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Onus

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Def: burden

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Turbid

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Def: (of a liquid) cloudy, opaque, or thick with suspended matter

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Fulcrum

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Def: a prop or support; the point of rest which a lever turns in a moving body

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Extrapolate

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Def: to infer from something that is known; conjecture

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Sinews

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Def: strength; power; resilience

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Adroitness

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Def: cleverly skillful; resourceful

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Indolent

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Def: having or showing a disposition to avoid exertion; slothful

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Aperture

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Def: a hole or gap

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Indelible

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Def: making marks that cannot be removed; not to be forgotten or removed

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Languish

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Def: to be or become weak or feeble; to undergo neglect or experience prolonged inactivity

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Skulk

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Def: to hide for a bad reason, or to lie in wait to attack

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Virulent

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Def: extremely infectious, poisonous

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Extricate

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Def: to free or release from entanglement

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Complicit

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Def: choosing to be involved in an illegal act

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Sychophant

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Def: a self-seeking servile flatterer

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Intractable

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Def: not easily controlled or directed; not docile or manageable

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Perverse

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Def: willfully determined or disposed to go counter to what is expected or desired; persistent or obstinate in what is wrong

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Obfuscate

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Def: to confuse or bewilder; to make obscure

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Depraved

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Def: corrupt, wicked, perverted

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Haughty

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Def: disdainfully proud; snobbish; scornfully arrogant

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Pinioned

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Def: to bind a persons arms or hands so they cannot be used

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Sanguine

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Def: cheerfully optimistic, confident

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Cosseted

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Def: to treat as a pet; to coddle

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Effusive

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Def: unduly demonstrative; lacking reserve, flowing out

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Ignominious

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Def: discreditable; humiliating

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Taciturn

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Def: inclined to silence; reserved in speech; reluctant to join conversation

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Censure

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Def: strong or vehement expression of disapproval; an official reprimand

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Inimical

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Fed: adverse in effect; unfavorable; harmful

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Mollified

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Def: to soften in feeling or temper; pacify or appease

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Dissemble

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Def: to give a false or misleading appearance to; to conceal the truth of; to put on the appearance of; feign

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Winnow

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Def: a process of separating and distinguishing

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Ribald

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Def: vulgar or indecent speech; coarsely mocking

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Reticent

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Def: disposed to be silent or not speak freely; reserved

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Caprice

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Def: a sudden, unpredictable change; a tendency to change one’s mind without apparent reason

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Extol

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Def: to praise highly; laud

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Equivocation

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Def: use of ambiguous statements, especially with intent to mislead

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Voluptuous

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Def: sexually attractive; curvaceous; relating to sensual pleasure

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Belligerent

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Def: showing readiness to fight; aggressively hostile

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Plaintive

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Def: expressing sorrow or melancholy

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Insipid

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Def: bland; boring; without distinctive or interesting qualities

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Spurious

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Def: not genuine, authentic, or true; counterfeit

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Pernicious

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Def: causing insidious harm; injurious; hurtful; deadly

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Subversive

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Def: tending to undermine, or destroy an established system

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Desultory

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Def: lacking consistency, constancy or order; digressing from the main subject

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Inordinate

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Def: not within proper or reasonable limits; unrestrained in conduct

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Pontificating

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Def: to speak in a pompous or dogmatic manner

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Amalgamation

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Def: to mix, merge, or blend; to make a combination

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Assiduous

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Def: constant in effort; diligent; persevering

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Deprecate

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Def: to express earnest disapproval; to protest against

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Lionize

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Def: treat like celebrities

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Misogynist

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Def: one who hates, despises, mistrusts or mistreats women

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Preclude

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Def: to prevent the presence or existence or occurrence of; to make impossible; to exclude or debar

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Paradox

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Def: a statement that seems self-contradictory or absurd, but actually expresses a possible truth

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Metaphor

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Def: a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable

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Indefatigable

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Def: incapable of being tired out; not yielding to fatigue

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Intimate

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Def: to indicate or make known indirectly; imply; suggest

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Licentious

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Def: sexually unrestrained; unrestrained by law or general morality

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Cynic

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Def: a person who believes that selfishness motivates human actions, and who minimized selfless acts

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Acclimate

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Def: to accustom or become accustom to, used to a new environment

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Deplorable

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Def: causing or being a subject of grief; lamentable; being a cause for reproach

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Trepidation

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Def: tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; trembling, quivering

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Probation

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Def: the act of testing someone; testing their qualifications, conduct, or character

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Circumspect

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Def: watchful; discreet; cautious; well-considered

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Dynamics

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Def: branch of mechanics that deals with motion as equilibrium of systems under action of forces; the motivating or driving forces; the pattern of growth, change, and development

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Nebulous

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Def: vague; hazy; indistinct

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Gimmick

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Def: to equip or embellish with unnecessary features, especially to increase salability

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Hubris

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Def: excessive pride and self-confidence

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Marginalize

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Def: to place in a position of reduced influence or power

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Complaisant

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Def: agreeable; obliging; willing to please others

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Pander

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Def: to gratify or indulge

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Gentleman (per Amazon ebook)

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Def: one who treats others with respect and holds himself to a very high standard of what is considered proper and chivalrous conduct

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Generosity (Guide to Being a Gentleman)

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Def: providing help to someone when you realize they are in need

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Cajole

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Def: to persuade someone to do something through flattery or coaxing

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Complacent

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Def: smug self-satisfaction with one’s accomplishments

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Perfunctory

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Def: carries out with minimal effort or reflection

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Cultivate

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Def: to prepare or use land for crops; to acquire or develop

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Despondent

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Def: feeling or showing profound hopelessness, dejection, discouragement

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Proliferation

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Def: the rapid and often excessive spread or increase

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Prevaricate

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Def: to speak falsely or misleadingly; deliberately misstate

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Promiscuous

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Def: characterizes by and involving indiscriminate mingling or association, especially having to do with sexual relations

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Soporific

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Def: tending to induce frostiness or sleep; a drug that induced sleep (noun)

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Levity

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Def: humor or frivolity, especially treatment of a serious situation with humor

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Eloquent

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Def: fluent or persuasive in speaking or writing

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Gratuitous

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Def: uncalled for; lacking good reason; unwarranted

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Facile

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Def: superficial; appearing neat and comprehensive, but only by ignoring the true complexity of the issue

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Concatenate

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Def: to link together in a chain or series

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Effrontery

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Def: insolent or impertinent behavior

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Impertinence

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Def: lack of respect; rude

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Spurious

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Def: fake; not being what it purports to be

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Perfunctory

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Def: carried out with minimal effort

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Exonerate

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Def: absolve someone of blame or fault for wrongdoing

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Corollary

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Def: a proposition that follows from one already proved

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Approbation

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Def: approval or praise

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Pervasive

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Def: spreading widely through an area or group of people

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Pensive

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Def: engaged in, or involving, deep or serious thought

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Chronic

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Def: persisting for a long time or constantly recurring

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Flagrant

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Def: conspicuously, or obviously offensive

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Tangential

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Def: diverging from a previous course; peripheral; hardly touching a matter

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Co-opt

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Def: divert to or use for a role different from the usual or original one

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Self-righteous

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Def: having or characterized by a certainty, especially an unfounded one, that one is totally correct or morally superior

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Facile

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Def: affable, agreeable, easily influenced

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Panoply

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Def: a complete or impressive collection of things

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Morose

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Def: bad tempered, sulky, gloomy

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Salacious

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Def: having or conveying undue or inappropriate interest in sexual matters

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Arrogate

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Def: to take or claim without justification

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Pedantic

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Def: overly concerned with minor details; or emphasizing one’s own expertise in a narrow or unimportant subject matter.

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Didactic

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Def: intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction or ulterior motive

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Dialectic

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Def: of, relating to, or of the nature of logical argumentation; logical argumentation

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Demur

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Def: to show reluctance; reserved, modest, shy

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Relegate

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Def: consign or dismiss to an inferior rank or position

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Exposition

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Def: to expound on a topic or explain something

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Ersatz

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Def: not real or genuine; made or used as a substitute

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Recalcitrant

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Def: a person with an obstinately uncooperative attitude; uncooperative

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Ethereal

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Def: extremely light or delicate that seems to perfect for this world

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Efficacy

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Def: ability to produce a desired or intended result

GRE Vocab. (4 decks)

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