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Litany   A tedious recital or repetitive series  
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Ostentatious   Attracting or seeking to attract attention  
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Vehement   Showing strong feeling; passion; intense  
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Lament   Mourn; passionate expression of grief  
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Contentious   Likely to cause disagreement or argument  
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Incongruous   Out of place; incompatible  
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Illicit   Unlawful, not legally permitted; forbidden by laws, rule, or custom  
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Fervor   Intense and passionate feeling  
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Crass   Without refinement, delicacy, or sensitivity; stupid  
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Piety   Devotion to God or to religious practices  
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Bellicose   Demonstrating aggression or willingness to fight  
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Discourse   Written or spoken communication or debate  
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Vacillate   Alternate or waiver between opinions or actions; be indecisive  
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Profound   Very great or intense  
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Superficial   Surface level  
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Strident   Presenting a point, especially a controversial one, in an excessively forceful way  
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Idyllic   Extremely happy, peaceful, or picturesque  
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Sublime   Of such excellence, grandeur, or beauty as to inspire great admiration or awe  
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Reprieve   Cancellation or postponement of a punishment of someone (especially someone condemned to death)  
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Approbation   Approval or praise  
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Fervent   Having or displaying a passionate intensity  
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Aesthetic   Concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty  
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Vexation   Something that causes annoyance, frustration, or worry  
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Rumination   Obsessive thinking about an idea, situation, or choice especially when it interferes with normal mental functioning  
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Aloof   Not friendly or forthcoming; cool and distant  
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Elegiac   Relating to or characteristic of an elegy  
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Obdurate   Stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion or course of action  
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Callous   Showing or having an insensitive and cruel disregard for others  
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Stoic   A person who can endure pain or hardship without showing their feelings or complaining  
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Assuage   Make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense  
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Profiligate   Recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources  
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Vitiate   Spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of  
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Trepidation   A feeling of fear or agitation about something that may happen  
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Malady   A disease or ailment  
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Corpulent   (of a person) fat  
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Derisive   Expressing contempt or ridicule  
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Penitent   Feeling or expressing humble or regretful pain or sorrow for sins or offenses; repentant  
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Inundate   Overwhelm (someone) with things or people to be dealt with  
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Secular   Denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis  
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Censure   Express severe disapproval of (someone or something), especially in a formal statement  
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Defray   Provide money to pay (a cost or expense)  
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Interloper   A person who becomes involved in a place or situation where they are not wanted or are considered not to belong  
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Fatuous   Silly or pointless  
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Patronizing   Apparently kind or helpful but betraying a feeling of superiority; condescending  
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Incensed   Very angry; enraged.  
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Accede   Agree to a demand, request, or treaty  
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Errant   Straying from the proper course or standards.  
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Phlegmatic   (of a person) having an unemotional and stolidly calm disposition  
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Prostrate   Lying stretched out on the ground with one's face downward.  
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Jocund   Cheerful and lighthearted  
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Sanguine   Optimistic or positive, especially in an apparently bad or difficult situation  
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Hegemony   Leadership or dominance, especially by one country or social group over others  
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Lassitude   A state of physical or mental weariness; lack of energy  
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Licentious   Promiscuous and unprincipled in sexual matters  
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Presumptuous   (of a person or their behavior) failing to observe the limits of what is permitted or appropriate  
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Indolent   Wanting to avoid activity or exertion; lazy  
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Chasten   (of a rebuke or misfortune) have a restraining or moderating effect on  
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Corporeal   Having, consisting of, or relating to a physical material body  
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Enumerate   Mention (a number of things) one by one  
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Sordid   immoral or dishonest  
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Etymology   the study of the origin of words and the way in which their meanings have changed throughout history  
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Acquiesce   accept something reluctantly but without protest  
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Idiosyncratic   peculiar or individual  
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Surfeit   an excessive amount of something  
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Ignominious   deserving or causing public disgrace or shame.  
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Goad   provoke or annoy (someone) so as to stimulate some action or reaction  
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Languor   the state or feeling, often pleasant, of tiredness  
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Generalization   a stereotype or concept obtained by inference from specific cases  
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Allocation   the action or process of distributing something.  
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Redundant   not or no longer needed or useful; superfluous  
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Wry   using or expressing dry, especially mocking, humor  
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Ruminate   think deeply about something  
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Admonish   warn or reprimand someone firmly  
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Visage   a person's face, with reference to the form or proportions of the features  
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Jovial   cheerful and friendly  
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Invocation   the action of asking something or someone for assistance or as an authority  
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Sanctity   the state or quality of being holy, sacred, or saintly  
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Opulence   great wealth or luxuriousness  
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Indignation   anger or annoyance provoked by what is perceived as unfair treatment  
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Virtue   behavior showing high moral standards  
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Beget   give rise to; bring about  
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Cajole   persuade (someone) to do something by sustained coaxing or flattery  
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Concrete   existing in a material or physical form; not abstract  
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Indulgence   the action or fact of indulging  
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Deportment   the manner in which one conducts oneself  
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Sanctioned   give official permission or approval for (an action).  
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Corroborate   to support with evidence or authority  
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Consonance   the recurrence of similar sounds, especially consonants, in close proximity (chiefly as used in prosody)  
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Assonance   in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible (e.g., penitence, reticence )  
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Synesthesia   the production of a sense impression relating to one sense or part of the body by stimulation of another sense or part of the body  
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Enjambment   (in verse) the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza  
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Vacuous   emptied of or lacking content  
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Assertion   a confident and forceful statement of fact or belief  
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Melancholy   a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause  
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Nonchalant   relaxed and calm  
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Copious   large in quantity; abundant; plentiful  
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Scrupulous   (of a person or process) diligent, thorough, and extremely attentive to detail  
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Transcendent   beyond or above the range of normal or merely physical human experience  
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Deference   humble submission and respect  
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