Level 3 Words Flashcards
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politesse
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politeness
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politic
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shrewd; wise
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slovenly
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untidy; sloppy
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abeyance
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temporary inactivity
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abnegate
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to deny oneself things; to reject; to renounce
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aboriginal
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existing since the beginning
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abrogate
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to get rid of; to abolish
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absolve
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to forgive or free from blame; to free from sin; to free from an obligation
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acquisitive
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eager to acquire and possess; greedy
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adulation
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wild or excessive admiration; flattery
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aegis
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protection
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amortize
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to gradually pay off or reduce
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antediluvian
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ancient; primitive
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antipode
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the exact opposite
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apace
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quickly
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apocryphal
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of dubious authenticity; fictitious; spurious
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apothegm
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a short, wise remark
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apotheosis
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elevation to divine status, the perfect example of something
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apposite
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appropriate
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asperity
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bad temper
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avarice
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greed; excessive love of riches
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beautify
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to bless; to make happy
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bespoke
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custom made
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bloviated
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was wordy/windy when speaking
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bootless
useless
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bowdlerize
to cut out all the offensive parts of a book
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bucolic
charmingly rural; rustic; countrylike
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byzantine
devious; complicated
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chicanery
trickery; deceitfulness; artifice, especially legal or political
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compunction
regret, remorse
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concupiscence
strong desire, esp. sexual desire
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condign
deserved; appropriate
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contumacious
disobedient; rebellious
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coruscate
sparkle
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crepuscular
related to twilight
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defenestrate
to quickly throw out
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denude
strip bare
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depredate
to take by force; to ravage; to ruin
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diaphanous
so flimsy as to be see-through
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disport
to amuse oneself
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draconian
cruelly strict
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duplicitous
deceptive
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dyspeptic
grumpy
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Effete
without strength or vitality; weak; soft
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eldritch
weird; eerie
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encomium
praise
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etiolated
made pale; weakened
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exponent
a supporter of something
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extirpate
to get rid of completely
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foreground
to highlight
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fractious
cranky
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froward
stubbornly disobedient
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fuliginous
obscure; murky; dark
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gambol
to happily dance around; to frolic
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Grandiloquent
pompous; using a lot of big, fancy words to sound impressive
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harbinger
a forerunner of; a signal of.
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hidebound
inflexible; ultra-conservative
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husbandry
thrifty management of resources; livestock farming
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ignominy
a deep disgrace
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imbroglio
complicated situation
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importune
to nag; to persistently insist
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imprimatur
official approval
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inchoate
incomplete; formless
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ineluctable
inevitable, bound to happen, certain
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inimical
unfriendly; hostile
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invidious
unpleasantly envious or causing envy
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irascible
easily angered or provoked; irritable
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jejune
dull; juvenile
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jingoism
extreme nationalism; belligerant foreign policy
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lachrymose
tearful; mournful
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legerdemain
slight of hand; a display of skill
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logorrhea
excessive wordiness
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macabre
gruesome; horrible
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machination
scheming activity for an evil purpose
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maelstrom
violently powerful whirlpool
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malinger
to pretend to be sick to avoid doing work
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mendicant
a beggar
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meretricious
falsely attractive
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milquetoast
a timid person
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minatory
threatening
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moribund
dying (usually used in a figurative sense)
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nonpareil
having no equal
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nonplussed
bewildered or confused
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nostrum
a questionable medicine or remedy
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nugatory
unimportant
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obdurate
stubborn and insensitive
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obeisance
a gesture to show respect
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obstreperous
uncontrollably noisy
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opprobrium
public discrace
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paroxysm
an attack, spasm, or outburst
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pastiche
an imitation; something made of many things
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patois
the speech / slang used by a certain group
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penurious
stingy
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penury
severe poverty
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peremptory
final; categorical; dictatorial; bossy; prone to cutting others off
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perfidy
treachery
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peripatetic
wandering; traveling continually; itenerant
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pernicious
deadly; extremely evil
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perquisite
a priviledge that goes along with a job; a "perk"
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perspicacious
sharp; clever
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pertinacious
stubbornly persistent
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phlegmatic
sluggish; unresponsive
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picaresque
about someone's adventures
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picayune
unimportant; small-minded
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piebald
many-colored; varied
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plenipotentiary
fully empowered
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predilection
a natural preference for something
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prevaricate
to lie
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primordial
original; existing since the beginning
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profligate
extravagantly wasteful and, usually wildly immoral
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progenitors
direct ancestors
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prognosticate
to predict
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prolix
too long / wordy
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promulgate
to proclaim; to publicly or formally declare something
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propitious
marked by favorable signs or conditions
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protean
varied; versatile
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pulchritude
beauty
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pusillanimous
cowardly
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querelous
complaining; grumbling; whining
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quiescent
at rest
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quintessential
the most typical; the purest
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quixotic
romantic or idealistic to a foolish or impractical degree
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quotidian
daily
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rancor
bitter, long-lasting ill will or resentment
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rancorous
hateful
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rarefied
lofty; reserved only for a select few
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recalcitrant
stubbornly defiant of authority or control; disobedient
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recapitulated
summarized
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recidivist
someone who relapsed into crime
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recondite
hard to understand; over one's head
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recrudescent
reactivating
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refractory
stubborn; unmanageable
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refulgent
brightly shining
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reprobate
evil
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restive
restless; fidgety
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retrenchment
a reduction
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riposte
a comeback
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sangfroid
coolness and composure
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scofflaw
a contemptous law-breaker
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scotch
to put a sudden end to; to injure
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scurrilous
obscenely abusive
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sedulous
careful; hardworking; diligent
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sententious
using quotable or preachy sayings
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sequacious
something that imitates another's idea
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simulacrum
an image or representation of something
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skulduggery
tricky or sneaky behavior
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sojourn
a temporary stay
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solecism
a blunder
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solipsistic
being extremely self-centered
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somnelent
sleepy
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sophistry
deceptive reasoning
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soporific
sleep inducing; extremely boring; very sleepy
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soupcon
a little bit
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spendthrift
someone who spends wastefully
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splenetic
bad-tempered
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statuesque
attractively tall
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stentorian
loud
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stultify
to make ineffictive
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subversive
corrupting; overthrowing; undermining; insurgent
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surreptitious
sneaky; secret
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sybarite
one devoted to pleasure
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sycophant
a servile self-seeker who attempts to win favor by flattering influential people
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synoptic
giving a summary
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temerity
boldness; recklessness; audacity
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tendentious
biased
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torpid
sluggish; inactive; apathetic
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treacly
overly sweet or sentimental
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tremulous
fearful
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trepidation
fear; apprehension; nervous trembling
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truculent
ready to fight
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truncated
shortened
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tumid
swollen
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turbid
stirred up and made unclear or muddy
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turgid
swollen
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turpitude
shameful wickedness; depravity
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unctuous
oily, both literally and figuratively; insincere
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upbraided
criticize severely
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vainglorious
boastful
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variegated
varied
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verboten
forbidden
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verisimilitude
similarity to reality; the appearance of truth; looking like the real thing
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vertiginous
dizzy or producing dizziness
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vitiate
to make impure; to pollute; to impair or degrade
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vituperative
criticized harshly
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welter
to be in turmoil; to get tossed around
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zephyr
a gentle breeze
