1. Abject – brought low in condition, of the lowest degree 2. Abscond – to go away secretly, to hide 3. Abundant - many 4. Aloof - distant 5. Assess – to estimate 6. Barb - insult 7. Behemoth – a large animal or person 8. Bias - prejudice 9. Bibliophile – one who loves books 10. Bondage - slavery 11. Breadth – width, range, coverage, extent 12. Communal – public 13. Compile – gather, to assemble from different sources 14. Concave – curved inward 15. Concoct – to invent, create by combining ingredients 16. Conjecture – assumption based on incomplete evidence 17. Critique - critical 18. Dejected - depressed 19. Detain – to keep in custody 20. Devious – cunning 21. Diaphanous – transparent, thin, delicate 22. Disaffected – rebellious, against authority 23. Disort – to change in an unusual form 24. Dolor - sorrow 25. Eject – to cast out 26. Embryonic – not yet developed 27. Eradicate – to eliminate all traces 28. Extravagant – excessive, elaborate 29. Fancy – mind-created image 30. Farfetched – improbable , unlikely 31. Fashion – to make 32. Feckless - careless 33. Fulsome – insincere, repulsive 34. Gadfly – an annoyer 35. Garish – unpleasant bright colors 36. Glacial – very slow 37. Hamper – to keep from moving freely 38. Herculean – unusual size, power, or difficulty, 39. Hinder – to keep back 40. Immense – not a measurable size 41. Impasse – dead end 42. Impromptu – unprepared 43. Indulgent – giving in desires 44. Inhibit – to hold back 45. Inject – to force something in 46. Interject – to insert between things, interrupt 47. Jar – harsh sound, sudden shake 48. Loiter – delay, stand with no purpose 49. Lumber – to move clumsily 50. Luxuriant – richness, extravagance, fertile 51. Macroscopic – large enough to be seen by the unaided eye 52. Magnitude – greatness in size 53. Meticulous - precise 54. Nice – showing great precision 55. Objective - realistic 56. Oppress – dominate with power 57. Pertinacious – stubborn beliefs 58. Perturb - disturbing 59. Platitude - commonplace 60. Prescient – knowing things before they occur 61. Prod – to poke/stab 62. Projectile – thrown or fired 63. Purport - claimed 64. Reckon – to calculate 65. Recur – to repeat 66. Reminisce – to think back of past 67. Renown - fame 68. Ricochet – to rebound from surface 69. Saunter – to walk relaxing 70. Score – to make cuts 71. Scrutiny – close examination 72. Season- to accustom, adapt 73. Seethe - violently excited, boil 74. Solicitous – anxious concern 75. Sparse – not crowed, thinly spread 76. Squander - wasting 77. Static – not moving 78. Stringent – constricted 79. Subjective – based on personal experience 80. Subside – to settle down 81. Subsidy - assistance 82. Surrogate - substitute 83. Sustenance – support if life or health, sustain 84. Tacit – unspoken but understood 85. Tarry – to delay 86. Tenacious – holding firmly 87. Tenant - someone who rents a place for work or to live 88. Tenet – a belief 89. Titanic – very large 90. Totter – to sway but about to fall 91. Trajectory - path 92. Unbraid – to criticize sharply, by figure of authority 93. Unctuous – oily, insincere 94. Unruly - difficult to control 95. Unwieldy – hard to manage 96. Vestige – a trace that existed 97. Vigilant – alert and watchful 98. Wangle – to influence 99. Waver – to be uncertain
100. Woebegone – affected with great sadness