__D__  anachronistic (adj); anachronistically (adv); anachronous (adj); anachronously (adv); anachronism (n)

__I__  countenance (v); countenance (n)

__B__  epigraph (n)

__H__  epiphany (n); epiphanic (adj)

__G__  imminent (adj); imminently (adv); imminence (n)

__A__  ominous (adj); ominously (adv); ominousness (n)

__E__  precipitously (adv); precipitous (adj); precipitousness (n); precipitate (v); precipitate (adj); precipitately (adv); precipice (n)

__J__  prowess (n)

__C__  reminiscent (adj); reminiscently (adv); reminiscence (n); reminisce (v)

__F__  resonance (n); resonate (v); resonant (adj); resonantly (adv); resonator (n)

A.  1/ menacing; threatening; 2/ being or exhibiting an omen, especially foreboding or foreshadowing evil

B.  1/ an inscription on a building or stone; 2/ a quotation at the beginning of a work of literature, setting forth a theme

C.  1/ tending to remind, suggestive; 2/ marked by or given to recalling a past experience or memory

D.  1/ of an error in time or time sequence, especially a time misplacing of persons, events, objects; or customs in regard to each other; 2/ of a person or thing that is out of place in terms of time, especially of one from an earlier age that is incongruous with the present

E.  1/ falling, flowing, or rushing with steep descent; 2/ exhibiting violent or unwise speed; extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt

I.  1/ richness or significance, especially in evoking a strong   emotion or association; 2/ continuation of sound; 3/ intensity or richness of sound

G.  ready to take place, especially hanging over one’s head in a threatening way; about to occur; impending

H.  1/ (capitalized) the Christian celebration on January 6, when the Magi arrived at Jesus’ birthplace; 2/ a manifestation of a divine being; 3/ a sudden realization of the essence or meaning of something; a comprehension or perception of reality by means of a sudden intuitive realization

I.  1/ to extend approval or toleration to; to sanction or to condone

I.  1/ superior or extraordinary skill or ability; 2/ superior strength, courage, or daring

__B__  ambivalence (n); ambivalent (adj); ambivalently (adv)

__G__  cynicism (n); cynical (adj); cynically (adv); cynic (n)

__D__  disdain (n or v); disdainful (adj); disdainfully (adv)

__C__  elusive (adj); elusively (adv); elude (v); elusiveness (n)

__F__  expedite (v); expedited (adj); expediter or expeditor (n); related words = expeditious (adj), expeditiously (adv); expeditiousness (n)

__I__  ignominy (n); ignominious (adj); ignominiously (adv)

__H__  mundane (adj); mundanely (adv); mundanity or mundaneness (n)

__J__  palpable (adj); palpably (adv); palpability (n)

__A__  tenuous (adj); tenuously (adv); tenuousness (n)

__E__  transcend (v); transcendent (adj); transcendently (adv); transcendence (n)

A.  1/ long and thin; slender; 2/ having a thin consistency; dilute; 3/ having little substance; flimsy or weak

B.  1/ simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action; 2/ A/ continual fluctuation (as between one thing and its opposite); B/ uncertainty or indecisiveness as to which approach to follow

C.  1/ tending to escape capture, perception, comprehension, or memory; 2/ difficult to describe or define

D.  a feeling of contempt for someone or something regarded as inferior or unworthy

E.  1/ A/ to rise above or to go beyond the limits of; B/ to triumph over the negative restrictive aspects of; to overcome; to surpass C/ to exist or be prior to, beyond, and above (the universe or material existence); 2/ to outstrip or outdo in some attribute, quality, or power; to rise above or extend notably beyond ordinary limits

F.   1/ to execute efficiently and promptly; 2/ to accelerate the    process or progress of; to speed up; 3/ to issue officially; to dispatch

G.  an attitude of scornful or jaded negativity, especially a general distrust of the integrity or professed motives of others; a belief that human conduct is motivated by self-interest

H.  1/ of, relating to, or characteristic of the world; 2/ characterized by the practical, transitory, and ordinary; commonplace

I.  1/ deep personal dishonor or humiliation and disgrace; 2/ disgraceful or dishonorable conduct, quality, or action

J.  1/ capable of being handled, touched, or felt; 2/ easily perceptible; 3/ easily perceptible by the mind; manifest

__I__  adverse (adj); adversely (adv); adversity (n)

__H__  ambiguity (n); ambiguous (adj); ambiguously (adv)

__G__  discretion (n); discreet (adj); discreetly (adv); discreetness (n)

__A__  dissipate (v); dissipation (n); dissipating or dissipated (adj); dissipater (n)

__J__  epitomize (v); epitome (n); epitomized (adj)

__C__  inexorable (adj); inexorably (adv); inexorability or inexorableness (n)

__E__  nuance (n); nuanceful or nuanced (adj)

__D__  oppressive (adj); oppressively (adv); oppress (v); oppression or oppressiveness (n)

__B__  poignant (adj); poignantly (adv); poignancy (n)

A.  1/ to cause to spread thin and gradually vanish; 2/ A. to spend or expend intemperately and wastefully; to squander; B. to use up, especially recklessly; to exhaust; to waste; 3/ to cause to lose (energy, for instance) irreversibly; 4/ to break up and scatter or vanish

B.  1/ pungently pervasive; 2/ A. painfully affecting to the feelings; deeply affecting, touching; B. designed to make an impression; cutting; 3/ pleasantly stimulating; being to the point (apt)

C.  relentless; not capable of being persuaded, moved, or stopped

D.  1/ unreasonably burdensome or severe; 2/ tyrannical; exercising power arbitrarily and often unjustly; 3/ overwhelming or depressing to the spirit or senses

E.  1/ a subtle or slight degree of distinction or variation; 2/ a subtle quality; nicety; 3/ sensibility to, awareness of, or ability to express delicate shadings (as of meaning, feeling, or value)

F.      unburdened; unhindered

G.  1/ discernment or good judgment in conduct and speech; prudence; ability to make responsible decisions; 2/ individual choice or judgment; power of free decision or latitude of choice within legal bounds; 3/ unpretentiousness; modesty; 4/ unobtrusiveness

H.  1/ doubtfulness or uncertainty especially from obscurity or indistinctness; doubtfulness or uncertainty as regards interpretation 2/ capability of being understood in two or more possible ways

I.  1/ acting against or in a contrary direction; against; antagonistic; 2/ opposed to one’s interests, especially unfavorable; causing harm, harmful

J.  1/ to represent an example of a class or type; to be a typical or ideal example; 2/ to summarize briefly

__F__ ethereal (adj); ethereally (adv); ethereality (n); etherealization (n); etherealize (v)

__E__ evocative (adj); evocatively (adv); evocativeness (n); evoke (v)

__J__ pious (adj); piously (adv); piety (n); piousness (n)

__B__ rectitude (n); rectitudinous (adj); rectitudinously (adv)

__G__ tangible (adj); tangibly (adv); tangibility (n); tangibleness (n)

__A__ tantalize (v)

__D__ trite (adj); tritely (adv); triteness (n)

__H__ visceral (adj); viscerally (adv); viscera (n)

__C__ volition (n)

B. 1/ moral uprightness; righteousness; moral integrity; 2/ the quality or condition of being correct in judgment; 3/ the quality of being straight

C. the power or faculty or process or experience of choosing or determining; will

D. not fresh; unoriginal; lacking power to elicit interest through repetition or overuse

E. tending to call forth or up strong images, memories, or feelings

F. 1/ A. of or relating to the regions beyond the earth; B. celestial, heavenly; C. unworldly, spiritual; 2/ A. lacking material substance; characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; B. marked by unusual delicacy or refinement

G. 1/ A. capable of being perceived by the sense of touch; palpable; B. substantially real; material; 2/ capable of being precisely identified or realized by the mind; 3/ capable of being appraised at an actual or approximate value

H. 1/ felt in or as if in the gut; deep; profound; 2/ instinctive; unreasoning; 3/ dealing with crude or elemental emotions

I. 1/ a purifying or cleansing of the emotions; 2/ a release of emotional tension, as after an overwhelming experience, that restores or refreshes the spirit

J. 1/ having or showing religious reverence; 2/ A. conspicuously devout; B. marked by false devoutness; hypocritically devout; 3/ devotional; 4/ professing or exhibiting a strict, traditional sense of virtue and morality; 5/ deserving commendation; worthy