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Recreant

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cowardly or craven

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Redolent

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Fragrant; pleasantly odorous

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Limpid

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Clear; easily understood

lucid

completely calm; not worried

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Droll

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Oddly Amusing

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Ossified

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Hardened

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Rarefied

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Lofty; high; elevated; exalted

Esoteric

Rare or less dense; thinned

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Estimable

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Deserving respect or admiration

Esteemable

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Verisimilitude

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The appearance or semblance of truth

Seeming to be true

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August

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Majestic

Venerable; eminent

Inspiring admiration

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Bovine

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Dull

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Pastoral

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having the characteristics of a rural area

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Noisome

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Offensive in odor

harmful to health; noxious

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Atavistic

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Reversion; Regression; Lapse; Throwback

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Mephitic

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Noxious; poisonous

Offensive to the smell

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Divest

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Strip or deprive

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Elicit

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Draw out by discussion

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Equanimity

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Calmness and composure

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Euphemism

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A toned down phrase used in place of a worse one

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Opprobrious

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Disgraceful; shameful

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Gainsay

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Oppose

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Extirpate

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Eradicate

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Effigy

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Depiction of something

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Jocund

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Happy; gay; blithe

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Abrogate

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Abolish; repeal; put an end to

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Delude

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Trick; deceive

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Prurient

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Erotic; Lascivious

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Disquietude

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Uneasiness

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Abnegate

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Deny oneself; relinquish

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Unctuous

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Smug

Overly Pious

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Sonorous

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Grandiloquent

Loud, full sound

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Belie

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Misrepresent

Contradict

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Volubility

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Can talk fluently without difficulty; glib

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Inexorable

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Relentless; unyielding

Can’t be persuaded by emotion/entreaties

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Impudent

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Rude; effrontery

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Disaffected

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discontent with authority

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Refractory

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defiant; recalcitrant

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Subsume

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engulf or consume

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Tantamount

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Commensurate; equal

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Panache

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flamboyant; showy

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Immutable

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Unchangable; unchanging through time

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Myopic

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Narrow minded

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Denigrate

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Disparage or defame

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Espouse

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Adopt or make one’s own

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Idiosyncrasy

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People’s mannerisms

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Scrupulous

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Principled

Detail oriented

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Incorrigible

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Bad beyond correction

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Spurn

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Reject with contempt

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Droll

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Oddly amusing

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Slake

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Allay (something) by satisfying

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Pique

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Provoke or arouse

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Cant

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Insincerely expressed

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Expiate

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Make amends or reparations for

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Expatiate

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To expound

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Propinquity

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Near in proximity

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Effluvia

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Unseen exhalation of vapor

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Recidivism

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Habitual relapse into a habit (usually crime)

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Obstreperous

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Recalcitrant; boistrous

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Detumescence

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Reduction of swelling

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Redoubtable

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Formidable; demanding respect

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contumacious

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Intractable; refractory; rebellious

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Probity

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Honesty; integrity; uprightness

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Indigence

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Impoverished

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Inveterate

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Established; habituated; settled in one’s way

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Turgid

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Swollen; pompous

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Quiescent

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Being at rest; still; motionless

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Impunity

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Exempt from punishment

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Stolidity

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Unemotional; apathetic

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Benign (Benignant)

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A kind/generous disposition

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Dissemble

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Conceal; mislead

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Etiolate

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Weaken; enervate

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Surfeit

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Excess; Abundance

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Perennial

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Frequently recurrent

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Impassive

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Emotionless

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Impecunious

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Without funds/money

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Stint

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Frugal

Limit to a certain amount

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Doughty

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Valiant; resolute

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Outlandish

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Bizarre; odd; strange

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Retrench

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Cut down; diminish; curtail; remove

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Sophistry

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A false Argument

Subtle, tricky, and plausible but fallacious method of reasoning

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Sedulous

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Assiduous; diligent

Persistent

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Preternatural

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Supernatural; out of the ordinary course of nature

Abnormal

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Teleology

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An account of a given thing’s purpose

Explaining why a phenomena works by its purpose or design

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Candor

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Candid, frank/open/etc.

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Grating

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Irritating; annoying; offensive

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Cadge

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Obtain by imposing on another’s generosity or friendship

Obtain by begging

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Manducate

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Masticate; chew

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Anodyne

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Something that relieves pain

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Iridescent

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Colorful

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Monocque

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Constructed in one piece

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Pavonine

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Colorful

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Parietal

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Relating to college/university rules

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Attuned

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Bring into accord; adjust

Bring “in tune”

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Salve

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Anything that soothes, mollifies, or relieves

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Ardent

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Fervent
Passionate
Intense feeling
Zealous

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Shallow

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Superficial

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Dour

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Sullen; gloomy

Stern

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Concierge

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A service person (janitor, door man, warden, etc.)

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Curator

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The person in charge; manager; superintendent

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Anachronism

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Something not placed in the correct time period

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Effuse

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Scattered; profuse; disseminate; shed forth

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Prosaic

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dull; commonplace; unimaginative

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Colored

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Embellished; ornamented

Deceptive

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Thewy

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Of or relating to muscle or sinew

Physical strength

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Sinewy

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Relating to strength, power, or vigor

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Pneumatic

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relating to air/gas

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Flocculent

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woolly

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Capitulate

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To give up resistance

Surrender

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Abash

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To destroy self-confidence or poise

Make embarrassed or ashamed

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Insolvent

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Unable to meet monetary obligations

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Exscind

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To cut off or out

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Obloquy

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Censure, blame, or abusive language aimed at a person

Discredit; disgrace

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Evince

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to show clearly

make evident or manifest

Prove

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Ossification

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to harden

to become rigid or inflexible in habits/opinions/etc.

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Aggrandize

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To increase in intensity, power, influence, prestige, etc.

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Astringent

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Having a tightening effect on living tissue

Harsh; severe

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Cynicism

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An attitude that all people are motivated by selfishness

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Fawn

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Flatter or praise excessively

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Flout

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Show contempt for

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Hubris

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Overbearing presumption or pride

Arrogance

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Impetuous

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Hastily or rashly energetic; impulsive and vehement

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Obstinate

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Stubborn; uncompromising

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Ostentatious

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Pretentious display or showy

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Pervade

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Pervasive; to permeate

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Pragmatic

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Practical rather than idealistic

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Proclivity

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A natural predisposition or inclination

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Propensity

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A natural inclination or tendency; penchant

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Rarefy

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To make to become thin, less dense

To refine

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Refulgent

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Radiant; shiny; brilliant

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Renege

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To fail to honor a commitment

To go back on a promise

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Sedulous

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Diligent; persistent; hard working

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Terse

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Brief and concise wording

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Trenchant

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Sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating

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Unfeigned

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Genuine; not false or hypocritical

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Untenable

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Indefensible; not viable; uninhabitable

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Variegated

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Multicolored; different patches of color

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Vexation

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Annoyance; irritation

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Volatile

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Changeable; explosive; fickle

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Alloy

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To commingle.

To debase by mixing with something inferior

Unalloyed means pure

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August

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Majestic

Venerable

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Bent

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Inclination

Proclivity

Tendency

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Brook

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To tolerate or endure

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Cardinal

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Major

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Chauvinist

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A blindly devoted patriot

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Color

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To change

To distort or affect

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Consequential

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Pompous

Self-important

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Damp

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As in dampen

To diminish the intensity

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Die

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A tool for shaping

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Essay

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To attempt

To experiment

To test or try

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Fell (adj.)

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Inhumanly cruel

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Flag

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To sag or droop

To become spiritless

To decline

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Flip

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Sarcastic, as in flippant

Impertinent

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Grouse

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To complain or grumble

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Guy

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A rope/cord/cable attached to something as a support or brace

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Intimate

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To imply or suggest or insinuate

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List

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To tilt or lean to one side

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Lumber

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To move heavily and clumsily

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Meet

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Fitting or proper

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Milk

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Exploit

To squeeze every last ounce of

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Mince

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To pronounce it speak affectedly

To euphemize

To speak too carefully

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Nice

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Exacting

Fastidious (particular; hard to please)

Extremely precise

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Obtain (adj.)

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To be established, accepted or customary

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Pied

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Multicolored

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Pine

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To yearn

To lose vigor

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Plastic

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Moldable or pliable

Not rigid

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Pluck

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Courage, spunk, or fortitude

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Prize

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To pry or to press or force with a lever

Something taken by force or spoils

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Rail

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Complain about bitterly

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Quail

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To lose courage

To turn frightened

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Sap

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To enervate

A fool or nitwit

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Scurvy

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Contemptible

Despicable

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Singular

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Exceptional, unusual, or odd

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Stand

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A group of trees

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Steep

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

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Strut

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The supporting structural cross part of a wing

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Table

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To remove from consideration

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Tender

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To proffer or offer

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Waffle

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To equivocate

To change one’s position

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Wag

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Wit

Joker

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Abjure

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To recant

To renounce or reject

To avoid

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Anathema

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A solemn or ecclesiastical curse

A curse or loathed person or thing

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Asseverate

A

To assert; aver; allege

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Augury

A

Omen, portent

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Calumniate

A

Relating to calumny; to defame or slander

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Captious

A

Disposed to point out trivial faults

Calculated to confuse or entrap in an argument

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Q

Cavil

A

To find fault without good reason

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Q

Celerity

A

Speed, alacrity

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Chimera

A

An illusion; imaginary or fanciful

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Contumacious

A

Insubordinate, rebellious

Contumely means insult, scorn, aspersion

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Denouement

A

An outcome or solution

The unraveling of a plot

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Q

Descry

A

to discriminate or discern

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Desuetude

A

disuse (to stop using)

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Desultory

A

random; aimless; lack of purpose

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Execrate

A

To denounce

To feel loathing for

To curse

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Exegesis

A

Critical examination

Explication

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Explicate

A

To make clear or plain

To explain

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Fractious

A

Quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory, irritable

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Heterodox

A

Unorthodox

Heretical

Iconoclastic

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Indefatigable

A

Not easily exhaustible

Tireless

Dogged

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Ineluctable

A

Certain, inevitable

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Inimitable

A

One of a kind

Peerless (one of a kind)

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Q

Jejune

A

Nugatory; childish; immature and puerile; uninteresting, insipid or vapid

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Lubricious

A

Lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery

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Meretricious

A

Cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy;

Attractive by false show

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Minatory

A

Menacing or threatening

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Q

Nadir

A

Low point

Perigee (nearest point, opposite of apogee)

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Palliate

A

To make less severe or intense

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Q

Plangent

A

Pounding, thundering, resounding

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Q

Prolix

A

Long winded, verbose

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Q

Propitiate

A

To appease

To conciliate

(propitious means auspicious or favorable)

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Q

Puissance

A

Power, strength, powerful

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Pusillanimous

A

Cowardly or craven

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Salacious

A

Lustful

Lascivious

Bawdy

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Salutary

A

Remedial (intending to correct)

Wholesome

Causing improvement

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Saturnine

A

Gloomy, dark, morose, sullen

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Sententious

A

Aphoristic or moralistic

Epigrammatic (terse and ingenious in expression)

Tending to moralize excessively

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Q

Stygian

A

Gloomy or dark

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Q

Sycophant

A

Self-seeking flatterer; parasite

Butt kisser

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Q

Tendentious

A

Biased; showing marked tendencies

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Q

Vitiate

A

To corrupt

To debase (adulterate)

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Q

Voluble

A

Fluent, can speak easily about things

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Q

Prolix

A

Verbose

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Epitaph

A

An inscription on a grave marker

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Q

Paragon

A

A model of excellence

A perfect example

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Q

Nadir

A

Bottom, lowest point

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Q

Amortize

A

Pay off a debt in installments

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Q

Idyll

A

Lighthearted artistic work

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Q

Paradigm

A

Serving as a model or mold (standard, paragon, etc.)

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Q

Precept

A

A rule or commandment

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Q

Hermetic

A

Sealed or isolated

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Q

Indelible

A

That which cannot be forgotten, changed, muted.

Immutable

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Strident

A

Having a shrill, irritating quality or character (especially as in a sound)

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Incensed

A

Pleasant smelling

Adulation or homage

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Fetid

A

Having an offensive odor. Stinky.

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Involute

A

Intricate

Complex

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Luculent

A

Clear or lucid

Convincing or cogent

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Convoke

A

Call together for a meeting

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Perspicuous

A

Lucid; clear

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Byzantine

A

Complex or intricate

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Q

Pusillanimous

A

Lacking courage; timid

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Q

Plucky

A

Courageous

Brave

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Q

Meretricious

A

Tawdry, vulgar, flashy, and tasteless

Based on pretense, deception, or insincerity

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Q

Viridian

A

Blueish-green color

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Q

Svelte

A

Slender and graceful in figure

Suave; lithe; urbane

244
Q

Lithe

A

Flexible, limber, pliant

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Wheedle

A

To coax

To obtain by persuasion or flattery

246
Q

Importune

A

To beg; to press; to beseech

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Q

Adventurism

A

Defiance or disregard for accepted standards

Rash or irresponsible policies, methods or actions especially taken by a political official

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Outlay

A

An expenditure or spending of something

249
Q

Gaffes

A

A blunder or faux pas

A mistake

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Q

Imperious

A

Domineering; arrogantly overbearing

Urgent; imperative

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Q

Impious

A

Disrespectful

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Pennate

A

With wings

253
Q

Paucity

A

Scarcity; scant

254
Q

Decrepitude

A

Decrepit condition; feeble

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Q

Temerity

A

Recklessly bold; rashness

256
Q

Rostrum

A

A platform or stage for speaking; a pulpit

257
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Antithesis

A

The exact opposite

Opposition; contrast

258
Q

Extraction

A

Descent or lineage

To extract.

259
Q

Pretense

A

Pretend; give a false show of something

260
Q

Arbitration

A

The settlement of a dispute by parties agreeing to terms

A conclusion

261
Q

Affectation

A

Pretending to have something you don’t really have (a thing or attribute)

A pretense of actual possession.

262
Q

Antecedence

A

Preceded; the act of going before.

263
Q

Fallow

A

Inactive; not in use

264
Q

Facility

A

Readiness and easiness due to skill, aptitude, practice, etc.

An easy flowing manner

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Q

Allusion

A

Allude; give a passing reference to something

266
Q

Solstice

A

A turning point; the furthest and culminating point

267
Q

Thrall

A

Slave

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Synergy

A

The interaction of elements that create a greater effect when combined

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Q

Syllogism

A

A subtle and deceptive argument

Deductive reasoning

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Q

Avant-Garde

A

Radical; unorthodox or daring

271
Q

Antediluvian

A

Old fashioned; outdated; antiquated; primitive

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Q

Superannuated

A

Retired; too old; antiquated; obsolete

273
Q

Edacious

A

Devouring; voracious; consuming

274
Q

Blandish

A

To coax; cajole; persuade or influence through flattery

275
Q

Obsequence (obsequiousness)

A

Eagerness and willing to comply

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Q

Obsequious

A

Obedient; dutiful; fawning; deferential

277
Q

Pugnacious

A

Belligerent; combative; quarrelsome

278
Q

Diminutive

A

A small thing or person

279
Q

Enmity

A

A feeling of hatred; animosity; antagonism; ill will

280
Q

Indignant

A

A feeling characterized by strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting, or base

281
Q

Terse

A

Very brief or concise

282
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Outmoded

A

Out of style

Obsolete

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Passé

A

No longer in style; outmoded

Vocabulary (7 decks)

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