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adroit
countryside-like
adulate
to flatter someone
anodyne
painkiller; inoffensive
alacrity
eagerness
appellation
title
apprehend
understand
apprise
inform
arrant
complete
assiduous
careful
attenuate
weaken
aureate
golden
avarice
greed
bane
cause of distress
baseness
without foundation
bonhomie
cheerfulness
calumnious
slanderous
canonizing
to glorify
castigate
reprimand
chary
cautious
clangorous
loud sound
complaisance
wanting to please other
concomitant
associated
confound
surprise
congenial
compatible
contrite
remorseful
credence
acceptance
dacoit
a gang member
debase
devalue
discomfit
embarrass someone
dissemble
deceive
dynamism
energy
ecumenical
universal (all Christian churches)
efflorescence
to flower out/bloom
duplicity
deceit
equanimity
calmness
evanescent
fading
excise
tax
execration
curse
expurgate
censor
extempore
impromptu
fatuous
silly
feckless
useless
flagitious
villainous
florid
red; ostentatious
foible
flaw
grandiloquence
pompous talk
hedonism
indulgence
herald
signal
heterodox
unorthodox
hortatory
exhorting; urging some course of action
impecunious
poor
imperious
arrogant
impious
disrespectful esp towards God
incendiary
combustible
indemnify
reimburse
insipid
bland
insouciant
unworried
inure
condition
inveigh
speak with hostility
inveigle
to coax
inveterate
habitual
judicious
sensible
malign
evil
meretricious
pretentious
modish
stylish
nescient
ignorant
obfuscate
unclear
oblique
slanted
opprobrium
criticism
panacea
universal cure
pavid
afraid
penchant
predisposition
perspicacity
discernment
pillory
criticize
pleonastic
redundant
prattle
ramble
prescient
prophetic
pretension
claim
infallible
can’t make mistakes
prolix
lengthy
promulgate
promote
propitious
favorable
providential
favorable
punctilious
meticulous
quiescent
inactive
recapitulate
summarize
recrudescent
revival of something bad
salubrious
healthy
sanguine
optimistic
sedulous
meticulous
stanch
stop flow of blood
surfeit
excess
surreptitious
secret
tremulous
trembling; timid
truculent
defiant; aggressive
unfeigned
genuine
veracity
truth
vitiate
to make defective
vituperative
bitter; abusive
recompense
compensate