Question: askance

Answer: (adv.) with suspicion, distrust, or disapproval

syn: distrustfully, suspiciously, skeptically

Question: attenuate

Answer: (v.) to make thin or slender; to weaken or lessen in force, intensity, or value

syn: thin out, dilute

ant: thicken, strengthen

Question: benign

Answer: (adj.) gentle kind; forgiving, understanding; having a favorable or beneficial eggect; not malignant

syn: benevolent, salutary

ant: malevolent, deleterious

Question: cavil

Answer: (v.) to find fault in a petty way, carp; (n.) a trivial objection or criticism

syn: (v.) nitpick, quibble

Question: charlatan

Answer: (n.) one who feigns knowledge or ability; a prentender, impostor, or quack

syn: fraud, mountebank

Question: decimate

Answer: (v.) to kill or destroy a large part of

syn: ravage, devastate

Question: foible

Answer: (n.) a weak point, failing, minor flaw

syn: shortcoming, defect, quirk

ant: forte, virtue

Question: forgo

Answer: (v.) to do without, abstain from, give up

syn: refrain from, renounce

ant: indulge in, partake of

Question: fraught

Answer: (adj.) full of or loaded with; accompanied by

syn: charged with

ant: devoid of, lacking, deficient in

Question: inure

Answer: (v.) to toughen, harden; to render used to something by long subjection or exposure

syn: accustom, acclimate