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Transmute
Change or alter in form, appearance, or nature
Stultify
Cause one, through routine, to lose energy or enthusiasm
Discursive
Tending to depart from the main point
Pontificate
Talk in a dogmatic and pompous manner
Dolorous
Showing sorrow
Vaunted
Highly or widely praised or boasted about
Desideratum
Something desired as a necessity
Pellucid
Transparently clear, easily understandable
Inviolable
Never to be broken, infringed, or dishonored
Doughty
Brave bold; courageous
Autocratic
Characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule
Offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power
Gumption
Resourcefulness and determination
Aplomb
Great coolness and composure under strain
Bromide
A trite or obvious remark
Complicit
Associated with or participating in an activity, esp. one of a questionable nature
Desiccated
Uninteresting, lacking vitality
Coterminous
Being of equal extent or scope or duration
Turgid
(Of language) pompous and tedious
Elegiac
Expressing sorrow
Conflate
Mix together different elements or concepts
Hauteur
Hoh-tur
Overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors
Proselytize
Convert (someone) to another religion, philosophy, or perspective
Panegyric
A formal expression of praise
Self-effacing
Reluctant to draw attention to yourself
Noisome
Having an extremely bad smell
Conflagration
A very intense and uncontrolled fire
Ethereal
Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality
Afford
Provide with an opportunity
Solicitous
Showing hovering attentiveness
Impervious
Not admitting of passage or capable of being affected
Enormity
An act of extreme wickedness
Unassailable
Immune to attack; without flaws
Abjure
Formally reject or give up (as a belief)
Inequity
Injustice by virtue of not conforming with rules or standards
Bridle
The act of restraining power or action or limiting excess
To react with anger or to take offense
Fecund
Intellectually productive
