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Alloy (Verb)

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To commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior

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Appropriate (Verb)

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To take for one’s own use; to confiscate

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Arrest (Verb)

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to suspend; to engage; to hold one’s attention

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August (Adjective)

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Majestic; venerable

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Bent (Noun)

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Leaning; inclination; proclivity; tendency

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Broach (Verb)

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To bring up or announce; to begin to talk about

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Brook (Verb)

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to tolerate, endure, or countenance

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Cardinal (Adjective)

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Of great importance

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Color (Verb)

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to change as if by dyeing, i.e., to distort, gloss or affect

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Damp (Verb)

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to diminish the intensity or check the vibration of a sound, etc

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Die (Noun)

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A part of a machine that punches shaped holes or cuts

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Essay (Verb)

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to test or try; to attempt or experiment

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Exact (Verb)

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To demand, call for, require or take

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Flag (Verb)

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to sag, droop; to become spiritless; to decline

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Flip (Adjective)

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Sarcastic; impertinent

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Ford (Verb)

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To wade across the shallow part of a river or stream

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Grouse (Verb)

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To complain or grumble

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Guy (Noun)

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A cord or cable used to steady or guide something

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Intimate (Verb)

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to imply, suggest, or insinuate

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List (verb)

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to tilt or lean to one side

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Lumber (Verb)

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To move heavily and clumsily

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Milk (Verb)

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to exploit; to squeeze every last ounce of

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Mince (Verb)

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To pronounce or speak affectedly ; to speak too carefully; also to take tiny steps or tiptoe

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Nice (Adjective)

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exacting; fastidious; extremely, even excessively, precise

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Obtain (Verb)

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to be established, accepted or customary

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Occult (Adjective)

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Hidden; concealed; beyond comprehension

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Pedestrian (Adjective)

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Commonplace; trite; unremarkable; quotidian

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Pied (Adjective)

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Multicolored, usually in blotches or patches

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Pine (Verb)

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To lose vigor (as through grief); to yearn

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Plastic (Adjective)

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Moldable; pliable; not rigid

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Prize (Verb/Noun)

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to pry; to press or force with a lever; something taken by force; spoils

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Rail (Verb)

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to complain about bitterly

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Rent (Adjective/Noun)

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Torn, past tense of rend; an opening or rear caused by such

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Quail

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to lose courage; to become frightened

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Qualify (Verb)

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to limit

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Sap (Verb)

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to enervate or weaken the vitality of

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Scurvy (Adjective)

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contemptible; despicable

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Singular (Adjective)

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exceptional; unusual; odd

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Steep (Verb)

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to saturate or completely soak

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Strut (Noun)

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the supporting structural cross-part of a wing

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Table (Verb)

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to remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration

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Tender (Verb)

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to proffer or offer; to give

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Waffle (Verb)

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To equivocate; to change one’s position

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Wag (Noun)

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wit; joker

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Abjure (Verb)

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to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid

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Abrogate (Verb)

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to abolish or annul by authority; to put down

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Abscission (Noun)

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the act of cutting off or removing

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Acarpous (Adjective)

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Effete; no longer fertile; worn out

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Accretion (Noun)

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Growth; enlargement by successive addition; building up

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Admonish (Verb)

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to reprove; to express warning or disapproval

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Adroit (Adjective)

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Adept; dexterous

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Adumbrate (Verb)

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to foreshadow or intimate; to suggest sketchily; to obscure

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Anathema (Noun)

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A solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing

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Anodyne (Adjective/Noun)

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Soothing; something that assuages or allays pain or comforts

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Antipathy (Noun)

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aversion; dislike

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Antithetical (Adjective)

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Diametrically opposed, as in antithesis

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Apocryphal (Adjective)

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of dubious authenticity or origin; spurious

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Apogee (Noun)

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Farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith (antonym: perigee)

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Apostate (Noun)

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one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions

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Apotheosis (Noun)

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Deification; glorification to godliness

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Apposite (Adjective)

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appropriate; pertinent; relevant; apropos

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Apprise (Verb)

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To give notice to; to inform

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Arabesque (Noun)

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A complex; ornate design; also a dance position

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Arcane (Adjective)

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Mysterious; abstruse; esoteric; knowable only to initiates

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Arrant (adjective)

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impudent

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Artless (Adjective)

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completely without guile; natural; without artificiality

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Ascetic (Noun/Adjective)

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Someone practicing self-denial; austere; stark

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Asperity (Noun)

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Severity; rigor; roughness; harshness; acrimony; irritability

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Aspersion (Noun)

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An act of defamation or maligning; animadversion

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Assay (Noun/verb)

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an analysis; examination; test; to put to a test

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Asseverate (Verb)

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to aver; to allege; to assert

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Assiduous (Adjective)

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Diligent; hard-working; sedulous

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Attenuate (verb)

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to rarefy; to weaken or make thinner

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Augury (Noun)

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omen; portent

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Auspice (Noun)

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Protection or supporting; patronage

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Auspicious (Noun)

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Protection or support; patronage

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Aver (Verb)

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to affirm; t assert; to prove; to justify; to asseverate

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Baleful (Adjective)

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Sinister; pernicious; ominous

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Bane (Noun)

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cause of injury; poison; source of harm

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Beatify (Verb)

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To bless, make happy, or ascribe a virtue to; to regard as saintly

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Bedizen (Verb)

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to adorn, especially in a cheap, showy manner; to festoon

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Bellicose (Adjective)

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Belligerent; pugnacious; warlike

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Bilge (Noun)

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Bulge; the protuberance of a cask

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Blandish (Verb)

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to toady or fawn

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Blithe (Adjective)

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carefree; merry

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Boisterous (Adjective)

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Loud; noisy; rough; lacking restraint

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Boor (Noun)

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A rude or insensitive person; lout

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Burnish (Verb)

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to polish; to rub to a shine

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Byzantine (Adjective)

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Labyrinthine; complex

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Cabal (Noun)

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A scheme or plot; a group of plotters

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Cachinnate (Verb)

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To laugh loudly

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Cadge (Verb)

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to sponge or mooch

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Cajole (Verb)

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to inveigle, coax, or wheedle

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Calumniate (Verb)

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to slander; to make a false accusation

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Calumny (Noun)

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slander; aspersion

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Caparison (Verb)

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to adorn or bedizen

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Captious (Adjective)

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Calculated to confuse or entrap in argument; hypercritical; caviling

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Caret (Noun)

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an insertion mark (^) used by editors and proofreaders

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Cavil (Verb)

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to find fault without good reason

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Celerity (Noun)

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Speed; alacrity

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Chasten (Verb)

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to chastise or correct

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Chauvinist (Noun)

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a blindly devoted patriot

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Chimera (Noun)

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an illusion; originally, an imaginary fire-breathing she-monster

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Churlish (Adjective)

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Boorish; vulgar; loutish; difficult and intractable

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Coalesce (Verb)

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to come together; to fuse or unite

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Coda (Noun)

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concluding section of a musical or literary piece

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Coeval (Adjective)

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of the same period; coexxisting

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Commensurate (Adjective)

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matching; corresponding or proportionate in degree, size or amount

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Contemn (Verb)

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to scorn or despise

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Contumacious (Adjective)

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insubordinate; rebellious

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Corrigible (Adjective)

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capable of being set right; correctable; reparable

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Countenance (Verb/Noun)

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to approve of or tolerate; face; composure

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Cozen (Verb)

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to deceive, beguile, or hoodwink

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Craven (Adjective)

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Contemptibly fainthearted; lacking any courage

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Curmudgeon (Noun)

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a crusty, ill-tempered coot; a misanthrope

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Daunt (Verb)

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to cow or dismay

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Debacle (Noun)

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rout; fiasco; complete failure

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Decorous (Adjective)

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Correct; formal; marked by decorum

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Defalcate (Verb)

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to embezzle or misappropriate

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Denigrate (Verb)

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to blacken; to belittle; to sully; to defame; to disparage

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Denouement (Noun)

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An outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot

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Deposition (Noun)

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Accretion; depositing; building up layer by layer; official testimony

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Deprecate (Verb)

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To disparage or belittle; to put down

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Depredate (Verb)

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to plunder, pillage, ravage, or destroy; to exploit ina. predatory manner

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Derivative (Adjective)

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Unoriginal; obtained from another source

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Descant (Verb)

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to comment at length

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Descry (Verb)

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to discriminate or discern

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Desuetude (Noun)

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disuse

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Desultory (Adjective)

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random; thoughtless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose

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Detraction (Noun)

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Slandering, verbal attack; aspersion

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Diaphanous (Adjective)

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transparent; gauzy

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Diffident (Adjective)

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Reserved, shy, or unassuming; lacking in self-confidence

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Digress (Verb)

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to stray from the point; to go off on a tangent

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Dilatory (Adjective)

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Causing delay; procrastinating

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Din (Noun)

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loud, sustained noise

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Dirge (Noun)

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a song of grief or lamentation

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Disaffect (Verb)

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to estrange or alienate the affection of

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Discomfit (Verb)

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to defeat; to put down

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Discursive (Adjective)

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digressive; passing from one topic to another

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Dissolution (Noun)

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disintegration; looseness in morals

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Distrait (Adjective)

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distracted; absent-minded, especially due to anxiety

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Doggerel (Noun)

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trivial, poorly constructed vese

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Dross (Noun)

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slag, waste, or foreign matter; impurity; surface scum

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Dulcet (Adjective)

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melodious; harmonious; mellifluous

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Dynamo (Noun)

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generator; forceful, energetic person

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Edacious (Adjective)

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voracious; devouring

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Edifying (Adjective)

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enlightening

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Effluvia (Noun)

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outflow in a stream of particles; a noxious odor or vapor

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Effrontery (Noun)

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boldness; impudence; arrogance

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Effusive (Adjective)

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gushing; excessively demonstrative

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Egress (Noun)

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exit

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Encomium (Noun)

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glowing and enthusiastic praise; panegyric; tribute; eulogy

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Endemic (Adjective)

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restricted or peculiar to a particular region; indigenous

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Engender (Verb)

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to cause; to produce; to give rise to

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Enormity (Noun)

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excessive wickedness; evilness (Do not confuse with enormousness which means great size)

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Ephemeral (Adjective)

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evanescent; fleeting; short-lived

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Epicure (Noun)

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one devoted to sensual pleasure, particularly in food and drink; gourmand; sybarite

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Episodic (Adjective)

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loosely connected; not flowing logically

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Epithet (Noun)

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disparaging word or phrase

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Epitome (Noun)

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embodiment; quintessence

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Equanimity (Noun)

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composure; self-possession

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Equipoise (Noun)

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equal distribution of weight; equilibrium

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Errant (Adjective)

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traveling; itinerant; peripatetic

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