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Farce
A comic, dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay
Fortuitous
Happening by chance rather than intention
Iconoclast
A person who attacks or criticizes cherished beliefs
Qualm
An uneasy feeling of doubt
Divulge
Make known
Gall
Make someone annoyed or resentful
Citadel
Fortress
Safeguard
A measure to protect someone or something or to prevent something undesirable
Juncture
A particular point in events or time
Cessation
The fact or process of ending or being brought to an end
Desultory
Lacking a plan, purpose, or enthusiasm
Opalescent
Showing many small points of shifting colour against pale or dark ground
Roseate
Rose coloured
Drudgery
Hard or menial work
Camaraderie
Mutual trust and friendship
Foible
A minor weakness or eccentricity in someone’s character
Unfounded
Having no foundation or basis in fact
Intimation
An indication or hint
Proscribe
Forbid especially by law
Wanderlust
A strong desire to travel
Pan
Criticize severely
Huckster
A person who sells small items door-to-door
Upstart
A person who has rose in rank
Pine
Suffer a mental and physical decline
Precluded
Prevent from happening
Martinet
A person who demands complete obedience
Renegade
A person who deserts and betrays an organisation
Skinflint
A miser
Laggard
A person who makes slow progress
Resolute
Admirably purposeful
Affront
An action or remark that causes outrage or offence
Admonition
A firm warning or reprimand
Idiomatic
Using, containing, or denoting expressions that are natural to a native speaker
Specious
Superficially plausible
Tangential
Relating to or along a tangent
Ulterior
Existing beyond what is obvious or admitted; intentionally hidden.
Matrilineal
Based on kinship with the mother or the female line
Corroborate
Confirm or give support to a statement
Tenet
A principle or belief
Supersede
Take the place of a person previously in authority
Camaraderie
Mutual trust
Regale
Entertain or amuse
