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Burnish (v)

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Polish to a shine.

Highly burnished armour.

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Buttress (v) (n)

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Give support to.

The political police were the main buttress of the regime.

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Equivocate (v)

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To use ambiguous or unclear expression.

The government have equivocated too often in the past.

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Paragon (n)

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The highest, example of.

Your cook is a paragon.

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Cacophany (n)

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Loud jarring noise.

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Mawkish (adj)

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Sentimental.

A mawkish ode to parenthood.

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Cajole (v)

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Coax with flattery.

He hoped to cajole her into selling him her house.

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Dogmatic (adj)

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Adherence to dogma or theory.

She was not tempted to be dogmatic about what she believed.

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Calibrate (v)

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To divide or mark with gradations OR carefully assess or set.

The depth gauge is calibrated in centimeters..

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Perdition (n)

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Complete and utter ruin.

She used her last banknote to buy herself a square meal before perdition.

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Beseech (v)

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Seek earnestly.

They beseeched him to stay.

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Canny (adj)

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Careful, cautious, prudent.

Canny investors will switch banks if they think they are getting a raw deal

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Seminal (adj)

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Strongly influencing later work.

His seminal work on chaos theory.

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Cantankerous (adj)

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Disagreeable to deal with.

He can be a cantankerous old fossil at times.

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Semantic (n)

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Word meaning

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Serrate (v)

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Having a grooved edge.

Leaves with serrate margins.

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Sever (v)

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Cut off.

The head was severed from the body.

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Sinuous (adj)

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Having curves, bends.

The river follows a sinuous trail through the dale.

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Solicitude (n)

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An attitude of expressing concern.

I was touched by his solicitude.

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Solidarity (n)

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Express support or unity.

Factory workers voiced solidarity with the striking students.

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Soluble (adj)

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That which can be dissolved.

The poison is soluble in alcohol.

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Solvent (n)

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Having the properties of dissolving.

Osmotic, chemical, or solvent action.

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Soporific (adj)

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Sleep inducing.

Some medicine made her soporific.

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Emulate (v)

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Copy the behavior of.

Most rulers wished to emulate Alexander the Great.

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Enamor (v)

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To be captivated or charmed.

It is not difficult to see why Edward is enamoured of her.

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Endemic (adj)

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Natural or characteristic of a people.

Complacency is endemic in industry today.

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Endow (v)

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To furnish or provide with funds, talent etc.

He endowed the Church with lands.

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Dour (adj)

[doour]

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Severe, stern, or gloomy in manner

A hard, dour, humorless fanatic.

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Enervate (adj) (v)

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Lacking in energy or vitality.

Enervating heat.

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Insouciance (n)

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Free from worry or anxiety

I admired his youthful insouciance.

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Evince (v)

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To show interest or reveal the presence of.

The news stories evinced the usual mixture of sympathy and satisfaction.

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Enfranchise (v)

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To grant rights of voting or citizenship.

A proposal that foreigners should be enfranchised for local elections.

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Filigree (n)

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Ornamental work of fine (typically gold or silver) wire, lace like.

Filigree earrings.

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Engender (v)

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To cause to happen.

The issue engendered continuing controversy.

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Apocryphal (adj)

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Sham, fake.

An apocryphal story about a former president.

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Enmity (n)

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Hatred.

Decades of enmity between the two countries.

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Aesthete (n)

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A person who has refined sensitivity for arts and nature

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Estimable (adj)

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To be held in high esteem.

She was shown into that estimable woman’s presence.

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Revile (v)

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To speak abusively.

The judge was reviled for his opinions on rape.

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Indefatigable (adj)

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Persisting tirelessly.

An indefatigable defender of human rights.

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Ensemble (n)

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All parts of a thing taken together.

A Bulgarian folk ensemble.

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Effervescent (adj)

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Bubbling, sparkling.

Effervescent young people.

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Entrall (v)

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To captivate or charm

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Entreat (v)

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Beseech earnestly.

His friends entreated him not to go.

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Extirpate (v)

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To remove or destroy totally.

Timber wolves were extirpated from New England more than a century ago.

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Enumerate (v)

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Take a count of.

There is not space to enumerate all his works.

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Internecine (adj)

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Related to struggle within a group.

The party shrank from the trauma of more internecine strife.

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Ephemeral (adj)

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Short lived.

Fashions are ephemeral: new ones regularly drive out the old.

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Variegated (adj)

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Varied in appearance or
color.

Variegated yellow bricks.

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Venerate (v)

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To regard to treat with reverence,

Philip of Beverley was venerated as a saint.

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Veracity (n)

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Authenticity.

Officials expressed doubts concerning the veracity of the story.

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Verbiage (n)

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Overabundance of words, superfluous.

The basic idea here, despite all the verbiage, is simple.

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Vestige (n)

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The remnants of.

The last vestiges of colonialism.

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Vex (v)

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Causing trouble.

The memory of the conversation still vexed him.

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Vigilant (adj)

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Attentive.

The burglar was spotted by vigilant neighbors.

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Vigor (adj)

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Strength and vitality.

The springing curls were a sign of vigor and health.

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Virtuoso (n)

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Accomplished artist.

A celebrated clarinet virtuoso.

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Viscous (adj)

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Sticky thick consistency.

Viscous lava.

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Vituperate (adj)

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To use harsh abusive language.

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Vivacious (adj)

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Lively animated.

Her vivacious and elegant mother.

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Meticulous (adj)

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Painstaking, very precise.

The designs are hand-glazed with meticulous care.

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Mimicry (n)

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An imitation or copy in action.

The word was spoken with gently teasing mimicry.

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Minuet (n)

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A musical dance

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Minute (n)

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Very small.

Minute particles.

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Mirth (n)

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Laughter.

His six-foot frame shook with mirth.

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Dissipate (v)

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Waste or fritter away.

He inherited, but then dissipated, his father’s fortune.

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Misanthrope (n)

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Hatred for humanity.

Scrooge wasn’t the mean-spirited misanthrope most of us believe him to be.

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Invidious (adj)

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Causing ill will.

She’d put herself in an invidious position.

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Misconstrue (v)

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Misunderstand.

My advice was deliberately misconstrued

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Remit (v)

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To pardon

His prison sentence was remitted to two years.

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Mitigate (v)

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To lessen.

Drainage schemes have helped to mitigate this problem.

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Opprobrium (n)

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Intense shame, regret.

the opprobrium of being closely associated with gangsters.

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Mollify (v)

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To mitigate or lessen.

The government’s undertaking mollified the fears of the public.

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Momentum (n)

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Impetus of a moving object.

The vehicle gained momentum as the road dipped.

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Prodigious (adj)

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Abnormal, extraordinary.

The stove consumed a prodigious amount of fuel.

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Asperity (n)

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Severity.

The asperities of a cold winter.

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Profligate (n)

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Reckless prodigal or extravagant.

Profligate consumers of energy.

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Profuse (adj)

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Abundant.

I offered my profuse apologies.

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Hapless (adj)

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Unlucky, luckless.

The hapless victims of the disaster.

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Prognostic (adj)

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Predictive of something in the future.

The prognostic importance of the antibody.

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Proliferate (v)

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Spread indiscriminately.

The science fiction magazines which proliferated in the 1920s.

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Puissant (adj)

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Having great power or influence.

He would become a puissant man.

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Prone (adj)

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Inclined towards.

Farmed fish are prone to disease.

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Propitiate (v)

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Appease to win favor.

The pagans thought it was important to propitiate the gods with sacrifices.

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Ineffable (adj)

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That which cannot be described in words.

The ineffable mysteries of the soul.

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Propitious (adj)

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Favorable.

The timing for such a meeting seemed propitious.

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Propound (v)

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To put forward.

He began to propound the idea of a ‘social monarchy’.

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Propriety (n)

A

Correct behavior.

He always behaved with the utmost propriety.

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Precipitate (v)

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To hasten the occurrence of.

The incident precipitated a political crisis.

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Prosaic (adj)

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Dull, uninteresting.

Prosaic language can’t convey the experience.

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Prudent (adj)

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Cautious, wise.

No prudent money manager would authorize a loan.

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Advert (v)

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To refer or direct attention to.

I have already adverted to the solar revolution.

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Excoriate (v)

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Berate severely.

He excoriated the government for censorship.

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Insipid (adj)

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Plain, without flavoring.

Mugs of insipid coffee.

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Sublimate (v)

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Move from solid to gas OR transform into a purer form.

Work can serve as a means of sublimating rage.

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Expatiate (v)

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To talk at length.

She expatiated on working-class novelists.

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Precipitous (adj)

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Extremely steep.

The track skirted a precipitous drop.

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Necromancy (n)

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Black magic, witchcraft.

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Truculent (adj)

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Cruel, savage, eager to fight.

The truculent attitude of farmers to cheaper imports.

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Depravity (adj)

A

Wickedness, cruelty.

A tale of depravity hard to credit.

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