ALL MC DEFINED :-)

i went ahead and defined all of the words in case anyone forgot at the last minute......

Abject – utterly hopeless
Adamancy – inflexible, rigid, uncompromising
Affability – friendliness
Antiquity – olden days
Ardor – passion or enthusiasm
Armory – arsenal
Atavistic – the return of a trait or recurrence of previous behavior after a period of absence
Benevolence – kindness or compassion
Buttressed – to sustain, prop, or bolster
Centrifugal tendency – the tendency to move towards the center (?)
Colloquialism – communication or conversation
Countenance – tolerate, put up with
Deference – respect, regard, reverence
Despondent – hopeless, downhearted
Didactic – educational, informative
Disconsolation – hopelessly unhappy, gloomy
Discourse – speech, discussion, conversation
Donning – to put or dress in
Edification – enlightenment, moral improvement
Empathy – understanding, sympathy
Enumeration – details, account
Garrulous – talkative, chatty
Hyperbole – exaggeration, overstatement
Impregnable – indestructible, secure
Inanities – lack of sense, significance, or ideas; silliness
Incognito – disguise
Inevitably- inescapably
Infinitive clauses
Ingratiate – suck up to
Libertine – a person who is morally or sexually unrestrained (licentious)
Lieu – in place of; instead of
Locales – a scene or setting
Oxymoron – conjoining contradictory terms
Paean – any song of praise
Parish - community
Pejoratively – negatively, as in criticism
Persona – personality or character
Platitudes – a flat, dull, or trite remark
Plight – dilemma, predicament
Pomposity – characterized by excessive self-esteem, arrogance
Pragmatism – character or conduct that emphasizes practicality
Regression – the act of going back to a previous state; return or reversion, decay
Relish – liking or enjoyment of anything
Remonstrance – a protest, objection
Salient – prominent or relevant
Seclusion – privacy or isolation
Subservient – submissive or docile
Synecdoche – a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special
Trepidation – tremendous fear or agitation; anxiety or nervousness
Uninhibited – open and unrestrained
Wanderlust – strong desire to travel