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Assuage

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To make easier or milder, relieve; to quiet , calm to put an end to

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Expostulate

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To attempt to dissuade someone from some course or decision by earnest reasoning

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Hiatus

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A gap opening break

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Lurid

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Causing shock horror or revulsion senational

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Approbation

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the expression of approval or favorable opinion, praise; official approval

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Meritorious

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Worthy deserving recognition and praise

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Petulant

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Peevish, annoyed by trifles, easily irritated and upset

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Simulate

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Make a pretense of, imitate to show the outer signs of

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Transcend

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To rise above or beyond, exceed

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Umbrage

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Shade cast by trees; foliage giving shade; an overshadowing influence or power, offense, resentment; a vague suspicion

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Unctuous

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Excessively smooth or smug; trying too hard to give an impression of earnestness, sincerity ir piety; fatty oily pliable

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Aplomb

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Poise assurance great self confidence perpendicularity

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Ex officio

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By virtue of holding a certain office

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Exhort

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To urge strongly advise earnestly

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Infringe

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To violate trespass , go beyond recognized bounds

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Intrinsic

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Belonging to someone or something by it very nature, essential inherent originating in a bodily organ or part

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Inveigh

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To make a violent attack in words, express strong disapproval

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Lassitude

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Weariness of body or mind, lack of energy

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Stringent

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Strict, severe; rigorously or urgently binding or compelling

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Surmise

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To think or believe without certain support evidence to conjecture or guess; likely idea that lacks definite proof

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Abominate

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To have an intense dislike or hatred for

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Accultration

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The modification of the social patterns, traits or structured of one group or society by contact with those of another

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Enjoin

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To direct order; to prescribe a course of action in an authority way; to prohibit

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Expedite

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To make easy, cause to progress faster

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Ferment

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A state of great excitement, agitation or turbulence

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Proclivity

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A natural or habitual inclination or tendency

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Sangfroid

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Composure or coolness, especially in trying circumstances

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Vitriolic

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Bitter sarcastic; highly caustic or biting

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Wheedle

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To use coaxing or flattery to gain some desired end

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Affable

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Courteous and pleasant sociable easy to speak to

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Amorphous

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Shapeless without definite form of no particular type of character; without organization , unity or cohesion

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Erudite

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Scholarly, learned, bookish

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Gossamer

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Thin light delicate insubstantial

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Insular

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Relating to characteristics of or situated on an island; narrow or isolated in outlook or experience

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Querulous

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Peevish, complaining fretful

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Repudiate

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To disown, reject, or deny the validity of

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Resilient

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Able to return to an original shape or form, able to recover quickly

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Reverberate

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To re echo, resound to reflect or be reflected repeatedly

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Scurrilous

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Coarsely abusive, vulgar or low; foul mouthed

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Axiomatic

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Self evident, expressing a universally accepted principle

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Blazon

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To adorn or embellish; to display conspicuously; to publish or proclaim widely

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Caveat

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A warning or caution to prevent misunderstanding or discourage behavior

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Extricate

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To free from entanglements or difficulties to remove with effort

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Filch

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To steal especially in a sneaky way and in petty amounts

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Flout

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To mock, treat with contempt

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Fractious

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Tending to be troublesome; unruly, quarrelsome, contrary; unpredictable

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Salutaty

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Beneficial, helpful; healthful, wholesome

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Sepulchral

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Funereal, typical of the tomb; extremely gloomy or dismal

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Soporific

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Tending to cause sleep, relating to sleepiness or lethargy

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Anomalous

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Abnormal, irregular, departing from the usual

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Aspersion

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A damaging or derogatory statement

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Brusque

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Abrupt, blunt, with no formalities

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Cajole

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To coax, persuade through flattery or artifice to deceive with soothing thoughts or false promises

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Contrive

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To plan with ingenuity to bring about through a plan

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Castigate

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To punish severely to criticize severely

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Fetter

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A chain or shackle placed on feet

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Insurgent

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One who rebels or rises against authority

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Megalomania

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A delusion marked by feeling of power, wealth, talent

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Surreptitious

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Stealthy, secret, intended to escape observation; made or accomplished by fraud

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Austere

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Severe or stern in matter; without adornment or luxury, simple, plain; harsh or sour in flavor

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Debase

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To lower in character, quality or value

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Inconsequential

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Trifling unimportant

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Infraction

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A breaking of a law or obligation

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Mitigate

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To make milder or softer to moderate in force or intensity

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Pillage

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To rob of goods by open force

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Reprove

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To find fault with, scold, rebuke

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Acrimonious

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Stinging, bitter in temper or tone

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Bovine

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Resembling a cow or ox ; sluggish unresponsive

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Corpulent

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Fat, having a large bulky body

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Disavow

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To deny responsibility for or connection with

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Gaunlet

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An armored or protective glove; a challenge; two lines of men armed with weapons with which to beat a person forced to run between them

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Odium

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Hatred, contempt; disgrace or infamy resulting from hateful conduct

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Perfidy

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Faithlessness treachery

English Midterm (1 decks)

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