Beyond The Hit Parade Flashcards
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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)
to be established, accepted or customary
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Occult (Adjective)
Hidden; concealed; beyond comprehension
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Pedestrian (Adjective)
Commonplace; trite; unremarkable; quotidian
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Pied (Adjective)
Multicolored, usually in blotches or patches
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Pine (Verb)
To lose vigor (as through grief); to yearn
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Plastic (Adjective)
Moldable; pliable; not rigid
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Prize (Verb/Noun)
to pry; to press or force with a lever; something taken by force; spoils
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Rail (Verb)
to complain about bitterly
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Rent (Adjective/Noun)
Torn, past tense of rend; an opening or rear caused by such
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Quail
to lose courage; to become frightened
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Qualify (Verb)
to limit
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Sap (Verb)
to enervate or weaken the vitality of
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Scurvy (Adjective)
contemptible; despicable
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Singular (Adjective)
exceptional; unusual; odd
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Steep (Verb)
to saturate or completely soak
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Strut (Noun)
the supporting structural cross-part of a wing
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Table (Verb)
to remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration
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Tender (Verb)
to proffer or offer; to give
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Waffle (Verb)
To equivocate; to change one's position
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Wag (Noun)
wit; joker
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Abjure (Verb)
to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid
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Abrogate (Verb)
to abolish or annul by authority; to put down
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Abscission (Noun)
the act of cutting off or removing
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Acarpous (Adjective)
Effete; no longer fertile; worn out
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Accretion (Noun)
Growth; enlargement by successive addition; building up
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Admonish (Verb)
to reprove; to express warning or disapproval
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Adroit (Adjective)
Adept; dexterous
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Adumbrate (Verb)
to foreshadow or intimate; to suggest sketchily; to obscure
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Anathema (Noun)
A solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing
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Anodyne (Adjective/Noun)
Soothing; something that assuages or allays pain or comforts
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Antipathy (Noun)
aversion; dislike
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Antithetical (Adjective)
Diametrically opposed, as in antithesis
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Apocryphal (Adjective)
of dubious authenticity or origin; spurious
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Apogee (Noun)
Farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith (antonym: perigee)
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Apostate (Noun)
one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions
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Apotheosis (Noun)
Deification; glorification to godliness
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Apposite (Adjective)
appropriate; pertinent; relevant; apropos
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Apprise (Verb)
To give notice to; to inform
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Arabesque (Noun)
A complex; ornate design; also a dance position
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Arcane (Adjective)
Mysterious; abstruse; esoteric; knowable only to initiates
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Arrant (adjective)
impudent
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Artless (Adjective)
completely without guile; natural; without artificiality
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Ascetic (Noun/Adjective)
Someone practicing self-denial; austere; stark
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Asperity (Noun)
Severity; rigor; roughness; harshness; acrimony; irritability
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Aspersion (Noun)
An act of defamation or maligning; animadversion
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Assay (Noun/verb)
an analysis; examination; test; to put to a test
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Asseverate (Verb)
to aver; to allege; to assert
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Assiduous (Adjective)
Diligent; hard-working; sedulous
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Attenuate (verb)
to rarefy; to weaken or make thinner
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Augury (Noun)
omen; portent
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Auspice (Noun)
Protection or supporting; patronage
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Auspicious (Noun)
Protection or support; patronage
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Aver (Verb)
to affirm; t assert; to prove; to justify; to asseverate
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Baleful (Adjective)
Sinister; pernicious; ominous
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Bane (Noun)
cause of injury; poison; source of harm
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Beatify (Verb)
To bless, make happy, or ascribe a virtue to; to regard as saintly
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Bedizen (Verb)
to adorn, especially in a cheap, showy manner; to festoon
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Bellicose (Adjective)
Belligerent; pugnacious; warlike
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Bilge (Noun)
Bulge; the protuberance of a cask
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Blandish (Verb)
to toady or fawn
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Blithe (Adjective)
carefree; merry
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Boisterous (Adjective)
Loud; noisy; rough; lacking restraint
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Boor (Noun)
A rude or insensitive person; lout
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Burnish (Verb)
to polish; to rub to a shine
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Byzantine (Adjective)
Labyrinthine; complex
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Cabal (Noun)
A scheme or plot; a group of plotters
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Cachinnate (Verb)
To laugh loudly
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Cadge (Verb)
to sponge or mooch
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Cajole (Verb)
to inveigle, coax, or wheedle
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Calumniate (Verb)
to slander; to make a false accusation
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Calumny (Noun)
slander; aspersion
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Caparison (Verb)
to adorn or bedizen
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Captious (Adjective)
Calculated to confuse or entrap in argument; hypercritical; caviling
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Caret (Noun)
an insertion mark (^) used by editors and proofreaders
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Cavil (Verb)
to find fault without good reason
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Celerity (Noun)
Speed; alacrity
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Chasten (Verb)
to chastise or correct
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Chauvinist (Noun)
a blindly devoted patriot
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Chimera (Noun)
an illusion; originally, an imaginary fire-breathing she-monster
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Churlish (Adjective)
Boorish; vulgar; loutish; difficult and intractable
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Coalesce (Verb)
to come together; to fuse or unite
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Coda (Noun)
concluding section of a musical or literary piece
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Coeval (Adjective)
of the same period; coexxisting
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Commensurate (Adjective)
matching; corresponding or proportionate in degree, size or amount
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Contemn (Verb)
to scorn or despise
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Contumacious (Adjective)
insubordinate; rebellious
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Corrigible (Adjective)
capable of being set right; correctable; reparable
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Countenance (Verb/Noun)
to approve of or tolerate; face; composure
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Cozen (Verb)
to deceive, beguile, or hoodwink
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Craven (Adjective)
Contemptibly fainthearted; lacking any courage
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Curmudgeon (Noun)
a crusty, ill-tempered coot; a misanthrope
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Daunt (Verb)
to cow or dismay
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Debacle (Noun)
rout; fiasco; complete failure
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Decorous (Adjective)
Correct; formal; marked by decorum
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Defalcate (Verb)
to embezzle or misappropriate
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Denigrate (Verb)
to blacken; to belittle; to sully; to defame; to disparage
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Denouement (Noun)
An outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot
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Deposition (Noun)
Accretion; depositing; building up layer by layer; official testimony
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Deprecate (Verb)
To disparage or belittle; to put down
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Depredate (Verb)
to plunder, pillage, ravage, or destroy; to exploit ina. predatory manner
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Derivative (Adjective)
Unoriginal; obtained from another source
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Descant (Verb)
to comment at length
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Descry (Verb)
to discriminate or discern
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Desuetude (Noun)
disuse
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Desultory (Adjective)
random; thoughtless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose
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Detraction (Noun)
Slandering, verbal attack; aspersion
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Diaphanous (Adjective)
transparent; gauzy
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Diffident (Adjective)
Reserved, shy, or unassuming; lacking in self-confidence
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Digress (Verb)
to stray from the point; to go off on a tangent
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Dilatory (Adjective)
Causing delay; procrastinating
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Din (Noun)
loud, sustained noise
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Dirge (Noun)
a song of grief or lamentation
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Disaffect (Verb)
to estrange or alienate the affection of
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Discomfit (Verb)
to defeat; to put down
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Discursive (Adjective)
digressive; passing from one topic to another
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Dissolution (Noun)
disintegration; looseness in morals
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Distrait (Adjective)
distracted; absent-minded, especially due to anxiety
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Doggerel (Noun)
trivial, poorly constructed vese
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Dross (Noun)
slag, waste, or foreign matter; impurity; surface scum
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Dulcet (Adjective)
melodious; harmonious; mellifluous
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Dynamo (Noun)
generator; forceful, energetic person
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Edacious (Adjective)
voracious; devouring
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Edifying (Adjective)
enlightening
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Effluvia (Noun)
outflow in a stream of particles; a noxious odor or vapor
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Effrontery (Noun)
boldness; impudence; arrogance
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Effusive (Adjective)
gushing; excessively demonstrative
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Egress (Noun)
exit
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Encomium (Noun)
glowing and enthusiastic praise; panegyric; tribute; eulogy
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Endemic (Adjective)
restricted or peculiar to a particular region; indigenous
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Engender (Verb)
to cause; to produce; to give rise to
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Enormity (Noun)
excessive wickedness; evilness (Do not confuse with enormousness which means great size)
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Ephemeral (Adjective)
evanescent; fleeting; short-lived
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Epicure (Noun)
one devoted to sensual pleasure, particularly in food and drink; gourmand; sybarite
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Episodic (Adjective)
loosely connected; not flowing logically
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Epithet (Noun)
disparaging word or phrase
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Epitome (Noun)
embodiment; quintessence
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Equanimity (Noun)
composure; self-possession
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Equipoise (Noun)
equal distribution of weight; equilibrium
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Errant (Adjective)
traveling; itinerant; peripatetic
