Advanced Noun Vocab

• Enmity


  feeling of hostility
• Epoch


  particular period in history
• Mores


  essential conventions of society
• Complacency

  feeling of smug
• Dissident


  person who opposes official policy
• Compunction


  feeling of guilt
• Aspersion

  attack on someone's reputation'
• Impudence

  quality of impertience
• Nonplus


  unsure how to react from surprise
• Demise


  person's death
• Megalomania

  obsession with exercise of power
• Premise


  previous statement inferred as a conclusion
• Pastoral


  land to keep sheep and cattle
• Effusion

  talking in a heartfelt way
• Masquerade

  false pretense
• Candor


  quality of being honest
• Despot


  cruel dictator
• Aberration

  a state markedly different from the norm
• Epitaph

  words written in memory of someone who's died
• Subtlety

  state of being subtle
• Nadir

  the lowest
• Craven

  coward
• Stickler

  a person insisting on a certain type of behaviour
• Luminary


  person who inspires/influences others
• Avarice

  insatiable desire for wealth
• Antithesis

  things that's the direct opposite to something or someone
• Cupidity

  greed for money and possession
• Syllogism

  a form of reasoning in which conclusion formed from 2 given propositions
• Post-mortem

  examination of dead body
• Behemoth


  huge creature
• Peregrination


  long journey
• Alacrity


  liveliness
• Relic


  object survived from earlier times
• Utopia

  state in which everything is perfect
• Deference

  political submission and respect
• Martinet

  someone who demands obedience
• Libido


  sexual desire