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| supplicant | humble petitioner: somebody who makes a humble and sincere appeal to a person who has the power to grant the request |
| coquette | woman who flirts: a flirtatious woman |
| beseech | beg somebody: to ask earnestly or beg somebody to do something |
| dichotomy | separation of different or contradictory things: a separation into two divisions that differ widely from or contradict each other |
| peculiarity | oddness: the quality or state of being unusual or strange |
| castigate | criticize somebody or something: to criticize or rebuke somebody or somebody's behavior severely |
| inevitable | unavoidable: impossible to avoid or to prevent from happening |
| tepid | lukewarm: slightly warm |
| candid | honest: honest or direct in a way that people find either refreshing or distasteful
photographed informally: photographed or filmed without the subject knowing or having the opportunity to prepare or pose
a candid documentary
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| stellar | exceptional: exceptionally good |
| cogent | rationally persuasive: forceful and convincing to the intellect and reason |
| coherent | speaking logically: able to speak clearly and logically |
| deleterious | harmful: having a harmful or damaging effect on somebody or something |
| salutary | useful: of value or benefit to somebody or something |
| synthesis | result of combination: a new unified whole resulting from the combination of different ideas, influences, or objects |
| prosaic | lacking imagination: not having any features that are interesting or imaginative |
| heretical | somebody who holds unorthodox religious belief: a holder or adherent of an opinion or belief that contradicts established religious teaching |
| excoriated | denounce: to severely criticize somebody or something ( formal ) , medicine tear somebody's skin off |
| tacit | implied but not expressed: understood or implied without being stated openly |
| extol | to praise somebody or something with great enthusiasm and admiration |
| unheeded | not listened to or given serious attention (my warnings went unheeded) |
| innocuous | unlikely to offend: not intended to cause offense or provoke a strong reaction and unlikely to do so (innoucous comment); harmless to an effect (an innocuous poweder |
| purport | to claim or seem to be something or somebody (The book purports to be a series of predictions) |
| disdain | intense scorn: extreme contempt or disgust for something or somebody |
| candor | candid quality: honesty or directness, whether refreshing or distasteful |
| endeavor | try hard to do something: to make a serious and sincere effort to achieve something ( formal ) |
| dubious | unsure about outcome: not sure about an outcome or conclusion (I was a little dubious about whether or not to trust him); Uncertainty, possible dishonest |
| banal | dull and unoriginal: boringly ordinary and lacking in originality |
| promulgated | to declare something official, to let known |
| lampooned | satirical attack in writing or verse: a piece of satirical writing or verse ridiculing somebody or something |
| relegated | demote somebody or something: to move somebody or something to a less important position, category, or status, to exile somebody or banish, |
| hailed | pouring down of something harmful: a barrage of something such as missiles or insults |
| wield | have and exercise something: to have and be able to use something, especially power or authority(the immense economic power wielded by large companies); use weapon or tool: to hold and use a weapon or tool |
