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Benediction

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Noun
an utterance of good wishes.
the form of blessing pronounced by an officiating minister, as at the close of divine service.

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Castigate

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V. to criticize or reprimand severely.

to punish in order to correct.

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Bucolic

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Noun
of or relating to shepherds; pastoral.
of, relating to, or suggesting an idyllic rural life.

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Calorific

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Adjective

Of or relating to heat production

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Reclamation

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Noun

Process of reclaiming

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Flout

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Verb

Break or ignore (law,rule) without hiding what you are doing or showing fear or shame

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Concerted

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Adjective

Done in a planned or deliberate way usually by several people

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Consecrated

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Adjective

Dedicated to sacred purpose

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Levy

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Verb

To use legal authority to demand and collect (fine,tax)

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Perfunctory

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Adjective

Done without Energy or enthusiasm because of habit or expectation

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Remedial

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Adjective

Intended To correct or improve something, to make something better

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Recalcitrant

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Adjective

Stubbornly refusing to obey rules or orders

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Zealous

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Adjective

Feeling or showing strong and energetic support for a person, cause, etc

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Incandescent

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Adjective
White or glowing because of intense heat

Impressive, successful, intelligent

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Cavalcade

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Noun
Line of riders,vehicles moving along in the same direction

Series of related things

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Mendacious

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Adjective

Characterized by deception or falsehood

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Flippant

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Adjective

Lacking proper respect or seriousness

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Abjured

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Verb

To reject something formally

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Castigate

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Verb

To subject to severe punishment or criticism

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Capricious

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Adjective

Changing often and quickly, often In mood or behavior

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Incisive

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Adjective

Impressively direct and decisive

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Languidly

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Showing or having very little strength, energy or activity

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Hallowed

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Adjective

Holy or blessed, highly respected

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Languish

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Verb

To continue for a long time without activity or progress in an unpleasant situation

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Mercurial

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Adjective

Characterized by rapid and unpredictable change of mood

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Propitiate

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To gain or regain the goodwill of

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Carouse

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Noun

A drunken revel

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Bacchanalian

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Adjective

Drunken, celebratory, partying

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Venerable

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Adjective

Made sacred by religious or historical association

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Peregrination

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Noun

A course traveled by foot

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Sybaritic

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Adjective

Characterized by loving luxury or sensuous pleasure

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Specious

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Adjective

Apparently good or right thigh lacking really merit;superficially pleasing or plausible

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Defraud

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Verb

To deprive of a right, money or property by fraud

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Magnate

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Noun

Person of great influence, importance or standing in a particular enterprise

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Appellation

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Noun

Name, title or designation

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Alacrity

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Noun

Cheerful readiness, promptness or willingness

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Obfuscate

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Verb

To confuse, bewilder or stupefy

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Fecundity

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Noun

Quality of being fruitful or fertile

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Paltry

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Adjective

Ridiculous or insultingly small

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Aggrandize

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Verb

To widen in scope, increase in size or intensity

To make Greater in power, wealth, rank or honor

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Obdurate

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Adjective

Stubbornly resistant to moral influence

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Prevaricate

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Verb

To deliberately speak falsely or misleadingly, to lie

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Morceau

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Noun

A piece , excerpt or passage or poetry/music

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August

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Adjective

Inspiring reverence or admiration, majestic

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Derisive

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Adjective

Characterized by mocking or contempt

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Erudite

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Adjective

Characterized by great knowledge, learned or scholarly

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Excoriate

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Verb

To denounce to berate severely

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Waive

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Verb

To refrain from claiming or insisting on, put aside

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Objurgate

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Verb

To reproach of denounce vehemently, berate sharply

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Prolix

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Adjective

Extended to a great, unnecessary or tedious length

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Timorous

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Adjective

Full of fear

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Tremulous

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Adjective

Characterized by trembling

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Cosseted

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Verb

To treat as pet, pamper, coddle

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Dandled

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Verb

To move a baby or child lightly up and down as on a knee or in arms

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Aberrant

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Adjective

Departing from right, normal or usual course

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Asinine

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Adjective

Foolish, unintelligent or silly

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Pellucid

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Adjective

Allowing maximum passage of light, clear in appearance or meaning

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Magisterial

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Adjective

Of relating to or befitting a master, having high importance

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Pusillanimous

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Adjective

Lacking courage or resolution

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Acceded

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Verb

To give consent, approval or adherence , agree

To attain or assume an office or title

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Predilection

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Noun

Tendency to think favorably or something in particular

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Redacted

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Verb

To put into suitable literary form, revise, edit

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Belie

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Verb

To show to be false

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Somnolent

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Adjective

Sleepy, drowsy

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Voluble

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Adjective

Characterized by a ready and continuous flow of words, fluent

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Plaudits

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Noun

An enthusiastic expression of approval

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Pedagogy

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Noun

Art of science of teaching, education

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Florid

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Adjective

Reddish, ruddy, rosy

Flowery, excessively ornate

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Revile

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Verb

To assail with contemptuous or opprobrious language, speak abusively

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Efficacious

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Adjective

Capable of having the desired effect or result

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Tractable

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Adjective

Easily manage or controlled, docile, yielding

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Insolent

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Adjective

Boldly rude or disrespectful

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Catalepsy

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Noun

Physical condition associated with catatonic schizophrenia, stiff, not connected with reality

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Martinet

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Noun

Someone who stubbornly adheres to methods or rules

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Umbrage

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Noun

Offense, annoyance, displeasure

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Vindicate

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Verb

To clear from an accusation, imputation, suspicion

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Stipulation

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Noun

Condition or demand, promise in agreement or contract

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Incendiary

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Adjective

Tending to arouse strife, fiery

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Ersatz

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Adjective

Serving as a substitute, synthetic

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Lugubrious

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Adjective

Mournful, dismal, gloomy in an exaggerated manner

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Adulterate

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Verb

To debase or make impure by adding inferior materials or elements

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Presage

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Noun

Presentment or foreboding, an omen or warning indication

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Foible

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Noun

Slight flaw or defect

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Semblance

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Noun

Outward aspect of appearance

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Stolid

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Adjective

Not easily stirred or moved, unemotional

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Insidious

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Adjective

Stealthy treacherous or deceitful

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Incipient

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Adjective

Beginning to exist or appear

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Penchant

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Noun

Strong inclination, taste or liking for something

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Lassitude

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Noun

Weariness of body and mind from strain, oppressive climate etc

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Puerility

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Noun

State or quality of being a child

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Venerate

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Verb

To regard with reverence

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Pallid

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Adjective

Faint or deficient in color

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Inscrutable

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Adjective

Not easily understood, incapable of being analyzed

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Tractable

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Adjective

Easily managed or controlled

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Credulous

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Willing to believe or trust too readily

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Deference

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Noun

Respectful submission or yielding to judgement or will of another

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Deride

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Verb

To laugh at in scorn or contempt

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Desiccate

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Verb

To dry thoroughly

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Desultory

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Adjective

Lacking in consistency, constancy or visible order

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Diatribe

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A bitter, sharply abusive denunciation, attack or criticism

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Dilatory

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Adjective

Tending to delay or procrastinate, to cause delay, gain time

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Dissemble

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Verb

To give a false or misleading appearance to, conceal truth

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Dissonance

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Incongruity, inharmonious or harsh sound

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Dupe

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Noun

Person who is easily deceived or fooled
Person who unquestioningly serves a cause of another person

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Elegy

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Noun

Mournful or plaintive poem, funeral song

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Engender

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Verb

To produce, cause, give rise to

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Enumerate

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Verb

To mention separately as if in counting, name by one by one

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Enigma

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Noun

Puzzling or inexplicable situation

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Ephemeral

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Adjective

Lasting a very short time, short lived

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Equivocate

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Verb

To use ambiguous or unclear expressions, avoid commitment

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Estimable

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Adjective

Worthy of esteem, deserving respect

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Erudite

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Adjective

Characterized by great knowledge

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Foment

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Verb

To instigate or foster, promote growth or development of

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Gregarious

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Adjective

Fond of the company of others

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Inchoate

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Adjective

Not yet completely or fully developed, rudimentary

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Impetuous

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Adjective

Relating to a sudden or rash action, impulsive

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Insipid

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Adjective

Without distinctive, interesting or stimulating qualities

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Inimical

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Adjective

Adverse in tendency or effect, harmful

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Recalcitrate

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Verb

To resist or oppose, strong objection

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Deportment

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Demeanor, conduct, conduct of obedience of a child in school

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Credence

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Noun

Belief as to the truth of something

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Dogma

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Noun

Official system of principles or tenets concerning faith, morals, behavior etc

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Salutary

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Adjective

Favorable to or promoting health,beneficial purpose

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Progeny

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Descendant or offspring, as a child plant or animal

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Wraith

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Noun

Visible spirit

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Abscond

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Verb

To depart in a sudden and secret manner, especially to avoid capture and legal prosecution

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Anachronism

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Noun

Something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time, things that belong to an earlier time

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Auguries

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Noun

Omen, token, indication

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Rapturous

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Adjective

Full of feeling or manifesting ecstatic joy or delight

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Vexation

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Cause of annoyance or nuisance

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Enervate

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Verb

To deprive of force or strength, destroy the vigor of, weaken

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Astringent

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Adjective

Harshly biting, caustic

Stern or severe

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Approbation

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Approval or sanction

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Decorum

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Dignified propriety of behavior, speech, dress

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Implacable

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Adjective

Not to be appeased, mollified, or pacified

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Filial

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Adjective

Relating to son or daughter

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Cogitation

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Concerted thought or reflection, meditation, contemplation

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Economize

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Verb

Avoid waste or extravagance

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Dilatory

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Adjective

Tending to delay or procrastinate

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Fastidious

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Adjective

Excessively particular, critical, demanding, hard to please

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Piquant

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Adjective

Agreeably pungent or sharp in taste or flavor, pleasantly biting or tart

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Querulous

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Adjective
Full of complaints

Characterized by or uttered in complaint

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Meritorious

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Adjective

Deserving praise, reward, esteem

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Imbroglio

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A misunderstanding, disagreement of a complicated or bitter nature

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Prodigious

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Adjective

Extraordinary in size,amount, extent, degree, force

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Malapropism

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An act or habit of misusing words ridiculously

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Capitulation

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Noun

Document containing the terms of a surrender

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Corollary

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Noun

Immediate consequence or easily drawn conclusion

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Proviso

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Noun

Stipulation or condition

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Abrogation

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Noun

Act or instance of repealing

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Commensurate

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Adjective

Corresponding in amount, magnitude or degree

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Perennial

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Adjective

Lasting for an indefinitely long time

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Spurious

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Adjective

Not genuine, authentic or true

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Aplomb

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Imperturbable self possession, poise, or assurance

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Modish

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Adjective

In current fashion, stylish

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Deferment

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Noun

Postponement

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Primordial

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Adjective

Constituting a beginning, giving origin to something derived or developed

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Tensile

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Adjective

Relating to tension

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Gossamer

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A fine filmy cobweb, thread or web

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Frangible

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Adjective

Easily broken

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Adamantine

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Adjective

Utterly unyielding or firm in attitude or opinion

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Recant

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Verb

Withdraw or disavow a statement, especially formally

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Abate

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Verb

To reduce in amount, degree, intensity

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Impute

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Verb

To attribute or ascribe

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Expound

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Verb

To sending or state in detail
To explain

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Nugatory

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Adjective

Of No real value, worthless

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Diminution

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The act, fact, or process of reduction

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Insouciance

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Lack of care or concern, indifference

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Incommensurate

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Disproportionate, inadequate

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Convivial

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Adjective

Friendly, agreeable

170
Q

Rakish

A

Adjective

Indifferent to moral restraints, given to moral or improper restraints

171
Q

Politic

A

Adjective

Shrewd or prudent in practical matters, tactful, diplomatic

172
Q

Sonorous

A

Adjective

Capable of giving out a sound, esp a deep, resonant sound

173
Q

Unctuous

A

Adjective

Characterized by excessive piousness or moralistic fervor, in an affected manner, greasy

174
Q

Probity

A

Noun

Integrity and uprightness

175
Q

Acerbic

A

Adjective

Sour or astringent in taste, harsh or severe in temper

176
Q

Veracity

A

Noun

Habitual observance of truth in speech or statement, truthfulness

177
Q

Consummate

A

Verb

To bring to a state of perfection

To complete by a pledge or signing a contract

178
Q

Abstemious

A

Adjective

Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking, characterized by abstinence

179
Q

Intemperate

A

Adjective

Given to or characterized by excessive or immoderate indulgence in alcohol, appetite, passion

180
Q

Abnegation

A

Noun

Act or instance of denying oneself some rights, conveniences

181
Q

Impinging

A

Verb

To make an impression, have an effect or impact

182
Q

Iconoclast

A

Noun

Person whoa tracks cherished beliefs, traditional institutions

183
Q

Irascible

A

Adjective

Easily provoked to anger, irritable

184
Q

Quittance

A

Noun

Discharge from debt or obligation

185
Q

Scintillation

A

Noun

A spark or flash, act of sparkling

186
Q

Autocracy

A

Noun

Govt in which one person has uncontrolled or unlimited authority over others, absolute monarch

187
Q

Oligarchy

A 
Noun
Form of govt in which power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique
188
Q

Plutocracy

A

Noun

Rule or power of wealth or wealthy

189
Q

Ochlocracy

A

Noun government by the mob

190
Q

Vociferous

A

Adjective

Crying out noisily, clamorous

191
Q

Stentorian

A

Adjective

Very loud or powerful in sound

192
Q

Hilarity

A

Noun

Cheerfulness, merriment

193
Q

Ennui

A

Noun

Feeling of utter weariness and discontent resulting from satiety or lack of interest

194
Q

Acrimony

A

Noun

Sharpness, harshness of bitterness of nature, disposition

195
Q

Forbearance

A

Noun

Act of refraining from something

196
Q

Conduit

A

Noun

Pipe, tube etc for conveying something

197
Q

Abstruse

A

Adjective

Hard to understand

198
Q

Panacea

A

Noun

Remedy for all diseases or ills

199
Q

Philistine

A

Noun

Person lacking in or hostile or smugly indifference to cultural values, intellectual pursuits, aesthetic refinement

200
Q

Chicanery

A

Noun

Trickery or deception by evading or deceiving

201
Q

Chauvinist

A

Noun

Person who is aggressively or blindly patriotic

Thinks one gender is superior to the other

202
Q

Caustic

A

Adjective

Capable of burning or destroying icing tissue

Severely critical or sarcastic

203
Q

Demur

A

Verb

To make objection especially on the grounds of scruples, take exception, object

204
Q

Declaim

A

Verb

To speak aloud in an oratorical manner

205
Q

Inveigh

A

Verb

To protest strongly or attack vehemently with words

206
Q

Lassitude

A

Noun

Weariness of body or mind from strain
Lack of energy

207
Q

Espouse

A

Verb

To make ones own, adopt or embrace

208
Q

Proliferate

A

Verb

To grow or produce by multiplication of parts

209
Q

Equanimity

A

Noun

Mental or emotional stability or composure, especially under tension or strain

210
Q

Perfidious

A

Adjective

Deliberately faithless, treacherous, deceitful

210
Q

Pedant

A

Noun

Person who makes excessive or inappropriate display of learning

Overemphasizes rules or minor details

211
Q

Paragon

A

Noun

Model or pattern of excellence
or of a particular excellence

Someone of exceptional merit

212
Q

Opprobrium

A

Noun

Disgrace of reproach incurred by conduct considered outrageously shameful

213
Q

Malinger

A

Verb

To pretend illness to avoid work

214
Q

Furtive

A

Adjective

Done in secret or surreptitiously

215
Q

Plastic

A

Adjective

Having the power or molding or the ability to be molded

216
Q

Precipitate

A

Verb

To hasten the occurrence of, bring about prematurely or hastily

217
Q

Prevaricate

A

Verb

To speak falsely on purpose

218
Q

Prodigal

A

Adjective

Giving or yielding profusely

219
Q

Propriety

A

Noun

Conformity to established standards or good or proper behavior

220
Q

Rarely

A

Verb

To make more refined, spiritual or exalted

221
Q

Soporific

A

Adjective

Causing or tending to cause sleep

222
Q

Torpor

A

Noun

Lethargic indifference

223
Q

Veracity

A

Noun

Habitual observance of truth in speech or statement

224
Q

Preponderant

A

Adjective

Superior in weight, force, influence

225
Q

Hubris

A

Noun

Excessive self pride

226
Q

Pundit

A

Noun

Learned person, expert or authority

227
Q

In certitude

A

Noun

uncertainty or doubt

228
Q

Baleful

A

Adjective

Full of menacing or malign influences

229
Q

Quixote

A

Noun

Enthusiastic but impractical and idealistic person

230
Q

Salubrious

A

Adjective

Promoting health

231
Q

Indigent

A

Adjective

Lacking food, clothing and other necessities of life due to poverty

232
Q

Stymied

A

Verb

To hinder, block or thwart

233
Q

Piddling

A

Adjective

Amounting to very little

234
Q

Dissemble

A

Verb

To give a false or misleading appearance to

235
Q

Vilipend

A

Verb

To regard or treat as of little value or account

GRE Vocab From Kaplan (1 decks)

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