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Abjure (v.)

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To solemnly renounce, reject, or recant

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Adumbrate (v.)

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Foreshadow, vaguely intimate

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Anathema (n.)

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Accursed/loathed person or thing

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Anodyne (adj.)

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Soothing

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Apogee (n.)

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Highest point, culmination, zenith

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Apostate (n.)

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One who abdandons long held beliefs/convictions

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Apotheosis (n.)

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A model of excellence or perfection

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Asperity (n.)

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Severity, rigor, roughness

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Asseverate (v.)

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To aver, assert, allege

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Assiduous (adj.)

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Diligent, hard working

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Augury (n.)

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Omen, portent, warning

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Bellicose (adj.)

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Belligerent, pugnacious

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Caluminate (v.)

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To slander, make a false accusation

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Captious (adj.)

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Apt to notice trivial faults, difficult to please

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Cavil (v.)

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To find fault without good reason

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Celerity (n.)

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Speed, alacrity

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Chimera (n.)

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An illusion

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Contumacious (adj.)

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Insubordinte, rebellious

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Denouement (n.)

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The outcome or solution

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Descry (v.)

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To discriminate, discern

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Desuetude (n.)

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Disuse

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Desultory (adj.)

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Random, aimless

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Diaphanous (adj.)

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Transparent, gauzy

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Diffident (ajd.)

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Reserved, shy

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# Hit Parade 6 Dirge (n.)
Song of grief/lamention
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# Hit Parade 6 Encomium (n.)
Glowing, enthusiastic praise
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# Hit Parade 6 Eschew (v.)
To shun, avoid
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# Hit Parade 6 Excoriate (v.)
To censure scathingly, upbraid
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# Hit Parade 6 Execrate (v.)
To denounce, feel loathing for
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# Hit Parade 6 Exegesis (n.)
Critical examination, explication (explanation/interpretation)
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# Hit Parade 6 Expiate (v.)
To atone, make amends for
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# Hit Parade 6 Extirpate (v.)
To destroy, exterminate
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# Hit Parade 6 Fatuous (adj.)
Silly, inanely foolish
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# Hit Parade 6 Fractious (adj.)
Quarrelsome, rebellious
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# Hit Parade 6 Gainsay (v.)
To deny, dispute, contradict
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# Hit Parade 6 Heterodox (adj.)
Unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic
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# Hit Parade 6 Imbroglio (n.)
Difficult or embarrasing situation
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# Hit Parade 6 Indefatigable (adj.)
Tireless, dogged
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# Hit Parade 6 Ineluctable (adj.)
Certain, inevitable
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# Hit Parade 6 Inimitable (adj.)
One of a kind
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# Hit Parade 6 Insouciant (adj.)
Unconcerned, carefree
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# Hit Parade 6 Inveterate (adj.)
Deep rooted, ingrained
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# Hit Parade 6 Jejune (adj.
Uninteresting, vapid, nugatory
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# Hit Parade 6 Lubricious (adj.)
Lewd, wanton
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# Hit Parade 6 Mendicant (n.)
Beggar
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# Hit Parade 6 Meretricious (adj.)
Cheapp, showy, gaudy, Zef.
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# Hit Parade 6 Minatory (adj.)
Menacing, threatening
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# Hit Parade 6 Nadir (n.)
Low point
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# Hit Parade 6 Nonplussed (adj.)
Bewildered
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# Hit Parade 6 Obstreperous (adj.)
Aggressively defiant
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# Hit Parade 6 Ossified (adj.)
Turned more rigid
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# Hit Parade 6 Palliate (v.)
To make less serious
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# Hit Parade 6 Panegyric (n.)
Formal praise, eulogy
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# Hit Parade 6 Parsimonious (adj.)
Cheap, miserly
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# Hit Parade 6 Pellucid (adj.)
Transparent, easy to understand
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# Hit Parade 6 Peroration (n.)
Speech ending/flowery speech
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# Hit Parade 6 Plangent (adj.)
Pounding, thundering
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# Hit Parade 6 Prolix (adj.)
Long-winded, verbose
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# Hit Parade 6 Propitiate (v.)
To appease, conciliate
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# Hit Parade 6 Puerile (adj.)
Childish, jejune
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# Hit Parade 6 Puissance (n.)
Power, strength
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# Hit Parade 6 Pusillanimous (adj.)
Cowardly, craven
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# Hit Parade 6 Remonstrate (v.)
To protest, object
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# Hit Parade 6 Sagacious (adj.)
Having sound judgement
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# Hit Parade 6 Salacious (adj.)
Lustful, lacivious
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# Hit Parade 6 Salutary (adj.)
Remedial, causing improvement
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# Hit Parade 6 Sanguine (adj.)
Cheerful, optimistic
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# Hit Parade 6 Saturnine (adj.)
Gloomy, morose
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# Hit Parade 6 Sententious (adj.)
Moralistic, tending to moralize excessively
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# Hit Parade 6 Stentorian (adj.)
Extremely loud and powerful
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# Hit Parade 6 Stygian (adj.)
Gloomy, dark
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# Hit Parade 6 Tendentious (adj.)
Biased
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# Hit Parade 6 Timorous (adj.)
Timid, fearful
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# Hit Parade 6 Tyro (n.)
Novice
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# Hit Parade 6 Vitiate (v.)
To corrupt, spoil
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# Hit Parade 6 Voluble (adjj.)
Fluent, having easy use of spoken language