From "Hot Words for the SAT"
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| Circumlocution | show 🗑
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| Garrulous | show 🗑
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| Grandiloquent | show 🗑
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| Loquacious | show 🗑
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| Rhetorical | show 🗑
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| Verbose | show 🗑
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| Voluble | show 🗑
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| Narcisstic | show 🗑
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| Ostentatious | show 🗑
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| Pretentious | show 🗑
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| show | Dull or stale because of overuse; trite; hackneyed
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| Insipid | show 🗑
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| show | Quality of being dull; an obvious remark uttered as if original
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| Prosaic | show 🗑
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| Trite | show 🗑
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| show | Lacking freshness and zest; flat; stale
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| show | To lessen fear; to calm; to relieve pain
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| show | To make better; to lessen pain, difficulty, or tension
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| Conciliate | show 🗑
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| show | To make or become less severe; to lessen pain or damage
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| Mollify | show 🗑
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| Affable | show 🗑
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| show | Showing goodwill, peaceable
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| show | Compatible; having kindred needs or tastes; sympathetic
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| Convival | show 🗑
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| Gregarous | show 🗑
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| show | Liking to be with people, joke around with them, and have fun
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| Levity | show 🗑
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| Captious | show 🗑
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| show | Quarrelsom; belligerent
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| show | Inclined to argue or debate; controversial
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| show | Eager to fight; belligerent
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| Altruistic | show 🗑
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| show | Generous giving
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| Magnanimous | show 🗑
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| show | Very generous
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| show | Wasteful, lavish
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| Austere | show 🗑
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| show | Greedy
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| show | Overly thrifty or miserly
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| Miserly | show 🗑
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| show | Singy; relating to great poverty or destitution
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| Quagmire | show 🗑
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| show | A dilemma; a confusing or puzzling situation
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| Baneful | show 🗑
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| show | Harmful to one's health or overall welfare
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| show | Loathesome; evil; revolting in a desgusting way
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| show | Very distructive or harmful, usually in an inconspicuous or relentless way
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| show | Extremely poisonous or deadly; full of spiteful heatred
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| show | To find fault; to be critical
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| show | To scold or punish severly
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| show | To critize strongly
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| Impugn | show 🗑
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| show | To snub; to bluntly refuse
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| Phlegmatic | show 🗑
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| Stolid | show 🗑
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| Sedentary | show 🗑
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| show | Sleep-inducing; sleepy
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| show | Lacking energy; relating to inactivity; feeling sluggish
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| show | Obeying or performing a service for someone in an overly attentive manner
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| show | A self-server who tries to gain favor of others through the use of flattery or by being over-attentive
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| Toady | show 🗑
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| show | Full of passion and emotion
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| Ebullient | show 🗑
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| Effervescent | show 🗑
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| show | Strongly opinionated; rigid; dicatorial
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| show | Strongly opinionated; narrow-mindedly stubborn
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| show | Stubborn; hard to manage
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| show | Resistant to persuasion or softening; stubbornly persistent in wrongduing
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| show | Stubborn, disobedient, defiant
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| Discordant | show 🗑
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| show | pleasing sound
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| Mellifulous | show 🗑
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| Raucous | show 🗑
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| show | Loud and noisy regarding one's own voice, especially shouting; demandingly clamourous
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| Strident | show 🗑
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| Acclaim | show 🗑
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| Accolade | show 🗑
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| show | To praise or flatter to greatly; fawn over
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| show | To praise or glorify; to lift up in status, dignity, or power
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| show | To praise highly; to laud
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| Laude | show 🗑
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| Panegyrize | show 🗑
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| Copious | show 🗑
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| show | Abundant; more than enough
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| Prolific | show 🗑
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| Surfeit | show 🗑
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| Abstemious | show 🗑
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| Alimentary | show 🗑
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| show | Having to do with relishing the pleasure of eating and drinking
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| show | Cautious; wary
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| show | Relating to doing what one knows is right; scrupulous
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| show | Requiring a great del of care or effort; painstaking
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| show | Showing great care and honesty, based on personal belief of what is right and proper
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| show | Lasting a short time; fleeting
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| show | Vanishing quickly; fleeting
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| Itinerant | show 🗑
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| show | Moving or walking about; itinerant
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| Transient | show 🗑
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