| Efficacious | Successful in producing a desired or intended result; effective. |
| Tepid | Showing little enthusiasm. |
| Provenance | The beginning of something’s existence; something’s origin. The place of origin or earliest known history of something. |
| Onerous | Involving heavy obligations. Involving a burdensome amount of effort and difficulty. |
| Dismal | Gloomy. Depressing; dreary. |
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| Abstruse | Difficult to understand; obscure. |
| Labyrinth | A complicated irregular network of passages or paths in which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.
An intricate and confusing arrangement. |
| Bromide | A commonplace remark or notion; a platitude. |
| Doleful | Expressing sorrow; mournful. |
| Malicious | Characterized by malice; intending or intended to do harm. |
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| Vitiate | Spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of.
Destroy or impair the legal validity of. |
| Spurious | Not genuine, authentic, or true; not from the claimed, pretended, or proper source; counterfeit. Not being what it purports to be; false or fake. |
| Pejorative | Expressing contempt or disapproval. Disparaging; belittling. |
| Sardonic | Grimly mocking or cynical. |
| Veracity | Conformity to facts; accuracy.
Habitual truthfulness. |
| Salacious | Treating sexual matters in an indecent way. Lustful; lecherous. |
| Alchemy | 1. A power or process of transforming something common into something special.
2. An inexplicable or mysterious process by which paradoxical results are achieved with no obvious rational explanation. |
| Vitriol | Cruel, bitter, scathing criticism; Abusive feeling or expression. |
| Capacious | Having a lot of space inside; roomy. |
| Predacious | Predatory; Given to victimizing, plundering, or destroying for one’s own gain. |
| Tactile | (1) Of or connected with the sense of touch.
(2) Perceptible by touch or apparently so; tangible |
| Facetious | Treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor; flippant. |
| Existential | (1) Of or relating to existence.
(2) Concerned with existence, esp. human existence as viewed in the theories of existentialism. |
| Caprice | A sudden and unaccountable change of mood or behavior. |
| Indolent | Having or showing a disposition to avoid exertion; slothful, lazy. |
| Luminous | Bright or shining, esp. in the dark. Glowing with health, vigor, or a particular emotion. |
| Mitigate | (1) Make less severe, serious, or painful.
(2) Lessen the gravity of (an offense or mistake). |
| Determinate | Having exact and discernible limits or form. |
| Divergence | (1) A difference or conflict in opinions, interests, wishes, etc.
(2) The process or state of diverging. |
| Propitious | (1) Indicating a good chance of success; favorable.
(2) Favorably disposed toward someone. |
| Endemic | Native to a specific region or environment and not occurring naturally anywhere else. |
| Atrocious | Horrifyingly wicked.
Of a very poor quality; extremely bad or unpleasant. |
| Abysmal | Extremely bad; appalling. |
| Fractious | (1) Easily irritated; bad-tempered.
(2) (of an organization) Difficult to control; unruly. |
| Austerity | (1) Sternness or severity of manner or attitude.
(2) Extreme plainness and simplicity of style or appearance. |
| Didactic | (1) Intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive.
(2) In the manner of a teacher, particularly so as to treat someone in a patronizing way. |
| Masticate | To chew (as in food). To reduce to pulp by crushing, grinding or kneading. |
| Lascivious | Feeling or revealing an overt and often offensive sexual desire. |
| Superfluous | Unnecessary, being beyond what is required or sufficient. |
| Paradox | A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. An opinion or statement contrary to commonly accepted opinion, but may be factual. |
| Vacuous | Having or showing a lack of thought or intelligence. |
| Garrulous | Excessively talkative, especially on trivial matters. |
| Insolent | Showing a rude or arrogant lack of respect. |
| Innervate | To stimulate or supply nervous energy. |
| Decadent | n. A person who is luxuriously self-indulgent.
adj. Characterized by or reflecting a state of decay or cultural decline, as in being self-indulgent or morally corrupt. |
| Vacillate | Alternate or waver between different opinions or actions; be indecisive. |
| Tenacious | 1. Not readily letting go of, giving up, or separated from an object that one holds, a position, or a principle.
2. Not easily dispelled or discouraged; persisting in existence or in a course of action. |
| Pundit | 1. Somebody who expresses an opinion: somebody who acts as a critic or authority on a particular subject, especially in the media.
2. Somebody wise: somebody with knowledge and wisdom. |
| Juxtapose | To place side by side, especially for comparison or contrast. |
| Agnostic | A person who believes that nothing is known or can be known of the existence or nature of God or of anything beyond material phenomena. |
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