Hit Parade Flashcards
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Abscond (Verb)
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To depart clandestinely; to steal off and hide
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Adversity (Noun)
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Hardship or difficulty; opposition
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Aggravate (Verb)
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To worsen or intensify
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Arduous (Adjective)
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Strenuous; taxing; requiring significant effort
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Belie (Verb)
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To give a false impression off; to misrepresent
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Bombast (Noun)
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Self-important or pompous writing or speech
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Cacophony (Noun)
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Harsh, jarring, discordant sound; dissonance
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Castigation (Noun)
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Severe criticism or punishment
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Censure (Verb)
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To criticize severely; to officially rebuke
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Chicanery (Noun)
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Trickery or subterfuge
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Coercive (Adjective)
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Serving or intended to compel by force or authority
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Condemn (Verb)
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To blame or denounce
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Conspire (Verb)
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To secretly work together with the intent to commit a wrong or illegal act
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Covert (Adjective)
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Hidden; Clandestine
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Cower (Verb)
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To shrink in fear; to cringe
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Craven (Adjective)
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Contemptibly faint hearted; lacking any courage
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Denigrate (Verb)
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To blacken; to belittle; to sully; to defame; to disparage
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Denounce (Verb)
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To publicly condemn or criticize
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Derision (Noun)
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Scorn; ridicule; contemptuous treatment
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Diatribe (Noun)
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A harsh denunciation
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Discomfit (Verb)
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To defeat; to put down
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Disingenuous (Adjective)
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Insincere; lacking in honesty or frankness
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Dissemble (Verb)
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To disguise or conceal ; to mislead
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Exacerbate (Verb)
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To make worse or more severe; to increase in violence
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Fraud (Noun)
Deliberate deceit with the goal of gaining an unlawful advantage
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Furtive (Noun)
Marked by stealth; covert; surrepitious
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Garrulous (Adjective)
Pointlessly talkative; talking too much
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Harangue (Verb)
To deliver a pompous speech or tirade
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Impudent (Adjective)
Saucy; impertinent; bold and disrespectful
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Inopportune (Adjective)
ill-timed; unsuitable; inappropriate
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Irascible (Adjective)
Easily angered; prone to temperamental outbursts
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Malevolent (Adjective)
Having or showing often vicious ill-will , spite, or hatred
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Martial (Adjective)
Associated with war and the armed forces
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Misanthrope (Noun)
One who hates all other humans
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Morose (Adjective)
Sad; Sullen; Melancholy
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Obdurate (Adjective)
Unyielding; hardhearted; intractable
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Obsequious (Adjective)
Exhibiting a fawning attentiveness
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Obstinate (Adjective)
Stubborn; hardheaded; uncompromising
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Onerous (Adjective)
Troubling; burdensome
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Opprobrium (Noun)
Disgrace; contempt; scorn
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Pedantic (Adjective)
The parading of learning; excessive attention to minutiae and formal rules
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Perjury (Noun)
The purposeful giving of false or misleading testimony while under oath
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Provoke (Verb)
To incite anger, resentment, or exasperation
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Recalcitrant (Adjective)
Obstinately defiant of authority; difficult to manage
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Secrete (Verb)
To ensconce, conceal, or stow
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Specious (Adjective)
Seeming true, but actually being fallacious; misleading attractive
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Spurious (Adjective)
Lacking authenticity or validity; false; counterfeit
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Squander (Verb)
To waste by spending or using irresponsibly
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Tirade (Noun)
A long and extremely critical speech; a harsh denunciation
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Vexation (Noun)
Annoyance or irritation
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Amalgamate (Verb)
To combine several elements into a whole
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Assuage (Verb)
To ease or lessen; to appease or pacify
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Bolster (Verb)
To provide support or reinforcement
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Burgeon (Verb)
To grow rapidly or flourish
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Buttress (Noun)
A support or prop; often an external prop used to bolder a wall
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Capricous (Adjective)
Inclined to change one's mind impulsively; erratic ; unpredictable
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Catalyst (Noun)
A person or thing that causes change
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Caustic (Adjective)
Burning or stinging; causing corrosion
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Centrifuge (Noun)
A machine that spins very swiftly about a central axis, and, using centrifugal force, separates to disparate substances
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Converge (Verb)
To tend toward the same spot or outcome; to incline to join at an intersecting point
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Conversion (Noun)
The act or process of transforming to another form, state, or product
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Corrosion (Noun)
Act or process of causing deterioration; a wearing away, especially of metals
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Decibel (Noun)
Unit used in measuring the intensity of a sound, usually in relation to another sound
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Desiccate (Verb)
To dry out or dehydrate; to make dry or dull
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Distill (Verb)
To purify or concentrate through a process of vaporization and concentration
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Divest (Verb)
To remove or strip, especially clothing
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Enervate (Verb)
To weaken; to reduce in vitality
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Ephemeral (Adjective)
Brief; fleeting
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Eradicate (Verb)
To force out; to discharge
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Expel (verb)
to force out; to discharge
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Extend (Verb)
to lengthen or stretch out
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Facilitate (Verb)
to aid by making easier
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Implode (Verb)
to abruptly and violently collapse inward
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Inchoate (Adjective)
in an initial stage; not fully formed
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Incubation (Noun)
The act of sitting on or otherwise warning eggs in order to keep them at a temperature favorable for hatching
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Infuse (Verb)
to imbue; to pour in; to introduce; to instill
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Intransigent (adjective)
Refusing to compromise
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Inundate (Verb)
To flood or overwhelm
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Invigoration (Noun)
The quality of being energized or filled with liveliness
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Lackluster (Adjective)
Dull; lacking vitality or lumunosity
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Lethargic (Adjective)
Lacking energy; sluggish or sleepy
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Luminous (Adjective)
Characterized by brightness and the emission of light
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Obviate (Verb)
To anticipate and make unnecessary
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Pervasive (Adjective)
having the tendency to permeate or spread throughout
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Placate (Verb)
To appease; to calm by making concessions
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Plod (Verb)
To trudge; to move slowly and heavily
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Plummet (Verb)
To plunge or drop straight down
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Precipitate (Verb)
To act with excessive haste or impulse
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Precursor (Noun)
One that precedes and indicates or announces another
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Proliferate (Verb)
To grow or increase swiftly and abundantly
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Propagate (Verb)
To cause to spread, multiply, or reproduce
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Prune (Verb)
To cut back or clip branches or other parts of a plant, especially parts unnecessary
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Rarefy (Verb)
To make or become thin, less dense; to refine
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Rectify (Verb)
To make right or fix; to correct
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Retard (Verb)
to slow, delay, or hamper
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Saturate (Verb)
To fill until there is no further capacity for absorbance; to soak
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Sever (Verb)
To remove or separate by cutting off
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Stimulant (Noun)
An invigorating substance that excites mental or physical activity
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Synthesis (Noun)
The combination of parts to make a whole
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Tentative (Adjective)
Not definite; uncertain; experimental
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Vigor (Noun)
Active bodily or mental strength or energy; force
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Viscous (Adjective)
Thick; sticky
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Vital (Adjective)
Essential for or relating to life; necessary
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Vitality (Noun)
Vigor; ability to live or grow; energy
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Volatile (Adjective)
Readily changing to a vapor; changeable; fickle; explosive
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Waver (Verb)
To move to and fro; to sway' to be unsettled in decision
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Aberant (Adjective)
Deviating from the norm
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Ambiguous (Adjective)
Unclear; open to more than one potential meaning
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Anachronistic (Adjective)
Belonging to another time; removed from natural chronological context
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Anomalous (Adjective)
Abnormal; deviating from the common or general type
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Anomaly (Noun)
Deviation from the normal order, form or rule; abnormality
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Archaic (Adjective)
Outdated; associated with an earlier, perhaps more primitive time
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Ascetic (Noun)
One who practices rigid self-denial, especially as an act of religious devotion
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Banal (Adjective)
lacking originality; commonplace
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Brilliance (Noun)
Extreme brightness; possessing luminosity or genius
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Camouflage (Noun)
A means of disguising people or things to make them blend in with their surroundings
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Commensurate (Adjective)
Matching; corresponding or proportionate in degree, size or amount
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Conspicuous (Adjective)
Easily visible; obvious
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Derivative (Adjective)
unoriginal; obtained from another source
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Deviance (Noun)
State or quality of differing from the accepted norm; abnormality
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Discrete (Adjective)
Distinct; individual
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Diffuse (Adjective)
Dispersed or scattered; not centralized
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Digress (Verb)
To stray from the point; to go off on a tangent
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Discordant (Adjective)
Conflicting; Dissonant or harsh in sound
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Disinterest (Noun)
Lack of bias or involvement; impartiality
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Disinterested (Adjective)
Uninvolved; free from self-interest
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Dispersed (Adjective)
Spread out or scattered
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Distention (Noun)
the state or act of extending or being swollen out of shape
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Eccentric (Adjective)
Departing from norms or conventions
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Eclectic (Adjective)
Culled from many sources
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Emulate (Verb)
to imitate with the goal of rivaling or surpassing
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Enigmatic (Adjective)
Mysterious; obscure; difficult to understand
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Esoteric (Adjective)
Intended for or understood by a small, specific group
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Flamboyant (Adjective)
Ostentatious or showy; flashy
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Florid (Adjective)
Flowery; ruddy; ornate
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Heretical (Adjective)
Unorthodox; iconoclastic; dissenting from established dogma
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Hierarchy (Noun)
A system in which individuals or things are ranked in a particular order
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Homogeneous (Adjective)
Made up of elements that are similar in nature or kind; uniform
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Iconoclastic (Adjective)
Attacking cherished beliefs; heretical; heterodox
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Idiosyncrasy (Noun)
A quirk particular to a group or individual
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Imperturbable (Adjective)
Marked by extreme calm, impassivity, and steadiness
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Innocuous (Adjective)
Harmless; causing no damage
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Marginal (Adjective)
relating to or at an edge or boundary; minimal
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Maverick (Noun)
An independent individual who does not go along with a group or party
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Mitigate (Verb)
To make or become less severe or intense to moderate
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Monotonous (Adjective)
Dull and without variety; tedious
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Mundane (Adjective)
of the world; typical of or concerned with the ordinary
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Ostracism (Noun)
the act of casting out or excluding an individual from a society or group; banishment
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Perennial (Adjective)
Recurrent through the year or many years; happening repeatedly
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Recluse (Noun)
One who avoids social contact and lives in seclusion
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Scarce (Adjective)
Rare and insufficient
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Sporadic (Adjective)
occurring only occasionally, or in scattered instances
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Superfluous (Adjective)
Exceeding what is sufficient or necessary
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Symmetry (Noun)
the quality of being evenly balanced; the possession of perfect correspondence between sides or parts
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Tangential (Adjective)
Touching only briefly upon the topic at hand; irrelevant
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Temper (Verb)
to moderate or soothe
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Temperate (Adjective)
moderate; marked by restraint and a lack of extremes
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Admonish (Verb)
To reprove; to express warning or disapproval
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Advocate (Verb)
to champion or support; to argue in favor of
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Anthology (Noun)
a collection of literary works by various authors
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Apprise (Verb)
to give notice to; to inform
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Approbation (Noun)
an expression of approval or praise
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Articulate (Adjective)
well - spoken; coherent
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Aver (Verb)
to state as a fact; to confirm or support
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Brevity (Noun)
shortness or briefness, especially in time
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Candor (Noun)
honesty; frankness; sincereity
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Circumspect (Adjective)
discreet; prudent; careful
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Cogent (Adjective)
Appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing
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Corroborate (Verb)
To confirm; to provide additional support; to verify
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Diffident (Adjective)
Reserved, shy, or unassuming; lacking in self-confidence
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Disabuse (Verb)
to undeceive; to set right
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Discourse (noun)
to undeceive; to set right
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Discretion (Noun)
Cautious reserve in speech; ability to make responsible decisions
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Dissertation (Noun)
A long and formal written thesis or treatise, usually written by a doctoral candidate to meet a degree requirement
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Elegy (Noun)
a mournful poem, especially one lamenting the dead
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Eloquent (Adjective)
well-spoken; expressive; articulate
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Enumerate (Verb)
to list or count off individually
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Equivocate (Verb)
to use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent
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Eulogy (Noun)
A speech honoring the dead
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Euphemism (Noun)
A mild replacement for a harsher or more offensive term
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Exculpate (Verb)
to exonerate; to clear of blame
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Extemporaneous (Adjective)
Improvised; done without preparation
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Fawn (Verb)
to flatter or praise excessively
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Glib (Adjective)
Marked by ease or informality; nonchalant; lacking in depth; superficial
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Goad (Verb)
To prod or drive forward; to urge on; to incite
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Implicit (Adjective)
Implied but not directly stated; tacit
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Impose (Verb)
To compel or require; to push one's views or authority upon others
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Inquisitive (Adjective)
Questioning; curious
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Laconic (Adjective)
using few words; terse
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Laud (Verb)
to praise highly
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Loquacious (Adjective)
extremely talkative
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Lucid (Adjective)
Clear; easily understood
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Mollify (Verb)
to calm or soothe; to reduce in emotional intensity
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Parody (Noun)
A humorous imitation intended for ridicule or comic effect, especially in literature and art
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Pertinent (Adjective)
Relevant; germane
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Platitude (Noun)
A superficial remark, especially one offered as meaningful
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Propitiate (Verb)
To appease; to conciliate
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Rescind (Verb)
to invalidate; to repeal; to retract
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Rhetoric (Noun)
The art or study of effective use of language for communication and persuasion
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Sanction (Noun)
Authoritative permission or approval; a penalty intended to enforce compliance
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Shrill (Adjective)
Loud and high- pitched; screeching
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Soliloquy (Noun)
A speech made to oneself; a monologue
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Stanza (Noun)
a group of two or more verses or lines that make up a division in a poem and correspond in rhyme, meter and length
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Subpoena (Noun)
A court order requiring appearance and/or testimony
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Subtle (Adjective)
not obvious; elusive; difficult to discern
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Succinct (Adjective)
Brief and concise
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Tacit (Adjective)
implied; not explicitly stated
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Taciturn (Adjective)
Not talkative; reserved; uncommunicative
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Tact (Noun)
Discerning and sensitive use of speech; diplomacy
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Tout (Verb)
To publicly praise or promote
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Validity (Noun)
soundness or truthfulness
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Veracity (Noun)
truthfulness; honesty
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Wheedle (Verb)
To coax; to persuade, often through the use of flattery or smooth talk
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Anesthetic (Noun)
A substance that causes insensibility and removes pain
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Antipathy (Noun)
Aversion; dislike
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Arbitrary (Adjective)
Subject to change or individual whim; without definite reason
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Astrologer (Noun)
A person who believes that starts and planets influence human activity and attempts to protect the future by studying their positions
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Aversion (Noun)
an intense feeling of dislike or disgust
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Bent (Adjective)
an inclination or tendency
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Compensation (Noun)
Payment given for services rendered or for loss
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Compliant (Adjective)
yielding or submissive; amenable
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Condone (Verb)
to approve tacitly by overlooking or excusing; to allow or forgive
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Convention (Noun)
a generally agreed-upon practice or attitude
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Correspond (Verb)
to exist in agreement or conformity; to harmonize
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Defer (Verb)
to yield; to submit; to bow
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Dogma (Noun)
Doctrine or set of religious principles
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Ensure (Verb)
to guarantee or make certain
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Equivocal (Adjective)
Ambiguous; doubtful or uncertain
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Extraneous (Adjective)
Not vital or pertinent; irrelevant
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Fortuitous (Adjective)
Happening by fortunate accident or chance
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Frugality (Noun)
Thriftiness; economy; prudence in financial matters
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Illusory (Adjective)
Deceptive; based upon false belief or impression
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Indifferent (Adjective)
Having no interest or concern; showing no bias or prejudice
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Insipid (Adjective)
without taste or flavor; lacking in spirit; bland
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Inured (Adjective)
Accustomed to accepting something undesirable
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Miser (Noun)
An individual who lives poorly in order to hoard money; a person who is stingy
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Nonplused (Adjective)
Baffled; in a quandary; at a loss for what to say or do
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Penchant (Noun)
Strong inclination; liking
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Penury (Noun)
Poverty; destitution
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Plethora (Noun)
an overabundance; a surplus
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Preempt (Verb)
To replace; to supersede; to appropriate
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Presumption (Noun)
the act of making an assumption or taking something for granted
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Prodigal (Adjective)
Recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish
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Prone (Adjective)
naturally inclined; tending; likely
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Propensity (Noun)
A natural inclination or tendency; penchant
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Qualms (Noun)
Misgivings; reservations; causes for hesitancy
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Quiescence (Noun)
Stillness; motionlessness; quality of being at rest
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Reconciliation (Noun)
the act of reestablishing harmony or friendly interactions
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Repudiate (Verb)
To refuse to have anything to do with; to disown
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Restitution (Noun)
The act of returning something to its proper owner, or of compensating loss of such an item; reparation
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Savor (Verb)
to enjoy in a thorough manner; to relish; to fully appreciate
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Serenity (Noun)
Tranquility; pracefulness
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Solvent (Adjective)
Able to meet financial obligations; able to dissolve another substance
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Stint (Verb)
to restrain; to be sparing or frugal
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Subjective (Adjective)
not objective; based upon internal perceptions rather than upon unprejudiced fact
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Superflous (Adjective)
Exceeding what is sufficient or necessary
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Tranquil (Adjective)
peaceful; calm
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Tranquility (Noun)
Calmness; serenity; peacefulness
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Trivial (Adjective)
unimportant; lacking value
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Veneration (Noun)
Extreme respect and reverence; worship
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Audacious (Adjective)
daring and fearless; recklessly bold
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Authoritarian (Adjective)
Characterized by a preference for complete obedience to authority; domineering
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Beneficent (Adjective)
Charitable and kind in action
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Blithe (Adjective)
carefree; merry
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Brittle (Adjective)
apt to break or crack due to a lack of elasticity; fragile
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Burnish (Verb)
to polish; to rub to a shine
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Calibrate (verb)
to inspect, determine or correct the graduations of an instrument by comparing it to a standard
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Connoisseur (Noun)
an informed and astute judge in matters of taste; expert
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Consternation (Noun)
Dismay; startling, distressing fear or shock that results in complete confusion
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Convoluted (Adjective)
Complex or complicated
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Cultivation (Noun)
The act of preparing or working land in order to grow crops
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Cultured (Adjective)
Possessing education, refinement and taste; polished
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cunning (Noun)
Shrewdness and craftiness; slyness
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Cynicism (Noun)
An attitude or quality of belief that all people are motivated by selfishness
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Deference (Noun)
A courteous and respectful yielding to the will of another
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Dogmatic (Adjective)
Stubbornly opinionated
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Effrontery (Noun)
Boldness; impudence; arrogance
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Endemic (Adjective)
Restricted or peculiar to a particular region; indigenous
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Epitome (Noun)
Embodiment; quintessence
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Erudite (Adjective)
Very learned; scholarly
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Extravagance (Noun)
Lavishness; an unnecessary or unrestrained spending, especially of funds
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Facetious (Adjective)
Playful; humorous
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Fatuous (Adjective)
Silly; Inanely foolish
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Fidelity (Noun)
Faithfulness; loyalty
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Implacable (Adjective)
Not capable of being appeased or significantly changed
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Ingenuity (Adjective)
cleverness or inventiveness
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Intemperance (Noun)
Excessive indulgence of appetite or passion, especially in regard to alcohol; lack of constraint
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Intrepid (Adjective)
Steadfast and courageous
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Magnanimity (Noun)
The quality of being generously noble in mind and heart, especially in forgiving
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Membrane (Noun)
A thin, flexible film of tissue of that covers or lines an organ
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Meticulous (Adjective)
Characterized by extreme care and precision; attentive to detail
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Perfunctory (Adjective)
Cursory; done without care or interest
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Plasticity (Noun)
Pliability; malleability; flexibility
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Porous (Adjective)
Full of tiny openings able to absorb fluid or gas; permeable
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Pragmatic (Adjective)
Practical rather than idealistic
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Pristine (Adjective)
pure; uncorrupted; clean
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Probity (Noun)
Adherence to the highest principles; uprightness
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Prodigious (Adjective)
Abundant in size, force, or extent; extraordinary
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Prudent (Adjective)
Wise and careful; showing good judgement
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Rigidity (Noun)
the quality or state of being unyielding or stiff
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Slight (Adjective)
Small; lacking substance in degree, amount or size
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Solicitous (Adjective)
Concerned and attentive; eager
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Somber (Adjective)
Dark and depressing; mournful
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Superficial (Adjective)
Lacking depth; existing on or near the surface
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Synthetic (Adjective)
Man-made; artificial; relating to or involving the combination of parts to make a whole
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Tortuous (Adjective)
Winding; twisting; excessively complicated
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Tractable (Adjective)
Docile; obedient; easily led
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Treacherous (Adjective)
Lacking faithfulness or loyalty; traitorous; unstable
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Unfeigned (Adjective)
Genuine; not false or hypocritical
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Unfettered (Adjective)
Not tied down; unrestrained
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Warranted (Adjective)
Called for; authorized; justified
