GRE Week 1 - Sheet1 Flashcards
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Abate
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To subside; to reduce
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Abet
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help/encourage somebody (in doing wrong)
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Abnegate
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To deny oneself things; to reject; to renounce
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Abridge
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To shorten; to condense
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Abrogate
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repeal or annul by authority
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Absolute
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Total; unlimited; perfect
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Abstemious
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sparing in eating and drinking; temperate
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Abut
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border on
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Acarpous
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effete no longer fertile worn out
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Accretion
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the growing of separate things into one
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Address
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To speak to; to direct ones attention to
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Agog
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eager/excited
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Alcove
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recess/partially enclosed place
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Allege
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To assert without proof
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Allocate
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To distribute; to assign; to allot
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Altruism
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Selflessness; generosity; devotion to the interests of others
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Amalgamate
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combine; unite in one body
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Ambivalent
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Undecided; neutral; wishy-washy
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Amnesty
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An official pardon for a group of people who have violated a law or policy
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Anachronism
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Something out of place in time or history; an incongruity
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Analogous
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comparable
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Antidote
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medicine used against a poison or a disease
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Antithesis
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The direct opposite
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Apartheid
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The abhorrent policy of racial segregation and oppression in the Repubic of South Africa
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Aphorism
A brief often witty saying; a proverb
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Apocalypse
A prophetic revelation especially one concerning the end of the world
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Apocryphal
Of dubious authenticity; fictitious; spurious
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Appreciate
To increase in value
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Apprise
inform
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Archetype
An original model or pattern
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Argot
jargon slang
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Aristocratic
Of noble birth; snobbish
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Artifice
A clever trick; cunning ;
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Aseptic
surgically clean
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Asterisk
the mark * (e.g.. omitted letters)
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Astringent
substance that shrinks
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Astute
Shrewd; keen in judgment ;
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Atonement
repayment death of Jesus
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Attrition
Gradual wearing away weakening or loss; a natural or expected decrease in numbers of size
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Audacity
Boldness; reckless daring; impertinence ;
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August
majestic venerable
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Auspicious
Favorable; promising; pointing to a good result
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Aver
assert confidently or declare; as used in law, state formally as a fact
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Avid
eager greedy
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Banal
Unoriginal; ordinary
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Bedizen
to adorn especially in a cheap showy manner
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Beguile
mislead or delude; cheat; pass time
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Belittle
To make to seem little; to put someone down
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Belligerent
Combative; quarrelsome; waging war
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Beneficen
kindly; doing good
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Bereaved
Deprived or left desolate especially through death
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Blandness
polite manner comforting uninteresting
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Boggle
To hesitate as if in fear or doubt
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Bombastic
pompous; using inflated language
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Brazen
made of brass
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Brittle
easily broken
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Brook
to tolerate endure
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Brummagem
Cheap and showy
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Cacophony
Harsh-sounding mixture of words voices or sounds
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Cadence
Rhythm the rise and fall of sounds
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Calisthenics
exercises to develop strong bodies
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Callow
Immature
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Candor
Truthfulness; sincere honesty
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Cant
insincere talk/jargon
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Capitulate
To surrender; to give up or give in
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Capricious
Unpredictable; like to change at any moment
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Catalyst
In chemistry~; anyone or anything that makes something happen without being directly involved in it
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Catharsis
Purification that brings emotional relief or renewal
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Centurion
leader of a unit of 100 soldiers
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Charisma
A magical-seeming ability to attract followers or inspire loyalty
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Chastened
corrected punished
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Chauvinist
a blindly devoted patriot
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Chicanery
Trickery; deceitfulness; artifice; especially legal or political
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Circumscribe
To draw a line around; to set the limits; to define; to restrict.
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Circumvent
To frustrate as though by surrounding
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Civil
Polite; civilized; courteous
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Cling
to resist separation
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Coagulate
thicken; congeal; clot
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Coda
concluding section of a musical or literary composition; summarizes or concludes
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Coeval
of the same period coexisting
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Cogitate
think deeply mediate
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Cognizant
Aware; conscious
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Coherent
Holding together; making sense
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Cohort
a group or band of people
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Compelling
Forceful; causing to yield
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Compunction
feeling of regret for one's action
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Conceit
over-high opinion of too much pride
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Confluence
A flowing together especially of rivers; place where they begin to flow together
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Confound
confuse; puzzle
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Congenial
Agreeably suitable; pleasant
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Congenital
A trait or condition acquired between conception and birth; innate
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Consequential
pompous self important
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Console
give comfort or sympathy to
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Conspicuous
easily seen remarkable
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Constrict
make tight or smaller
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Consume
get to the end of
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Contentious
Argumentative; quarrelsome
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Contrite
Admitting guilt; especially feeling remorseful
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Convoke
call together summon
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Corroboration
additional strengthening evidence
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Covet
to wish for enviously
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Cower
crouch shrink back
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Coy
shy/modest (esp of a girl)
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Crass
very great (es. stupidity)
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Cravat
piece of linen worn as a necktie
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Crease
line made by crushing white line on the ground in cricket
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Cryptic
mysterious; mystifying; clandestine mysterious;
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Culinary
relating to cooking or the kitchen
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Culminate
to climax; to reach full effect
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Culpable
deserving blame; guilty
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Curriculum
course of study
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Cynic
one who deeply distrusts human nature; one who believes humans are motivated only by selfishness
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Debilitate
to weaken; to cripple
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Decimate
to kill or destroy a large part of 10:1
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Decorum
propriety; orderliness and good taste in manners
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Deduce
to conclude from evidence; to infer
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Deferential
showing respect
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Degenerate
to break down; to deteriorate
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Delude
to deceive
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Demur
to hesitate raise objections
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Deplete
use until none remains
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Derivative
unoriginal; obtained from another source
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Derogatory
disapproving; degrading
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Desiccant
substance used to absorb moisture
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Desuetude
cessation of use disuse
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Detraction
slandering verbal attack aspersion
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Deviance
being different in moral standards (from normal)
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Diabolical
having the qualities of a devil
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Disallow
refuse to allow or accept as a correct
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Discourse
speech lecture
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Discrepancy
lack of consistency; difference
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Discrete
unconnected; separate; distinct
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Discriminate
to notice or point out the difference between two or more things; to discern; to differentiate ;
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Dismal
sad gloomy miserable
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Dissemble
speak or behave so as to hide something (in mind)
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Dissent
have a different opinion refuse to assent
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Distend
to swell; to extend a great deal
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Distraught
distracted violently upset in mind
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Drowsiness
feeling sleepy half asleep
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Ebullience
exuberance outburst of feeling
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Eddy
circular or spiral movement (e.g.. of wind)
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Edible
fit to be eaten/not poisonous
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Efficacy
power to produce desired effect
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Egocentric
A selfish; believing that one is the center of everything
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Elusive
Adj hard to pin down; evasive
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Emaciate
make thin and weak
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Emote
stir up excite
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Enigma
N a mystery riddle
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Enzyme
catalyst
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Epitome
N a brief summary that captures the meaning of the whole; the perfect example of something; a paradigm ;
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Equanimity
N composure; calm
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Equitable
Adj fair
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Eschew
avoid
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Euthanasia
easy and painless death
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Evasive
tending to evade
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Excoriation
severe criticism
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Expedite
V to speed up or ease the progress of
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Expiation
ending expiring
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Expostulate
argue earnestly to dissuade correct or protest
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Expurgate
to remove obscenity purify censor
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Extort
obtain by threats violence
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Fawn
To seek favor or attention by flattery and obsequious
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Feint
pretend
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Ferret
discover by searching search
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Fetter
V to restrain; to hamper
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Figurehead
carved image on the prow of a ship
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Finesse
N skillful maneuvering; subtlety; craftiness
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Fledged
able to fly trained experienced
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Floe
a sheet of floating ice
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Fragile
easily injured broken or destroyed
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Froward
intractable not willing to yield or comply stubborn
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Frugality
thrift; economy
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Garble
make unfair selection from facts
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Garner
to gather and save to store up
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Garrulous
a talkative; chatty
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Gouge
overcharge; tool for cutting grooves in wood
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Grievous
causing grief or pain serious dire grave
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Gullible
easily deceived
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Heinous
odious (of crime)
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Hoax
mischievous trick played to deceive
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Hoodwink
trick mislead
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Hospitable
liking to give hospitality
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Immutable
a unchangeable
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Imperial
a like an emperor or an empire
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Impermeable
impervious; not permitting passage through its substance
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Imperviousness
haughty arrogant commanding
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Impiety
lack of reverence or dutifulness
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Implici
understood but not stated
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Impotent
a powerless ; helpless ; unable to perform sexual intercourse
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Impromptu
without preparation
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Impugn
v to attack especially to attack the truth or integrity of something
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Inasmuch
since because
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Inchoate
not yet fully formed rudimentary elementary
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Inchoate adj.
recently begun; rudimentary; elementary
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Incipient
a beginning ; emerging
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Incise
engrave make a cut in
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Incumbents
official duties
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Indifferent
a not caring one way or the other ; apathetic ; mediocre
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Indigenous
a native ; originating in that area
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Indomitable
not easily discouraged or subdued
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Ineffable
a incapable of being expressed or described
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Ineluctable
certain inevitable
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Inert
a inactive ; sluggish ; not reacting chemically
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Infamous
a shamefully wicked ; having an extremely bad reputation ; disgraceful
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Infatuated
a foolish ; foolishly passionate or attracted ; made foolish ; foolishly in love
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Ingest
take in by swallowing
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Inherent
a part of the essential nature of something ; intrinsic
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Inscrutable
incapable of being discovered or understood
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Interdict
prohibit forbid
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Intractable
a uncontrollable ; stubborn ; disobedient
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Intrinsic
a part of the essential nature of something ; inherent
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Introspection
examining one's own thoughts and feelings
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Introvert
one who turns towards himself
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Irresolute
uncertain how to act; weak
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Itinerant
a moving from place to place
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Itinerary
plan of a trip
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Jejune
insubstantial/dull/immature
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Jocular
meant as a joke
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Kibosh
block, halt, stop
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Laconic
a using few words especially to the point of seeming rude
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Lassitude
languor; weariness
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Lethargic
drowsy; dull
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Lethargy
n sluggishness ; laziness ; drowsiness ; indifference
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Libertine
immoral person
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Lien
legal claim until a debt on it is repaid
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Limn
paint portray
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Lucubrate
write in scholarly fashion
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Luculent
easily understood lucid clear
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Lumber
move in a clumsy/noisy way
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Luminous
a giving off light ; glowing ; bright
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Macabre
gruesome suggesting death
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Magnanimity
Generosity
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Maudlin
a silly and overly sentimental
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Maul
hurt by rough handling
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Mephitic
Poisonous; noxious
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Mesmerize
hypnotize
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Mettle
quality of endurance or courage
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Microcosm
n the world in miniature
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Mien
demeanor
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Misanthropic
a hating mankind
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Muffler
cloth worn round the neck/silencer
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Multifarious
varied motley greatly diversified
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Munificent
a very generous ; lavish lavish
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Myopia
a nearsightedness ; lack of foresight ;
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Narcissism
n excessive love of ones body or oneself
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Nefarious
a evil ; flagrantly wicked
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Nepotism
n showing favoritism to friends of family in business or politics
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Noisome
offensive disgusting (smell)
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Nonchalant
not having interest
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Nostalgia
n sentimental longing for the past ; homesickness; homesickness
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Noxious
a harmful ; offensive ;
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Nugatory
trifling/worthless
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Obdurate adj.
stubborn
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Oblique
a indirect ; at an angle ;
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Obloquy
abusively detractive language sharp criticism vituperation
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Obscure
a unknown ; hard to understand ; dark
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Odious
repulsive hateful
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Opprobrium
infamy; vilification
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Ostensible
a apparent but misleading ; professed
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Ostracism
shut out from society refuse to meet talk
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Pacify
v to calm someone down ; to placate
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Palaver
To flatter; to cajole
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Palliate
v to relieve or alleviate something without getting rid of the problem ; to assuage ; to mitigate
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Palpitate
tremble beat rapidly and irregularly
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Paradox
n a true statement or phenomenon that nonetheless seems to contradict itself ; an untrue statement or phenomenon that nonetheless seems logical
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Parochial
a narrow or confined in point of view ; provincial
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Parody
n a satirical imitation
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Patron
regular customer person who gives support
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Penurious
poor/stingy
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Perjury
n lying under oath
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Personable
pleasing in appearance attractive
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Perspicacity
quick judging and understanding
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Pervasive
spread throughout
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Philanthropy
n love of mankind especially by doing good deeds
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Philistine
n a smugly ignorant person with no appreciation of intellectual or artistic matters
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Pied
of mixed colors
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Piety
devoutness; reverence for God
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Pillage
plunder (especially in war)
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Pique
hurt the pride or self-respect stir (curiosity)
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Platitude
n a dull or trite remark ; a cliché
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Plumb
get to the root of
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Plunge
move quickly suddenly and with force
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Precursor
n forerunner ; something that goes before and anticipates or paves the way for whatever it is that follows
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Preempt
v to seize something by prior right
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Prerogative
n a right or privilege connected exclusively with a position a person a class a nation or some other group or classification
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Privation
hardship
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Proclivity
inclination
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Profess
v to declare; to declare falsely or pretend
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Prolific
a abundantly productive; fruitful or fertile
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Prolix
tiring because too long
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Propitiate
appease
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Protract
v to prolong prolong
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Prudence
careful forethought
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Pucker
wrinkle
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Puerile
childish
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Pugnacious
fond of in the habit of fighting
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Punctilious
Meticulous
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Pungency
sharpness stinging quality
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Putative
a commonly accepted; supposed; reputed
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Quack
person dishonestly claiming to something
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Qualitative
a having to do with the quality or qualities of something as opposed to the quantity
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Qualm
feeling of doubt temporary feeling of sickness
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Quandary
state of doubt or perplexity
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Quiescent
at rest; dormant; temporarily inactive
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Quotidian
banal everyday
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Rabble
mob crowd the lower classes of populace
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Reciprocal
a mutual; shared; interchangeable mutual
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Recrimination
n a bitter counteraccusation or the act of making a bitter counteraccusation
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Refractory
stubborn; unmanageable
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Relinquish
v to release or let go of; to surrender; to stop doing
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Renowned
celebrated famous
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Reparation
n paying back; making amends; compensation ;
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Resilience
quality of quickly recovering the original shape
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Restive
refusing to move reluctant to be controlled
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Retard
check hinder
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Reticence
uncommunicativeness
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Retrospective
Looking back on past
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Revere
v to respect highly; to honor
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Rife
widespread
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Rift
split crack dissension
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Sacrilege
n a violation of something sacred; blasphemy
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Sadastic
Cruel
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Salutary
a healthful; remedial; curative
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Salvage
the saving of property from loss
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Savor
enjoy; have a distinctive flavor, smell, or quality
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Sawdust
tiny bits of wood
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Scabbard
sheath for the blade
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Secular
a having nothing to do with religion or spiritual concerns
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Sedulous
persevering
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Sequester
v to set or keep apart ;
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Servile
submissive and subservient; like a servant
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Shard
fragment, generally of pottery
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Skit
short piece of humorous writing
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Slander
to speak badly about someone publicly; to defame; to spread malicious rumor
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Slate
king of blue-grey stone propose criticize
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Sober
self-controlled
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Solvent
not broke or bankrupt; able to pay ones bills
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Somatic
of the body
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Sophisticated
complex subtle refined
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Spear
weapon with a metal point on a long shaft
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Specious
deceptively plausible or attractive
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Spectrum
colored band produced when a beam of light passes through a prism
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Splenetic
bad-tempered irritable
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Spurious
false; fake false fake
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Squalid
foul filthy
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Squat
crouch/settle without permission
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Steeply
rising or falling sharply
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Stentorian
extremely loud and powerful
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Sublime
awesome; extremely exalted; lofty; majestic
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Substantiate
establish by evidence; verify; support
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Subtle
not obvious; able to make fine distinctions; ingenious; crafty
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Succor
assistance relief in time of distress
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Summarily
briefly without delay
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Surrogate
substitute
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Synthesis
the combing of parts to form a whole ;
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Taciturn
untalkative by nature
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Tangential
only superficially related to the matter at hand; not especially relevant; peripheral ;
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Tantamount
equivalent to
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Taunt
contemptuous reproach hurtful remark
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Tautology
a repetition a redundancy
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Tawdry
cheap gaudy showy tacky
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Tenable
defensible as in ones position in an argument; capable of being argued successfully; valid
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Tenet
a shared principle or belief
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Tocsin
a signal, especially of alarm
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Topple
be unsteady and overturn
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Tractable
easily controlled or guided
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Transcend
to go beyond or above; to surpass
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Transgress
to violate a law; to sin violate
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Trenchant
forceful effective vigorous extremely perceptive incisive
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Turpitude
shameful wickedness; depravity
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Turquoise
greenish-blue precious stone
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Urbane
poised; sophisticated; refined
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Veer
change direction
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Venerate
to revere; to treat as something holy especially because of great age
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Verbose
using too many words; not succinct; circumlocutory
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Veritable
real rightly named
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Vindictive
seeking revenge
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Virtuoso
a masterful musician; a masterful practitioner in some other field
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Virulent
extremely poisonous; malignant; full of hate
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Visionary
a dreamer; someone with impractical goals or ideas about the future
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Voluptuous
arousing sensual pleasures
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Waft
scent waving movement carry lightly through
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Warmonger
person who stirs up war
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Wend
to go proceed
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Zealot
fanatic; person who shows excessive zeal
