a night watch; the eve of a religious festival or holy day, or ceremony performed on that eve;
What is a vigil?
100
projecting a buoyant, self-confident air and charm; brisk
What is jaunty?
100
to depart in a sudden and secret manner, esp. to avoid legal prosecution
What is abscond?
100
characterized by habitual lying
What is mendacious
100
a spurious imitation; fraud or hoax
What is a sham?
200
a welcome, perhaps unexpected, benefit or blessing; generous, merry, convivial, pleasant [of a friend]?
What is a boon?
200
rudely brief in speech or abrupt in manner
What is curt?
200
to disclose or reveal (us. something that was meant to be hidden or obscured or secret)
What is divulge?
200
upsetting the composure or ease or self-possession of
What is disconcerting?
200
moral uprightness; righteousness; right judgment; quality of being honorable and honest
What is rectitude?
300
a violent attack or outburst of a (specified) emotion or activity; a fit, a convulsion
What is paroxysm?
300
showily but falsely attractive; of, pertaining to, characteristic of a prostitute
What is meretricious?
300
to combine together (often elements that would not otherwise be seen as related, or perhaps elements
whose meaningful differences get obscured or confused when combined)
What is to conflate?
300
anticipatory, pre-supposed; preceding an argument so as to anticipate and preclude objection
What is proleptic?
300
a mark, trace, or visible sign of something no longer present or in existence; a piece of evidence, an indication; a surviving remnant
What is vestige?
400
knowingness about how to do things properly, effectively, elegantly
What is savoir faire?
400
to do with clothes and being well dressed [not used to modify persons]
What is sartorial?
400
to avow or verify; contend or justify; affirm confidently; declare positively
What is aver?
400
occuring everyday; commonplace
What is quotidian?
400
a vague feeling of physical discomfort or uneasiness or inertia, as early in a illness
What is malaise?
500
clever and witty conversational retorts, whether by an individual or by several members of a
conversing group
What is repartee?
500
belonging, referring, or appropriate to the time before the Flood described in Genesis
What is antediluvian?
500
to whip; scourge; to punish or berate as if with a whip
What is flagellate?
500
of, pertaining to, or hovering about, or constituting a transitional or initial