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<p>diatribe</p>

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<p>a bitter abusive denunciation.</p>

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<p>encomium</p>

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<p>a formal eulogy or speech of praise</p>

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<p>conflagration</p>

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<p>a great fire</p>

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<p>breach</p>

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<p>a lapse, gap or break, as in a fortress wall. To break or break through.ex: Unfortunately, the club members never forgot his breach of etiquette.</p>

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<p>fathom</p>

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<p>a measure of length (six feet) used in nautical settings. to penetrate to the depths of something in order to understand it: “I couldn’t fathom her reasoning on that issue.”</p>

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<p>anachronism</p>

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<p>a person or artifact appearing after its own time or out of chronological order (adj: anachronistic)</p>

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<p>peccadillo</p>

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<p>a small sin or fault</p>

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<p>eulogy</p>

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<p>a spoken or written tribute to the deceased (v. eulogize)</p>

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<p>savant</p>

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<p>a very knowledgeable person; a genius</p>

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<p>panegyric</p>

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<p>a writing or speech in praise of a person or thing</p>

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<p>tractable</p>

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<p>ability to be easily managed or controlled: “Her mother wished she were more tractable.” (n: tractability)</p>

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<p>equivocal</p>

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<p>ambiguous; unclear; subject to more than one interpretation — often intentionally so: “Republicans complained that Bill Clinton’s answers were equivocal.” (v. equivocate)</p>

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<p>improvidence</p>

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<p>an absence of foresight; a failure to provide for future needs or events: “Their improvidence resulted in the loss of their home.”</p>

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<p>catalyst</p>

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<p>an agent of change (adj: catalytic; v. catalyze)</p>

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<p>tirade (diatribe)</p>

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<p>an angry speech: “His tirade had gone on long enough.”</p>

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<p>antediluvian</p>

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<p>ancient; outmoded; (literally,before the flood)</p>

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<p>Pulchritudinous</p>

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<p>beautiful (n: pulchritude)</p>

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<p>tyro</p>

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<p>beginner; person lacking experience in a specific endeavor: “They easily took advantage of the tyro.”</p>

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<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>deprecation</p>

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<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>belittlement. (v. deprecate)</p>

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<p>disparaging</p>

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<p>belittling (n: disparagement. v. disparage)</p>

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<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>dispassionate</p>

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<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>calm; objective; unbiased</p>

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<p>caustic</p>

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<p>capable of dissolving by chemical action; highly critical: “His caustic remarks spoiled the mood of the party.”</p>

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<p>sanguine</p>

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<p>cheerful; confident: “Her sanguine attitude put everyone at ease.”(Sangfroid (noun) is a related French word meaning unflappability. Literally, it means cold blood)</p>

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<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>lucid</p>

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<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>clear; translucent: “He made a lucid argument to support his theory.”</p>

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<p>ingenious</p>

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<p>clever: “She developed an ingenious method for testing her hypothesis.”(n: ingenuity)</p>

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<p>precipice</p>

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<p>cliff with a vertical or nearly vertical face; a dangerous place from which one is likely to fall; metaphorically, a very risky circumstance</p>

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<p>imperious</p>

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<p>commanding</p>

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<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>banal</p>

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<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>commonplace or trite (n: banality)</p>

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<p>pragmatic</p>

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<p>concerned with facts; practical, as opposed to highly principled or traditional: “His pragmatic approach often offended idealists.” (n: pragmatism)</p>

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<p>pusillanimous</p>

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<p>cowardly, timid, or irresolute; petty: “The pusillanimous leader soon lost the respect of his people.”</p>

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<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>craven</p>

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<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>cowardly; a coward</p>

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<p>voracious</p>

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<p>craving or devouring large quantities of food, drink, or other things. She is a voracious reader.</p>

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<p>chicanery</p>

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<p>deception by trickery</p>

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<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>Word</p>

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<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>Definitions, Other Forms, and Examples</p>

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<p>perfidious</p>

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<p>deliberately treacherous; dishonest (n: perfidy)</p>

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<p>turpitude</p>

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<p>depravity; baseness: “Mr. Castor was fired for moral turpitude.”</p>

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<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>culpable</p>

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<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>deserving of blame (n: culpability)</p>

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<p>aberrant</p>

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<p>deviating from normal or correct.</p>

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<p>sedulous</p>

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<p>diligent; persevering; persistent: “Her sedulous devotion to overcoming her background impressed many.” (n: sedulous; sedulousness; adv. sedulously)</p>

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<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>petulant</p>

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<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>easily or frequently annoyed, especially over trivial matters; childishly irritable</p>

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<p>efficacy</p>

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<p>effectiveness; capability to produce a desired effect</p>

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<p>vacuous</p>

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<p>empty; without contents; without ideas or intelligence:: “She flashed a vacuous smile.”</p>

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<p>zeal</p>

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<p>enthusiastic devotion to a cause, ideal, or goal (n: zealot; zealotry. adj: zealous)</p>

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<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>exorbitant</p>

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<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>exceeding customary or normal limits, esp. in quantity or price: “The cab fare was exorbitant.”</p>

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<p>plethora</p>

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<p>excessively large quantity; overabundance: “We received a plethora of applications for the position.”</p>

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<p>temperate</p>

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<p>exercising moderation and self-denial; calm or mild (n: temperance)</p>

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<p>volatile</p>

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<p>explosive; fickle (n: volatility).</p>

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<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>audacious</p>

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<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>extremely bold; fearless, especially said of human behavior (n: audacity)</p>

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<p>wretched</p>

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<p>extremely pitiful or unfortunate (n: wretch)</p>

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<p>ambrosial</p>

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<p>extremely pleasing to the senses, divine (as related to the gods) or delicious (n: ambrosia)</p>

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<p>gossamer</p>

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<p>fine cobweb on foliage; fine gauzy fabric; very fine: “She wore a gossamer robe.”</p>

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<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>florid</p>

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<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>flushed with a rosy color, as in complexion; very ornate and flowery: “florid prose.”</p>

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<p>explicit</p>

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<p>fully and clearly expressed</p>

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<p>magnanimity</p>

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<p>generosity and nobility. (adj: magnanimous)</p>

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<p>leviathan</p>

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<p>giant whale, therefore, something very large</p>

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<p>venerate</p>

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<p>great respect or reverence: “The Chinese traditionally venerated their ancestors; ancestor worship is merely a popular misnomer for this tradition.” (n: veneration, adj: venerable)</p>

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<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>taciturn</p>

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<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>habitually untalkative or silent (n: taciturnity)</p>

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<p>obdurate</p>

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<p>hardened against influence or feeling; intractable.</p>

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<p>noisome</p>

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<p>harmful, offensive, destructive: “The noisome odor of the dump carried for miles.”</p>

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<p>innocuous</p>

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<p>harmless; having no adverse affect; not likely to provoke strong emotion</p>

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<p>saturnine</p>

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<p>having a gloomy or morose temperament</p>

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<p>sagacious</p>

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<p>having a sharp or powerful intellect or discernment. (n: sagacity).</p>

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<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>headlong</p>

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<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>headfirst; impulsive; hasty. impulsively; hastily; without forethought: “They rushed headlong into marriage.”</p>

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<p>ponderous</p>

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<p>heavy; massive; awkward; dull: “A ponderous book is better than a sleeping pill.”</p>

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<p>fervid, fervent</p>

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<p>highly emotional; hot: “The partisans displayed a fervent patriotism.” (n: fervor)</p>

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<p>guileless</p>

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<p>honest; straightforward (n: guilelessness)</p>

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<p>antipathy</p>

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<p>hostility toward, objection, or aversion to</p>

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<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>caprice</p>

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<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>impulse (adj: capricious)</p>

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<p>inchoate</p>

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<p>in an initial or early stage; incomplete; disorganized: “The act of writing forces one to clarify inchoate thoughts.”</p>

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<p>extant</p>

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<p>in existence, still existing: The only extant representative of that species.”</p>

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<p>quiescence</p>

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<p>inactivity; stillness; dormancy (adj: quiescent)</p>

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<p>misnomer</p>

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<p>incorrect name or word for something</p>

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<p>implication</p>

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<p>insinuation or connotation (v. implicate)</p>

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<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>esoteric</p>

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<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>intended for or understood by only a few: “The esoteric discussion confused some people.” (n: esoterica)</p>

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<p>dearth</p>

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<p>lack, scarcity: “The prosecutor complained about the dearth of concrete evidence against the suspect.”</p>

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<p>diffident</p>

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<p>lacking self-confidence, modest (n: diffidence)</p>

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<p>insipid</p>

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<p>lacking zest or excitement; dull</p>

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<p>ephemeral</p>

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<p>lasting for only a brief time, fleeting (n: ephemera)</p>

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<p>malevolent</p>

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<p>malicious; evil; having or showing ill will: “Some early American colonists saw the wilderness as malevolent and sought to control it.”</p>

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<p>incorrigible</p>

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<p>not capable of being corrected: “The school board finally decided the James was incorrigible and expelled him from school.”</p>

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<p>phlegmatic</p>

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<p>not easily excited; cool; sluggish</p>

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<p>opaque</p>

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<p>not transparent or transluscent; dense; difficult to comprehend, as inopaque reasoning</p>

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<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>insensible</p>

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<p class=”large” style=”text-align:center”;>numb; unconscious: “Wayne was rendered insensible by a blow to the head.” unfeeling; insensitive: “They were insensible to the suffering of others.:</p>

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<p>corporeal</p>

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<p>of or having to do with material, as opposed to spiritual; tangible. (In older writings, corporeal could be a synonym for corporal. This usage is no longer common)</p>

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<p>insular</p>

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<p>of or pertaining to an island, thus, excessively exclusive: “Newcomers found it difficult to make friends in the insular community.”</p>

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<p>corporal</p>

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<p>of the body: “corporal punishment.” a non-commissioned officer ranked between a sergeant and a private.</p>

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<p>iconoclast</p>

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<p>one who attacks traditional ideas or institutions or one who destroys sacred images (adj: iconoclastic)</p>

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<p>misanthrope</p>

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<p>one who hates people: “He was a true misanthrope and hated even himself.”</p>

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<p>misogynist</p>

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<p>one who hates women</p>

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<p>superficial</p>

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<p>only covering the surface: “A superficial treatment of the topic was all they wanted.”</p>

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<p>anomalous</p>

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<p>peculiar; unique, contrary to the norm (n: anomaly)</p>

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<p>impecunious</p>

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<p>penniless; poor</p>

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<p>indelible</p>

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<p>permanent; unerasable; strong: “The Queen made an indelible impression on her subjects.”</p>

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<p>bombast</p>

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<p>pompous speech (adj: bombastic)</p>

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<p>laudable</p>

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<p>praiseworthy; commendable (v. laud)</p>

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<p>latent</p>

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<p>present or potential but not evident or active (n: latency)</p>

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<p>endemic</p>

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<p>prevalent in or native to a certain region, locality, or people: “The disease was endemic to the region.” Don’t confuse this word with epidemic.</p>

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<p>irascible</p>

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<p>prone to outbursts of temper, easily angered</p>

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<p>enigma</p>

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<p>puzzle; mystery: “Math is an enigma to me.” (adj: enigmatic)</p>

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<p>prodigal</p>

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<p>rashly wasteful: “Americans’ prodigal devotion to the automobile is unique.”</p>

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<p>plastic</p>

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<p>related to being shaped or molded; capable of being molded. (n: plasticity n: plastic)</p>

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<p>dogmatic</p>

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<p>relying upon doctrine or dogma, as opposed to evidence</p>

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<p>erudite</p>

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<p>scholarly; displaying deep intensive learning. (n: erudition)</p>

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<p>specious</p>

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<p>seemingly true but really false; deceptively convincing or attractive: “Her argument, though specious, was readily accepted by many.”</p>

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<p>eclectic</p>

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<p>selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources: “Many modern decorators prefer an eclectic style.” (n: eclecticism)</p>

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<p>pedantic</p>

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<p>showing a narrow concern for rules or formal book learning; making an excessive display of one’s own learning: “We quickly tired of his pedantic conversation.” (n: pedant, pedantry).</p>

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<p>homogenous</p>

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<p>similar in nature or kind; uniform: “a homogeneous society.”</p>

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<p>guile</p>

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<p>skillful deceit: “He was well known for his guile.” (v. bequile; adj: beguiling. Note, however, that these two words have an additional meaning: to charm (v.) or charming (adj:), while the word guile does not generally have any such positive connotations)</p>

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<p>viscous</p>

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<p>slow moving; highly resistant to flow: “Heintz commercials imply that their catsup is more viscous than others’.” (n: viscosity)</p>

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<p>emollient</p>

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<p>softening; something that softens</p>

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<p>precursor</p>

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<p>something (or someone) that precedes another: “The assassination of the Archduke was a precursor to the war.”</p>

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<p>blandishment</p>

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<p>speech or action intended to coax someone into doing something</p>

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<p>floundering</p>

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<p>struggling: “We tried to save the floundering business.”</p>

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<p>dogged</p>

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<p>stubborn or determined: “Her dogged pursuit of the degree eventually paid off.”</p>

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<p>intransigent</p>

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<p>stubborn; immovable; unwilling to change: “She was so intransigent we finally gave up trying to convince her.” (n: intransigence)</p>

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<p>deference</p>

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<p>submission or courteous yielding: “He held his tongue in deference to his father.” (n: deferential. v. defer)</p>

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<p>loquacious</p>

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<p>talkative</p>

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<p>philanthropy</p>

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<p>tendency or action for the benefit of others, as in donating money or property to a charitable organization</p>

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<p>reproof</p>

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<p>the act of censuring, scolding, or rebuking. (v. reprove).</p>

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<p>depredation</p>

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<p>the act of preying upon or plundering: “The depredations of the invaders demoralized the population.”</p>

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<p>effluent</p>

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<p>the quality of flowing out. something that flows out, such as a stream from a river (n: effluence)</p>

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<p>vex</p>

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<p>to annoy; to bother; to perplex; to puzzle; to debate at length: “Franklin vexed his brother with his controversial writings.”</p>

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<p>placate</p>

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<p>to calm or reduce anger by making concessions: “The professor tried to placate his students by postponing the exam.”</p>

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<p>castigate</p>

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<p>to chastise or criticize severely</p>

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<p>occlude</p>

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<p>to close or shut off; to obstruct (n: occlusion)</p>

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<p>dissemble</p>

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<p>to conceal one’s real motive, to feign</p>

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<p>propitiate</p>

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<p>to conciliate; to appease: “They made sacrifices to propitiate angry gods.”</p>

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<p>aver</p>

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<p>to declare</p>

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<p>infer</p>

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<p>to deduce: “New genetic evidence led some zoologists to infer that the red wolf is actually a hybrid of the coyote and the gray wolf.”</p>

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<p>exculpate</p>

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<p>to demonstrate or prove to be blameless: “The evidence tended to exculpate the defendant.”(adj: exculpatory)</p>

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<p>desiccate</p>

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<p>to dry out thoroughly (adj: desiccated)</p>

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<p>precipitate</p>

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<p>to fall; to fall downward suddenly and dramatically; to bring about or hasten the occurrence of something: “Old World diseases precipitated a massive decline in the American Indian population.”</p>

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<p>disabuse</p>

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<p>to free a person from falsehood or error: “We had to disabuse her of the notion that she was invited.”</p>

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<p>cadge</p>

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<p>to get something by taking advantage of someone</p>

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<p>feign</p>

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<p>to give false appearance or impression: “He feigned illness to avoid going to school.” (adj: feigned)</p>

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<p>engender</p>

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<p>to give rise to, to propagate, to cause: “His slip of the tounge engendered much laughter.”</p>

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<p>burgeon</p>

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<p>to grow or flourish; a bud or new growth (adj: burgeoning )</p>

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<p>waver</p>

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<p>to hesitate or to tremble</p>

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<p>inhibit</p>

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<p>to hold back, prohibit, forbid, or restrain (n: inhibition, adj: inhibited)</p>

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<p>exacerbate</p>

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<p>to increase the bitterness or violence of; to aggravate: “The decision to fortify the border exacerbated tensions.”</p>

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<p>abscond</p>

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<p>to leave secretly and hide, often to avoid the law.</p>

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<p>descry</p>

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<p>to make clear, to say</p>

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<p>aggrandize</p>

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<p>to make greater, to increase, thus, to exaggerate.</p>

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<p>mitigate</p>

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<p>to make less forceful; to become more moderate; to make less harsh or undesirable: “He was trying to mitigate the damage he had done.” (n: mitigation)</p>

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<p>assuage</p>

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<p>to make less severe; to appease or satisfy</p>

146
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<p>rarefy</p>

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<p>to make or become thin; to purify or refine (n: rarefaction, adj: rarefied)</p>

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<p>obviate</p>

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<p>to prevent by anticipatory measures; to make unnecessary:</p>

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<p>rescind</p>

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<p>to repeal or annul</p>

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<p>sate</p>

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<p>to satisfy fully or to excess</p>

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<p>fawn</p>

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<p>to seek favor or attention; to act subserviently (n, adj: fawning)</p>

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<p>arbitrate</p>

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<p>to settle a dispute by impulse (n: arbitration)</p>

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<p>depict</p>

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<p>to show, create a picture of.</p>

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<p>advocate</p>

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<p>to speak, plead, or argue for a cause, or in another’s behalf. (n) — one who advocates.</p>

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<p>prevaricate</p>

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<p>to stray away from or evade the truth: “When we asked him what his intentions were, he prevaricated.”(n: prevarication; prevaricator)</p>

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<p>corroborate</p>

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<p>to strengthen or support: “The witness corroborted his story.” (n: corroboration)</p>

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<p>emulate</p>

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<p>to strive to equal or excel (n: emulation)</p>

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<p>imply</p>

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<p>to suggest indirectly; to entail: “She implied she didn’t believe his story.” (n: implication)</p>

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<p>buttress</p>

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<p>to support. a support</p>

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<p>amalgamate</p>

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<p>to unite or mix. (n) — amalgamation.</p>

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<p>enervate</p>

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<p>to weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of: “The heatenervated everyone.”</p>

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<p>ossified</p>

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<p>turned to bone; hardened like bone; Inflexible: “The ossified culture failed to adapt to new economic conditions and died out.”</p>

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<p>tortuous</p>

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<p>twisted; excessively complicated: “Despite public complaints, tax laws and forms have become increasingly tortuous.” Note: Don’t confuse this with torturous.</p>

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<p>barefaced</p>

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<p>unconcealed, shameless, or brazen</p>

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<p>ineffable</p>

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<p>inexpressible in words; unspeakable</p>

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<p>hapless</p>

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<p>unfortunate</p>

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<p>ingenuous</p>

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<p>unsophisticated; artless; straightforward; candid: “Wilson’s ingenuous response to the controversial calmed the suspicious listeners.”</p>

167
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<p>tacit</p>

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<p>unspoken: “Katie and carmella had a tacit agreement that they would not mention the dented fender to their parents.”</p>

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<p>laconic</p>

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<p>using few words; terse: “a laconic reply.”</p>

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<p>ambiguous</p>

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<p>vague; subject to more than one interpretation</p>

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<p>garrulous</p>

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<p>verbose; talkative; rambling: “We tried to avoid our garrulous neighbor.”</p>

171
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<p>attenuate</p>

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<p>weaken (adj: attenuated)</p>

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<p>lugubrious</p>

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<p>weighty, mournful, or gloomy, especially to an excessive degree: “Jake’s lugubrious monologues depressed his friends.”</p>

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<p>nefarious</p>

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<p>wicked, evil: “a nefarious plot.”</p>

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<p>complaisant</p>

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<p>willingly compliant or accepting of the status quo (n: complaisance)</p>

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<p>verbose</p>

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<p>wordy: “The instructor asked her verbose student make her paper more concise.” (n: verbosity)</p>

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