Question | Answer |
acrimonious | caustic (angry and mean) |
ameliorate | to make better, to relieve, to improve |
amenable | open to or willing to follow advice or suggestion |
amorphous | shapeless, having no definate form |
buoyant | capable of floating, cheerful |
cajole | to persuade with deliberate flattery, to coax or wheedle |
calamity | a serious event causing distress or misfortune |
debase | to reduce in dignity or quality |
efface | to erase or wear away |
elucidate | to make clear, to explain |
ephemeral | lasting a short period of time, fleeting |
ferocity | savagery |
flourish | to thrive, to grow well |
haughty | arrogant, excessively proud and vain |
impervious | incapable of being entered or penetrated, not capable of being damaged |
inane | lacking significance, meaning, or point; silly, insipid |
indolence | laziness |
infalliable | incapable of error |
inscrutable | difficult to understand; mysterious |
languid | slow, sluggish, listless, weak |
malice | desire to harm others |
oblique | slanting, indirect, evasive, devious, misleading |
opulence | wealth, affluence, abundance |
penitent | showing or feeling regret for wrongdoing, repentent |
perfunctory | acting routinely with little interest or care |