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Abjure Part of Speech

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Adumbrate Part of Speech

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Anathema Part of Speech

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Anodyne Part of Speech

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Apogee Part of Speech

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Apostate Part of Speech

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Apotheosis Part of Speech

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Asperity Part of Speech

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Asseverate Part of Speech

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Assiduous Part of Speech

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Augury Part of Speech

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Bellicose Part of Speech

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Abjure

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To renounce or reject solemnly
To recant
To avoid

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Adumbrate

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To foreshadow vaguely or intimate
To suggest or outline sketchily
To obscure or overshadow

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Anathema

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A solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse

Accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing

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Anodyne

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Soothing

Something that assuages or allays pain or comforts

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Apogee

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Farthest or highest point
Culmination
Zenith

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Apostate

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One who abandons long-held religious or political convictions

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Apotheosis

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Deification
Glorification to godliness
An exalted example
A model of excellence or perfection

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Asperity

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Severity, rigor
Roughness, harshness
Acrimony, irritability

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Asseverate

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To aver, allege, or assert

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Assiduous

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Diligent, hard-working, sedulous

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Augury

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Omen, portent

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Bellicose

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Belligerent, pugnacious, warlike

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Calumniate Part of Speech

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Captious Part of Speech

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Cavil Part of Speech

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Celerity Part of Speech

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Chimera Part of Speech

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Noun

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Contumacious Part of Speech

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Debacle Part of Speech

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Denouement Part of Speech

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Descry Part of Speech

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Desuetude Part of Speech

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Desultory Part of Speech

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Diaphanous Part of Speech

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Diffident Part of Speech

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Dirge Part of Speech

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Encomium Part of Speech

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Eschew Part of Speech

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Excoriate Part of Speech

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Execrate Part of Speech

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Exegesis Part of Speech

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Expiate Part of Speech

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Extirpate Part of Speech

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Fatuous Part of Speech

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Fractious Part of Speech

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Gainsay Part of Speech

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Heterodox Part of Speech

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Imbroglio Part of Speech

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Noun

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Indefatigable Part of Speech

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Ineluctable Part of Speech

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Inimitable Part of Speech

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Calumniate

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To slander, to make a false accusation

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Captious

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Disposed to point out trivial faults

Calculated to confuse or entrap in argument

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Cavil

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To find fault without good reason

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Celerity

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Speed, alacrity

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Chimera

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An illusion

Originally, an imaginary fire-breathing she-monster

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Contumacious

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Insubordinate, rebellious

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Debacle

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Rout, fiasco, complete failure

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Denouement

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An outcome or solution

The unraveling of a plot

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Descry

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To discriminate or discern

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Desuetude

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Disuse

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Desultory

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Random
Aisles
Marked by a lacked of plan or purpose

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Diaphanous

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Transparent

Gauzy

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Diffident

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Reserved, shy, unassuming

Lacking in self-confidence

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Dirge

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A song of grief or lamentation

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Encomium

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Glowing and enthusiastic praise

Panegyric, tribute, eulogy

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Eschew

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To shun or avoid

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Excoriate

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To censure scathingly, to upbraid

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Execrate

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To denounce, to feel loathing for, to curse, to declare to be evil

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Exegesis

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Critical examination, explication

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Expiate

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To atone or make amends for

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Extirpate

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To destroy, to exterminate, to cut out

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Fatuous

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Silly, insanely foolish

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Fractious

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Quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory, irritable

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Gainsay

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To deny, to dispute, to contradict, to oppose

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Heterodox

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Unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic

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Imbroglio

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Difficult or embarrassing situation

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Indefatigable

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Not easily exhaustible
Tireless
Dogged

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Ineluctable

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Certain, inevitable

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Inimitable

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One of a kind, peerless

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Insouciant Part of Speech

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Adj

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Inveterate Part of Speech

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Adj

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Jejune Part of Speech

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Adj

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Lubricious Part of Speech

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Adj

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Mendicant Part of Speech

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Noun

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Meretricious Part of Speech

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Adj

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Minatory Part of Speech

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Adj

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Nadir Part of Speech

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Noun

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Nonplussed Part of Speech

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Adj

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Obstreperous Part of Speech

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Adj

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Ossified Part of Speech

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Adj

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Palliate Part of Speech

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Verb

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Panegyric Part of Speech

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Noun

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Parsimonious Part of Speech

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Adj

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Pellucid Part of Speech

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Adj

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Peroration Part of Speech

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Noun

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Plangent Part of Speech

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Adj

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Prolix Part of Speech

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Adj

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Propitiate Part of Speech

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Verb

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Puerile Part of Speech

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Adj

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Puissance Part of Speech

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Noun

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Pusillanimous Part of Speech

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Adj

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Remonstrate Part of Speech

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Verb

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Sagacious Part of Speech

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Adj

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Salacious Part of Speech

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Adj

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Salutary Part of Speech

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Adj

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Sanguine Part of Speech

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Adj

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Saturnine Part of Speech

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Adj

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Insouciant

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Unconcerned, carefree, heedless

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Inveterate

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Deep rooted, ingrained, habitual

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Jejune

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Vapid, uninteresting, nugatory

Childish, immature, puerile

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Lubricious

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Lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery

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Mendicant

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A beggar, supplicant

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Meretricious

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Cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy

Attracting by false show

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Minatory

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Menacing, threatening

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Nadir

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Low point, perigee

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Nonplussed

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Baffled, bewildered, at a loss for what to do or think

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Obstreperous

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Noisily and stubbornly defiant, aggressively boisterous

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Ossified

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Tending to become more rigid, conventional, sterile, and reactionary with age
Literally, turned into bone

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Palliate

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To make something seem less serious, to gloss over, to make less severe or intense

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Panegyric

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Formal praise, eulogy, encomium

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Parsimonious

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Cheap, miserly

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Pellucid

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Transparent, easy to understand, limpid

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Peroration

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The concluding part of a speech

Flowery, rhetorical speech

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Plangent

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Pounding, thundering, resounding

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Prolix

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Long-winded, verbose

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Propitiate

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To appease

To conciliate

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Puerile

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Childish, immature, jejune, nugatory

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Puissance

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Power, strength

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Pusillanimous

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Cowardly

Craven

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Remonstrate

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To protest

To object

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Sagacious

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Having sound judgment
Perceptive, wise
Like a sage

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Salacious

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Lustful, lascivious, bawdy

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Salutary

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Remedial, wholesome, causing improvement

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Sanguine

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Cheerful, confident, optimistic

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Saturnine

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Gloomy, dark, sullen, morose

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Sententious Part of Speech

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Adj

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Stentorian Part of Speech

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Adj

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Stygian Part of Speech

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Adj

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Sycophant Part of Speech

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Noun

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Tendentious Part of Speech

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Adj

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Timorous Part of Speech

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Adj

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Tyro Part of Speech

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Noun

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Vitiate Part of Speech

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Verb

147
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Voluble Part of Speech

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Adj

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Sententious

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Aphoristic or moralistic
Epigrammatic
Tending to moralize excessively

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Stentorian

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Extremely loud and powerful

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Stygian

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Gloomy, dark

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Sycophant

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Toady, servile, self-seeking flatterer

Parasite

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Tendentious

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Biased

Showing marked tendencies

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Timorous

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Timid, fearful, diffident

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Tyro

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Novice, greenhorn, rank amateur

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Vitiate

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To corrupt, to debase, to spoil, to make ineffective

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Voluble

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Fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language

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