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eminence

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successful; fame;

ex: the more his eminence as an artist increased, the more tumultuous (uproarish, thunderous) his life become

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precariously

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about to collapse, not securely held; uncertain

ex: she made a precarious living by writing

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trifling

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trivial; not important

ex: a trifling sum of money

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ascertain

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to discover; find out

ex: an attempt to ascertain the cause of the accident

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proliferation

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to multiply extremely in numbers

ex: the proliferation of ragwort was ill-timed

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profligate

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wasteful; unnecessarily extravagant

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conspicuous

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clear; noticable

ex: he was very thin, with a conspicuous adam’s apple

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concomitant

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accompanying; associating

ex: she loved to travel with all its concomitant worries

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confer

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grant or bestow

ex: she conferred a knighthood on him

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obscure

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not clear; confusing; obfuscate;

ex: she was obscuring her words on purpose to fool us

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predilection

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preference

ex: he had a predilection for focusing on morbid subjects

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recondite

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little known; abstruse

ex: this class is awful - all the professor does is spew recondite information.

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fecklessness

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lacking initiative

ex: the media once portrayed the governor as anything but ineffective; they now, however, make her out to be the epitome of fecklessness

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scintillating

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sparkiling; bright

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luminaries

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inspirations

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incendiary

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designed to cause fire

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veracious

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truth

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acquisitiveness

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like to acquire; interested in materialism

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tepid

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unenthusiastic, apathetic

ex: after her mediocre performance, the audience produced a tepid repsponse

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conspire

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scheme; to plot against or make plans jointly to commit a harmful act

ex: the monkeys conspired together to fool the zookeeper

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dissemble

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disguise or conceal; feign; pretend

ex: the monkeys dissembled an injury to trick the zookeeper

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abstruse

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little known information; recondite

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adverse

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harmful effect; hostile

ex: adverse book reviews

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transgressions

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offenses

ex: her transgressions were pointed out in her criticizing book reviews

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penchant

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a strong habitual liking for something

ex: she had a penchant for old-school movies

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capricious

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fickle; prone to changing emotions often

ex: when she is having a bad day, her actions are very capricious

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relish

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to enjoy

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confound

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to trick, confuse

ex: confounded again!

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banal

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lacking originality to the point that it is boring

sims: hackneyed, trite, insipid

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prescient

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foresight; knowing beforehand

ex: the band’s long-standing strategy of laying leisurely explorations atop a steady funk beat has proven to be surprisingly prescient: a concert in cologne from 1972 sounds as if it could have taken place today.

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serendipitous

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happy/lucky chance

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lucrative

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profitable

ex: kpop is a lucrative business

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pretensions

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claims, usually a false claim

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commensurate

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corresponding in size/proportion

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kindred

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similar (think “kin”); related

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imperative

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critical/essential

ex: this next goal is imperative – if we dont finish it by the deadline, we will be pushed back by a week

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doctrinaire

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imposing one’s beliefs without care; inflexible in ones beliefs; fixedly opinionated

sims: dogmatic

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dogmatic

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focused on one’s beliefs; peremptory, fixedly opinionated

sims: doctrinare

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ubiquitous

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omnipresent; everywhere

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scanty

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limited in quantity, meager

ex: scanty wages

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outmoded

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old-fashioned; outdated

sims: obselete

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disparate

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contrasting/different; especially different

43
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panacea

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cure to diseases; cure-all

44
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herald

A

official messenger bringing news

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harbinger

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person who announces signals for others

sims: herald

46
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perfunctory

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cursory; doing something hastily without reflection on actions

47
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cursory

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perfunctory; hasty and not detailed

48
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Arcane

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Mysterious or secret

49
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Equivocal

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ambiguous; uncertain

50
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Ambivalent

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Having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something

51
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Adroit

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Clever or skillful in hands or mind

Ex: he was far less adroit than his opponent

52
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Spurious

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Not what it is meant to be; false; fake; illegitimate

53
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Impetus

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Forcs or energy

54
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Vindicate

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Clear of blame or suspision

Sims: exculpate, exonerate

55
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Boon

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Something that is good or beneficial

56
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Debacle

A

Failure

57
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Hidebound

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Unwilling to change bc of tradition or convention

58
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Surly

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Bad tempered and unfriendly

Sims: inimical, sullen

59
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acerbic

A

sharp and forthright - style of speaking

ex: in his unexpurgated autobio, M.T. commented freely on the flaws and foibles of his country, some observations so acerbic that his heirs feared it would damage his reputation.

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unexpurgate

A

unremoved, uncensored

61
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premonitory

A

a given warning, predictive

62
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temperate

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mild conditions

63
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provincial

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concerning only one area, narrow domain

64
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loquacious

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talkative

65
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alacrity

A

cheerful eagerness

66
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rhapsody

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exuberant expression of emotions

67
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devolve

A

transfer power to a lower level

68
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quandary

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a state of perplexity or uncertainty of what to do in a situation

69
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inconsequential

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not important, insignificant. ant: substantive

70
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zealot

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a person who is fanatical and uncompromising in pursuit of their religious, political, or other ideals.

71
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sycophant

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a person who acts obsequiously toward someone important in order to gain advantage.

72
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adulator

A

praise excessively or obsequiously

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