Acrimonious:
caustic, biting, or rancorous especially in feeling, language, or manner
Adroit:
having or showing skill, cleverness, or resourcefulness in handling situations
Akimbo:
In or into a position in which the hands are on the hips and the elbows are bowed outward
Avarice:
Immoderate desire for wealth
Aplomb: complete
and confident composure or self-assurance
Baleful:
1. deadly or sinister. 2. threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
Bohemian:
A person with artistic or literary interests who disregards conventional standards of behavior.
Bombastic:
Grandiloquent, pompous speech or writing.
Cabal:
To unite in a small party to promote private views and interests by intrigue; to intrigue; to plot.
Cacophony: 1. Jarring, discordant sound; dissonance. 2. The
use of harsh or discordant sounds in literary composition, as for poetic effect.
Cajolery:
flattery intended to persuade
Callipygian:
having shapely buttocks
Camarilla:
a clique that seeks power usually through intrigue
Celerity:
Swiftness of action or motion; speed.
Chimera:
1. (Capitalized) A fire-breathing she-monster represented as having a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's
tail.
2. Any imaginary monster made up of grotesquely incongruous parts.
3. An illusion or mental fabrication; a grotesque
product of the imagination.
4. An individual, organ, or part consisting of tissues of diverse genetic constitution, produced
as a result of organ transplant, grafting, or genetic engineering.
Chirm:
To twitter, warble, or hum as birds or insects.
Chthonic:
dwelling in or under the earth; also, pertaining to the underworld
Contumacious:
stubbornly disobedient, rebellious
Crufty:
. Poorly built, possibly over-complex. 2. (Sometimes spelled "cruftie") A small crufty object; often one that doesn't
fit well into the scheme of things.
Cupidity:
Excessive desire, especially for wealth
Cynical: 1. Believing or showing the belief that people are motivated
chiefly by base or selfish concerns; skeptical of the motives of others. 2. Selfishly
or callously calculating. 3. Negative or pessimistic, as from world-weariness. 4. Expressing jaded
or scornful skepticism or negativity..
Delenda:
things to be blotted out or erased.
Dornick:
a stone of suitable size for throwing
Duende:
the power to attract through personal magnetism and charm
Effervesce:
1. to bubble, hiss, and foam as gas escapes 2. to show liveliness or exhilaration
Eldritch:
(adj) Strange; unearthly; weird; eerie.
Elusive: 1. Tending to elude capture, perception, comprehension, or
memory 2.Difficult to define or describe.
Escapist: a person who escapes into a world of fantasy. (escapism)
Ethereal: 1.Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; intangible.
2.Highly refined; delicate. 3.Of the celestial spheres; heavenly. 4.Not of this world; spiritual.
Dulcorate: to sweeten, to make less acrimonious
Facetious: 1. Given to jesting; playfully jocular. 2. Amusing; intended
to be humorous; not serious.
Feckless: 1. not fit to assume responsibility 2. generally incompetent
and ineffectual
Fey: 1. Possessing or displaying a strange and otherworldly aspect
or quality; magical or fairylike; elfin.
2. Having power to see into the future; visionary; clairvoyant. 3. Appearing slightly
crazy, as if under a spell; touched.
Finagle: achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods
Fizgig:
1. a fishgig 2. a giddy, flirting girl 3.a kind of firework, made of damp powder, which gives a hissing or fizzing noise when
ignited.
Flagitious:
shamefully wicked; villainous; atrocious; scandalous; heinous; iniquitous; execrable
Fleer:
To smirk or laugh in contempt or derision.
Foxy: 1.Of or resembling a fox. 2.Slyly clever; crafty.
3.Having a reddish-brown color. 2.Discolored, as by age or decay; foxed. 3.Slang. Sensually attractive; sexy. 4.Having a distinctive sharp flavor or aroma
Frittle:
a temporary mark on the skin caused by the impression of a textured surface.
Fubar:
Utterly botched or confused (Fucked up beyond all recognition).
Furtive: 1. Characterized by stealth; surreptitious. 2.Expressive of
hidden motives or purposes; shifty.0.
Futile:
serving no useful purpose, frivolous, fruitless
Futilitarian:
one who believes that human striving is futile.
Illusive: Deceiving by false show; deceitful; deceptive; false; illusory; unreal.
Imbroglio:
1. confused mass. 2. an intricate or complicated situation (as in a drama or novel).3. an acutely painful or embarrassing
misunderstanding. 4. a violently confused or bitterly complicated altercation; embroilment.
Insipid: 1. Lacking flavor or zest; not tasty. 2.Lacking qualities that excite, stimulate, or interest; dull.
Invidious:
calculated to create ill will, resentment, or envy.
Junta:
a clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
Lackadaisical:
Lacking spirit, liveliness, or interest; languid
Laconic:
concise, terse
Lambent: 1.Flickering lightly over or on a surface: lambent moonlight.
2.Effortlessly light or brilliant: lambent wit. 3.Having a gentle glow; luminous.
Limpid: 1. Characterized by transparent clearness; pellucid. 2.Easily intelligible; clear 3.Calm and untroubled; serene.
Macaronic:1.
involving or characterized by a mixture of languages, especially burlesque verse in which real or coined words from two or
more languages are mixed or vernacular words of modern language/s are Latinized and mixed with Latin words and hybrid forms
2. having the nature of a medley; mixed; jumbled.
Mamman:
money personified as a false god.
Maven:
A person who has special knowledge or experience; an expert.
Megalomania: 1.A psychopathological condition characterized by delusional
fantasies of wealth, power, or omnipotence. 2.An obsession with grandiose or extravagant things or actions.
Monomania: obsession with one object
Nihilism: 1. Philosophy. An extreme form of skepticism
that denies all existence. A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and
that nothing can be known or communicated. 2.Rejection of all distinctions in moral or religious value and a willingness to
repudiate all previous theories of morality or religious belief. 3.The belief that destruction of existing political or social
institutions is necessary for future improvement. 4.also Nihilism A diffuse, revolutionary movement of mid 19th-century
Russia
that scorned authority and tradition and believed in reason, materialism, and radical change in society and government through
terrorism and assassination. 5.Psychiatry. A delusion, experienced in some mental disorders, that the world
or one's mind, body, or self does not exist.
Nugatory:
trifling, worthless, futile.
Numen:
a spiritual force or influence often identified with a natural object, phenomenon or locality
Onieric:
of or relating to dreams.
Ophidian:
of or relating to snakes.
Orotund:
1. marked by fullness, strength and clarity or sound; sonorous. 2. pompous; bombastic.
Palliate:
to make (an offense or crime) seem less serious; extenuate, to make less intense.
Phrenetic:
Wildly excited or active; frantic; frenzied. (frenetic)
Pyknic:
characterized by shortness of stature; broadness of girth, and powerful muscularity; endomorphic
Quean:
A woman regarded as being disreputable, especially a prostitute.
Rancor:
a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will
Risorial:
pertaining to or causing laughter.
Sardonic:
Scornfully or cynically mocking
Spoonerism:
The transposition of usually initial sounds in a pair of words.
Subfusc:
1) Dark or dull in color; drab, dusky. 2) Dark or dull clothing.
Sylvan: 1) Relating to or characteristic of woods or forest
regions. 2) Located in or inhabiting a wood or forest. 3) Abounding in trees; wooded
Telos:
the ultimate end
Tentative: 1. Not fully worked out, concluded, or agreed on; provisional:
tentative plans. 2.Uncertain; hesitant.
Torpor: 1.A state of mental or physical inactivity or insensibility. 2.Lethargy; apathy. 3.The dormant, inactive
state of a hibernating or estivating animal. (adj. Torporific)
Twee:
affectedly or excessively dainty, delicate, cute or quaint.
Ubiquity:
the state of being everywhere at once (or seeming to be everywhere at once)
Umbrageous:
1. shady or filled with shadows. 2. inclined to take offense easily
Unctuous:
1.Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness. 2.Having the quality or characteristics of oil or ointment;
slippery. 3.Containing or composed of oil or fat. 4.Abundant in organic materials; soft and rich: unctuous soil.
Vapid: 1.Lacking liveliness, animation, or interest; dull: vapid
conversation. 2.Lacking taste, zest, or flavor; flat: vapid beer.
Vespertilian:
of or relating to bats.
Virago: 1. A woman regarded as noisy, scolding, or domineering. 2.A
large, strong, courageous woman.
Virtuoso:
1. A musician with masterly ability, technique, or personal style. 2. A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts. 3. A person with a strong interest in the fine arts, especially in antiquities.
Zaftig:
(of a woman) having a full rounded figure; pleasingly plump.
Zeitgeist:
The spirit of the time; the general intellectual and moral state or temper characteristic of any period of time.