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Apt

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Appropriate or suitable in the circumstances

Or

Inclined to do something

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Aver

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State or assert a case

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Adroit

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Clever or skillful in using the hands or mind

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Pensive

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Engaged in, involving, or reflecting deep or serious thought

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Scant

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Barely sufficient or adequate

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Tractable

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Easy to control or influence

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Ascribe

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Attribute something to

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Preclude

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Prevent something from happening

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Tacit

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Understood or implied without being stated

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Spurious

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Not being what it purports to be; false or fake

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Forestall

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Prevent or obstruct by taking action ahead of time

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Repudiate

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Refuse to accept or be associated with; deny the truth or validity of

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Tenable

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Able to be maintained or defended against attack or objection; able to be held or used

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Exacting

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Make great demands on one’s skill, attention or other resources

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Dissent

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Hold or express opinions that are at variance with those previously, commonly, or officially expressed

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Recondite

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Little known; abstruse

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Aloof

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Not friendly or forthcoming; cool and distant. Conspicuously uninvolved or uninterested, typically through distaste

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Fanciful

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Overimaginative and unrealistic

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Designed to be exotically ornamental

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Presumptuous

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Failing to observe the limits of what is permitted or appropriate

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Fastidious

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Very attentive to and concerned about accuracy and detail

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Assiduous

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Showing great care and perseverance

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Panacea

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A solution or remedy for all difficulty or diseases

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Pliant

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Flexible

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Tepid

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Showing little enthusiasm; lukewarm

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Acquisitive

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Excessively interested in acquiring money or material things

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Blithe

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Showing a casual and cheerful indifference considered to be callous or improper

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Happy and lighthearted

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Prolix

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Using or containing too many words; tediously lengthy

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Relent

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Abandon or mitigate a harsh in tension or cruel treatment (back down)

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Doctrinaire

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Seeking to impose a doctrine in all circumstances without regard to practical considerations

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Placid

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Not easily upset or excited

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Polemical

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Expressing critical attack in writing or speech

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Probity

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The quality of having strong moral principals; honesty and decency

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Venal

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Showing or motivated by susceptibility to bribery

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Obviate

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Avoid; prevent

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Pugnacious

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Eager or quick to argue, quarrel, or fight

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Impetuous

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Acting or done quickly and without thought or care

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Strife

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Angry or bitter disagreement over fundamental issues; conflict

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Feckless

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Lacking initiative or strength of character; irresponsible

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Synoptic

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Affording a general view of a whole “a synoptic outline of contents”

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Pernicious

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Having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way “the pernicious effect of air pollution”

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Distill

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Extract the essential meaning or most important aspects of

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Florid

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Elaborately or excessively intricate or complicated

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Abreast

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Stay or cause to stay up to date with

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Expedient

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Convenient and practical although possibly improved or immoral

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Perennial

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Everlasting

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Terse

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Sparing in the use of words; abrupt

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Phlegmatic

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Having an unemotional and stolidly calm disposition

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Relegate

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Consign or dismiss to an inferior rank or position

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Vapid

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Offering nothin that is stimulating or challenging

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Loquacious

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Talkative

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51
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Covet

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Yearn to possess or have

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Approbation

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Approval or praise

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Punctilious

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Showing great attention to detail or correct behaviour

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Diminutive

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Extremely or unusually small

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Imperious

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Assuming power or authority without justification; arrogant and domineering

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Affectation

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Behaviour, speech, or writing that is artificial and designed to impress

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Proliferate

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Increase rapidly in numbers; multiply

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Timorous

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Showing or suffering from nervousness, fear, or lack of confidence

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Indolent

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Wanting to avoid activity or exertion; lazy

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Salubrious

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Healthy; pleasant (not run-down)

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Tendencious

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Biased

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Evanescent

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Soon passing out of sight, memory, or existence; quickly fading

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Hamper

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Hinder or impede

Or

A large basket used for laundry

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Portend

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Be a sign or warning that something, (especially something calamitous) is likely to happen

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Salutary

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Producing a beneficial effect

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Tout

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Attempt to sell, typically pestering people in an aggressive or bold manner

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Wane

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Decrease in vigor, power, or extant (become weaker)

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Droll

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Curious or unusual in a way that provokes dry amusement

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Fractious

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Irritable and quarrelsome

Or

Unruly

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Perfunctory

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Carried out with a minimum of effort or reflection

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Cavalier

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Unconcerned or disdainful attitude

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Transgression

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An act that goes against a law or rule (an offence)

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Verisimilitude

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The appearance of being true or real (similarity to the truth)

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Countenance

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A persons face or facial expression

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Trenchant

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Vigorously effective and articulate (keen, sharp)

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Umbrage

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Offense or annoyance

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Veracity

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Conformity to facts; accuracy

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Immure

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Enclose or confine (someone) against their will

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Inscrutable

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Impossible to understand or interpret

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Contentious

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Causing or likely to cause an argument

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Impugn

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Dispute the truth, validity, or honesty of; call into question

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Petulant

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Insolent or rude; Childishly sulky or bad tempered

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Abet

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Encourage or assist (someone) to do something wrong, in particular, to commit a crime

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Irksome

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Annoying

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Manacle

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Shackles or cuffs

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Noxious

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Harmful, poisonous, or very unpleasant

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Veritable

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Being in fact the thing named and not false

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Ebullient

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Cheerful and full of energy

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Jettison

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Throw or drop (something) from an aircraft or ship

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Recrudescent

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Breaking out afresh or into a renewed activity (reviving or reappearing)

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Glum

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Morose

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Libertine

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Disregard for morality, especially in sexual matters

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Malfeasance

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Wrongdoing, especially by a public official

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Modish

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Confirm to or follow what is currently popular and fashionable

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Nascent

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Just coming into existence and beginning to display signs of future potential

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Pious

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Marked by or showing reverence for deity

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Schism

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A split or division between strongly opposed sections or parties, caused by differences in opinion or belief

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Fortitude

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Courage in pain or adversity

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Stinting

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Inadequate amount of; restrict in the amount

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Heterodox

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Not conforming with accepted or orthodox standards or beliefs

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Fervent

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Having or displaying a passionate intensity

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Vivacious

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Attractively lively and animated (typically used of a woman)

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Allusive

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Implying or indirectly suggesting something

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Lull

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Calm or send to sleep

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Mettlesome

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Full of spirit and courage

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Precipitous

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Done quickly without careful consideration

Or

Dangerously high or steep

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Nonplussed

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Surprised and confused so much that they are unsure how to react

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Plaintive

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Sounding sad and mournful

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Tangential

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The tendency to speak about topics is unrelated to the main topics; peripheral

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Captious

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Tending to find faults or raise petty objections

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Axiomatic

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Undeniable

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Imperturbable

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Unable to be upset or excited (calm)

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Exigent

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Pressing; demanding

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Impudent

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Not showing due respect for another person; impertinent

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Penchant

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A strong or habitual liking for something or tendency to do something

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Ravage

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Cause severe damage to

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Paradigmatic

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Serving as a typical example of something

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Pertinacious

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Holding firm to an opinion or course of action

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Specious

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Superficially plausible but actually wrong; misleading

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Explicable

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Able to be accounted for or understood

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Neophyte

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A person new to a subject, skill, or belief

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Reproach

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Address sometime in such a way as to express disapproval or disappointment

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Conjecture

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An opinion or conclusion formed on incomplete information

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Nettlesome

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Causing annoyance or difficulty

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Sagacious

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Having or showing keen mental discernment and good judgment; shrewd

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Skulduggery

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Underhanded or unscrupulous behaviour; trickery

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Unscrupulous

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Having or showing no moral principles; not fair or honest

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Boorish

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Rough and bad-mannered; coarse

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Brook

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Put up with somebody or something unpleasant
Or
A small stream

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Comity

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Cordiality; friendliness and goodwill

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Cordial

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Warm and friendly

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Edify

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Instruct or improve someone morally or intellectually

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Fecund

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Fertile

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Felicitous

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Well chosen or suited to the circumstances; fitting

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Fortunate

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Forbear

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Refrain from

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Mordant

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(Especially of humor) Having or showing a sharpe or critical quality; caustic

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Befuddled

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Unable to think clearly; confused or perplexed

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Exculpate

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Declare someone not guilty

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Furtive

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Attempting to avoid notice or attention, typically because of guilt or a belief that discovery would lead to trouble

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Somnolent

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Sleepy; drowsy; languid

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Stoic

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One who can endure hardship without showing feelings or complaints

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Limpid

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Transparent; clear

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Obeisance

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Deferential respect

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Rapacious

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Aggressively greedy or grasping; avaricious

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Truculent

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Eager or quick to argue or fight

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Fungible

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Items that can be easily replaced without another item that is practically the same; such as currency

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Magisterial

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Having or showing great authority

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Magisterial

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Having or showing great authority

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Opprobrium

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Harsh criticism or censure

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Tempestuous

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Characterized by strong and turbulent or conflicting emotion

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Vitiate

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Spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of

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Byzantine

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Excessively complicated

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Invidious

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Likely to arose or incur resentment or anger in others

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Numinous

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Having a strong religious or spiritual quality; spiritual

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Acquiesce

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Accept something reluctantly but without protest

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Animus

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Hostility or ill feeling

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Astringent

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Slightly bitter or acidic

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Flummoxed

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Bewildered or perplexed

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Polymath

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Person of great and varied learning

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Subservient

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Prepared to obey others unquestionably; submissive; less important

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Surreptitious

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Kept secret, epically because it would not be approved of; secret

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Wayward

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Difficulty to control or predict because of usual or perverse behaviour

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Apropos

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With reference to; concerning; very appropriate to a particular situation

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Virulent

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Extremely severe or harmful in its effects; toxic; vitriolic

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Bridle

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Show one’s resentment or anger, especially by throwing up the head and drawing in the chin

Or

Headgear used to control a horse

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Inveterate

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Ingrained; deep rooted

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Sanctimonious

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Making a show of being morally superior to other people; holier than thou

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Attenuate

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Reduce the force, effect, or value of; weakened, reduced

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Dawdle

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Be slow; waste time

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Dissent

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One who opposes official policy

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Acolyte

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A follower or assistant (usually in religion)

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Gawky

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Nervously awkward and ungainly

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Inveigle

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Persuade someone to do something by means of deception or flattery; cajole

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Duplicitous

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Deceitful

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Stalwart

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Loyal, reliable and hardworking; staunch

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Supplicate

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Ask for something earnestly and humbly

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Abject

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(Of something bad) Experience or present to the maximum degree; completely without pride or dignity; “his failure put him in abject misery”

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Amicable

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Having a spirit of friendliness, without serious disagreement; cordial

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Barrage

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Bombardment

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Goad

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Provoke or annoy someone as to stimulate some action or reaction

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Incontrovertible

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Indisputable

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Itinerant

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Traveling from place to place

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Gaffe

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Blunder; error

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foment

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Instigate or stir up (an undesirable or violent sentiment or course of action)

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Inviolate

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Free or safe from injury or violation; undamaged

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Histrionic

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Exaggerated dramatic behaviour designed to attract attention; melodramatic

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Glib

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Marked by ease and fluency in speaking or writing often to the point of being insincere or deceitful; slick

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Convalescent

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Recovering from an illness or operation

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Decry

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Publicly denounce

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Exorcise

A

Drive out or attempt to drive out

191
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Ironclad

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Impossible to change or weaken

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Quiescent

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In a state or period of inactivity or dormancy; inactive

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Despotic

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Tyrannical

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Bereft

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Deprived of or lacking

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Exhort

A

Strongly urge or encourage someone to do something

196
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Lugubrious

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Looking or sounding sad and dismal

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Corporeal

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Relating to a persons body; bodily

198
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Ardent

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Enthusiastic or passionate; fervent, fervid

Or

Glowing or burning

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Officious

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Assertive of authority in an annoying domineering way, especially with regard to petty or trivial matters; “the security people were very officious”

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Equanimity

A

Mental calmness, composure, and evenness of temper

201
Q

Lampoon

A

Publicly criticize by using ridicule, irony or sarcasm

202
Q

Bombastic

A

High-sounding but with little meaning; inflated, pompous

203
Q

Turpitude

A

Depravity; wickedness

204
Q

Peccadillo

A

A small relatively unimportant offence or sin

205
Q

Philistine

A

Hostile or indifferent to culture and the arts

206
Q

Dirge

A

A lament for the dead, especially of a funeral rite

207
Q

Excoriate

A

Censure or criticize severely

208
Q

Curmudgeon

A

A bad-tempered person, especially an old one

209
Q

Swindle

A

Use deception to deprive of money or possessions; fraud

210
Q

Wheedle

A

Use flattery or coaxing in order to persuade someone to do something or give one something; inveigle, cajole

211
Q

Miscreant

A

Wrongdoer or criminal

212
Q

Chary

A

Cautiously or suspiciously reluctant to do something; wary

213
Q

Repugnant

A

Extremely distasteful; unacceptable

214
Q

Unalloyed

A

Pure; not alloyed

215
Q

Heady

A

Potent; intoxicating

216
Q

Virulent

A
217
Q

Virulent

A

Extremely severe or harmful in its effects

218
Q

Croon

A

Hum or sing in a soft, low voice, especially in a sentimental manner

219
Q

August

A

Respectful and impressive

220
Q

Capricious

A

Given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behaviour

221
Q

Augment

A

Increase: Make something GREATER by adding to it

222
Q

Deportment

A

A persons behaviour or manners

223
Q

Luminaries

A

a person who inspires or influences others, especially one prominent in a particular sphere.
“one of the luminaries of child psychiatry”

224
Q

Impecunious

A

Penniless

225
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Dissemble

A

to hide under a false appearance

GRE Words (4 decks)

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