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Lesser Known 2nd Meanings Flashcards

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August (adj)

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Majestic, venerable

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Alloy (v)

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To commingle

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Bent (n)

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Leaning, inclination, proclivity, tendency

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Brook (v)

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To tolerate; to endure

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Chauvinist (n)

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A blindly devoted patriot

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Consequential (adj)

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Pompous, self-important (primary definition = logically following)

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Damp (v)

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To diminish the intensity or check the vibration of a sound (damper pedal)

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Die (n)

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A tool used for shaping, as in a tool-and-die shop

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Essay (v)

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To test or try; to attempt; to experiment

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Fell (adj)

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Inhumanly cruel

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Flag (v)

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To sag or droop; to become spiritless; to decline

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Grouse (v)

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To complain or grumble

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Guy (n)

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A rope cord, or cable attached to something as a brace or guide

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Intimate (v)

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To imply, suggest, or insinuate

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List (v)

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To tilt or lean to one side

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Meet (adj)

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Fitting, proper

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Mince (v)

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To pronounce or speak affectedly or too carefully. Also, to take tiny steps/tiptoe

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Nice (adj)

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Exacting, fastidious, extremely precise

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Obtain (adj)

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To be established, accepted, or customary

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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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Multicolored, usually in blotches

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Pine (v)

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To lose vigor (as through grief) to yearn

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Prize (v)

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

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Rent (v)

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

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Quail (v)

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To lose courage; to turn frightened

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Qualify (v)

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To limit

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Sap (n)

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A fool or nitwit

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Scurvy (adj)

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Contemptible, despicable

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Stand (n)

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A group of trees

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Strut (n)

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The supporting structural cross-part of a wing

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Table (v)

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To remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration

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Tender (v)

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To proffer or offer

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Waffle (v)

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To equivocate; to change one’s position

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Wag (n)

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Wit, joker

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Abjure (v)

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To renounce or reject solemnly; to recant

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Adumbrate (v)

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

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Anathema (n)

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

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Anodyne (adj/n)

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Soothing; something that assuaged or always pain, comforts

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Apogee (n)

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Farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith

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Apostate (n)

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One who abandons long-held religious or political convictions

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Apotheosis (n)

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Exalted example; a model of excellence or perfection

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Asperity (n)

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Severity; rigor; roughness, harshness; acrimony, irritability

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Asseverate (v)

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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 (n)

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Omen, portent

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Bellicose (adj)

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Belligerent, pugnacious, warlike

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Calumniate (v)

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To slander

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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 (v)

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To find fault with good reason

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Celerity (n)

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Speed, alacrity (think accelerate)

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Chimera (n)

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An illusion

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Contumacious (adj)

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Insubordinate, rebellious

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Contumely (n)

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Insult, scorn

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Denouement (n)

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An outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot

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Descry (v)

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To discriminate or discern

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Desuetude (n)

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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

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Encomium (n)

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Glowin and enthusiastic praise; tribute, eulogy

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Excoriate (v)

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To censure scathingly, to upbraid

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Execrate (v)

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

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Exegesis (n)

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Critical examination, explication

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Expiate (v)

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To atone or make amends for

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Extirpate (v)

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To destroy, to exterminate, to cut out

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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 (v)

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To deny, to dispute, to contradict, to oppose

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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 embarrassing

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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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Jejune (adj)

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Vapid, uninteresting, nugatory; childish, immature, puerile

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Lubricious (adj)

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Lewd wanton, greasy, slippery

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Mendicant (n)

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A beggar, supplicant

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Meretricious (adj)

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Cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy

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Minatory (adj)

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Menacing, threatening (think Minotaur)

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Nadir (n)

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Low point, perigee

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Nonplussed (adj)

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Baffled, bewildered

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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 it means to be turned into bone

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Palliate (v)

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To make something seem less serious, to gloss over

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Panegyric (n)

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Formal praise, eulogy, encomium

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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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Proration (n)

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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

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Propitiate (v)

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To appease; to conciliate

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Puerile (adj)

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Childish, immature, jejune, nugatory

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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, to object

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Sagacious (adj)

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Gavin sound judgment; perceptive, wise

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Salacious (adj)

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Lustful, lascivious, bawdy

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Salutary (adj)

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Remedial, wholesome, causing improvement

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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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Tendentious (adj)

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Biased; showing marked tendencies

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Timorous (adj)

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Timid, fearful, diffident

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Tyro (n)

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Vitiate (v)

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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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