Verbal Group 11

Abhor

Detest or regard with deep hatred

Boisterous

Energetic, noisy, and lively

Chivalrous

Honorable or polite (towards women)

Churlish

Rude or lacking good manners

Clandestine

Secretive; avoiding attention

Complacent

Smug or self satisfied

Cumbersome

Large, heavy, slow, or complicated

Debilitating

Weakening or impairing strength

Deliberate (verb)

Think over or discuss carefully

Droll

Amusing in a quirky or unusual way

Eccentric

Deviating from normal behavior

Fractious

Quarrelsome and irritable; unruly

Limpid

Transparent, or easy to understand

Mawkish

Overly sentimental

Obeisance

Reverence for an individual

Ostentatious

Showy or designed to impress

Panacea

A perfect cure for something

Perfunctory

Done without enthusiasm

Perilous

Risky and hazardous

Pervasive

Spreading quickly in great numbers

Preclude

Prevent something from occurring

Predilection

Preference or bias towards something

Rapacious

Excessively greedy, or grasping

Relish

Take great pleasure or delight in

Satirical

Using humor or irony to criticize

Sham

False, fake, or not genuine

Skirt

Go around or avoid something

Sluggish

Lacking energy; slow and listless

Spartan

Marked by simplicity or frugality

Truculent

Aggressively combative