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enervate

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to weaken

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fulminate

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to loudly attack or denounce

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noxious

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harmful; injurious

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obviate

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to anticipate or make unnecesary

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paean

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song or hymn of praise or thankfulness

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perspication

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acutely perceptive

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precipitate (adj)

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acting with excessive haste or impulse

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precipitate (verb)

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to cause to happen before anticipated or required

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relegate

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to forcibly assign, especially to a lower place or position

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stymie

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to block; to thwart

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truculent

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fierce and cruel; eager to fight

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virulent

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extremelyl harmful or poisonous; bitterly hostile or antagonistic

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burgeon

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to grow rapidly or flourish

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chary

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wary; cautious; sparing

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demure

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question or oppose

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didactic

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intended to teach or instruct

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dogmatic

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expressing a rigid opinion based on unproved or improvable principles

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emollient

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soothing, especially to the skin; making less harsh; an agent that softens the skin

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ephemeral

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brief; fleeting

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impecunious

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lacking funds; without money

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inveigle

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to obtain by deception or flattery

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penurious

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penny-pinching; excessively thrifty; ungenerous

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quiescence

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stillness; motionlessness; quality of being at rest

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redoubtable

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awe-inspiring; worthy of honor

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aver

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to state as fact; to declare or assert

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evanescent

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tending to disappear like vapor; vanishing

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halcyon

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calm and peaceful

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mendacity

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the condition of being untruthful; dishonesty

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opprobrium

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disgrace; contempt; scorn

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pedagogy

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the profession or principles of teaching, or instructing

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pith

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the essential or central part

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prodigal

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recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish

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salubrious

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promoting health or well-being

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astringent

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having a tightening effect on living tissue; harsh; severe;

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credulous

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tending to believe too readily; gullible (noun form: credulity)

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dilettante

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one with an amatuerish or superficial interest in the arts or a branch of knowledge

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imminent

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about to happen; impending

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inimical

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damaging; harmful; injurious

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mercurial

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characterized by rapid and unpredictable change in mood

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phlegmatic

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calm; sluggish; unemotional

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probity

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adherence to highest principles; complete and confirmed integrity; uprightness

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prosaic

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dull; lacking in spirit or imagination

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quotidian

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occurring or recurring daily; commonplace

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recondite

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hidden; concealed; difficult to understand; obscure

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refulgent

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radiant; shiny; brilliant

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sedulous

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diligent; persistent; hard-working

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trenchant

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sharply perceptive; keen ; penetrating

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variagated

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multicolored; characterized by a variety of patches of different color

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vituperate

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to use harsh condemnatory language; to abuse or censure severly or abusively; berate

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alloy (verb)

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to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior; “unalloyed” means pure

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consequential (alternate meaning)

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pompous, self-important

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essay

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to test or try; to attempt; to experiment

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fell (verb)

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to cause to fall by striking

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fell (adj)

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inhumanly cruel

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mince

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to pronounce or speak affectedly; to euphemize, to speak to carefully. Also to take tiny steps; to tiptoe

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pied

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multicolored, usually in blotches

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pluck

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courage, spunk, fortitude

58
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adumbrate

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to foreshadow vaguely or intimate; to suggest or outline sketchily; to obscure or overshadow

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anodyne

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soothing; something that assuages or allays pain, or comforts

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apotheosis

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deification; glorification to godliness; an exalted example; a model of excellence or perfection

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asperity

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severity, rigor; roughness, harshness; acrimony, irritability

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asservate

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to aver, allege, or assert

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calumniate

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to slander, to make a false accusation; “calumny” means slander, aspersion

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captious

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disposed to point out trivial faults; calculated to confuse or entrap in argument

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cavil

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to find fault without good reason

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contumacious

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insubordinate, rebellious; “contumely” means insult, scorn, aspersion

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descry

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to discriminate or discern

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desuetude

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disuse

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desultory

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random; aimless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose

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diaphanous

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transparent, gauzy

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encomium

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glowing and enthusiastic praise; panegyric, tribute, eulogy

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execrate

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to denounce, to feel loathing for, to curse, to declare to be evil

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exegesis

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critical examination, explication

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expiate

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to atone or make amends for

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extirpate

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to destroy, to exterminate, to cut out, to exscind

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heterodox

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unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic

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imbroglio

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difficult or embarrasing situation

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ineluctable

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certain, inevitable

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inimitable

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one of a kind, peerless

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jejune

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vapid, uninteresting, nugatory; childish, immature, puerile

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lubrication

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lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery

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meretricious

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cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy; attracting by false show

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minatory

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menacing, threatening (reminds you of the minotaur, a threatening creature)

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nadir

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low point, perigee

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panegyric

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formal praise, eulogy, encomium; “panegyrical” means expressing elaborate praise

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pellucid

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transparent, easy to understand, limpid

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peroration

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the concluding part of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech

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plangent

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pounding, thundering, resounding

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prolix

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long-winded, verbose; “prolixity” means verbosity

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puissance

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power, strength; “puissant” means powerful, strong

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salutary

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remedial, wholesome, causing improvement

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sanguine

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cheerful, confident, optimistic

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saturnine

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gloomy, dark, sullen, morose

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sententious

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aphoristic or moralistic; epigrammatic; tending to moralze excessively

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stentorian

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extremely loud and powerful

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stygian

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gloomy, dark

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tendentious

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biased; showing marked tendencies

98
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vitiate

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to corrupt, to debase, to spoil, to make ineffective

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