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ABASE

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Degrade or humble; to lower in rank, status, or esteem

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ABEYANCE

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Temporary suspension; inactivity

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ABREAST

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Side-by-side; keeping up with, staying aware of, or remaining equal in progress with

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ABSCISSION

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Cutting off; sudden termination; separation of leaves, petals, or other parts from a plant or animal

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ABSCOND

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Depart suddenly and secretly

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ABYSS

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A deep and vast space or cavity; anything profound or infinite

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ACCEDE

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Agree, give consent; assume power (acede to)

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ACCRETION

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Gradual increase; an added part or addition

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ACERBIC

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Sour, harsh, or severe

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ACIDULOUS

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Slightly acidic or sour; sharp or caustic

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ADULTERATE

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Make impure by adding inappropriate or inferior ingredients

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ADUMBRATE

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Give a rough outline of; foreshadow; reveal only partially; obscure

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AERIE

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Dwelling or fortress built on a high place; the nest of a BOP such as an eagle or hawk built on a mountain or cliff

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AMELIORATE

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Improve or make better or more bearable

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AMORTIZE

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Gradually pay off a debt, or gradually write off an asset

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ANACHRONISM

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Something that isn’t in its correct historical time; a mistake in chronology, such as assigning a person or event to the wrong time period

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ANALGESIA

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Pain relief; inability to feel pain

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ANODYNE

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Medicine that relieves pain; soothing, relieving pain

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ANTEDATE

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Be older than, precede in time; assign to an earlier date

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APOSTATE

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Person who deserts a party, cause, religion, etc.

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APPOSITE

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Highly appropriate, suitable, relevant

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APPROBRATION

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Praise or approval, especially formal approval

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ARDENT

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Very passionate, devoted, or enthusiastic

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ARROGATE

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Claim or take presumptuously or without the right to do so

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ASEPTIC

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Free from germs

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ASPERITY

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Rigor, severity; harshness or sharpness of tone; roughness of a surface

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ASPERSIONS

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Damaging remarks, defamation, slander

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ASSIDUOUS

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Persevering, diligent, constant

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ASSAIL

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Attack violently, assault

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ATTENUATE

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Weaken or thin out

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Augury

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Telling the future, such as through supernatural means

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AUGUST

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Venerable, majestic, inspiring admiration

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AVARICE

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Insatiable greed, a miserly desire to hoard wealth

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AXIOM

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Self-evident truth requiring no proof; universally or generally accepted principle

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Balloon

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Swell or puff out; increase rapidly

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BANAL

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Lacking freshness and originality

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BANE

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Something that ruins or spoils

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BAYING

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Howling in a deep way, like a dog or wolf

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BENT

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Personal inclination or tendency

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BEVY

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Group of birds or other animals that stay close together; any large group

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BIFURCATE

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To fork into two branches or divide into two halves

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BILK

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Cheat or defraud

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BLIGHT

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Disease that kills plants rapidly, or any cause of decay or destruction; ruin or cause to wither

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BLITHE

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Joyous, merry; excessively carefree

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BOMBASTIC

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Far too showy or dramatic than is appropriate; pretentious

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BONHOMIE

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Friendliness, open and simple good heartedness

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BRANDISH

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Shake, wave, or flourish, as a weapon

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BROOK

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Suffer or tolerate

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BUCOLIC

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Pertaining to shepherds; suggesting a peaceful and pleasant view of rural life

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BURNISH

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Polish, make smooth and lustrous

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CALUMNY

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Malicious lie intended to hurt someone’s reputation; the act of telling such lies

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CANARD

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Rumor, or false or baseless story

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CARDINAL

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Chief, most important

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CATHOLIC

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Universal, broad-minded

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CHICANERY

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Trickery, deception of knowingly false arguments

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CIRCUMSCRIBE

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Strictly limit a role, range of activity, or area; in math, to be constructed around so as to touch as many points as possible

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CIRCUMSPECT

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Cautious, prudent; careful to consider the circumstances and consequences

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CLAMBER

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Climb awkwardly or with difficulty, scramble

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CLOYING

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Disgustingly or distastefully sweet

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CODA

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Final part of a musical composition; an ending, esp. one that sums up what has come before

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COFFER

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Chest for storing valuables, financial resources, a treasury

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COLLUDE

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Conspire; cooperate for illegal or fraudulent purposes

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COMPENDIUM

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Concise but complete summary; a list or collection

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COMPLAISANT

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Eager to please; cheerfully complying

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CONFOUND

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Confuse, frustrate; mix up or make worse

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CONNOTE

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Suggest or imply in addition to the precise; literal meaning

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CONTUMACIOUS

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Rebellious; stubbornly disobedient

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CONVOKE

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Call together, as to a meeting

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COSSET

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Treat as a pet, pamper

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COTERIE

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Close or exclusive group, clique

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CUPIDITY

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Greed, great or excessive desire

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CURMUDGEON

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Bad-tempered, difficult person; grouch

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DECLAIM

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Speak in an impassioned, pompous, or oratorical manner; give a formal speech

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DECLIVITY

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Downward slope

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DELIMIT

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Fix, mark, or define the boundaries of

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DEMAGOGUE

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A leader who lies and gains power by arousing the passions and especially prejudices of the people

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DEMUR

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Show reluctance or object, especially for moral reasons

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DESULTORY

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Lacking consistency or order, disconnected, sporadic; going off topic

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DIAPHANOUS

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Very sheer, fine, translucent

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DICHOTOMY

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Division into two parts or into two contradictory groups

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DICTUM

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Formal or authoritative pronouncement; saying or proverb

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DIFFIDENT

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Lacking confidence, shy

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DILATE

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To become wider or make wider, cause to expand; to speak or write at length, elaborate upon

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DILATORY

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Slow, late, procrastinating or stalling for time

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DILETTANTE

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Person who takes up an art or activity for amusement only or in a superficial way

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DIRGE

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A funeral or mourning song or poem

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DISCOMFITING

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Disconcerting, confusing, or frustrating

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DISCORDANT

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Harsh or inharmonious in sound; disagreeing, incongruous

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DISCRETE

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Separate, distinct, detached, existing as individual parts

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DISPARAGE

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Belittle, put down; bring shame upon, discredit

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DISPARATE

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Distinct, different

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DISSEMBLE

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Mislead, conceal the truth, put on a false appearance of

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DISTAFF

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Female, esp. relating to the maternal side of the family; women or women’s work; a staff that holds wool or flax for spinning

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DISTEND

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Swell, expand, stretch, bloat

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DITHER

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Act indecisively; a state of fear or trembling excitement

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DIURNAL

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Occurring every day; happening in the daytime

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DOCTRINAIRE

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Person who applies doctrine in an impractical or rigid and close-minded way; merely theoretical, impractical, or fanatical about other people accepting one’s ideas

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DOFF

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Take off (such as clothes), put aside; remove one’s hat as a gesture

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DOVETAIL

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Join or fit together

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DROLL

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Funny in an odd way

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DUPE

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Person who is easily fooled or used; to fool or exploit

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DUPLICITY

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Deceit, double-dealing, acting in two different ways for the purpose of deception

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DYSPEPTIC

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Grumpy, pessimistic, irritable; suffering from dyspepsia (indigestion)

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EBULLIENT

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Very enthusiastic, lively, excited; bubbling as though being boiled

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Echelon

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A level, rank, or grade; the people at that level

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Edify

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Uplift, enlighten, instruct or improve in a spiritual or moral way

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Effigy

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Representation or image of a person, esp. a crude facsimile used to mock a hated person

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Effrontery

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Shameless boldness

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Egress

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An exit or the action of exiting

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Elegy

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Song or poem of sorrow, esp. for a deceased person

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Emaciate

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Make abnormally thin, cause to physically waste away

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Encomium

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Warm, glowing praise, esp. a formal expression of praise

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Endemic

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Native, local; natural, specific to, or confined to a particular place

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Engender

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Produce, give rise to, cause to exist, procreate

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Epicure

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Person with cultivated, refined tastes, esp. in food and wine

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Equanimity

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Composure, evenness of mind; mental or emotional stability, esp. under stress

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Equivocate

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Use unclear language to deceive or avoid committing to a position

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Ersatz

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Artificial, synthetic; being an inferior substitute

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Erstwhile

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Former, previous; in the past, formerly

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Ethos

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The character, personality, or moral values specific to a person, group, time period, etc.

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Euphemism

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Substitution of a mild, inoffensive, or indirect expression for one that is considered offensive or too direct

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Euphony

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Pleasing or sweet sound, esp. as formed by a harmonious use of words

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Exigent

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Requiring immediate attention, action, or aid; excessively demanding

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Expedient

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Suitable, proper, effective, often at the expense of ethics or other considerations

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Expurgate

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Censor, remove objectionable or offensive parts

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Extemporaneous

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Done w/o prep, or with some prep but no notes; spur of the moment

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Fallow

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Left unplanted (of land); not in use

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Fastidious

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Excessively particular, difficult to please; painstaking, meticulous, requiring excessive attention to detail

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Fatuous

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Foolish, silly, esp. in a smug or complacent manner

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Fecund

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Fruitful, fertile; capable of abundantly producing offspring, vegetation, or creative or intellectual work

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Felicitous

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Admirably appropriate, very well-suited for the occasion, pleasant, fortunate, marked by happiness

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Fervid

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Very hot, heated in passion or enthusiasm

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Fetid

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Stinking, having an offensive smell

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Florid

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Reddish or rosy, flowery, showy, or excessively fancy

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Flout

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Treat with disdain, contempt, or scorn

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Forage

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Wander in search of; rummage, hunt, make a raid

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Forestall

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Delay, hinder, prevent by taking action beforehand

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Fracas

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Noisy disturbance or fight, brawl

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Fractious

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Unruly, troublemaking; irritable

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Frenetic

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Wildly excited, frantic, distracted

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Fulminate

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Explode, detonate, attack verbally in a vehement, thunderous way

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Furtive

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Done secretly, stealthy, sly, shifty

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Gambol

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Frolic, skip or leap playfully

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Glacial

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Pertaining to glaciers; cold, icy, slow, unsympathetic

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Glower

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Stare in an angry, sullen way

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Gouge

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Scooping or digging tool, like a chisel, or a hole made with such a tool; cut or scoop out; force out a person’s eye with one’s thumb; swindle, extort money from

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Grandiloquent

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Relating to lofty speech, esp. to the point of being pompous, overblown, bombastic

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Grandstand

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Perform showily in an attempt to impress onlookers

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Grating

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Irritating, harsh or discordant, scraping

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Grievous

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Causing grief or suffering, very serious, grave, flagrant, outrageous

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Grouse

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Complain or grumble; a reason for complaint

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Grovel

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Creep or crawl with one’s face to the ground, prostrate oneself as a token of subservience, degrade or abase oneself

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Halcyon

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Calm and peaceful, carefree, prosperous, successful, happy

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Hand-wringing

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Grasping, squeezing, etc. of the hands as an expression of nervousness, guilt, etc.; extend debate over what to do about an issue

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Hapless

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Unlucky, unfortunate

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Harangue

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Long, intense verbal attack, esp. when delivered publicly

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Harrow

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Farming tool that breaks up soil; painfully disturb or distress

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Hedge

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Avoid commitment by leaving provisions for withdrawal or changing one’s mind; protect a bet by also betting on the other side

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Hegemony

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Domination, authority; influence by one country over others socially, culturally, economically, etc.

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Hew

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Strike, chop, or hack; make or shape something with a cutting tool

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Hoary

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Very old, gray or white as from old age

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Husband

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Manage prudently, sparingly, or economically; conserve

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Iconoclast

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Attacker of cherished beliefs or institutions

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Imbue

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Permeate or saturate, as dye in fabric; influence throughout

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Impassive

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Not having or not showing physical feeling or emotion

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Impecunious

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Poor, without money

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Imperious

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Commanding, domineering; acting like a high-ranking person; urgent

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Impermeable

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Impassable, not allowing passage through (such as by a liquid)

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Imperturbable

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Calm, not able to be upset or agitated

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Impervious

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Impenetrable, not able to be harmed or emotionally disturbed

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Impetuous

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Passionately impulsive, marked by sudden, hasty emotion; forceful, violent

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Impious

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Not religious, lacking reverence, ungodly

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Implacable

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Not able to be appeased, calmed, or satisfied

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Imprecation

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Curse; prayer for harm to come to someone

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Impugn

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Attack the truth or integrity of

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Impute

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Credit, attribute; lay blame or responsibility for (sometimes falsely)

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Incarnadine

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Blood red or flesh-colored

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Inconstancy

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Fickleness, unreliability, the state of changing without good reason

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Inculcate

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Teach persistently, implant (an idea) in a person

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Indolent

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Lazy, slothful

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Inert

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Inactive, having little or no power to movw

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Inexorable

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Relentless, unyielding; not moved by pleading

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Ingrate

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Ungrateful person

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Inimical

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Hostile, adverse, harmful

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Inordinate

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Excessive, not within proper limits, unrestrained

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Insensible

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Incapable of feeling; unconscious, unaware

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Insipid

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Dull, stale, lacking taste or interest

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Insular

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Pertaining to an island; detached, standing alone, narrow-minded, provincial

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Inter

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Bury (a dead body) or place in a tomb

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Interregnum

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A time in between two reigns or regimes during which there is no ruler; a period during which government does not function; any period of freedom from authority or break or interruption in a series

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Intransigent

A

Refusing to compromise, inflexible, having extreme attitudes

192
Q

Inure

A

Toughen up; accustom or habituate to pain, hardship, etc.

193
Q

Invective

A

Violent denunciation; accusations; insults or verbal abuse

194
Q

Inveigle

A

Entice, lure; get something by flattery, cleverness, or offering incentives

195
Q

Investiture

A

Investing; formally giving someone a right to a title

196
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Invidious

A

Hateful, offensive, injurious

197
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Irascible

A

Irritable, easily angered

198
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Irresolute

A

Wavering, not sure how to proceed, not firm in one’s decision-making

199
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Itinerant

A

Traveling from place to place, esp. as part of a job

200
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Jingoism

A

Excessive, loud patriotism and aggressive, warlike foreign policy

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