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Abate

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v. to lessen in intensity or degree

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Aberrant

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adj. deviating from the norm

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Abjure

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

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Abrogate

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v. to abolish or annul by authority; put down

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Abscission

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n. act of cutting off or removing

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Abscond

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v. to depart clandestinely; to steal off and hide

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Abstain

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v. to refrain from an activity

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Abstruse

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adj. hard to understand

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Accolade

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n. an expression of praise; an award

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Accretion

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n. growth, increase by successive addition, build up

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Acerbic

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adj. having a sour or bitter taste or character

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Acumen

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n. quick, keen, or accurate knowledge or insight

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Admonish

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v. to reprove; to express warning or disapproval

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Adroit

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adj. adept, dexterous

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Adulation

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n. excessive praise; intense adoration

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Adulterate

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v. to reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients

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Adumbrate

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v. to foreshadow vaguely, intimate, suggest, or outlibe sketchily

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Advocate

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v. to argue for or support a cause

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Aesthetic

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adj. dealing with, appreciative of , or responsive to art or the beautiful

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Aggrandize

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v. To increase in intensity, power, or prestige; to make appear greater

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Alacrity

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n. eager and enthusiastic willingness

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Alchemy

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n. a magical or wonderful transformation

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Alloy

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v. to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior

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Amalgamate

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v. to combine several elements into a whole

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Ambiguity

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n. uncertainty in meaning

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Ambivalence

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n. the quality of having opposing ideas or feelings

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Ameliorate

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v. to make better or more tolerable

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Amenable

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adj. agreeable; responsive to suggestion

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Anachronism

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n. something or someone out of place in terms of historical or chronological context

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Anathema

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

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Anodyne

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adj. soothing

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Anomaly

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n. deviation from the normal order, form, or rule; abnormality

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Antagonize

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v. to irritate or cause hostility

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Antipathy

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n. aversion, dislike

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Antithetical

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adj. diametrically opposed, as in antithesis

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Apathy

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n. lack of interest or feeling

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Apocryphal

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adj. of dubious authenticity or origin; spurious

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Apogee

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n. farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith

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Apostate

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n. one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions, a betrayer of a cause

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Apotheosis

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n. deification, glorification to godliness, the perfect example

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Apposite

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adj. appropriate, pertinent, relevant, apropos

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Apprise

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v. give notice to, inform

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Approbation

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n. an expression of approval or praise

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Appropriate

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v. to take for one’s own use, confiscate

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Arabesque

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n. complex, ornate design

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Arcane

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adj. mysterious, abstruse, esoteric, knowable only to initiates

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Archaic

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adj. outdated; associated with an earlier, perhaps more primitive time

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Arduous

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adj. strenuous, taxing, requiring significant effort

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Arrant

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adj. impudent; in every way, being completely such, bare-faced, utter

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Arrest

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v. to suspend; to engage

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Articulate

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v. to enunciate or pronounce clearly; to express oneself clearly

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Artless

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adj. completely without guile; natural, without artificiality

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Ascetic

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n. one who practices rigid self-denial, especially as an act of religious devotion

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Asperity

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

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Aspersion

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n. an act of defamation or maligning

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Assiduous

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adj. diligent, hardworking

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Assuage

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v. to ease or lessen; to appease or pacify

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Astringent

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adj. having a tightening effect on living tissue; harsh; severe

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Attenuate

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v. to rarefy, weaken or make thinner, lessen

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Audacious

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adj. daring and fearless; recklessly bold

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Augury

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n. omen, portent, the reading of omens

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August

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adj. majestic, venerable

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Auspice

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n. protection or support, patronage

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Auspicious

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adj. favorable, propitious, successful, prosperous

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Austere

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adj. without adornment; bare; severely simple’ ascetic

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Avarice

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n. greed, especially for wealth

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Aver

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v. to state as a fact; to confirm or support

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Axiom

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n. a universally recognized principle; a generally accepted or common saying

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Baleful

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adj. sinister, pernicious, ominous

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Bane

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n. cause of injury, source of harm; source or persistent frustration

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Beatify

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v. to bless, make happy, or ascribe a virtue to; to regard as saintly

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Bedizen

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v. to adorn, especially in a cheap, showy manner; festoon, caparison

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Beguile

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v. to influence by trickery, flattery, ect; to mislead

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Belie

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v. to give false impression of, to misrepresent

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Bellicose

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adj. belligerent, pugnacious, warlike

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Benign

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adj. favorable, harmless

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Bent

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n. leaning, inclination, proclivity, tendency

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Blandish

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v. to coax with flattery, toady or fawn

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Blithe

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adj. carefree, merry

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Boisterous

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adj. loud , noisy, rough, lacking restraint

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Bolster

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v. to provide support or reinforcement

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Bombastic

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adj. pompous; grandiloquent

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Boor

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n. rude of insensitive person; lout; yokel

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Bridling

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v. to control or hold back, restrain

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Broach

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v. to bring up, announce, begin to talk about

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Brook

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v. to tolerate, endure, countenance

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Bucolic

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adj. rustic and pastoral; characteristics of rural areas and their inhabitants

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Burgeon

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v. to grow rapidly or flourish

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Burnish

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v. to polish, rub to a shine

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Byzantine

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adj. labyrinthine, complex

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Cacophony

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n. harsh, jarring, discordant sound; dissonance

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Cadge

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v. to sponge, beg, or mooch

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Cajole

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v. inveigle, coax, wheedle, sweet talk

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Calumniate

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v. to slander, make a false accusation

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Canny

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adj. careful, cautious, knowing

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Canon

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n. an established set of principles or code of laws often religious in nature

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Capricious

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adj. inclined to change one’s mind impulsively; erratic; unpredictable

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Cardinal

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adj. of basic importance or consequences; primary

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Carnality

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n. something relating to the body or flesh

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Castigation

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n. severe criticism or punishment

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Catalyst

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n. substance that accelerates the rate of a chemical reaction without itself changing; a person or thin that causes change

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Causality

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n. the relationship between cause and effect

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Caustic

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adj. burning or stinging; caused corrosion

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Censure

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v. to criticize severely; to officially rebuke

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Chaos

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n. condition of confusion or unpredictability

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Chary

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adj. wary; cautious; sparing

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Chasten

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v. to chastise or correct; subdue

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Chauvinist

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n. one blindly devoted to a group of which one is a member

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Chic

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adj. stylish and fashionable; sophistication in dress

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Chicanery

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n. trickery or subterfuge

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Chimera

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n. an illusion

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Choleric

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adj. tending toward anger

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Churlish

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adj. boorish, vulgar, loutish, difficult and intractable

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Circumscribe

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v. enclose within bounds; limit or confine, especially narrow

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Clangorous

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adj. making a loud, resonant sound

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Coalesce

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v. to come together; to fuse or unite

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Coda

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n. concluding section to a musical or literary piece; something that concludes or completes

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Cogent

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adj. appealing forcible to the mind or reason; convincing

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Color

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v. to change as if by dyeing, influence, distort, or gloss over

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Commensurate

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adj. matching, corresponding, or proportionate in degree, size, amount, or other property

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Complaisance

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n. the willingness to comply with the wishes of others

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Confound

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v. to cause to the confused; to frustrate

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Connoisseur

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n. an informed and astute judge in matters of taste;

expert

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Contrite

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adj. regretful; penitent; seeking forgiveness

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Convention

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n. a generally agreed-upon practice or attitude

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Convoluted

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adj. complex or complicated

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127
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Corrigible

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adj. capable of being set right, correctable, reparable

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Countenance

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v. to approve of or tolerate

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129
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Cozen

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v. to deceive, beguile, hoodwink

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Craven

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adj. contemptibly fainthearted, pusillanimous, lacking any courage

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Credulous

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adj. tending to believe too readily; gullible

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Crescendo

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n. a gradual increase in intensity, particular in music

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Culpable

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adj. deserving blame

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Cynicism

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n. an attitude or quality of belief that all people are motivated by selfishness

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Damp

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v. to diminish the intensity or check something, such as a sound or feeling

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Daunt

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v. to intimidate or dismay

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Dearth

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n. smallness of quantity or number; scarcity; lack

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Debacle

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n. rout, fiasco, complete failure

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Debunk

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v. to expose as being pretentious, false, or

exaggerated

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Decorum

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n. politeness or appropriateness of conduct or behavior

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Deleterious

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adj. injurious; harmful

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Demur

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v. to question or oppose

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Denigrate

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v. blacken, belittle, sully, defame, disparage

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Denouement

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n. an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot

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Deprecate

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v. to disparage or belittle

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Depredate

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v. to plunder, pillage, ravage or destroy; to exploit in a predatory manner

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Derision

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n. scorn, ridicule, contemptuous treatment

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Derivative

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adj. unoriginal, obtained from another source

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Desiccate

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v. to dry out or dehydrate; to make dry or dull

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Desuetude

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n. disuse

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Desultory

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adj. random; thoughtless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose

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Detraction

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n. slandering, verbal attack, aspersion

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Diaphanous

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adj. transparent, gauzy

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Diatribe

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n. harsh denunciation

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Didactic

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adj. intending to teach or instruct

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Diffident

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adj. reserved, shy, unassuming; lacking in self

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Digress

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v. to stray from the point; to go off on a tangent

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Dilate

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v. to become wider or more open

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Dilatory

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adj. causing delay, procrastinating

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Dilettante

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n. one with an amateurish or superficial interest in the arts or a branch of knowledge

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Din

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n. loud sustained noise

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Dirge

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n. a mournful song or poem for the dead

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Disabuse

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v. to undeceive; to set right

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Discomfit

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v. to defeat, put down

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Discordant

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adj. conflicting; dissonant or harsh in sound

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Discretion

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n. cautious reserve in speech; ability to make responsible decisions

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Disinterested

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adj. free from self-interest unbiased

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Disparage

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v. to slight or belittle

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Disparate

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adj. fundamentally distinct or dissimilar

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Dissemble

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v. to disguise or conceal; to mislead

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Dissolution

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n. disintegration, looseness in morals

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Dissonance

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n. lack of harmony; conflict

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Distrait

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adj. distracted; absentminded, especially due to anxiety

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Divulge

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v. to disclose something secret

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Doctrinaire

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adj. fanatical; merely theoretical impractical

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Doggerel

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n. trivial, poorly constructed verse

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Dogmatic

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adj. authoritatively and or arrogantly assertive of principles, which often cannot be proved; stubbornly opinionated

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Dross

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n. slag, waste or foreign matter, impurity, surface scum

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Dulcet

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adj. melodious, harmonious, mellifluous

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Dupe

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n. one who is deceived

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Dynamo

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n. generator; forceful, energetic person

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Ebullience

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adj. the quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings

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Eccentric

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adj. departing from norms or conventions

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Eclectic

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adj. composed of elements drawn from various sources

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Edifying

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adj. enlightening, informative

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Efficacy

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n. the ability to produce an intended result

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Efflorescence

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n. the state or a period of flowering; an example or result of growth and development

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Effrontery

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n. extreme boldness; presumptuousness

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Effusive

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adj. gushing; excessively demonstrative

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Egress

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n. exit

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Elegy

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n. a mournful poem, especially one lamenting the dead; any mournful writing or piece of music

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Eloquent

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adj. well-spoken; expressive; articulate

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Emollient

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adj. soothing, especially to the skin making less harsh; mollifying

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Empirical

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adj. based on observation or experiment

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Encomium

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

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Endemic

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adj. characteristic off or often found in a particular locality, region, or people; restricted to or peculiar to that region; indigenous

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Enervate

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v. to weaken; to reduce in vitality

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Engender

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v. to cause, produce, give rise to

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Enigmatic

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adj. mysterious, obscure, difficult to understand

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Ennui

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n. dissatisfaction and restlessness resulting from boredom or apathy

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Enormity

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n. excessive wickedness, evilness

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Ephemeral

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adj. brief; fleeting, short-lived

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Epicure

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n. one devoted to sensual pleasure, particularly in food and drink; gourmand, sybarite

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Episodic

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adj. loosely connected, not flowing logically, occurring at intervals

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Epithet

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n. disparaging word or phrase

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Epitome

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. embodiment; quintessence

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Equanimity

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n. composure, self-possession

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Equable

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adj. not able to be easily disturbed

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Equivocate

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v. to use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent

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Errant

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adj. traveling, itinerant, peripatetic

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Erratic

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adj. without consistency

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Erudite

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Adj. very learned; scholarly

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Eschew

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v. to shun or avoid

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Esoteric

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adj. intended for or understood by a small, specific group

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Essay

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v. to test or try; attempt, experiment

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Estimable

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adj. worthy, formidable

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Eulogy

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n. a speech honoring the dead

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Evanescent

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adj. tending to disappear like vapor; vanishing

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Evince

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v. to show clearly, to indicate

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Exacerbate

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v. to make worse or more severe

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Exact

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v. to demand, call for, require, take

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Excoriate

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v. to censure scathingly , to upbraid

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Exculpate

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v. exonerate; to clear of blame

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Exemplar

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n. typical or standard specimen; paradigm, model

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Exhort

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v. to incite, to make urgent appeals

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Exigent

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adj. urgent; pressing; requiring immediate action or attention

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Exonerate

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v. to remove blame

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Expatiate

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v. discuss or write about at length; to range freely

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Expiate

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v. to atone or make amends for

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Expurgate

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v. to remove obscenity, purify, censor

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Extant

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adj. existing, not destroyed or lost

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Extemporaneous

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adj. improvised; done without preparation

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Extirpate

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v. to destroy, exterminate, cut out, pull out by the roots

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Facetious

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adj. playful; humorous; not serious

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Fallacy

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n. an invalid or incorrect notion; a mistaken belief

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Fallow

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adj. untilled, inactive, dormant

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Fanatical

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adj. zealous; single-mindedly obsessed with one thing

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Fastidious

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adj. excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please

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Fatuous

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adj. silly, inanely foolish

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Fawn

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v. flatter or praise excessively

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Feckless

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adj. ineffectual; irresponsible

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Felicitous

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adj. suitable expressed, well chosen, apropos; delightful

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Fervent

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adj. greatly emotional or zealous

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Fetid

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adj. stinking, having a heavy bad smell

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Fetter

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v. to shackle, put in chains, restrain

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Fickle

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adj. a likeliness to casually change one’s mind

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Filibuster

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n. intentional obstruction, usually using prolonged speechmaking to delay legislative action

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Filigree

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n. an ornamental work, especially of delicate lace-like patterns. resembling such a pattern

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Flag

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v. to sag or droop; to become spiritless, to decline

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Flip

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adj. sarcastic, impertinent

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Florid

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adj. flushed with color, ruddy, ornate

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Flout

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v. to demonstrate contempt for

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Foment

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v. to stir up, incite, rouse

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Forbearance

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n. patience, willingness to wait

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Ford

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v. to wade across the shallow part of a river or stream

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Forestall

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v. to act in a way to hinder, exclude or prevent an action; to circumvent or thwart

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Forswear

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v. to renounce, disallow, repudiate

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Fortuitous

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adj. happening by fortunate accident or chance

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Fracas

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n. noisy fight or quarrel, brawl

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Fractious

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adj. quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, cranky

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Froward

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adj. intractable; not willing to yield or comply; stubbornly disobedient

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Frugal

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adj. prudent in saving; not wasteful

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Fulminate

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v. to attack loudly or denounce

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Furtive

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adj. marked by stealth; covert; surreptitious

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Gainsay

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v. to deny, dispute, contradict, oppose

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Galvanize

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v. to startle into sudden action, stimulate

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Gambol

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v. to skip about playfully, frolic

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Garner

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v. to gather and save, store up, acquire

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Garrulous

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adj. pointlessly talkative, talking too much

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Gauche

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adj. crude, awkward, tasteless

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Germane

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adj. relevant to the subject at hand; appropriate in subject matter

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Glib

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adj. marked by ease for informality; nonchalant; lacking in depth; superficial

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Gossamer

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adj. delicate, insubstantial or tenuous; insincere

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Grandiloquence

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n. pompous speech or expression

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Gregarious

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adj. sociable; outgoing; enjoying the company of other people

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Grouse

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v. to complain or grumble

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Guile

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n. trickery, duplicity, cunning

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Hackneyed

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adj. rendered trite or commonplace by frequent usage

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Halcyon

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adj. calm and peaceful, prosperous

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Hallow

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v. to set apart as holy

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Happenstance

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n. a chance happening or event

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Harangue

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v. to deliver a loud, pompous speech or tirade

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Harbinger

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n. anything that foreshadows a future event; an omen ‘ a sign

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Harrow

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v. to distress, create stress or torment

285
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Hedonism

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n. devotion to pleasurable pursuits, especially to the pleasures of the senses

286
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Hegemony

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n. the consistent dominance or influence of one group, state, or ideology over others

287
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Heretical

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adj. violating accepted dogma or convention, unorthodox

288
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Hermetic

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adj. airtight, impervious to outside influence

289
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Heterodox

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adj. unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic

290
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Hidebound

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adj. narrow or rigid in opinion, inflexible; oriented toward or confined to the past; extremely conservative

291
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Hirsute

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adj. hairy, shaggy

292
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Homily

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n. a sermon or morally instructive lecture, a platitude

293
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Homogeneous

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adj. same throughout

294
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Hortatory

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adj. Urging to come course of conduct or action; encouraging

295
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Hubris

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n. arrogant presumption

296
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Hyperbole

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n. an exaggerated statement, often used as a figure of speech

297
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Iconoclast

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n. one who attacks of undermines traditional conventions or institutions

298
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Idolatrous

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adj. given to intense or excessive devotion to something

299
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Idyll

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n. a carefree, lighthearted pastoral or romantic episode or experience, a literary or musical piece describing such

300
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Ignominious

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adj. shameful, dishonorable, ignoble, undignified, disgraceful

301
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Illiberality

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n. quality of being narrow-minded, bigoted

302
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Imbroglio

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n. difficult or embarrassing situation

303
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Imminent

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adj. about to happen; impending

304
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Immutable

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adj. capable of change

305
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Impassive

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adj. revealing no emotion or sensibility

306
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Impecunious

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adj. lacking fund; without money

307
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imperious

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adj. commanding, masterful, arrogant, domineering, haughty

308
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Imperturbable

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adj. marked by extreme calm, impassivity and steadiness

309
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Impetuous

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aid. hastily or rashly energetic; impulsive and vehement

310
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Implacable

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adj. not capable of being appeased or significantly changed

311
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Importune

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v. to ask incessantly, beg, nag

312
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Impudent

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adj. shamelessly bold; insolent, impertinent

313
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Impugn

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v. attack or assail verbally, censure, execrate, deny

314
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Impunity

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n. immunity from punishment, penalty or harm

315
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Impute

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v. to attribute to a cause to source, ascribe, assign as a characteristic

316
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Inalienable

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adj. cannot be transferred

317
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Inchoate

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adj. in a initial stage, not fully formed

318
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Incipient

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adj. beginning to come into being or to become apparent

319
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Indecorous

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adj. violating generally accepted standards of good taste or propriety, unseemly

320
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Indefatigable

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adj. not easily exhaustible, tireless, dogged

321
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indemnify

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adj. to guard to secure against anticipated loss

322
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Indifferent

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adj. having no interest or concern, apathetic; showing no bias or prejudice

323
Q

Indolent

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adj. lazy, listless, torpid

324
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Ineluctable

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adj. certain, inevitable

325
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Inert

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adj. unmoving, lethargic, sluggish, not reactive chemically

326
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Ingenuous

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adj. artless, frank and candid, lacking in sophistication

327
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Inherent

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adj. ingrained with one’s nature, intrinsic, firmly established, essential

328
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Inimical

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adj. damaging, harmful, injurious, hostile, unfriendly

329
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Inimitable

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adj. one of a kind, peerless

330
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Iniquity

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n. wickedness, gross injustice

331
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Injudicious

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adj. showing lack of judgment, unwise, imprudent, indiscreet

332
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Innervate

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v. to supply with nerves, energize

333
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Innocuous

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adj. harmless; causing no damage

334
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Inscrutable

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adj. incapable of being discovered or understood, mysterious

335
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insensible

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adj. unconscious, unresponsive, unaware, unaffected, numb

336
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Insipid

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adj. without taste of flavor, lacking in spirit, dull

337
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insouciant

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adj. unconcerned, carefreee, nonchalant

338
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Insular

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adj. parochial, narrow-minded, like an island

339
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Interdict

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v. prohibit, forbid, bad, halt

340
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Intimate

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v. to imply, suggest or insinuate

341
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intractable

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adj. not easily managed or directed, stubborn, obstinate

342
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Intransigent

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adj. refusing to compromise

343
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Intrepid

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adj. steadfast, courageous

344
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Inundate

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v. to cover or overwhelm, to flood

345
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Inured

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adj. accustomed to accepting something undesirable

346
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Inveigh

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v. to attack verbally, denounce, deprecate

347
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Inveigle

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v. to obtain by deception or flattery

348
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Inveterate

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adj. deep routed, ingrained, habitual

349
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Invidious

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adj. tending to arouse envy or ill will in others

350
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Irascible

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adj. easily angered; prone to temperamental outbursts

351
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Itinerate

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v. to travel from place to place

352
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Jejune

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adj. vapid, uninteresting; childish, immature;lacking nutrition

353
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Jibe

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v. to agree, to be in accord

354
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Jocose

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adj. giving to joking; humorous

355
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Kinetic

A

adj. having to do with motion; lively; active

356
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Labile

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adj. readily open to change, unstable

357
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Lachrymose

A

adj. causing tears, tearful, showing sorrow

358
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Laconic

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adj. using few words; terse

359
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Lassitude

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n. listlessness, languor, weariness

360
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Laud

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v. to praise highly

361
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Lavish

A

adj. extravagant

362
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Lethargic

A

adj. characterized by lethargy or sluggishness

363
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Libertine

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n. someone unrestrained by morality or convention or leading a dissolute life

364
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Limn

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v. to draw, outline in detail

365
Q

Limpid

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adj. transparent, serene, clear and simple in style, untroubled

366
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Lionize

A

v. to treat something as an object of great interest or importance; to treat a person as a celebrity

367
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List

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v. to tilt or lean to one side

368
Q

Loquacious

A

adj. extremely talkative

369
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Lucid

A

adj. intelligible, sound, clear

370
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Lumber

A

v. to move heavily and clumsily or with a rumbling sound

371
Q

Luminous

A

adj. characterized by a brightness and the emission of light, enlightened, clear

372
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Magnanimity

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n. the quality of being generously noble in mind and heart, especially in forgiving

373
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Malevolent

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adj. having or showing often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred

374
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Malfeasance

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n. the performance of a public official of an act that is harmful or illegal

375
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Malinger

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v. to feign illness so as to avoid work

376
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Malleable

A

adj. capable of being shaped of formed, easily influenced

377
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Martial

A

adj. associated with war and the armed forces

378
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Martinet

A

n. a rigid disciplinarian

379
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Maunder

A

v. to talk or move aimlessly mutter

380
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Maverick

A

n. independent individual who does not go along with a group or party

381
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Melancholy

A

adj. tending toward sadness

382
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Mellifluous

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adj. sweetly flowing, usually used to describe words or sounds

383
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Mendacity

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n. the condition of being untruthful, dishonesty

384
Q

Mendicant

A

n. a beggar, supplicant

385
Q

Mercurial

A

adj. character by rapid and unpredictable change in mood

386
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Meretricious

A

adj. tawdry, pretentious, attractive but false, showy, having to do with prostitution

387
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Meticulous

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adj. characterized by extreme care and precision, attentive to details

388
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Mettlesome

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adj. courageous, high-spirited

389
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Militate

A

v. to have weight or bearing on, to argue (against)

390
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Milk

A

v. to exploit, to squeeze every last ounce of

391
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Minatory

A

adj. menacing, threatening

392
Q

Mince

A

v. pronounce rt speak affectedly or too carefully, euphemized, take tiny steps, tiptoe

393
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Misanthrope

A

n. one who hates humankind

394
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Misogynist

A

n. one who hates women

395
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Mitigate

A

v. to make or become less severe or intense, moderate

396
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Mollify

A

v. to calm or soothe, reduce in emotional intensity

397
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Monotony

A

n. tedious lack of variety or change

398
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Morose

A

adj. sad, sullen, melancholy

399
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Multifaceted

A

adj. having many aspects

400
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Multifarious

A

adj. varied, motley, greatly diversified

401
Q

Mundane

A

adj. of the world. typical or concerned with the ordinary

402
Q

Nadir

A

n. low point, perigee

403
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Nascent

A

adj. coming into being; in early developmental stages

404
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Natty

A

adj. trimly neat and tidy, dapper

405
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Nebulous

A

adj. vague, cloudy, lacking clearly defined form

406
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Neologism

A

n. a new word, expression, or usage; the creation or use of new words or senses

407
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Neophyte

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n. a recent convert; a beginner; novice

408
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Nettle

A

v. to irritate, annoy,or provoke

409
Q

Nexus

A

n. a connection, tie, or link; center or focus

410
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Nice

A

adj. exacting, extremely or even excessively precise; done with delicacy or skill

411
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Noisome

A

adj. offensive, especially to one’s sense of smell, fetid

412
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Nonplussed

A

adj. baffled, in a quandary, at a loss for what to say, do or think

413
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Normative

A

adj. of or pertaining to an assumed norm regarded as the standard of correctness in behavior, speech, writing

414
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Nostrum

A

n. cure-all, placebo, questionable remedy

415
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Noxious

A

adj. harmful; injurious

416
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Obdurate

A

adj. unyielding, hard-hearted, inflexible

417
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Obeisance

A

n. gesture that expresses deference, such as a bow or curtsy

418
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Obfuscate

A

v. to deliberately obscure, to make confusing

419
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Objurgate

A

v. to reproach or vehemently denounce; to scold

420
Q

Obsequious

A

adj. exhibiting a fawning attentiveness; subservient

421
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Obstinate

A

adj. stubborn; hardheaded; uncompromising

422
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Obstreperous

A

adj. noisy, loudly stubborn, boisterous

423
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Obtain

A

v. to be established, accepted, or customary, prevail

424
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Obtuse

A

adj. lacking sharpness of intellect, not clear or precise in thought or expression

425
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Obviate

A

v. to anticipate and make unnecessary

426
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Occlude

A

v. to obstruct or block

427
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Occult

A

adj. hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension

428
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Odious

A

adj. hateful; arousing strong feeling of dislike

429
Q

Officious

A

adj. meddlesome, pushy in offering one’s services where they are unwanted

430
Q

Onerous

A

adj. troubling, burdensome

431
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Opaque

A

adj. impermeable by light; dense in mind

432
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Opprobrium

A

n. disgrace, contempt, scorn

433
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Oscillation

A

n. the at of state of swinging back and forth with a steady, uninterrupted rhythm

434
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Ossified

A

adj. changed into bone; made rigidly conventional and unreceptive to change

435
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Ostensible

A

adj. seeming, appearing as such, professed

436
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Ostentatious

A

adj. characterized by or given to pretentiousness

437
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Overweening

A

adj. presumptuously arrogant, overbearing, immoderate

438
Q

Paean

A

n. a song or expression of praise and thanksgiving

439
Q

Palliate

A

v. to make something appear less serious, gloss over, mitigate

440
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Panacea

A

n. a remedy for all diseases of ills; an answer or solution for all problems or difficulties

441
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Panache

A

adj. a grand or flamboyant manner

442
Q

Pandemic

A

adj. widespread; occurring over a large area of affecting an unusually large percentage of the population

443
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Panegyric

A

n. formal expression of praise

444
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Paradigm

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n. something that serves as a model, example, or pattern; the framework of assumptions and understandings shared by a group or discipline that shapes its world view

445
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Paradox

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n. a contradiction; a seemingly self-contradictory statement that seems true nonetheless

446
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Paragon

A

n. something regarded as a model of excellence or perfection in some way

447
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Pariah

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n. an outcast, a rejected and despised person

448
Q

Parody

A

n. humorous imitation intended for ridicule or comic effect, especially in literature and art, also something so bad as to be potentially mistaken for an intentional mockery

449
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Parry

A

v. to block, evade or ward off, as a blow

450
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Parsimonious

A

adj. cheap, miserly

451
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Partisan

A

adj. one-sided, committed to a party, biased or prejudiced

452
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Pastoral

A

adj. having the simplicity, charm serenity, or other characteristics generally attributed to rural areas; pertaining to life in the country

453
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Paucity

A

adj. scarcity, a lacking of

454
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Peccadillo

A

n. a slight offense; literally, a minor sin

455
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Pedagogy

A

n. the art or profession of training, teaching, or instructing

456
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Pedantic

A

adj. ostentatious display of learning, excessive attention to minutiae and formal rules, unimaginative

457
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Pedestrian

A

adj. commonplace, trite, unremarkable

458
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Pellucid

A

adj. clear in meaning, expression, or style’ translucent

459
Q

Penchant

A

n. strong inclination, a liking

460
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Penitential

A

adj. expressive of regret for one’s wrong doing

461
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Penurious

A

adj. penny-pinching, excessively thrifty; ungenerous

462
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Peremptory

A

adj. admitting of no contradiction, putting an end to further debate, haughty, imperious

463
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Perennial

A

adj. recurrent through the year or many years, happening repeatedly

464
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Perfidy

A

n. intentional breach of faith, treachery

465
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Perfunctory

A

adj. cursory, done without care of interest

466
Q

Peripatetic

A

adj. itinerant, traveling, nomadic

467
Q

Pernicious

A

adj. extremely harmful, potentially causing death

468
Q

Personable

A

adj. pleasing in appearance, attractive

469
Q

Perspicacious

A

adj. acutely perceptive, having keen discernment

470
Q

Peruse

A

v. to examine with great care

471
Q

Pervade

A

v. to permeate throughout

472
Q

Petrous

A

adj. like a rock; hard, stony

473
Q

Petulant

A

adj. impatient, irritable

474
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Philanthropic

A

adj. humanitarian; benevolent

475
Q

Philistine

A

n. a crass individual guided by material rather than intellectual or artistic values

476
Q

Phlegmatic

A

adj. calm, sluggish, unemotional, stoic

477
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Pillory

A

v. to punish, hold up to public scorn

478
Q

Pine

A

v. to yearn intensely, to languish, to lose vigor

479
Q

Pious

A

adj. extremely reverent or devout

480
Q

Piquant

A

adj. agreeable pungent, spicy, stimulating

481
Q

Pique

A

n. resentment, feeling of irritation due to hurt pride

482
Q

Pirate

A

v. to use or reproduce illegally

483
Q

Pith

A

n. the essential or central part

484
Q

Placate

A

v. to appease, to calm by making concessions

485
Q

Plaintive

A

adj. mournful, melancholy, sorrowful

486
Q

Plangent

A

adj. pounding, thundering, resounding

487
Q

Plastic

A

adj. moldable, pliable, not rigid

488
Q

Platitude

A

n. a superficial or trite remark, especially one offered as meaningful

489
Q

Plethora

A

n. an overabundance, a surplus

490
Q

Pluck

A

n. courage, spunk, fortitude

491
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Plumb

A

v. to measure the depth (as with a plumb line), to examine critically

492
Q

Plummet

A

v. to plunge to drop straight down

493
Q

Poignant

A

adj. distressing, pertinent, touching, stimulating, emotional

494
Q

Polemical

A

adj. controversial, argumentative

495
Q

Portentous

A

adj. ominously significant or indicative

496
Q

Pragmatic

A

adj. practical rather than idealistic

497
Q

Prate

A

v. chatter, babble

498
Q

Prattle

A

v. to babble meaninglessly; to talk in an empty and idle manner

499
Q

Precarious

A

adj. uncertain, risky, dangerous

500
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Precept

A

n. rule establishing standard of conduct, a doctrine that is taught

501
Q

Precipitate

A

adj. acting with excessive haste or impulse

502
Q

Precursor

A

n. something that precedes and indicates or announces another

503
Q

Predilection

A

n. a disposition in favor of something, preference

504
Q

Preeminent

A

adj. superior to others; surpassing

505
Q

Preempt

A

v. to replace, to supersede, to appropriate

506
Q

Preen

A

v. to dress up, primp, groom oneself with elaborate care; in animals, to clean fur or feathers

507
Q

Premonitory

A

adj. serving to warn beforehand

508
Q

Prescience

A

n. knowing of events prior to their occurring

509
Q

Presumptuous

A

adj. overstepping bounds, as of propriety or courtesy taking liberties

510
Q

Prevaricate

A

v. to deliberately avoid the truth, mislead

511
Q

Pristine

A

adj. pure, uncorrupted, clean

512
Q

Prize

A

v. to pry, press or force with a lever

513
Q

Probity

A

adj. adherence to highest principles, uprightness

514
Q

Proclivity

A

n. a natural predisposition or inclination

515
Q

Prodigal

A

adj. recklessly wasteful, extravagant, profuse, lavish

516
Q

Prodigious

A

adj. abundant in size, force, or extent; extraordinary

517
Q

Profligate

A

adj. excessively wasteful, recklessly extravagant

518
Q

Profuse

A

adj. giving or coming forth abundantly, extravagant

519
Q

Prolific

A

adj. producing large volumes or amounts, productive

520
Q

Prolix

A

adj. long-winded, verbose

521
Q

Promulgate

A

v. to make known by open declaration, proclaim formally, or put into operation

522
Q

Propensity

A

n. a natural inclination or tendency, penchant

523
Q

Propinquity

A

adj. nearness in time or place, affinity of nature, kinship

524
Q

Propitiate

A

v. to appease or pacify

525
Q

Propitious

A

adj. auspicious, favorable

526
Q

Propriety

A

n. appropriateness, conformity with standards of acceptable behavior

527
Q

Prosaic

A

adj. dull unimaginative

528
Q

Proscribe

A

v. to outlaw or prohibit

529
Q

Provident

A

adj. frugal, looking to the future

530
Q

Puerile

A

adj. childish, immature

531
Q

Pugnacious

A

adj. contentious, quarrelsome, giving to fighting, belligerent

532
Q

Punctilious

A

adj. precise, paying attention to trivialities, especially in regard to etiquette

533
Q

Pundit

A

n. an authority on a subject, one who gives opinions

534
Q

Pusillanimous

A

adj. cowardly, craven

535
Q

Putrefy

A

v. to rot, decay, and give off a foul odor, become gangrenous

536
Q

Quaff

A

v. to drink deeply

537
Q

Quail

A

v. to shrink back in fear, lose courage

538
Q

Qualify

A

v. to limit

539
Q

Qualms

A

n. misgivings, reservation, causing for hesitancy

540
Q

Queries

A

n. question, inquiries, reservation

541
Q

Querulous

A

adj. prone to complaining or grumbling, quarrelsome

542
Q

Quiescence

A

n. still, motionlessness, quality of being at rest

543
Q

Quotidian

A

adj. occurring or recurring daily, commonplace

544
Q

Rail

A

v. to complain about bitterly

545
Q

Ramify

A

v. to be divided or subdivided, branch out

546
Q

Rancorous

A

adj. characterized by bitter, long-lasting resentment

547
Q

Rapacious

A

adj. voracious, greedy, plundering, subsisting on prey

548
Q

Rarefy

A

v. to make or become thin, less dense, refine

549
Q

Recalcitrant

A

adj. obstinately defiant of authority or guidance, difficult to manage

550
Q

Recant

A

v. to retract, especially a previously held belief

551
Q

Recapitulate

A

v. to summarizes, to repeat concisely

552
Q

Recondite

A

adj. hidden, concealed, difficult to understand, obscure

553
Q

Reconnoiter

A

v. to engage in reconnaissance, make a preliminary inspection of

554
Q

Recumbent

A

adj. leaning, resting, prone

555
Q

Redolent

A

adj. fragrant, suggestive or evocative

556
Q

Redoubtable

A

adj. awe-inspiring, worthy of honor

557
Q

Refulgent

A

adj. radiant, shiny, brilliant

558
Q

Refute

A

v. to disprove, successfully argue against

559
Q

Regale

A

v. to delight or entertain, feast

560
Q

Relegate

A

v. to forcibly assign, especially to a lower place or position

561
Q

Remonstrate

A

v. to protest, object

562
Q

Renege

A

v. to fail honor a commitment, go back on a promise

563
Q

Rent

A

v. torn, split apart, pierced as by a sound

564
Q

Repine

A

v. to feel or express dejection or discontent, long for

565
Q

Repudiate

A

v. to refuse to have anything to do with, disown

566
Q

Rescind

A

v. to invalidate, repeal, retract

567
Q

Resolute

A

adj. adamant, steadfast, determined

568
Q

Restive

A

adj. impatient of control, restraint, or delay; restless; uneasy

569
Q

Reticent

A

adj. quiet, reserved reluctant to express thoughts and feelings

570
Q

Reverent

A

adj. marked by, feeling, or expressing a feeling of profound awe and respect

571
Q

Rhetoric

A

n. the art or study of effective use of language for communication and persuasion

572
Q

Risible

A

adj. hilarious, provoking laughter

573
Q

Rubric

A

n. authoritative rule, heading, title, or category

574
Q

Rue

A

v. regret, feel remorse

575
Q

Sagacious

A

adj. having sound judgment, perceptive, wise

576
Q

Salacious

A

adj. appealing to or causing sexual desire, bawdy

577
Q

Salient

A

adj. prominent, protruding, conspicuous, highly relevant

578
Q

Salubrious

A

adj. promoting health or well-being

579
Q

Salutary

A

adj. remedial, wholesome, causing improvement

580
Q

Sanctimony

A

n. self-righteousness, pretended piety

581
Q

Sanction

A

n. authoritative permission or approval; a penalty intended to enforce compliance

582
Q

Sanguine

A

adj. cheerful, confident, optimistic

583
Q

Sap

A

v. to enervate or weaken the vitality of

584
Q

Sartorial

A

adj. of or pertaining to clothing or style

585
Q

Satiate

A

v. to overindulge, satisfy to excess

586
Q

Satire

A

n. a literary work that ridicules or criticizes human vice through humor or derision

587
Q

Saturnine

A

adj. gloomy, dark, sullen, morose

588
Q

Scintillating

A

adj. animated, witty, brilliantly clever

589
Q

Scurvy

A

adj. contemptible, despicable

590
Q

Sedulous

A

adj. diligent, persistent, hardworking

591
Q

Seine

A

n. a large net hung out and dragged in to catch fish

592
Q

Sere

A

adj. withered, arid

593
Q

Seminal

A

adj. like a seed, constituting a source, originative

594
Q

Serendipitous

A

adj. come upon or found by accident; fortuitous

595
Q

Shard

A

n. a piece of broken pottery or glass, any small piece or part

596
Q

Simper

A

v. to smirk; to say something with a silly, coy smile

597
Q

Sinecure

A

n. position requiring little or no work and usually providing an income

598
Q

Singular

A

adj. exceptional, unusual, odd

599
Q

Sinuous

A

adj. winding, curving, moving lithely, devious

600
Q

Slake

A

v. to satisfy, quench, lessen the intensity of

601
Q

Sodden

A

adj. soaked or drenched, unimaginative, dull

602
Q

Solder

A

v. weld, fuse or join, as with a soldering gun

603
Q

Solicitous

A

adj. concerned and attentive, eager

604
Q

Solvent

A

adj. able to meet financial obligations

605
Q

Sophistry

A

n. fallacious reasoning; plausible but faulty logic

606
Q

Sophomoric

A

adj. exhibiting immaturity, lack of judgment, pretentious

607
Q

Soporific

A

adj. causing drowsiness, tending to induce sleep

608
Q

Sordid

A

adj. characterized by filth, grime, or squalor, foul

609
Q

Sparse

A

adj. thin, not dense, arranged at widely spaced intervals

610
Q

Specious

A

adj. seeming true, but actually false, misleadingly attractive

611
Q

Spendthrift

A

n. one who spends money wastefully

612
Q

Splenetic

A

adj. bad-tempered, irritable

613
Q

Sporadic

A

adj. occurring only occasionally, or in scattered instances

614
Q

Spurious

A

adj. lacking authenticity or validity, false, counterfeit

615
Q

Squalid

A

adj. sordid, wretched and dirty as from neglect

616
Q

Squander

A

v. to wastes by spending or using irresponsibly

617
Q

Stanch

A

v. to stop the flow of a fluid

618
Q

Static

A

adj. not moving, active or in motion; at rest

619
Q

Steep

A

v. to saturate or completely soak

620
Q

Stentorian

A

adj. extremely loud and powerful

621
Q

Stint

A

v. to restrain, be sparing or frugal

622
Q

Stoic

A

adj. indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain, steadfast

623
Q

Stolid

A

adj. calm, impassive

624
Q

Striated

A

adj. striped, grooved, or banded

625
Q

Strut

A

n. a structural support used to brace framework

626
Q

Stupefy

A

v. to shun, baffle, or amaze

627
Q

Stymie

A

v. to block, thwart

628
Q

Subpoena

A

n. a court order requiring appearance and/or testimony

629
Q

Subtle

A

adj. not obvious, elusive,difficult to discern, crafty or sly

630
Q

Succinct

A

adj. brief, concise

631
Q

Succor

A

n. assistance, relief in time of distress

632
Q

Sundry

A

adj. various, miscellaneous, separate

633
Q

Supercilious

A

adj. disdainful, arrogant, haughty, characterized by haughty scorn

634
Q

Superfluous

A

adj. exceeding what is sufficient or necessary

635
Q

Supine

A

adj. inactive, lying on one’s back, apathetic, mentally or morally slack

636
Q

Supplant

A

v. to take the place of , supersede

637
Q

Suppliant

A

adj. asking humbly, beseeching

638
Q

Supplicant

A

n. beggar, one who prays or begs for something

639
Q

Surfeit

A

v. to feed or supply in excess

640
Q

Sycophant

A

n. someone who tries to flatter or please for personal gain, parasite

641
Q

Synthesis

A

n. the combination of parts to make a whole

642
Q

Table

A

v. to remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration

643
Q

Taciturn

A

adj. not talkative, silent

644
Q

Talisman

A

n. something believed to have magic power or bestow good luck

645
Q

Tamp

A

v. to drive in or down by a series of blows

646
Q

Tautology

A

n. repetition, a redundancy a circular argument

647
Q

Tawdry

A

adj. cheap, gaudy, showy, tacky, indecent

648
Q

Temperance

A

n. moderation of self-restraint; self-control

649
Q

Tenacity

A

n. the quality of adherence or persistence to something valued

650
Q

Tendentious

A

adj. biased, showing marked tendencies

651
Q

Tender

A

v. to offer formally

652
Q

Tenuous

A

adj. having little substance or strength, flimsy, weak

653
Q

Tepid

A

adj. characterized by a lack of force or enthusiasm; lukewarm

654
Q

Terse

A

adj. brief and concise in wording

655
Q

Timorous

A

adj. timid, fearful, diffident

656
Q

Tirade

A

n. a long and extremely critical speech, harsh denunciation

657
Q

Toady

A

n. sycophant, flatterer, yes-man

658
Q

Torpid

A

adj. lethargic, sluggish, dormant

659
Q

Torque

A

n. a force that causes rotation

660
Q

Torrid

A

adj. scorching, ardent, passionate, hurried

661
Q

Tortuous

A

adj. winding, twisting, excessively complicated

662
Q

Tout

A

v. to publicly praise or promote

663
Q

Tractable

A

adj. docile, obedient, easily led

664
Q

Transient

A

adj. fleeting, passing quickly, brief

665
Q

Travesty

A

n. mockery, caricature, parody

666
Q

Trenchant

A

adj. sharply perceptive, keen, penetrating, biting, clear-cut

667
Q

Trite

A

adj. lacking in freshness or effectiveness because of constant use of excessive repetition

668
Q

Truculent

A

adj. fierce, scathing, eager to fight

669
Q

Tumid

A

adj. swollen

670
Q

Turbid

A

adj. muddy, having sediment stirred up, clouded to the point of being opaque, in a state of turmoil

671
Q

Turgid

A

adj. swollen, bloated, pompous, excessively ornate

672
Q

Turpitude

A

n. depravity, baseness

673
Q

Tyro

A

n. novice, beginner in learning

674
Q

Ubiquitous

A

adj. existing everywhere at the same time, constantly encountered, widespread

675
Q

Umbrage

A

n. offense, resentment

676
Q

Undulate

A

v. to move in a wave-like fashion, fluctuate

677
Q

Unfeigned

A

adj. genuine, not false or hypothetical

678
Q

Untenable

A

adj. indefensible, not viable, uninhabitable

679
Q

Untoward

A

adj. troublesome, unruly, unseemly, adverse

680
Q

Upbraid

A

v. to scold, censure, rebuke, chastise

681
Q

Urbane

A

adj. sophisticated, refine, elegant

682
Q

Usury

A

n. charging an exorbitant or illegal rate of interest

683
Q

Vacillate

A

v. to waver indecisively between one course of action or opinion and another, sway from one side to the other

684
Q

Variegated

A

adj. multicolored, characterized by a variety of patches of different color

685
Q

Vaunt

A

v. to brag or boast

686
Q

Venal

A

adj. capable of being brought or bribed, mercenary

687
Q

Venerate

A

v. to revere

688
Q

Veracity

A

n. truthfulness, honesty

689
Q

Verisimilitude

A

n. appearing true or real

690
Q

Veritable

A

adj. authentic, real, genuine

691
Q

Vestigial

A

adj. possessing a mark or visible evidence of something that is no longer present or in existence; a very slight trance of amount of something

692
Q

Vexation

A

n. annoyance, irritation

693
Q

Vigilant

A

adj. alertly watchful

694
Q

Vilify

A

v. to defame, characterize harshly

695
Q

Virulent

A

adj. extremely harmful or poisonous, bitterly hostile or antagonistic

696
Q

Viscous

A

adj. think, sticky

697
Q

Vitiate

A

v. to reduce the value of debase, spoil, make ineffective

698
Q

Vituperate

A

v. to use harsh condemnatory language; abuse or censure severely

699
Q

Vociferous

A

adj. crying out noisily

700
Q

Volatile

A

adj. readily changing to a vapor; changeable; fickle, explosive

701
Q

Voluble

A

adj. characterized by a ready and continuous flow of words; fluent; talkative

702
Q

Voracious

A

adj. having an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit, ravenous

703
Q

Waft

A

n. a light breeze, a puff

704
Q

Waver

A

v. to move to and fro, to be unsettled in opinion

705
Q

Welter

A

v. to write, to toss about, to be in turmoil

706
Q

Wend

A

v. to go, proceed, walk

707
Q

Whet

A

n. to sharpen or stimulate

708
Q

Whimsical

A

adj.imaginative; unpredictable

709
Q

Zealous

A

adj. fervent, ardent, impassioned

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