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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

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Characteristic of a distant and foreign country

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Stigmatization

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Regard worthy of disgrace or great diapproval

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Marginalization

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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

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A sudden change in mood or behaviour

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Demur

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Raise doubts or objection

e.g. There was no reason for demur ; there was no law against it.

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Syntactical

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According to syntax (a set of rules)

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Sartorial

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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

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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

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Flamboyant confidence of style

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Gawkiness

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Inelegant movement of posture

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Quixotic

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Exceedingly idealistic; unpractical and unrealistic

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Flout

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Openly disregard a convention

e.g. to flout the rules of propriety.

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Brandish

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Wave something as a threat/anger/excitement

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Attenuation

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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

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Not harmful or offensive

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Trite

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Overused; lacking originality or freshness

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Disparate

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Essentially different; no base for comparison

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Lurid

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Very vivid in colour

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Deferential

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Showing respect

e.g. As a judge, he was too deferential to the government.

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Lax

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Not sufficiently strict or severe

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Obsequious

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Obedient to an excessive degree

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Disapprobation

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Strong diapproval

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Profligate

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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

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An intentional and controversial bias

e.g. a tendentious novel.

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Fractiousness

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Prone to disobedience; lack of dicipline

e.g. a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness.

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Antithetical

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Directly opposed; mutually incompatible

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Immutable

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Unchanging over time

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Misnomer

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A wrong or inaccurate use of a name

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Profundity

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Deep insight; great depth of knowledge or thought

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Inimical

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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

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Very virulent or infectious

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Recapitulates

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To review by a brief summary; to sum up statements

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Repudiates

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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

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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

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To originate and establish as one’s own

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Pervasive

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Spread throughout

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Anoint

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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

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State of being annoyed; irritated

e.g. vexation at missing the bus.

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Ubiquitous

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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

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Doubtful; infirm of purpose

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Laconic

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Using a few words; concise

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Munificent

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Extremely liberal in giving; very generous

e.g. The rewards were immediate and munificent .

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Mendacity

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Untruthfulness; tendency to lie

e.g. Miller said, people could smell the corporate mendacity in the air.

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Prevarication

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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

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Fanatical; mainly theoretical; impractical

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Debased

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To reduce in quality or value

e.g. News literacy won’t change a debased media culture overnight.

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Normative

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Pertaining to a norm (a standard correctness)

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Goosebumps

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Skin erection due to fear

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Pedestrian

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Commonplace; lacking in imagination; dull

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Jettison

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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

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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

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In current fashion; stylish

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Sanguine

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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

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Susceptible to double interpretation

e.g. There is nothing equivocal about her belief.

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Pernicious

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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

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To confuse and deject; disconcert

e.g. to be discomfited by a question

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Expedient

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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

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Likely to occur at any moment; impending

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Remedial

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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

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Showing lack of judgment; unwise

e.g. He becomes a sly thing of dark suspicions and fatally injudicious moves.

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Calumnious

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of, involving, or using calumny; slanderous; defamatory.

e.g. Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

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Inveigling

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To entice, lure by flattery or artful talk

e.g. to inveigle customers into spending more

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Timorous

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Full of fear; fearful

e.g. The noise made them timorous.

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Dispense

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To deal out; distribute

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Innocuous

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Not harmful or injurious; harmless

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Startling

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Creating sudden alarm, surprise, or wonder

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