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Stack #4572287
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Abortive | failing to accomplish an intended aim or purpose; only partially or imperfectly developed |
| Bruit | to spread news, reports, or unsubstantiated rumors |
| Contumelious | insolent or rude in speech or behavior; insultingly abusive; humiliating |
| Dictum | a short saying; an authoritative statement |
| Ensconce | to settle comfortably and firmly in position; to put or hide in a safe place |
| Iconoclastic | attacking or seeking to overthrow popular or traditional beliefs, ideas, or institutions |
| In medias res | in or into the middle of a plot; into the middle of things |
| Internecine | mutually destructive; characterized by great slaughter and bloodshed |
| Maladroit | lacking skill or dexterity; tacking tact, perception, or judgment |
| Maudlin | excessively or effusively sentimental |
| Modulate | to change or vary the intensity or pitch; to temper or soften; to regulate, adjust |
| Portentous | foreshadowing an event to come; causing wonder or awe; self-consciously weighty, pompous |
| Prescience | knowledge of events or actions before they happen, foresight |
| Quid pro quo | something given in exchange or return for something else |
| Salubrious | conducive to health or well-being; wholesome |
| Saturnalian | characterized by riotous or unrestrained revelry or licentiousness |
| Touchstone | a means of testing worth or genuineness |
| Traumatic | so shocking to the emotions as to cause lasting and substantial psychological damage |
| Vitiate | to weaken, debase, or corrupt; to impair the quality or value of |
| Waggish | fond of making jokes; characteristic of a joker; playfully humorous of droll |