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WWW Vocab
| Definition | Word |
|---|---|
| to slander | calumniate |
| freedom from restriction | latitude |
| insensible to pain | impassive |
| not bothered, carefree | insouciant |
| discreditable tendency | proclivity |
| without foresight | improvident |
| insincere | disingenuous |
| flat, trite remark | platitude |
| peculiarity | idiosyncrasy |
| to desert | tergiversate |
| of varied composition | heterogeneous |
| columned or pillared | hypostyle |
| a surge of harmony | diapason |
| a curse | anathema |
| an opposite thought | antithesis |
| trivially verbose | garrulous |
| standing out or projecting | salient |
| wise | sapient |
| good-naturedness | bonhomie |
| universal | ecumenical |
| to wall in | immure |
| conscious | sentient |
| to base upon | predicate |
| intricately complicated | convoluted |
| persuasively expressive | eloquent |
| maze | labyrinth |
| foundation | substratum |
| boring | insipid |
| of rare quality | exquisite |
| pathological thief | kleptomaniac |
| hardhearted | obdurate |
| rich | opulent |
| totally reject | ostracize |
| not disclosed | ulterior |
| sudden colvulsion | paroxysm |
| bombastic | grandiloquent |
| bring into being | engender |
| dispersion of people | diaspora |
| a delusion | ignis fatuus |
| shady | umbrageous |
| to worsen | aggravate |
| brief and clear | succinct |
| present everywhere | ubiquitous |
| shapeless | amorphous |
| unnecessary | superfluous |
| laborious | onerous |
| of common ancestry | cognate |
| just beginning | incipient |
| not consisting of matter | incorporeal |
| brilliantly clear | perspicuous |
| innocent and naive | ingenuous |
| wearing away | attrition |
| to flood | inundate |
| abnormality | anomaly |
| limited | circumscribed |
| false sentimentality | bathos |
| proportionate | pro rata |
| uncalled for | gratuitous |
| hindering baggage | impedimenta |
| resemblance | similitude |
| muddy or muddled | turbid |
| full of mourning | lugubrious |
| evident | manifest |
| root out | extirpate |
| excess | surfeit |
| metaphysics of being | ontology |
| sly | insidious |
| conceal through pretense | dissemble |
| affectedly holy | sanctimonious |
| producing offspring | procreant |
| hasty superficial | cursory |
| short-lived | ephemeral |
| dictatorial | peremptory |
| disdainful snobbery | hauteur |
| an assorted collection | omnium gatherum |
| hopeless scoundrel | reprobate |
| hypocrisy | pharisaism |
| embarrassing mishap | contretemps |
| related | germane |
| overstatement | hyperbole |
| declaration of intent | manifesto |
| forgivable | venial |
| appropriate | apposite |
| priestly | sacerdotal |
| extremely generous | munificent |
| full of complaint | querulous |
| filled | replete |
| sacrifice | immolate |
| stubborn | refractory |
| outpouring | effusion |
| shamelessness | impudicity |
| enthusiastic praise | encomium |
| stubborn disobedience | contumacy |
| contemptuous insult | contumely |
| cause | etiology |
| state of dullness | hebetude |
| unconquerable | inexpugnable |
| insight | perspicacity |
| combination | synthesis |
| incongruously different | disparate |
| offensively interfering | obtrusive |
| quick, witty reply | repartee |
| elaborate eulogy | panegyric |
| untruthful | mendacious |
| favorably disposed | propitious |
| thinned | attenuated |
| an obsequious parasite | sycophant |
| aristocratic | patrician |
| outcome unraveling | denouement |
| free from blame | exculpate |
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