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alloy (verb)

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to commingle; to debase by mixing with something; (unalloyed means pure)

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appropriate (verb)

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to take for one’s own use; to confiscate

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arrest/arresting (verb)

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to suspend; to engage; holding one’s attention; as in an arresting portrait

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august (adj)

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majestic; vulnerable

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bent (adj)

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leaning, inclination, proclivity; tendency

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broach (verb)

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to bring up; to announce; to begin to talk about

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brook (verb)

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to tolerate; to endure; to countenance

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cardinal (adj)

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major, as in cardinal sin

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chauvinist (adj)

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a blindly devoted patriot

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color (adj)

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to change as if by dyeing, i.e., to distort, gloss or affect

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consequential (adj)

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pompous, self-important (primary definitions are logically following; important

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damp (verb)

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to diminish the intensity or check the vibration of a sound

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die (noun)

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a tool used for shaping ,a sin a tool-and-die shop

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essay (verb)

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to test or try; to attempt; to experiment

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exact (verb)

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to demand; to call for; to require; to take

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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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inhumanely cruel

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flip (adj)

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sarcastic, impertinent, a sin, flippant: a flip remark

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ford (verb)

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to wade across the shallow part of a river or stream

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grouse (verb)

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to complain or grumble

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guy (noun/verb)

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a rope, cord, or cable attached to something as a brace or a guide; to steady or reinforce using a guy: (think guide)

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intimate (verb)

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to imply suggest, or insinuate

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list (verb)

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to tilt or lean to one side

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lumber (verb)

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to move honestly and clumsily

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meet (adj)

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fitting, proper

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milk (verb)

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to exploit; to squeeze every last ounce of

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mince (verb)

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to pronounce or speak affectedly; to euphemize; to speak too carefully: Also to take tiny steps; to tiptoe

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nice (adj)

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exacting, fastidious, extremely precise

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occult (adj)

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hidden ,concealed, beyond comprehension

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pedestrian (adj)

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commonplace, trite, unremarkable, quotidian

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pied (adj)

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multi-colored, usually in blotches

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pine (verb)

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to lose vigor (as through grief); to yearn

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plastic (adj)

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moldable, pliable, not rigid

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pluck (noun)

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courage, spunk, fortitude

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prize (verb)

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to pry, to press or force with a lever; something taken by force, spoils

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rail (verb)

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to complain about bitterly

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rent (adj)

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torn (past tense of rend); an opening or tear caused by such

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quail (verb)

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to lose courage; to turn frightened

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qualify (verb)

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to limit

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sap (verb)

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to enervate or weaken the vitality of

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sap (noun)

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a fool or nitwit

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scurvy (adj)

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contemptible, despicable

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singular (adj)

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exceptional, unusual, odd

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stand (noun)

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a group of trees

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steep (verb)

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to saturate or completely soak, as in to let a tea bag steep

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strut (noun)

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the supporting structural cross-part of a wing

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table (verb)

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to remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration

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tender (verb)

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to proffer or offer

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waffle (verb)

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to equivocate; to change one’s position

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wag (noun)

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wit; joker

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abjure (verb)

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to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid

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adumbrate (verb)

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

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anathema (noun)

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a solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing

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anodyne (adj)

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soothing, something that assuages or alloys pain or comforts

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apogee (noun)

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farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith

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apostate (noun)

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one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions

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apotheosis (noun)

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

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asperity (noun)

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severity, rigor; roughness, harshness; acrimony, irritability

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asservate (verb)

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to aver, allege, or assert

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assiduous (adj)

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diligent, hard-working, sedulous

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augury (noun)

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omen; portent

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bellicose (adj)

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belligerent, pugnacious, warlike

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calumniate (vebr)

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

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captious (adj)

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

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cavil (verb)

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to find faut without good reason

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celerity (noun)

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speed, alacrity; think–accelerate

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chimera (noun)

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an illusion; originally, an imaginary fire-breathing she-monster

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contumacious (adj)

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insubordinate, rebellious; contumely means insult, scorn, aspersions

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debacle (noun)

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rout, fiasco, complete failure

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denouement (noun)

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an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot

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descry (verb)

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to catch sight of

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desuetude (noun)

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disease

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desultory (adj)

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random; aimless; marked by lack of plan or purpose

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diaphanous (adj)

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transparent, gauzy

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diffident (adj)

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reserved, shy, unassuming; lacking in self-confidence

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dirge (noun)

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a song of grief or lamentation

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encomium (adj)

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glowing and enthusiastic praise; panegyric, tribute, eulogy

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eschew (verb)

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to shun or avoid

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excoriate (verb)

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to censure scathingly, to upbraid

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execrate (verb)

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

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exegesis (noun)

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critical examination, explication

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expiate (verb)

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to atone or make amends for

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extirpate (verb)

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to destroy, to exterminate; to cut out; to excind

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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, unruly, refractory, irritable

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gainsay (verb)

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to deny, to dispute, to contradict, to oppose

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heterodox (adj)

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unorthodox, heretical, iconoclast

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imbroglio (noun)

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a difficult or embarrassing situation

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indefatigable (adj)

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not easily exhaustible; 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, peerless

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insouciant (adj)

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unconcerned, carefree, heedless

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inveterate (adj)

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deep-rooted, ingrained; habitual

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lubricious (adj)

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lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery

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mendicant (noun)

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a beggar, supplicant

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meretricious (adj)

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

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minatory (adj)

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menacing, threatening (reminds one of the Minotaur, a threatening creature)

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nadir (noun)

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low point, pedigree

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nonplussed (adj)

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baffled, bewildered, at a loss for what to do or think

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obstreperous (adj)

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noisily and stubbornly defiant, aggressively boisterous

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ossified (adj)

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tending to become more rigid, conventional, sterile, and reactionary with age; literally, to turn into bone

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palliate (verb)

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to make something seem less serious, to gloss over, to make less severe or intense

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panegyric (noun)

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formal praise, eulogy, encomium, panegyrical means expressing elaborate praise

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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, limpid

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peroration (noun)

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the concluding part of a speech; flowery ,rhetorical speech

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plangent (adj)

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pounding, thundering, resounding

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prolix (adj)

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long-winded, verbose; prolixity means verbosity

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propitiate (verb)

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to appease; to conciliate; propitious means auspicious; favorable

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puerile (adj)

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childish, immature, jejune, nugatory

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remonstrate (verb)

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to protest, to object

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sagacious (adj)

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having a sound judgment; perceptive, wise; like a sage

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salacious (adj)

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lustful, lascivious, bawdy

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salutary (adj)

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gloomy, dark, sullen, morose

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sanguine (adj)

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cheerful, confident, optimistic

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saturnine (adj)

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gloomy, dark, sullen, morose

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sententious (adj)

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aphoristic or moralistic; epigrammatic; 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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sycophant (noun)

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toady; servile, self-seeking flatterer; parasite

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tendentious (adj)

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biases; showing marked tendencies

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timorous (adj)

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timid, fearful, diffident

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tyro (noun)

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novice, greenhorn, rank amateur

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vitiate (verb)

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

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voluble (adj)

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fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language

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