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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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Dirge (n.)

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Song of grief/lamention

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Encomium (n.)

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Glowing, enthusiastic praise

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Eschew (v.)

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To shun, avoid

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Excoriate (v.)

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To censure scathingly, upbraid

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Execrate (v.)

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To denounce, feel loathing for

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Exegesis (n.)

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Critical examination, explication (explanation/interpretation)

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Expiate (v.)

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To atone, make amends for

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Extirpate (v.)

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To destroy, exterminate

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Fatuous (adj.)

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Silly, inanely foolish

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Fractious (adj.)

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Quarrelsome, rebellious

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Gainsay (v.)

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To deny, dispute, contradict

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Heterodox (adj.)

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Unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic

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Imbroglio (n.)

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Difficult or embarrasing situation

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Indefatigable (adj.)

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Tireless, dogged

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Ineluctable (adj.)

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Certain, inevitable

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Inimitable (adj.)

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One of a kind

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Insouciant (adj.)

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Unconcerned, carefree

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Inveterate (adj.)

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Deep rooted, ingrained

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Jejune (adj.

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Uninteresting, vapid, nugatory

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Lubricious (adj.)

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Lewd, wanton

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Mendicant (n.)

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Beggar

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Meretricious (adj.)

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Cheapp, showy, gaudy, Zef.

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Minatory (adj.)

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Menacing, threatening

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Nadir (n.)

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Low point

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Nonplussed (adj.)

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Bewildered

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Obstreperous (adj.)

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Aggressively defiant

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Ossified (adj.)

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Turned more rigid

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Palliate (v.)

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To make less serious

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Panegyric (n.)

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Formal praise, eulogy

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Parsimonious (adj.)

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Cheap, miserly

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Pellucid (adj.)

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Transparent, easy to understand

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Peroration (n.)

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Speech ending/flowery speech

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Plangent (adj.)

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Pounding, thundering

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Prolix (adj.)

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Long-winded, verbose

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Propitiate (v.)

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To appease, conciliate

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Puerile (adj.)

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Childish, jejune

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Puissance (n.)

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Power, strength

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Pusillanimous (adj.)

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Cowardly, craven

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Remonstrate (v.)

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To protest, object

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Sagacious (adj.)

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Having sound judgement

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Salacious (adj.)

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Lustful, lacivious

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Salutary (adj.)

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Remedial, causing improvement

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Sanguine (adj.)

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Cheerful, optimistic

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Saturnine (adj.)

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Gloomy, morose

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Sententious (adj.)

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Moralistic, tending to moralize excessively

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Stentorian (adj.)

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Extremely loud and powerful

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Stygian (adj.)

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Gloomy, dark

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Tendentious (adj.)

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Biased

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Timorous (adj.)

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Timid, fearful

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Tyro (n.)

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Novice

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Vitiate (v.)

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To corrupt, spoil

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Voluble (adjj.)

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Fluent, having easy use of spoken language

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