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| one who practices rigid self-denial, especially as an act of religious devotion |
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| to grow rapidly or flourish |
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| rustic and pastoral; characteristic of rural areas and their inhabitants |
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| severe criticism or punishment |
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| appealing forcibly to mind or reason; convincing |
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| regretful; penitent; seeking forgiveness |
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| smallness of quantity or number; scarcity; a lack |
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| intended to teach or instruct |
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| the quality or lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings |
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| intended for or understood by a small, specific group |
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| to deliver a pompous speech or tirade; a long and pompous speech |
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| lacking funds; without money |
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| beginning to come into being or become apparent |
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| to obtain by deception or flattery |
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| penny-pinching; extremely thrifty; ungenerous |
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| extremely harmful; potentially causing death |
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| abundant in size, force, or extent; extraordinary |
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| producing large volumes or amounts; productive |
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| producing large volumes or amounts; productive |
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| stillness; motionlessness; quality of being at rest |
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| awe-inspiring; worthy of honor |
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| to take the place of; supercede |
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| lethargic; sluggish; dormant |
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| sophisticated; refined; elegant |
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| to defame; to characterize harshly |
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| eager and enthusiastic willingness |
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| without adornment; bare; severely simple; ascetic |
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| taking as a given; possessing self-evident truth |
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| to criticize severely; to officially rebuke |
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| fundamentally distinct or dissimilar |
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| extreme boldness; presumptuousness |
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| dissatisfaction and restlessness resulting from boredom or apathy |
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| to use ambiguous language with deceptive intent |
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| to clear from blame; exonerate |
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| urgent, pressing; requiring immediate attention or action |
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| improvised; done without preparation |
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| to loudly attack or denounce |
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| artless; frank and candid; lacking sophistication |
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| accustomed to accepting something undesirable |
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| a new word, expression, or usage; the creation of new words or senses |
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| to anticipate and make unnecessary |
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| a song or hymn of praise or thanksgiving |
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| intentional breach of faith; treachery |
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| acutely perceptive; having keen discernment |
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| acting with excessive haste or impulse |
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| to deliberately avoid the truth; to mislead |
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| to retract, especially a previously held belief |
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| to forcibly assign, especially to a lower place or position |
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| quiet; reserved; reluctant to express thoughts or feelings |
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| concerned and attentive; eager |
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| not moving, active, or in motion; at rest |
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| fierce and cruel; eager to fight |
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| extremely harmful or poisonous; bitterly hostile or antagonistic |
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| to combine several elements into a whole |
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| to state as a fact; to declare or assert |
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| to disguise or conceal; to mislead |
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| characteristic of or often found in a particular locality, region, or people |
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| happening by chance or by accident |
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| relevant to the subject at hand; appropriate in subject matter |
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| pompous speech or expression |
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| the consistent dominance of one state or ideology over others |
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| one who attacks or undermines traditional conventions or institutions |
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| in an initial stage; not fully formed |
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| the condition of being untruthful; dishonesty |
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| to make or become less intense or severe; to moderate |
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| unyielding; hardhearted; intractable |
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| exhibiting a fawning attentiveness |
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| disgrace; contempt; scorn |
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| having the tendency to permeate or spread throughout |
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| the essential or central part |
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| controversial; argumentative |
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| recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish |
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| given or coming forth abundantly; extravagant |
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| to grow or increase swiftly and abundantly |
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| prone to complaining or grumbling; peevish |
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| characterized by bitter, long-lasting resentment |
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| obstinately defiant about authority; difficult to manage |
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| to refuse to have anything to do with; disown |
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| seeming true, but actually being fallacious; misleadingly attractive |
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| lacking authenticity or validity; false; counterfeit |
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| an overabundant supply; to feed or supply to excess |
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| having little substance or strength; weak; flimsy |
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| to increase in intensity, power, influence, or prestige |
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| agreeable; responsive to suggestion |
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| having a tightening effect on living tissue; harsh; severe; something with a tightening effect on tissue |
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| sharing a border; touching; adjacent |
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| tending to believe too readily; gullible |
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| tending to believe too readily; gullible |
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| one with an amateurish or superficial interest in the arts or a branch of knowledge |
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| to show contempt for, as in a rule or convention |
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| pointlessly talkative, talking too much |
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| marked by ease or informality; nonchalant; lacking in depth; superficial |
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| damaging; harmful; injurious |
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| not easily managed or directed; stubborn; obstinate |
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| an independent individual who does not go along with a group or party |
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| to deliberately obscure; to make confusing |
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| calm; sluggish; unemotional |
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| practical rather than idealistic |
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| adherence to highest principles; complete and confirmed integrity; uprightness |
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| a natural predisposition or inclination |
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| excessively wasteful; recklessly extravagant |
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| dull; lacking spirit or imagination |
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| foolishly impractical; marked by lofty romantic ideals |
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| occuring or recurring daily; commonplace |
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| to make or become thin, less dense; to refine |
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| hidden; concealed; difficult to understand; obscure |
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| radiant; shiny; brilliant |
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| diligent; persistent; hard-working |
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| one who spends money wastefully |
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| implied; not explicitly stated |
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| to publicly praise or promote |
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| sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating |
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| indefensible; not viable; uninhabitable |
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| to waver indecisively between one course of action or opinion and another; waver |
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| multicolored; characterized by a variety of patches of different color |
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| to use harsh, condemnatory language; to abuse or censure severely or abusively; berate |
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| readily changing to a vapor; changeable; fickle; explosive |
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