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Prodigy

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Innate genius

Paolo Picasso and Mozart are both child prodigy

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Dissemble

Prevaricate

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Phil is a sincere, honest person with no need to dissemble
He seemed to prevaricate when journalists asked pointed questions

Conceal. Lie

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Prolific

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Producing many works

Picasso was extremely prolific during his Cubist years.

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Precocious

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Very advanced at young age

Natalie was a precocious child who started her acting career at the age of 5

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Progenitor

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Ancestor. Inventor

Picasso is the progenitor of Cubism

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Sycophant

Toady

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A person who seeks favor by flattering other, behaving in an Obsequious and Servile manner

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Haughty

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Arrogant

Carlos is smart but very haughty.

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Squander

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Waste money, time, etc in a careless way

Paris Hilton squanders her inheritance.

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Reprobate

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A mortally unprincipled person

The Joker was indeed a reprobate who finds fun in committing crimes.

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Renegade

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A disloyal person who betrays his cause

The once respected general is now the nation’s renegade for he leaked the top secrets.

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Philanthropist

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A rich person who gives money to poor people

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Dilettante

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A person who studies sth but doesn’t serious about it

I’m a real dilettante, having basketball then dance

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Draconian

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Very strict laws, rules

Draco ruled Athen with draconian set of laws

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Spartan

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Plain. Austere

The Spartans warriors led very spartan lives, living in army barracks and eating meager servings.

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Arduous

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Demanding. Strenuous

Americans soldiers have to go through a arduous twelve-week training to become U.S marines.

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Halcyon

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Peaceful and happy

The Greek gods ordered the wind to be halcyon so the Halcyons nest would be safe through the winter. Those were the Halcyon days.

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Sophistry

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Plausible but deliberately misleading argument

The Sophists were very sophisticated philosophers who used sophistry to make arguments

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Whimsical

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Unusual but either amusing or annoying

Trang Quynh always gave whimsical remarks to the king.

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Chimerical

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Existing as a product Of an unchecked imagination.

The chimerical Chimera beast was a creation of Greek mythology.

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Ostracize

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To exclude sb from a group

In ancient Athens, people used broken fragment of vessel to vote who would be ostracized from the village

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Impecunious

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Poor

Pecus means cow, impecunious means no cow, no money : )

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Nefarious

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Extremely wicked

Voldemort formed a pantheon of wizards most nefarious villains

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Jovial

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Cheerful, fun-loving

Jupiter or Jove was considered as a jovial god

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Dirge

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A sad song sung at funeral

A mournful dirge is solemnly sung the respected man.

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Maudlin

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Tearful. Sentimental

Mary Magdalene was maudlin as Christ being taken down from the cross

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Quixotic

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Foolish in the pursuit of impractical idealism

Don Quixote was quixotic wasting all his life trying to become a hero

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Pandemonium

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Chaos

Residents of NY city lower Manhattan experienced an all-so-real pandemonium as the Twin Tower collapsed.

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Panoramic

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A view in all direction

I had a panoramic view over grandmas village from the peak of the mountain.

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Panacea

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Answer, remedy to all problems

There is no single panacea for the problem of unemployment

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Martinet

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A very strict person

Colonel Jean Martinet was a martinet who transformed novice soldiers to highly disciplined units

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Bowdlerize

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To abridge

Dr. Thomas Bowdler thought Shakespeare play was inappropriate for children so he published a bowdlerized versions

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Galvanize

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To electrify. Make sb take action by making them excited.

Luigi Galvani was an pioneer scientist to study electricity.

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Picayune

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Minutiae, things of small value

The government only focuses on minor details, and picayune.

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Gerrymander

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To divide district oddly in favor of a party election

Governor Garry of MA gerrymandered a district in the shape of a salamander.

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Maverick

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A nonconformist

Maverick, an early leader of TX, was a maverick, refusing to brand the cattle on his ranch.

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Juggernaut

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An irresistible force that crushes everything on its way

The d-day assail forces were juggernauts that crushed the German defense.

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Serendipity

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An accidental but fortunate opportunity

Meeting her like that, and there of all places, was true serendipity!!

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Watershed

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An event of remarkable importance

The discovery of penicillin is a watershed in modern medicine

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Zenith

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Peak. Highest point

Zedd is at the zenith of his music career

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