Word, Part of Speech

adj.

ancient; outmoded; (literally,before the flood)

antipathy

n.

hostility toward, objection, or aversion to

arbitrate

v.

to settle a dispute by impulse (n: arbitration)

assuage

v.

to make less severe; to appease or satisfy

attenuate

v.

weaken (adj: attenuated)

audacious

adj.

extremely bold; fearless, especially said of human behavior (n: audacity)

aver

v.

to declare

banal

adj.

commonplace or trite (n: banality)

barefaced