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intransigent

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unwilling or refusing to change one’s views or to agree about something.
“her father had tried persuasion, but she was intransigent”

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invidious

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(of an action or situation) likely to arouse or incur resentment or anger in others.
“she’d put herself in an invidious position”

unpleasant, unfair/unjust

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sonorous

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capable of producing a deep or ringing sound.

“the alloy is sonorous and useful in making bells”

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conviviality

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the quality of being friendly and lively; friendliness.

“the conviviality of the evening”

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specious

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having a false look of truth or genuineness : sophistic

“Blake’s reputation for weakness is specious”

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quandary

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: a state of perplexity or doubt

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recapitulate

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to summarize

to give new form or expression to

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panoply

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a magnificent or impressive array

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portent

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something that foreshadows a coming event. omen, sign

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querulous

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: habitually complaining

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anachronism

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: a person or a thing that is chronologically out of place

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innocuous

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harmless

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opprobrious

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oppobrium, bringing disgrace

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autumnal

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of, characteristic of, or occurring in autumn.

“chilly autumnal weather”

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apolitical

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not interested or involved in politics.

“he took an apolitical stance”

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epistles

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a letter

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appurtenances

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an accessory or other item associated with a particular activity or style of living.
“all the appurtenances of luxurious travel”

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chauvinism

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exaggerated or aggressive patriotism.

“public opinion was easily moved to chauvinism and nationalism”

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adducing

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cite as evidence.

“a number of factors are adduced to explain the situation”

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rebuke

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express sharp disapproval or criticism of (someone) because of their behavior or actions.
“she had rebuked him for drinking too much”

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panegyric

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a public speech or published text in praise of someone or something.
“Vera’s panegyric on friendship”

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apposite

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apt in the circumstances or in relation to something.
“an apposite quotation”

suitable, appropriate

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dilettante

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a person who cultivates an area of interest, such as the arts, without real commitment or knowledge.
“a wealthy literary dilettante”

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philistine

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a person who is hostile or indifferent to culture and the arts, or who has no understanding of them.
“I am a complete philistine when it comes to paintings”

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prurience

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prurient = marked by or arousing an immoderate or unwholesome interest or desire

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hypostatize

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: to attribute real identity to (a concept)

“the mind has a tendency to hypostatize abstractions”

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evince

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to display clearly, reveal

“she evinced a proclivity for the arts”

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stymie

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: to present an obstacle to : stand in the way of

“stymied by red tape”

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moribund

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2: being in a state of inactivity or obsolescence

a moribund virus

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excoriate

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censure

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immolate

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to kill or destroy. to sacrifice

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parley

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to speak with another. to confer

“the government refused to parley with the rebels”

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posterity

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all future generations

“some monarchs have been accused by posterity of murder and treason”

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abnegate

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deny, renounce, surrender

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charlatan

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a person falsely claiming to have a special knowledge or skill; a fraud.
“a self-confessed con artist and charlatan”

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retribution

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punishment inflicted on someone as vengeance for a wrong or criminal act.
“employees asked not to be named, saying they feared retribution”

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riotous

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marked by or involving public disorder.
“a riotous crowd”

riot

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jejune

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  1. naive, simplistic, and superficial.
    “their entirely predictable and usually jejune opinions”
  2. of ideas or writings) dry and uninteresting.
    “the poem seems to me rather jejune”
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bombastic

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high-sounding but with little meaning; inflated.
“bombastic rhetoric”

pompous

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revanchism

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a policy of seeking to retaliate, especially to recover lost territory.
“a recipe for deep future resentment, revanchism and renewed conflict”

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antiquity

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the ancient past, especially the period before the Middle Ages.
“the great civilizations of antiquity”

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adventitious

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happening or carried on according to chance rather than design or inherent nature.
“my adventures were always adventitious, always thrust on me”

unpremeditated, accidental

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extirpate

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root out and destroy completely.

“the use of every legal measure to extirpate this horrible evil from the land”

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paliate

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allay

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invective

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insulting, abusive, or highly critical language.

“he let out a stream of invective”

46
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retrenchment

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the reduction of costs or spending in response to economic difficulty.
“this period of retrenchment will see companies shed staff”

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despotic

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typical of a despot, tyrannical

“a despotic regime”

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effluvium

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an unpleasant or harmful odor, secretion, or discharge.

“human’s effluvium have caused habitat loss to many animals”

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cower before

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to shrink away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces, domineers, or dismays

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perpetuate

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make (something, typically an undesirable situation or an unfounded belief) continue indefinitely.
“the law perpetuated the interests of the ruling class”

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ingenuous

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(of a person or action) innocent and unsuspecting.
“he eyed her with wide, ingenuous eyes”

think geniuine

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maladroit

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ineffective or bungling; clumsy.

“both men are unhappy about the maladroit way the matter has been handled”

53
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tendentious

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expressing or intending to promote a particular cause or point of view, especially a controversial one.
“a tendentious reading of history”

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perspicuous

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clearly expressed and easily understood; lucid.

“it provides simpler and more perspicuous explanations than its rivals”

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vociferously

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in a loud and forceful manner.

“the country vociferously opposed the war”

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espouse

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adopt or support (a cause, belief, or way of life).

“he turned his back on the modernism he had espoused in his youth”

57
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lambaste

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criticize (someone or something) harshly.

“they lambasted the report as a gross distortion of the truth”

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deride

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express contempt for; ridicule.

“critics derided the proposals as clumsy attempts to find a solution”

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penance

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voluntary self-punishment inflicted as an outward expression of repentance for having done wrong.
“he had done public penance for those hasty words”

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approbation

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approval or praise.

“the opera met with high approbation”

61
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obseqious

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obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree.
“they were served by obsequious waiters”

servile, ingratiating, sycophantic, fawning, toadying

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ingratiating

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intended to gain approval or favor; sycophantic.

“an ingratiating manner”

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moribund

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(of a thing) in terminal decline; lacking vitality or vigor.

“the moribund commercial property market”

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devolve

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transfer or delegate (power) to a lower level, especially from central government to local or regional administration.
“measures to devolve power to the provinces”

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occlude

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stop, close up, or obstruct (an opening, orifice, or passage).
“thick makeup can occlude the pores”

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atavistic

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relating to or characterized by reversion to something ancient or ancestral.
“atavistic fears and instincts”

think fight (attack) or flight

67
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soothsayer

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prophet

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betoken

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be a sign of; indicate.
“she wondered if his cold, level gaze betokened indifference or anger”

indicate, signify

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untoward

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unexpected and inappropriate or inconvenient.

“both tried to behave as if nothing untoward had happened”

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crabbed

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(of style) contorted and difficult to understand.

“crabbed legal language”

71
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reprehensible

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deplorable

deserving censure or condemnation.
“his complacency and reprehensible laxity”

72
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profligacy

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profligate

reckless extravagance or wastefulness in the use of resources.
“the government returned to fiscal profligacy”

73
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demur

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raise doubts or objections or show reluctance.
“normally she would have accepted the challenge, but she demurred”

the geologists demurred the work of the physicists

74
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perspicacity

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insightful, shrewd

the department director was a feeble contributor, but had a reputation for perspicacity

75
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probity

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the quality of having strong moral principles; honesty and decency.
“financial probity”

76
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dissemblance

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: to hide under a false appearance

dissemble

77
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rectitude

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morally correct behavior or thinking; righteousness.

“Maddie is a model of rectitude”

78
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duplicity

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deceitfulness; double-dealing.

the book captures the duplicity of several politicians who spoke publicly of old time virtues to mask private vices

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gadfly

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an annoying person, especially one who provokes others into action by criticism.
“always a gadfly, he attacked intellectual orthodoxies”

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pernicious

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having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way.
“the pernicious influences of the mass media”

81
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sketchy

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superficial, incomplete, inadequate

not thorough or detailed.
“the information they had was sketchy”

82
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adduce

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cite as evidence.
“a number of factors are adduced to explain the situation”

“evidence adduced and inferences drawn”

83
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canny vs uncanny

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uncanny = strange/mysterious, unsettling

canny = shrewd, good judgement

84
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despotic

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of or typical of a despot; tyrannical.

“a despotic regime”

85
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emancipate

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set free, especially from legal, social, or political restrictions.
“the citizen must be emancipated from the obsessive secrecy of government”

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