quality

Vitriolic

Extremely angry, poisonous

Apotheosis

Elevation to godhood; an ideal example of something

Deluge

Flood, overwhelming amount

Despoil

Besmirch, damage

Perturb

Disturb greatly

Reactionary

Opposed to progress or change

Opaque

Cannot be seen through; indirect, obscure

Accrue

To accumulate or increase over time

Sporadic

Intermittent; on and off

Capacious

Having a lot of space inside; roomy

Ardor

Passion, zeal

Monotonous

Dull; repetitive

Inchoate

Recently begun; rudimentary; elementary

Sanguine

Optimistic, positive thinker

Mirage

Hallucination, an imagined vision

Unregenerate

Making no attempt to change one's bad practices

Incipient

Imminent, about to occur

Intractable

Unruly; difficult to manage

Advocate

Support

Gloss

To ignore

Invoke

To call upon for support or justification

Demeanor

A person's appearance or behavior

Stanch

Stop or check flow of blood

Hubris

Extreme pride or arrogance

Mitigated

Made less severe

Dearth

A lack or shortage of something

Esteem

Respect, value

Tinge

Give a slight degree of a color or quality to

Atavistic

Primitive; ancestral

Unyielding

Not giving up

Provisional

Tentative; temporary

Credulous

Too ready to believe things; gullible

Efface

To wipe out, to erase

Empirical

Based on observation or experience rather than theory

Inscrutable

Difficult to understand; impenetrable; mysterious

Languor

Lack of physical or mental energy; lassitude

Perquisite

Any gain above stipulated salary

Aver

To state as a fact, to announce

Obdurate

Stubborn, pigheaded

Balk

To hesitate, to refuse

Circumstantial

Based on inference rather than direct evidence

Delirium

Mental disorder marked by confusion; excitement

Lucid

Clear, easy to understand

Tranquil

Calm, peaceful, serene

Unpalatable

Distasteful; disagreeable

Extant

Still in existence

Aversion

Firm dislike

Slapdash

Hasty and careless; haphazard; sloppy

Levy

Impose (a fine); collect (a payment)