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Tenuous-Venal

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tenuous having little substance or strength; flimsy; weak
terse brief and concise in wording; succinct, laconic
timorous timid; fearful; apprehensive
tirade a long and extremely critical speech; a harsh denunciation
toady sycophant; flatterer; flunky
tortuous winding; twisting; excessively complicated; meandering, circuitous
tout to publicly praise or promote; laud, herald, acclaim
transient fleeting; passing quickly; brief; temporary, momentary
trenchant sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating; incisive
truculent fierce and cruel; eager to fight; brutal, vitriolic, belligerent
truncate to cut off abruptly; shorten
tyro novice; greenhorn; rank amateur; beginner
unfeigned genuine; not false or hypocritical; honest, sincere
untenble indefensible; not viable; uninhabitable; flawed, illogical
untrammeled not hampered or impeded; unrestrained
urbane sophisticated; refined; elegant; cultivated
vacillate to move indecisively between one course of action or opinion and another; waver
vagary unpredictable action; caprice
variegated multicolored; characterized by a variety of patches of different color; diversified
venal capable of being bought or bribed; corruptible
Created by: kr_edwards04
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