abjure | v. renounce upon oath; abandon forever |
abstract | a. theoretical; not concrete; not applied or practical; difficult to understand |
abstruse | a. obscure; profound; difficult to understand. |
accretion | n. growth or increase in size by gradual external addition, fusion, or inclusion |
acerbic | a. sour or bitter in taste; harsh or corrosive in tone |
acquiesce | v. assent; accept, comply, or submit tacitly or passively |
acrimonious | a. bitter and sharp in language, tone, or manner |
acrimony | n. animosity, sharp or bitter hatred |
adroit | a. skillful and adept under pressing conditions |
adumbrate | v. give hint or indication of something; disclose partially or guardedly; overshadow; shade |
aesthete | n. one who professes great sensitivity to the beauty of art and nature |
agnostic | n. one who is skeptical of existence of a god or any ultimate reality |
altruism | n. the quality of unselfish concern for the welfare of others |
altruistic | a. unselfishly generous; concerned for others |
ambidextrous | a. capable of using either hand with equal ease |
ambulatory | a. able to walk; formed or adapted for walking; not stationary |
amorphous | a. formless; lacking shape or definition |
anachronism | n. an artifact that belongs to another time |
analogous | a. comparable in certain respects; similar or alike |
anathema | n. solemn curse; someone or something regarded as a curse |
anodyne | n. source of relaxation or comfort; medicine that relieves pain |
aphasia | n. loss of speech due to injury or illness |
aphorism | n. definition or concise statement of principle; tersely phrased statement of truth or opinion |
apostrophe | n. text character used to mark the possessive or to show the omission of letters or numbers |
ascetic | a. leading a life of self-discipline and self-denial; austere |
assignation | n. a secret rendezvous (especially between lovers) |
assonance | n. the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words |
astringent | a. causing contraction; having the effect of drawing tissue together; stern or austere |
augury | n. sign of something coming; art or practice of foretelling events by signs or omens |
auspicious | a. attended by favorable circumstances; marked by success; prosperous |
austere | a. strict or severe in discipline; severely simple and unornamented |
autonomous | a. self-governing; not controlled by others or by outside forces; independent |
axiom | n. self-evident truth requiring no proof |
baleful | a. portending evil; harmful in intent or effect. |
banal | a. obvious and dull; commonplace; lacking originality |
beleaguer | v. besiege or attack; harass; surround with troops |
bellicose | a. warlike or hostile in manner or temperament; showing or having impulse to be combative |
bemused | a. confused; lost in thought; preoccupied |
benighted | a. in a state of intellectual or moral ignorance, typically owing to a lack of opportunity
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bevy | n. large group; a group of animals or birds, especially larks or quail |
bilk | v. defraud or cheat; frustrate or disappoint; evade or escape from |
blasphemous | a. characterized by profanity or cursing |
blithe | a. gay; joyous; carefree and lighthearted |
bombastic | a. pompous; using inflated language; high-sounding but with little meaning |
bonhomie | n. a disposition to be friendly and approachable (easy to talk to) |
breach | n. breaking of contract or duty |
broach | v. introduce; bring up for discussion or debate; announce |
burgeon | v. grow forth; send out buds; grow or develop rapidly |
calumny | n. false statement maliciously made to injure another's reputation; slander |
capacious | a. capable of containing a large quantity; spacious or roomy |
capitulate | v. surrender; end all resistance; give up; go along with or comply |
capricious | a. fickle; impulsive and unpredictable; apt to change opinions suddenly |
celerity | n. swiftness of action or motion; speed |
censorious | a. critical; addicted to censure; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners; implying or expressing censure |
chalice | n. goblet; bowl-shaped drinking vessel; large drinking cup, often having stem and base |
chary | a. cautious; sparing or restrained about giving |
chicanery | n. mean or unfair artifice to obscure truth; deception by trickery or sophistry |
choleric | a. hot-tempered; easily angered; bad-tempered; expressing anger |
circumlocution | n. indirect or roundabout expression; evasion in speech or writing |
circumspect | a. carefully aware of all circumstances; cautious |
clairvoyant | n. having foresight; fortuneteller |
cogent | a. reasonable and convincing; based on evidence; forcefully persuasive |
cognate | a. related by blood; having common ancestor; related or analogous in nature, character, or function |
complicity | n. participation; involvement as partner or accomplice, especially in crime or other wrongdoing |
concave | a. hollow; curved like inner surface of sphere |
conciliatory | a. making or willing to yield, or to make concessions |
concord | n. agreement of opinions; harmonious state of things |
concordance | n. agreement of opinions |
Confluence | n. a place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers) |
congenital | a. present at birth; inborn; innate |
conscientious | a. wishing to do what is right, especially to do one's work or duty well and thoroughly; diligent; responsible; reliable |
constituent | n. component or part; citizen, voter |
construe | v. make sense of; assign a meaning to |
contrite | a. feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses |
convalescence | n. gradual healing (through rest) after sickness or injury |
convoluted | a. coiled around; highly involved; intricate |
copious | a. plentiful; containing plenty; affording ample supply |
corporeal | a. bodily; of a material nature; tangible |
cosmopolitan | a. sophisticated; of worldwide scope |
cupidity | n. greed; excessive desire, especially for wealth |
cursory | a. casual; brief or broad; not cautious, nor detailed |
dearth | n. scarcity; shortage of food; famine from failure or loss of crops |
debauch | v. corrupt; seduce from virtue |
debilitate | v. make weak; enfeeble; impair the strength of |
declivity | n. downward slope, as of a hill |
decry | v. express strong disapproval of; disparage |
definitive | a. final; complete; precisely defined or explicit |
defunct | a. dead; no longer in use or existence |
deleterious | a. having harmful effect; injurious; having quality of destroying life; noxious; poisonous |
delineate | v. portray; depict; draw or trace outline of; sketch out |
denude | v. strip (something) of its covering, possessions, or assets; make bare |
desultory | a. aimless; haphazard; at random; not connected with subject |
dexterous | a. skillful in the use of the hands; having mental skill |
diaphanous | a. so thin as to transmit light |
diatribe | n. thunderous verbal attack |
dictum | n. a formal pronouncement from an authoritative source |
differentiate | v. set apart; distinguish; perceive or show difference in or between |
diffidence | n. lack of self-confidence |
disburse | v. expend, as from a fund |
discretionary | a. having or using the ability to act or decide according to your own discretion or judgment |
discursive | a. tending to depart from main point or cover a wide range of subjects |
disgorge | v. bring up and expel from throat or stomach; vomit; discharge or pour forth contents |
divination | n. successful conjecture by unusual insight or good luck |
doctrinaire | a. unable to compromise about points of doctrine; unyielding |
dour | a. stubbornly unyielding; marked by sternness or harshness |
ebullient | a. showing excitement; overflowing with enthusiasm |
effervescent | a. used of wines and waters; charged naturally or artificially with carbon dioxide |
effluvia | n. waste; foul-smelling outflow or vapor |
egregious | a. notorious; conspicuously bad or shocking |
emollient | n. having softening or soothing effect, especially to skin |
endemic | a. prevailing among a specific group of people or in a specific area or country |
enjoin | v. direct or impose with urgent appeal; order with emphasis |
ephemeral | a. short-lived; enduring a very short time |
epitome | n. representative or perfect example of a class or type; brief summary, as of a book or article |
epochal | a. highly significant or important especially bringing about or marking the beginning of a new development or era |
equivocal | a. open to two or more interpretations and often intended to mislead |
equivocate | v. lie; mislead; attempt to conceal the truth |
errant | a. wandering; deviating from an appointed course, or from a direct path; roving; irregular in motion |
eschew | v. avoid; refuse to use or participate in; stand aloof from |
ethereal | a. light as air; heavenly; unusually refined |
euphemism | n. mild expression to replace offensive, unpleasant, or embarrassing one |
euphoria | n. feeling of great happiness and well-being, sometimes exaggerated |
exacerbate | v. increase severity, violence, or bitterness of; aggravate |
excommunicate | v. oust or exclude from a group or membership by decree |
execrable | a. very bad; extremely inferiorl; intolerable; very hateful |
exorbitant | a. greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation; exceeding proper limits |
expurgate | v. clean; remove offensive parts of book |
exult | v. rejoice; feel extreme happiness |
facile | a. done or achieved with little effort or difficulty; ready or fluent |
fallacious | a. false; tending to mislead; deceptive |
farcical | a. broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce |
fatuous | a. foolish or silly, especially in self-satisfied way |
fecund | a. capable of producing offspring or vegetation |
fervid | a. extremely hot; eager; impassioned; burning |
foible | n. moral weakness; failing; weak point; slight fault |
forestall | v. prevent by taking action in advance |
forte | n. particular skill; special talent |
fraught | a. furnished or equipped; sufficient to satisfy |
frenzied | a. madly excited; in state of hurry, panic or wild activity |
frivolous | a. lacking in seriousness; not serious; relatively unimportant |
gambol | v. dance and skip about in sport; leap playfully |
gamely | ad. bravely; in game manner; in willing and spirited fashion |
glower | v. look at with a fixed gaze; angry stare |
gnarl | v. make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath |
grandiose | a. impressive from inherent grandeur; large and impressive, in size, scope or extent |
gratuitous | a. given freely; unwarranted; granted without recompense; unearned |
gustatory | a. relating to sense of taste; relating to gustation |
hackneyed | a. repeated too often; over familiar through overuse |
harbinger | n. forerunner; an indication of approach of something or someone |
harbor | v. provide a refuge for; hide; give shelter to |
harrowing | a. agonizing; distressing extremely painful |
haughty | a. high; lofty; bold; arrogant; overbearing |
hearten | v. give encouragement to |
hermetic | a. sealed by fusion so as to be airtight |
hidebound | a. stubbornly conservative and narrow-minded |
hypothermia | n. subnormal body temperature |
ilk | n. a type of people or things similar to those already referred to
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imbue | v. inspire or influence thoroughly; stain or dye deeply or completely |
immutable | a. unable to be changed without exception; not mutable |
impasse | n. road or passage having no exit; deadlock |
impassive | a. without feeling; revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited |
impertinent | a. improperly forward or bold; rude |
impetuous | a. marked by sudden and violent force; hasty; impulsive and passionate |
impound | v. shut up or place in an enclosure called a pound; gather and retain in a reservoir, basin, or pond |
impressionable | a. readily or easily influenced; suggestible; capable of receiving impressions; emotional |
impudent | a. improperly forward or bold; marked by casual disrespect |
incarnate | a. embodied in human form; invested with bodily nature and form |
incendiary | n. arsonist; bomb that is designed to start fires |
incense | v. enrage; infuriate; cause to be extremely angry |
inchoate | a. recently begun; imperfectly formed or developed; elementary |
incipient | a. beginning to exist or appear; in an early stage |
incongruous | a. not fitting; lacking in harmony or compatibility |
incredulous | a. difficult to believe; incredible; skeptical |
indefatigable | a. tireless; showing sustained enthusiastic action |
indelible | a. impossible to remove, erase, or wash away; permanent |
inestimable | a. beyond calculation or measure |
inexorable | a. not capable of being swayed; unyielding; implacable |
inextricable | a. not permitting extrication; incapable of being disentangled or untied |
infiltrate | v. pass into or through; penetrate with hostile intent |
infirmity | n. weakness; bodily ailment or weakness, especially one brought on by old age |
ingress | n. the act of entering |
innocuous | a. having no adverse effect; harmless |
insidious | a. spreading harmfully in a subtle manner; designed or adapted to entrap |
insolvent | a. bankrupt; unable to repay one's debts |
insular | a. of isolated people, especially having a narrow viewpoint |
integral | a. essential or necessary for completeness; entire |
interdict | v. destroy by firepower, such as an enemy's line of communication |
interject | v. to insert between other elements |
interminable | a. being or seeming to be without an end; endless; tedious; continual |
interpolate | v. estimate the value of |
intractable | a. difficult to manage or govern; stubborn; unyielding |
intrinsic | a. relating to essential nature of a thing; inherent; built-in |
inundate | v. overwhelm; cover with water, especially floodwaters |
inviolable | a. secure from corruption, attack, or violation; unassailable |
iridescent | a. exhibiting or giving out colors like those of rainbow; gleaming or shimmering with rainbow colors |
jettison | v. throw overboard; eject from boat, submarine, aircraft, or spaceship |
jocular | a. humorous, amusing or joking; sportive; not serious |
juggernaut | n. overwhelming, advancing force that crushes or seems to crush everything in its path |
lachrymose | a. weeping or inclined to weep; tearful; showing sorrow |
lackadaisical | a. lacking purpose or zest; halfhearted; lacking spirit or liveliness |
laggard | a. slow; sluggish; wasting time |
lassitude | n. state or feeling of weariness, diminished energy, or listlessness |
liberation | n. the attempt to achieve equal rights or status |
limpid | a. clear, transparent or bright; calm, untroubled, and without worry |
loquacious | a. talkative; given to continual talking; chattering |
machination | n. clever scheme or artful plot, usually crafted for evil purposes |
macrocosm | n. the whole universe or entire world; complex structure, such as society, considered as single entity that contains numerous smaller-scale structures |
maladroit | a. showing lack of skill; clumsy or awkward |
malediction | n. curse; evil speaking; utterance of curse or execration |
malodorous | a. foul-smelling; having bad or offensive odor |
megalomania | n. mental disorder with delusions of grandeur |
menagerie | n. collection of live wild animals on exhibition; enclosure in which wild animals are kept |
mendicant | n. beggar; religious friar forbidden to own personal property who begs for living |
meritorious | a. deserving reward or praise |
microcosm | n. small, representative system having analogies to larger system; miniature model of something |
militate | v. have force or influence; bring about an effect or change |
misconstrue | v. interpret incorrectly; misjudge; mistake the meaning of |
misrepresentation | n. a willful perversion of facts |
mollify | v. make less rigid or softer; calm in temper or feeling |
monochromatic | a. having only one color; viewing only one color, total color blindness |
monogamy | n. having only one spouse at a time |
monolith | n. a single great stone (often in the form of a column or obelisk) |
monologue | n. speech uttered by a person alone; dramatic soliloquy |
montage | n. photographic composition combining elements from different sources |
morbid | a. caused by disease; pathological or diseased; unhealthy or unwholesome |
mores | n. conventions; moral standards; accepted traditional customs |
mote | n. tiny piece of anything; very small particle |
motley | a. multi-colored; mixed; having elements of great variety |
mottle | v. colour with streaks or blotches of different shades |
multifaceted | a. having many facets or aspects |
mundane | a. belonging to this earth or world; not ideal or heavenly; concerned with commonplaces; ordinary |
munificent | a. very liberal in giving; showing great generosity |
myopic | a. nearsighted; lacking foresight; narrow minded |
nadir | n. lowest point; point on sphere opposites zenith diametrically |
nefarious | a. very wicked; infamous by being extremely wicked |
negligent | a. careless; inattentive |
negligible | a. so small, trifling, or unimportant that it may be easily disregarded |
neologism | n. new or newly invented word or phrase |
neophyte | n. recent convert to a belief; one newly initiated |
nether | a. situated down or below; lying beneath, or in the lower part; having a lower position; lower; under; |
noisome | a. foul-smelling; offensive by arousing disgust; harmful or dangerous |
noxious | a. harmful to living things; injurious to health |
nuptial | a. relating to marriage or wedding ceremony |
obdurate | a. hardened in wrongdoing or wickedness; not giving in to persuasion |
obliterate | v. destroy completely; do away with completely so as to leave no trace |
obsequious | a. slavishly attentive; attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery |
obtrusive | a. inclined to intrude or thrust one's self or one's opinions upon others; enter uninvited; forward; pushing; intrusive. |
occlude | v. block passage through |
officious | a. marked by excessive eagerness in offering unwanted services or advice to others |
omnipotent | a. all-powerful; having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force |
omnivorous | a. eating both plant and animal food; devouring everything; having interest in a variety of subjects |
opulence | n. extreme wealth; luxuriousness; abundance |
opulent | a. rich and superior in quality |
ornithologist | n. one who makes special study of birds |
oscillate | v. swing back and forth with a steady, uninterrupted rhythm; vibrate pendulum like; waver |
ostentatious | a. showy; pretentious; trying to attract attention |
ostracism | n. the act of excluding someone from society by general consent |
ostracize | v. exclude from community or group; banish by popular vote |
paleontology | n. study of prehistoric life; science of former life of the globe |
palisade | n. fortification consisting of a strong fence made of stakes driven into the ground |
palpable | a. tangible; easily perceptible; unmistakable |
panegyric | n. formal or high praise; formal eulogistic composition intended as public compliment |
pariah | n. social outcast; person who is rejected from society or home |
parsimony | n. extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily |
particular | a. special or more than usual |
partisan | a. one-sided; prejudiced; committed to a party |
paucity | n. scarcity; smallness of number; fewness |
peculation | n. the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else |
pedantic | a. marked by narrow focus on or display of learning, especially formal rules and trivial points |
penchant | n. strong inclination; definite liking |
penitent | a. feeling or expressing deep regret for misdeeds |
penury | n. extreme poverty; lack of something; barrenness; insufficiency |
perfidious | a. tending to betray; disloyal; faithless |
perfidy | n. act of violating faith or allegiance; violation of a promise or vow, or of trust reposed; faithlessness; treachery |
perjure | v. knowingly tell an untruth in a legal court and render oneself guilty of perjury |
permeable | a. penetrable; porous; allowing liquids or gas to pass through |
perspicacious | a. having keen insight; mentally perceptive; astute |
perusal | n. reading carefully with intent to remember |
pestilence | n. any epidemic disease with a high death rate |
posthumous | a. happening after a person's death, as of child born after father's death |
prescient | a. perceiving the significance of events before they occur |
presentment | n. formal presentation of information to court; |
presumptuous | a. overconfident; going beyond what is right or proper; excessively forward |
pretentious | a. intended to attract notice and impress others; making unjustified claims; overly ambitious |
proclivity | n. inclination; natural tendency; readiness; facility of learning |
prodigious | a. impressively great in size, force, or extent; enormous |
progeny | n. one derived from another; offspring or descendant; result of creative effort, as product |
proliferation | n. rapid growth; spread; increase in size by reproduction |
propensity | n. natural inclination; tendency or preference; predilection |
prosaic | a. dull and unimaginative; matter-of-fact; factual |
protagonist | n. principal character in a work of fiction; main character in a drama; leader of a cause; champion |
protean | a. versatile; able to take on many shapes; readily taking on varied shapes |
quadrilateral | n. four-sided polygon; having four sides |
querulous | a. habitually complaining; expressing complaint or grievance |
quiescence | n. a state of quiet (but possibly temporary) inaction |
rancid | a. having disagreeable odor or taste of decomposing oils or fats |
raucous | a. harsh and rough-sounding; disturbing public peace; loud and rough |
ravage | v. bring heavy destruction on; devastate |
receptive | a. quick or willing to receive ideas, suggestions; capable of receiving |
rectitude | n. uprightness; moral virtue; correctness of judgment |
redress | n. remedy; compensation; act of correcting error or fault |
refute | v. disprove; prove to be false or incorrect |
reiterate | v. say, state, or perform again or repeatedly |
rejoinder | n. retort; comeback; answer to a reply |
remission | n. temporary moderation of disease symptoms; cancellation of a debt; lessening of intensity or degree |
replicate | v. duplicate, copy, reproduce, or repeat; fold over or bend back |
repose | n. relaxation; leisure; freedom from worry; peace of mind |
reprehensible | a. deserving blame; admonition; blameworthy |
reprise | n. musical repetition; repeat performance; recurrent action |
reproach | v. express disapproval or disappointment; bring shame upon; disgrace |
reprobate | n. person hardened in sin; person without moral scruples |
respire | v. breathe easily again, as after exertion or anxiety |
respite | n. usually short interval of rest or relief; delay in punishment |
restive | a. impatient under restraint or opposition; resisting control; difficult to control |
retinue | n. following members; attendants accompanying high-ranking person |
retrograde | v. go backwards; decline to inferior state; degenerate |
rhetoric | n. art or study of using language effectively and persuasively; insincere language |
ribald | a. coarse or indecent; humorously vulgar or offensive |
sagacious | a. perceptive; shrewd; having insight |
salient | a. prominent or protruding; projecting outwardly; moving by leaps or springs |
sardonic | a. disdainful or ironically humorous; cynical; scornful and mocking |
satiate | v. satisfy fully; overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself |
savant | n. scholar; man of learning or science; one eminent for learning |
scurrilous | n. obscene; indecent; expressing offensive reproach |
sedentary | a. requiring sitting; accustomed to sitting or to taking little exercise; living in one area, not migratory |
sentient | a. endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness |
sequester | v. isolate; retire from public life; segregate; seclude |
seraphic | a. angelic; having sweet nature befitting an angel |
serrated | a. saw-like; having a row of sharp or tooth-like projections |
sobriquet | n. nickname; familiar name for person, typically shortened version of given name |
solicitous | a. worried or concerned; full of desire; expressing care or concern |
soliloquy | n. talking to oneself; act of a character speaking to himself so as to reveal his thoughts to audience |
sonorous | a. having or producing full, loud, or deep sound; impressive in style of speech; easy to feel |
sophistry | n. argument for exercise merely; plausible but misleading argument; art or process of reasoning; logic |
sophomoric | a. immature; half-baked, like a sophomore |
soporific | a. sleep-causing; marked by sleepiness |
sportive | a. playful; relating to or interested in sports |
sprightly | a. lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay |
stark | a. bare; complete or extreme |
stratagem | n. deceptive scheme; military maneuver designed to deceive or surprise enemy |
subpoena | n. written order to require appearance in court to give testimony |
succinct | a. brief or compact; by clear, precise expression in few words |
succulent | a. full of juicy; full of richness; highly interesting or enjoyable; delectable |
superannuated | v. declare to be obsolete |
supercilious | a. arrogant; feeling or showing haughty disdain; overbearing |
supplicant | n. someone who prays to God |
surmount | v. overcome or conquer; climb; place something above; be above or on top of |
surreptitious | a. secret; done or made by stealth, or without proper authority; made or introduced fraudulently |
swarthy | a. dark; dusky; naturally having skin of a dark color |
synopsis | n. a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory |
synthesis | n. combining parts into a coherent whole; putting of two or more things togethe |
synthetic | a. artificial; involving or of the nature of synthesis as opposed to analysis |
tableau | n. striking and vivid representation; picture |
tawdry | a. cheap in nature or appearance; tastelessly showy; shameful or indecent |
temerity | n. boldness; rashness; foolhardy disregard of danger |
tempestuous | a. very stormy; turbulent; rough with wind; impassioned; violent |
tensile | a. capable of being stretched or extended; ductile |
toady | n. person who flatters or defers to others for self-serving reasons; yes man |
transcription | n. a sound or television recording (e.g., from a broadcast to a tape recording) |
tremulous | a. marked by trembling, quivering, or shaking; timid or fearful; timorous |
turgid | a. swollen; distended; excessively ornate or complex in style or language |
undulate | a. having a wavy margin and rippled surface |
unfathomable | a. difficult or impossible to understand; difficult or impossible to measure |
unfrock | v. strip a priest or minister of church authority; remove from status as member of clergy |
unheralded | a. without warning or announcement |
unsolicited | a. not requested, welcome or invited |
unwarranted | a. having no justification; groundless; not guaranteed to be good, sound, or of a certain quality |
upbraid | v. severely criticize; reprimand; reprove sharply |
uproarious | a. characterized by loud, confused noise, or by noisy and uncontrollable laughter |
usurp | v. seize and hold power or rights of another by force or without legal authority |
veneration | n. religious zeal; willingness to serve God |
verbatim | ad. using exactly the same words; corresponding word for word |
verbose | a. wordy; using or containing a great and usually an excessive number of words |
verdant | a. green; full of juice in vegetation |
verity | n. truth, fact or reality, especially enduring religious or ethical truth |
vernal | a. related to spring; suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh |
virile | a. marked by energy and vigor; manly; able to copulate, as for male |
vociferous | a. offensively loud; noisy; making outcry |
volley | n. flight of missiles; round of gunshots; tennis return made by hitting the ball before it bounces |
voluble | a. fluent; glib; talkative; marked by ready flow of speech |
voluminous | a. large in volume or bulk; large in number or quantity, especially of discourse |
voracious | a. ravenous; excessively greedy and grasping; devouring or craving food in great quantities |
waver | v. play or move to and fro; move one way and the other; swing; be unsettled in opinion |
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