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Abscond
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(v.) to depart clandestinely; to steal off and hide
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Aberrant
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(adj.) deviating from the norm (n form: aberration)
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Alacrity
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(n.) eager and enthusiastic willingness
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Anomaly
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(n.) deviation from the normal order, form, or rule; abnormality (adj. form: anomalous)
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Approbation
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(n.) an expression of approval or praise
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Arduous
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(adj.) strenuous, taxing; requiring significant effort
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Assuage
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(v.) to ease or lessen; to appease or pacify
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Audacious
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(adj.) daring and fearless; recklessly bold (n. form: audacity)
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Austere
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(adj.) without adornment; bare; severely simple; ascetic (n. form: austerity)
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Axiomatic
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(adj.) taken as a given; possessing self-evident truth (n. axiom)
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Canonical
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(adj.) following or in agreement with accepted, traditional standards (n. form: canon)
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Capricious
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(adj.) inclined to change one's mind impulsively; erratic, unpredictable
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Censure
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(v.) to criticize severely; to officially rebuke
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Chicanery
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(n.) trickery or subterfuge
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Connoisseur
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(n.) an informed and astute judge in matters of taste; expert
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Convoluted
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(adj.) complex or complicated
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Disabuse
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(v.) to undeceive; to set right
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Discordant
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(adj.) conflicting; dissonant or harsh in sound
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Disparate
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(adj.) fundamentally distinct or dissimilar
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Effrontery
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(n.) extreme boldness; presumptuousness
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Eloquent
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(adj.) well-spoken, expressive, articulate (n. form: eloquence)
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Enervate
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(v.) to weaken; to reduce in vitality
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Ennui
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(n.) dissatisfaction and restlessness resulting from boredom or apathy
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Equivocate
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(v.) to use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent (adj. form: equivocal)
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Erudite
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(adj.) very learned; scholarly (n. form: erudition)
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Exculpate
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(v.) exonerate; to clear of blame
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Exigent
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(adj.) urgent, pressing; requiring immediate action or attention
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Extemporaneous
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(adj.) improvised; done without preparation
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Filibuster
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(n.) intentional obstruction, esp. using prolonged speechmaking to delay legislative action
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Fulminate
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(v.) to loudly attack or denounce
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Ingenuous
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(adj.) artless; frank and candid; lacking in sophistication
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Inured
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(adj.) accustomed to accepting something undesirable
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Irascible
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(adj.) easily angered; prone to temperamental outbursts
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Laud
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(v.) to praise highly (adj. form: laudatory)
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Lucid
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(adj.) clear, easily understood
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Magnanimity
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(n.) the quality of being generously noble in mind and heart, esp. in forgiving (adj. form: magnanimous)
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Martial
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(adj.) associated with war and the armed forces
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Mundane
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(adj.) of the world; typical of or concerned with the ordinary
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Nascent
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(adj.) coming into being; in early developmental stages
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Nebulous
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(adj.) vague; cloudy; lacking clearly defined form
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Neologism
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(n.) a new word, expression, or usage; the creation or use of new words or senses
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Noxious
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(adj.) harmful, injurious
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Obtuse
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(adj.) lacking sharpness of intellect; not clear or precise in thought or expression
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Obviate
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(v.) to anticipate and make unnecessary
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Onerous
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(adj.) troubling; burdensome
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Paean
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(n.) a song or hymn of praise and thanksgiving
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Parody
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(n.) a humorous imitation intended for ridicule or comic effect, esp. in literature and art
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Perennial
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(adj.) recurrent through the year or many years; happening repeatedly
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Perfidy
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(n.) intentional breach of faith; treachery (adj. form: perfidious
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Perfunctory
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(adj.) cursory; done without care or interest
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Perspicacious
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(adj.) acutely perceptive; having keen discernment (n. form: perspicacity)
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Prattle
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(v.) to babble meaninglessly; to talk in an empty and idle manner
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Precipitate
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(v.) to cause or happen before anticipated or required
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Predilection
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(n.) a disposition in favor of something; preference
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Prescience
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(n.) foreknowledge of events; knowing of events prior to their occurring (adj. form: prescient)
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Prevaricate
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(v.) to deliberately avoid the truth; to mislead
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Qualms
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(n.) misgivings; reservations; causes for hesitancy
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Recant
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(v.) to retract, esp. a previously held belief
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Refute
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(v.) to disprove; to successfully argue against
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Relegate
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(v.) to forcibly assign, esp. to a lower place or position
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Reticent
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(adj.) quiet; reserved; reluctant to express thoughts or feelings
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Solicitous
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(adj.) concerned and attentive; eager
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Sordid
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(adj.) characterized by filth, grime, or squalor; foul
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Sporadic
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(adj.) occurring only occasionally, or in scattered instances
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Squander
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(v.) to waste by spending or using irresponsibly
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Static
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(adj.) not moving, active, or in motion; at rest
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Stupefy
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(v.) to stun, baffle, or amaze
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Stymie
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(v.) to block; thwart
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Synthesis
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(n.) the combination of parts to make a whole (v. form: synthesize)
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Torque
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(n.) a force that causes rotation
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Tortuous
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(adj.) winding, twisting; excessively complicated
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Truculent
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(adj.) fierce and cruel; eager to fight
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Veracity
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(n.) truthfulness, honesty
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Virulent
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(adj.) extremely harmful or poisonous; bitterly hostile or antagonistic
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Voracious
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(adj.) having an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit; ravenous
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Waver
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(v.) to move to and fro; to sway; to be unsettled in opinion
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Abate
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(v.) to lessen in intensity or degree
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Accolade
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(n.) an expression of praise
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Adulation
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(n.) excessive praise; intense adoration
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Aesthetic
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(n.) dealing with, appreciative of, or responsive to art or the beautiful
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Ameliorate
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(v.) to make better or more tolerable
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Ascetic
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(n.) one who practices rigid self-denial, esp. as an act of religious devotion
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Avarice
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(n.) greed, esp. for wealth (adj. form: avaricious)
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Axiom
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(n.) a universally recognized principle (adj. form: axiomatic)
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Burgeon
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(v.) to grow rapidly or flourish
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Bucolic
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(adj.) rustic and pastoral; characteristic of rural ares and their inhabitants
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Cacophony
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(n.) harsh, jarring, discordant sound; dissonance (adj. form: cacophonous)
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Canon
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(n.) an established set of principles or code of laws, often religious in nature (adj. form: canonical)
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Castigation
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(n.) severe criticism or punishment (v. form: castigate)
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Catalyst
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(n.) a substance that accelerates the rate of a chemical reaction without itself changing; a person or thing that causes change
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Caustic
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(adj.) burning or stinging; causing corrosion
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Chary
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(adj.) wary; cautious; sparing
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Cogent
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(adj.) appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing
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Complaisance
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(n.) the willingness to comply with the wishes of others (adj. form: complaisant)
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Contentious
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(adj.) argumentative, quarrelsome; causing controversy or disagreement
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Contrite
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(adj.) regretful; penitent; seeking forgiveness (n. form: contrition)
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Culpable
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(adj.) deserving blame (n. form: culpability)
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Dearth
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(n.) smallness of quantity or number; scarcity; a lack
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Demur
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(v.) to question or oppose
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Didactic
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(adj.) intended to teach or instruct
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Discretion
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(n.) cautious reserve in speech; ability to make responsible decisions (adj. form: discreet)
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Disinterested
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(adj.) free of bias or self-interest; impartial
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Dogmatic
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(adj.) expressing a rigid opinion based on unproved or unprovable principles (n. form: dogma)
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Ebullience
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(n.) the quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings (adj. form: ebullient)
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Eclectic
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(adj.) composed of elements drawn from various sources
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Elegy
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(n.) a mournful person, esp. one lamenting the dead (adj. form: elegiac)
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Emollient
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(adj./n.) soothing, esp. to the skin; making less harsh; mollifying; an agent that softens or smooths the skin
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Empirical
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(adj.) based on observation or experiment
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Enigmatic
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(adj.) mysterious; obscure; difficult to understand (n. form: enigma)
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Ephemeral
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(adj.) brief, fleeting
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Esoteric
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(adj.) intended for or understood by a small, specific group
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Eulogy
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(n.) a speech honoring the dead (v. form: eulogize)
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Exonerate
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(v.) to remove blame
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Facetious
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(adj.) playful; humorous
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Fallacy
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(n.) an invalid or incorrect notion; a mistaken belief (adj. form: fallacious)
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Furtive
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(adj.) marked by stealth; covert; surreptitious
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Gregarious
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(adj.) sociable; outgoing; enjoying the company of other people
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Harangue
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(v./n.) to deliver a pompous speech or tirade; a long, pompous speech
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Heretical
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(adj.) violating accepted dogma or convention (n. form: heresy)
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Hyperbole
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(n.) an exaggerated statement, often used as a figure of speech (adj. form: hyperbolic)
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Impecunious
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(adj.) lacking funds; without money
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Incipient
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(adj.) beginning to come into being or to become apparent
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Inert
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(adj.) unmoving; lethargic; sluggish
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Innocuous
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(adj.) harmless; causing no damage
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Intransigent
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(adj.) refusing to compromise (n. form: intransigence)
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Inveigle
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(adj.) to obtain by deception or flattery
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Morose
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(adj.) sad; sullen; melancholy
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Odious
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(adj.) evoking intense aversion or dislike
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Opaque
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(adj.) impenetrable by light; not reflecting light
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Oscillation
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(n.) the act or state of swinging back and forth with a steady, uninterrupted rhythm (v. form: oscillate)
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Penurious
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(adj.) penny-pinching; excessively thrifty; ungenerous
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Pernicious
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(adj.) extremely harmful; potentially causing death
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Peruse
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(v.) to examine with great care (n. form: perusal)
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Pious
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(adj.) extremely reverent or devout; showing strong religious devotion (n. form: piety)
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Precursor
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(n.) one that precedes and indicates or announces another
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Preen
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(v.) to dress up; to primp; to groom oneself with elaborate care
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Prodigious
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(adj.) abundant in size, force, or extent; extraordinary
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Prolific
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(adj.) producing large volumes or amounts; productive
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Putrefy
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(v.) to rot; to decay and give off a foul odor (adj. form: putrid)
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Quaff
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(v.) to drink deeply
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Quiescence
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(n.) stillness; motionlessness; quality of being at rest (adj. form: quiescent)
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Redoubtable
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(adj.) awe-inspiring; worthy of honor
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Sanction
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(n./v.) authoritative permission of approval; a penalty intended to enforce compliance; to give permission or authority to
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Satire
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(n.) a literary work that ridicules or criticizes a human vice through humor or derision (adj. form: satirical)
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Squalid
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(adj.) sordid; wretched and dirty as from neglect
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Stoic
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(adj.) indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain; steadfast (n. form: stoicism)
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Supplant
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(v.) to take the place of; supersede
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Torpid
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(adj.) lethargic; sluggish; dormant (n. form: torpor)
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Ubiquitous
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(adj.) existing everywhere at the same time; constantly encountered; widespread
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Urbane
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(adj.) sophisticated; refined; elegant (n. form: urbanity)
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Vilify
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(v.) to defame; to characterize harshly
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Viscous
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(adj.) thick; sticky (n. form: viscosity
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Acumen
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(n.) keen, accurate judgment or insight
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Adulterate
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(v.) to reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients
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Archaic
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(adj.) outdated; associated with an earlier, perhaps more primitive time
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Aver
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(v.) to state as a fact; to declare or assert
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Bolster
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(v.) to provide support or reinforcement
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Bombastic
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(adj.) pompous; grandiloquent (n. form: bombast)
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Diatribe
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(n.) a harsh denunciation
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Dissemble
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(v.) to disguise or conceal; to mislead
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Eccentric
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(adj.) departing from norms or conventions
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Endemic
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(adj.) characteristic of or often found in a particular locality, region, or people
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Evanescent
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(adj.) tending to disappear like vapor; vanishing
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Exacerbate
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(v.) to make worse or more severe
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Fervent
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(adj.) greatly emotional or zealous (n. form: fervor)
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Fortuitous
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(adj.) happening by accident or chance
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Germane
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(adj.) relevant to the subject at hand; appropriate in subject matter
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Grandiloquence
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(n.) pompous speech or expression (adj. form: grandiloquent)
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Hackneyed
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(adj.) Rendered trite or commonplace by frequent usage
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Halcyon
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(adj.) calm and peaceful
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Hedonism
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(n.) devotion to pleasurable pursuits, esp. to the pleasures of the senses ( a hedonist is someone who pursues pleasure)
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Hegemony
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(n.) the consistent dominance of one state or ideology over others
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Iconoclast
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(n.) one who attacks or undermines traditional conventions or institutions
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Idolatrous
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(adj.) given to intense or excessive devotion to something (n. form: idolatry)
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Impassive
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(adj.) revealing no emotion
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Imperturbable
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(adj.) marked by extreme calm, impassivity and steadiness
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Implacable
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(adj.) not capable of being appeased or significantly changed
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Impunity
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(n.) immunity from punishment or penalty
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Inchoate
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(adj.) in an initial stage; not fully formed
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Infelicitous
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(adj.) unfortunate; inappropriate
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Insipid
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(adj.) without taste or flavor; lacking in spirit; bland
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Loquacious
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(adj.) extremely talkative (n. form: loquacity)
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Luminous
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(adj.) characterized by brightness and the emission of light
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Malevolent
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(adj.) having or showing often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred (n. form: malevolence)
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Malleable
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(adj.) capable of being shaped or formed; tractable; pliable
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Mendacity
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(n.) the condition of being untruthful; dishonesty (adj. form: mendacious)
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Meticulous
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(adj.) characterized by extreme care and precision; attentive to detail
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Misanthrope
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(n.) one who hates all other humans (n. form: misanthropic)
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Mitigate
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(v.) to make or become less severe or intense; to moderate
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Obdurate
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(adj.) unyielding; hardhearted; intractable
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Obsequious
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(adj.) exhibiting a fawning attentiveness
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Occlude
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(v.) to obstruct or block
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Opprobrium
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(n.) to disgrace; contempt; scorn
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Pedagogy
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(n.) the profession or principles of teaching, or instructing
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Pedantic
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(adj.) overly concerned with the trivial details of learning or education; show-offish about one's knowledge (n. form: penury)
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Pervasive
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(adj.) having the tendency to permeate or spread throughout
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Pine
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(v.) to yearn intensely; to languish; to lose vigor
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Pirate
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(v.) to illegally use or reproduce
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Pith
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(n.) the essential or central part
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Pithy
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(adj.) precise and brief
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Placate
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(v.) to appease; to calm by making concessions
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Platitude
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(n.) a superficial remark, esp. one offered as meaningful
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Plummet
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(v.) to plunge or drop straight down
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Polemical
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(adj.) controversial; argumentative
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Prodigal
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(adj.) recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish
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Profuse
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(adj.) given or coming forth abundantly; extravagant
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Proliferate
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(v.) to grow or increase swiftly and abundantly
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Queries
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(n.) questions; inquiries; doubts in mind; reservations
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Querulous
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(adj.) prone to complaining or grumbling; peevish
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Rancorous
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(adj.) characterized by bitter, long-lasting resentment (n. form: rancor)
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Recalcitrant
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(adj.) obstinately defiant of authority; difficult to manage
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Repudiate
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(v.) to refuse to have anything to do with; disown
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Rescind
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(v.) to invalidate; to repeal; to retract
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Reverent
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(adj.) marked by, feeling, or expressing a feeling of profound awe and respect (n. form: reverence)
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Rhetoric
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(n.) the art or study of effective use of language for communication and persuasion
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Salubrious
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(adj.) promoting health or well-being
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Solvent
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(adj.) able to meet financial obligations; able to dissolve another substance
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Specious
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(adj.) seeming true, but actually being fallacious; misleadingly attractive; plausible but false
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Spurious
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(adj.) lacking authenticity or validity; false; counterfeit
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Subpoena
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(n.) a court order requiring appearance and/or testimony
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Succinct
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(adj.) brief; concise
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Superfluous
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(adj.) exceeding what is sufficient or necessary
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Surfeit
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(n./v.) an overabundant supply; excess; to feed or supply to excess
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tenacity
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(n.) the quality of adherence or persistence to something valued; persistent determination (adj. form: tenacious)
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Tenuous
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(adj.) having little substance or strength; flimsy; weak
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Tirade
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(n.) a long and extremely critical speech; a harsh denunciation
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Transient
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(adj.) fleeting; passing quickly; brief
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Zealous
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(adj.) fervent; ardent; impassioned, devoted to a cause (a zealot is a zealous person)
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acerbic
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(adj.) having a sour or bitter taste or character; sharp; biting
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Aggrandize
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(v.) to increase in intensity, power, influence or prestige
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Alchemy
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(n.) a medieval science aimed as the transmutation of metals, esp. base metals into gold
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Amenable
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(adj.) agreeable; responsive to suggestions
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Anachronism
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(n.) something or someone out of place in terms of historical or chronological context
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Astringent
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(adj./n.) having a tightening effect on living tissue; harsh; severe
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Contiguous
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(adj.) sharing a border; touching; adjacent
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Convention
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(n.) a generally agreed-upon practice or attitude
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Credulous
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(adj.) tending to believe too readily; gullible (n. form: credulity)
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Cynicism
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(n.) an attitude or quality of belief that all people are motivated by selfishness (adj. form: cynical)
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Decorum
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(n.) polite or appropriate conduct or behavior (adj. form: decorous)
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Derision
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(n.) scorn, ridicule, contemptuous treatment (adj. form: derisive; v. form: deride)
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Desiccate
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(v.) to dry out or dehydrate; to make dry or dull
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Dilettante
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(n.) one with an amateurish or superficial interest in the arts or a branch of knowledge
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Disparage
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(v.) to slight or belittle
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Divulge
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(v.) to disclose something secret
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Fawn
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(v.) to flatter or praise excessively
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Flout
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(v.) to show contempt for, as a rule or convention
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Garrulous
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(adj.) pointlessly talkative, talking too much
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Glib
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(adj.) marked by ease or informality; nonchalant; lacking in depth; superficial
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Hubris
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(n.) overbearing presumption or pride; arrogance
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Imminent
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(adj.) about to happen; impending
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Immutable
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(adj.) not capable of change
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Impetuous
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(adj.) hastily or rashly energetic; impulsive and vehement
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Indifferent
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(adj.) having no interest or concern; showing no bias or prejudice
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Inimical
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(adj.) damaging; harmful; injurious
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Intractable
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(adj.) not easily managed or directed; stubborn; obstinate
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Intrepid
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(adj.) steadfast and courageous
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Laconic
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(adj.) using few words; terse
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Maverick
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(n.) an independent individual who does not go along with a group or party
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Mercurial
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(adj.) characterized by rapid and unpredictable change in moos
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Mollify
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(v.) to calm or soothe; to reduce in emotional intensity
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Neophyte
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(n.) a recent convert; a beginner; novice
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Obfuscate
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(v.) to deliberately obscure; to make confusing
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Obstinate
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(adj.) stubborn; hardheaded; uncompromising
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Ostentatious
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(adj.) characterized by or given to pretentious display; showy
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Pervade
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(v.) to permeate throughout (adj. form: pervasive)
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Phlegmatic
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(adj.) calm; sluggish; lacking emotion
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Plethora
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(n.) an overabundance; a surplus
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Pragmatic
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(adj.) practical rather than idealistic
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Presumptuous
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(adj.) overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy); taking liberties
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Pristine
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(adj.) pure; uncorrupted; clean
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Probity
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(n.) adherence to highest principles; complete and confirmed integrity; uprightness
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Proclivity
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(n.) a natural predisposition or inclination
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Profligate
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excessively wasteful; recklessly extravagant (n. form: profligacy)
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Propensity
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A natural inclination or tendency, penchant
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Prosaic
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(adj.) dull; lacking in spirit or imagination
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Pungent
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(adj.) characterized by a strong, sharp smell or taste
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Quixotic
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(adj.) foolishly impractical; marked by lofty romantic ideals
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Quotidian
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(adj.) occurring or recurring daily; commonplace
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Rarefy
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(v.) to make or become thin, less dense; to refine
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Recondite
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(adj.) hidden; concealed; difficult to understand; obscure
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Refulgent
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(adj.) radiant; shiny; brilliant
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Renege
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(v.) to fail to honor a commitment; to go back on a promise
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Sedulous
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(adj.) diligent; persistent; hard-working
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Shard
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(n.) a piece of broken pottery or glass
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Soporific
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(adj.) causing drowsiness; tending to induce sleep
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Sparse
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(adj.) thin; not dense; arranged at widely spaced intervals
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Spendthrift
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(n.) one who spends money wastefully
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Subtle
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(adj.) not obvious; elusive; difficult to discern
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Tacit
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(adj.) implied; not explicitly stated
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Terse
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(adj.) brief and concise in wording
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Tout
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(v.) to publicly praise or promote
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Trenchant
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(adj.) sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating
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Unfeigned
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(adj.) genuine; not false or hypocritical
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Vacillate
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(v.) to waver indecisively between one course of action or opinion and another; waver
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Untenable
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(adj.) indefensible; not viable; uninhabitable
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Variegated
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(adj.) multicolored; characterized by a variety of patches of different color
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Vexation
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(n.) annoyance; irritation (v. form: vex)
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Vigilant
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(adj.) alertly watching (n. form: vigilance)
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Vituperate
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(v.) to use harsh, condemnatory language; to abuse or censure severely or abusively; berate
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Volatile
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(adj.) readily changing to a vapor; changeable; fickle; explosive (n. form: volatility
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Alloy
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(v.) to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior; unalloyed means pure
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Appropriate
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(v.) to take for one's own use. confiscate
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Arrest, Arresting
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(v./adj.) to suspend; to engage; holding one's attention; as in arrested adolescence, an arresting portrait
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August
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(adj.) majestic, venerable
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Bent
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(n.) leaning, inclination, proclivity. tendency: "he had a naturally artistic bent"
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Broach
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(v.) bring up, announce, begin to talk about
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Brook
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(v.) to tolerate, endure, countenance
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Cardinal
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(adj.) major, as in cardinal sin
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Chauvinist
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(n.) a blindly devoted patriot
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Color
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(v.) to change as if by dyeing, i.e., to distort, gloss or affect (usually the first): "yellow journalism colored the truth"
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Consequential
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(adj.) pompous, self-important (primary definitions are: logically following; important)
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Damp
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(v.) to diminish the intensity or check the vibration of sound
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Die
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(n.) a tool used for shaping, as in a tool and die shop
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Essay
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(v.) to test or try; attempt, experiment: "the newly born fawn essayed a few wobbly steps"
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Exact
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(v.) to demand, call for, require, take: "even a victorious war exacts a heavy price"
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Fell
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(adj.) to cause to fall by striking: "the lumberjacks arrived and felled many trees"
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Flag
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(v.) to sag or droop, to become spiritless, to decline: think of a flag on a windless day, as in her flagging spirits
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Flip
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(adj.) sarcastic, impertinent, as in flippant: "a flip remark"
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Ford
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(v.) to wade across a shallow part of a river or stream
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Grouse
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(v.) to complain or grumble
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