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| banal | trite and unoriginal
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| aphorism | statement of general truth
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| ameliorate | improve or make better
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| cloying | too sweet or excessively flattering
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| euphony | pleasing combination of sounds
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| cacophony | mixture of harsh or discordant sounds
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| cogent | clean and to the point; appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing
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| ephemeral | short-lived, transitory
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| dearth | lack of something
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| abjure | swear away: renounce
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| intransigent | not flexible; not able to be swayed; stubborn
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| elucidate | make clear
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| iconoclast | one who smashes revered images; an as attacker of cherished beliefs
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| adumbrate | foreshadow vaguely, intimate, suggest, or outline sketchily
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| alacrity | eager and enthusiastic willingness
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| anachronism | something or someone out place in terms of historical or chronological context
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| anathema | a solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing
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| anodyne | soothing, assuages or allays pain, comforts
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| antipathy | aversion, dislike
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| antithetical | diametrically opposed, as in antithesis
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| apocryphal | of dubious authenticity or origin; spurious
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| apostate | one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions, a betrayer of a cause
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| apotheosis | deification, glorification to godliness, the perfect example
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| apposite | appropriate, pertinent, relevant, apropos
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| apprise | give notice to inform
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| approbation | an expression of approval or praise
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| arcane | mysterious, abstruse, esoteric, knowable only to initiates
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| arrant | impudent; in every way; being completely such, bare-faced, utter
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| errant | itinerant; travel from place to place
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| ascetic | one who practices rigid self-denial, especially as an act of religious devotion, austere, stark
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| asperity | severity, rigor, roughness, harshness, acrimony, irritability
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| aspersion | an act of defamation or maligning
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| assiduous | diligent, hard working
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| assuage | to ease or lesson; to appease or pacify
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| astringent | having a tightening affect on living tissue; harsh; severe
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| attenuate | to rarefy, weaken or make thinner, lessen
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| augury | omen, portent, the reading of omens
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| august | majestic, venerable
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| auspice | protection or support, patronage
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| austere | without adornment, bare, severely simple, ascetic
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| avarice | greed, especially for wealth
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| bedizen | to adorn especially in cheap, showy manner, festoon, caparison
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| bellicose | belligerent, pugnacious, warlike
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| blandish | to coax with flattery, toad or fawn
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| brandish | to shake or wave menacingly
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| blithe | carefree, merry
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| bombastic | pompous, grandiloquent
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| brook | tolerate, endure, countenance
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| bucolic | rustic and pastoral, characteristic of rural areas and their inhabitants
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| burgeon | grow rapidly or flourish
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| burnish | to polish or rub to a shine
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| byzantine | labyrinthine, complex
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| cadge | to sponge, beg or mooch
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| calumniate | to slander, make a false accusation
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| canon | an established set of principles or code of laws, often religious in nature
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| capricious | inclined to change one's mind impulsively, erratic, unpredictable
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| cardinal | of basic importance or consequence; primary
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| castigation | severe criticism or punishment
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| causality | the relationship between cause and effect
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| censure | to criticize severely, to officially rebuke
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| chary | wary, cautious, sparing
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| chasten | to chastise or correct, subdue
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| chicanery | trickery or subterfuge
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| chimera | an illusion
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| choleric | tending toward anger
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| churlish | boorish, vulgar, loutish, difficult and intractable
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| coda | concluding section to a musical or literary piece, something that concludes or completes
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| commensurate | matching, corresponding, or proportionate in degree, size, amount or other property
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| complaisance | the willingness to comply with the wishes of others
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| contemn | to scorn or despise
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| contrite | regretful, penitent, seeking forgiveness
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| corrigible | capable of being set right, correctable, reparable
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| countenance | approve of or tolerate
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| cozen | to deceive, beguile, hoodwink
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| craven | contemptibly, fainthearted, pusillanimous
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| credulous | tending to believe too readily, gullible
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| damp | to diminish the intensity or check something, such as a sound or feeling
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| deleterious | injurious; harmful
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| demur | to question or oppose
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| denigrate | blacken, belittle, sully, defame, disparage
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| denouement | an outcome or solution; the unravelling of a plot
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| depredate | to plunder, pillage, ravage or destroy; to exploit in a predatory manner
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| derision | scorn, ridicule, contemptuous treatment
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| desiccate | to dry out or dehydrate, to make dry or dull
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| desuetude | disuse
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| desultory | random; thoughtless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose
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| detraction | slandering, verbal attack, aspersion
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| diaphanous | transparent; gauzy
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| diatribe | a harsh denunciation
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| didactic | intended to teach or instruct
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| diffident | reserved, shy, unassuming, lacking in self-confidence
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| dilatory | causing delay, procrastination
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| dilettante | one with an amateurish or superficial interest in the arts or a branch of knowledge
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| din | a loud sustained noise
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| dirge | a mournful song or poem for the dead
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| disabuse | to undeceive, to set right
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| discomfit | to defeat, put down
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| discordant | conflicting, dissonant or harsh in sound
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| disparate | fundamentally distinct or dissimilar
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| dissemble | to disguise or conceal; to mislead
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| dissonance | lack of harmony; conflict
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| distrait | distracted, absent-minded, especially due to anxiety
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| doggerel | trivial, poorly constructed verse
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| dross | slag, waste or foreign matter, impurity, surface scum
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| dulcet | melodious, harmonious, mellifluous
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| ebullience | the quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings
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| edifying | enlightening informative
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| efficacy | the ability to produce and intended result
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| effrontery | extreme boldness; presumptuousness
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| effusive | gushing; excessively demonstrative
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| elegy | a mournful poem, especially one lamenting the dead, any mournful writing or piece of music
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| encomium | glowing and enthusiastic praise, panegyric, tribute, eulogy
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| endemic | characteristic of or often found in a particular locality, region or people, restricted to or peculiar in that region; indigenous
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| enervate | to weaken; to reduce in vitality
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| engender | to cause, produce, give rise up
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| enigmatic | mysterious, obscure, difficult to understand
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| ennui | dissatisfaction, and restlessness resulting from boredom or apathy
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| enormity | excessive wickedness, evilness
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| ephemeral | brief, fleeting, short-lived
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| epicure | one devoted to sensual pleasure particularly food and drink; gourmand, sybarite
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| episodic | loosely connected, not flowing logically, occurring at intervals
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| epithet | disparaging word or phrase
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| epitome | embodiment; quintessence
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| equanimity | composure, self-possession
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| equable | level; not able to be easily disturbed
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| equivocate | to use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent
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| erudite | very learned; scholarly
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| eschew | to shun or avoid
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| esoteric | intended for or understood by a small specific group
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| essay | to test or to try; attempt, experiment
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| estimable | worthy, formidable
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| evanescent | tending to disappear like vapor; vanishing
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| evince | to show clearly, to indicate
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| exact | to demand, call for require, take
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| excoriate | to censure scathingly, to upbraid
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| exculpate | exonerate; to clear of blame
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| exemplar | typical or standard specimen; paradigm model
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| exhort | to incite, to make urgent appeals
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| exigent | urgent, pressing, requiring immediate action or attention
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| expatiate | discuss or write about at length; to range freely
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| expiate | to atone or make amends for
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| expurgate | to remove obscenity, purify, censor
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| extant | existing, not destroyed or lost
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| extemporaneous | improvised, done without preparation
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| extirpate | to destroy, exterminate, cut out, pull out by the roots
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| facetious | playful; humorous; not serious
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| fallacy | an invalid or incorrect motion, a mistaken belief
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| fatuous | silly, inanely foolish
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| feckless | ineffectual; irresponsible
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| felicitous | apt; suitably expressed, well chosen, apropos, delightful
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| fell | a barren or stony hill; an animal's hide
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| fervent | greatly emotional or zealous
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| fetter | to shackle, put in chains, restrain
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| filigree | an ornamental work, especially of delicate lace-like patterns, resembling such as a pattern
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| flag | to sag or droop, to become spiritless, to decline
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| flip | sarcastic, impertinent
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| florid | flushed with color, ruddy, ornate
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| flout | to demonstrate contempt for
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| foment | to stir up, incite, rouse
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| forbearance | patience, willingness to wait
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| forestall | to act in a way to hinder, exclude or prevent an action, to circumvent or thwart
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| forswear | to renounce, disallow, repudiate
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| fortuitous | happening by fortunate accident or chance
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| fracas | a noisy fight or quarrel, brawl
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| fractious | quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, cranky
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| froward | intractable, not willing to yield or comply, stubbornly disobedient
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| fulminate | to attack loudly or denounce
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| furtive | marked by stealth; covert; surreptitious
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| gainsay | to deny, dispute, contradict, oppose
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| gambol | to kip about playfully, frolic
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| garner | to gather and save, store up, acquire
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| garrulous | pointlessly talkative, talking too much
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| gauche | crude, awkward, tasteless
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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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| grouse | complain or grumble
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| guile | trickery, duplicity, cunning
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| guy | a rope or cord attached to something as a brace or guide
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| hackneyed | rendered trite or commonplace by frequent usage
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| halcyon | calm and peaceful, prosperous
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| harangue | to deliver a loud, pompous speech or tirade
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| harrow | to distress, create stress or torment
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| hedonism | devotion to pleasurable pursuits, especially to the pleasures of the senses.
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| hegemony | the consistent dominance or influence of one group, state or ideology over others
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| heretical | violating accepted dogma or convention, unorthodox
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| hermetic | airtight, impervious to outside influence
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| heterodox | unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic
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| hirsute | hairy, shaggy
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| hubris | arrogant presumption or pride
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| hyperbole | and exaggerated statement often used as a figure of speech
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| idolatrous | given to intense or excessive devotion to something
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| idyll | a carefree, light-hearted pastoral or romantic episode or experience; a literary or musical piece describing such
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| ignominious | shameful, dishonorable, ignoble, undignified, disgraceful
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| imbroglio | difficult or embarrassing situation
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| imminent | about to happen, impending
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| immutable | not capable of change
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| impecunious | lacking funds; without money
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| imperious | commanding, masterful, arrogant, domineering, haughty
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| imperturbable | marked by extreme calm, impassivity, and steadiness
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| implacable | not capable of being appeased or significantly changed
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| importune | to ask incessantly
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| imprudent | shamelessly bold, insolent, impertinent
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| impugn | attack or assail verbally, censure, execrate, deny
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| impunity | immunity from punishment, penalty or harm
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| impute | to attribute to a cause or source, ascribe, assign as a characteristic
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| inchoate | in an initial stage, not fully formed
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| incipient | beginning to come into being or to become apparent
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| indolent | lazy, listless, torpid
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| ineluctable | certain, inevitable
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| inert | unmoving, lethargic, sluggish, not reactive chemically
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| ingenuous | artless, frank and candid, lacking in sophistication
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| inimical | damaging, harmful, injurious, hostile, unfriendly
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| inimitable | one of a kind, peerless
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| iniquity | wickedness, gross injustice
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| innervate | supply with nerves, energize
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| innocuous | harmless,; causing no damage
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| inscrutable | incapable of being discovered or understood, mysterious
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| insensible | unconscious, unresponsive, unaware, unaffected, numb
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| insipid | without taste or flavor, lacking in spirit, dull
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| insouciant | unconcerned, carefree, nonchalant
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| insular | parochial, narrow-minded, like an island
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| interdict | prohibit, forbid, ban, halt
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| intimate | imply, suggest or insinuate
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| intractable | not easily managed or directed
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| intrepid | steadfast, courageous
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| inured | accustomed to accepting something undesirable
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| inveigh | to attack verbally, denounce, deprecate
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| inveigle | to obtain by deception or flattery
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| inveterate | deep rooted, ingrained, habitual
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| invidious | tending to arouse envy or ill will in others
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| irascible | easily angered, prone to temperamental outbursts
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| itinerate | to travel from place to place
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| jejune | vapid, uninteresting; childish, immature; lacking nutrition
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| jibe | agree, to be in accord
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| jocose | given to joking; humorous
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| labile | readily open to change, unstable
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| lachrymose | causing tears, tearful, showing sorrow
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| laconic | using few words, terse
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| lassitude | listlessness, languor, weariness
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| libertine | someone unrestrained by mortality or convention or leading a dissolute life
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| limn | to draw, outline in detail
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| limpid | transparent, serene, clear and simple in style, untroubled
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| list | to tilt or lean to one side
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| loquacious | extremely talkative
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| lucid | intelligible, sound, clear
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| magnanimity | the quality of being generously noble in mind and heart, especially forgiving
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| malevolent | having or showing often vicious ill will, spite or hatred
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| maligner | to feign illness as to avoid work
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| malleable | capable of being shaped or formed, easily influenced
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| martinet | a rigid disciplinarian
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| maunder | to talk or move aimlessly, mutter
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| mellifluous | sweetly flowing, usually used to describe words or sounds
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| mendacity | the condition of being untruthful, dishonesty
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| mendicant | beggar, supplicant
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| mercurial | characterized by rapid and unpredictable change in mood
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| meretricious | tawdry, pretentious, attractive but false, showy, having to do with prostitution
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| mettlesome | courageous, high-spirited
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| militate | to have weight or bearing on, to argue against
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| minatory | menacing, threatening
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| mince | pronounce or speak affectedly or too carefully, euphemize, take tiny steps, tiptoe
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| misanthrope | one who hates humankind
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| misogynist | one who hates women
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| mitigate | to make or become less severe or intense, moderate
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| mollify | to calm or soothe, reduce in emotional intensity
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| morose | sad, sullen, melancholy
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| multifarious | varied, motley, greatly diversified
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| nadir | low point, perigee
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| nascent | coming into being; in early developmental stages
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| natty | trimly neat and tidy, dapper
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| nebulous | vague, cloudy, lacking clearly defined form
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| neologism | a new word, expression, or usage; the creation or use of new words or senses
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| neophyte | a recent convert; a beginner; novice
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| nexus | a connection, tie, or link; center or focus
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| nice | exacting, extremely or even excessively precise; done with delicacy or skill
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| noisome | offensive, especially to one's sense of smell, fetid
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| nonplussed | baffled, in a quandary, at a loss for what to day, do or think
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| nostrum | cure-all, placebo, questionable remedy
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| noxious | harmful, injurious
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| obdurate | unyielding, hardhearted, inflexible
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| obeisance | gesture that expresses deference, such as a bow or curtsy
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| obfuscate | to deliberately obscure, to make confusing
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| obsequious | exhibiting a fawning attentiveness; subservient
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| obstinate | stubborn. hardhearted; uncompromising;
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| obstreperous | noisy, loudly stubborn, boisterous
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| obtain | to be established, accepted, or customary, prevail
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| obtuse | lacking sharpness of intellect, not clear or precise in thought or expression
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| obviate | anticipate and make unnecessary
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| occlude | to obstruct or block
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| occult | hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension
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| odious | hateful; arousing strong feelings of dislike
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| officious | meddlesome, pushy in offering one's services where they are unwanted
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| onerous | troubling, burdensome
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| opaque | impermeable by light; dense in mind
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| opprobrium | disgrace, contempt, scorn
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| ossified | change into bone; made rigidly conventional and unreceptive to change
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| ostensible | seeming, appearing as such professed
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| overweening | presumptuously arrogant, overbearing, immoderate
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| paean | a strong or expression of praise and thanksgiving
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| palliate | to make something appear less serious, gloss over, mitigate
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| pandemic | widespread; occurring over a large area or affecting an unusually large percentage of the population.
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| panegyric | formal expression of praise
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| paradigm | something that serves as a model, example, or pattern; the framework of assumptions and understanding shared by a group of discipline that shapes its worldview
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| paradox | a contradiction; a seemingly self-contradictory statement that seems true nonetheless
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| paragon | something regarded as a model of excellence or perfection in some way
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| pariah | an outcast, a rejection and despised person
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| parody | a humorous imitation intended for ridicule or comic effect, especially in literature and art, also something so bad as to be potentially mistaken for an intentional mockery
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| parry | to block or evade, or ward off, as a blow
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| parsimonious | cheap, miserly
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| partisan | one-sided, committed to a party, biased or prejudiced
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| paucity | scarcity, a lacking of
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| peccadillo | a slight offense, literally, a minor sin
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| pedantic | ostentatious display of learning, excessive attention to minutiae and formal rules, unimaginative
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| pedestrian | commonplace, trite, unremarkable
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| penchant | strong inclination, a liking
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| penurious | penny-pinching; excessively thrifty,; ungenerous
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| peremptory | admitting of no contradiction, putting an end to further debate, haughty, imperious
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| perfidy | intentional breach of faith, treachery
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| perfunctory | cursory, done without care or interest
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| peripatetic | itinerant, traveling, nomadic
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| pernicious | extremely harmful, potentially causing death
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| perspicacious | acutely perceptive, having keen discernment
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| peruse | to examine with great care
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| pervade | to permeate throughout
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| petrous | like a rock, hard, stony
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| petulant | impatient, irritable
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| philanthropic | humanitarian; benevolent
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| philistine | a crass individual guided by material rather than intellectual or artistic values
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| phlegmatic | calm, sluggish, unemotional, stoic
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| picaresque | involving clever rogues or adventurers
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| pied | multicolored, usually in blotches
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| pillory | to punish, hold up to public scorn
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| piquant | agreeably pungent, spicy, stimulating
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| pique | resentment, feeling of irritation due to hurt pride
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| pirate | to use or reproduce illegally
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| pith | the essential or central part
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| placate | to appease, to calm by making concessions
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| plaintive | mournful, melancholy, sorrowful
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| plangent | pounding, thundering, resounding
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| plastic | moldable, pliable, not rigid
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| platitude | a superficial or trite remark, especially one offered as meaningful
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| plethora | an overabundance, a surplus
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| pluck | courage, spunk, fortitude
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| plumb | tho measure the depth, to examine critically
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| plummet | to plunge or to drop straight down
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| poignant | distressing, pertinent, touching, stimulation, emotional
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| polemical | controversial, argumentative
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| pragmatic | practical rather than idealistic
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| prate | chatter, babble
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| prattle | to babble meaninglessly; to talk in an empty and idle manner
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| precarious | uncertain, risky, dangerous
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| precept | rule establishing standards of conduct, a doctrine that is taught
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| precipitate | acting with excessive haste or impulse
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| precursor | something that precedes and indicates or announces another
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| predilection | a disposition in favor of something, preference
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| preempt | to replace, to supersede, to appropriate
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| preen | to dress up, primp, groom oneself with elaborate care
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| prescience | knowing of events prior to their occurring
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| presumptuous | overstepping bounds, as of propriety or courtesy; taking liberties
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| prevaricate | to deliberately avoid the truth, mislead
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| prize | to pry, press or force with a lever
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| probity | adherence to highest principles uprightness
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| proclivity | a natural predisposition or inclination
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| prodigal | recklessly wasteful, extravagant, profuse, lavish
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| prodigious | abundant in size, force, or extent, extraordinary
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| profligate | excessively wasteful, recklessly extravagant
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| prolix | long winded, verbose
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| propinquity | nearness in time or place, affinity of nature, kinship
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| propitiate | to appease or pacify
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| propitious | auspicious, favorable
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| propriety | appropriateness; conformity with standards of acceptable behavior
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| prosaic | dull, unimaginative
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| proscribe | to outlaw or prohibit
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| Provident | frugal, looking into the future
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| puerile | childish, immature
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| pugnacious | contentious, quarrelsome, given to fighting, belligerent
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| punctilious | precise, paying attention to trivialities, especially in regard to etiquette
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| pundit | an authority on a subject, one who gives opinions
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| pungent | characterized by strong, sharp smell or taste, penetrating to the point
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| pusillanimous | coward, craven
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| putrefy | to rot, decay and give off a foul odor, become gangrenous
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| quaff | to drink deeply
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| quail | to shrink back in fear, lose courage
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| qualify | to limit
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| qualms | misgivings, reservations, causes for heistancy
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| queries | questions, inquiries, reservations
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| querulous | prone to complaining or grumbling, quarrelsome
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| quiescence | stillness, motionlessness, quality of being quiet
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| quotidian | occurring or recurring daily, commonplace
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| rail | to complain about bitterly
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| ramify | to be divided or subdivided, branch out
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| rancorous | characterized by bitter, long-lasting resentment
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| rapacious | voracious, greedy, plundering, subsisting on prey
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| rarefy | to make or become thin, less dense, refine
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| rebus | riddle, a representation of words by pictures or symbols that sound like the words
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| recalcitrant | obstinately defiant of authority or guidance, difficult to manage
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| recapitulate | to summarize, to repeat concisely
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| recondite | hidden, concealed, difficult to understand, obscure
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| reconnoiter | to engage in a reconnaissance, make a preliminary inspection of
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| recumbent | leaning, resting, prone
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| redolent | fragrant, suggestive or evocative
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| redoubtable | awe-inspiring, worthy of honor
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| refulgent | radiant, shiny, brilliant
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| refute | to disprove, successfully argue against
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| regale | to delight or entertain, feast
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| relegate | to forcibly assign, especially to a lower place of position
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| remonstrate | to protest, object
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| rent | torn, split apart, pierced as by sound
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| repine | to feel or express dejection or discontent, long for
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| repudiate | to refuse to have anything to do with, disown
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| rescind | to invalidate, repeal, retract
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| resolute | adamant, steadfast, determined
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| reticent | quiet, reserved, reluctant to express thoughts and feelings
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| reverent | marked by, feeling, or expressing a feeling of profound awe and respect
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| rhetoric | the art or study of effective use of language for communication and persuasion
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| risible | hilarious, provoking laughter
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| rubric | authoritative rule, heading, title or category
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| rue | regret, feel remorse
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| sagacious | having sound judgement, perceptive, wise
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| salacious | appealing to or causing sexual desire, bawdy
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| salient | prominent, protruding, conspicuous, highly relevant
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| salubrious | promoting health or well-being
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| salutary | remedial, wholesome, causing improvement
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| sanctimony | self-righteousness, pretended piety
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| sanction | authoritative permission or approval; a penalty intended to enforce compliance
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| sanguine | cheerful, confident, optimistic
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| sap | to enervate or weaken the vitality of
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| satiate | to overindulge, satisfy or excess
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| satire | a literary work that ridicules or criticizes human vice through humor or derision
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| saturnine | gloomy, dark, sullen, morose
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| scurvy | contemptible, despicable
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| sedulous | diligent, persistent, hard-working
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| seine | a large net hung out and dragged to catch fish
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| sere | withered, arid
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| seminal | like a seed, constituting a source originative
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| shard | a piece of broken pottery or glass, any small piece or part
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| simper | to smirk, to say something with a silly, coy smile
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| sinecure | position requiring little or no work and usually providing an income
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| singular | exceptional, unusual, odd
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| sinuous | winding, curvy, moving lithely, devious
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| slake | to satisfy, quench, lessen the intensity of
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| sodden | soaked or drenched, unimaginative, dull
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| solder | to weld, fuse or join, as with a soldering gun
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| solicitous | concerned and attentive, eager
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| solvent | able to meet financial obligations
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| sophistry | fallacious reasoning; plausible but faulty logic
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| sophomoric | exhibiting immaturity, lack of judgement, pretentious
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| soporific | causing drowsiness, tending to induce sleep
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| sordid | characterized by filth, grime, or squalor, foul
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| specious | seeming true, but actually false, misleadingly attractive
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| splenetic | bad-tempered, irritable
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| sporadic | occurring only in occasionally, or in scattered instances
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| spurious | lacking authenticity or validity, false, counterfeit
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| squalid | sordid, wretched and dirty as from neglect
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| squander | to waste by spending or using irresponsibly
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| stanch | to stop the flow of a fluid
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| static | not moving, active or in motion; at rest
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| steep | to saturate or completely soak
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| stentorian | extremely loud and powerful
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| stint | to restrain, be sparing or frugal
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| stoic | indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain, steadfast
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| stolid | calm, impassive
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| striated | striped, grooved, or banded
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| strut | a structural support used to brace a framework
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| stupefy | to stun, baffle, or amaze
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| stymie | to block, thwart
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| subpoena | a court order requiring appearance and/or testimony
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| subtle | not obvious, elusive, difficult to discern, crafty or sly
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| succinct | brief, concise
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| succor | assistance, relief in time of distress
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| sundry | various, miscellaneous, separate
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| supercilious | disdainful, arrogant, haughty, characterized by haughty scorn
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| superfluous | exceeding what is sufficient or necessary
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| supine | inactive, lying on one's back apathetic, mentally or morally slack
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| supplant | to take the place of, supersede
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| suppliant | asking humbly, beseeching
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| supplicant | beggar, one who prays or begs for something
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| surfeit | to feed or supply in excess
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| sycophant | someone who tries to flatter or please for personal gain, parasite
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| synthesis | the combination of parts to make a whole
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| table | to remove from consideration
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| taciturn | not talkative, silent
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| talisman | something believed to have magic power or bestow good luck
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| tautology | repetition, a redundancy, a circular argument
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| tawdry | cheap, gaudy, showy, tacky, indecent
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| tenacity | the quality of adherence or persistence to something valued
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| tendentious | biased, showing marked tendencies
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| tender | offer formally
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| tenuous | having little substance or strength, flimsy, weak
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| terse | brief and concise in wording
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| timorous | timid, fearful, diffident
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| tirade | a long and extremely critical speech, harsh denunciation
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| toady | sycophant, flatterer, yes-man
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| torpid | lethargic, sluggish, dormant
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| torque | a force that causes rotation
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| torrid | scorching, ardent, passionate, hurried
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| tortuous | winding, twisting, excessively complicated
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| tout | publicly praise or promote
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| tractable | docile, obedient, easily led
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| transient | fleeting, passing quickly, brief
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| travesty | mockery, caricature, parody
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| trenchant | sharply perceptive, keen, penetrating, biting, clear cut
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| truculent | fierce, scathing, eager to fight
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| turbid | muddy, having sediment stirred up, clouded to the point of being opaque
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| turgid | swollen, bloated, pompous, excessively ornate
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| turpitude | depravity, baselessness
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| tyro | novice, beginner or learning
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| ubiquitous | existing everywhere at the time, constantly encountered, widespread
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| umbrage | offense, resentment
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| undulate | to move in wavelike fashion fluctuate
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| unfeigned | genuine, not false or hypocritical
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| untenable | indefensible, not viable, uninhabitable
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| untoward | troublesome, unruly, unseemly, adverse
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| upbraid | to scold, censure, rebuke, chastise
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| urbane | sophisticated, refined, eloquent
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| usury | charging an exorbitant or illegal rate of interest
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| vaunt | to brag or boast
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| venal | capable of being bought or bribed, mercenary
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| venerate | to revere
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| veracity | truthfulness, honesty
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| verisimilitude | appearing true or real
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| veritable | authentic, real, genuine
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| vexation | annoyance, irritation
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| vigilant | alertly watchful
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| vilify | to defame, characterize harshly
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| virulent | extremely harmful or poisonous, bitterly hostile, or antagonistic
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| viscus | thick, sticky
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| vitiate | to reduce the value of, debase, spoil, make ineffective
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| vituperate | to use harsh condemnatory language; abuse or censure severely
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| volatile | readily changing to vapor; changeable, fickle, explosive
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| voracious | having an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit, ravenous
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| waft | light breeze, puff
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| waver | to move to and fro, to sway; to be unsettled in opinion
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| welter | to writhe, to toss about to be in turmoil
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| wend | to go, proceed, walk
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| whet | to sharpen or stimulate
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| whimsical | imaginative, unpredictable
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| zealous | fervent, ardent, impassioned
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