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elevation or exultation of a person to the rank of a god
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apotheosis
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spacious, convenient
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commodius
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contumacious
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stubbornly perverse or rebbellious
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dereliction
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deliberate or conscious neglect
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detumescence
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reduction or subsidence of swelling
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disencumber
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free from burden
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effluvia
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slight exhalation or vapor
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fulmination
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violent denunciation or censure
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machination
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crafty schemes, plots, or intrigue
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propinquity
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nearness in place
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abeyance
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temporary inactivity
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abnegate
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to refuse or deny oneself, renounce
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alacrity
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cheerful willingness, eagerness
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anachronism
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something not in its appropriate historical timeframe
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anathema
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a person or thing detested or loathed
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apprise
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give notice to, inform
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approbate
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approve officially
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assiduous
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constant, unremitting
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august
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inspiring reverence or admiration
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auspice
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patronage, support
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gamely
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in a plucky (brave and sporty) manner
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solecism
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a nonstandard or ungrammatical usage
a breach of good manners or etiquette
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jettison
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to throw off something as an obstacle or burden
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pell-mell
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in a disorderly, recklessley hurried manner
a confused or jumbled mass
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jetsam
goods cast overboard deliberately as to lighten a vessel or improve its stability in an emergency
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grievance
a wrong considered as grounds for complaint
| a complaint or resentment (against an unjust act)
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palpable
obvious, evident, plainly seen, heard, or perceived
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uxorious
affectionately submissive toward one's wife
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insidious
intended to entrap or beguile
| stealthily treacherous or deceitful
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endue
to invest or endow with some gift
| to assume or put on
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etiolate
to cause a plant to whiten or grow pale by excluding light
| to cause to become weakened or sickly, drain of color or vigor
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abase
to reduce or lower, as in rank, office, or reputation
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cognate
related by birth, of the same parentage, descent
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rectitude
correctness, moral virtue, straightness
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indigent
lacking life necessities because of poverty
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irascible
easily angered
| characterized or produced by anger
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gamut
the entire scale or range
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annex
to attach or add
| to appropriate, esp without permission
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bandy
to pass back and forth
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provenance
place or source of origin
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sheaf
a bundle, cluster, or collection
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vernal
of or pertaining to spring
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high-flown
extravagant in aims, pretentious, bombastic
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leviathan
something of immense size or power
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fitful
coming in fits or spells, reoccuring irregularly
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cherubic
of or having the nature of a cherub
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clairvoyant
having power to see things and actions beyond normal vision
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unassailable
not open to attack or assault
| not subject to denial or dispute
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waggish
like a wag, jocular, having droll, mischievious sense of humor
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ordain
to confer holy orders upon
to enact or establish by law
to order or command
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renegade
a person who deserts a party or cause for another
| an apostate
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raiment
clothing, apparel, attire
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necrotic
death of a circumscribed portion of animal or plant tissue
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provender
food, provisions
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libel
defamation
| the act or crime of publishing it
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disport
to divert or amuse oneself (esp with sports)
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stodgy
heavy, stocky, dull, or uninteresting
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truism
a self-evident, obvious truth
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verve
enthusiasm, vigor
| vivaciousness
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carillon
a set of bells
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expository
of the nature of exposition
| serving to expound or explain
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expound
serving to explain, interpret, or state in detail
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exchequer
a treasury, as of a state or a nation
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warble
succession of melodic trills or quavers
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scurrilous
obscenely abusive
| coarsely jocular or derisive
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lachrymose
tending to cause tears, mournful
| given to shedding tears readily
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derisive
contemptuous, mocking
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foible
a minor weakness, slight flaw or defect
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rakish
dissolute
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libertine
a person who is morally or sexually unrestrained, a profligate
a freethinker on religious matters
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jingoist
bellicose chauvinism
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munificent
extremely generous
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retinue
a body of retainers in attendance upon an important personage
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itinerant
traveling from place to place
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thresh
to beat (threshing wheat, grain)
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dissolute
given to immoral conduct, dissipated, licentious
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renege
to go back on one's word
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confluence
the flowing together of 2 bodies of water
| a coming together of people or things, a crowd
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abeyance
temporary cessation
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defunct
no longer in use or functioning
| no longer in existence
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ordinance
an authoritative rule or decree
a public regulation
something believed to have been ordained (by diety)
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kismet
fate, destiny
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injunction
judicial process ordering someone to do or not do something
| the act of enjoining
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saturnine
gloomy, taciturn, sluggish in temperment
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miasma
noxious inhalations of a putrescent organic matter
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dyspeptic
gloomy, pessimistic, irritable
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disputatious
argumentative, contentious
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libidinous
lustful, lewd, lascivious
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decollete
low-necked garment
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abet
to encourage, support esp in a wrongdoing
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grisly
horrible, gruesome, formidable, grim
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preponderance
superior in weight, force, influence, etc
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chagrin
feeling of vexation, marked by disappointment or humiliation
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acrimonious
caustic, stinging, or bitter in nature, speech or behavior
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restive
impatient, refractory, stubborn
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clamorous
vigorous in demands or complaints
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arcane
esoteric, understood by very few
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garrulous
very talkative, wordy esp about trivial matters
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mendacity
tendency to lie
| an instance of lying
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prevaricate
to speak falsely or in a misleading way
| to deliberately create a false impression, to lie
