What is liberal giving (as of money) to or as if to an inferior; generosity?
100
duplicitous
What is contradictory or misleading or betraying doubleness or deceptiveness of thought, speech, or action?
100
defer
What is to put off (action, consideration, etc.) to a future time, delay OR to yield respectfully in judgment or
opinion?
100
illicit
What is not permitted; either strictly unlawful or violating consensus-based standards of behavior?
100
edict
What is a decree or legal pronouncement, issued by a sovereign or other authority?
200
strife
What is bitter, sometimes violent conflict or dissension?
[rarely takes an article--"strife" describes a general
condition rather than an individual event]
200
cogent
What is appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; at once thoughtful, clear, and efficient?
200
condescend
What is to bestow attention downwards, from an actual, or, more often, presumed position of elevated social rank
or knowledge?
200
enigmatic
What is intriguingly or subtly puzzling?
200
furrow
What is a narrow groove made in the ground, esp. by a plow?
300
qualm
What is a feeling of uneasiness, repulsion, or hesitancy that derives from a misgiving, twinge of conscience, or
concern about the motives or effects of one's actions?
300
municipal
What is relating to the public administration of a town or small community?
300
poach
What is to trespass illegally on private property, especially for hunting or fishing OR to cook (usually egg or
fish) in boiling water?
300
arable?
What is ready to be tilled as farmland; agriculturally fertile?
300
levity
What is lightness or gaiety of conduct or speech, esp. improper or unbecoming or flippant or childish?
400
umbrage
What is offense, resentment, displeasure; shade, shadow, or foliage providing it?
400
magnanimous
What is generous in overlooking injury or insult; rising above pettiness or meanness; high-souled?
400
bereave
What is to deprive (by death) of a relative or loved one OR leave orphaned or at a loss?
400
vaunted
What is energetically boasted or bragged about?
400
gantlet
What is former military punishment in which the offender had to run between two rows of men who struck
him with clubs OR series of troubles or difficulties?
500
histrionics
What are overacted or overacting, artificially emotional, melodramatic, affected?
500
tincture
What is a light color, tint, tinge; a slight trace, smattering, shade vestige, taste; a medicinal substance in a
liquid solution, especially an alcoholic solvent?
500
promulgate
What is to make (a doctrine or plan or world-view) broadly known by means of repeated, frequent, and
open declaration; proclaim?
500
fractious
What is unruly, rebellious, refractory, cross?
500
jetsam
What is the part of a ship, its equipment, or its cargo that is cast overboard to lighten the load in time of distress and that sinks or is washed ashore?