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  1. abridge
    lessen, diminish, or curtail
  2. compendium
    a publication containing a variety of works
  3. cursory
    hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
  4. syllabus
    a summary or outline of what will be covered in an academic course
  5. curtail
    terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end
  6. synopsis
    a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument
  7. terse
    brief and to the point
  8. abrupt
    exceedingly sudden and unexpected
  9. apace
    rapidly; in a speedy manner
  10. headlong
    with the upper or anterior part of the body foremost
  11. impetuous
    characterized by undue haste and lack of thought
  12. precipitate
    bring about abruptly
  13. abet
    assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing
  14. advocate
    a person who pleads for a person, cause, or idea
  15. ancillary
    furnishing added support
  16. bolster
    support and strengthen
  17. corroborate
    give evidence for
  18. countenance
    the appearance conveyed by a person's face
  19. espouse
    choose and follow a theory, idea, policy, etc.
  20. mainstay
    a prominent supporter
  21. munificent
    given or giving freely, generously, or without restriction
  22. proponent
    a person who argues for a cause or puts forward an idea
  23. stalwart
    having rugged physical strength
  24. sustenance
    the act of providing a means of subsistence or survival
  25. bilious
    relating to a digestive juice secreted by the liver
  26. dudgeon
    a feeling of intense righteous anger
  27. irascible
    quickly aroused to anger
  28. pettish
    easily irritated or annoyed
  29. petulant
    easily irritated or annoyed
  30. pique
    call forth, as an emotion, feeling, or response
  31. querulous
    habitually complaining
  32. umbrage
    a feeling of anger caused by being offended
  33. waspish
    very irritable
  34. dilettante
    an amateur engaging in an activity without serious intention
  35. fledgling
    young bird that has just become capable of flying
  36. neophyte
    a participant with no experience with an activity
  37. novitiate
    the period during which you are a novice
  38. proselyte
    a new convert, especially to a religion
  39. tyro
    someone new to a field or activity
  40. burgeon
    grow and flourish
  41. callow
    young and inexperienced
  42. engender
    call forth
  43. inchoate
    only partly in existence; imperfectly formed
  44. incipient
    only partly in existence; imperfectly formed
  45. nascent
    being born or beginning
  46. acerbic
    sour or bitter in taste
  47. acidulous
    being sour to the taste
  48. acrimonious
    marked by strong resentment or cynicism
  49. asperity
    harshness of manner
  50. caustic
    capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action
  51. mordacious
    biting or given to biting
  52. mordant
    harshly ironic or sinister
  53. trenchant
    having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought
  54. audacious
    disposed to venture or take risks
  55. courageous
    able to face and deal with danger or fear without flinching
  56. dauntless
    invulnerable to fear or intimidation
  57. banal
    repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
  58. fatuous
    devoid of intelligence
  59. hackneyed
    repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
  60. insipid
    lacking interest or significance or impact
  61. mundane
    found in the ordinary course of events
  62. pedestrian
    lacking wit or imagination
  63. platitude
    a trite or obvious remark
  64. prosaic
    lacking wit or imagination
  65. quotidian
    found in the ordinary course of events
  66. trite
    repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
  67. bacchanalian
    used of riotously drunken merrymaking
  68. debauchery
    a wild gathering
  69. depraved
    deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper
  70. dissipated
    unrestrained by convention or morality
  71. iniquity
    absence of moral or spiritual values
  72. libertine
    unrestrained by convention or morality
  73. libidinous
    driven by lust
  74. licentious
    lacking moral discipline
  75. reprobate
    a person without moral scruples
  76. ribald
    humorously vulgar
  77. scrupulous
    characterized by extreme care and great effort
  78. salacious
    suggestive of or tending to moral looseness
  79. sordid
    foul and run-down and repulsive
  80. turpitude
    a corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice
  81. capricious
    determined by chance or impulse rather than by necessity
  82. mercurial
    liable to sudden unpredictable change
  83. volatile
    liable to lead to sudden change or violence
  84. counterpart
    a person or thing having the same function as another
  85. emulate
    strive to equal or match, especially by imitating
  86. facsimile
    an exact copy or reproduction
  87. factitious
    not produced by natural forces; artificial or fake
  88. paradigm
    a standard or typical example
  89. precursor
    something indicating the approach of something or someone
  90. quintessence
    the most typical example or representative of a type
  91. simulate
    reproduce someone's behavior or looks
  92. vicarious
    experienced at secondhand
  93. aspersion
    a disparaging remark
  94. belittle
    cause to seem lesser or inferior
  95. berate
    censure severely or angrily
  96. calumny
    a false accusation of an offense
  97. castigate
    inflict severe punishment on
  98. decry
    express strong disapproval of
  99. defame
    charge falsely or with malicious intent
  100. denounce
    speak out against
  101. deride
    treat or speak of with contempt
  102. diatribe
    thunderous verbal attack
  103. disparage
    express a negative opinion of
  104. excoriate
    express strong disapproval of
  105. gainsay
    take exception to
  106. harangue
    a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion
  107. impugn
    attack as false or wrong
  108. inveigh
    complain bitterly
  109. lambaste
    censure severely or angrily
  110. objurgate
    censure severely
  111. obloquy
    state of disgrace resulting from public abuse
  112. opprobrium
    a state of extreme dishonor
  113. pillory
    criticize harshly or violently
  114. rebuke
    an act or expression of criticism and censure
  115. remonstrate
    argue in protest or opposition
  116. reprehend
    express strong disapproval of
  117. reprove
    reprimand, scold, or express dissatisfaction with
  118. revile
    spread negative information about
  119. tirade
    a speech of violent denunciation
  120. vituperative
    marked by harshly abusive criticism
  121. bereaved
    sorrowful through loss or deprivation
  122. cadaver
    the dead body of a human being
  123. defunct
    no longer in force or use; inactive
  124. demise
    the time when something ends
  125. dolorous
    showing sorrow
  126. elegy
    a mournful poem; a lament for the dead
  127. knell
    ring as in announcing death
  128. lament
    a cry of sorrow and grief
  129. macabre
    shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
  130. moribund
    being on the point of death
  131. sepulcher
    a chamber that is used as a grave
  132. wraith
    a ghostly figure, especially one seen shortly before death
  133. abnegate
    deny or renounce
  134. abstain
    refrain from doing, consuming, or partaking in something
  135. ascetic
    someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline
  136. spartan
    marked by simplicity, frugality, or self-denial
  137. stoic
    seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive
  138. temperate
    not extreme
  139. authoritarian
    characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule
  140. despotic
    having the characteristics of a tyrannical ruler
  141. dogmatic
    pertaining to a code of beliefs accepted as authoritative
  142. hegemony
    the dominance or leadership of one social group over others
  143. imperious
    having or showing arrogant superiority
  144. peremptory
    putting an end to all debate or action
  145. tyrannical
    characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule
  146. abstruse
    difficult to understand
  147. obscure
    not clearly understood or expressed
  148. turbid
    clouded as with sediment
  149. ambiguous
    having more than one possible meaning
  150. arcane
    requiring secret or mysterious knowledge
  151. opaque
    not clearly understood or expressed
  152. enigmatic
    not clear to the understanding
  153. bemused
    perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements
  154. cryptic
    having a secret or hidden meaning
  155. inscrutable
    difficult or impossible to understand
  156. paradox
    a statement that contradicts itself
  157. perplexed
    full of difficulty or confusion or bewilderment
  158. recondite
    difficult to understand
  159. defile
    make dirty or spotty
  160. fetid
    offensively malodorous
  161. invidious
    containing or implying a slight or showing prejudice
  162. noisome
    causing or able to cause nausea
  163. odious
    extremely repulsive or unpleasant
  164. putrid
    in an advanced state of decomposition and having a foul odor
  165. rebarbative
    serving or tending to repel
  166. articulate
    express or state clearly
  167. cogent
    powerfully persuasive
  168. eloquent
    expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively
  169. evident
    clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment
  170. limpid
    clear and bright
  171. lucid
    transparently clear; easily understandable
  172. pellucid
    transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity
  173. aberrant
    markedly different from an accepted norm
  174. anachronism
    locating something at a time when it couldn't have existed
  175. anomalous
    deviating from the general or common order or type
  176. discrete
    constituting a separate entity or part
  177. eclectic
    selecting what seems best of various styles or ideas
  178. esoteric
    understandable only by an enlightened inner circle
  179. iconoclast
    someone who attacks cherished ideas or institutions
  180. abash
    cause to be embarrassed
  181. chagrin
    strong feelings of embarrassment
  182. rue
    feel sorry for; be contrite about
  183. compunction
    a feeling of deep regret, usually for some misdeed
  184. diffident
    showing modest reserve
  185. expiate
    make amends for
  186. foible
    a minor weakness or peculiarity in someone's character
  187. gaucherie
    the quality of being rustic or gauche
  188. equitable
    fair to all parties as dictated by reason and conscience
  189. equity
    the quality of being fair, reasonable, or impartial
  190. tantamount
    being essentially equal to something
  191. apocryphal
    being of questionable authenticity
  192. canard
    a deliberately misleading fabrication
  193. chicanery
    the use of tricks to deceive someone
  194. dissemble
    behave unnaturally or affectedly
  195. duplicity
    the act of deceiving or acting in bad faith
  196. equivocate
    be deliberately ambiguous or unclear
  197. erroneous
    containing or characterized by mistakes
  198. ersatz
    an artificial or inferior substitute or imitation
  199. fallacious
    containing or based on incorrect reasoning
  200. feigned
    not genuine
  201. guile
    shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
  202. mendacious
    given to lying
  203. perfidy
    an act of deliberate betrayal
  204. prevaricate
    be deliberately ambiguous or unclear
  205. specious
    plausible but false
  206. spurious
    plausible but false
  207. filial
    designating the generation following the parental generation
  208. conjugal
    relating to the relationship between a wife and husband
  209. consanguine
    related by blood
  210. endogamy
    marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law
  211. progenitor
    an ancestor in the direct line
  212. scion
    a descendent or heir
  213. ardent
    characterized by intense emotion
  214. doctrinaire
    a stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions
  215. fervid
    characterized by intense emotion
  216. partisan
    a fervent and even militant proponent of something
  217. tendentious
    having a strong bias, especially a controversial one
  218. zealot
    a fervent and even militant proponent of something
  219. absolve
    grant remission of a sin to
  220. acquit
    pronounce not guilty of criminal charges
  221. exculpate
    pronounce not guilty of criminal charges
  222. exonerate
    pronounce not guilty of criminal charges
  223. expiate
    make amends for
  224. palliate
    lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of
  225. redress
    make reparations or amends for
  226. vindicate
    clear of accusation, blame, or doubt with supporting proof
  227. chortle
    laugh quietly or with restraint
  228. droll
    comical in an odd or whimsical manner
  229. facetious
    cleverly amusing in tone
  230. flippant
    showing an inappropriate lack of seriousness
  231. gibe
    laugh at with contempt and derision
  232. jocular
    characterized by jokes and good humor
  233. levity
    a manner lacking seriousness
  234. ludicrous
    broadly or extravagantly humorous
  235. raillery
    light teasing
  236. riposte
    a counterattack made immediately after successfully parrying
  237. simper
    a silly self-conscious smile
  238. abatement
    an interruption in the intensity or amount of something
  239. aperture
    a natural opening in something
  240. fissure
    a long narrow opening
  241. hiatus
    an interruption in the intensity or amount of something
  242. interregnum
    the time between two reigns or governments
  243. interstice
    small opening between things
  244. lull
    a pause during which things are calm
  245. orifice
    an opening, especially one that opens into a bodily cavity
  246. rent
    an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
  247. respite
    a pause from doing something
  248. rift
    a narrow fissure in rock
  249. altruistic
    showing unselfish concern for the welfare of others
  250. beneficent
    doing or producing good
  251. clement
    inclined to show mercy
  252. largesse
    liberality in bestowing gifts
  253. magnanimous
    noble and generous in spirit
  254. munificent
    given or giving freely, generously, or without restriction
  255. philanthropic
    of or relating to charitable giving
  256. unstinting
    given or giving freely, generously, or without restriction
  257. avaricious
    immoderately desirous of acquiring something
  258. covetous
    immoderately desirous of acquiring something
  259. mercenary
    profit oriented
  260. miserly
    characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity
  261. cupidity
    extreme greed for material wealth
  262. penurious
    excessively unwilling to spend
  263. rapacious
    excessively greedy and grasping
  264. venal
    capable of being corrupted
  265. asperity
    harshness of manner
  266. baleful
    deadly or sinister
  267. dour
    showing a brooding ill humor
  268. fell
    able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
  269. malevolent
    wishing or appearing to wish evil to others
  270. mordant
    harshly ironic or sinister
  271. sardonic
    disdainfully or ironically humorous
  272. scathing
    marked by harshly abusive criticism
  273. truculent
    defiantly aggressive
  274. vitriolic
    harsh, bitter, or malicious in tone
  275. vituperation
    abusive or venomous language to express blame or censure
  276. baleful
    deadly or sinister
  277. baneful
    evil or sinister
  278. deleterious
    harmful to living things
  279. inimical
    tending to obstruct or cause harm
  280. injurious
    harmful to living things
  281. insidious
    working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way
  282. minatory
    threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
  283. perfidious
    tending to betray
  284. pernicious
    exceedingly harmful
  285. cacophony
    loud confusing disagreeable sounds
  286. din
    a loud, harsh, or strident noise
  287. dissonant
    harmonically unresolved
  288. raucous
    unpleasantly loud and harsh
  289. strident
    unpleasantly loud and harsh
  290. abhorrence
    hate coupled with disgust
  291. anathema
    a detested person or thing
  292. antagonism
    an actively expressed feeling of dislike and hostility
  293. antipathy
    a feeling of intense dislike
  294. detestation
    hate coupled with disgust
  295. enmity
    a state of deep-seated ill-will
  296. loathing
    hate coupled with disgust
  297. malice
    the desire to see others suffer
  298. odium
    hate coupled with disgust
  299. rancor
    a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will
  300. beneficial
    promoting or enhancing well-being
  301. salubrious
    promoting health
  302. salutary
    tending to promote physical well-being; beneficial to health
  303. dither
    be undecided or uncertain
  304. oscillate
    be undecided about something
  305. teeter
    move unsteadily, with a rocking motion
  306. vacillate
    be undecided about something
  307. waver
    pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness
  308. antithetical
    sharply contrasted in character or purpose
  309. churlish
    having a bad disposition; surly
  310. curmudgeon
    an irascible, cantankerous person full of stubborn ideas
  311. irascible
    quickly aroused to anger
  312. malevolent
    wishing or appearing to wish evil to others
  313. misanthropic
    hating mankind in general
  314. truculent
    defiantly aggressive
  315. vindictive
    disposed to seek revenge or intended for revenge
  316. credulous
    showing a lack of judgment or experience
  317. gullible
    naive and easily deceived or tricked
  318. ingenuous
    lacking in sophistication or worldliness
  319. naive
    marked by or showing unaffected simplicity
  320. novitiate
    the period during which you are a novice
  321. tyro
    someone new to a field or activity
  322. disingenuous
    not straightforward or candid
  323. dissemble
    make believe with the intent to deceive
  324. fulsome
    unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating
  325. ostensible
    represented or appearing as such; pretended
  326. unctuous
    unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating
  327. appraise
    consider in a comprehensive way
  328. ascertain
    learn or discover with confidence
  329. assay
    an appraisal of the state of affairs
  330. descry
    catch sight of
  331. peruse
    examine or consider with attention and in detail
  332. indolent
    disinclined to work or exertion
  333. inert
    slow and apathetic
  334. lackadaisical
    lacking spirit or liveliness
  335. languid
    lacking spirit or liveliness
  336. lassitude
    a feeling of lack of interest or energy
  337. lethargic
    deficient in alertness or activity
  338. phlegmatic
    showing little emotion
  339. quiescent
    being quiet or still or inactive
  340. slothful
    disinclined to work or exertion
  341. torpid
    slow and apathetic
  342. adventitious
    associated by chance and not an integral part
  343. amulet
    a trinket thought to be a magical protection against evil
  344. auspicious
    indicating favorable circumstances and good luck
  345. fortuitous
    lucky; occurring by happy chance
  346. kismet
    fate or fortune
  347. optimum
    most desirable possible under a restriction
  348. portentous
    of momentous or ominous significance
  349. propitiate
    make peace with
  350. propitious
    presenting favorable circumstances
  351. providential
    peculiarly fortunate or appropriate
  352. serendipity
    good luck in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries
  353. talisman
    a trinket thought to be a magical protection against evil
  354. admonish
    scold or reprimand; take to task
  355. belabor
    work at or to absurd length
  356. cavil
    raise trivial objections
  357. enjoin
    issue an injunction
  358. exhort
    spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts
  359. harangue
    a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion
  360. hector
    talk to or treat someone in a bossy or bullying way
  361. martinet
    someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms
  362. remonstrate
    argue in protest or opposition
  363. reproof
    an act or expression of criticism and censure
  364. fetid
    offensively malodorous
  365. noisome
    causing or able to cause nausea
  366. noxious
    injurious to physical or mental health
  367. askance
    with suspicion or disapproval
  368. awry
    turned or twisted to one side
  369. careen
    move at high speed and in an uncontrolled way
  370. carom
    a glancing rebound
  371. circuitous
    deviating from a straight course
  372. circumvent
    surround so as to force to give up
  373. gyrate
    revolve quickly and repeatedly around an axis
  374. labyrinth
    complex system of paths in which it is easy to get lost
  375. meander
    move or cause to move in a winding or curving course
  376. oblique
    slanting or inclined in direction or course or position
  377. serrated
    notched like a saw with teeth pointing toward the apex
  378. sidle
    move sideways
  379. sinuous
    curved or curving in and out
  380. undulate
    move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion
  381. vortex
    a powerful circular current of water
  382. bombastic
    ostentatiously lofty in style
  383. circumlocution
    an indirect way of expressing something
  384. garrulous
    full of trivial conversation
  385. grandiloquent
    lofty in style
  386. loquacious
    full of trivial conversation
  387. periphrastic
    roundabout and unnecessarily wordy
  388. prolix
    tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at length
  389. rhetoric
    high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation
  390. turgid
    ostentatiously lofty in style
  391. verbose
    using or containing too many words
  392. ameliorate
    make better
  393. appease
    make peace with
  394. assuage
    provide physical relief, as from pain
  395. defer
    yield to another's wish or opinion
  396. mitigate
    lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of
  397. mollify
    cause to be more favorably inclined
  398. placate
    cause to be more favorably inclined
  399. propitiate
    make peace with
  400. satiate
    fill to satisfaction
  401. slake
    satisfy, as thirst
  402. soothe
    cause to feel better
  403. extant
    still in existence; not extinct or destroyed or lost
  404. euphonious
    having a pleasant sound
  405. harmonious
    musically pleasing
  406. melodious
    having a musical sound; especially a pleasing tune
  407. sonorous
    full and loud and deep
  408. destitute
    poor enough to need help from others
  409. esurient
    extremely hungry
  410. impecunious
    not having enough money to pay for necessities
  411. indigent
    poor enough to need help from others
  412. acclaim
    enthusiastic approval
  413. accolade
    a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction
  414. aggrandize
    embellish; increase the scope, power, or importance of
  415. encomium
    a formal expression of praise
  416. eulogize
    praise formally and eloquently
  417. extol
    praise, glorify, or honor
  418. fawn
    try to gain favor through flattery or deferential behavior
  419. laudatory
    full of or giving praise
  420. veneration
    a feeling of profound respect for someone or something
  421. augur
    predict from an omen
  422. auspice
    a favorable omen
  423. fey
    suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness
  424. harbinger
    something indicating the approach of something or someone
  425. portentous
    of momentous or ominous significance
  426. presage
    a foreboding about what is about to happen
  427. prescient
    perceiving the significance of events before they occur
  428. prognosticate
    make a prediction about; tell in advance
  429. discomfit
    cause to lose one's composure
  430. encumber
    hold back, impede, or weigh down
  431. fetter
    a shackle for the ankles or feet
  432. forfend
    prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening
  433. hinder
    be an obstacle to
  434. impede
    be a hindrance or obstacle to
  435. inhibit
    limit the range or extent of
  436. occlude
    block passage through
  437. astute
    marked by practical hardheaded intelligence
  438. canny
    showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others
  439. erudite
    having or showing profound knowledge
  440. perspicacious
    mentally acute or penetratingly discerning
  441. disconsolate
    sad beyond comforting; incapable of being soothed
  442. doleful
    filled with or evoking sadness
  443. dolor
    (poetry) painful grief
  444. elegiac
    resembling or characteristic of a lament for the dead
  445. forlorn
    marked by or showing hopelessness
  446. lament
    a cry of sorrow and grief
  447. lugubrious
    excessively mournful
  448. melancholy
    a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed
  449. morose
    showing a brooding ill humor
  450. plaintive
    expressing sorrow
  451. threnody
    a song or hymn of mourning
  452. implacable
    incapable of being appeased or pacified
  453. inexorable
    impossible to prevent, resist, or stop
  454. intractable
    difficult to manage or mold
  455. intransigent
    impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, or reason
  456. obdurate
    stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing
  457. obstinate
    refusing to change one's mind or ways; difficult to convince
  458. recalcitrant
    stubbornly resistant to authority or control
  459. refractory
    stubbornly resistant to authority or control
  460. untoward
    not in keeping with accepted standards of what is proper
  461. vexing
    extremely annoying or displeasing
  462. compendious
    briefly giving the gist of something
  463. curt
    brief and to the point
  464. laconic
    brief and to the point
  465. taciturn
    habitually reserved and uncommunicative
  466. pithy
    concise and full of meaning
  467. succinct
    briefly giving the gist of something
  468. anachronism
    locating something at a time when it couldn't have existed
  469. antecede
    be earlier in time; go back further
  470. antedate
    be earlier in time than
  471. anterior
    of or near the head end or toward the front plane of a body
  472. archaic
    so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period
  473. diurnal
    having a daily cycle or occurring every day
  474. eon
    the longest unit of geological time
  475. ephemeral
    anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day
  476. epoch
    a period marked by distinctive character
  477. fortnight
    a period of fourteen consecutive days
  478. millennium
    a span of 1000 years
  479. penultimate
    next to the last
  480. synchronous
    occurring or existing at the same time
  481. temporal
    of or relating to or limited by time
  482. craven
    lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful
  483. diffident
    showing modest reserve
  484. pusillanimous
    lacking in courage, strength, and resolution
  485. recreant
    lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful
  486. timorous
    shy and fearful by nature
  487. trepidation
    a feeling of alarm or dread
  488. candor
    the quality of being honest and straightforward
  489. fealty
    the loyalty that one owes to a country, sovereign, or lord
  490. frankness
    the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech
  491. indisputable
    not open to question; obviously true
  492. legitimate
    in accordance with accepted standards or principles
  493. probity
    complete and confirmed integrity
  494. sincere
    open and genuine; not deceitful
  495. veracious
    habitually speaking the truth
  496. verity
    conformity to reality or actuality
  497. indubitably
    in a manner or to a degree that could not be doubted
  498. aberration
    a state or condition markedly different from the norm
  499. anomaly
    deviation from the normal or common order, form, or rule
  500. iconoclast
    someone who attacks cherished ideas or institutions
Created on Fri Aug 29 23:50:48 EDT 2014 (updated Tue Sep 09 21:37:12 EDT 2014)

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