1. Bestow – to grant or to give
2. Burnish – to make shiny or to polish by rubbing
3. Dulcet – pleasing to the ear, melodious, euphonious
4. Epitaph – an inscription in memory of a dead person (usually on a tombstone)
5. Gambol – to playfully skip or leap
6. Grievous – characterized by severe suffering or sorrow, serious or grave
7. Impertinent – insolently rude, not within the proper bounds of good taste or manners
8. Impugn – to assail or to attack one’s honor or integrity
9. Impute – to blame or to charge
10. Malice – desire to harm others
11. Mirth – gladness and merriment usually accompanied by laughter
12. Mitigate – to cause to become less harsh or hostile; to make less severe
13. Obdurate – extremely stubborn, unwilling to accept advice
14. Obscure – difficult to see, vague
15. Presage – something that foreshadows a future event; foreknowledge of the future
16. Prodigal – wasteful, a person given to extravagance
17. Quaint – unusual in character or appearance
18. Spurn - to reject or to refuse with hostility
19. Superfluous – beyond what is needed or required, an overflow
20. Tarry – to delay in coming or going, to linger
21. Vehement – forcefully expressing emotion or conviction
22. Zeal – enthusiasm, fervor
23. Wanton – immoral, lewd
24. Trifling – not significant, frivolous
25. Abate - to reduce in intensity or amount.
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