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| pedagogy | tthe art or profession of training, teaching, or instructing; the profession of teaching
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| penury | poverty, destruction; a state of extreme poverty or destitution
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| probity | adherence to the highest principles; uprightness; complete and confirmed
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| perspicacious | acutely perceptive; having keen discernment; clear-sighted, sagacious, sapient
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| mercurial | quick; fleeting; erratic; fickle; quicksilver
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| esoteric | intended for or understood by a small group
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| salubrious | promoting health or well being
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| perfunctory | cursory; done without care or interest; hasty and without attention to detail not thorough
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| vituperate | to use harsh, condemnatory language; curse; vilify; revile; rail
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| incipient | beginning to come into being or to become apparent; only partly in existence; imperfectly formed; inchoate
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| arduous | strenuous, taxing
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| adulation | excessive praise; idolization; idolisation
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| lissome | nimble; gracefully slender; moving and bending with ease; lithe; lithesome; slender; supple; svelte; sylplike
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| gaffe | social blunder
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| aberrant | deviating from normal
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| abscond | to leave secretly and hide; often to avoid the law
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| advocate | to speak,plead, or argue for a cause or in another's behalf
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| obdurate | unyielding;hardhearted; intractable
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resistant to persuasion or softening ; influences; hardened and unrepentant; stubborn inflexible; stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing; cussed; obstinate; unrepentant; showing unfeeling r
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| obfuscate | to deliberately obscure or unclear; to make obscure or unclear; to darken, make obscure, muddle; make obscure or unclear; to darken, make obscure, muddle
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| obsequious | exhibiting a fawning attentiveness; characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning; (to somebody) too willing to obey or serve; too respectful; attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery; fawning; sycophantic; toad
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| ingenuous | unsophisticated; artless; straightforward; candid; lacking in sophistication or worldliness; innocent; characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious; artless
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| ingenious | clever
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| innocuous | harmless; having no adverse affect; not likely to provoke strong emotion; not causing disapproval; unobjectionable; not injurious to physical or mental health; unlikely to harm or disturb anyone
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| obtuse | lacking sharpness of intellect; not clear or precise in thought or expression; slow to understand; stupid/blunt; purblind
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| obviate | to anticipate and make unnecessary; remove (something); get rid of; to anticipate and prevent (as a situation) or make unnecessary (as an action); to make unnecessary; get rid of; prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; ward off; debar; deflect
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| ionoclast | one who attacks or undermines traditional conventions or institutions; a breaker or destroyer of images, esp. those set up for religious veneration; person who attacks cherished beliefs, traditional institutions etc, as being based on error or superstitio
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| idolatrous | given to intense or excessive devotion to something; whorshiping idols
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| imminent | about to happen; impending; about to happen; likely to happen very soon; ready to take place; especially; hanging threateningly over one's head; likely to come very soon
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| immutable | not capable of change; that cannot be changed; that will never change; not capable of or susceptible to change; that cannot be changed
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| impassive | revealing no emotion; showing no sign of feeling; unsusceptible to or destitute of emotionl unmoved; feeling no sign of passion
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| impecunious | lacking funds; without money; having little or money; having very little or no money usually habitually; penniless
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| imperturbable | marked by extreme calm; impassivity and steadiness; not eaisly troubled or worried calm; marked by extreme calm, impassivity and steadiness; serene; calm; not capable of being excitied
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| impetuous | hastily or rashly energetic; impulsive and vehement; acting or done quickly and with little thought or care; rash or impuslive; marked by impulsive vehemence or passion; having sudden energy, impulsive, thrusting ahead, forceful
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| implacable | not capable of being appeased or significnalty changed; not to be appeased, mollified, or pacified, inexorable, that cannot be changed or satisfied; not placable, not capable of being appeased, significantly changed or mitigated; incapable of being placac
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| impunity | immunity from punishment or penalty; with impunity with freedom from punishment or injury
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| inchoate | in an initial stage; not fully formed; just begun and therefore not fully formed or developed; being onlyu partly in existence or operation; especially imperfectly fromed or formulated; formless; not yet fully formed, rudimentary, elementary
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| incipient | beginning to come into being or to become apparent; in its early stages; beginning to happen; beginning; only partly in existence; imperfectly formed; inchoate
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| indifferent | having no interest or concern; showing no bias or prejudice; apathetic
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| inert | unmoving; lethargic; sluggish; without power to move or act; deficient in active properties; especially; lacking a usual or anticipated chemical or biological action
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| infelicitous | unfortunate; inappropriate; not approrpitae in application or expression
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| ingenuous | artless; frank; candid; lacking in sophistication; not attempting to deceive or conceal; open; innocent; free from reserve, restraint, or dissimulation; candid; sincere; showing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness; naive, young artless, frank,
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| inimical | damaging; harmful; malevolent; unfriendly; hostile; having the disposition of an enemy; hostile; reflecting or indicating hostility; unfriendly
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| innocuous | harmless; causing no damage; causing no harm; not likely to give offense or to arouse strong feelings or hostility; causing no harm
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| insipid | without taste or flavor; lacking in spirit; bland; having almost no taste or flavor; lacking in qualities that interest, stimulate, or challenge; dull flat
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| intractable | not easily managed or directed; stubborn; obstinate; not easily controlled or dealt with; hard to image; unruly, refractory, stubborn
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| intransigent | refusing to compromise; refusing to compromise or to abandon an extreme position or attitude; uncompromising; uncompromising
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| intrepid | steadfast and courageous; fearless; brave; characterized by resolute fearlessness; fortitude and endurance; fearless brave; undaunted
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| inured | accustomed to accepting something undesirable; accustomed to; adapted; made tough by habitual exposure; hardened
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| inveigle | to obtain by deception or flattery; persuade somebody to go somewhere or do something by using flattery and deception; to win over by wiles; entice
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| irascible | easily angered; prone to temperamental outburst; (of a person) easily made anger; marked by hot temper and easily provoked anger
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| laconic | using few words; terse; using or involving the use of a minimum of words; concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious; brief, to the point terse
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| laud | to praise highly; praise somebody/something; glorify
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| loquacious | extremely talkative; fond of talking; talkative; given to fluent or excessive talk; garrulous; talkative; garrulous
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| lucid | clear; easily understood; clearly expressed; easy to understand; clear to the understanding; intelligible
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| luminous | characterized by brightness and the emission of light; giving out light; bright
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| magnanimity | the quality of being generously noble in mind and heart, especially in forgiving; being magnanimous
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| imperious | commanding
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| improvidence | an absence of foresight; a failure to provide for future needs or events
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| incorrigble | not capable of being corrected
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| indelible | permanent, un erasable, strong
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| ineffable | indescribable, inexpressible in words, unspeakable
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| insensible | numb, unconscious
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| insular | of or pertaining ot an island, thus, excessively exclusive
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| leviathan | giant whale, therefore, something very large
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| malevolent | malicious, evil, having or sohwing ill will
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| misogynist | one who hates women
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| mitigate | to make less forceful; to become more moderate; to make less harsh or undesirable; to make or become less severe or intense; to moderate; make (something) less severe, violent or painful; moderate; to make less severe or painful; alleviate
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| nefarious | wicked, evil
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| noisome | harmful, offensive, destructive
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| obdurate | hardened against influence or feeling
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| obviate | to prevent by anticipatory measure; to make unnecessary
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| occlude | to close or shut off; to obstruct
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| opaque | not transparent or translucent; dense; diffiult to comprehend as inopaque reasoning
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| ossified | turned to bone; hardened like bone; inflexible
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| panegyric | a writing or speech in praise of a person or thing
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| peccadillo | a small sin or fault
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| pedantic | showing a narrow concern for rules or formal book learning; making an excessive display of one's own learning
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| perfidious | deliberately treacherous, dishonest; tending to betray,
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| phlegmatic | not easily excised; cool slugish
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| philanthropy | tendency or action for the benefit of others as in donating money or property to a charitable orgaization
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| placate | to calm or reduce anger by making concessions
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| precipice | cliff with a vertical or nearly vertical face; a dangerous place from which one is likelty o fall; metaphorically, a very risky circumstance
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| prevaricate | to stray from or evade the truth
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| prodigal | rashly wasteful
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| pulchritudinous | beautiufl
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| pusillanimous | cowardly, timid, or irresolute, pretty
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| quiescence | inactivity, stillness; dormancy
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| cogent | having power to compel or constrain; appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing
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| spurious | false; forged; bastard
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| sagacious | skillful in statecraft and management; acutely insightful and wise; perspicacious; sapient
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| sapient | acutely insightful and wise, perspicacious; sagacious
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| quicksilver | liable to sudden unpredictable change; erratic; fickle; mercurial
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| cursory | hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough; perfunctory; causal; passing
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| pro forma | as a formality only; perfunctory
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| supple | readily adaptable; gracefully slender; moving and bending with ease; capable of moving or bending freely; limber; lissom; lithe; lithesome; sleder; svelte; sylphlike
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| malleable | capable of being shaped or formed; tractable; pilable; that can be beaten or pressed into different shapes easily; capable of being altered or controlled by outside forces; yielding; easily shaped; modlable; adapting
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| martial | associated with war and the armed forces; of or associated with war; brave, of associated with war
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| maverick | an independent individual who does not go along with a group or party; unbranded calf; unorthodox person; rebel nonconformits
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| mercurial | characterized by rapid and unpredictable change in mood; quick; changeable in character, fleeting
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| meticulous | characterized by extreme care and precision; attentive to detail; giving great attention to details
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| misanthrope | one who hates all other humans; a person who hates or distrusts mankind; person who hates mankind
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| capricious | changeable; determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason; changing quickly; mercurial; volatile
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| compendium | a brief treatment or account of a subject esp. an extensive subject; concise treatment; abridge; terse; synopsis
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| cursory | performed with haste and scant attention to detail; perfunctory
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| mollify | to calm or soothe; to reduce in emotional intensity; lessen the anger of (somebody); make calmer; soothe; to soothe in temper or disposition; appease; make calmer or quieter
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| mundane | of the world; typical or concerned with the ordinary; ordinary and typically unexciting; characterized by the practical transitory and ordinary; commonplace; banal; fatuous; hackneyed; insipid; mundane; pedestrian; platitude; prosaic; quotidian; trite
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| nebulous | vague, cloudy; lacking clearly defined form; cloud like, hazy; indistinct, vague
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| neologism | a new word, expression or usage; the creation or use of new words or senses; newly-invented word
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| neophyte | a recent convert; a beginner; novice; person recently converted to some belief or religion; a new convert; proselyte; person who has been converted to a belief
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| noxious | harmful; injurious, poisonous, physically harmful or destructive to living beings
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| obdurate | unyielding; hardhearted; intractable; impossible to change; stubborn; resistant to persuasion or softening influences
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| obstinate | stubborn, hardheaded; uncompromising; refusing to change one's opinion or chosen course of action; stubborn; perversely adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course in spite of reason, arguments or persuasion
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| occlude | to obstruct or block; to close up or block off; obstruct
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| odious | evoking intense aversion or dislike; deserving or causing hatred; hateful detestable highly offensive repugnant
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| onerous | troubling, burdensome, needing effort, burdensome
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| opprobrium | disgrace, contempt; scorn, public disgrace and shame
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| ostentatious | characterized by pretentiousness; intended to attract notice
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| paen | a song or hymn of praise and thanksgiving
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| pedantic | the parading of learning; excessive attention to minutiae and formal rules; ostentatious in one's learning; overly concerned with minute details or formalisms esp. in teaching
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| penurious | penny-pinching; excessively thrifty; ungenerous; very poor; poor stingy
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| perfunctory | cursory; done without care or interest; done as duty without care
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| perspicacious | acutely perceptive; having keen discernment; having or showing great insight or judgment; discerning; of acute mental vision or
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| peruse | to examine with great care; read something especially carefully or thoroughly; to examine or consider with attention and in detail; study
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| phlegmatic | calm; sluggish; unemotional; calm and even-tempered; showing the quality of phlegm
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| pious | extremely reverent or devout; showing strong religious devotion; having or showing a deep devotion to religion
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| pith | the essential or central part; soft spongy substance that fills the stems of certain plants, essential part, force, soft liquid substance
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| pithy | precise and brief; concise and full of meaning; terse; having substance and point; tersely cogent
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| cogent | relevant; to drive together;
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| placate | to appease; to calm by making concessions; make less angry; soothe or pacify; to sooth or mollify especially by concessions; soothe, pacify, calm
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| platitude | a superficial remark, especially one offered as meaning; commonplace remark or statment, esp when it is sad new or interesting; a banal, trite, or stale remark, a trite or banal statement un-originality
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| polemical | controversial; arguementative
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| prattle | to babble meaninglessly; to talk in an empty and ideal
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| precipiate | acting with excessive haste or impulse; to cause or to happen before anticipated or required; to bring about especially abruptly
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| predilection | a disposition in favor of something; preference; special liking (For something); preference
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| preen | to dress up/ to primp; to groom oneself with elaborate care; clean or something (its feathers or itself) with its beak; show self-satisfaction; tidy
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| prescience | foreknowledge of events; knowing of events prior to their occurring; foresight
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| presumptuous | overstepping due bounds; too bold or self-confident
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| prevaricate | to deliberately avoid the truth; to mislead; try to avoid telling the (whole) truth by speaking in an evasive or misleading way; equivocate; to speak falsely or misleadingly; deliberately misstate or create an incorrect impression; lie
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| proclivity | a natural predisposition or inclination; natural inclination to do something; tendency
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| prodigal | recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish; spending money or resources too freely; characterized by wasteful expenditure; lavish; wasteful, reckless with money
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| prodigious | abundant in size, force or extent; extraordinary; enormous, wonderful
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| profligate | excessively wasteful; recklessly extravagant; wildly extravagant; prodigal; licentious
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| profuse | given or coming forth abundantly; extravagant; abundant; lvasih
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| proliferate | to grow or increase swiftly and abundantly; produce new growth or offspring rapidly; multiply
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| prolific | producing large volumes or amounts; productive; producing much fruit or many flowers or offspring
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| propensity | a natural inclination or tendency; penchant
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| prosaic | dull; unimaginative; uninspired; dull; everyday; ordinary; mundane; commonplace; trite; pedestrian
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| pungent | characterized by a strong, sharp smell of taste; causing a sharp or irritating sensation; especially, acrid
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| putrefy | to rot; to decay and give off a foul odor; become or make putrid
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| quaff | to drink deeply; drink (something) by swallowing large amounts at a time
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| qualm | misgiving; reservation; cause for hesitancy; a sudden feeling of sickness or nausea; feeling of doubt, temporary feeling of sickenss
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| querulous | prone to complaining or grumbling; quarrelsome; complaining; irritable; fretful; whining
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| query | question; inquiry; doubt in the mind; reservation; question
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| quiescence | stillness; motionlessness; quality of being at rest; state of being passive/motionless
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| quixotic | foolishly impractical; marked by lofty romantic ideals; noble, unselfish or gallant in an extravagant or impractical way; generous unselfish
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| quotidian | occurring or recurring daily; commonplace; everyday; commonplace; banal everyday
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| rancorous | characterized by bitter, long-lasting resentment; feeling bitterness; spitefulness
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| rarefy | to make or become thin, less dense; to refine
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| recalcitrant | obstinately defiant of authority; difficult to manage; resisting authority or discipline; disobedient
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| recant | to retract especially a previously held belief; formally reject (a former opinion, belief etc,) as being wrong; to withdraw or repudiate formally and publicly renounce take back as being false; give up
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| recondite | hidden; concealed; difficult to understand; obscure; little known; abstruse
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| redoubtable | awe-inspiring; worthy of honor
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| impugned | To attack as false or questionable; challenge in argument
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| veracity | Adherence to the truth; truthfulness.
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| hallmark | a distinctive characteristic or attribute; trademark
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| scintilla | spark, trace; smidge
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| controvert | to dispute or oppose by reasoning
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| erudition | extensive knowledge acquired chiefly from books; profound, recondite, or bookish learning; scholarship
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| bemused | To cause to be bewildered; confuse; daze
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| boorishness | means lack of manners
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| impress | force into surface; to affect strongly, often favorable
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| pluck | which means courage or audacity; the trait of showing courage and determination in spite of possible loss or injury; pull off
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| vim | vitality; vigor
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| humility | humble; meek
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| Gaucherie | social awkwardness
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| brusque | blunt; curt
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| apostate | someone who abandons a religious, political, or other belief; rebellious
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| excoriate | express strong disapproval of
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| donnybrook | is an obscure word for an uproar, a free for all, or a brawl
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| timorous | timid
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| brazen | insolently bold or forward
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| pernicious | extremely harmful
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| licentious | immoral
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| sybarite | a person who is devoted to the enjoyment of worldly pleasures
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| chauvinist | is someone who believes in the superior of his own kind
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| incumbent | is the person currently holding a position
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| ascetic | practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline
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| incumbent | is the person currently holding a position
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| megalomaniac | a person who has delusional fantasies about wealth or power
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| abate | to lessen in intensity or degree; make or become less; to reduce in degree or intensity; to lessen, to subside
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| accolade | an expression of praise; approval; any award, honor, or laudatory notice
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| acumen | quick, keen, or accurate knowledge or insight; ability to understand and judge things quickly and clearly; shrewdness; mental keenness; sharpness of judgment;
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| adulation | excessive praise; intense adoration; flattery; admiration that is more than is necessary
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| aggrandize | to increase in intensity, power or prestige; to make appear great or greater; praise highly
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| alacrity | eager and enthusiastic willingness; prompt and eager readiness, promptness in response; cheerful readiness
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| amalgamamte | to combine several elements into a whole; to merge into a single body; mix, combine, unite societies
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| ameliorate | to make better or more tolerable; improve, make better
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| amenable | agreeable, responsive to suggestion, readily managed, willing to be led
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| approbation | an expression of approval or praise; approval; consent; commendation; praise
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| arduous | strenuous, taxing, requiring significant effort
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| ascetic | one who practices rigid self-denial, especially as an act of religious devotion; not allowing oneself pleasures and comforts
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| astringent | having a tightening effort on living tissue; harsh, severe; binding; causing contraction; substance that shrinks
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| austere | without adornment; bare; severely simple; ascetic; markedly simple or unadorned; severely and strictly moral; having no pleasures or comfort
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| avarice | greed, especially for wealth
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| aver | to state as a fact; to confirm or support; to assert or affirm with confidence; declare in a positive manner
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| axiom | a universally recognized principle; taken as a given; possessing self-evident truth
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| bucolic | rustic and pastoral; characteristic of rural area and their inhabitants; of country life or the countryside; rustic
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| cacophony | harsh, jarring, discordant sound; dissonance; loud unpleasant mixture of discordant sounds
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| acnon | as established set of principles or code of laws, often religious in nature
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| canonical | following or in agreement with orthodox requirements; appearing in a biblical canon of or relating to or required by canon law
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| capricious | inclined to change one's mind impulsively; erratic; unpredictable; fickle; whimsical; given to change; unpredictable
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| castigation | severe criticism or punishment
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| censure | to criticize severely; to officially rebuke; to find fault with and criticize as blameworthy
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| chary | wary; cautious; shy; timid; fastidious; choosy
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| chicanery | trickery or subterfuge; use of clever but misleading talk in order to trick somebody especially in legal matters; dishonest practice
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| cogent | appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing; convincing; strong
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| complaisance | the willingness to comply with the wishes of others; disposition to please or comply; affability
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| connoisseur | an informed and astute judge in matters of taste; expert; a discerning judge of the best in any field; a person who is especially competent to pass critical judgments in an art
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| contentious | argumentative; quarrelsome; causing controversy or disagreement; pugnacious; combative
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| contrite | regretful; penitent; seeking forgiveness; filled with or showing deep regret for having done wrong; repentant; grieving and penitent for sin or shortcoming
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| convention | a generally agreed upon practice or attitude; conference of members of a profession, political party, usage or custom especially in social matters
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| culpable | deserving blame; blameworthy
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| cynicism | an attitude or quality or belief that all people are motivated by selfishness
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| dearth | smallness of quantity or number; scarcity ; a lack; shortage; scarcity; an inadequate supply; lack
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| decorum | polite or appropriate conduct or behavior; dignified and socially acceptable behavior; propriety and good taste in conduct or appeareance
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| demur | to question or oppose; to make objection esp. on the grounds of scruples; take exception; to hesitate, raise objections
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| derision | scorn, ridicule, contemptuous treatment, ridicule or mockery, deriding
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| desiccate | to dry out or dehydrate; to make dry or dull; remove all the moisture from to preserve it
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| diatribe | a harsh denunciation; lengthy and bitter attack in words; a bitter and abusive speech or writing; bitter and violent attack in words
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| didactic | intended to teach or instruct; intended to teach; designed or intended to teach
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| dilettante | one with an amateurish or superficial interest in the arts of a branch of knowledge
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| disabuse | to undeceive; to set right; to free from error, fallacy, or misconception; to undeceive, correct a false impression
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| discordant | conflicting; dissonant or harsh in sound; not in agreement; conflicting; inharmonious; conflicting
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| discretion | cautious reserve in speech; ability to make responsible decisions; quality of being discreet; good judgment;
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| disparage | to slight or belittle; suggest; especially un faily; that is of little value or importance; to depreciate by indirect means; speak slighlty about
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| disparate | fundamentally distinct or dissimilar; essentially different; so different in kind or degree that they cannot be compared
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| dissemble | to disguise or conceal; to mislead; hide or disguise (one's true thoughts and feelings); dissimulate; speak or behave so as to hide something (in mind)
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| divulge | to disclose something secret; to make known (as confidence or secret)
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| dogmatic | stubbornly opinionated; of or based on dogma; positive, certain, arbitrary, without room for discussion
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| ebullience | the quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings; high spirits; exhilaration; exuberance
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| eclectic | composed of elements drawn from various sources
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| effrontery | extreme boldness; presumptuousness; boldness or rudeness without shame; impertience
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| elegy | a mournful poem, especially one lamenting the dead
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| eloquent | well spoken, expressive, articulate
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| emollient | soothing, especially to the skin; making less harsh; mollifying
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| empirical | based on observation or experiment; not on theory; relying on the experiment
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| endemic | characteristic of or often found in a particular locality, region, or people
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| enervate | to weaken; to reduce in vitality; cause to lose strength of energy; weaken, deprive of strength, attenuate
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| enigmatic | mysterious, obscure, difficult to understand
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| ennui | dissatisfaction and restlessness resulting from boredom or apathy; a feeling of utter weariness and discontent resulting from satiety or lack of interest; boredom
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| ephemeral | brief; fleeting; living lasting etc for a very short time; short lived; fleeting
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| equivocate | to use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent; speak in an ambiguous way to hide the truth or mislead people; try to deceive by equivocal language
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| erudite | very learned; scholarly; having or showing great learning
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| esoteric | intended for or understood by a small, specific group; abstruse
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| eulogy | a speech honoring the dead
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| evanescent | tending to disappear like vapor; vanishing; quickly fading; soon disappearing from memory; tending to vanish like vapor; fleeting
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| exacerbate | to make worse or more severe; aggravate; to make more violet, bitter, or severe
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| exculpate | exonerate; to clear of blame
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| exigent | urgent; pressing; requiring immediate action or attention
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| extemporaneous | improvised; done without preparation; spoken or done without preparation; extempore
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| facetious | playful, humorous; intended to be amusing; often inappropriately; joking or jesting often inappropriately; waggish; jocular
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| fallacy | an invalid or incorrect notion; a mistaken belief; a false or mistaken idea; erroneous character; false or mistaken belief
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| fawn | to flatter or praise excessively
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| fervent | greatly emotional or zealous; ardent, hot; showing warmth and sincerity of feeling; enthusiastic; passionate
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| filibuster | intentional obstruction, especially using prolonged speech making to delay legislative action
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| flout | to demonstrate contempt for; as in a rule or convention; to treat with disdain, scorn, or contempt; scoff at; mock
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| fortuitous | happening by fortunate accident or chance; happening by chance or coincidence
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| fulminate | to loudly attach or denounce; protest strongly and loudly; to send forth censures or invectives; berate; vituperate
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| furtive | marked by stealth; covert; surreptitious; done secretly and quietly so as not to be noticed
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| germane | relevant to the subject at hand; appropriate in subject matter
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| glib | marked by ease or informality; nonchalant; lacking in depth; superficial
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| grandiloquence | pompous speech or expression
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| gregarious | sociable; outgoing; enjoying the company of other people; liking to be with other people; living in societies; liking the company
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| hackneed | rendered trite or commonplace by frequent usage; used so often that it has become trite and dull; lacking in freshness or originality
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| halcyon | calm; peaceful; happy
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| harangue | to deliver a pompous speech or tirade; to address in a ranting way; long, loud, serious and use angry speech; a long passionate speech
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| hedonism | devotion to pleasurable pursuits, especially to the pleasures of the senses
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| hegemony | the consistent dominance of one state or ideology over others; leadership esp by one state in a group of states
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| heretical | violating accepted dogma or convention
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| hubris | arrogant presumption or pride; arrogant pride
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| reflugent | radiant, shiny, brillant
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| relegate | to forcibly assign, especially to a lower place or position; banish; consign to inferior position
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| renege | to fail or honor a commitment; to go back on a promise
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| repudiate | to refuse to have anything to do with; disown
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| rescind | to invalidate; to repeal; to retract;cancel or repeal (a law, contract) annul
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| refulgent | radiant, shiny, brilliant, gloriously bright; shining
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| choleric | easily angered, short-tempered
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| churlish | rude
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| cistern | tank for rainwater
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| coalesce | to grow together; cause to unit as one
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| coffer | strongbox, large chest for money
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| cognomen | family name; any name, especially a nickname
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| comeliness | physical grace and beauty
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| commodious | roomy, spacious
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| compunctious | feeling guilty or having misgivings
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| conciliatory | overcoming distrust or hostility
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| conflagration | big, destructive fire
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| congenial | similar in tastes and habits
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| consanguineous | of the same origin; related by blood
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| contentious | quarrelsome, disagreeable, belligerent
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| contumacious | rebellious
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| corpulence | obesity, fatness, bulkiness
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| corrugate | to mold in shape with parallel grooves and ridges
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| cosset | to pamper, treat with great care
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| coterie | small group of persons with a similar purpose
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| coven | group of witches
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| curmudgeon | cranky person
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| decliivty | downward slop
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| deleterious | harmful, destructive, detrimental
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| deluge | flood
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| demagogue | leader or rabble rouser who usually appeal to emotion or prejudice
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| denigrate | to lsur or blacken someone's reputation
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| descry | to discover or reveal
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| diaphanous | allowing light to show through; delicate
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| dictum | authoritative statement; popular saying
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| didactic | excessively instructive
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| diluvial | relating to the flood
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| diminutive | small
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| discomfit | to cause perplexity and embarrassment
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| distaff | the female branch of the family
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| dither | to move or act confusedly or without clear purpose
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| doctrinaire | rigidly devoted to theories
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| dolor | sadness
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| doughty | courageous
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| droll | amusing in a wry, subtle way
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| dyspeptic | suffering from indigestion; gloomy and irritable
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| ebullient | exhilarated, full of enthusiasm and high spirits
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| effluvia | outpouring of gases or vapors
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| effulgent | brilliantly shining
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| egregious | onspicuously bad
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| emend | to correct a text
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| emoillient | having soothing qualities, esp. for skin
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| encomium | warm praise
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| endemic | belonging to a particular area, inherent
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| cajole | to flatter, coax, persuade
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| calamitous | disastrous, catastrophic
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| calumny | false and malicious accusation, misrepresentation, slander
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| canard | lie
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| carom | to strike and rebound
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| cavalcade | a procession
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| chagrin | shame, embarrassment, humiliation
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| charlatan | quack, fake
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| chattel | piece of personal property
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| chimerical | fanciful, imaginary, visionary, impossible
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| bacchanalian | drunkenly festive
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| balk | to refuse, shirk; prevent
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| beatific | saintly, angelic
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| behemoth | huge creature
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| belie | to misrepresent; expose as false
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| benison | blessing
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| bifurcate | divide into two parts
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| bilious | easily irritated, relating to bile
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| bonhomie | good-natured geniality; atmosphere of good cheer
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| bulwark | defense wall; anything serving as defense
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| cajole | to flatter, coax, persuade
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| calamitous | disastrous, catastrophic
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| calumny | false and malicious accusation, misrepresentation, slander
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| canard | lie
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| carom | to shake and rebound
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| cavalcade | a processesion
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| chagring | shame, embarrassment, humiliation
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| charlatan | quack, fake
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| chattel | piece of personal property
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| chimerical | forceful, imaginary, visionary, impossible
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| itinerant | wandering from place to place; unsettled
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| invidious | likely to provoke ill will; offensive
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| obfuscate | to confuse, to bewilder, to stupefy
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| allay | to lessen or relieve, mitigate, to alleviate
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| perquisite | a reward over and above one's salary
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| quixotic | romantic, unrealistic, visionary, impractical
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| whitewash | is to misrepresent a bad thing to make it look better
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| apt | appropriate
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| ineluctable | inescapable, doomed
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| dissipated | dissolute, fast, gay, incontinent, licentious, profligate, rakish, unbridled, uncontrolled, uninhibited, wanton; indulging in or characterized by excessive devotion to pleasure; intemperate; dissolute
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| levity | lightness of mind; silliness; frivolity; amusement; buoyancy; festivity; flippancy; absurdity; hilarity
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| disseminate | to spread widely, circulate, diffuse, disperse, distribute, radiate, scatter, blaze, blazon, promulgate, broadcast
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| syncopated | cut short; abbreviated; refers to a pattern or rhythm in which stress is shifted onto normally unaccented beats
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| saturnine | sluggish in temperament; gloomy; taciturn
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| belie | to show to be false; contradict; slander; to misrepresent
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| culpable | deserving blame or censure; blameworthy; fault, guilt; onus
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| anathematize | damn, curse
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| contrition | compunction, remorse, repentance, rue, attrition, humiliation, penance, penitence, ruth, sorrow, sincere penitence or remorse
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| pique | dudgeon, huff, miff, resentment, umbrage, offend, affront, egg on, foment, galvanize
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| mawkish | maudlin, romantic, soft, mushy, nauseous
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| temerity | recklessness, audacity, gall, effrontery, reckless boldness
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| jejune | bland, innocuous, immature, childish (callow), dull, empty flat,
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| vitiate | impair the quality of, blemish, distract, canker, impair, mar
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