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Amalgamation
- N.
- The action or process of uniting
- Syn: blend, mix, fusion
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Amicable
- Adj
- Showing a polite and friendly desire to avoid disagreement and argument
- Syn: Agreeable
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Arbitrary
- Adj
- Not planned or chosen for a particular reason; done without concern for what is fair or right.
- Syn: whimsical, unscruplulus
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Assiduous
- Adj
- Showing great care, attention, and effort
- Syn: busy, engaged
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Bane
- N
- A Source of harm or ruin
- Syn: Poisonous
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Berate
- V
- to scold or condemn; to yell at or criticize someone, usually a loud and angry way
- Syn: Scold, lecture, lash
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Cerebral
- Adj
- Of or relating to the brain or intellect
- Syn: Intellectual, geeky, highbrow
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Cognizant
- Adj
- Knowlegable of something, especially through personal experience; to be aware or understand the situation.
- Syn: Conscious, mindful, sensible
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Eclectic
- Adj
- Composed of elements drawn from various sources or liking a lot of different things
- that don't go together.
- Syn: assorted, miscellaneous
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Emphatic
- Adj
- Uttered with or marked with emphasis; tending to express oneself with forceful speech. To speak with more drama, force, or exaggeration.
- Syn: Insistent, energetic, intensify
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Hackneyed
- Adj
- Lacking in freshness or originality; being worn out by overuse so as to become dull and meaningless. Cliche or boring; usually pertaining to writing or ideas.
- Syn: Trite, worn-out, stereotyped, cliche
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Exacerbate
- Vt
- To make more violent, bitter, or severe; to make the situation worse.
- Syn: Annoy, provoke, intensify
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Inane
- Adj
- Lacking significance, meaning, or point; unsubstantial; very silly or stupid. Best used for ideas or statements.
- Syn: Pointless, dumb
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Insidious
- Adj
- Harmful but enticing; causing harm in a way that is gradual or not easily noticed
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Malicious
- Adj
- Desire to cause pain, injury, or distress to another. Intentionally being very mean or vicious to someone in a straightforward manner.
- Syn: spite, ill-will, grudge, hateful
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Meticulous
- Adj
- Very careful about doing something in an extremely accurate and exact way.
- Syn: Painstaking, scrupulous
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Nefarious
- Adj
- Obviously wicked, evil, or immoral, like a super-villain.
- Syn: Dark, vicious, villianous
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Negligible
- Adj
- So small or unimportant or of so little consequence as to warrant little or no attention; minor in detail, not worth noting. Usually used in comparison
- Syn: Insignificant, trivial, unimportant
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Nonchalant
- Adj
- having an air of easy unconcern of indifference, easygoing, not easily excited, cool and uncaring.
- Syn: calm, relaxed, mellow
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Nuance
- N
- A very small difference in color, tone, meaning; a subtle quality
- syn: Subtlety, shade/tinge, distinction
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Opulence
- N
- Wealth,
- affluence; owning really expensive or really ritzy things
- Syn: fortune,
- luxury, riches
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Pragmatic
- Adj
- relatingto matters of fact or practical: practical as opposed to idealistic; using common sense logic, not emotions, creativity, or intellect.
- Syn: Logical sensible, practicle
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Querelous
- Adj
- Habitually complaining, whining a lot
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Relenquish
- Vt
- towithdraw or retreat from: to give up something; to stop holding physically:
- release; to give over possession or control of
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reprehensible
- Adj
- very bad : deserving very strong criticism
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Sagacity
The quality of having or showing an ability to understand difficult ideas and situations and to make good decisions
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Ubiquitous
- Adj
- seeming to be seen everywhere
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Vex
- Vt
- To annoy or worry (someone)
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Voracious
- Adj
- having or showing a tendency to eat very large amounts of food
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Wary
- adj
- not having or showing complete trust in someone or something that could be dangerous or cause trouble
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