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Sanguinity
Cheerful optimism
Temerity
Excessive confidence or boldness
Ingenue
Girl who is artless, innocent, naive
Trite
Made boring by overuse, hackneyed, unoriginal
Artless
Free from deceit, cunning or craftiness, sincerely simple
Pulchritude
Physical beauty or loveliness
Astute
Shrewdness or keen perception, accurately assessing situations
Solecism
Ungrammatical combination of words in a sentence
OR something deviating from the proper, normal, or accepted order
OR a breach of etiquette or decorum
Licentious
Pernicious and unprincipled in sexual matters
Portentous
Serious or significant OR eliciting awe, amazing
Festoon
And ornamental chain of flowers or ribbons
Imprudent
Lacking good sense
Staid
Sedate, self-restraining, proper (even boring)
Purple
Extravagant, or flowery writing; break flow because of extravagance
Repine
Feel or express discont; fret; low in spirits
Syn:complain, grumble, murmur
Impudent
Characterized by offensive boldness, rude, uncivil OR impertinent
Impuissant
Powerless, weak or feeble
Bathetic
Characterized by a sudden switch often ludicrous from elevated to everyday or banal
Rebuff
Reject or criticize bluntly, in and ungracious manner
Circumscribe
To define or mark off carefully, bounded
Sedulous
Taking great care and diligence
Manifestations
Happenings, occurrences
Constituent
Part (ie part of everyday experience)
Sordid
Behavior that is disgraceful and scandalous
Hyperbole
Exaggeration
Cede
Relinquish, give back
Annex
Gaining (land)
Etiology
Describe or assign a cause
Finesse
Extreme delicacy, subtlety, or diplomacy in handling sensitive situations or in a performance or skill
OR a deceptive strategy
Eclectic
Selecting the best of everything or from many sources
Eclipse
Th obscuring of one thing by another
Billy R Cyrus by Miley
Efficacious
Quality of being able to produce the intended effect
Flag
Get tired, lose enthusiasm; hang limply or droop
Gauche
Tactless, lacking social grace, awkward
Eating with mouth open…
Exculpate
Clear from guilt or blame
Fallacious
Containing a fallacy, or mistake in logic; logically unsound
Exponent
Champion, advocate, or representative
An exponent of clean fuel.
Fidelity
Faithfulness, loyalty; strict observance of duty; accuracy in reproducing a sound
Egalitarian
Related to the belief in equality of all people
Egregious
Extraordinarily or conspicuously bad
Enigma
Puzzle, mystery, riddle; mysterious or contradictory person
Figurative
Metaphorical, based on figures of speech; portraying human or animal figures
Gainsay
Declare false, deny, oppose
Fringe
The people in a group who hold the most extreme views
Futile
Producing no useful result; ineffective,trivial
Eschew
Shun, avoid, abstain from
Glib
Fluent and easy in way that suggests insincerity
Foment
Instigate, stir up, incite; apply medicated liquid to a body part
Fanatical
Excessively devoted, devoted, zealous in an uncritical way
Estimable
Worthy of esteem, admirable, able to be estimated
Extrapolate
A conjecture about the unknown by projecting info about the known
Fanciful
Whimsical, imaginary
Gradation
A progression, a process taking place gradually
Ephemeral
Lasting only a short time, fleeting
Eloquent
Marked by forceful, fluid, apt speech; expressive, moving
Fortify
Strengthen, invigorate, encourage
Hearken
Listen, pay attention
Hedonist
Person devoted to pleasure
Erroneous
Mistaken, in error; improper, morally incorrect