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) Icon to get a pronunciation of the word.) Icon to get a pronunciation of the word.| allay | relieve, calm |
| bestial | beastlike, brutal |
| convivial | sociable, festive |
| coterie | exclusive circle of people with a common purpose |
| counterpart | one that closely resembles another |
| demur | object; oppose |
| effrontery | shameless boldness; nerve |
| embellish | add details to, exaggerate |
| ephemeral | lasting a very short time, short-lived |
| felicitous | having happiness or good luck; appropriate |
| furtive | secretive, sneaky, done to escape notice |
| garish | tastelessly showy; so colorful as to be in bad taste |
| illusory | misleading; deceptive; causing illusion |
| indigent | extremely poor |
| inordinate | excessive; too much |
| jettison | get rid of something unwanted; throw away |
| misanthrope | people-hater |
| pertinacious | unwilling to give up; stubborn |
| picayune | of small value or importance; trivial |
| raiment | clothing |
| allege | claim without proof |
| arrant | complete, utter, downright |
| badinage | playful conversation; discussion with a lot of jokes |
| conciliate | make calm; win over |
| countermand | command to cancel a previous order or command |
| echelon | level or rank |
| exacerbate | to make worse |
| fatuous | very stupid; unreal |
| irrefutable | impossible to deny or prove wrong |
| juggernaut | large, unstoppable force or power that crushes whatever is in its way |
| lackadaisical | showing no interest or enthusiasm |
| litany | long list of things that someone talks about |
| macabre | gruesome or frightening, usually involving death |
| paucity | lack; few in number |
| portend | predict or foreshadow; give warning of |
| raze | demolish; destroy to the ground |
| recant | take back a statement made earlier |
| saturate | soak, fill, or load to capacity |
| slough | to shed, get rid of (esp. skin) |
| saturnine | gloomy, bitter, and overly serious |