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Gregarious

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Amiable

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Esoteric

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Dilatory

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1: tending or intended to cause delay
dilatory tactics
2: characterized by procrastination : TARDY
dilatory in paying bills

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Polemic

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Her book is a fierce polemic against the inequalities in our society.
They managed to discuss the issues without resorting to polemics.

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even if discreetly to yourself

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1: having or showing discernment or good judgment in conduct and especially in speech : PRUDENT
especially : capable of preserving prudent silence
2: UNPRETENTIOUS, MODEST
the warmth and discreet elegance of a civilized home
— Joseph Wechsberg
3: UNOBTRUSIVE, UNNOTICEABLE
followed at a discreet distance

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cramming

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Learning hundreds of words while only having a tenuous grasp of them

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epiphany

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Epiphany and revelation have many similarities in meaning; one sense of epiphany is “a revealing scene or moment,” and one sense of revelation is “something that is revealed.” However, epiphany may also mean “an appearance or manifestation especially of a divine being,” a sense not shared by revelation. Additionally, revelation is more likely to be used in the ecclesiastic sense of “an act of revealing or communicating divine truth.

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Alacrity

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  • eager to do something

- The first three weeks at his new job, Mark worked with such alacrity

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Prosaic

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  • dull and lacking imagination

- American life is Prosaic

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Veracity

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Veracity

  • truthful
  • the congressman was hardly known for his veracity; yet despite his distrust, he was voted into yet another term.

Voracity
-full of hunger, whether for food or knowledge
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Paucity

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  • lack of something

- There is a paucity of jobs hiring today that require menial skills

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Maintain

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  • to assert
  • One can maintain their innocence
  • Scientist can maintain that a recent finding support her theory
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Contrite

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-To be contrite is to be remorseful

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profuse

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Definition of profuse
1: pouring forth liberally : EXTRAVAGANT
profuse in their thanks
2: exhibiting great abundance : BOUNTIFUL
a profuse harvest
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Contentious

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好争吵的，爱议论的

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Auspicious

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-: showing or suggesting that future success is likely : PROPITIOUS
-: attended by good auspices : FORTUNATE, PROSPEROUS
an auspicious year

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preemptively

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1a: of or relating to preemption
b: having power to preempt
2of a bid in bridge : higher than necessary and intended to shut out bids by the opponents
3: giving a stockholder first option to purchase new stock in an amount proportionate to his existing holdings
4: marked by the seizing of the initiative : initiated by oneself

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perfunctory

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Peremptory

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: characterized by often imperious or arrogant self-assurance
how insolent of late he is become, how proud, how peremptory
— William Shakespeare
b: indicative of a peremptory attitude or nature : HAUGHTY
a peremptory tone

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indigent

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: suffering from extreme poverty : IMPOVERISHED
2aarchaic : DEFICIENT
barchaic : totally lacking in something specified

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Indigenous

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: produced, growing, living, or occurring natively or naturally in a particular region or environment
indigenous plants
the indigenous culture
bIndigenous or less commonly indigenous : of or relating to the earliest known inhabitants of a place and especially of a place that was colonized by a now-dominant group
Indigenous peoples

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Indignant

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: feeling or showing anger because of something unjust or unworthy : filled with or marked by indignation
became indignant at the accusation

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Kowtow

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decimated

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dismal

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particularly bad

a dismal performance

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Sanguine

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-hopefull, optimistic

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insensed

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very angry

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mutinous

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rebellions, turbulent, unruled

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crestfallen

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disheartened

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denizens

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INHABITANT

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curtail

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limit, reduce

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denote

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indicate

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disseminate

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1: to spread abroad as though sowing seed
disseminate ideas
2: to disperse throughout

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intensify

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grow stronger or more acute

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cramped

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narrow, limited, dense

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in stark/marked/sharp contrast with/to

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very different from

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porous

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多孔的，

porous means not secure, or easily penetrated

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irrevocably

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cannot be changed, permanently

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botched

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botched election

unsuccessful because of being poorly done : spoiled by mistakes

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turmoil

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chaos

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irrevocably

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unalterable, permanently

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weariness

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tiredness

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inestimable

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cannot be estimated, incalculable

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paucity

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lack of

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preclude

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to make impossible by necessary consequence : rule out in advance

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besotted

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bein love with somebody or something

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protean

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displaying great diversity or variety : VERSATILE

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orthodox

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conventional

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rancid

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smell bad

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remiss

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1: negligent in the performance of work or duty : CARELESS
2: showing neglect or inattention : LAX

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glib

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not sincere
a: showing little forethought or preparation : OFFHAND
glib answers
b: marked by ease and informality : NONCHALANT
c: lacking depth and substance : SUPERFICIAL
glib solutions to knotty problems

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racket

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fraud

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complicit

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同谋
: helping to commit a crime or do wrong in some way
He was complicit in the cover-up.

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unscrupulous

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: not scrupulous : UNPRINCIPLED
肆无忌惮的
an unscrupulous businessman manipulated them into selling their land for practically nothing

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complicit

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complicit? This word works less well because it’s not clear what the expert would be complicit in or who the expert would be complicit with. To be complicit is to be involved with a larger plan or conspiracy, and it’s not clear that the expert has any co-conspirators.

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unscrupulous

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unscrupulous? Sure, that could work. If she were giving advice based on what will benefit her and not what’s best for the board, that would be unscrupulous.

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overhaul

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  • to renovate, remake, revise, or renew thoroughly

- The most imposing U.S. swimmer was overhauled by a 17-year-old Australian in the butterfly race.

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demur

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demur noun
Definition of demur (Entry 2 of 2)
1: the act or an instance of objecting : PROTEST
rather than be brought into court he will pay without demur
— G. B. Shaw
2: hesitation (as in doing or accepting) usually based on doubt of the acceptability of something offered or proposed
after some delay and demur, the door grudgingly turned on its hinges
— Charles Dickens

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contending that

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争辩说

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contentious

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trailblazer

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开拓者
trailblazer, does the same thing: If you’re blazing a trail, then you are creating a trail for other people to follow.

= pioneer

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quintessentially

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something that is a typical part or pure example

archetypal (also archetypical), classic, definitive, exemplary, imitable, model, paradigmatic, textbook

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predisposed

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predisposed: it means that you have a weakness for a particular condition, and so we can eliminate it.
: to bring about susceptibility

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disposition vs predisposition

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What exactly is someone’s disposition? And is it different from a predisposition? A person’s disposition is his or her usual mood or attitude. Are you typically pretty happy? You could be described as having a happy—or cheerful, or sunny—disposition. Animals have dispositions too; a dog with a nervous disposition doesn’t easily relax into a restful pup curled up at someone’s feet. In this use, disposition is a synonym of temperament; both words refer to the complex set of attitudes and inclinations that guide behavior.

Disposition can also mean “tendency” or “inclination,” and in such cases it has a surprising synonym: predisposition. A disposition to exaggerate is the same as a predisposition to exaggerate. A disposition toward humility is likewise the same thing as a predisposition toward humility. The fact of being “in advance” that the prefix pre- implies hardly matters when tendency and inclination are concerned, since both concern what is likely to happen in the future.

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harkens back to

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original from

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coterminous

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相连，连贯的，
a voting district coterminous with the city
an experience of life coterminous with the years of his father.

1: having the same or coincident (see COINCIDENT sense 2) boundaries
a voting district coterminous with the city
2: coextensive in scope or duration
… an experience of life coterminous with the years of his father.
— Elizabeth Hardwick

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unpretentious

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modest

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pretentious

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refined，

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unrefined

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modest，

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chic

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elegent, fashionable

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unpretentious,

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unpretentious,朴实无华
The neighborhood French bistro, though typically unpretentious, has had to contend with the common perception that any eatery with the word ‘French’ appended to its name must connote something chic/elegent

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