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Stack #100379
| Words | Definitions |
|---|---|
| articulate | fluent and clear in speech |
| cavort | to leap excitedly |
| credence | belief |
| decry | denounce |
| dissemble | to conceal, disguise |
| distraught | extreamly agitated |
| eulogy | speech or writing in praise of a person |
| evince | to display clearly, reveal |
| exhume | to dig up |
| feckless | feeble |
| murky | dark, gloomy |
| nefarious | wicked, evil |
| piquant | spicy, engagingly provokative |
| primordial | existing from the beginning |
| propinquity | nearness in space |
| unwonted | out of the ordinary |
| utopian | founded upon or involving idealized perfection |
| verbiage | gibberish, way of saying something |
| viscous | sticky, thick |
| accost | to confront in a challenging and aggressive manner |
| animadversion | A critical comment expressing disproval |
| avid | eager |
| brackish | salty, unpleasent |
| celerity | quickly |
| devious | tricky, sly , deceitful |
| gambit | an opening move to gain an advantage |
| halcyon | calm tranquil |
| histrionic | overdramatic |
| incendiary | designed to start fire, inflammatory |
| maelstrom | a violent whirlpool, storm, caos |
| myopic | nearsighted (thinker) |
| overt | open, not hidden |
| pejorative | tending to make worse, derogatory |
| propriety | the state of being proper |
| sacrilege | distruction, or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred |
| summarly | promptly, without delay |
| suppliant | asking humbly |
| acquisitive | eager to gain and process |
| arrogate | to take or claim for oneself without right |
| banal | completely ordinary and common place |
| belabor | to attack with blows, to harp on |
| carping | characterized by or inclined to petty or fussy faultfinding |
| coherent | logicly connected, sticking together |
| congeal | to make of become fixed, solidify |
| emulate | to imitate in effort to equal or surpass |
| encomium | a formal expression of high praise |
| eschew | to keep away from |
| germane | closely or significantly related |
| insatiable | incapable of being satisfied |
| intransigent | refusing to agree or compromise |
| invidious | calculated to create ill will, causing sedimental envy |
| largess | generous bestowal of gifts |
| reconnaissance | a general examination or survey of a region |
| substantiate | to establish by proof or competent evedence |
| taciturn | reserved in speech |
| temporize | to be indecisive or evasive to gain time or delay in acting |
| tenable | capable of being held, maintained, or defended |
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