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1
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Jibe

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To be in agreement

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Assuage

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To make less severe

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Bawdy

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Obscene

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Quail

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To Cower/Lose Heart

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Fissure

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Breakage made from splitting/cracking

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Denouement

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Outcome; unraveling of the plot of a play/literature

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Indeterminate

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Uncertain/Indefinite

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Austere

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Stern, Simple

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Prehensile

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Capable of Grasping

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Pique

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Fleeting feeling, hurt pride

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Carping

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To Find Fault, to complain

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Syllogism

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Deductive reasoning where a conclusion is derived

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Hermetic

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Tightly sealed; magical

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Allay

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To Ease, Lessen, Soothe

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Itinerant

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To wander from place to place

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Oppobrium

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Public Disgrace; Contempt

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Vendetta

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Prolonged feud marked by bitter hostility

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Perigee

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A point in orbit where the satellite is closest to earth

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Imperturbable

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Not easily disturbed

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Forestall

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To prevent/delay

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Irresolute

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Unsure how to act; weak

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Mettle

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Courage; Endurance

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Subsume

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To include, incorporate

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Denizen

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An inhabitant, regular visitor

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Aspersion

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False rumor, slander

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Soliloquy

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Literary or dramatic speech by one character, not addressed to others

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Execrable

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Extremely bad, abhorrent

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Pungent

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Having strong smell; Having sharp and caustic quality

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Stricture

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Negative Criticism

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Latent

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Dormant, not easily apparent

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Sextant

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Navigation device

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Desultory

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Random, disconnected

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Tenuous

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Weak, insubstantial

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Premonition

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Forewarning

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Insuperable

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Insurmountable, inconquerable

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Carnal

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Relating to physical or sexual needs

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Machinations

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Plots or Schemes

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Obseqious

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Overly submissive

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Supplicant

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One who asks respectfully and earnestly

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Salacious

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Pornographic, lustful

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Disabuse

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Free from misconception

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Impinge

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To invade; to influence

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Continence

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To abstain from sex; self-restraint

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Prattle

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Meaningless, foolish talk

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Peremptory

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Imperative; leaving no choice; insisting on immediate attention

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Covetous

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Desiring something owned by someone else

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Maelstrom

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Turmoil

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Sentient

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Aware, concious

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Quiescent

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Inactive, still

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Neophyte

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Novice, beginner

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Salutory

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Producing good effects, beneficial

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Assiduous

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Diligent, Hard working

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53
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Histrionic

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Theatrically emotional, melodramatic

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Internecine

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Deadly to both sides

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Fiat

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A decree; arbitrary order

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Explicate

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To explain, clarify

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Stultify

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To impair or reduce in usefullness

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Sardonic

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Cynical, sarcastically mocking

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Lucre

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Profits or money

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Bedizen

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To dress up or decorate in vulgar or showy manner

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Ardor

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Great emotion or passion

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Literati

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Well educated people who are interested in literature

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Saturnine

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Slow and Gloomy

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Canard

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False; deliberately misleading story

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Apposite

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Strikingly appropriate and relevant

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Punctilious

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Careful in observing rules

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Libertine

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One without moral restraint

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Effrontery

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Shameless boldness; presumptuous

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Appellation

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Name

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Perturb

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To disturb greatly

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Extant

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In existence

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Impecunious

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Poor

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Cozen

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To trick or disturb

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Mendacious

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Dishonest

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Abeyance

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A state of temporary disuse or suspension

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Pusillanimous

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Showing lack of courage; cowardly

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Nostrum

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Medicine of doubtful effectiveness

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Abjure

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To reject

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Compendium

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Brief comprehensive summary

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Valedictory

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Pertaining to a farewell

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Ascetic

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One who practices sell denial

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Aggrandize

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To make larger or greater

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Sedition

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Speech or behavior prompting a rebellion

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Diaphanous

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Light, delicate, translucent

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Stentorian

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Extremely loud

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Bifurcate

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To divide in two parts

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Argot

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Specialize vocabulary used by a group, jargon

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Dirge

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Funeral hymn

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Ebullient

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Exhilarated, overly enthusiastic

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Gossamer

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Something very light, thin, insubstantial

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Ineluctable

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Not to be avoided or escaped; inevitable

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Obviate

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To remove (a need or difficulty); to avoid or prevent

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Regale

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To entertain

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Proscribe

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To condemn, outlaw, forbit

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Apogee

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The highest point in the development of something; the climax or culimation

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Thespian

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An actor or actress

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Essay

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An attempt; to attempt

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Rue

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Regret

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Sidereal

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Relating to the stars

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Pellucid

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Transparent; easily understood

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Glib

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Fluent and voluble, but shallow and insecure; slick

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Extirpate

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To destroy

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Prodigal

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Wasteful, extravagant

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Pervasive

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Spread throughout every part (negative); extensive

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Dissonance

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Discord, lack of harmony

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Antediluvian

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Prehistoric; before the Biblical flood

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Multivarious

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Diverse

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108
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Broach

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To mention for the first time

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109
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Blase

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Bored because of frequent indulgence; Unconcerned

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Microcosm

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Small system having analogies to a larger system

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Attenuate

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To weaken

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Suppliant

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To plea, beseech

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Coquette

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Woman who flirts

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Doctinaire

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Dogmatic, rigid

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Inveigh

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To vehemently disapprove

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Reprise

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Repetition, usually in music

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Frieze

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Ornamental band on a wall

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Travail

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painful laborious work; to work

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Imbroglio

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A complicated situation, entanglement

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Rail

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To scorn with bitter or abusive language

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Commensurate

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In proportion

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Dissemble

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To pretend; disguise one’s move

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Astringent

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Harsh, severe

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Distend

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To expand, swell out

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Labile

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Likely to change

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Impassive

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Showing no emotion

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Specious

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Seeming to be logical and sound, but really not

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Pallid

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Lacking color or liveness

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Redoubtable

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Formidable, arousing fear

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Equanamity

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Composure, calmness

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Phoenix

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Anything that is restored after suffering great destruction

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Recondite

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Abstruse; little known

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Axiomatic

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Taken for granted; self-evident truth

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Overweening

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Presumptuous, arrogant

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Asperity

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Severity; harshness; irritability

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Fulminate

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To attack loudly, denounce

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Penchant

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A strong inclination to do something

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Talisman

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Charm to bring good luck and avert misfortune

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Disjointed

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Lacking order or coherence; dislocated

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Dross

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Waste; worthless manner

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Bacchanalian

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Pertaining to riotous or drunk behavior

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Zealot

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One who is fanatically devoted to a cause

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Limn

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To draw, describe

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Quagmire

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Marsh, difficult decision

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Irascribe

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Easily angered

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Insouciant

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Indifferent; lacking concern or care

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Militate

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To work against

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Striated

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Marked with thin narrow grooves

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Presage

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To foretell, indicate in advance

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Desuetude

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State of Disuse

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Fauna

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Animals of a time or region

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Tryst

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A private romantic rendezvous

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Vogue

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Prevailing fashion or practice

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Vitiate

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To impair the quality of; to corrupt morally

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Plumb

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To examine deeply; to determine the depth

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Aberrent

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Deviating from the normal

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Sartorial

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Relating to tailoring, clothes, tailors

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Necromancy

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Black magic

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Reprobate

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Morally unprincipled person

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Complaisant

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Overly polite; willing to comply with the wishes of others

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Explository

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Explanatory

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Megalomania

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Delusions of power or importantance

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Burgeon

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To grow or flourish

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Junta

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A military or political group that rules a country after taking it over; faction, cabal

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Inert

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Unable to move; sluggish

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Epistemology

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A branch of philosophy that concerns the nature of knowledge

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Sylvan

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Related to woods or the forest

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Veracious

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Truthful, accurate

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Travesty

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A false or distorted representation of something; parody; to parody

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Intractable

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Not easily managed; difficult or stubborn

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Forbearance

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Patient self-control; Restraint and Tolerance

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Partisan

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One sided; committed to a party or a cause

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Peregrination

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A journey, especially a long or meandering one

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Belie

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To contradict, misrepresent; give a false representation

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Distill

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To extract the essential elements; to purify

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Effete

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Affected, ineffectual; no longer capable of effective action

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Mettlesome

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Full of courage and fortitude

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Truculance

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Aggressivenes, ferocity

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Endemic

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Belonging to a group of people or area

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Confound

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To baffle; to perplex; to mix up

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Artless

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Without guile or deception

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Foment

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To arouse, incite

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Sensous

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Relating to the senses

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Perennial

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Present throughout the ages; persistent

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Fallow

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Uncultivated (plowed and harvested but not sown)

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Minatory

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Threatening, menacing

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Fulsome

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So excessive as to be disgusting

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Timbre

A

The character quality of sound different in tone (?)

189
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Interregnum

A

Interval between reigns; gaps in continuity

190
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Abscission

A

The act of cutting; the natural detachment of parts of plant

191
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Esoteric

A

Hard to understand; known to only a few

192
Q

Burnish

A

To polish

193
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Salubrious

A

Healthful

194
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Precept

A

Principle, Law

195
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Anomalous

A

Irregular; deviating from the norm

196
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Incursion

A

A sudden invasion

197
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Preempt

A

Take action to prevent an anticipated event from happening; to acquire or appropriate something in advance

198
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Vexation

A

Irritation or annoyance

199
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Refulgent

A

Brightly shining

200
Q

Recalcitrant

A

Resisting authority or control

201
Q

Eiology

A

Causes or set of causes; origin

202
Q

Vacuous

A

Empty, void, lacking intelligence

203
Q

Gainsay

A

To deny; dispute, oppose

204
Q

Amulet

A

Ornament worn as a charm

205
Q

Churlish

A

Rude, boorish

206
Q

Concomitant

A

Existing concurrently

207
Q

Nexus

A

A means of connection; a center

208
Q

Recant

A

Retract a statement of opinion

209
Q

Paean

A

A fervent expression of joy; song of joy or triumph

210
Q

Fetid

A

Having bad smell

211
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Abstemious

A

Non-self indulgent, especially in food or drink

212
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Credence

A

Acceptance of something as true

213
Q

Unfeigned

A

Not false; true

214
Q

Venal

A

Motivated by bribery; corrupt

215
Q

Platitude

A

Stale; overused expression; cliche

216
Q

Tome

A

Book, usually large and academic

217
Q

Contrite

A

Very sorrowful for a wrong; seeking forgiveness

218
Q

Nugatory

A

Trifling, invalid

219
Q

Transgression

A

Act of trespassing or breaking a law

220
Q

Turgid

A

Swollen or congested; pompous/bombastic

221
Q

Encomium

A

A formal expression of praise

222
Q

Chicanery

A

Trickery; fraud

223
Q

Heterodox

A

Not widely accepted

224
Q

Levity

A

Light manner or attitude

225
Q

Stolid

A

Having or showing little emotion

226
Q

Factotum

A

A person who does all sorts of jobs; handyman

227
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Capricious

A

Easily being changed (usually mood or emotion); fickle

228
Q

Exorcise

A

To free from all evils; to expel evil spirits

229
Q

Toady

A

Flatterer, yes-man

230
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Geniality

A

Cheerfulness, kindness, sociability

231
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Motley

A

Many colored, made up of many parts

232
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Blandishment

A

Flattery

233
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Piquant

A

Pleasently pungent, attractive

234
Q

Expiate

A

To attone for

235
Q

Cloister

A

To confine, seclude

236
Q

Mendicant

A

Beggar

237
Q

Meretricious

A

Gaudy, Specious; falsely attractive

238
Q

Lilliputian

A

Extremely small

239
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Incarnate

A

Having bodily form

240
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Founder

A

To sink, fail, collapse

241
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Metaphysics

A

The branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of reality

242
Q

Delineate

A

To represent, to depict

243
Q

Strident

A

Loud, harsh, unpleasant noises

244
Q

Penury

A

Extreme povery

245
Q

Implode

A

To collapse inward violently

246
Q

Remonstrate

A

To object or protest

247
Q

Imprecation

A

Curse; damnation

248
Q

Inveigle

A

To win over by coaxing or flattery

249
Q

Coalesce

A

To come together to form one mass

250
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Provident

A

Making timely and indicative decisions for the future; farsighted

251
Q

Tractable

A

Obedient

252
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Lassitude

A

Lethargy, sluggishness

253
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Panegyric

A

Elaborate praise, formal hymn of praise

254
Q

Tutelary

A

Serving as a guardian or a protector

255
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Perfidious

A

Faithless, disloyal

256
Q

Purport

A

To profess, claim

257
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Hallowed

A

Holy, sacred

258
Q

Diffidence

A

Shyness, lack of confidence

259
Q

Vapid

A

Tastless, dull

260
Q

Evocative

A

Bringing strong images, memories, or emotions to mind; reminiscent, redolent, suggestive

261
Q

Fatuous

A

Foolishly self-satisfied

262
Q

Brazen

A

Bold, shameless

263
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Occult

A

Relating to the practices connected to supernatural phenomena

264
Q

Impervious

A

Incapable of being affected, inpenetrable

265
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Morose

A

Ill-humored, sullen, bad tempered

266
Q

Foswear

A

Renounce, repudiate

267
Q

Grouse

A

To complain

268
Q

Deference

A

Respect, especially to one’s wish

269
Q

Doggeral

A

A comic verse with irregular rhythm; poor verse

270
Q

Prate

A

To talk idly or chatter

271
Q

Emollient

A

Smoothing, mollifying

272
Q

Repine

A

Fret, complain

273
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Racounteur

A

Witty, skillful storyteller

274
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Efficacy

A

Effectiveness, efficiency

275
Q

Insensible

A

Unconscious, unresponsive; unaware of

276
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Spendthrift

A

Someone who spends money recklessly

277
Q

Stint

A

To be sparing

278
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Emaciated

A

Thin and weak, especially because of disease or lack of food

279
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Chasten

A

Having a restraining or a moderating effect (due to an event or misfortune); to humble

280
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Vindictive

A

Vengeful, unforgiving

281
Q

Raiment

A

Clothing

282
Q

Jaundiced

A

Yellowish discoloration of the skin; bitter, envy, resentment

283
Q

Amenable

A

Agreeable, cooperative

284
Q

Clairvoyant

A

One who can predict the future, psychic

285
Q

Expatiate

A

To write or speak at length

286
Q

Congenial

A

Pleasant because of qualities or characteristics similar to one’s own

287
Q

Harange

A

Long pompous speech; tirade

288
Q

Contumacious

A

Disobedient, rebellious

289
Q

Craven

A

Cowardly

290
Q

Fracas

A

A loud quarrel, brawl

291
Q

Qualm

A

An uneasy feeling of doubt, worry, or fear

292
Q

Discordant

A

Not in tune

293
Q

Codify

A

To arrange in systematic code; organize

294
Q

Elysian

A

Delightful, blissful

295
Q

Fetter

A

To restrict unfairly; slave chains

296
Q

Admonish

A

To caution or reprimand

297
Q

Visage

A

Appearance, aspect

298
Q

Plaintive

A

Sounding sad and mournful; melancholy

299
Q

Officious

A

Authoritatively domineering; too eager to help in an intrusive way

300
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Canon

A

General law, rule, or principle by which something is judged; literature seen as true

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