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1
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Approbation

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Expression of approval or praise

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Arduous

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Strenuous, taxing, requiring significant effort

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Canonical

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Authorized, recognized, accepted, pertaining to, conforming to a canon

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Canon

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Body of rules, standards, or principles accepted as axiomatic

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Capricious

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Erratic, inclined to change one’s mind impulsively

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Chicanery / shi KAY nuh ree

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Trickery or deception by quibble or sophistry

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Subterfuge

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Trick or tactic used to avoid something

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Quibble

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N- equivocation

V- to equivocate

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Sophistry
Sophism
Sophist

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Superficially plausible but generally fallacious method of reasoning

The false argument itself

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Sundry - sun dree

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Various, diverse

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Effrontery

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Shameless boldness, barefaced audacity

She had the effrontery to ask for TWO free samples! JEW!

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Ennui / ahn WEE

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Dissatisfaction resulting from boredom or apathy/lack of interest

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Erudite / er YOO dite

Erudition

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Very learned, scholarly

Knowledge acquired by study; research; learning

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Fulminate

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To protest against vehemently

The citizens fulminated against legalizing marijuana

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Ingenuous

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Artless, candid, sincere

=/= disingenuous

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Inured

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Accustomed to accepting something undesirable

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Magnanimous / mag NAN imous

Magnanimity / mag NAN imity

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Generous in forgiving an insult or injury; high-minded, noble

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Martial

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Associated with war and the armed forces

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Nascent

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Coming into being; beginning to exist

South Sudan, a nascent nation, had only come to fruition two years ago.

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Nebulous

Nebula

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Vague, cloudy, amorphous

Cloud of astral gas

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Obviate

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To anticipate and prevent or eliminate 
to render (a threat) unnecessary

To obviate the risk of injury

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Paean / pee an

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Song or hymn of praise ans thanksgiving

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Perfidy

Perfidious

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Intentional breach of faith/trust; treachery

Someone so willing to betray trust

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Perfunctory

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Cursory, done without care or interest, as though routine, hasty

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Perspicacious / pers pec acious

Perspicacity / pers pic acity

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Acutely perceptive, heaving keen discernment

Discernment

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Prattle

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to babble meaninglessly, talk in an empty, idle manner

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Precipitate

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Verb- to bring about prematurely, hastily, suddenly (The Tunisian revolution precipitated an economic catastrophe)
To throw, fling, hurl down
To cast, plunge, violently (He precipitated himself into the altercation)

Adj- acting w/ excessive haste or impulse; sudden, abrupt; w/o deliberation
Britney Spears’ 48-hr precipitate marriage was ephemeral at best.

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Predilection

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Predisposition in favor of something

29
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Prevaricate

Prevarication

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To deliberately avoid the truth; mislead

30
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Qualms

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Uneasy feeling or pang of conscience (He has no qualms about lying)

Sudden feeling of apprehension (He had sudden qualms about the success of venture.)

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Relegate

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To forcibly assign (to a lower position)

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Consign to

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To hand over; to transfer to another’s custody (consign to his secretary)
To set apart for, or devote to (Consign two days to Paris, one day to the Louvre, the other to the Eiffel)

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Reticent / RE ticent

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Quiet, reserved

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Solicit

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To seek for (sth) by respectful request

He solicited aid from the minister.

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Solicitous

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Anxious or concerned, attentive (for, about)

I’m solicitous about my progressing hair loss.

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Sordid

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Dirty, filthy, run-down, foul

Ignoble

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Ignoble / ig noble

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Of low character, aims, NOT NOBLE

Mo concealed his ignoble purpose when funding HYPE.

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Squander

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(away)

To waste by being prodigal

39
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Stupefy

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To stun, baffle, amaze

40
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Stymie

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To hinder, block, thwart

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Synthesis

Synthesize

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The combination of parts to make a whole

To form by combining parts together

42
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Torque

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Force that causes rotation

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Tortuous / tor chu ous

A

Winding, twisting, excessively complicated

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Truculent

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Fierce, curel, belligerent

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Virulent

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Extremely harmful, poisonous

Hostile, antagonistic

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Voracious

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Having insatiable appetite

47
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Vicariously

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Indirectly, as, by, or through a substitute

48
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Neologism / ne OH lij ism

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New word, expression, or usage

49
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Canonize

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To declare a deceased person a Saint

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