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| to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid |
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| to foreshadow vaguely or intimate; to suggest or outline sketchily; to obscure or overshadow |
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| a solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing |
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| soothing, something that assuages or allays pain or comforts |
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| farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith |
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| one who abandons long-held religious/political convictions |
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| deification, glorification to godliness, an exalted example, a model of excellence/perfection |
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| severity, rigor; roughness, harshness; acrimony, irritability |
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| diligent, hard-working, sedulous |
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| belligerent, pugnacious, warlike |
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| to slander, make a false accusation |
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| disposed to point out trivial faults, calculated to confuse or entrap in argument |
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| to find fault without good reason |
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| an illusion; originally, an imaginary fire-breathing she-monster |
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| insubordinate, rebellious |
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| rout, fiasco, complete failure |
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| an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot |
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| to discriminate or discern |
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| random; aimless; marked by a lack of plan/purpose |
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| reserved, shy, unassuming; lacking in self-confidence |
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| a song of grief/lamentation |
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| glowing & enthusiastic praise; panegyric, tribute, eulogy |
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| to censure scathingly, to upbraid |
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| denounce, feel loathing for, curse, declare to be evil |
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| critical examination, explication |
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| to atone or make amends for |
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| to destroy, exterminate, cut out, exscind |
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| quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory, irritable |
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| to deny, dispute, contradict, oppose |
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| unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic |
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| difficult/embarrassing situation |
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| not easily exhaustible; tireless; dogged |
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| unconcerned, carefree, heedless |
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| deep rooted, ingrained, habitual |
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| vapid, uninteresting, nugatory; childish, immature, puerile |
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| lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery |
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| cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy, attracting by false show |
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| baffled, bewildered, at a loss for what to do/think |
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| noisily & stubbornly defiant, aggressively boisterous |
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| tending to become more rigid, conventional, sterile, & reactionary with age; literally, turned into bone |
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| to make something seem less serious, to gloss over, to make less severe/intense |
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| formal praise, eulogy, encomium |
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| transparent, easy to understand, limpid |
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| the concluding part of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech |
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| pounding, thundering, resounding |
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| to appease; to conciliate |
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| childish, immature, jejune, nugatory |
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| having sound judgment; perceptive, wise; like a sage |
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| lustful, lascivious, bawdy |
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| remedial, wholesome, causing improvement |
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| cheerful, confident, optimistic |
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| gloomy, dark, sullen, morose |
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| aphoristic/moralistic; epigrammatic; tending to moralize excessively |
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| toady, servile, self-seeking flatterer; parasite |
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| biased; showing marked tendencies |
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| timid, fearful, diffident |
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| novice, greenhorn, rank amateur |
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| to corrupt, debase, spoil, make ineffective |
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| fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language |
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