Austere

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