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abjure

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

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adumbrate

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(v.) to foreshadow vaguely or intimate; to suggest or outline sketchily; to obscure or overshadow

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anathena

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

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anodyne

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(adj./n.) soothing; something that assuages or allays pain or comforts

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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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(adj.) one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions

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apotheosis

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(n.) deifcation; glorification to godliness; an exalted example; a model of excellence or perfection

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asperity

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

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asseverate

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(v.) to aver, allege, or assert

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assiduous

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(adj.) diligent, hard-working, sedulous

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augury

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(n.) omen, portent

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bellicose

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(adj.) belligerent, pugnacious, warlike

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calumniate

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(v.) to slander; to make a false accusation (calumny: slander, aspersion)

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captious

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

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cavil

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(v.) to find fault without good reason

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celerity

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(n.) speed; alacrity (think accelerate)

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chimera

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(n.) an illusion; originally, and imaginary fire-breathing she-monster

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contumacious

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(adj.) insubordinate, rebellious (contumely: insult, scorn, aspersion)

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debacle

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(n.) rout, fiasco, complete failure

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denouement

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

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descry

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(v.) to discriminate or discern

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desuetude

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(n.) disuse

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desultory

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(adj.) random; aimless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose

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diaphanous

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(adj.) transparent; gauzy

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diffident

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(adj.) reserved, shy, unassuming; lacking in self-confidence

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dirge

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(n.) a song of grief or lamentation

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encomium

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

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eschew

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(v.) to shun or avoid

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excoriate

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(v.) to censure scathingly, to upbraid

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execrate

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

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exegesis

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(n.) critical examination; explication

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expiate

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(v.) to atone or make amends for

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extirpate

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(v.) to destroy; to exterminate; to cut out; to exscind

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fatuous

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(adj.) silly, inanely, foolish

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fractious

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(adj.) quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory, irritable

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gainsay

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

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heterodox

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(adj.) unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic

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imbroglio

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(n.) difficult or embarrassing situation

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indefatigable

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(adj.) not easily exhaustible; tireless, dogged

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ineluctable

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(adj.) certain, inevitable

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inimitable

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(adj.) one of a kind, peerless

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insouciant

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(adj.) unconcerned, carefree, heedless

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inveterate

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(adj.) deep rooted, ingrained, habitual

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jejune

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(adj.) vapid, uninteresting, nugatory; childish, immature, puerile

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lubricious

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(adj.) lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery

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mendicant

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(n.) a beggar, supplicant

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meretricious

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(adj.) cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showing; attracting my false show

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minatory

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(adj.) menacing, threatening (reminds you of the Minotaur, a threatening creature)

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nadir

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(n.) low point; perigee

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nonplussed

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(adj.) baffled; bewildered; at a loss for what to do or think

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obstreperous

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(adj.) noisily and stubbornly defiant; aggressively boisterous

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ossified

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(adj.) tending to become more rigid, conventional, sterile, and reactionary with age; literally, turned into bone

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palliate

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(v.) to make something seem less serious, to gloss over, to make less severe or intense

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panegyric

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(n.) formal praise, eulogy, encomium; panegyrical means expressing elaborate praise

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parsimonious

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(adj.) cheap, miserly

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pellucid

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(adj.) transparent, easy to understand, limpid

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peroration

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

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plangent

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(adj.) pounding, thundering, resounding

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prolix

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(adj.) long-winded; verbose; (prolixity: verbosity)

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propitiate

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(v.) to appease; to conciliate (propitious: auspicious, favorable)

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puerile

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(adj.) childish, immature, jejune, nugatory

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puissance

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(n.) power, strength (puissant: powerful, strong)

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pusillanimous

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(adj.) cowardly, craven

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remonstrate

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(v.) to protest, to object

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sagacious

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(adj.) having sound judgment; perceptive; wise; like a sage

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salacious

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(adj.) lustful, lascivious, bawdy

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salutary

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(adj.) remedial, wholesome, causing improvement

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sanguine

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(adj.) cheerful, confidence, optimistic

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saturnine

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(adj.) gloomy, dark, sullen, morose

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sententious

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

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stentorian

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(adj.) extremely loud and powerful

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stygian

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(adj.) gloomy, dark

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sycophant

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(n.) toady, servile, self-seeking flatterer; parasite

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tendentious

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(adj.) biased, showing marked tendencies

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timorous

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(adj.) timid, fearful, diffident

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tyro

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(n.) novice, greenhorn, rank amateur

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vitiate

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(v.) to corrupt, to debase, to spoil, to make ineffective

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voluble

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(adj.) fluent; verbal; having easy use of spoken language

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