Amenity (n) That which is pleasant or agreeable; (pl) attractive features, customs, etc. ***amiable.
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Amenity (n)That which is pleasant or agreeable; (pl) attractive features, customs, etc.
***amiable
Aperture (n)An opening, gap, hole; orifice
Dissidence (n)A difference of opinion; discontent
***disagreement
Epicurean (adj)(n)Devoted to the pursuit of pleasure; fond of good food, comfort, and ease; with discriminating tastes; (n) a person with discriminating taste
***some Europeans live an epicurean lifestyle
Improvident (adj)Not thrifty; failing to plan ahead
***not (im) providing (provident) – not providing for future
Iniquity (n)Wickedness, sin; a grossly immoral act
***immorality
Inviolable (adj)Sacred; of such a character that it must not be broken injured, or profaned
***can’t be violated
Mutable (adj)Open to or capable of change, fickle
***mutation
Nascent (adj) Just beginning to exist or develop; having just come into existence
***newly sent
Obeisance (n)A deep bow or other body movement indicating respect or submission; deference, homage
***showing obedience
Panegyric (n)Formal or elaborate praise; a tribute
***praise and lyric
Pillory (n) (v)A devise for publicly punishing offenders; a means for exposing one to public contempt or ridicule; (v) to expose to public contempt or ridicule
***Pillory is Public Punishment
Pittance (n)a woefully meager allowance, wage or portion
*** it’s a pity that there’s not more
Presage (v)To foreshadow or point to a future event; to predict; (n) a warning or indication of the future
***predict
Progeny (n) Descendants, offspring, children, followers, disciples
***pro-genetics
Promulgate (v)To proclaim or issue officially; to make known far and wide
***go with me and “prom will be great!!”
Rectitude (n)Uprightness, righteousness; correctness
***right attitude
Restive (adj)Restless, hard to manage, balky
***”rest is” not possible
Seraphic (adj)Angelic, heavenly, celestial
***angelic, cherubic
Subsist (v)To have existence; to remain alive, manage to make a living or maintain life; to persist or continue
***exist