All definitions

Abjure
(verb)

To renounce, repudiate, or retract, especially with formal solemnity; recant

Bailiwick
(noun)

The district which bailie or baliff has jurisdiction

Colloquial
(adjective)

Characteristic of or appropriate to ordinary or familiar conversation, rather than formal speech

Defenestration
(noun)

The act of throwing a person or thing out of a window; the act of suddenly removing someone from n important position or office

Didactic
(adjective)

Intended for instruction; instructive; inclined to teach or lecture others too much; teaching or intending to teach a moral lesson

Dissemble
(verb)

To give false or misleading appearance to; conceal truth or real nature of; to put on the appearance of; feign

Egregious
(adjective)

Extraordinary in some bad way; glaring; flagrant

Facade
(noun)

The front of a building, especially an imposing or decorative one; a superficial appearance or illusion of something

Harangue
(noun)

A scolding or a long, intense verbal attack; diatribe; Any long, pompous speech or writing of a tediously hortatory or didactic nature; sermonizing lecture or discourse

Harangue
(verb)

To address in a harangue; to deliver a harangue

Imperturbable
(adjective)

Incapable of being upset or agitated; not easily excited; calm

Labile
(adjective)

Apt or likely to change; (in chemistry, biology, psychology, etc.) able or likely to change or break down easily rapidly, or continually

Lachrymose
(adjective)

Suggestive of, or tending to cause tears; mournful; giving to shedding tears readily; tearful; given to weeping; mournful

Nadir
(noun)

The lowest point; point of greatest adversity of despair
Astronomy- the point own the celestial sphere directly beneath a given position or observer and diametrically

Obdurate
(adjective)

Unmoved by persuasion, pity, or tender feelings; stubborn, unyielding; not easily moved by feelings or supplication; hardhearted

Paucity
(noun)

Smallness of quantity; scarcity; scantiness; smallness or insufficiency of number; fewness; insufficiency; dearth

Penchant
(noun)

A strong inclination, taste, or liking for something

Serendipity
(noun)

An aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident; good fortune; luck

Tawdry
(adjective)

Gaudy, showy, and cheap; low or mean; base

Tempestuous
(adjective)

Characterized by or subject to tempest; of the nature of or resembling a tempest; tumultuous; turbulent

Unbridled
(adjective)

Not controlled or restrained; not fitted with a bridle

Abeyance
(noun)

Temporary inactivity, cessation, or suspension

Abscond
(verb)

To depart in a sudden and secret manner, especially to avoid capture and legal prosecution

Anachronism
(noun)

An error in chronology in which a person, object, event, etc., is assigned a date or period other than the correct one

Baleful
(adjective)

Full of menacing or malign influences; pernicious

Depravity
(noun)

The state of being depraved

Eschew
(verb)

To abstain or keep away from; shun; avoid

Facile
(verb)

Moving, acting, working, proceeding, etc. with ease, sometimes with superficiality

Fastidious
(adjective)

Excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please

Hackneyed
(adjective)

Used so often as to be dull, and stereotyped

Immutable
(adjective)

Not mutable; unchangeable; changeless; ageless

Impasse
(noun)

A position or situation from which there is no escape; deadlock

Lackadaisical
(adjective)

Without interest, vigor, or determination; listless; halfhearted; lazy; indolent

Obliterate
(verb)

To remove or destroy all traces of; do away with; destroy

Pedantic
(adjective)

Overly concerned with minute details or formalisms, especially in a teaching

Panache
(noun)

A grand or flamboyant manner; verve; style; flair

Savant
(noun)

A person of profound or extensive learning; learned scholar; a man of great learning; sage

Temerity
(noun)

Reckless boldness; rashness

Trenchant
(adjective)

Clearly or sharply defined; clear-cut; distinct; keen or incisive; vigorous and effective; distinctly defined

Unfathomable
(adjective)

Not able to be fathomed, or completely understood; incomprehensible; immeasurable

Unheralded
(adjective)

Appearing without fanfare; publicity, or advance; appearing without warning or prior announcement; unexpected

Analogous
(noun)

Similar or corresponding in some respect

Banal
(adjective)

Devoid of freshness or originality; hackneyed; trite; lacking force or originality; commonplace

Bombastic
(adjective)

Highsounding; high-flown; inflated; pretentious

Capacious
(adjective)

Capable of holding much; spacious or roomy

Capricious
(adjective)

Subject to, led by, or indicative of a sudden, odd notion or unpredictable change; erratic; Characterized by or liable to sudden unpredictable in altitude or behavior; impulsive; fickle

Copious
(adjective)

Large in quantity or number; abundant; plentiful; having or yielding an abundant supply

Deprecate
(verb)

To express earnest disapproval of; protest against; to depreciate; belittle

Diatribe
(noun)

A bitter, sharply abusive denunciation, attack, or criticism

Ecumenical
(adjective)

General; universal; pertaining to the whole Christian Church; promoting or fostering Christian unity throughout the world

Euphemism
(noun)

The substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt; an inoffensive word or phrase substituted for one considered offensive or hurtful, especially one concerned with religion, sex, death or excreta

Fulminate
(verb)

To issue or pronounce with vehement, denunciation, condemnation, or the like; to make criticisms or denunciations; rail; to thunder and lighten

Impressionable
(adjective)

Easily impressed or influenced; susceptible; capable of being impressed

Largesse
(noun)

The generous bestowal of gifts, favours , or money; the things so bestowed; generosity of spirit or altitude

Leaven
(noun and verb)

An element that produces an altering or transforming influence; To pervade, causing a gradual change, especially with some moderating or enlivening experience

Neophyte
(noun)

A beginner or novice; a person newly converted to a belief, as a heathen, heretic, or nonbeliever; proselyte

Noisome
(adjective)

Offensive or disgusting, as an odor; harmful or injurious to health; noxious; (especially of smells) noxious

Perfidious
(adjective)

Deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful; guilty

Perfunctory
(adjective)

Performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial; Lacking interest, care, or enthusiasm; indifferent or apathetic; done superficially only as a matter of routine; careless or cursory

Scurrilous
(adjective)

Grossly or obscenely abusive; characterized by or using low buffoonery; coarsely jocular or derisive; grossly or obscenely abuse or defamatory; characterized by gross or obscene humor

Unsolicited
(adjective)

Given or supplied without being requested or asked; not requested or invited