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asperity

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n. severity, rigor
n. acrimony, irritability

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profligate

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adj. immoral
adj. recklessly extravagant

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profuse

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adj. abundant
adj. freely giving or spending

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hapless

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adj. unlucky, unfortunate, luckless

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prognostic

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n. a prediction
adj. indicating future events

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proliferate

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v. to grow and spread quickly

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puissant

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adj. powerful, mighty

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prone

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adj. lying face or front downward
adj. tending to behave or act a certain way

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propitiate

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v. to appease

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ineffable

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adj. incapable of being described in words

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propitious

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adj. favorable

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propound

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v. to propose or offer for certain consideration

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propriety

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n. proper behavior

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precipitate

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adj. acting with haste or on impulse
v. to cause or hasten an event

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prosaic

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adj. common; unimaginative

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prudent

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adj. practical; careful

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advert

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v. to call or direct attention towards

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excoriate

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v. to condemn scathingly

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insipid

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adj. bland, trite

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sublimate

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v. to change state of matter between solid and gaseous form without passing through a liquid stage
v. to modify the expression of an instinctual impulse in a socially acceptable manner

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expatiate

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v. to discuss or write about at great length

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precipitous

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adj. dangerously high or steep
adj. done hastily and without care

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necromancy

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n. the practice of communicating with the spirits of the dead
n. black magic, black arts, or sorcery

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truculent

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adj. cruel, ferocious, savage, brutal

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depravity

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n. moral corruption or degradation