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QuestionAnswer
Predilection Preference, Liking ; I have a predilection for ice cream.
Plenitude Plenty, abundance (pleni - like plen ty)
Pluralistic Diverse/Has lots of groups
Polemic controversial argument; especially one attacking one specific opinion; verbal attack
Contusion Bruise
Contentious Quarrelsome, disagreeable; Marta is contentious; she's always looking for an argument
Congenital Existing since birth; (genital - genes)
Coterie Small group who hang out together
Defamatory Slanderous
Demagogue Leader who appeals to emotion or prejudice ; HITLER
Demarcation Making a boundary; separation; distinction
Desultory Random, rambling; changing majors 12 times
Disaffected Lose affection; lose loyalty
Disparate Different
Dissemble Feign, Conceal behind false appearance
Disseminate Spread far and wide
Diurnal Daily; or opposite of nocturnal
Dyspeptic Gloomy
equanimity calmness (equa = equal = balanced feeling)
equivocal ambiguous; doubtful; more than one interpretation
gnostic has knowledge; brain or spiritual wisdom
GIve two synoyms for pompous Grandiloquent, Bombastic
Bombast Pompous speech or writing
Iconoclast One who attacks traditional beliefs
Impugn To attack as false or questionable
Disburse Pay out; Expend; Bursary is a treasury
Diluvial Relating to flood; diLLUVIAl
Dissipate (2 definitons) 1) Vanish (the clouds dissipated) 2) to overindulge
dotard/dotage senile old person
exhume uncover a secret, remove from a grave
farcical absurd; like a farce
foment incite
idiosyncratic peculiar
Temporize to act evasively to gain time or to postpone a decision
dalliance playful flirtation
infelicity not appropriate, unpleasing
sedulous busy, constantly working
prosaic dull, no imagination
ineffable indescribable; unable to be expressed
presumptive [2] Providing a reasonable basis for belief or acceptance; based on presumption/probability
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