To appease; to calm by making concessions

Synonyms: appease, conciliate, mollify

To increase in number quickly

Synonyms: breed, multiply, procreate, reproduce, spawn

Prone to complaining, grumbling, peevish

Synonyms: argumentative, canatankerous, petulant, irritable

Characterized by bitter, long-lasting resentiment

 Synonyms: acrimonious, begruding, bitter

Antonyms: kind, kindly, peaceble

To refuse to have anything to do with; disdown

Synonyms: deny, disavow, disclaim, disown, renounce

Obstinately defiant or authority; difficult to manage

Synonyms: intransigent, inflexible, tenacious

Questions, inquiries, doubts in the mind, reservations

Synonyms: concern, doubt, dubiety, inquiry, interrogation

Antonyms: answer, replay

Marked by feeling, or expressing a feeling of profound awe and respect

Synonyms: admiring, devout, appreciattive, deferrential

To invalidate; to repeal; to retract

Synonyms: abolish, abrogate, annul, backpedal

Antonyms: allow, approove, permit

The art or study of effectuve use of language for communication and persuasion

Synonyms: eloquence, oratory

Promoting health or well-being

Synonyms: bracing, curative, medicinal, therapeutic, tonic

Brief, concise

Synonyms: blunt, bolied down, breviloquent, brusque

Antonyms: lengthy, long-winded, wordy

Seeming true, but actually being fallacious; misleadindly attractive; plausible but false

Synonyms: illusory, ostensible, plausible, sophistic, spurious

Lacking authencity of validity; false; counterfeit

Synonyms: artificial, false, imitation, mock, bogus

A court order requiring appearance and/or testimony

Synonyms: command, court order, decree, mandate

An overabundant supply; excess

To feed or suply to excess

Synonyms: glut, phetora, repletion, superfluity, surplus

Long, harsh speech or verbal attack

Synonyms: harangue, diatribe, censure, condemnation

Antonyms: calm, peace, harmony

Fleeing; brief; passing quickly

Synonyms:changeable, deciduous, emigrating

Having little substance or strenght; flimsy, weak

Synonyms: attenuate, airy, aerial, delicate, dubious

Fervent; ardent; impassioned, devoted to a cause

Synonyms: afire, ardent, avid, burning

The quality of adherence or persistence to something valued; persistent determination

Perseverance

Pertinacious, persistent, stubborn, or obstinate

Synonyms: application, backbone, clock

Outdated; associated with an earlir perhaps more primitive time

Synonyms: ancient, antique

Antonyms: new, modern, current

BOLSTER

The debaters amassed file boxes full of evidence to bolster their arguments

To provide support or reinforcement

Synonyms: aid, assist, bear up, boost

Antonyms: hinder, not support, obstruct

Departing from norms and conventions

Synonyms: aberrant, abnormal, anomalous

Antonyms: common, dull, normal, ordinary

Characteristic of or often found in a particular locality, region or people

Belonging to a particular area, inherent

Synonyms: indigenous; local; native

Tending to disappear like vapor; vanishing

Tending to pass away

Synonyms: dissipating, brief, fading, momentary, tenuous

To make worse or more severe

To increase the severity , violence or bitterness of

Synonyms: embitter, aggravate

Antonyms: aid, calm

Happening by accident or chance

 Synonyms: arbitrary, chance, contingent, fluke

Antonyms: calculated, deliberated

Greatly emotional or zealous

Synonyms: ardent, blazing, burning, charged, demonstrative, emotional, fervid, feverish

Relevant to the subject at hand; appropriate in subject matter

Relevant and appropriate

Synonyms: akin; allied; applicable; applicative; applicatory; apposite; connected; cognate; fitting

Bombast

Language that is pompous or bombastic

Synonyms: boastful, claptrap, eloquence, fustian, grandiosity

Rendered trite or commonplace by frequent usage

Synonyms: antiquated; banal; common; commonplace; conventional; corny; everyday; hokey, obsolete

Synonyms: fresh, new, original, uncommon

To disguise or conceal; to mislead

Pretend

Synonyms: affect; camouflage; cloack; conceal; insincere; falsehood; bluff; counterfeit; fake; feign

Antonyms: admit; allow

To reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients

Alter or debase

Synonyms: alloy, amalgamate, attenuate, blend, cheapen, contaminate

Antonyms: clarify, clean, cleanse, distill, filter, free

To state as a fact; to declare or assert

Synonyms: aver, affirm, assert, claim, contend, declare, emphasize

Antonym: refute

A harsh denunciation, abusive denunciation

Synonyms: attack; tirade; invective; denunciation; harangue; rant; criticism; discourse

To combine several elements into a whole

Noun form: amalgamation

Synonyms: merge, join, combine, unite, integrate, mingle, fuse

Antonym: separate

Pompous; grandiloquism

Synonyms: pompous, pretentious, verbose, affected

Antonym:simple

Calm and peaceful

Quiet, untroubled, still, heavenly

Antonym: turbulent

devotion to pleasure pursuits, especially to the pleasures of the senses

Synonyms: pleasure-seeking; high-living; imtemperance; self-indulgence; profligacy

Antonyms: asceticism

The consistent dominance of one state or ideology over others

Synonyms: control, domination, supremacy, power

Given to intense or excessive to something

Revealing no emotion

Devoid or not subject to emotion

Synonyms: apathetic, indifferent, stoical, stolid

Marked by extreme calm, impassivity and steadiness

Synonyms: cool, serene, collected, composed

Antonyms: excitable

Not capable of being appeased or significantly changed

Unable to be calmed down or made peaceful

Synonyms: inexorable, intransigent, irreconcilable

Immunity from punishment or penalty

Synonyms: license, exemption, freedom, liberty

Not fully formed; disorganized

Synonyms: Amorphous, incoherent, incomplete, unorganized

unfortunate, inappropriate

Synonyms: adverse, afflicted, awkward, broken, clamitous

Keen, accurate judgment or insight

Synonyms: insight, penetration, judgment, wisdom, expertise

Antonyms: denseness, ignorance, inability, ineptiness

Without taste or flavor; lacking in spirit; bland

Lacking in qualities that interest or challenge

Synonyms:banal, bland, dull, stale, vapid

Extremely talkative

Synonyms: effusive, garrulous, verbose

Characterized by brightness and the emission of light

Synonyms: incandescent; lucnet; lustrous; radiant; resplendent

Characterized by extreme care and precision, attentivve to detail

Fastidious, painstaking

Synonyms: finicky, fussy, picky, precise, punctilious, scrupulous

Capable of being shaped or formed, tractable, pliable

Synonyms: adaptable, ductile, plastic, pliable,pliam

Having oe exhibiting illwill, wishing harm to others; malicious

Synonyms: malicious, spiteful, nasty, wicked, mean

Antonym: benevolent

Controversial; argumentative

Synonyms: arguable, contestable, controvertible, debateble, disputable

Antonyms: agreeable, incontrovertible, peaceful, undisputed

To make or become less severe or intense; to moderate

Synonyms: allay, alleviate, assuage, ease, lighten, moderate, palliate, temper

The condition of being untruthful, dishonesty

Noun form: mendacious

Synonyms: deceit, deception, precavariation, falsehood

One who hates all other humans

Synonym: curmudgeon

Unmoved by persuasion

Stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing

Hardened in feeling

Synonyms: inflexible, intransigent, recalcitrant, tenacious, unyielding

Full of exhibiting servile compliance; fawning attentiveness

Synonyms: obedient, dutiful, complacent, abject

To stop up; prevent the passage of

Synonyms: choke, clog, close out, congest

PEDANTIC

The graduate instructor's tedious and excessive commentary on the subject soon gained her a reputation as a pedant

Overly concerned with the trivial details of learning and education

Ostentatious in one's learning

Synonyms: abstruse, academic, arid, ditatic, doctrinaire, nit-picker, pedagogue, scholar, schoolmaster, sophist

Antonym: imprecise, informal

Public disgrace

Synonyms: discredit, disgrace, dishonor, disreput, ignominy, infamy, obloquy, shame

Antonymy: approval, glory

The essencial or central part

Synonyms: center, corey, cruy, embodiment, essence, gist

Having the tendency to permeate and spread throughout

Synonyms: universal, prevalent, persistent, omnipresent, rife

Antonyms: localized, limited, light, narrow

To yearn intensely, to languish, to loose vigor

Synonyms: abate, cheapen, depreciate, deteriorate, decline

Antonymys: improve, increase, rise

PITHY

Martha's pithy comments during the interview must have been impressive because she got the job

Precise and brief

Profound or substantial yet concise, succint, and to the point

Synonyms: concise, succint, to the point, brief, compact, laconic, terse

Antonym: prolix

Lavish, wasteful

Synonyms: extravagant, lavish, profligate, spendthrift, wasteful

To plunge or drop straight down

To decline suddenly and steeply

Synonyms: cascade, cataract, cave in, coast, collapse

Antonyms: ascend, go up, increase, high

A superficial remark, especially one offered as meaningful

Synonyms: banality, boilster plate, bromide, cliche

Antonyms: coinage, nuance