to lessen seriousness by providing partial excuses
Extenuate
100
to follow an indirect route or course, especially one with twists;
meander
100
to feel alienated from someone or others
estranged
200
to turn aside from a course; to stray
Deviate
200
best; most favorable; ideal
Optimum
200
1)to soil, stain, or tarnish and relating to or belonging to ordinary people in society, such as the social class often
referred to as blue‐collar or working‐class
sully and plebeian
200
likely to change, especially in opinions, intentions, loyalties, or preferences; indecisive
fickle
300
accidental; nonessential
Adventitious
300
to ask persistently; to beg and a violent change
Importune and Cataclysm
300
a defensive fortification or wall, usually made of an earthen embankment and something that is different from the norm or from what people expect
rampart and anomaly
300
friendly and pleasant to be with
amiable
400
ordinary or dull and fertile; productive
Pedestrian and Fecund
400
open to more than one interpretation and to stare angrily
Ambiguous and Glower
400
to say something sharp, angry, witty or insulting in a quick response to what someone else has said and unsuitable, strange, or out of place in a particular setting or context
retort and incongruous
400
genuinely and deeply sorry about something
contrite
500
to confuse; to bewilder and to pierce with a sharp stake through the body