front 1 asceticism | back 1 (n) practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline |
front 2 dint | back 2 (n) force; power |
front 3 envoy | back 3 (n) a minister plenipotentiary authorized to a foreign gov. who ranks between an ambassador and a minister resident |
front 4 defray | back 4 (transitive v) to provide for the payment of |
front 5 crass | back 5 (adj) having or indicating such grossness of mind as prevents delicacy and discrimination |
front 6 beguile | back 6 (v) to lead by deception |
front 7 allocate | back 7 (transitive v) to apportion for a specific purpose or to particular person or things |
front 8 enjoins | back 8 (transitive v) to direct or impose by authoritative order or with urgent warning |
front 9 oscillate | back 9 (intransitive v) to swing back and forward like a pendulum ; to move or travel back and forth between two points |
front 10 interloper | back 10 (n) an illegal or unlicensed trader |
front 11 incarcerate | back 11 (transitive v) to put in prison |
front 12 vacuous | back 12 (adj) emptied of or lacking content |
front 13 akimbo | back 13 (adj) having the hand on the hip and the elbow turned outward |
front 14 jubilant | back 14 (adj) showing great joy, satisfaction, or triumph; rejoicing; exultant |
front 15 presumptuous | back 15 (adj) overstepping due bounds (as of proprietary or courtesy) : taking liberties |
front 16 pecuniary | back 16 (adj) consisting of or measured in money |
front 17 licentious | back 17 (adj) lacking legal or moral restraints; especially: disregarding sexual restraints |
front 18 muse | back 18 (v) to become absorbed in thought; especially: to turn something over in the mind meditatively and often inconclusively |
front 19 subversive | back 19 (n) a systematic attempt to overthrow or undermine a gov. or political system by persons working secretly from within |
front 20 lassitude | back 20 (n) a condition of weariness or debility |
front 21 vacillate | back 21 (intransitive v) to sway through lack of equilibrium |
front 22 initiative | back 22 (n) an introductory act or step; leading action |
front 23 disparity | back 23 (adj) containing or made up of fundamentally different and often incongruous elements |
front 24 avocation | back 24 (n) something a person does in addition to a principal occupation, esp. for pleasure; hobby |
front 25 efficacy | back 25 (n) the power to produce an effect |
front 26 capricious | back 26 (adj) subject to, led by, or indicative or caprice or whim; erratic |
front 27 reticent | back 27 (adj) inclined to be silent or uncommunicative in speech |
front 28 hospice | back 28 (n) a lodging for travelers, young persons, or the underprivileged esp. when maintained by religious order |
front 29 moribund | back 29 (adj) being in the state of dying: approaching death |
front 30 risque | back 30 (adj) verging on impropriety or indecency |