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Simpatico

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of like mind or temperament; compatible

Maybe it has something to do with being in simpatico with the government being shut down all this week?

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Simulacrum

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an image or representation; an unreal or vague semblance;

Such a substitution by the Power Elites/State partnership of symbolic prosperity for broad-based, real prosperity is what I term a simulacrum of prosperity in my analysis.

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Solicitous

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Full of anxiety or concern; showing hovering attentiveness

They were all overly solicitous, each offering to do something, but I shooed them off, telling them to return to their duties as I headed for my office.

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Stanchion

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An upright pole, post, or support

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Sumptuous

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magnificent, luxurious, extremely good

On a superficial note, I loved all the beautiful tracking shots of paintings in sumptuous widescreen.

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Superannuated

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Outmoded; obsolete: too old to be useful

  • superannuated laws; *
  • There was a black barge, or some other kind of superannuated boat, not far off, high and dry on the ground, with an iron funnel sticking out of it for a chimney and smoking very cosily;*
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Sycophant

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A servile self-seeker who attempts to win favor by flattering influential people.

It is interesting, this Dwight Shrute troll who takes the moniker of the simpering sycophant from the very funny TV program The Office.

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Tarry

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**To dealy or be late in going, coming or doing. To remain or stay temporarily. **

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Tergiversate

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To evade, to equivocate using subterfuge; to deliberately obfuscate;

To change sides or affiliation; to apostatize.

The testimony which stirred up the bile of the holy fathers could not but be given, unless you had been willing basely to tergiversate and to expose yourself to their taunts. “

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Tony

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stylish, high-toned, upscale

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Touchstone

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** A standard of comparison or evaluation; **

Harry and Sally bicker over Casablanca; for the women of Sleepless in Seattle, the emotional touchstone is An Affair to Remember (“Men never get this movie!”).

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Tribulation

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**Great affliction, trial or distress; **

And those who keep their treaty when they make one, and the patient in tribulation and adversity and time of stress.

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Triage

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**A system used to allocate a scarce commodity, such as food, only to those capable of deriving the greatest benefit from it. **

Assessment or sorting according to quality.

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Transmogrify

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**to change into a different shape, to transform; **

Like previous stories, these characters continue to transmogrify in new and imaginative ways while providing a platform for witty dialogue and characterizations.

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Zealot

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One who is zealous or full of zeal; one carried away by excess of zeal; an immoderate partizan: generally in a disparaging sense.

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Wry

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dryly humorous, often with a touch of irony

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Vitreous

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**of, relating to, resembling, or having the nature of glass; **

All of these beads are translucent to a greater or lesser degree and have what is termed a vitreous lustre: a glassy sheen when polished.

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Ululation

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A long, loud, mournful cry or howl.

Suddenly she threw back her head, pointed her sharp muzzle to the sky, and gave voice to the long-drawn ululation which is the battle-cry of wolves.

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Tumescence

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a swelling or enlarging; a swollen condition;

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Apace

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Quickly, rapidly, with speed

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Munificent

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very liberal in giving; generousl

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Querulous

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bitchy; plaintivel Often complaining; suggesting a complaint in expression; fretful, whining

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Pettish

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ill-tempered; peevish

He thinks her little pettish ways are mere girlish moods; but when she becomes his wife, and reveals her selfish and cruel nature, he is grieved and hurt to think fate has been so unkind to him.

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Waspish

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Easily irritated or annoyed; irascible.

He fell completely beyond the arc of his waspish brain and acid tongue and so he seemed utterly confused by the reception he sometimes got.

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Novitiate/Proselyte

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being a novice; inexperienced.

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Acidulous

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Figuratively, sour in feeling or expression; sharp; caustic; harsh;

  • His observations range from the cheerful to the acidulous but are never malicious.*
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Dudgeon

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A feeling of offense; resentmont; sullen anger; ill will; discord.

So the carpet-woman went off in dudgeon, for she was sure there would not be time enough to do anything.

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Facsimile

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**An exact copy or reproduction of a document; **

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Mordacious

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** sarcastic; severe; scathing.**

Calvinist, vented in his writings a mordacious hatred of the Papacy and of the religion from which he had seceded.

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Dolorous

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**marked by or exhibiting sorrow or grief or pain; sorrowful; doleful; painful **

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Wraith

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**The ghost of a dead person **

Banquo’s wraith, which is invisible to all but Macbeth, is the haunting of an evil conscience.

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Sepulchral

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indicative of death or the dead; gloomy and solemn;

‘She laid the still white form beside those that had gone before,’ quoth Bobby, in sepulchral tone.

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Abnegate

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To deny (anything) to one’s self; renounce; give up or surrender.

As we call on science to explain, elaborate, and justify issues in civil and personal life, we need to be careful that we don’t abnegate our responsibility to monitor the effects of this intervention.

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Obsequy

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a funeral rite or service or ceremony;

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Expiate

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To atone for; make amends for

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Abash

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**To cause to be emabarrased; cause to feel self-conscious, cause to feel inferior, make on feel shame; **

Admiration was not in it, for it did not agitate; nor audacity, for it did not abash; but something that thrilled warm through blood and nerves, that filled her with a glad submission to some power, absolute yet tender, and caused her to turn . . .

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Rebarbative

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Irritating, repellant in character

I’m sullying the purity of my rebarbative blog with praising notices like this.

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Dissemble

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** to disguise; to make a false show of to feign; **

Look, everyone knows that presidents care who succeeds them in the Senate, even if they kind of dissemble a little bit or don’t tell the whole story? “

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Conjugal

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**of, or relating to marriage, or the relationship of spouses; **

This is the love of familiar, committed partners, variously known as conjugal, married, or spousal love.

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Endogamous/Exogamous

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**Marrying only within members of the same tribe or to members of other tribes. **

**Chinese people tend to be endogamous. **

The Lubbe siblings remained in close contact and saw multiple endogamous marriages among their own children, but they chose diverse spouses for themselves.

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Distaff

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**relating to women and family or women and groups; **

Snyder said that although she wasn’t familiar with the word distaff, the name Ladies ‘Classic made her think it was a race with all-female jockeys.

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Raillery

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**Good-natured teasing or ridicule or banter; **

an instance of bantering or teasing

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Interstice

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A small opening between thigns

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Unstinting

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generous and tireless with one’s contributions of time, money, etc.

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Minatory

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of a menacing or threatening nature; minacious

It might be fairer to say that the West today is suffering from welcoming the sunny side of Thatcherism while forgetting its minatory aspects.

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Perfidious

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Of, pertaining to, or representing perfidy; disloyal to what should command one’s fidelity or allegiance.

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Descry

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to detect; to catch sight of

Then we head for high ground, and we all descry the steep walls to map a route upward.

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Chortle

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a snorting joyful, laugh or chuckle

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Adventitious

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**from an external source; not innate or inherent; foreign; **

Things he did, no matter how adventitious or spontaneous, struck the popular imagination as remarkable.

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Quiescent

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**being quiet, still, or at rest, inactive; being in a state of repose; unagitated, no passion **

So - how long will the people of Azerbaijan remain quiescent?

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Languid

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**lacking energy or vitality; showing little or no spirit or animation; **

Even in languid humid climes it is the season of matings and revolutions.

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Reproof

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**a rebuke; to reprove sb; reproach; censure severely; **

Meanwhile the bully has had not even a word of reproof from the authorities.

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Cavil

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quibble; carping; to find fault unnecessarily; raise trivial objections

One can cavil that Mr. Hamner relies too much on instances of big-army conventional warfare to argue this assertion.

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Propitious

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**presenting favorable circumstances; auspicious; **

Today, however, the outlook can hardly be called propitious for the formation of a national consensus anywhere in the industrial world, and the chances for an equitable international sharing of wealth seem hopeless.

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Kismet

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**Fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny; **

Yet because you are so wayward I will help you once or twice more, and then I will leave you to your own course – which you, in your blindness, will call your kismet, not seeing that your fate is continually in your own hands – more so at this moment than ever before.

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Oblique

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**having a slanting or sloping direction; course or position; inclined; indirect or evasive; **

Mr. Droga declined to reveal locations beforehand (including the veracity of the Times Square example), but did describe the campaign in oblique terms.

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Sidle

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**a sideways movement; **To advance in an unobtrusive, furtive, or coy way: swindlers who sidle up to tourists.

I have people come up to me all the time, kind of sidle up and nudge me in the ribs and say, hey, I hear you or see you on Imus – I hear you on Imus, you know?

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Turgid

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Excessively ornate and complex language; swollen or distended

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Periphrastic

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Expressing, or expressed, in more words than are necessary; characterized by periphrase; circumlocutory.

Nevertheless, the language has adapted other periphrastic ways of expressing the idea that is put across in other languages by a subjunctive.

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Slake

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**to satisfy a craving; to lessen the force or activity of; **

  • slaked her thirst;*
  • slaking his anger;*
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Presage

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an indication or warning of a future occurrence; an omen; to foretell to predict

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Fey

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to be clairvoyant

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Forfend

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**to keep or ward off; to defend or protect; **

  • little knew, and less I cared, for I lived always in the moment and let others forecast, forfend, and travail their anxiety.*
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Doleful

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**filled with or expressing grief; mournful; dolor; **

The tearful family followed her into the house and sat in doleful silence watching the big drops that began to beat on the western window.

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Elegiac

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**expressing sorrow or mourning; **Of, relating to, or involving elegy or mourning or expressing sorrow for that which is irrecoverably past: an elegiac lament for youthful ideals.]

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Threnody

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a poem or song of mourning or lamentation; a dirge, an elegy

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Verity

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**the quality or condition of being true; factual, or real; **

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Pusillanimous

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lacking courage; timid; timorour; recreant

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Recreant

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**Craven or cowardly; unfaithful or disloyal to a belief; **

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Antedate/Antecede

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antedate= to be of an earlier date

antecede= to precede

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Renitent

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reluctant to yield or be swayed, recalcitrant; resistant to physical pressure

The gruesome deaths of the five Foke jarred him into the itchy, gummy, renitent physicality of his body.

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**Peregrination **

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a travel or journey; especially by foot; notably a pilgriml

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Apothegm

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**a terse, witty, instructive, saying, a maxim. **

Just remember the apothegm that a government that is big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take it all away.

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Abeyance

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The condition of being temporarily set aside; suspension: held the plan in abeyance.

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Decamp

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to depart secretly or suddenly

Fresh off the heels of opening his second Bowery canteen, Peels, Mr. Somer plans to decamp to Brooklyn where he will whittle his own line of salvaged wood furniture.

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