distinterested
venerate
demur
auspicious
gregarious
censure
amorphous
undermine
calumny
prevaricate
artful
travesty
mollify
prevaricate
venality
betray
impertinent
calumny
mawkish
conspicuous
preclude
culpability
*torpor
gall
culminate
mitigate
dogmatic
superfluous
*didactic
querulous
cryptic
aesthetic
germane
gossamer
impudent
apathetic
perfidy
diffident
obscure
audacious
deferential
fortuitous
engender
recondite
gainsay
bucolic
entrenched
frivolous
prescience
inexorable
incisive
vociferous
meticulous
banal
decorous
predilection
concede
glut
exacerbate
rustic
platitude
reticent
lambast
volubility
chortle
eschew
aesthete
dictatorial
March 8, 2018
The acrimony between the president and vice-president sent a clear signal to voters: the health of the current administration was imperiled
White-band disease imperils coral reefs
Technology can affect and possibly imperil civilization
March 15, 2018
According to those who do not believe in climate change, the extreme weather over the last five years is simply anomalous - daily temperatures should return to their old averages, they believe.
an anomalous situation
it's an anomalous birthmark.
Successful professional athletes who do not fall prey to prodigality seem to be the exception - most live a decadent lives.
Prodigal habits die hard
a prodigal feast
the prodigal prince
a composer who is prodigal with his talents
nature has been so prodigal of her bounty - H. T. Buckle
After being caught in bed with a mistress, the mayor was quickly censured by the city council.
A judge was censured in 1983 for a variety of types of injudicious conduct
Angry delegates offered a resolution of censure against the offenders
March 16, 2018
The band's music was an amalgam of hip-hop, flamenco and jazz, blending the three styles with surprising results.
a curious amalgam of the traditional and the modern
March 17, 2018
The smile on her face belies the pain she must feel after the death of her husband.
His lively alert manner belied his years.
His eyes belied his words.
The notebooks belie Darwin's later recollection.
At first Mansfred's teacher intimated to his parents that he was not suited to skip a grade; when his parents protested, teachers implicitly told them that, notwithstanding the boy's precocity, he was simply two immature to jump to the 6th grade.
he had already intimated he might not be able to continue.
Mr. Hutchison has intimated his decision to retire.
Huge fines were imposed for trivial offenses.
I used to be quite a trivial person.
the crowd grew restive as the comedian's jokes fell flat.
the restive horse threw its head and refused to move when the rider urged it forward.
spend a restive night worrying about next day's exam
March 19, 2018
Katie is so parsimonious that she only buys a new pair of socks if all of her other pairs of socks have holes on them.
parsimonious New Hampshire voters, who have phobia about taxes
Aberrations in climate have become norm - rarely a week goes by without some meteorological phenomenon make headlines.
They described the outbreak of violence in the area as an aberration.
a statistical aberration
The coach told the team: "move towards that side of the field"; because he did not point, his directions were ambiguous and the team had no idea to which side he is referring.
The question is rather ambiguous.
March 20, 2018
Notwithstanding a brilliant defense, he was found guilty.
It was the same material, notwithstanding the texture seemed different.
The cynic quipped: "there is not much variance in politicians, they all seem to prevaricate.
He seemed to prevaricate when journalists asked pointed questions.
March 21, 2018
The convicted felony's life sentence was commensurate with the heinousness of his crime.
Salary will be commensurate with experience.
Chris qualified his love for San Francisco, adding he did not like the weather there as much as he liked the weather in Los Angels.
His sincere piety and his large heart always qualify his errors.
She felt obliged to qualify her first short answer.
Though chastised for eating the snacks for the party, Lawrence shrugged off his mother's harsh words, and continued to plow through jars of cookies and boxes of donuts.
The staff were chastised for arriving later.
March 22, 2018
Sam was ambivalent about studying for the exam because doing so ate up a lot of his time, yet he was able to improve his analytical skills.
Some loved her, some hatred her, few were ambivalent about her.
The need to relocate has made her ambivalent about the promotion.
June 15, 2018
pedestrian
While Nan was always engaged in philosophical speculation, her brother was occupied with far more pedestrian concerns: how to earn a salary and run a household.
subversive
The ruling political party has begun a campaign to shut down subversive websites that it deems as a threat to "national safety"
ostracize
Later in his life, Leo Tolstoy was ostracized from the Russian Orthodox Church for his writings that contradicted the church doctrine.
6/18/2018
hegemony
Germany was united under Prussian hegemony after 1871.
Until the Spanish Armada was defeated in 1587, Spain had hegemony over the seas, controlling waters stretching as far as the Americas.
dilettante
Fred has no formal medical training; while he likes to claim authority on medical issues, he is little more than a dilettante
there is no room for the dilettante in this business
6/19/2018
tempered
The wide_eyed optimism of her youth was now tempered after she had worked many years in the criminal justice system.
Their idealism is tempered with realism.
6/21/2018
reverent (reverence n. veneration n. venerate v.)
a reverent silence
The professor could speak objectively about the other composers, but he always lectured about Brahms in a particularly reverent air, unable to offer a single criticism of his compositions.
6/25/2018
winsome
she was winsome in nature, and many people were drawn to this free and playful spirit.
He had a winsome, and boyish smile.
She is a bright, winsome gamine who could draw a smile out of anyone.
sporadic
sporadic fights broke out.
sporadic protests
sporadic diseases
The signals were at first sporadic, but now we detect a clear, consistence pattern of electromagnetic radiation from deep space.