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Simile

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Figure of speech, in the form of ‘like’ or ‘as’.

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Metaphor

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A figure of speech.

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Personification

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A figure of speech where an inanimate object is given human abilities.

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Irony

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A form of speech in which what we say or write conveys the opposite meaning of it.

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Satire

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Lampoon.
Parody.

Lampoon and parody can verbs.

All mean ridicule.

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Hyperbole

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A figure of speech where exaggeration is used to provide extra emphasis.

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Caricature

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Cartoonify things or people with exaggeration.

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Epic

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Saga.

Heroic tale.

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Euphony

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Good sound.

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Cacophony

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Bad sound.

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Foreshadow

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To reveal what’s about to happen in a story or movie.

Presage.
Spoiler.

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Subplot

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A secondary plot of movies or stories.

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Memoir

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Autobiography.

Personal journal.

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Anecdote

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Short account of humorous or interesting events.

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Eulogy

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Praising a dead man at his funeral.

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Allusion

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Indirect reference assuming common knowledge.

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Synopsis

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Abstract.

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Pan

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To criticize.

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Arcane

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Mysterious.

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Slight

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To insult.

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Citadel

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A protective fortress, typically of high ground.

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Conspicuous

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Attracting notice or attention.

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Assimilate

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To take in and fully understand.

To cause something to resemble.

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Antagonistic

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Villain.

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Antagonistic

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Villainous

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Corpulent

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Fat.

Obese.

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Allege

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To claim.

To assert.

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Largesse

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Generosity.

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Archipelago

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Relating to islands and lands.

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Stigmatize

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To brand someone as something.

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Catalyst

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Something hat provokes changes.

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Caustic

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Statements that burns or hurts.

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Crystallize

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To fully form something.

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Osmosis

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Unconscious assimilation.

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Sedentary

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Inactive.

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Virulent

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Vicious comments.

Extremely infectious.

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Empirical

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Directly observed data.

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Entomology

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The study of insects.

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Gestate

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To conceive and develop in mind.

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Paradigm

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A standard model.

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Entrepreneur

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Someone who initiates an organization.

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Lucrative

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Very profitable.

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Avarice

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Greed.

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Glut

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Plethora.
Surfeit.
A surplus.

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Extravagant

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Lacking moderation. Excessive. Intemperate.

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Opulent

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Wealthy.

Affluent.

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Munificent

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Generous.

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Parsimonious

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Stingy.

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Depreciation

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Wearing down by time.

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Remunerate

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To compensate.

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Accord

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Agreement.

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Enlighten

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To edify.

To illuminate with knowledge and eradicate darkness.

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Appeasement m

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To placate.

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Nullify

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To devalue invalid.

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Triumvirate

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A group or association of 3 leaders.

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Pretext

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Alleged cause/excuse.

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Consensus

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A general agreement.

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Autocrat

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Despot.

All power ruler.

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Manifesto

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A public declaration of beliefs, policies and intentions.

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Enfranchise

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To grant voting rights.

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Coerce

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To force to act or do.

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Egalitarian

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Relating to the equality of.

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Demarcation

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The act of marking down boundaries.

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Inquisition

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Investigation.

Interrogation.

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Ameliorate

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To make better.

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Contiguous

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Touching.

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Desiccate

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Thoroughly dried out.
Lifeless.
Totally arid.

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Pertinent

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On point.

Relevant.

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Exonerate

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Exculpate.

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Precedent

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Established principles of consequent events.

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Unprecedented

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Without previous example.

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Malfeasance

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Wrongdoing.

Misconduct, esp by a public official.

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Blatantly

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Unmistakably.
Not in disguise.
Shamefully.

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Feeble

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Weak.

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Stereotype

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Of or related to maintaining only one paradigm to do something.

Cliche.
Trite.
Conventional.
Stock.

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Impediment

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Obstacle.

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Arrest

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To bring to a stop. To halt.

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Gravity

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Seriousness.

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Precipitate

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The outcome of result of action.

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Relief

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Elevation of land surface.

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Check

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To constrain.
To hold back.
To restrain.

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Flag

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To become tired, weak, feeble.

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Discriminating

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Distinguishing ability.

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Eclipse

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To overshadow.
To surmount.
To outshine.

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Coin

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To devise a new word or phrase.

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Devise

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To create.

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Stock

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Stereotype.
Conventional.
Trite.

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Currency

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General usage.

Prevalence.

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Bent

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Predilection.
Inclination.
Penchant.

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Court

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To try to gain support of a specific group.

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Negotiate

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To travel through, around or over an obstacle of terrain.

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Temper

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To alleviate.

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Pedestrian

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Indistinguishable.

Ordinary.

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Cavalier

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Impertinent.

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Sanction

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Approve/disapprove officially.

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Compromise

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To reduce the quality of something.

To jeopardize or place at risk.

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Channel

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To direct through a specific course.

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Obliterate

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Completely destroy. 
Annihilate. 
Eradicate. 
Terminate.
Diminish.
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Erode

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To be gradually destroyed.

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Lambaste

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To denounce.

To defame.

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Quiescent

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Inactive.

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Provisional

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Temporarily. M

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Lurid

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Sensational.
Attractive.
Noticeable.
Ghastly.

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Truculent

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Pugnacious.
Belligerent.
Bellicose.

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Propitiate

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To advocate.
To try to gain the favor of someone.
To conciliate.

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Lean

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Great enthusiasm.

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Perfunctory

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Machine-like. Routine. Lacking passion.

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Aplomb

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Self-assurance.

Confident composure.

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Opacity

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Complex. Hard to understand.

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Craven

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Cowardly.

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Venal

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Corruption.

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Licentious

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Dissolute.
Debauched.
Immoral.

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Noxious

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Harmful

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Superfluous

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Extraneous.

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Duplicitous

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Deliberate trickery in behavior of speech.

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Profligate

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Spendthrift.

Squanderer.

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Epiphany

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A suddenly moment of realization.

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Insidious

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Lethally harmful.

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Vacuous

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Inane.
Vapid.

Lacking seriousness or depth.

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Harbinger

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Portent.
Presage.

To indicate that something ominous is about to happen.

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Beleaguer

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To beset.

To surround with problem.

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Burgeon

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To grow rapidly.

Proliferate.

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Imperious

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Haughty.

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Petulant

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Peevish.
Irritable.
Lacking temperate.

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Complaisant

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Amiable.
Affable.
Gregarious.
Genial.

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Fawn

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To behave in a servile manner.

Subservient.

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Obdurate

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Recalcitrant.
Obstinate.
Intransigent.

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Redolent

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Fragrant.

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Chicanery

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Deliberate trickery.

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Conundrum

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Puzzle.

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Slight

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Disparaging remark.

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Capitulate

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To surrender.

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Disheartening

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Very discouraging.

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Apocryphal

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Fictitious. Made up.

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Magisterial

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Learned. Authoritative.

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Plasticity

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Malleable. Pliable. Flexible.

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Chagrin

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To feel distress d at humiliation, failure or embarrassment.

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Obstreperous

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Noisily defiant.
Unruly.
Untoward.

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Idyllic

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Simple and charmingly carefree.

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Dilapidated

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In a deplorable condition.

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Extemporize

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Improvise.

To give speech without notes.

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Myriad

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Many.

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Ungainly

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Awkward. Clumsy.

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Dilatory

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Tardy.

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Vituperative

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Verbally abusive.

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Discordant

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Incompatible.

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Perfidious

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Traitorous.

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Proliferation

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Burgeon.

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Indomitable

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Resolute.
Tenacious.
Greatly determinant.

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Moribund

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About to die.

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Nuance

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Slight difference.

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Flippant

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Facetious.

Taking serious matter with lighthearted care free and humor.

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Credulous

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Gullible.

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Florid

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Flowery.

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Excoriating m

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Scathing.
Condemning.
Loudly disparaging.

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Interloper

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Intruder.

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Cerebral

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Intellectual.

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Visceral

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Instinctive but not rational.

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Nonplussed

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Confounding.

Perplexed.

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Ignominious

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Shameful.
Disgraceful.
Humiliating.

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Feckless

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Weak.

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Dissolute

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Licentious.

Lax in morals.

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Exuding

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Emitting.

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Subterfuge

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Trickery.

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Dichotomy

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Divided into opposite parts.

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Relish

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To enjoy.

Great enjoyment.

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Apoplectic

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Furious.

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Unconquerable

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Indomitable.
Resolute.
Determined.
Not understanding.

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Aristocracy

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Nobility

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Atrocity

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Abomination.
Cruelty.
Enormity.

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Idiosyncrasy

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Mannerism that is peculiar to a certain individual.

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Censorious

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Captious.

Very critical and criticizing.

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Consternation

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Quandary.
Dilemma.

Being in a great dismay and confusion.

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Didactic

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Edifying.
Illuminating.
Teaching.

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Elucidate

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Clarify.
Explain.
Make clear.

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Pellucid

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Crystal clear.

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Effusive

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Evaporating praise.

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Prolific

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Very productive.

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Furor

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An uproar.
Pandemonium.
Tumult.

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Marginal

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Peripheral.
Of insignificant importance.
Not central.

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Paranoia

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Irrational fear.

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Obfuscate

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To deliberately complex things.

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Flummox

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To perplex.

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Spate

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Great in quantity or number.

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Ineffable

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Not able to be put into words.

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Measured

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Restrained

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Histrionic

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Overwrought.

Overly dramatic.

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Placate

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To appease. Soothe.

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Eschew

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To avoid.

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Stopgap

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To produce a temporary solution to an urgent need.

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Flotsam

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A ship’s wreckage.

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Restitution

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The act of making good and compensate for a great harm and loss.

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Churlish

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Sullen. Surly.

Rude.

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Disquieting

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Disturbing.

Upsetting.

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Perspicacious

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Prescient.
Discerning.

Insightful and perceptive.

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Eclectic

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Of or from various sources.

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Saboteurs

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Spies.

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Hiatus

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An interruption.

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Vertiginous

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Causing vertigo.

Vertigo: Dizziness or weird feeling cause by fearing heights while looking at one.

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Esoteric

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Arcane.

Mysterious.

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Supercilious

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Haughty disdain.

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Cupidity

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Excessive greed.

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Adulterated

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Debased.

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Underwrite

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To take financial responsibility.

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Discomfited

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Unleaded. Embarrassed.

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Taciturn

A

Habitually uncommunicative.

207
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Sinecure

A

Easy work requiring little work.

208
Q

Lugubrious

A

A sad and mournful song.

209
Q

Cosmopolitan

A

Sophisticated.

Broad minded.

210
Q

Provincial

A

Parochial.
Insular.

Narrow minded.

211
Q

Frcund

A

Fruitful

212
Q

Ostentatious

A

Showy.

213
Q

Resplendent

A

Dazzling.

214
Q

Guile

A

Skillfully cunning.

215
Q

Sanguine

A

Cheerfully optimistic.

216
Q

Scintillating

A

Sparkling.

217
Q

Revitalize

A

Restore vitality.

218
Q

Pristine

A

Untouched. Pure.

219
Q

Rampant

A

Unrestrained. Uncontrolled.

220
Q

Pernicious

A

Noisome.

221
Q

Oblivious

A

Not aware or conscious of surroundings.

222
Q

Refractory

A

Stubbornly rebellious.

223
Q

Garrulous

A

Verbose.
Voluble.
Loquacious.
Talkative.

224
Q

Convivial

A

Festive.

225
Q

Brusque

A

Curt.

Kothar majhe kotha bolar habit.

226
Q

Tepid

A

Half-hearted/ apathetic.

Mildly warm.

227
Q

Protean

A

Readily taking on different forms.

228
Q

Solicitous

A

Altruism.

229
Q

Disingenuous

A

Not straightforward.

Not candid.

230
Q

Venerate

A

Revere.

231
Q

Contentious

A

Disputatious.

Argumentative.

232
Q

Preclude

A

To make impossible.

233
Q

Compunction

A

Contrition.

Remorse.

234
Q

Demography

A

Related to population study.

235
Q

Aphorism

A

Axiom.

Rules of the game.

236
Q

Execrable

A

Extremely despicable.

237
Q

Ornate

A

Decorate in a complex manner.

238
Q

Disheveled

A

Unkempt.

239
Q

Repugnant

A

Extremely distasteful.

Unacceptable.

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