adj. contemptible; degrading; humiliating; base; mean (*) hoary (*) hackneyed (*) contentious (*) ignominious

adj. without regret, shame, or remorse; unrepentant; hard-hearted; unregretful (*) cognitive (*) prodigious (*) impenitent (*) winsome

adj. having to do with verbal communication; artificial eloquence; bombastic (*) qualified (*) rhetorical (*) indulgent (*) salient

adj. of inferior quality; cheap; fake; phony (*) dubious (*) furtive (*) dank (*) shoddy

adj. full of knots; twisted (*) gnarled (*) sectarian (*) arcane (*) torpid

adj. marginal; outer; external (*) prodigious (*) peripheral (*) blighted (*) tawdry

adj. something which causes dread or fear; difficult; intimidating; awesome; frightening (*) imminent (*) formidable (*) disputatious (*) mercenary

adj. mixed with a darker color (*) hypothetical (*) brindled (*) disingenuous (*) judicious

adj. concealing; sly; cunning; deceptive; tricky (*) dexterous (*) extant (*) peripheral (*) wily

adj. creaking; harsh; grating (*) strident (*) perceptive (*) noisome (*) sinuous