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Grandiloquent

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Pompous; bombastic; speaking or expressed in a lofty style

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Plethora

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Excess; overabundance

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Gregarious

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Sociable

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Commensurate

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Proportional

Example: In the U.S., malpractice suits have raise the cost of medicine because doctors must pay more for insurance, and thus increase their fees commensurately.

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Histrionic

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Relating to exaggerated emotional behavior calculated for effect; theatrical arts or performances

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Partisan

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One-sided; committed to a party, group, or cause; prejudiced

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Recant

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To retract and statement or opinion

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Transgression

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Act of trespassing or violating a law or rule

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Morose

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Ill-humored; sullen

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Existential

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Having to do with existence; based on experience; having to do with the philosophy of existentialism

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Appropriate

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To take possession for one’s own use; confiscate

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Approbation

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Praise; approval

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Effrontery

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Shameless boldness; presumptuousness

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Exigency

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Crisis; urgent requirements

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Pedantic

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Showing off learning

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Metaphysical

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Branch of philosophy that investigates the ultimate nature of reality

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Pellucid

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Transparent; translucent; easily understood

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Fallacious

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Based on a false idea or fact; misleading

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Reprobate

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Morally unprincipled person

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Diffuse

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To spread out

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Emulate

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To imitate; copy

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Penury

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Extreme poverty

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Austere

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Stern; unadorned

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Enervate

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To weaken

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Capricious

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Fickle; likely to change

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Misanthrope

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One who hates humanity

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Tangential

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Peripheral; digressing

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Ebullient

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Exhilarated; enthusiastic

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Viscous

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Thick, syrupy, and sticky

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Impervious

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Impossible to penetrate; incapable of being affected

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Impassive

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Showing no emotion

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Disinterested

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Unprejudiced; objective

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Mollify

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To soothe

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Solicitous

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Concerned; attentive; eager

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Verbose

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Wordy

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Inured

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Hardened; accustomed; used to

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Whimsical

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Fanciful; unpredictable

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Precarious

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Uncertain

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Disabuse

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To free from a misconception

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Perfunctory

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Superficial; not thorough; performed really as a duty

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Sanction

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To approve; ratify; permit

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Paucity

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Scarcity

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Truculence

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Aggressiveness; ferocity

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Harangue

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Long, pompous speech; tirade

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Abeyance

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Temporary suppression or suspension

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Propitiate

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To win over; appease

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Recondite

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Abstruse; profound

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Platitude

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Stale; overused expression

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Refute

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To contradict; disprove

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Sage

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Wise

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Onerous

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Burdensome

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Veracious

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Truthful; accurate

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Exacting

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To force the payment of; demand and obtain by authority

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Recalcitrant

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Resisting authority or control

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Metamorphosis

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Change; transformation

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Stigma

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Mark of disgrace or inferiority

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Deference

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Respect; regard for another’s wish

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Lassitude

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Lethargy; sluggishness

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Dichotomy

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Division into two usually contradictory parts

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Fractious

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Quarrelsome; unruly; rebellious

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Untenable

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Indefensible

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Resolved

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Determination; firmness of purpose

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Prodigal

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Wasteful; extravagant; lavish

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Cacophonous

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Unpleasant or harsh-sounding

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Propriety

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Correct conduct; fitness

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Craven

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Cowardly

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Obsequious

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Overly submissive

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Extrapolation

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The act of estimation by projecting known information

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Diffidence

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Shyness; lack of confidence

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Proliferate

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To increase rapidly

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Paragon

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Model of excellence or perfection

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Endemic

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inherent; belonging to an area

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Resolute

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Determination; resolve

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Beneficent

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Kindly; doing good

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Belie

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To contradict; misrepresent; give a false impression

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Burnish

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To polish

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Turgid

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Swollen; bloated; pompous

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Inert

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Unable to move; sluggish

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Incongruity

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State of not fitting

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Alleviate

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To relieve; improve partially

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Conundrum

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Riddle; puzzle with no solution

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Laconic

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Using few words

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Eclectic

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Selecting from various sources

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Discrete

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Constituting a separate thing; distinct

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Contentious

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Quarrelsome; causing quarrels

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Mendacious

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Dishonest

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Fledgling

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Beginner; novice

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Indeterminate

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Uncertain; indefinite

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Assiduous

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Diligent; hard-working

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Audacious

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Bold; daring

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Iconoclastic

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Attacking cherished traditions

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Homily

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Sermon; tedious moralizing lecture; platitude

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Anarchy

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Absence of government; state of disorder

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Penchant

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Inclination

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Laud

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To praise

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Apathy

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Indifference

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Precipitate

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Rash; hasty; sudden

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Ameliorate

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To improve

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Magnanimity

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Generosity; nobility

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Meretricious

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Gaudy; plausible but false; specious; apparently attractive but having in reality no value or integrity

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Disingenuous

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Not candid; crafty

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Gullible

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Easily deceived

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Rarefied

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Refined

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Desiccate

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To dry completely

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Apprise

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To inform

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Pathological

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Departing from normal condition

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Homogeneous

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Composed of identical parts; uniform in composition

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Tirade

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Long, violent speech; verbal assault

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Inadvertently

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Carelessly; unintentionally

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Malleable

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Capable of being shaped by pounding; impressionable

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Maverick

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Dissenter; a person pursuing rebellious, even potentially disruptive, policies or ideas

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Supersede

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To replace, especially to displace as inferior or antiquated

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Ascetic

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One who practices self-denial

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Vacillate

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To waver; oscillate

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Aver

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To affirm; declare to be true; to assert with confidence

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Meticulous

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Very careful; fastidious

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Piety

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Devoutness

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Skeptic

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One who doubts

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Problematic

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Posing a problem; doubtful; unsettled

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Banal

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Commonplace; trite; devoid of freshness or originality

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Cosmology

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Study of the universe as a totality; theory of the origin and structure of the universe

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Diatribe

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Bitter verbal attack

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Insinuate

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To suggest; say indirectly; imply

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Coagulate

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Thicken; congeal

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Alacrity

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Cheerful willingness; eagerness; speed

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Esoteric

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Hard to understand; known only to a few

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Ideological

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Relating to ideology; the set of ideas that form the basis of a political or economic system

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Sporadic

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Irregular

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Immutable

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Unchangable

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Perfidious

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Faithless; disloyal; untrustworthy

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Euphemism

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Use of agreeable or inoffensive language in place of unpleasant or offensive language

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Proscribe

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To condemn; forbid; outlaw

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Insensible

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Unconscious; unresponsive

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Dissemble

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To pretend; disguise one’s motives

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Impermeable

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Impossible to penetrate

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Disseminate

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To spread; scatter; disperse

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Soporific

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Sleep producing

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Tortuous

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Having many twists and turns; highly complex

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Refractory

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Stubborn; unmanageable; resisting ordinary methods of treatment

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Dismiss

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Put away from consideration; reject

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Insipid

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Lacking in flavor; dull

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Opprobrium

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Disgrace; contempt

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Supposition

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The act of assuming to be true or real

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Elegy

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Poem or song expressing lamentation

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Placate

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To lessen another’s anger; to pacify

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Catalyst

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Something causing change

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Intractable

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Not easily managed

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Extant

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In existence; not lost

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Analogous

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Comparable

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Ambivalence

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The state of having conflicting emotional attitudes

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Repudiate

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To reject as having no authority

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Felicitous

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Suitably expressed; appropriate; well-chosen

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Anomalous

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Irregular; deviating from the norm

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Qualified

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Limited; restricted

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Tenuous

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Weak; insubstantial

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Profound

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Deep; not superficial

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Facetious

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Humorous

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Boorish

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Rude; insensitive

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Limpid

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Clear; transparent

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Reproach

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To find fault with; blame

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Dissolution

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Disintegration; debauchery

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Salutary

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Expecting an improvement; favorable to health

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Imperturbable

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Not easily disturbed

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Demotic

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Pertaining to people

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Insularity

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Narrow-mindedness; isolation

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Artless

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Guileless; natural

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Anachronism

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Something out of the proper time

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Abstemious

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Moderate in appetite

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Equivocate

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To intentionally use vague language

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Tacit

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Silently understood; implied

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Inherent

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Firmly established by nature or habit

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Extraneous

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Not essential

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Ephemeral

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Short-lived; fleeting

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Attenuate

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To weaken

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Intransigence

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Stubbornness; refusal to compromise

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Guileless

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Free of cunning or deceit; artless

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Denigrate

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To slur someone’s reputation

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Execrable

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Detestable; abhorrent

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Idolatry

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Idol worship; blind or excessive devotion

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Stolid

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Having or showing little emotion

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Convoluted

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Twisted; complicated

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Viable

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Practicable; capable of developing

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Garrulous

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Very talkative; wordy

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Irascible

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Easily annoyed

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Pristine

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Untouched; uncorrupted

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Propensity

A

Inclination; tendency

187
Q

Pervasive

A

Spread throughout every part

188
Q

Effete

A

Depleted of vitality; overrefined; decadent

189
Q

Sentient

A

Aware; conscious; able to perceive

190
Q

Stipulate

A

To specify as an essential condition

191
Q

Vapid

A

Tasteless; dull

192
Q

Officious

A

Too helpful; meddlesome

193
Q

Invective

A

Verbal abuse

194
Q

Causality

A

Involving a cause

195
Q

Probity

A

Honesty; high-mindedness; integrity and uprightness

196
Q

Ineluctable

A

Not to be avoided or escape; inevitable

197
Q

Torpor

A

Lethargy; dormancy; sluggishness

198
Q

Innocuous

A

Harmless

199
Q

Loquacious

A

Talkative

200
Q

Obdurate

A

Stubborn

201
Q

Aesthetic

A

Relating to beauty or art

202
Q

Heterodox

A

Unorthodox; not widely accepted

203
Q

Plasticity

A

Condition of being able to be shaped or formed; pliability

204
Q

Inchoate

A

Imperfectly formed or formulated

205
Q

Antipathy

A

Dislike; hostility

206
Q

Discordant

A

Not in tune

207
Q

Credence

A

Acceptance of something as true

208
Q

Permeable

A

Penetrable

209
Q

Frugality

A

Thrift

210
Q

Discrepancy

A

Difference between

211
Q

Oscillate

A

To move back and forth

212
Q

Concilatory

A

Overcoming distrust or hostility

213
Q

Implicit

A

Implied; understood but not stated

214
Q

Cant

A

Insincere talk; language of a particular group

215
Q

Tractable

A

Obedient; yielding

216
Q

Bombastic

A

Pompous; using inflated language

217
Q

Irresolute

A

Unsure of how to act; weak

218
Q

Mitigate

A

To cause to become less harsh; severe, or painful; alleviate

219
Q

Ingenous

A

Naive and trusting; lacking sophistication

220
Q

Obviate

A

To make unnecessary; to anticipate and prevent

221
Q

Delineate

A

To represent or depict

222
Q

Hyperbole

A

Purposeful exaggeration for effect

223
Q

Substantiate

A

To support with proof or evidence

224
Q

Volatile

A

Tending to vary frequently; fickle

225
Q

Arcane

A

Known or understood by very few; mysterious; secret; obscure; esoteric

226
Q

Disparage

A

To belittle

227
Q

Zealot

A

One who is fanatically devoted to a cause

228
Q

Specious

A

Seeming to be logical and sound, but not really so

229
Q

Mundane

A

Worldly as opposed to spiritual; concerned with the ordinary

230
Q

Sensual

A

Relating to the senses; gratifying the physical senses; especially sexual appetites

231
Q

Neophyte

A

Novice; beginner

232
Q

Satiate

A

To satisfy

233
Q

Occlude

A

To shut; block

234
Q

Aberrant

A

Deviating from what is normal

235
Q

Reverence

A

Expressing deep respect; worshipful

236
Q

Misogynist

A

One who hates women

237
Q

Elicit

A

To provoke; draw out

238
Q

Derivative

A

Something derived; unoriginal

239
Q

Desultory

A

Random; disconnected; rambling

240
Q

Presumptuous

A

Rude; improperly bold; readiness to presume

241
Q

Fulminate

A

To attack loudly; denounce

242
Q

Igneous

A

Produced by fire; volcanic

243
Q

Exulpate

A

To clear of blame; vindicate

244
Q

Salubrious

A

Healthful

245
Q

Conventional

A

Practice widely observed in a group; custom; accepted technique or device

246
Q

Gainsay

A

To deny; dispute; oppose

247
Q

Doctrinaire

A

Relating to a person who cannot compromise about points of a theory or doctrine; dogmatic; unyielding

248
Q

Indolent

A

Habitually lazy; idle

249
Q

Striated

A

Marked with thin, narrow grooves or channels

250
Q

Reticent

A

Not speaking freely; reserved; reluctant

251
Q

Phlegmatic

A

Calm in temperament; sluggish

252
Q

Relegate

A

To consign to an inferior position

253
Q

Vitiate

A

To impair the quality of; corrupt morally; make inoperative

254
Q

Sensuous

A

Relating to the senses; operating through the senses

255
Q

Ambiguous

A

Unclear or doubtful in meaning

256
Q

Amalgamate

A

To combine into a unified whole

257
Q

Equanimity

A

Mental or emotional stability or composure, especially under tension or strain; calmness

258
Q

Chicanery

A

Trickery; fraud

259
Q

Arduous

A

Extremely difficult; laborious

260
Q

Inundate

A

To cover with water; overwhelm

261
Q

Vituperative

A

Using or containing harsh, abusive censure

262
Q

Taciturn

A

Habitually untalkative

263
Q

Empirical

A

Derived from observation or experiment

264
Q

Dissonance

A

Discord; lack of harmony

265
Q

Castigation

A

Punishment; chastisement; criticism

266
Q

Prevaricate

A

To quibble; evade the truth

267
Q

Juxtapose

A

Place side by side

268
Q

Forestall

A

To prevent; delay

269
Q

Pragmatic

A

Practical

270
Q

Decorum

A

Proper behavior

271
Q

Aspersion

A

Slander; false rumor

272
Q

Burgeon

A

To flourish

273
Q

Levity

A

Light manner or attitude

274
Q

Complaisant

A

Overly polite; willing to please; obliging

275
Q

Quiescent

A

Inactive; still; being at rest

276
Q

Precursor

A

Forerunner; predecessor

277
Q

Demur

A

To express doubt

278
Q

Venerate

A

To adore; honor; respect

279
Q

Dogmatic

A

Stating opinions without proof

280
Q

Ostentatious

A

Showy; trying to attract attention; pretentious

281
Q

Confound

A

To baffle; perplex; mix up

282
Q

Exacerbate

A

To aggravate; make worse

283
Q

Erudite

A

Learned; scholarly

284
Q

Sartorial

A

Pertaining to tailors

285
Q

Embellish

A

To adorn; decorate; enhance; make more attractive by adding details

286
Q

Rescind

A

To cancel

287
Q

Malinger

A

To feign illness or escape duty

288
Q

Lethargic

A

Inactive

289
Q

Concomitant

A

Existing concurrently

290
Q

Subsume

A

To include; incorporate

291
Q

Implacable

A

Inflexible; incapable of being pleased

292
Q

Disparate

A

Dissimiliar

293
Q

Compendium

A

Brief; comprehensive summary

294
Q

Denouement

A

Outcome; unraveling of the plot of a play or work of literature

295
Q

Buttress

A

To reinforce; support

296
Q

Indigence

A

Poverty

297
Q

Efficacy

A

Efficiency; effectiveness

298
Q

Forment

A

To incite; arouse

299
Q

Fatuous

A

Foolishly self-satisfied

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