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Temerity (adj)

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Bold recklessness OR audacity.

No one had the temerity to question his conclusions

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Depredate (v)

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Plunder, loot.

Many types of predators depredate bird nests

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Genuflect (v)

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Bow in obeisance.

Politicians had to genuflect to advance their careers.

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Wend (v)

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Find you way through.

They wended their way across the city.

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Pelagic (adj)

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Of the open seas.

There are very few pelagic fish to be seen.

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Froward (adj)

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Stubborn, intractable, difficult to manage

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Punctilious (adj)

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Paying attention to details, meticulous.

He was punctilious in providing every amenity for his guests.

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Aphorism (n)

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Tersely worded saying.

The old aphorism ‘the child is father to the man’.

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Purloin (v)

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Steal.

He must have managed to purloin a copy of the key.

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Esoteric (adj)

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Difficult to understand.

Esoteric philosophical debates.

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Succor (n)

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Aid, relief, rescue.

The wounded had little chance of succour.

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Protean (adj)

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Versatile able to change quickly.

Shostakovich was a remarkably protean composer.

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Callous (adj)

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Hard, unfeeling.and insensitve.

His callous comments about the murder made me shiver.

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Proscribe (v)

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Forbidden by law.

Strikes remained proscribed in the armed forces.

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Denouement (n)

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Conclusion of a series of events.

The film’s denouement was unsatisfying and ambiguous.

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Supercillious (adj)

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Haughty, imperious.

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Parley (n)

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Meeting between parties.

A parley is in progress and the invaders may withdraw.

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Apoplectic (adj)

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Angry, infurious.

Mark was apoplectic with rage at the decision.

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Simper (v)

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Say with a coy smile.

She simpered, looking pleased with herself.

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Miscegenation (n)

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A mixture of different races.

They believe in miscegenation as the answer to world peace.

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Androgynous (adj)

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Partly male and partly female.

A stunningly androgynous dancer.

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Covey (n)

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A small group of people or things.

Coveys of actors rushed through the rooms.

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Supine (n)

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Lying on your back.

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Cozen (v)

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Cheat.

Do not think to cozen your contemporaries.

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Limpid (adj)

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Calm, clear.

The limpid waters of the Caribbean.

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Refulgent (adj)

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Shining very brightly.

Refulgent blue eyes.

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Phelgmatic (adj)

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Calm

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Attenuate (adj)

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Reduce the strength of.

Her intolerance was attenuated by an unexpected liberalism.

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Disingenuous (adj)

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Dishonest not candid.

This journalist was being somewhat disingenuous as well as cynical.

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Epistle (n)

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Short message.

Activists firing off angry epistles.

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Factitious (adj)

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Fake, artificial.

A largely factitious national identity.

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Pied (adj)

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Dappled colors.

The pied flycatcher.

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Militate (v)

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Be a powerful or conclusive factor in preventing.

These fundamental differences will militate against the two communities.

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Stygian (adj)

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Dark, gloomy.

The Stygian crypt.

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Gainsay (v)

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Deny, contradict a fact.

The impact of the railways cannot be gainsaid.

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Palliate (v)

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To lessen the suffering of.

Treatment works by palliating symptoms.

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Nostrum (n)

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Fake medicine.

A charlatan who sells nostrums.

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Obstreperous (adj)

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Stubborn and difficult to control.

The boy is cocky and obstreperous.

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Precocious (adj)

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Well developed(of a child).

A precocious, solitary boy.

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Regale (v)

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Entertain or amuse.

He regaled her with a colorful account of that afternoon’s meeting.

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Ambit (n)

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Within the range or scope of.

A full discussion of this complex issue was beyond the ambit of one book.

42
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Apostate (n)

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Disbeliever.

After fifty years as an apostate he returned to the faith.

43
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Sophistry (n)

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The use of clever but false arguments.

Trying to argue that I had benefited in any way was pure sophistry.

44
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Perspicuity (adj)

A

Clarity.

45
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Enjoin (v)

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Ordered to.

The code enjoined members to trade fairly.

46
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Fulsome (adj)

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Copious, overdone in praise.

The press are embarrassingly fulsome in their appreciation

47
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Imprecation (n)

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Curse.

I pushed my way through, screaming imprecations.

48
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Extenuate (v)

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Reduce the strength of.

Hunger and poverty are not treated extenuating circumstances.

49
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Ineluctable (adj)

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Unavoidable.

The ineluctable facts of history.

50
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Vitiate (v)

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Spoil, tarnish.

Development programmes have been vitiated by the rise in population

51
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Turpitude (n)

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Wickedness.

Acts of moral turpitude.

52
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Plaintive (adj)

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Mournful.

A plaintive cry.

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Pertinacious (adj)

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Unyielding holding firmly.

He worked with a pertinacious resistance to interruptions.

54
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Recreant (n)

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Coward.

The recreant acted with outward boldness.

55
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Adduce (v)

A

Put forward or cite as evidence.

A number of factors are adduced to explain the situation.

56
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Traduce (v)

A

Speak malicious of.

It was regarded as respectable political tactics to traduce him.

57
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Apposite (adj)

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Appropriate

His remarks seemed to be regarded as apposite.

58
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Discursive (adj)

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Talking aimlessly or digressing.

Students often write dull, second-hand, discursive prose

59
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Avocation (n)

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Side vocation.

They are basically doctors, and negotiators by avocation.

60
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Adumbrate (v)

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To outline or sketch.

Hobhouse had already adumbrated the idea of a welfare state.

61
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Alchemy (n)

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Conversion of lead to gold

62
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Allege (v)

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Insinuate.

He alleged that he had been assaulted.

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Allude (v)

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Refer to indirectly.

She had a way of alluding to Jean.

64
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Altruism (n)

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Concern for others well being.

Some may choose to work with vulnerable elderly people out of altruism.

65
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Ambivalence (n)

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Undecided

The law’s ambivalence about the importance of a victim’s identity.

66
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Amble (v)

A

Walk leisurely.

They ambled along the riverbank.

67
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Ameliorate (v)

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Lessen the suffering of.

The reform did much to ameliorate living standards

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Amenable (adj)

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Agreeable.

Parents who have amenable children.

69
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Analgesic (adj)

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Pain reliever.

Acting to relieve pain.

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Anecdote (n)

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Short incident.

He told anecdotes about his job.

71
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Annul (v)

A

Cancel or declare invalid.

The elections were annulled by the general amid renewed protest.

72
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Didactic (adj)

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Inclined to teach or lecture others too much

A boring, didactic speaker.

73
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Diffident (adj)

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Unwilling modest or shy.

A diffident youth.

74
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Diffuse (v)

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Spread out.

Technologies diffuse rapidly.

75
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Dilapidated (adj)

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Run down, broken.

Old, dilapidated building.

76
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Dilate (v)

A

Open, extend.

Her eyes dilated with horror.

77
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Dillettante (n)

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Novice.

78
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Dirge (n)

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Funeral song.

Singers chanted dirges.

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Disabuse (v)

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Clear a misconception.

He quickly disabused me of my fanciful notions.

80
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Disaffect (adj)

A

To cause to loose affection.

The dictator’s policies had soon disaffected the people.

81
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Discern (v)

A

Understand clearly or recognize.

I can discern no difference between the two policies.

82
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Discomfit (v)

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To confuse and deject

To be discomfited by a question.

83
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Hackneyed (adj)

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Trite, commonplace.

Hackneyed old sayings.

84
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Hallmark (n)

A

The distinguishing character of.

The tiny bubbles are the hallmark of fine champagnes.

85
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Harangue (n)

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Bitter diatribe.

They were subjected to a ten-minute harangue by two border guards.

86
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Hedonism (n)

A

Indulgence in sensual pleasure.

87
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Tan (v)

A

To convert (a hide) into leather.

88
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Heretical (adj)

A

Going against established doctrine.

This is a heretical view and if it were left at that, I don’t think much good would come of it.

89
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Hieroglyphic (adj)

[HI ro glyphic]

A

Egyptian symbolic script.

Writing in hieroglyphic script.

90
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Homogenous (adj)

A

Of the same composition.

91
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Hone (v)

A

Sharpen.

To hone one’s skills.

92
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Husband (v)

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Conserve

To husband one’s resources.

93
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Nonplussed (adj)

A

To render utterly perplexed.

And she claims to be nonplussed by those presidential invitations.

94
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Noxious (adj)

A

Harmful or injurious to health.

Noxious vapors emanated from the chimney.

95
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Nuance (n)

A

Subtle difference in or shade of meaning.

He was familiar with the nuances of the local dialect.

96
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Obdurate (adj)

A

Stubborn.

I argued this point with him, but he was obdurate.

97
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Obsequious (adj)

A

Slavish insincere flattery.

They were served by obsequious waiters.

98
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Obstinate (adj)

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Stubborn refusing to change opinion.

Her obstinate determination to pursue a career in radio.

99
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Obviate (v)

A

Get rid of, make unnecessary.

The internet has all but obviated the need for radios.

100
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Occlude (v)

A

Block off.

The entrance to the cave was occluded by the mount of fresh snow.

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