new 08/10

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officious

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assertive of authority in a domineering way, especially with regard to trivial matters. OR
intrusively enthusiastic in offering help or advice; interfering.

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Ostentatious

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Characterized by pretentious or showy display; designed to impress.

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Aver

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to declare something as true

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Facetious

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Treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humour; flippant.

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Paucity

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not enough

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Sway

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ondeggiare

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Fortuitious

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happening by chance rather than intention

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Prescient

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knowing about something before it takes place

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Foresighted

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predict something to happen

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Blemishes

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mark of physical deformity

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Pretensions

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strengthen (reinforced concrete) by applying tension to the reinforcing rods before the concrete has set OR a claim or assertion of a claim to something.

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Commensurate

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in proportion

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Kindred

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relative as in family

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Affiliated

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closely related to

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Coalesce around

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when different elements join together and become one

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Ubiquitous

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omnipresent

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Sporadic

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that doesn’t happen constantly but in random times and not very often

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Scanty

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small or insufficient in quantity and amount

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Meager

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not right quantity and richness, inappropriate

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Ameliorate

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migliorare

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Harbinger

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somebody who decry something

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Herald

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somebody that foresights something

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Panacea

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rimedio universale

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Perfunctory

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carried out without real interest

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Ruthless

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showing no pity or compassion

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Canny

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having or showing shrewdness and acuteness especially in money (investor)

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Shrewd

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having a lot of resources to make good and quick judgements

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Abate

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become less in amount and quantity

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gouge

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cut or force something out roughly or brutally.

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levee

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an embarkment that prevents rivers from overflowing

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distill

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undergo condensation

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grandiloquent

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somebody that speaks making them seem important and grandious

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compendium

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a publication with a lot of works

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admonish

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ammonire o esortare

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divest

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take away ones possessions

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complaisant

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happily do favours

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contrite

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feeling or expressing pain for sins

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elegy

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mournful poem, lament for the dead

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knack

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tendency to do something

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hark back to

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evoke

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amidst

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among

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hauteur

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arrogant

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vitriol

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harsh criticism

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dash

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to discourage

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crampon

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climbing iron

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treachery

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to break ones trust

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subvert

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undermine the authority of

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hobbled

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to hobble, walk hobbling

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scrap

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a small thing remaining

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agog

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eager desire

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vex

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to annoy

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brash

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rude, insolente

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apogee

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climax

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nadir

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point of lowest depression

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sublimate

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to increase level

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relegate

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to decrease in level

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philistine

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derisive towards art

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chauvinist

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exaggeratedly patriotic