Having a sour or bitter taste or character; sharp; biting

Acid in temper, mood or tone

Agreeable; reponsible,to suggestion

Willing ti be influenced or controlled

Readily managed; willing to be led

Something or someone out of place in terms of historical or chronological context

Mistaking or placing something in the wrong historical period

Substance, used medically or in cosmestics, that takes skin or body tissue contract and stops bleeding

Having a tightening effect on living tissue; harsh; severe; something with a tightening effect or tissue

Having a common boundary or edge

Sharing a border; touching; adjacent

A generally agreed - upon practice or attitude

Synonyms: conference, convocation, assembly

Polite or appropriate behavior or conduct

Approprriateness of behavior or conduct; propriety

An attitude or quality of belief that all people are motivated by selfishness

A person who believes all people are motivated by selfishness

General distrust of the integrity or professed motives of others

The rats peered with derision in their eyes at the terrified man

Scorn, ridicule, comtenptuous

He never missed a chance to disparage his competitors

To depreciate by indirect means

To slight or belittle

To dry out thoroughly

To make dry or dull

Synonyms: Dehydrate, dry, parch

FAWN

The understudy fawned over the director in hopes of being cast in the part on a permanent basis

To flatter or praise excessively

To grovel

Synonyms: Bootlick, grover, pander, toady

To show contempt for, as in a rule or convention

To treat with disdain, scorn, or contempt

GARRULOUS

The garrulous parakeet distracted its owner with its continuous talking

The garrulous parakeet distracted its owner with its continuous talking

Synonyms: effusive, loquacious

GLIB

The slimy politician managed to continue gaining supporters because he was a glib speaker

Fluent in an insicere manner; offhand; casual

Lacking in depth; superficial

Synonyms: easy, superficial

His hubris made him feel superior

Exaggerated pride or slef-confidence

Overbearing presumption or pride; arrogance

Hastly or rashly energetic

Impulsive and vehement

INIMICAL

Even though a cease-fire had been in place for months, the two sides were still inimical to each other

Hostile; unfriendly

Damaging, harmful, injurious

Synonyms: adverse, antagonism, dissident, recalcitrant

Not easli managed or directed; stubborn; obstinate

Not easy manipulated

Fearless, resolutely courageous, steadfast

Synonym: brave

Using few words, terse

Synonyms: concise, curt, pithy, taciturn, terse

Characterized by rapid and unpredictable chance in mood

Synonyms: clever, crafty, volatile, whismsical

To calm or make less severe

To reduce in emotional intensity

Synonyms: appease; assuage; conciliate; pacify

Novice, beginner, a recent convert, a novice

Synonyms: apprentice, greenhorn

Excessive showiness characterized by or given to pretentious display; showy

Synonyms: flashiness, pretentiousness

To be present throughout, to permeate

Noun form: pervasive

Synonyms: imbue, infuse, penetrate, permeate, suffuse

PHLEGMATIC (ADJ.)

Although the bomb could go off at any moment, the phlegmatic demolition expert remained calm and unafraid

Calm; sluggish; unemotional

Unemotional in temperament

Synonyms: apathetic, cal, emotionless, impassive, indifferent, passionless

An overabundance; a surplus excess

Synonyms: glut; overabundance; superfluity; surfeit

Overstepping due bounds

Taking liberties

Arrogance

Fresh and clean; uncorrupted pure

Synonyms: innocent; undamaged

Integrity, morality, rectitude; uprightness; virtue

adherence to highest principles

A natural predisposition or inclination

Synonyms: bias, propensity, predilection, predisposition, prejudice, partiality

PROFLIGATE

Some historians claim that it was the Roman's decadent, profligate behavior that led to the decline of the Roman Empire

Corrupt, degenerate, excessively, wasteful, extravagant

Synonyms: dissolute, extravagant, improvident, prodigal, wasteful

noun form: profligacy

Sharp and irritating to the senses

Characterized by a strong smell or taste

Synonyms: acrid, caustic, piquant

Foolishly impractical; marked by lofty romantic ideals; overly idealistic

Synonyms: capricious, impulsive, romantic, unrealistic

Diligent, persistent, hardworking

Involving or accomplished with careful perseverance

A piece of broken pottery or glass

Frangment of a brittle substance

Causing sleep or lethargy

Causing drowsiness

Synonyms: Hypnotic, narcotic

One who spends money wastefully or recklessly

Wasteful or extravagant

Readily changing to a vapor; changeable; fickle; explosive

TACIT

Although not a word was said, everyone in the room knew that a tacit agreement had been made about what course of action take

Implied; not explicity stated

Done without using words

Synonyms: implicit, implied, undeclared, unsaid, unuttered

Not obvious, elusive, difficul to discern

So slight as to be difficult to detect or describe

Brief and concise

To the point

Effectively concise

Sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating; acute; sharp; forceful; effective

Synonyms: biting, caustic, cutting, keen

Annoyance; irritation

The psychological state of being irritated or annoyed