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