Lang Vocab

ameliorate

to improve

auspicious

favorable

benevolent

kind

bilk

to cheat

depravity

moral corruption

desecrate

to profane a holy place

diffident

showing modest reserve

efface

to erase

envenom

to cause bitterness and bad feeling

euphony

pleasant sound

fastidious

hard to please

harangue

noise; attacking speech

histrionic

characteristic of acting or a stage performance

insipid

bland

insolent

marked by casual disrespect

jocular

joking

mordant

harshly ironic or sinister

obsequious

attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery

pragmatic

practical

prosaic

dull

provincial

narrow-minded

remuneration

payment for work done

saccharine

overly sweet

scrupulous

diligent

supercilious

arrogant

sycophant

a bootlicker

taciturn

quiet

tawdry

of little value

tenuous

flimsy; not solid