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Truculent (adj.):

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Fierce & cruel, eager to fight / criticism

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Stymie (verb):

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Block, thwart

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Veracity (noun):

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Truthfulness, honesty

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Voracious (adj.):

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Insatiable appetite for an activity / pursuit; ravenous

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Abate (verb):

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To lessen in intensity / degree; music abated her anxiety

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Accolade (noun):

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An expression of praise / the play received accolades

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Adulation (noun):

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Excessive praise, intense adoration / his adulation scared her away

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Ameliorate (verb):

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To make better or more tolerable / RAs try to ameliorate roommate conflict

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Ascetic (adj.):

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One who practices rigid self denial, esp as an act of religious devotion / a monk at the convent

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Avarice (noun):

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Greed, esp for wealth / his biggest sin was avarice for money.

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Axiom (noun):

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A universally recognized principle / gravity is an axiom

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Burgeon (verb):

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To grow rapidly or flourish / he burgeoned into a fine actor after moving to NYC

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Bucolic (adj.):

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Rustic & pastoral, characteristic of rural areas & their inhabitants / the vintage painting had a bucolic feel

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Cacophony (noun):

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Harsh, jarring, discordant sound, dissonance / produced by city traffic at mid-day

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Canon (noun):

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Established set of principles or codes of law, often religious in nature / canons of good behavior

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Castigation (noun):

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Severe criticism or punishment / castigation for lying

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Caustic (adj.):

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Burning or stinging, causing corrosion / caustic chemical

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Chary (adj.):

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Wary, cautious, sparing / chary of texting too much

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Cogent (adj.):

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Appealing forcibly to the mind / reason, convincing / cogent evidence of the crime

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Complaisance (noun):

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Willingness to comply w/ the wishes of others / a complaisant child follows the rules

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Contentious (adj.):

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Argumentative, quarrelsome, causing controversy or

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Contrite (adj.):

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Regretful, pertinent, seeking forgiveness / a sinner

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Culpable (adj.):

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Deserving blame / a thief

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Dearth (noun):

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Smallness of quantity / numbers, scarcity, a lack / a dearth of dateable men

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Demur (verb):

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To question or oppose / I demur this church’s beliefs

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Didactic (adj.):

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Intended to teach or instruct / a self-help book

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Ebullience (noun):

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Quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts / feelings / mood, bubbly

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Enigmatic (adj.):

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Mysterious, obscure, difficult to understand / look on her face, a book

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Ephemeral (adj.):

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Brief, fleeting / childhood is ephemeral

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Esoteric (adj.):

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Intended for or understood by a small, specific group / genetic counseling had an esoteric feel to it

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Exonerate (verb):

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To remove blame / I confessed of the accident, exonerating my sister

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Facetious (adj.):

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Playful, humorous / a remark to lighten the mood

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Furtive (adj.:

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Marked by stealth, covert, surreptitious / a glance

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Harangue (verb/noun):

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To deliver a pompous speech or tirade; a long, pompous speech / sounds miserable

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Hyperbole (noun):

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Exaggerated statement / “to wait an eternity”

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Impecunious (adj.):

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Lacking funds, without money / this adventure has left me impecunious, many of our patients are

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Incipient (adj.):

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Beginning to come into being or to become apparent / a cold is incipient when you feel that first throat tickle

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Innocuous (adj.):

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Harmless, causing no damage / a rainstorm in innocuous compared to a tsunami

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Intransigent (adj.):

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Refusing to compromise / wouldn’t want to date an intransigent man, stubborn

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Inveigle (verb):

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To obtain by deception or flattery / tricked you into coming with me, into giving me money

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Merose (adj.):

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Sad, sullen, melancholy / a mood on a rainy day

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Odious (adj.):

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Evoking intense aversion or dislike / odious smell

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Opaque (adj.):

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Impenetrable by light, not reflecting light / window in the bathroom, can’t see clearly through it

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Penurious (adj.):

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Penny-pinching, excessively thrifty, ungenerous / how I feel after the holidays

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Pernicious (adj.):

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Extremely harmful, potentially causing death / jumping off a rocky cliff into the water below

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Peruse (verb):

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To examine with great care / doctor perused the wound, me at a book store…or any store

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Prodigious (adj.):

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Abundant in size, force, extent, extraordinary / a talent

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Quaff (verb):

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To drink deeply / we quaffed wine at the tasting party, first sip of coffee in the morning

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Quiescence (noun):

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Stillness, at rest / my mind after prayer

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Redoubtable (adj.):

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Awe-inspiring, worthy of honor / Mt. Rainier produces a redoubtable response to its creator

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Stoic (adj.):

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Indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain, steadfast / a stoic hope

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Supplant (verb):

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To take the place of, to supersede / i supplanted my old socks with new ones

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Torpid (adj.):

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Inactive, sluggish / Zoey’s become a torpid dog in her old age

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Urbane (adj.):

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Sophisticated, elegant / maintained a urbane tone in his letters, a sense of style

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Vilify (verb):

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To defame, to characterize harshly / slander

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Abscond (verb):

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To depart clandestinely; to steal off & hide / the cashier absconded with the money

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Aberrant (adj.):

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Deviating from the norm / hipster

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Alacrity (noun):

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Eager & enthusiastic willingness / we accepted the invite with alacrity, “SURE!!!! :))))”

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Anomaly (noun):

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Deviation from normal order, form, or rule; abnormality / quiet nature is an anomaly among exuberant people

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Approbation (noun):

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An expression of approval or praise / I sing approbations to God

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Arduous (adj.):

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Strenuous, taxing, requiring significant effort / running a marathon would be arduous

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Assuage (verb):

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To lesson or ease; to appease or pacify / Taco Bell assuages my hangry attitude

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Audacious (adj.):

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Daring & fearless, recklessly bold / “How dare they!!” = “How audacious!”

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Austere (adj.):

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Without adornment, bare, severely simple, ascetic / the nun lead an austere life

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Axiomatic (adj.):

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Taken as given, possessing self-evident truth

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Canonical (adj.):

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Following or in agreement with accepted, traditional standards

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Capricious (adj.):

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Inclined to change one’s mind impulsively, erratic, unpredictable

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Censure (verb):

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To criticize severely, to officially rebuke / the newspapers censured the terror group’s practices

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Chicanery (noun):

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Trickery or subterfuge / the car salesman resorted to chicanery to make quota

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Connoisseur (noun):

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An informed & astute judge in matters of taste, expert / Seattlites with coffee

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Convoluted (adj.):

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Complex or complicated

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Disabuse (verb):

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To un-deceive, to set right / he disabused her after an afternoon of pranks

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Discordant (adj.):

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Conflicting, dissonant or harsh in sound / opinions about underage drinking

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Disparate (adj.):

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Fundamentally distinct or dissimilar / cats & dogs are disparate pets

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Effrontery (noun):

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Extreme boldness, presumptuousness / she has the effrontery to ask for TWO free samples

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Enervate (verb):

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To weaken, to reduce in vitality / walking up 11 stories to my apt enervates me

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Ennui (noun):

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Dissatisfaction / restlessness due to boredom / apathy

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Equivocate (verb):

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To use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent

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