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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| stoic | One who is seemingly indifferent to or unaffected by joy, grief, pleasure, or pain. |
| deluge | Something that overwhelms as if by a great flood: a deluge of fan mail. |
| felicitation | congratulation |
| atony | Lack of normal muscle tone. |
| introitus | An opening or entryway, especially the opening into the |
| atony | relaxation, flaccidity, or lack of tone or tension |
| Evocative | to evoke - to summon - to call to mind - to create anew |
| Wane | to decline gradually in size |
| Menarche | first menstrual period |
| Habituation | decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation; visual stimulus wanes and the subject/person looks away sooner |
| Zeitgeber | An environmental agent or event that provides the cue for setting or resetting a biological clock. |
| running amok | uncontrollable rage |
| Wane | v. To diminish in size and brilliancy. |
| subsequent | coming after; following in time, place, or order |
| effusive | Profuse; overflowing |
| effusive | extravagantly demonstrative |
| appalled | to fill with consternation or dismay |
| meticulous | marked by precise accordance with details |
| anoxic | relating to or marked by a severe deficiency of oxygen in tissues or organs |
| propensity | natural inclination, natural inclination |
| prudent | showing wise self-restraint in speech and behavior especially in preserving prudent silence, exercising good judgment or common sense |
| premise | a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn, set forth beforehand, often as an explanation, an assumption; the basis for a conclusion |
| zest | vigorous and enthusiastic enjoyment, hearty enjoyment, flavor or interest |
| tang | sharp flavor or odor; touch |
| trite | repeated too often, adj. Made commonplace by frequent repetition. |
| commonplace | not challenging, repeated too often |
| verbose | using or containing too many words, talkative; long-winded; rambling |
| garrolous | talkative, chatty |
| platitude | a trite or obvious remark, a trite or banal statement unoriginality, stale |
| axiom | (logic) a proposition that is not susceptible of proof or disproof, self-evident truth requiring no proof; self acceptable on its own merits |
| cogent | powerfully persuasive, lucid; well argued, clear and logical |
| pristine | immaculately clean and unused, primitive, unspoiled, pure, as in earlier times, unadulterated |
| confluence | flowing together; the place where two rivers flow together; crowd; gathering together |
| crenation | shrink in size |
| equivocal | open to two or more interpretations, ambiguous; intentionally misleading, open to question |
| auspicious | attended by favorable circumstances, favorable, successful, prosperous |
| Arcane | esoteric; secret; mysterious; known only to the initiated; |
| lucid | clear, easily understood; clear; intelligible; N. lucidity |
| dextrous | skillful in use of hands of body, agile, deft |
| affluent | rich, wealthy, prosperous |
| deft | dexterous, nimble, skillfull, clever |
| vapid | lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest, dull & unimaginative, insipid & flavorless |
| insipid | not pleasing to the sense of taste |
| glabrous | without hairs or projections; smooth (antonym: hirsute) |
| hirsute | having or covered with hair |
| modality | a method of therapy that involves physical or electrical therapeutic treatment, method of treatment |
| caliber | the quality of someone's character or level of someone's abilty |
| iniquitous | wicked; immoral; unrighteous; N. iniquity; Ex. den of iniquity |
| albeit | even though |
| cardinal | important rule |
| Lucrative | producing wealth |
| meticulous | marked by precise accordance with details |
| brisk energy | lots of speed with positiveness |
| burning zeal | explosive dedication to a cause |
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