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An adjective meaning severe or stern in manner; without adornment or luxury, simple, plain; harsh or sour in flavor.
What is austere?
100
An adjective meaning stinging or bitter in temper or tone.
What is acrimonious?
100
A noun meaning a greedy desire, particularly for wealth.
What is avarice?
100
A noun meaning a state or scene of uproar and confusion.
What is bedlam?
100
An adjective meaning sparkling, twinkling, exceptionally brilliant (applied to mental or personal qualities).
What is scintillating?
200
An adjective meaning open to attack; capable of being wounded or damaged; unprotected.
What is vulnerable?
200
A noun meaning faithlessness or treachery
What is perfidy?
200
An adjective meaning tending to delay or procrastinate, not prompt; intended to delay or postpone.
What is dilatory?
200
A noun meaning a strong denunciation or condemnation; abusive language.
What is invective?
200
A verb meaning to make or become dry and withered; to char or scorch the surface of; to harden or make unfeeling; to parch, dessicate, singe.
What is sear
300
A verb meaning to prepare by combining ingredients, make up (as a dish); to devise, invent, or fabricate.
What is concoct?
300
An adjective meaning fat; having a large, bulky body.
What is corpulent?
300
An adjective meaning vanishing, soon passing away; light and airy.
What is evanescent?
300
An adjective meaning extremely generous or lavish.
What is munificent?
300
An adjective meaning harmful or injurious.
What is deleterious?
400
A verb meaning to find fault with, scold, or rebuke.
What is reprove?
400
A verb meaning to call into question; to attack as false.
What is impugn?
400
A noun meaning extreme poverty; barrenness, insufficiency.
What is penury?
400
A noun meaning calmness, composure, refusal to panic.
What is equanimity?
400
An adjective meaning awkward, lacking in social graces, tactless, or clumsy.
What is gauche?
500
A verb meaning to make milder or softer, to moderate in force or intensity.
What is mitigate?
500
An adjective meaning mean, low, or base.
What is ignoble?
500
A verb meaning to make less in amount, degree, etc.; to subside, become less; to nullify; to deduct, omit.
What is abate?
500
An adjective meaning showing great variety; composed of different elements or many colors; Or a noun meaning a jester's costume; a jester.
What is motley?
500
An adjective meaning moderate, sparing (as in eating and drinking); characterized by abstinence and self-discipline.
What is abstemious?