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Didacticism

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Intended to teach

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Fastidiousness

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Excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please

e.g. We should not burden our clients with what may be merely an outsider’s fussy fastidiousness .

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Iconoclasm

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Attacking established principles

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Reverence

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Deep respect toward

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Disseminate

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To spread wildly

e.g. The goal of a university is to produce and disseminate knowledge.

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Exacting

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Rigid or severe demands

e.g. He was known as a demanding and exacting newsman and anchor.

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Copious

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Abundant in supply or quantity

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Diffidence

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Lack of self-confidence

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Illiberality

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Not liberal with money

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Belies

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to show to be false; contradict

e.g. But such simplicity belies a truth about the restaurant’s cooking.

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Frivolity

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Not serious or sensible

e.g. Interviews are expected to have a small amount of frivolity .

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Austerity

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Severity of manner

e.g. The paleness of his countenance bespoke the austerity of his life.

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Intractable

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not easily controlled or directed; not docile or manageable; stubborn;

e.g. They are in fact powerful tools that can help people change bad behavior patterns, even those that seem intractable .

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Prolixity

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Boring verbosity

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Impetuous

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Done quickly without care

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Prodigality

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Spending extravagantly

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Taciturn

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Reserved in communication

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Pellucid

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Clear in style or meaning

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Rumination

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to meditate or muse; ponder.

e.g. Alas, the ocean’s edge is not the place for such a rumination .

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Attainment

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Action of achieving goal

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Prosaic

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Commonplace

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Hackneyed

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Lack of significance through overusing

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Idiosyncrasies

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Mode of behaviour peculiar to an individual

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Anachronistic

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Chronologically misplaced

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Exotic
Characteristic of a distant and foreign country
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Stigmatization
Regard worthy of disgrace or great diapproval
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Marginalization
Treat as insignificant or peripheral e.g. Until then, a third party candidate will have to choose between offering what the voters want and *marginalization* .
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Caprice
A sudden change in mood or behaviour
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Demur
Raise doubts or objection e.g. There was no reason for demur ; there was no law against it.
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Syntactical
According to syntax (a set of rules)
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Sartorial
Relating to tailoring, styles or dress e.g. They even share a *sartorial* tie: the devout in both faiths wear special undergarments.
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Frivolous
Not having serious purpose or value; Carefree or not serious e.g. To deny it is to see in art only something frivolous and insincere.
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Panache
Flamboyant confidence of style
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Gawkiness
Inelegant movement of posture
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Quixotic
Exceedingly idealistic; unpractical and unrealistic
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Flout
Openly disregard a convention e.g. to *flout* the rules of propriety.
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Brandish
Wave something as a threat/anger/excitement
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Attenuation
Weakening in force or intensity e.g. In retrospect, its small pages and large type seem indicative of the *attenuation* of the story itself*.*
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Innocuous
Not harmful or offensive
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Trite
Overused; lacking originality or freshness
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Disparate
Essentially different; no base for comparison
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Lurid
Very vivid in colour
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Deferential
Showing respect e.g. As a judge, he was too *deferential* to the government.
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Lax
Not sufficiently strict or severe
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Obsequious
Obedient to an excessive degree
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Disapprobation
Strong diapproval
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Profligate
Recklessly extravagant or wasteful of resources e.g. The writer so wary of self-indulgence was *profligate* with ink and paper.
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Tendentiousness
An intentional and controversial bias e.g. a *tendentious* novel.
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Fractiousness
Prone to disobedience; lack of dicipline e.g. a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness.
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Antithetical
Directly opposed; mutually incompatible
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Immutable
Unchanging over time
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Misnomer
A wrong or inaccurate use of a name
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Profundity
Deep insight; great depth of knowledge or thought
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Inimical
Tending to obstruct or harm; unfriendly; hostile e.g. Participation is also a necessary component, as apathy and abstention are inimical to democracy.
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Malignant
Very virulent or infectious
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Recapitulates
To review by a brief summary; to sum up statements
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Repudiates
To reject; to cast off or disown e.g. It strikes me as odd that he attributes his success to what he learned in this college, but he *repudiates* the culture.
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Facetious
Not meant to be taken seriously or literally; humorous e.g. It's a *facetious* point, but it's also a serious one.
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Patent
To originate and establish as one's own
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Pervasive
Spread throughout
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Anoint
To smear with liquid; dedicated to the service of god e.g. As leaders, they have involved the government and industry and look to the government to *anoint* the final set of standards.
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Vexation
State of being annoyed; irritated e.g. vexation at missing the bus.
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Ubiquitous
Existing everywhere at the same time; omnipresent e.g. Corruption is *ubiquitous* , and the government has been accused of authoritarianism.
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Irresolute
Doubtful; infirm of purpose
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Laconic
Using a few words; concise
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Munificent
Extremely liberal in giving; very generous e.g. The rewards were immediate and munificent .
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Mendacity
Untruthfulness; tendency to lie e.g. Miller said, people could smell the corporate mendacity in the air.
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Prevarication
The act of lying; deliberately misleading e.g. His press conference in the spring featured more prevarication than it did truth telling.
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Doctrinaire
Fanatical; mainly theoretical; impractical
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Debased
To reduce in quality or value e.g. News literacy won't change a *debased* media culture overnight.
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Normative
Pertaining to a norm (a standard correctness)
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Goosebumps
Skin erection due to fear
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Pedestrian
Commonplace; lacking in imagination; dull
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Jettison
To throw off as an obstacle or burden; discard e.g. And you have to learn to accept that critique, incorporate the good and jettison the bad.
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Distill
Process of purification e.g. The idea is to take the essence of what they do, and distill it to the hardcore, and work with that.
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Modish
In current fashion; stylish
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Sanguine
Cheerfully optimistic; hopeful; confident e.g. Experience on a former occasion teaches us not to be too *sanguine* in such hopes.
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Equivocal
Susceptible to double interpretation e.g. There is nothing equivocal about her belief.
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Pernicious
Causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious e.g. He resists any suggestion that his gambling addiction might be pernicious .
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Discomfiting
To confuse and deject; disconcert e.g. to be *discomfited* by a question
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Expedient
Tending to promote some proposed or desired object; conducive to advantage or interest, as opposed to right. e.g. He saw the light when it became politically *expedient* .
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Imminent
Likely to occur at any moment; impending
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Remedial
To correct one's skill in a specified field e.g. Whoever wrote that should be forced to take *remedial* reading.
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Injudicious
Showing lack of judgment; unwise e.g. He becomes a sly thing of dark suspicions and fatally injudicious moves.
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Calumnious
of, involving, or using calumny; slanderous; defamatory. e.g. Virtue itself scapes not *calumnious* strokes.
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Inveigling
To entice, lure by flattery or artful talk e.g. to *inveigle* customers into spending more
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Timorous
Full of fear; fearful e.g. The noise made them *timorous*.
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Dispense
To deal out; distribute
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Innocuous
Not harmful or injurious; harmless
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Startling
Creating sudden alarm, surprise, or wonder

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