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Austere

Austere. Severe or stern in manner; without adornment or luxury, simple, plain: harsh or sour in flavor. Beneficent. Performing acts of kindness or charity; conferring benefits, doing good. Cadaverous. Pale, gaunt, resembling a corpse. Concoct.

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Austere

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  1. Austere • Severe or stern in manner; without adornment or luxury, simple, plain: harsh or sour in flavor

  2. Beneficent • Performing acts of kindness or charity; conferring benefits, doing good

  3. Cadaverous • Pale, gaunt, resembling a corpse

  4. Concoct • To prepare by combining ingredients, make up (as a dish); to devise , invent, fabricate

  5. Crass • Coarse, unfeeling; stupid

  6. Debase • To lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade, adulterate; to cause to deteriorate

  7. Desecrate • To commit sacrilege upon, treat irreverently; to contaminate, pollute

  8. Disconcert • To confuse; to disturb the composure of

  9. Grandiose • Grand in an impressive or stately way; marked by pompous affectation or grandeur, absurdly exaggerated

  10. Inconsequential • Trifling, unimportant

  11. Infraction • A breaking of a law or obligation

  12. Mitigate • To make milder or softer, to moderate in force or intensity

  13. Pillage • To rob of goods by open force (as in war), plunder; the act of looting; booty

  14. Prate • To talk a great deal in a foolish or aimless fashion

  15. Punctilious • Very careful and exact, attentive to fine points of etiquette or propriety

  16. Redoubtable • Inspiring fear or awe; illustrious, eminent

  17. Reprove • To find fault with, scold, rebuke

  18. Restitution • The act of restoring someone or something to the rightful owner or to a former state or position; making good on a loss or damage

  19. Stalwart • Strong and sturdy; brave; resolute; a brave, strong person; a strong supporter; one who takes an uncompromising position

  20. Vulnerable • Open to attack; capable of being wounded or damaged; unprotected

  21. Acrimonious • Stinging, bitter in temper or tone

  22. Bovine • Resembling a cow or ox; sluggish, unresponsive

  23. Consternation • Dismay, confusion

  24. Corpulent • Fat; having a large, bulky body

  25. Disavow • To deny responsibility for or connection with

  26. Dispassionate • Impartial; calm, free from emotion

  27. Dissension • Disagreement, sharp difference of opinion

  28. Dissipate • To cause to disappear; to scatter, dispel; to spend foolishly, squander; to be extravagant in pursuit of pleasure

  29. Expurgate • To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse, purify

  30. Gauntlet • An armored or protective glove; a challenge; two lines of men armed with weapons with which to beat a person forced to run between them; an ordeal

  31. Hypothetical • Based on an assumption or guess; used as a provisional or tentative idea to guide or direct investigation

  32. Ignoble • Mean, low, base

  33. Impugn • To call into question; to attack as false

  34. Intemperate • Immoderate, lacking in self-control; inclement

  35. Odium • Hatred, contempt; disgrace or infamy resulting from hateful conduct

  36. Perfidy • Faithlessness, treachery

  37. Relegate • To place in a lower position; to assign, refer, turn over; to banish

  38. Squeamish • Inclined to nausea; easily shocked or upset; excessively fastidious or refined

  39. Subservient • Subordinate in capacity or role; submissively obedient; serving to promote some end

  40. Susceptible • Open to; easily influenced; lacking in resistance

  41. Abate • To make less in amount, degree, etc,; to subside, become less; to nullify; to deduct, omit

  42. Adulation • Praise or flattery that is excessive

  43. Anathema • An object of intense dislike; a curse or strong denunciation (often used adjectivally without the article)

  44. Astute • Shrewd, crafty, showing practical wisdom

  45. Avarice • A greedy desire, particularly for wealth

  46. Culpable • Deserving blame, worthy of condemnation

  47. Dilatory • Tending to delay or procrastinate, not prompt; intended to delay or postpone

  48. Egregious • Conspicuous, standing out from the mass (used particularly in an unfavorable sense)

  49. Equivocate • To speak or act in a way that allows for more than one interpretation; to be deliberately vague or ambiguous

  50. Evanescent • Vanishing, soon passing away; light and airy

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