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Timorous

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Timid

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Concatenation

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Series of interconnected things or events

Arose as a result of a peculiar concatenation of historical circumstances

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Enviable

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Causing envy

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Hermetic

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Insulated or protect d from outside influences; esoteric
The hermetic society of the Amish
Obscure and hermetic poems
Before the modern period religion was not a separate activity hermetically sealed off from all others

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Urbane

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Suave, refined

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Modicum

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A small quantity of a particular thing, especially something considered valuable
His statement had more than a modicum of truth
More people had to be drawn into the productive process and they needed at least a modicum of education

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Riposte

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A quick and clever reply to an insult or criticism
A quick return thrust in fencing
All too often aggressive secularism has pushed religion into a violent riposte.

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Etiolated

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Enervate, debilitate, weaken

Long stressful days and sleepless nights gradually etiolated me

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Conduit

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Pipe, channel

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Prerogative

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Right, privilege

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Ineluctable

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Inevitable
Ineluctable fate
Ineluctable approach of winter

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Invidious

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Unpleasant and obnoxious ,stemming from envy
Invidious remarks (obnoxious)
Invidious comparison (likely to cause harm or resentment)
His success attracted invidious attention

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Plangent

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Loud deep sound expressing remorse 
Aching, agonized
Plangent organ music 
Plangent roar 
Strong plangent tones
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Nugatory

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Inconsequential, inoperative

Book makes nugatory contributions to scholarship on urban development

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Pedantic

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Unimaginative, dull
Old fashionedly learned
Pedantic scholars oppose study on video games

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Antediluvian

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Old fashioned, outdated
Antediluvian automobile
Antediluvian people previously unknown to history

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Pusillanimous

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Cowardly

Pusillanimous politicians vote whichever way the wind is blowing

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Jejune

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Too simple, not interesting; childish
Jejune lectures, jejune reflections on life and art
Jejune simplistic reason for studying arabic

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Pulchritudinous

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Beautiful

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Belie

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Misrepresent or disprove or hide
His bright smile belied his actual mood which was one of great sadness
The latest info belies the old theory
The security council issued false assurances that belied the true gravity of the situation

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Antedate

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Precede

Dinosaurs antedate mammoths by thousands of years

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Apocryphal

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Well known but probably not true

Such stories may be apocryphal

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Superannuated

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Old-fashioned, incapacitated/disqualified due to old age, older than the typical member of a group

Superannuated slang
Superannuated telephones
Superannuated graduate student

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Senescence

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The state or process of becoming old

Some turtles exhibit negligible senescence, showing no signs of aging even as they pass the two-century mark

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Collude

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Conspire

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Patent

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Apparent, Obvious,
Noticeable esp for being incorrect or bad
This is parent nonsense
The patent stupidity of the proposal did not stop the city council from putting it up for a vote
She was smiling with patent insincerity
A patent error that should have been edited before the book was published

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Arcane

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esoteric, ambiguous, mysterious/cryptic
Old and arcane as the language of the law
Arcane grammatical rules that are not relevant to spoken aarabic
Arcane language of the rebate form deters buyers from getting a rebate
She had an arcane system for filing things so I have no idea where anything is

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Garrulous

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Talkative, loquacious, long-winded

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Munificent

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Generous

A munificent gift

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Irresolute

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Indecisive, uncertain
She stood irresolute outside his door
The legislative body sits irresolute and utterly useless in front of this important issue

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Fastidious

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Scrupulous, very careful
She chose her words with fastidious care
The child seemed fastidious about getting her fingers dirty

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Laconic

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Brief, concise
Laconic comment, laconic press agent
His laconic reply suggested a lack of interest in the topic

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Mendacity

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Untruthfulness

People publicly castigated for past mendacity

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Indefatigable

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Persisting tirelessly

Indefatigable defender of human rights

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Jettison

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Throw from a ship or discard something no longer wanted
Individuals are forced to jettison certain attitudes and behaviors
He jettisoned his unwanted papers

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Apposite

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Appropriate

Observations apposite to the discussion

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Germane

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Relevant

Your question is not germane to the topic at hand

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Anachronistic

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Attributing something to a period in which it does not belong

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Pugnacious

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Combative, eager to quarrel

Pugnacious demeanor of politicians

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Acrimonious

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Angry, bitter(usually speech)

An acrimonious dispute

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Turgid

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Swollen, tediously pompous in languAge or style

His turgid prose

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Inveterate

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Habitual, steadfast, entrenched

Inveterate gambler

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Indigence

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Extreme poverty

He did valuable work toward the relief of indigence in India

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Deleterious

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Harmful

Divorce has deleterious effects on children

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Pernicious

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Harmful

Drugs have a pernicious influence on society

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Parsimony

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Cheapness

The parsimony of QU embittered me against the country

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Antipathy

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Hostility

I never encountered racial antipathy till I went to college

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Probity

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Integrity
Financial probity
The company feels he has de,on strayed little probity in this matter

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Odium

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Disgust
His job made him the target of public distrust and odium
During the trial he sensed his family’s hostility and odium

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Maladroit

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Ineffective, clumsy

He was a maladroit communicator despite having studied 6 languages

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Prepossessing

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Beautiful

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Quiescent

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Inert, dull, latent
Quiescent loungers recovering from Thanksgiving feast
Quiescent gallstones

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Gauche

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Socially awkward
Gauche manners
It would be gauche to mention the subject

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Panegyrics

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Accolade, praising someone

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Banal

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Boring, ordinary
Banal expressions
Banal men

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Unstinting

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Bighearted, generous

Volunteers unstinting with their time

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Fatuous

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Silly, stupid, foolish

Fatuous teenagers climbed the electric tower

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Decorous

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Polite, marked by propriety
Decorous behavior
Decorous standards

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Decorum

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Decency, conventions of polite behavior

High standards of decorum required when attending the opera

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Diffident

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Hesitant, shy, u assertive

Beyoncé is actual diffident in real life despite her job as a performing artist

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Doughty

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Brave, strong, valiant
A doughty warrior
Doughty heroes of old

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Coruscate

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To Sparkle, be brilliant in style
The light coruscated from the walls
A coruscating future

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Soporific

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Drowsy, causing drowsiness

Soporific drugs

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Teleological

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Related to intelligent design

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Preternatural

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Extraordinary, existing outside of nature

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Preclude

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Make impossible prevent

Issued a strict schedule for household chores so as to preclude any arguments

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Mendicant

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A beggar

Wretched mendicants on the streets of Calcutta

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Cadge

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Beg
Cadged for a cup of coffee
Caged money from his sister

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Anodyne

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Innocuous, not likely to upset
Something that soothes
The anodyne of a comfortable book

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Iridescent

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Rainbow-like, shining
Iridescent soap bubble
Iridescent gas stain

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Monocoque

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Constructed in one piece

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Pavonine

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Like a pea cock

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Parietal

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Related to college living

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Saturnine

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Sullen

The men awaiting interrogation by the police shared a saturnine silence

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Subvert

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Secretly try to ruin

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Edifying

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Enlighten, inform

Edifying dialogues of Socrates

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Callous

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Hardened

Callous indifference to suffering

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Repudiate

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To reject, disaffirm
Repudiate a contact , repudiate a vowel, repudiate a debt
Repudiated her gay daughter :(

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Disburse

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To pay out, Make a payment from a fund

The foundation disperses money to many worthy causes

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Pedantic

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Dull, unimaginative ,prosaic

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Ardent

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Fervent; eager, avid
Ardent Harry Potter fan
Ardent declarations of love to a woman

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Dour

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Austere, grim, ungentle
Dour prison guard
Dour expression on her face

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Agronomy

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Dealing with farm and agriculture

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Effusive

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Emotional, excessive emotion or enthusiasm

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Serpentine

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Winding, curving (like a serpent )

Serpentine road

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Atrophy

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Deteriorate, crumble

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Pneumatic

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Filled with air OR curvy (woman’s body)

Pneumatic sex symbol

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Obdurate

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Stubborn

They were obdurate in their position to allow any women join them in the majlis

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Vituperate

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Criticize harshly, scold,

He began vituperative the social sins of capitalism

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Adroit

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Skillful, adept
An adroit politician, adroit social commentary
He was adroit at tax avoidance

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Venal

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Corrupt, corruptible, open to bribery
They ran the town according to their own venal system of law and order
Why should these venal politicians care how they are rated?

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Insolvent

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Unable to pay debts , bankrupt

His entire family suspects that she was insolvent

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Recreant

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Cowardly; a coward or apostate

IS accused him of recreancy and beheaded him

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Obfuscate

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Obscure
Mere rationalizations to obfuscate rather than clarify the real issue
Her work became more and more obfuscated by mathematics and jargon

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Ossification

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Turning into bone
Be stagnant or rigid
Ossified political institutions

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Evince

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Reveal, show, indicate
His letters evince the excitement he felt
Mans inhumanity to man is evinced in the use of torture

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Eschew

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Abstain from
He firmly eschewed political involvement
He appealed to the crowd to Eschew violence

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Exscind

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To cut off or out, excise

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Rarefied

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1) thin (of air or atmosphere), less dense
2) distant from the lives and concerns of ordinary people
The rarefied atmosphere of Mars allows us to see its surface
Debates about the nature of knowledge can seem very rarified, especially in nascent countries that struggle to provide education to all of its citizens

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Specious

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Misleading, deceptive
Karen’s Armstrong specious argument about secularism and its effects on the Middle East
Qatars Katara culture village gives a Specious appearance of cultural heritage

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Bovine

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Relating to cattle

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Noisome

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Extremely offensive smell, disagreeable, odious
Noisome vapors from the smoldering waste
Noisome scandals

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Atavistic

Atavism

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Relating to or characterized by reversion to something ancient or ancestral
Recurrence of or reverting to a past style, manner, outlook, approach
Atavistic fears and instincts

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Olafactory

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Relating to the sense of smell

Olfactory organs

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Mephitic

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Foul-smelling, noxious, malodorous

A trail of mephitic odors

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