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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Disaffected | Dissatisfied with the people in authority and no longer willing to support them |
| Dissemble | Conceal one's true motives, feelings, beliefs |
| Dispassionate | Not influenced by emotion, and so able to be rational and impartial |
| Dissonant | Lacking harmony, unsuitable or unusable in combination, clashing |
| Dissuade | To persuade someone to not take a particular course of action |
| Dotard | An old person, especially one who has become weak or senile |
| Egregious | Astoundingly bad, shocking |
| Elegaic | Relating to or a characteristic of an elegy |
| Ephemeral | Lasting a very short time |
| Espouse | to adopt or support (A way of life) |
| Extol | Praise enthusiastically |
| Fatuous | Silly and pointless |
| Florid | Elaborately or excessively intricate or complicated |
| Hedonism | The pursuit of pleasure, sensual self-indulgence |
| Histrionic | Exaggerated dramatic behavior designed to attract attention |
| Aesthete | A person who has or affects to have a special appreciation for art |
| Curmudgeon | A bad tempered or surly person |
| Diffidence | Modesty or shyness resulting from a lack of self-confidence |
| Ethereal | Extremely delicate and light in a way that seems too perfect for this world |
| Intrinsic | Belonging naturally; essential |
| Irascible | Having or showing a tendency to be easily angered |
| Obseqious | Obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree |
| Pariah | An outcast |
| Paucity | the presence of something in small or insufficient quantities or amounts; scarcity |
| Progeny | A descendant or the descendants of a person, animal, or plant; offspring |
| Surly | Bad-tempered and unfriendly |
| Tenuous | Very weak or slight |
| Assuage | To make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense |
| Charlatan | A person falsely claiming to have knowledge or a skill; a fraud |
| Erudition | The quality of having or showing great knowledge or learning, scholarship |
| Garish | Obtrusively bright and showy; lurid |
| Incorrigible | (of a person or their tendencies) not able to be corrected, improved, or reformed |
| Indecorous | Not in keeping with good taste and propriety; improper |
| Juncture | A particular point in events or time, a point where things join |
| Meander | Following winding course |
| Multifarious | Many and of various types |
| Protean | Tending or able to change frequently or easily |
| Protract | Prolong |
| Reprobate | An unprincipled person, unprincipled |
| Turpitude | Depravity; wickedness |
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