| bovine | | adj. serving or acting in a subordinate capacity; subordinate. |
| debase | | adj. free from or unaffected by passion; devoid of personal feeling or bias; impartial; calm |
| odium | | adj. untidy or unclean in appearance or habits. |
| inconsequential | | adj. severe in manner or appearance; uncompromising; strict; forbidding |
| crass | | adj. assumed by hypothesis; supposed |
| desecrate | | n. reparation made by giving an equivalent or compensation for loss, damage, or injury caused |
| dissipate | | n. a medieval glove, as of mail or plate, worn by a knight in armor to protect the hand. A former punishment, chiefly military, in which the offender was made to run between two rows of men who struck at him with switches or weapons as he passed. |
| punctilious | | v. to divert from a sacred to a profane use or purpose. |
| cadaverous | | v. to use ambiguous or unclear expressions, usually to avoid commitment or in order to mislead; prevaricate or hedge |
| disavow | | n. insatiable greed for riches; inordinate, miserly desire to gain and hoard wealth. |
| acrimonious | | n. strong disagreement; a contention or quarrel; discord |
| conducive | | adj. doing good or causing good to be done; conferring benefits; kindly in action or purpose. |
| astute | | adj. capable of or susceptible to being wounded or hurt |
| avarice | | adj. vanishing; fading away; fleeting. |
| equivocate | | v. to reduce in quality or value; adulterate; to lower in rank, dignity, or significance |
| vulnerable | | adj. of little or no importance; insignificant; trivial. |
| elan | | v. to amend by removing words, passages, etc., deemed offensive or objectionable |
| evanescent | | adj. caustic, stinging, or bitter in nature, speech, behavior |
| corpulent | | v. to plunder; to take as booty |
| austere | | adj. capable of being affected emotionally; impressionable. |
| reprove | | v. to talk excessively and pointlessly; babble |
| expurgate | | adj. of or like a corpse. |
| abate | | adj. affectedly grand or important; pompous; grand in an imposing or impressive way. |
| irresolute | | n. breach; violation; infringement |
| squeamish | | v. to reduce in amount, degree, intensity, etc.; lessen; diminish |
| infraction | | v. to disclaim knowledge of, connection with, or responsibility for; disown; repudiate |
| dilatory | | n. intense hatred or dislike, esp. toward a person or thing regarded as contemptible, despicable, or repugnant. |
| redoubtable | | n. a person or thing detested or loathed |
| pillage | | v. to scatter in various directions; disperse; dispel; to spend or use wastefully or extravagantly. |
| grandiose | | adj. doubtful; infirm of purpose; vacillating. |
| relegate | | adj. extraordinary in some bad way; glaring; flagrant |
| restitution | | adj. large or bulky of body; portly; stout; fat. |
| ignoble | | n. deliberate breach of faith or trust; faithlessness; treachery |
| subservient | | adj. Tending to cause or bring about; contributive |
| perfidy | | n. enthusiastic vigor and liveliness |
| concoct | | v. to send or consign to an inferior position, place, or condition |
| slovenly | | v. to challenge as false; cast doubt upon. |
| culpable | | v. to lessen in force or intensity, as wrath, grief, harshness, or pain; moderate. |
| dissension | | adj. strongly and stoutly built; sturdy and robust; strong and brave; valiant |
| egregious | | adj. commanding or evoking respect, reverence, inspiring fear. |
| gauntlet | | adj. oxlike; cowlike. |
| hypothetical | | . deserving blame or censure; blameworthy. |
| anathema | | adj. tending to delay or procrastinate; slow; tardy. |
| impugn | | adj. without refinement, delicacy, or sensitivity; gross; obtuse; stupid |
| dispassionate | | v. to disapprove of strongly; censure |
| prate | | adj. Easily nauseated or sickened |
| beneficent | | adj. of low character, aims, etc.; mean; base |
| stalwart | | v. to prepare or make by combining ingredients; to devise; make up; contrive |
| mitigate | | adj. strictly attentive to minute details of form in action or conduct |
| susceptible | | adj. clever; cunning; ingenious; shrewd |