more hard words

Abase

To lower in rank, presige, or esteem

Altruism

Unselfish concern for the welfare of others; selflessness

Cajole

to urge with repeated appeals, teasing or flattery

Chincanery

trickery

Conciliatory

Appeasing; soothing; showing willingness to reconcile

Credible

Capable of being believed; plausible

Defunct

No longer existing or functioning

Deride

To mock contemptuously

Derogatory

Insulting or intended to insult

Disparage

To speak of negatively; to belittle

Effrontery

Brazen boldness; presumptuousness

Eminent

Distinguished; prominent

Empathy

Identification with understanding of another's situation, feelings, and motives

Eradicate

To get rid of as if by tearing it up by the roots; abolish

Exonerate

To free from blame

Expurgate

To remove objectionable content before publication or release

Extirpate

To distroy

Extol

to praise highly

Ignominy

Great personal dishonor or humiliation; disgraceful conduct

Impugn

To attack as false or questionable

Incontrovertible

Indisputable; not open to question

Indict

To officially charge with wrongdoing or a crime

Laudatory

Full of praise

Litigious

Prone to engage in lawsuits

Magnanimous

Courageously or generously noble in mind and heart

Mar

To damage, especially in a disfiguring way

Obsequious

Fawning and servile

Parity

Equality, as in amount, status or value

Partisan

Devoted to or biased in support of a party, group, or cause

Pejorative

Disparaging, belittling, insulting

Philanthropic

Humanitarian; benevolent; relation to monetary generosity

Quell

To put down forcibly; suppress

Raze

To level to the ground; demolish

Reciprocate

To mutually take or give; to respond in kind

Rectitude

Moral uprightness; righteousness

Remiss

Lax in attending to duty; negligent

Repudiate

To rejext the validity or authority of

Sanctimonious

Feighing piety or reighteousness

Scrupulous

Principled, having a strong sense of right and wrong; conscientious and exacting

Solicitous

Concerend

Sophistry

Plausible but misleading or fallacious argument

Squelch

to crush as if by trapling; squash

Stymie

To thwart or stump

Substantiate

To support with proof or evidence; verify

Supplant

To usurp the place of, especially through intrigue or underhanded tactics

ophant

insincere, obsequious flatterer

Veracity

Adherence to the truth; truthfulness

Vex

to annoy or bother; to perplex

Vindicate

to free form blame

Vindictive

disposed to seek revenge; revengeful; spiteful