Vocabulary

Week 10

1) Unctuous (adjective)

Excessively or ingratiatingly flattering.

  1. The politician’s behaviour felt extremely unctuous.
  2. When making a pitch it is best to not appear unctuous.

Synonyms: sycophantic, obsequious

2) Usurp (verb)

To sieze and hold by force without legitimate authority.

  1. This week we attempted to usurp the hold of the Committee of Minds, but failed dismally.
  2. The rebels usurped the kingdom.

Synonyms: sieze, wrest

3) Vacuous (adjective)

Devoid of substance, empty, stupid.

  1. The news anchor was vacuous, hired only for his looks.
  2. Their vacuous “plan” landed them in prison very quickly.

Synonyms: silly, vapid

4) Vehement (adjective)

Forceful or intense expression, emotion, conviction.

  1. He vehemently argued his case to the judge.
  2. Her vehement appeals fell on deaf ears, she was led ruthlessly away.

Synonyms: passionate, forceful

5) Vortex (noun)

A spiral motion of fluid.

  1. The vortex consumed the game pieces and spit them across the room.
  2. The ship fell into a massive vortex.

Synonyms: whirlwind, cyclone

6) Winnow (verb)

To seperate or get rid of undesirable parts.

  1. Engineering is largely about winnowing a design.
  2. The farmer winnowed his grain.

Synonyms: divide, sort

7) Wrought (verb)

Put together or created. (Past tense of work.)

  1. What have you wrought upon us?
  2. He wrought a machine of fearful blades of shining steel and brought it upon us.

Synonyms: toiled, made

8) Xenophobe (noun)

A person afraid of or intolerant of foreign things.

  1. The xenophobes called for the removal of the alien ambassador.
  2. A xenophobic contingent is calling for a ban on immigration.

Synonyms: prejudice, racism

9) Yoke (verb)

To join together or link.

  1. He yoked together the buckets with a yoke, and placed the yoke upon his shoulders.
  2. The two offices have been inextricably yoked together.

Synonyms: harness, couple

10) Zenith (noun)

The highest point, culminating point.

  1. // warning: this code fails when the moon is at its zenith
  2. He died at the zenith of his career.

Synonyms: apogee, summit

Week 9

1) Sangunie (adjective)

Optimistic or positive, especially in a bad situation.

  1. He was the most sanguine out of the crowd of assassins, whispering encouragements even as the five were lead to their execution.
  2. The bard is expected to have a somewhat sanguine personality.

Synonyms: optimistic, positive

2) Soliloquy (noun)

A monologue while a character thinks that they are alone; a monologue to oneself.

  1. Sometimes when I’m bored I give elaborate soliloquies.
  2. His soliloquy told us everything we needed to know from our place hidden in the rafters.

Synonyms: monologue, speech

3) Subjugate (verb)

To bring under control, to conquer.

  1. The lord attempted to subjugate the people on the Western Front.
  2. The new Empire has subjugated half of the continent.

Synonyms: conquer, oppress

4) Sublime (adjective)

Of such grandeur or beauty as to inspire awe.

  1. The text editor that I use to write this, Sublime Text, is indeed a sublime tool.
  2. This pie is sublime, I could eat a dozen!

Synonyms: exalted, elevated

5) Supercilious (adjective)

Feeling or showing haughty distates, as if one is superior to others.

  1. He always seemed to have a supercilious attitude towards his students.
  2. She was a rather supercilious lady.

Synonyms: arrogant, haughty

6) Tautology (noun)

Needless repetition of the same idea in different words. Self fulfilling or redundant.

  1. The first rule of the Tautology Club is the first rule of the Tautology Club.
  2. Saying the same thing twice is a tautology and it’s also redundant.

Synonyms: pleonism, repetition

7) Taxonomy (noun)

A scheme of classification of something.

  1. The taxonomy of this animal is shockingly convoluted.
  2. This program organizes a system of relationships into a taxonomy.

Synonyms: classification, hierarchy

8) Temerity (noun)

Excessive confidence or boldness.

  1. You would have the temerity to challenge me, the thrice champion of the world‽
  2. The children developed a temerity that rivaled their father.

Synonyms: audacity, nerve

9) Tempestuous (adjective)

Full of stormy emotions; relating to a storm

  1. It was a tempestuous relationship that lasted mere weeks and led to 2 felonies.
  2. Race relations in America are a highly tempestuous subject.

Synonyms: turbulent, tumultuous

10) Totalitarian (adjective)

Relating to a system of government centralized and dictatorial in which complete subservience is mandatory.

  1. Fictional Dystopias are often totalitarian systems.
  2. Nazi Germany was a totalitarian state.

Synonyms: autocratic, tyrannical

Week 8

1) Perfunctory (adjective)

Showing little interest or enthusiasm.

  1. The guard only gave a perfunctory examination of their papers, and then let them pass.
  2. Presiding over the Senate is a largely perfunctory role, most things are self-managed.

Synonyms: cursory, token

2) Plasma (noun)

Liquid part of the blood.

  1. Blood plasma is distinctly different from stellar plasma.
  2. The patient needed a plasma transplant.

Synonyms: NA

3) Plethora (noun)

A large or excessive amount of something.

  1. I use a plethora of programming languages.
  2. At times I feel that I have published a plethora of unfinished projects to github.

Synonyms: excess, surplus

4) Precipitous (adjective)

Extremely steep descent.

  1. His meteoric rise was quickly followed by a precipitous fall.
  2. The walled city was surrounded on three sides by precipitous cliffs.

Synonyms: sheer, abrupt

5) Quandry (noun)

A state of perplexity over what to do in a difficult situation.

  1. I find myself in a quandry over which ice cream to choose — this choice could be life or death.
  2. He carefully posed a philosophical quandry that would leave the field puzzled for a decade.

Synonyms: predicament, plight

6) Quotidian (adjective)

Everyday; occuring daily.

  1. I have made a quotidian ritual of commiting code to github, my streak has lasted 87 days in a row so far.
  2. The day-night cycle seems to quotidian, you know?

Synonyms: daily, diurnal

7) Rancor (noun)

a) Deep, bitter resentment. b) A monster in the Star Wars series.

  1. The Senator spoke without rancor, merely with grudging resignation.
  2. I feel intense rancor, he killed my dog.

Synonyms: bitterness, hatred

8) Reciprocal (adjective)

Shared by both sides.

  1. They formed a reciprocal trade agreement that would fund both countries for years to come.
  2. Our love was reciprocal.

Synonyms: mutual, common

9) Rectitude (noun)

Extreme morality.

  1. The preacher was the picture of rectitude.
  2. We commend mister Fallon for his extreme rectitude on the matter of our funds.

Synonyms: righteousness, goodness

10) Respiration (noun)

The action of breathing.

  1. The respiration of plants is vital to the survival of the Earth.
  2. He felt the vapors slowly affecting his respiration, leaving behind their subtle insidious poisons.

Synonyms: breath, inhilation/exhalation

Week 7

1) Nomenclature (noun)

System of terms used in a field.

  1. I’m afraid that I’m unfamiliar with the nomeclature of Necromancy.
  2. The first three chapters of the textbook spent an extensive amount of time attempting to inculcate the nomenclature of the subject.

Synonyms: terminology, glossary

2) Nonsectarian (adejctive)

Not limited to a particular religious sect or political group.

  1. Their culture was notable for its large nonsectarian temples and artwork.
  2. In political circles, nonsectarian opinions are few and far between.

Synonyms: desegregated, nondenominational

3) Obfuscate (verb)

To render incomprehensible.

  1. Obfuscation is a common step in software development, to obscure the intent of code from competitors.
  2. Teachers have a tendency to obfuscate responses when they’re not completely sure of the question.

Synonyms: obscure, confuse

4) Obsequious (adjective)

Exibiting fawning attentiveness.

  1. The servant gave obsequious attentions towards the Lord of the castle.
  2. We refuse to be obsequious towards the Russians!

Synonyms: servile, ingratiating

5) Omnipotent (adjective)

Having unlimited power.

  1. Many activities of creation give a bizarre sense of omnipotence, you’re creating a world.
  2. Religions commonly attribute omnipotence to their diety.

Synonyms: all-powerful, supreme

6) Onerous (adjective)

Burdensome

  1. Using Java is an onerous task.
  2. He was given the onerous responsibility of maintaining the frail tree in the side yard.

Synonyms: arduous, strenuous

7) Oxidize (verb)

To combine with Oxygen.

  1. An explosions is simply very rapid oxidation.
  2. Our chemistry class involves quite a bit of oxidation.

Synonyms: burn, rust

8) Paradigm (noun)

A typical example or pattern of something.

  1. We need to shift our paradigm in order to realign our core competencies with our brand image.
  2. Rust represents a new paradigm in systems programming – a focus on using the compiler to protect the user from their mistakes

Synonyms: model, archetype

9) Paragon (noun)

A model of excellence or perfection.

  1. The final goal in D&D 4e is your “Paragon Path,” your destiny of excellence.
  2. The city plans to be a paragon of clean energy.

Synonyms: epitome, exemplar

10) Pejorative (adjective)

Expressing contempt or disapproval.

  1. There is a tremendous variety to pejorative words, showing that people just love to hate each other.
  2. You can infer many things as pejorative, someone could probably take offense to the term “nice.”

Synonyms: derogatory, uncomplimentary

Week 6

1) Laudatory (adjective)

Expressing admiration or praise.

  1. The press made lauditory commentary after the rocket successfully launched.
  2. The president of the college gave a lauditory speech congratulating their professor for winning a Nobel prize.

Synonyms: complimentary, congratulatory

2) Lexicon (noun)

The vocabulary of a person or a branch of knowledge.

  1. Trepidation is not in my lexicon!
  2. The lexicon of biology is intimidating.

Synonyms: dictionary, wordbook

3) Loquacious (adjective)

Very talkative.

  1. The class was very loquacious, frustrating the teacher.
  2. She was a very loquacious child, and it frequently got her into trouble.

Synonyms: talkative, voluble

4) Lugubrious (adjective)

Looking or souding sad or dismal.

  1. He carried an infectiously lugubrious attitude, as if a cloud of sadness traveled along with him.
  2. Don’t look so lugubrious, there’s still time to finish!

Synonyms: mournful, gloomy

5) Magnanimous (adjective)

Very generous or forgiving, especially toward a rival or one less powerful than oneself.

  1. I respect him, he is a magnanimous adversary.
  2. It is considered good to be magnanimous when in a position of power.

Synonyms: generous, charitable

6) Metamorphosis (noun)

A marked change in appearance or condition; also transformation by magic.

  1. He has undergone a metamorphosis, I hardly recognize him!
  2. He has undergone a metamorphosis, we need to find the witch that did it and make her turn him back!

Synonyms: transformation, transmutation

7) Moiety (noun)

A half or portion of something.

  1. The princes were all granted a moiety of the kingdom.
  2. We shared the biscut, and I was grateful for what moiety I was given.

Synonyms: component, portion

8) Nanotechnology (noun)

The branch of technology that deals with sizes of less than 100 nanometers.

  1. The most terrifying scenario in nanotechnology is the Grey Goo scenario: a self-replicating nanobot that consumes everything.
  2. Nanotechnology optics can provide invisibility!

Synonyms: NA

9) Nebulous (adjective)

Cloudy or hazy; also metaphorically cloudy – vague or ill defined.

  1. The plan was somewhat nebulous, but we all reluctantly agreed.
  2. The room had a nebulous quality to it, shapes at the far wall were nearly obscured.

Synonyms: indistinct, indefinite

10) Nihilism (noun)

The rejection of all religion and moral principle, often believing that life is meaningless.

  1. I have accepted nihilism, I believe that life is meaningless.
  2. I follow the rarer school of meta-nihilism, the belief that nihilism is meaningless.

Synonyms: skepticism, negativity

Week 5

1) Idiosyncratic (adjective)

Particular to one person; highly individual. 1. One of the most idiosyncratic elements of javascript is its bizarre handling of adding lists. 2. Regular expressions are generally idiosyncratic, each language extending them in different ways.

Synonyms: distinctive, peculiar

2) Impeach (verb)

a) To accuse. b) To charage with improper conduct in office. c) To question the validity; try to discredit.

  1. Contrary to popular belief, someone being impeached does not predicate removal from office.
  2. Impeach bobama he took mah jobs

Synonyms: challenge, question, indict

3) Incognito (adjective, adverb)

With one’s identity disguised or concealed.

  1. The fellow across the aisle is incognito, although the Groucho glasses leave him anything but inconspicuous.
  2. When dealing with shady characters like that, it’s best to do so incognito.

Synonyms: in disguise, under cover

4) Incontrovertible (adjective)

Impossible to dispute.

  1. His argument rested on an incontrovertible fact: Beans are the best food.
  2. By now, Anthropogenic Climate Change is incontrovertible.

Synonyms: incontestible, undeniable

5) Inculcate (verb)

a) To impress upton the mind of another by repetition; to instill. b) To teach others by frequent instruction or repetition; indoctrinate.

  1. The new procedure will by applied to forcibly inculcate our children into the shared values of the commune — they must love beans.
  2. The #gamergate “movement” seeks to inculcate an attitude of hate towards women in games.

Synonyms: instill in, implant in

6) Infrastructure (noun)

Underlying base or foundation.

  1. The space elevator will provide an important piece of infrastructure for our future conquest of the solar system.
  2. Investments in infrastructure often pay off in the long run, but are frequently opposed by those scared by the costs.

Synonyms: base, framework

7) Irony (noun)

a) Language saying the opposite of one’s meaning. b) Events directly contrary to expectations.

  1. The fire house burning down is the canonical example given for irony.
  2. Shakespeare’s plays are full of every kind of irony.

Synonyms: sarcasm, incongruity

8) Judicious (adjective)

Having or excercising sound judgement.

  1. Judicious application of punctuation adds clarity, but an excess brings obfuscation.
  2. The council was considered to be highly judicious by the community.

Synonyms: wise, sensible

9) Kinetic (adjective)

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

  1. Kinetic enegery is the energy possessed by a moving object.
  2. Kinetic sculptures are beautiful, their motion adds another layer to be appreciated.

Synonyms: active, dynamic

10) Kowtow (verb)

a) To kneel and touch the forehead to the ground; a deep bow. b) To do the above metaphorically; show extreme deference.

  1. It is not seemly for us to kowtow to the whims of another nation.
  2. The lord kowtowed to the king.

Synonyms: grovel, be obesquious

Week 4

1) Fiduciary (adjective)

a) Holding something in trust. b) Being a trustee.

  1. I am content with the current state of the trustee’s fiduciary relationship.
  2. (To music) Do your fiduciary duty doot-dee-doo doot-dee-doo.

Synonyms: curator, trustee

2) Filibuster (noun)

The use of obstructive tactics (especially prolonged speeches) in order to delay legislative action.

  1. Texas filibuster requirements are, quite frankly, insane.

  2. It has been observed that Councilman Zærnæx is filibustering before the Council of minds, attempting to block the moon vaporization legislation that’s being proposed.

Synonyms: stonewalling, delaying tactics

3) Gauche (adjective)

Lacking social polish; tactless.

  1. Bob is so gauche, what with all his walking around in his sweatpants.
  2. O M G she is so gauche, she doesn’t even know how to laserdance.

Synonyms: awkward, inelegant

4) Gerrymander (transitive verb)

To divide into voting districs so as to give an unfair advantage to one party.

  1. The Council of Minds has gerrymandered the voting districts, replacing all of them with a single one where it is compulsory to vote for the current Council.

  2. Gerrymandering is a harmful tactic, but it can be aleviated simply by making it so that the other party must approve any redistricting.

Synonyms: rig, manipulate

5) Grevious (adjective)

Serious or grave in nature.

  1. Placing the candles a mere half-inch off of the correct radius from the node would be an extremely grevious mistake.
  2. I’m afraid that you have committed a grevious error, never match wits with a Sicilian when death is on the line.

Synonyms: critical, severe

6) Haughty (adjective)

Disdainfully proud.

  1. I don’t approve of the prince’s haughty attitude, he will alienate the common people with that sort of behaviour.
  2. The lord underestimated the tiny girl, blinded to her abilities by his haughty pride.

Synonyms: arrogant, vain

7) Harangue

a) (noun) a ranting speech. b) (verb) to give such a speech.

  1. The comic Shortpacked! has many side characters who exist only to harangue the main characters.
  2. He felt better after his massive harangue.

Synonyms: tirade, diatribe

8) Hegemony (noun)

The social, cultural, ideological, or economic influence exerted by a dominant group.

  1. The government in Ender’s Game ends up as a hegemonic system.

  2. They formed a galactic hegemony, being the only ones with access to the warp drive they had tremendous influence over the goings on of the inhabitants of the whole empire.

Synonyms: leadership, dominance

9) Homogeneous (adjective)

a) of the same or similar nature or kind. b) uniform in structure and composition.

  1. In chemistry, homogeneous mixtures are also called solutions.

  2. The council desires absolute homogeneity of opinion among all its constituents.

Synonyms: uniform, unvaried

10) Hubris (noun)

Overbearing pride or arrogance.

  1. Hubris was his fatal flaw.
  2. The thieve’s hubris was astounding, she thought that she could never be captured.

Synonyms: arrogance, conceit

Week 3

1) Enervate (verb)

Weaken or destroy strength or vitality of.

  1. The skeleton mage cast Enervate upon the party, enervating them all in a matter of seconds.
  2. School enervates students more rapidly than anything else.

Synonyms: exhaust, tire

2) Egregious (adjective)

Extremely bad.

  1. Spying on people is considered to be an egregious violation of their rights.
  2. The word “punny” is considered to be an egregious crime against humanity.

Synonyms: shocking, appalling

3) Epiphany (noun)

(1) A revelatory manifestation of a devine being. (2) A sudden understanding or realization.

  1. And then I was visited by Ephiphany, and was blinded by glory.

  2. When I finally understood Rust’s reference ownership system, it was like an epiphany.

Synonyms: insight, realization

4) Emulate (verb)

To follow the actions of.

  1. I seek to emulate many selected aspects of fictional characters.
  2. Emulation is the most fourthright manifestation of obesquiousness.

Synonyms: imitate, mimic.

5) Enmity (noun)

Feeling opposed or hostile to someone or something.

  1. Let it be known that my enmity knows no bounds towards clamshell packaging.
  2. She eyed him from afar with a harsh enmity and vowed that next time victory would be hers.

Synonyms: animosity, antagonism

6) Evanescent (adjective)

Vanishing; likely to vanish like vapor.

  1. The vapor was evanescent, vanishing as if it were vapor! We were all surprised, somehow none of us had ever seen it go like that.
  2. The dangling pointer was somehow evanescent, fleeting back into the stack as the contents at its address were deinitialized.

Synonyms: brief, fleeting

7) Expurgate (verb)

To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material before publication.

  1. The council declared their intent to expurgate the entirety of history today, citing knowledge of the past as extremely objectionable.

  2. It is those who do not read who most frequently seek to expurgate books.

Synonyms: cleanse, purge

8) Facetious (adjective)

Playfully joking, often at an inappropriate time.

  1. She was a very facetious child, never treating anything seriously.
  2. While the top of the list was rather serious, as befit the topic, they options became increasingly facetious as you progressed down.

Synonyms: amusing, flippant

9) Fatuous (adjective)

Smugly and uncosciously foolish.

  1. Your argument is utterly fatuous, and your opinion is just as absurd!
  2. Your claims that reality exists are completely fatuous, any fool can see that we live in a holographic dream dimensions projected upon the surface of a hyper-rhomboid.

Synonyms: absurd, asinine

10) Feckless (adjective)

(1) Feeble and ineffective. (2) Careless and irresponsible.

  1. Kerbals are often viewed as feckless engineers, but the fact that they so readily reach the Mün speaks to the contrary.
  2. He was an utterly feckless leader.

Synonyms: aimless, incompetent

Week 2

1) Chicanery (noun)

Deception by trickery.

  1. With much chicanery, the amy was able to get a small force past the wall.

  2. Reports today indicate that the newly discovered god is characterized mostly by agressive chicanery.

Synonyms: trickery, deceit

2) Chide (verb)

To voice disapproval.

  1. The worried mother chided her 3 year old son for toddling across the 20 lane superhighway.
  2. The villiage elders chided Ralamozoon for his foolhardyness.

Synonyms: scold, chastise

3) Churlish (adjective)

Rude in a mean-spirited and surly way.

  1. Officials are confirming today that the new god (now being called Barotor) is an extremely churlish diety.

  2. Tom was an unpleasantly churlish sort of fellow, but in a rather vague sort of way.

Synonyms: rude, surly

4) Circumlocution (noun)

Indirect and wordy - using too many words when fewer would do.

  1. We find the accused guilty of using circumlocution in the pursuit of obstructing justice.
  2. Circumlocution is very nearly autological.

Synonyms: verbosity, prolixity

5) Daunting (adjective)

Appearing difficult to do; intimidating.

  1. The task of writing a mere 20 sentences with some specified words seemed terribly daunting to her.
  2. The Dragon Rodeo is a daunting proposition if I ever saw one.

Synonyms: formidable, disconcerting, intimidating

6) Dearth (noun)

A lack of something.

  1. The Dark Side was quickly running out of Sith Lords — it was a dearth of Darths.
  2. There was a dearth of crops that year; many went hungry.

Synonyms: scarcity, shortage

7) Deciduous (adjective)

Shedding at a specific stage of growth / time of year.

  1. This species of rabbit is characterized by something very odd: deciduous eyeballs.
  2. Conifers are absolutely not deciduous! Except for deciduous conifers, like Bald Cypress, or Larch, or… Um, apparently 10+ species.

Synonyms: temporary, ephemeral

8) Deleterious (adjective)

Having harmful effect.

  1. Breaking: Self-stabbings are causing a variety of deleterious effects, especially among the living! Ask your doctor is being stabbed is right for you.

  2. Breaking: Radioisotope-Choco-Bars having deleterious effects on our children!

Synonyms: injurious, damaging

9) Denigrate (verb)

To belittle or diminish the opinion of.

  1. The company announced that they were absolutely the best at everything today, in an attempt to denigrate their competitors. “We’re really way better than all of our competitors, they have no idea what they’re doing,” they continued during their press release.

  2. I don’t wish to denigrate Microsoft, except I really do a whole lot.
    • Seriously, those guys are awful.
    • Like, really bad.

Synonyms: disparage, deprecate

10) Diffident (adjective)

Lacking self confidence.

  1. You may feel diffient about using this new vocabulary, but you need to work up the courage to use it.
  2. Suzy was always diffident when bobby was around.

Synonyms: shy, timid

Week 1

1) Aberration (noun)

Differing from the norm.

  1. The area was an aberration, space was distorted in a way never before seen by human eyes.
  2. He was convinced that the spike on our measurements was an aberration.

Synonyms: anomoly, deviation

2) Abhor (verb)

To hate.

  1. The creature was abhorred by all who viewed it.
  2. Nature abhors a vacuum, cats especially.

Synonyms: hate, loathe

3) Abrogate (verb)

To abolish or do away with by authoritative action; to annul.

  1. The Committe of Minds wishes to abrogate the practice of free will.

  2. The Committe announced yesterday their desire to abrogate the public of free will, and then to abrogate the public itself. The general public quickly responded with a movement, using their own words against them, they call to “Abrogate the Committe of Minds.” This station wishes to make it known that it does not sympathize with any rebels, and should not be held accountable for what it repeats.

Synonyms: repeal, revoke

4) Abstemious (adjective)

Not self-indulgent, abstaining, especially from eating and drinking. Sparingly used.

  1. The temple was frequented by a group of radically abstemious monks — some of whom had not eated in 13 years.
  2. The mad author was abstemious in his punctuation.

Synonyms: self-denying, abstinent

5) Acumen (noun)

Quickness and keenness of judgement; skill.

  1. When it came to tracking the beasts, she possessed an almost singular acumen.
  2. You don’t possess the linguistic acumen to use the word ‘acumen.’

Synonyms: astuteness, cleverness

6) Auspicious (adjective)

Occuring with favorable circumstances; a good omen.

  1. Our first contact was an auspicious one, they shared many secrets of the Universe with us.
  2. Lemons are considered to be a particularly auspicious fruit by a great many people. [citation needed]

Synonyms: favorable, promising

7) Behemoth (noun)

Something huge, with tremendous power and/or size.

  1. The behemoth moved lathargically through the shallow bay, rocking boats in its wake.
  2. The few behemoth warships that responded were no match for the creature’s power.

Synonyms: leviathan, huge

8) Belie (verb)

To give a false impression of, misrepresent.

  1. Our human view of the Universe belies its chaotic instanity.
  2. His calm face belied a deep seated madness.

Synonyms: contradict, to be at odds with

9) Bellicose (adjective)

Being quick to start arguments and fights.

  1. They were a bellicose race from Yuggoth, come to make war.
  2. It is in the nature of people to be bellicose, those who strike first have the advantage.

Synonyms: belligerent, agressive

10) Callous (adjective)

Having a disregard for others.

  1. She was a callous woman, but such were the occupational hazard of being an assasin.
  2. I felt him callous, how could anyone not care about a puppy?

Synonyms: heartless, unfeeling