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vitiate

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v. to corrupt, debase, spoil; to make ineffective

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adj. long-winded, verbose

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prolix

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adj. eager or quick to argue, quarrel, or fight; bellicose

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pugnacious

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contumacious

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(esp. of a defendant’s behavior) stubbornly or willfully disobedient to authority

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adj. lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery

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lubricious

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adj. tending to become more rigid, conventional, sterile, and reactionary with age

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ossified

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indefatigable

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adj. not easily exhaustible; tireless, dogged

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adj. disposed to point out trivial faults; calculated to confuse or entrap in argument

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captious

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pugnacious

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adj. eager or quick to argue, quarrel, or fight; bellicose

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adj. transparent, easy to understand, limpid

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pellucid

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n. bitterness or ill feeling

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acrimony

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voluble

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adj. fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language

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adj. cheerful, confident, optimistic

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sanguine

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plangent

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adj. pounding, thundering, resounding

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bawdy

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adj. dealing with sexual matters in a comical way; humorously indecent

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stentorian

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adj. extremely loud and powerful

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adj. extremely loud and powerful

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stentorian

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v. to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid

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abjure

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n. a pain killing drug; something that assuages or allays adj. soothing

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anodyne

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n. deification; a model of excellence or perfection

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apotheosis

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meretricious

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adj. cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy; attracting by false show

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gainsay

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v. to deny, to dispute, to contradict, to oppose

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parsimonious

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adj. cheap, miserly

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n. omen, portent

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augury

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salacious

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adj. lustful, lascivious, bawdy

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adj. menacing, threatening

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minatory

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adj. conducive to success; favorable; adj. giving or being a sign of future success

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auspicious

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lewd

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adj. crude and offensive in a sexual way

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lascivious

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adj. feeling or revealing an overt and often offensive sexual desire

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v. to censure scathingly, to upbraid

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excoriate

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cavil

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v. to find fault without good reason

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excoriate

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v. to censure scathingly, to upbraid

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v. to discriminate or discern

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descry

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execrate

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v. to denounce, to feel loathing for, to curse, to declare to be evil

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apotheosis

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n. deification; a model of excellence or perfection

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(esp. of a defendant’s behavior) stubbornly or willfully disobedient to authority

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contumacious

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v. to deny, to dispute, to contradict, to oppose

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gainsay

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n. rout, fiasco, complete failure

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debacle

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v. to atone or make amends for

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expiate

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n. an illusion

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chimera

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n. a solemn or ecclesiastical curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing

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anathema

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descry

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v. to discriminate or discern

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peroration

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n. the concluding part of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech

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pellucid

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adj. transparent, easy to understand, limpid

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n. glowing and enthusiastic praise; panegyric, tribute, eulogy

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encomium

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adj. one of a kind, peerless

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inimitable

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encomium

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n. glowing and enthusiastic praise; panegyric, tribute, eulogy

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nadir

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n. low point, perigee

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dogged

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adj. having or showing tenacity and grim persistence

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adj. not easily exhaustible; tireless, dogged

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indefatigable

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sanguine

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adj. cheerful, confident, optimistic

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n. difficult or embarrassing situation

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imbroglio

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desuetude

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n. disuse

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n. severity, rigor; roughness, harshness; acrimony, irritability

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asperity

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remonstrate

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v. to protest, object

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calumny

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n. slander, aspersion

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reserved, shy, unassuming; lacking in self-confidence

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diffident

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imbroglio

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n. difficult or embarrassing situation

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adj. (of a cruel or violent action) deliberate and unprovoked adj. (esp. of a woman) sexually immodest or promiscuous literary: growing profusely, luxuriant; lively, playful

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wanton

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ossified

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adj. tending to become more rigid, conventional, sterile, and reactionary with age

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refractory

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adj. stubborn or unmanageable; adj. resistant to process or stimulus

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n. power, strength

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puissance

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adj. lustful, lascivious, bawdy

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salacious

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salutary

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adj. remedial, wholesome, causing improvement

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asperity

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n. severity, rigor; roughness, harshness; acrimony, irritability

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adj. feeling or revealing an overt and often offensive sexual desire

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lascivious

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v. to cut off or out

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exscind

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v. to find fault without good reason

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cavil

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extirpate

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v. to destroy, exterminate; to cut out, to exscind

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adj. unconcerned, carefree, heedless

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insouciant

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adj. dealing with sexual matters in a comical way; humorously indecent

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bawdy

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debacle

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n. rout, fiasco, complete failure

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adj. deep rooted, ingrained, habitual

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inveterate

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diffident

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reserved, shy, unassuming; lacking in self-confidence

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sagacious

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adj. having sound judgment; perceptive; wise

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v. to find fault with someone; scold

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upbraid

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v. to denounce, to feel loathing for, to curse, to declare to be evil

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execrate

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nugatory

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adj. of no value or importance; useless; futile

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anathema

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n. a solemn or ecclesiastical curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing

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v. to appease; to conciliate

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propitiate

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adj. having sound judgment; perceptive; wise

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sagacious

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chimera

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n. an illusion

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saturnine

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adj. gloomy, dark, sullen, morose

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v. to corrupt, debase, spoil; to make ineffective

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vitiate

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wanton

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adj. (of a cruel or violent action) deliberate and unprovoked adj. (esp. of a woman) sexually immodest or promiscuous literary: growing profusely, luxuriant; lively, playful

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adj. crude and offensive in a sexual way

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lewd

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propitious

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adj. auspicious, favorable

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adj. aphoristic or moralistic; epigrammatic; tending to moralize excessively

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sententious

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adj. remedial, wholesome, causing improvement

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salutary

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auspicious

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adj. conducive to success; favorable; adj. giving or being a sign of future success

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insouciant

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adj. unconcerned, carefree, heedless

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expiate

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v. to atone or make amends for

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puissance

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n. power, strength

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captious

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adj. disposed to point out trivial faults; calculated to confuse or entrap in argument

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adj. cheap, miserly

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parsimonious

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v. to destroy, exterminate; to cut out, to exscind

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extirpate

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inimitable

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adj. one of a kind, peerless

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n. the concluding part of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech

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peroration

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n. a beggar, supplicant

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mendicant

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adj. pounding, thundering, resounding

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plangent

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anodyne

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n. a pain killing drug; something that assuages or allays adj. soothing

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adj. showy but cheap and of poor quality adj. sordid or unpleasant

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tawdry

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mendicant

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n. a beggar, supplicant

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adj. gloomy, dark, sullen, morose

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saturnine

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adj. auspicious, favorable

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propitious

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adj. of no value or importance; useless; futile

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nugatory

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prolix

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adj. long-winded, verbose

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adj. stubborn or unmanageable; adj. resistant to process or stimulus

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refractory

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nonplussed

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adj. baffled, bewildered, at a loss for what to do or think

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augury

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n. omen, portent

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v. to protest, object

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remonstrate

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sententious

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adj. aphoristic or moralistic; epigrammatic; tending to moralize excessively

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lubricious

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adj. lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery

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eschew

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v. to shun or avoid; abstain from

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minatory

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adj. menacing, threatening

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acrimony

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n. bitterness or ill feeling

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adj. baffled, bewildered, at a loss for what to do or think

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nonplussed

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adj. cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy; attracting by false show

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meretricious

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v. to shun or avoid; abstain from

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eschew

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epigram

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n. a pithy statement expressing an idea in a clever and amusing way n. a short poem (esp. a satirical one having a witty or ingenious ending)

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adj. fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language

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voluble

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propitiate

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v. to appease; to conciliate

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n. slander, aspersion

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calumny

124
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n. speed, alacrity

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celerity

125
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n. low point, perigee

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nadir

126
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n. a pithy statement expressing an idea in a clever and amusing way n. a short poem (esp. a satirical one having a witty or ingenious ending)

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epigram

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celerity

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n. speed, alacrity

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tawdry

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adj. showy but cheap and of poor quality adj. sordid or unpleasant

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inveterate

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adj. deep rooted, ingrained, habitual

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upbraid

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v. to find fault with someone; scold

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adj. having or showing tenacity and grim persistence

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dogged

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exscind

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v. to cut off or out

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abjure

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v. to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid

134
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n. disuse

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desuetude

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