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Words
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Meanings
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| Surly | rude and bad tempered |
| Zealot | someone passionately devoted to a cause |
| Myopic | lacking foresight; having a narrow view or long range perspective |
| Proclivity | a natural inclination or predisposition |
| Encomium | warm praise |
| Gestation | growth process from conception to birth |
| Fawn | to grovel |
| Dissonance | a harsh and disagreeable combination, especially of sounds |
| Ebullient | exhilarated; full of enthusiasm and high spirits |
| Cogent | convincing and well reasoned |
| Ingratiate | to gain favor with another by deliberate effort; to seek to please somebody so as to gain an advantage |
| Castigate | to punish or criticize harshly |
| Florid | excessively decorated or embellished |
| Boor | crude person, one lacking manners or taste |
| Plastic | able to be molded, altered, or bent |
| Jettison | to discard; to get rid of as unnecessary or encumbering |
| Yoke | to join together |
| Precipitate | to throw violently or bring about abruptly; lacking deliberation |
| Waver | to fluctuate between choices |
| Demagogue | disapproving a person, especially a political leader, who wins by exciting people rather than good ideas |