The Archive
- Galvanise
To shock or excite someone into taking action.
- Nefarious
Sinful, villainous, criminal, or wicked, especially when noteworthy or notorious for such characteristics.
- Calligraphic
Relating to or characteristic of beautiful handwriting or calligraphy.
- Obsequious
Obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree.
- Scrutinise
To examine something with great care.
- Churlish
Rude in a mean-spirited and surly way.
- Enervate
To reduce strength or energy; debilitate.
- Sanguine
Optimistic or positive, especially in an apparently bad or difficult situation.
- tergiversation
The use of equivocal language; evasion of straightforward action or clear-cut commitment.
- Ostracise
To ban a person from a city for five or ten years through the procedure of ostracism.
- Palaver
A village council meeting.
- Ameliorate
To make better, or improve, something perceived to be in a negative condition.
- Garrulous
Excessively or tiresomely talkative.
- Pusillanimous
Showing ignoble cowardice, or contemptible timidity.
- Quixotic
Possessing or acting with the desire to do noble and romantic deeds, without thought of realism and practicality; exceedingly idealistic.
- Organise
To arrange in working order.
- Mellifluous
Flowing like honey.
- Assiduous
Hard-working, diligent or regular (in attendance or work); industrious.
- cacophony
A mix of discordant sounds; dissonance.
- ubiquitous
Being everywhere at once: omnipresent.
- ephemeral
Something which lasts for a short period of time.
- fastidious
Excessively particular, demanding, or fussy about details, especially about tidiness and cleanliness.
- sycophant
One who uses obsequious compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another; a servile flatterer.
- mellifluous
Flowing like honey.
- obfuscate
To make dark; overshadow
- defenestrate
To eject or throw (someone or something) from a window; compare transfenestrate.
- perspicacious
Of acute discernment; having keen insight; mentally perceptive.
- susurration
A low, indistinct continuous whispering sound; a murmur.