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avarice noun. greed for wealth
dissident noun. a person who disagrees publicly
incipient adj. beginning, early stages of
travail noun. requiring strenuous effort; anguish, trouble
incongruous adj. inappropriate,not fitting in
trite adj. overused, lacking origionality
placate verb. satisfy, appease
baneful adj. causing death or ruin
diurnal adj. pertaining to daytime, active during daytime
saturnine adj. gloomy, cynical, scornful
wary adj. on guard, watchful, cautious
incorrigible adj. incapable of being corrected, saved, or reformed
unkempt adj. untidy, messy, uncombed
benign adj. of a kindly disposition, not harmful
unsullied adj. untarnished, pure or clean
circumvent verb. overcome by cleverness, to bypass normal rules
perpetuate verb. make permanent, long-lasting
clairvoyant adj. supposedly having power to perceive things out of normal human range; noun. someone who sees into the future
garrulous adj. talkative, loquacious
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