pierce through or fix on something pointed; transfix
What is to impale?
100
manually dextrous; cleverly skillful or resourceful
What is adroit?
100
a natural liking for or attraction to a person, thing, idea,
What is an affinity?
100
to cover with a thin layer of high-quality material,
What is to veneer?
200
external front portion of a building [t
What is a facade?
200
to think or worry over in solitude and at length
What is to brood?
200
unyielding in one's commitment or opinion or intent
What is adamant?
200
a body of clients
What is clientele?
200
to hold back, keep back, restrain
What is to withhold?
300
a night watch
What is vigil?
300
to check or inhibit (actions or desires)
What is to repress?
300
burning or eating away by a chemical action; cutting, biting, stinging, sardonic, sarcastic
any person who assumes for him/herself the authority normally resting in the law
What is caustic?
300
something or someone accursed, detested, and/or assigned to damnation
What is anathema?
300
to do without; abstain from; give up
What is to forgo?
400
approval, sanction [used in a more weighty, formal, permanent sense than "approval"]
What is approbation?
400
What is to make mild, soft, or tender; to make less severe?
What is to mitigate?
400
associated with or peculiar to a particular or remote province or area; out of touch with cosmopolitan or
global trends and values
What is provincial?
400
shine of reflected light off of a surface; gloss, sheen, radiance, brightness; reflecting quality of a mineral or
gemstone
What is luster?
400
to operate or work with effective or persuasive force
What is to militate?
500
"levels" of society comprised by people with similar social, cultural, or economic profiles
What is strata?
500
to incite, prompt, as if by prodding with a stick
What is to goad?
500
lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts or feelings; bubbling and brimming over with exuberance
What is ebullient?
500
a sly trick or tactic used to conceal the identity of its agent or to influence or motivate someone to do
something unusual for them
What is a ruse?
500
without permission or welcome, to overstep or break or go beyond a legal or social or political boundary