Time/order/duration

1. anachronism – a) something or someone that is not in its correct chronological or historical time, esp. a thing or person that belongs to an earlier time; b) an error in chronology in which a thing or person is assigned a date or period other than the correct one

2. anterior – a) situated before or at the front of; b) going before in time or sequence, earlier, preceding (antonym - posterior

3. eon – a) an indefinitely long period of time, age; b) the largest division of geologic time, comprising two or more eras; c) one billion years

4. fortnight – a) a space of fourteen nights and days, two weeks; b)

5. synchronous – a) occurring at the same time, coinciding in time; b) going on at the same rate and exactly together

6. antecede – a) to go before in time, order or rank; b) to precede, excel, surpass

7. diurnal – a) of or pertaining to the day or each day, daily; b) of or belonging to the daytime (as opposed to nocturnal); c) active by day

8. epoch – a) a particular period of time marked by distinctive features, events; b) the beginning of a distinctive period in the history of anything; c) a point of time distinguished by a particular event or state of affairs; d) date, era, time, age

9. penultimate – a) next to the last (i.e. the penultimate scene of the play)

10. temporal – a) of or pertaining to time; b) pertaining to or concerned with the present life or this world, worldly; c) enduring for a time only, temporary, transitory; d) secular, lay or civil (based on law) as opposed to ecclesiastical, clerical (church-related)

11. millennium – a) a period of 1,000 years; b) the period of a thousand years in which Christ shall reign on Earth; c) a period of general righteousness and happiness in the indefinite future

12. archaic – a) marked by the character of an earlier period, antiquated; b) forming the earlier stage prior to full development; c) primitive, ancient, old, old-fashioned

13. ephemeral – a) lasting a very short time, short-lived, transitory, impermanent

14. fleeting – a) passing swiftly, vanishing quickly, transient, transitory; b) passing, flitting, flying, brief, fugitive

15. evanescent – a) vanishing, fading away, fleeting; b) tending to become imperceptible

16. impermanent – a) not permanent or enduring, transitory; b) fleeting temporary, ephemeral, evanescent

17. antedate – a) to be of older date than, precede in time; b) to cause to return to an earlier time; c) to predate, assign to an earlier date

18. antediluvian – a) of or belonging to the period before the Flood (Genesis, 7,8); b) very, very old-fashioned or out of date; c) antiquated, primitive; d) a very old-fashioned person or thing

BAD MOOD

1. bilious – a) pertaining to bile or an excessive secretion of bile; b) peevish, irritable, cranky; c) extremely unpleasant or distasteful; d) grumpy, crabby, cross, grouchy, dyspeptic

2. petulant – a) moved to or showing sudden impatient irritation, esp. over some trifling annoying; b) irritable, peevish, fretful, pettish, touchy

3. querulous – a) full of complaints, complaining; b) characterized by or uttered in complaint, peevish; c) petulant, testy, caviling, carping, discontented

4. dudgeon – a) a feeling of offence or resentment; anger; b) indignation, pique

5. pettish – a) petulantly peevish

6. umbrage – a) offense, annoyance, displeasure; b) the slightest indication or vaguest feeing of suspicion, doubt, hostility, or the like; c) pique, grudge, resentment

7. irascible – a) easily provoked to anger, irritable; b) testy, touchy, peppery, choleric, short-tempered

8. pique – a) to affect with sharp irritation and resentment, esp. by some wound to pride; b) to offend, sting, nettle, chafe, vex, irritate; c) to stimulate, goad, prick, incite, stir (i.e. to pique someone’s interest)

9. waspish – a) like or suggesting a wasp, esp. in behavior; b) quick to resent a trifling affront or injury, snappish; c) irascibly or petulantly spiteful; d) resentful, testy, touchy

10. miffed – a) put into an irritable mood, esp. by an offending incident; b) from the verb to miff, to annoy, provoke, irritate or vex

EMBARRASS

1. abash – a) to destroy the confidence, poise, or self-possession of, disconcert; b) to make ashamed or embarrassed; c) to shame, discompose

2. contrition – a) sincere penitence or remorse; b) compunction, regret

3. foible – a) a minor weakness or failing of character; b) a slight flaw or defect; c) frailty, quirk, crotchet, eccentricity, peculiarity)

4. chagrin – a) a feeling of vexation marked by disappointment or humiliation (from the French word for sadness)

5. diffidence – a) the quality of state of lacking confidence in one’s own ability, worth or fitness, timid, shy; b) self-conscious, self-effacing, abashed, embarrassed, modest, unassuming, unconfident

6. gaucherie – a) lack of social grace, sensitivity or acuteness, awkwardness, crudeness, tactlessness; b) an act, movement that is socially graceless, awkward, or tactless (from the French word for “left”)

7. compunction - a) a feeling of uneasiness or anxiety of the conscience caused by regret for doing wrong or causing pain, contrition, remorse

8. expiate – a) to atone for, to make amends or reparation for; to repent for one’s crimes or sins

9. rue – a) to feel sorrow over; b) to repent of, regret bitterly; c) to wish that something had never been done or taken place; d) to feel sorrow, repentance or regret

10. shame – a) painful feeling caused by injury to one’s pride or self-respect; b) the painful feeling arising from the consciousness of something dishonorable, improper or ridiculous, esp. done by oneself or another; c) a fact or circumstances bringing disgrace or regret

11. mortify – a) to humiliate or shame, as by injury to one’s pride or self-respect; b) to subjugate the body passions) by abstinence, self-discipline, or self-inflicted suffering; c) to humble, abase, subdue, restrain

12. humble – a) not proud or arrogant, modest; b) having a feeling of insignificance, inferiority, subservience; c) low in rank, importance, status, quality; d) unpretending, unpretentious, submissive, meek, unassuming, plain, common poor

13. humiliate – a) to make one feel worthless, to abase, mortify in a public setting, in front of witnesses

HARDHEARTED

1. asperity – a) harshness or sharpness of tone, temper, or manner; severity, acrimony; b) hardship, difficult, rigor; c) acerbity, bitterness, astringency

2. fell – a) fierce, cruel, dreadful, savage; b) destructive, deadly, wicked (as of a felon)

3. sardonic – a) characterized by bitter or scornful derision, mocking, cynical, sneering; b) biting, mordant, contemptuous

4. vitriolic – caustic or scathing, resembling vitriol (something highly caustic, burning); b) acid, bitter

5. baleful – a) full of menacing or malign influences, pernicious; b) wretched, miserable; c) harmful, malign, injurious, detrimental, evil, wicked, deadly

6. malevolent – a) wishing harm or evil to another or others, showing ill-will, ill-disposed; b) evil, harmful, injurious; c) malicious, spiteful, begrudging, malicious, rancorous

7. scathing – a) bitterly severe, as a remark; b) harmful, injurious or searing

8. vituperation – a) verbal abuse or castigation; b) violent denunciation or condemnation; c) censure, vilification, spite, scolding, defamation, aspersion

9. dour – a) sullen, gloomy; b) severe, stern; c) barren, rocky, infertile or otherwise difficult or impossible to cultivate; d) morose, sour, moody, glum

10. mordant – a) sharply caustic or sarcastic, as wit or a speaker, biting; b) corrosive, burning; c) cutting, stinging, acerbic, scathing

11. truculent – a) fierce, cruel, savagely brutal; b) brutally harsh, vitriolic, scathing; c) aggressively hostile, belligerent

NAG

1. admonish – a) to caution, advise, or counsel against something; b) to reprove or scold in a mild, good-willed manner; c) to urge to a duty, remind; d) to rebuke, censure, upbraid, reprimand

2. enjoin – a) to prescribe a course of action with authority or emphasis; b) to direct or order to do something; c) charge, bid, command, require; d) proscribe, interdict, ban, prohibit

3. hector – a) to treat with insolence, bully, torture; b) to act in a blustering, domineering way; c) torture, persecute, badger, harass; d) named for Hector, the greatest warrior in the Trojan War, killed by Achilles

4. reproof – a) the act of reproving, censuring or rebuking; b) an expression of censure or rebuke; c) rebuke, reproach, remonstrance, chiding

5. cavil – a) to raise irritating and trivial objections; b) to find fault with unnecessarily; c) to oppose by inconsequential, frivolous or sham objections; d) to carp, complain, criticize

6. exhort – a) to urge, advise or caution earnestly; b) admonish urgently; c) to give urgent advice, recommendations, or warnings; d) encourage, spur, press, goad

7. martinet – a) a strict disciplinarian, esp. a military one; b) someone who stubbornly adheres to methods or rules

8. belabor – a) to explain, worry about or work at something repeatedly or more than is necessary; b) to assail persistently, as with scorn, or ridicule; b) to beat vigorously with heavy blows

9. harass – a) to disturb persistently, torment, as with troubles or cares, bother continually, pester, persecute; b) to trouble by repeated attacks, intrusions, as in war or hostility, harry, raid; c) badger, vex, plague, hector, torture, molest

10. remonstrate – a) to say or plead in protest, objection or disapproval; b) to present reasons in complaint, plead in protest; c) to argue, object, expostulate

PREDICT

1. augur – a) soothsayer, prophet; b) to divine or predict from omens, to prognosticate; c) to be a sign, bode

2. harbinger – a) a person who goes ahead and makes known the approach of another, herald; b) anything that foreshadows a future event, omen, sign; c) forerunner, precursor, portent, indication

3. prescient – a) characterized by knowledge of things before they exist or happen, having foreknowledge; b)

4. auspice – a) a favorable sign or propitious circumstance; b) a divination or prognostication, usually from observing birds

5. portentous – a) of the nature of a portent, momentous; b) ominously significant or indicative; c) marvelous, amazing, prodigious

6. prognosticate – a) to forecast or predict something in the future from present conditions or signs, prophesy; b) to foretoken or presage; c) foretell, foresee, project

7. fey – a) doomed, fated to die; b) appearing to be under a spell, marked by an apprehension of death, calamity or evil; c) supernatural, unreal, enchanted; d) whimsical, strange, otherworldly

8. presage – a) a presentiment or foreboding; b) something that portends or foreshadows a future event, omen; c) prophetic significance, augury; d) indication, premonition, portent, sign, token

9. auspicious – a) promising success, propitious, opportune, favorable; b) favored by fortune, prosperous, fortunate

10. propitious – a) presenting favorable conditions; b) indicative of favor, auspicious; c) favorably inclined, disposed to bestow favors or forgive

11. ominous – a) from the word “omen” – a predictor of outcomes, suggesting evil or damaging eventualities; b) portending evil or harm, foreboding

LUCK

1. adventitious – a) associated with something by chance rather than as an integral part, extrinsic; b) coming from without

2. fortuitous – a) happening or produced by some chance, accidental; b) lucky, fortunate; c) incidental

3. optimum – a) the best or most favorable point, degree, amount etc., as of temperature, light and moisture for the growth or reproduction of an organism; b) the greatest degree or best result obtained or obtainable under specific conditions; c) ideal, perfect, optimal

4. propitious – a) presenting favorable conditions; b) indicative of favor, auspicious; c) favorably inclined, disposed to bestow favors or forgive

5. amulet – a) a small object worn to ward off harm, evil, or illness or to bring good fortune, protecting charm, talisman

6. kismet – a) fate, destiny

7. portentous – a) of the nature of a portent, momentous; b) ominously significant or indicative; c) marvelous, amazing, prodigious

8. providential – a) of, resulting from or pertaining to divine providence; b) opportune, fortunate, lucky

9. auspicious – a) promising success, propitious, opportune, favorable; b) favored by fortune, prosperous, fortunate

10. serendipity – a) an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident; b) good fortune, luck

11. propitiate – a) to make favorably inclined, appease, conciliate

12. talisman – a) a stone, ring or other object, engraved with figures or character supposed to possess occult powers and worn as a amulet or charm; anything whose presence exercises a remarkable or powerful influence on human feelings or actions

NASTY

1. fetid – a) having an offensive odor, stinking, noisome, malodorous, smelly

2. noisome – a) offensive or disgusting, as an odor; b) harmful or injurious to the health; c) fetid, putrid, rotten, stinking, mephitic

3. noxious – a) harmful or injurious to health or physical well-being; b) morally harmful, corrupting, pernicious, hurtful, unwholesome, unhealthy, nocuous, detrimental, deleterious, corruptive

4. foul – a) grossly offensive to the senses, disgustingly loathsome, noisome; b) grossly offensive in a moral sense; c) grossly offensive in a moral sense, abominable, wicked or vile, as deeds, crime, slander, scurrilous profane or obscene; d) repulsive, repellent, fetid, putrid, stinking, unclean polluted sullies, soiled stained, tainted, impure, base, shameful infamous, smutty vulgar coarse, sully stain dirty, besmirch, taint, pollute

5. squalid – a) foul and repulsive as from lack of care or cleanliness, neglected and filthy; b) wretched, miserable, degraded, sordid, unclean

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