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  1. pugnacious
    ready and able to resort to force or violence
  2. suffuse
    cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across
  3. regale
    occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion
  4. audacious
    disposed to venture or take risks
  5. effrontery
    audacious behavior that you have no right to
  6. veracity
    unwillingness to tell lies
  7. choleric
    characterized by anger
  8. unctuous
    unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating
  9. ignominious
    deserving or bringing disgrace or shame
  10. inimical
    tending to obstruct or cause harm
  11. pernicious
    exceedingly harmful
  12. caprice
    a sudden desire
  13. antipathy
    a feeling of intense dislike
  14. pestilential
    likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease
  15. conciliate
    gain the good will of or cause to be more favorably inclined
  16. orthodox
    adhering to what is commonly accepted
  17. conflate
    mix together different elements
  18. salient
    conspicuous, prominent, or important
  19. ominous
    threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
  20. presage
    a foreboding about what is about to happen
  21. beguile
    attract; cause to be enamored
  22. reprove
    reprimand, scold, or express dissatisfaction with
  23. diffident
    showing modest reserve
  24. insidious
    working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way
  25. perfidious
    tending to betray
  26. insipid
    lacking interest or significance or impact
  27. quiescent
    being quiet or still or inactive
  28. prodigious
    great in size, force, extent, or degree
  29. extemporize
    perform or speak without preparation
  30. opulence
    wealth as evidenced by sumptuous living
  31. tenuous
    lacking substance or significance
  32. assertive
    aggressively self-assured
  33. credulous
    showing a lack of judgment or experience
  34. indigent
    poor enough to need help from others
  35. synergistic
    working together for an enhanced effect
  36. commodious
    large and roomy
  37. transient
    lasting a very short time
  38. dilatory
    wasting time
  39. mitigate
    lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of
  40. oleaginous
    containing an unusual amount of grease or oil
  41. ambivalent
    uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow
  42. impartial
    free from undue bias or preconceived opinions
  43. profound
    situated at or extending to great depth
  44. aphorism
    a short pithy instructive saying
  45. austere
    of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor
  46. obligatory
    required by compulsion or convention
  47. ostentatious
    intended to attract notice and impress others
  48. menial
    relating to unskilled work, especially domestic work
  49. incumbent
    necessary as a duty or responsibility; morally binding
  50. ennui
    the feeling of being bored by something tedious
  51. aversion
    a feeling of intense dislike
  52. disparate
    fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind
  53. propitious
    presenting favorable circumstances
  54. subvert
    overthrow or destroy completely
  55. mendicant
    a pauper who lives by begging
  56. fissure
    a long narrow depression in a surface
  57. indisposed
    somewhat ill or prone to illness
  58. deluge
    a heavy rain
  59. pecuniary
    relating to or involving money
  60. predilection
    a predisposition in favor of something
  61. deleterious
    harmful to living things
  62. insolvent
    unable to meet or discharge financial obligations
  63. nefarious
    extremely wicked
  64. progeny
    the immediate descendants of a person
  65. intimation
    a slight suggestion or vague understanding
  66. abate
    become less in amount or intensity
  67. perpetrate
    perform an act, usually with a negative connotation
  68. remiss
    failing in what duty requires
  69. espouse
    choose and follow a theory, idea, policy, etc.
  70. remunerate
    make payment to; compensate
  71. transgress
    act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
  72. vacillate
    be undecided about something
  73. plaintive
    expressing sorrow
  74. quaff
    swallow hurriedly or greedily or in one draught
  75. germane
    relevant and appropriate
  76. portend
    indicate by signs
  77. tentative
    hesitant or lacking confidence; unsettled in mind or opinion
  78. amity
    a state of friendship and cordiality
  79. affable
    diffusing warmth and friendliness
  80. acquiesce
    agree or express agreement
  81. ubiquitous
    being present everywhere at once
  82. repast
    the food served and eaten at one time
  83. magnanimity
    nobility and generosity of spirit
  84. juxtapose
    place side by side
  85. assuage
    provide physical relief, as from pain
  86. feral
    wild and menacing
  87. restive
    in a very tense state
  88. eschew
    avoid and stay away from deliberately
  89. fastidious
    giving careful attention to detail
  90. umbrage
    a feeling of anger caused by being offended
  91. virulent
    extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom
  92. implacable
    incapable of being appeased or pacified
  93. supercilious
    having or showing arrogant superiority
  94. contentious
    showing an inclination to disagree
  95. sycophant
    a person who tries to please someone to gain an advantage
  96. autocratic
    characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule
  97. tribulation
    an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event
  98. extrapolate
    draw from specific cases for more general cases
  99. acrimonious
    marked by strong resentment or cynicism
  100. approbation
    official acceptance or agreement
  101. exculpate
    pronounce not guilty of criminal charges
  102. subjective
    taking place within the mind and modified by individual bias
  103. facetious
    cleverly amusing in tone
  104. impetuous
    characterized by undue haste and lack of thought
  105. laconic
    brief and to the point
  106. apathy
    an absence of emotion or enthusiasm
  107. conjecture
    believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
  108. obdurate
    stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing
  109. irreverent
    showing lack of due respect or veneration
  110. cynical
    believing the worst of human nature and motives
  111. supposition
    the cognitive process of conjecturing
  112. incongruous
    lacking in harmony or compatibility or appropriateness
  113. heterogeneous
    consisting of elements not of the same kind or nature
  114. iniquity
    absence of moral or spiritual values
  115. provocative
    serving or tending to excite or stimulate
  116. ostensible
    appearing as such but not necessarily so
  117. arbitrary
    based on or subject to individual discretion or preference
  118. bureaucracy
    a government administered primarily by nonelective officials
  119. invidious
    containing or implying a slight or showing prejudice
  120. infallible
    incapable of failure or error
  121. heretic
    a person whose religious beliefs conflict with church dogma
  122. loquacious
    full of trivial conversation
  123. incipient
    only partly in existence; imperfectly formed
  124. luminary
    a celebrity who is an inspiration to others
  125. onerous
    burdensome or difficult to endure
  126. modicum
    a small or moderate or token amount
  127. ad hoc
    for or concerned with one specific purpose
  128. respite
    a pause from doing something
  129. tacit
    implied by or inferred from actions or statements
  130. recapitulate
    summarize briefly
  131. paucity
    an insufficient quantity or number
  132. puerile
    displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity
  133. antithetical
    sharply contrasted in character or purpose
  134. propriety
    correct behavior
  135. salubrious
    promoting health
  136. surmise
    infer from incomplete evidence
  137. surreptitious
    marked by quiet and caution and secrecy
  138. tantamount
    being essentially equal to something
  139. contravene
    go against, as of rules and laws
  140. contempt
    lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike
  141. truculent
    defiantly aggressive
  142. candor
    the quality of being honest and straightforward
  143. gratuitous
    unnecessary and unwarranted
  144. figurative
    not literal
  145. epitome
    a standard or typical example
  146. didactic
    instructive, especially excessively
  147. portentous
    of momentous or ominous significance
  148. resolute
    firm in purpose or belief
  149. dichotomy
    a classification into two opposed parts or subclasses
  150. palpable
    capable of being perceived
  151. promulgate
    state or announce
  152. sanguine
    confidently optimistic and cheerful
  153. corollary
    an inference following from the proof of another proposition
  154. cogent
    powerfully persuasive
  155. retroactive
    affecting things past
  156. cursory
    hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
  157. deduce
    reason from the general to the particular
  158. pretext
    a fictitious reason that conceals the real reason
  159. cynicism
    a pessimistic feeling of distrust
  160. immutable
    not subject or susceptible to change or variation
  161. disdain
    lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike
  162. egregious
    conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
  163. discursive
    tending to cover a wide range of subjects
  164. hedonism
    an ethical system that values the pursuit of pleasure
  165. colloquial
    characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation
  166. dogmatic
    pertaining to a code of beliefs accepted as authoritative
  167. convivial
    occupied with or fond of the pleasures of good company
  168. docile
    easily handled or managed
  169. pensive
    deeply or seriously thoughtful
  170. aberrant
    markedly different from an accepted norm
  171. ascendancy
    the state when one person or group has power over another
  172. volition
    the act of making a choice
  173. protean
    taking on different forms
  174. assiduous
    marked by care and persistent effort
  175. iconoclast
    someone who attacks cherished ideas or institutions
  176. magnanimous
    noble and generous in spirit
  177. decimate
    kill in large numbers
  178. peremptory
    putting an end to all debate or action
  179. egocentric
    limited to or caring only about yourself and your own needs
  180. scurrilous
    expressing offensive, insulting, or scandalous criticism
  181. expunge
    remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line
  182. probity
    complete and confirmed integrity
  183. misanthropic
    hating mankind in general
  184. succor
    assistance in time of difficulty
  185. flout
    treat with contemptuous disregard
  186. stricture
    a principle that restricts the extent of something
  187. incorrigible
    impervious to correction by punishment
  188. bellicose
    having or showing a ready disposition to fight
  189. stentorian
    very loud or booming
  190. proselytize
    convert or try to convert someone to another religion
  191. mendacious
    given to lying
  192. duplicitous
    marked by deliberate deceptiveness
  193. doctrinaire
    a stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions
  194. saturnine
    bitter or scornful
  195. reprobate
    a person without moral scruples
  196. stolid
    having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
  197. extirpate
    destroy completely, as if down to the roots
  198. jejune
    lacking interest or significance or impact
  199. opprobrium
    a state of extreme dishonor
  200. purgative
    strongly laxative
  201. austerity
    excessive sternness
  202. miscreant
    a person without moral scruples
  203. impugn
    attack as false or wrong
  204. palliate
    lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of
  205. contretemps
    an awkward clash
  206. canon
    a collection of books accepted as holy scripture
  207. consortium
    a cooperative association among institutions or companies
  208. advocate
    a person who pleads for a person, cause, or idea
  209. vicarious
    experienced at secondhand
  210. empathy
    understanding and entering into another's feelings
  211. diatribe
    thunderous verbal attack
  212. scrupulous
    characterized by extreme care and great effort
  213. right wing
    those who support political or social or economic conservatism; those who believe that things are better left unchanged
Created on 七月 19, 2011 (updated 八月 22, 2011)

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