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Volatile   easily aroused or changeable; lively or explosive  
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Vituperate   to abuse verbally; berate  
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Viscous   thick and adhesive, like a slow-flowing fluid  
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Vim   vitality and energy  
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Vicissitude   a change or variation; ups and downs  
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Winsome   charming; happily engaging  
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Wan   sickly pale  
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Wanton   undisciplined; unrestrained; reckless  
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Waver   to fluctuate between choices  
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Whimisical   lightly acting in a fanciful or capricious manner; unpredictable  
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Vex   to annoy; irritate; puzzle; confuse  
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Vestige   to trace; remnant  
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Vernal   related to spring; fresh  
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Verdant   green with vegetation; inexperienced  
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Verbose   wordy  
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Wily   clever, deceptive  
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Yoke   to join together  
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Zeal   passion; excitement  
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Zealot   someone passionately devoted to a cause  
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Zephyr   a gentle breeze; something airy or unsubstantial  
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Voluble   talkative; speaking easily; glib  
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Wizened   shriveled; withered; wrinkled  
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Wraith   a ghost or spector; a ghost of a living person seen just before his or her death  
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Xenophobia   a fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers  
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Zenith   the point of culmination; peak  
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Veracity   filled with truth and accuracy  
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Venerate   to respect deeply  
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Venerable   respected because of age  
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Variegated   varied; marked with different colors  
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Vacillate   to physically sway or to be indecisive  
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Usury   the practice of lending money at exorbitant rates  
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Upbraid   to scold sharply  
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Unequivocal   absolute; certain  
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Unconscionable   unscrupulous; shockingly unfair or unjust  
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Umbrage   offense; resentment  
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Tyro   beginner; novice  
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Turgid   swollen as from a fluid; bloated  
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Trenchant   acute, sharp, or incisive; forceful; effective  
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Transitory   temporary; lasting a brief time  
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Torpor   extreme mental and physical sluggishness  
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Tome   book, usually large and academic  
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Toady   one who flatters in the hope of gaining favors  
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Tirade   lang, harsh speech or verbal attack  
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Terrestrial   earthly; down-to-earth; commonplace  
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Tawdry   gaudy, cheap, or showy  
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Tangential   digressing; diverting  
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Talon   claw of an animal, especially a bird of prey  
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Taciturn   silent; not talkative  
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Tacit   done without using words  
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Syncopation   temporary irregularity in musical rhythm  
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Symbiosis   cooperation; mutual helpfulness  
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Sycophant   a self-serving flatterer; yes-man  
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Sybarite   a person devoted to pleasure and luxury  
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Surly   rude and bad-tempered  
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Surfeit   excessive amount  
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Supplant   to replace (another) by force; to take the place of  
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Sully   to tarnish; taint  
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Sublime   lofty or grand  
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Stratagem   trick designed to deceive an enemy  
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Stolid   unemotional; lacking sensitivity  
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Stigma   a mark of shame or discredit  
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Stentorian   extremely loud  
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Stasis   a state of static balance or equilibrium; stagnation  
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Sportive   frolicsome; playful  
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Specious   deceptively attractive; seemingly plausible but fallacious  
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Spartan   highly self-disciplined; frugal; austere  
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Soporific   causing sleep or lethary  
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Solecism   grammatical mistake; blunder in speeach  
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Sobriquet   nickname  
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Slake   to calm down or moderate  
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Sinecure   a well-paying job or office that riquires little or no work  
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Seraphic   angelic; sweet  
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Sentient   aware; conscious; able to perceive  
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Sedition   behavior that promotes rebellion or civil disorder against the state  
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Scintilla   trace amount  
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Satiate   to satisfy fully or overindulge  
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Sardonic   cynical; scornfully mocking  
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Sanguine   ruddy; cheerfully optimistic  
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Salubrious   healthful  
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Salient   prominent; of notable significance  
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Sagacious   shrewd; wise  
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Sacrosanct   extremely sacred; beyond criticism  
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Rustic   rural  
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Rococo   very highly ornamented; relating to an 18th century artistic style of elaborate ornamentation  
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Ribald   humorous in a vulgar way  
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Rhetoric   effective writing or speaking  
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Reticent   silent; reserved  
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Restive   impatient, uneasy, or restless  
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Requite   to return or repay  
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Repudiate   to reject the validity of  
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Repose   relaxation; leisure  
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Replete   abundantly supplied; complete  
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Repast   meal or mealtime  
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Rejoinder   response  
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Redress   relief from wrong or injury  
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Rarefy   to make thinner or sparser  
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Raconteur   witty, skillful storyteller  
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Quotidian   occurring daily; commonplace  
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Quiescent   motionless  
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Quixotic   overly idealistic; impractical  
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