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Audacious

A

fearless and daring

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Glib

A

a politician can be a glib speaker. Casual

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Impetuous

A

quick to act without thinking (adjective)

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Machination

A

plot / scheme (noun)

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Malediction

A

a curse

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Mendacious

A

dishonest

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Iniquity

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sin

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Legerdemain

A

trickery

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Neologism

A

new word or expression

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Pastiche

A

copy of something famous

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Panache

A

noun, with flamboyant

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Perfidious

A

willing to betray someone’s trust

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Polemic

A

controversy, argument, verbal attack

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Profligate

A

wasteful OR a dissolute person “softbank has now ended its profligate spending” “he is a drunkard and a profligate”

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Proliferate

A

multiply

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Prescient

A

having foresight

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Tangential

A

diverging

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Usury

A

practice of lending money at exorbitant rates

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Salient

A

notable

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Unequivocal

A

absolute, certain

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Prolixity

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wordy, long-windedness

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Subterfuge

A

use of deceit for on winning

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Abrogate

A

to abolish

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Sessile

A

immobile

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Pellucid

A

translucent (pellucid water)

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Maladroit

A

clumsy or ineffective

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Malefactor

A

a person that commits a crime/some other wrong

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Dismal

A

depressing, disgracefully bad

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Pugnacity

A

characteristic of being aggressive

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Auspicious

A

conductive to success

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Obstreperous

A

stubbornly resistant to control (a child would be obstreperous)

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Eminence

A

title for someone honorable

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Riparian

A

wetlands adjacent to rivers

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Inculcate

A

teaching persistiently or repeatedly

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Aspersion

A

an attack on reputation

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Rebuke

A

express sharp disapproval or criticism

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Abridge

A

shorter

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Terse

A

short/terse

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Clement

A

merciful

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Limpid

A

clear

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Rectify

A

make right

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Panacea

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a cure-all, universal cure

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Enmity

A

state of hostility

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Fetter

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to restrict. All the rules just fetter the employees creativity

45
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Disparage

A

criticize, discredit. WP disparaged Basid’s work.

46
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Oscillate

A

vacillate, waver

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Ascertain

A

find out for certain

48
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Impassive

A

not showing emotions

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Pundit

A

an expert in a field

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Cantankerous

A

bad tempered, argumentative and uncooperative

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