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Panegyric

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a formal expression of praise

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Desiccated

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uninterested, lacking vitality

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turgid

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swollen with pride

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proscribe

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Command against, forbid by law

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desideratum

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something desired as necessity

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Facile

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Lacking depth

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Pontification

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Talk in a pompous way

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tyro

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someone new to the field

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exiguity

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lacking in quality

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capitulate

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surrender

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promulgate

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state or announce

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canard

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deliberately misleading fabrication

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splenetic

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very irritable

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graft

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corruption through bribery

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bereft

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unhappy in love

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dissolution

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debauchery

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ineluctable

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inescapable

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dissemble

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hide one’s true belief through deceit

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chimera

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something desired but not achievable

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baleful

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ominous

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ersatz

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fake

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anachronism

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not time appropriate

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browbeat

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bossy

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chagrin

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highly embarrassed

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atavism

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throwback

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phlegmatic

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not showing any emotions

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apothegm

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short saying

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ineffable

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too sacred to be uttered

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untrammeled

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not bound by anything

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hagiographic

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excessively flattering

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umbrage

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the feeling of anger caused by being offended

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probity

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scruples

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lugubrious

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excessively mournful

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insolent

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rude and arrogant behavior

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effrontery

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insolent or impertinent behavior

36
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impertinent

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rude

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desultory

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lacking a plan

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punctilious

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precise according to details

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perspicacious

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acutely insightful

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concur

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agree

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vitriolic

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biting, caustic, malice

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verisimilitude versus vicissitude

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he appearance of being true or real- verisimilitude

change in one’s circumstances for worse- vicissitude

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indigent

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poor, having very little

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turpitude

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depravity

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truculent

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fierce savage nature, a truculent woman is a virago

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sedulously

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done diligently and

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churlish

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lacking manners

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presentiment

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the feeling of evil to come

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puerile

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characteristic of a child

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untenable

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(of theories) incapable of being defended

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surreptitious

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taking pains not to be caught

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hubris

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overbearing pride

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imperious

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showing arrogant superiority

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invidious

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likely to cause resentment

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encumber

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hold back

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stalwart

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dependable

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recrimination

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mutual accusations

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hobble

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hold back

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rarefied

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make more subtle or refined

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disabuse

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to make someone believe that their view or belief is not valid

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arch

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tease lightly

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Apotheosis

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the highest point of development

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Peremptory

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Bossy

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benign

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innocent

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benighted

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fallen into a state of ignorance

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curmudgeon

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bad-tempered, surly person

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tendentious

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a person likely to lean towards controversial views

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mulct

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swindle

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propitiate

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to placate or appease

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hedge

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to equivocate

71
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vituperate

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to criticize harshly

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sententious

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moralizing in a pompous manner

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venial

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easily excused or forgiven

74
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execrate

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to curse or hiss at

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pollyannaish

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extremely optimistic

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