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Dissemble

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To hide your true feelings/opinions

- I tried to dissemble how I felt about moving back to NY to work remotely

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Distend

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To make larger/rounder due to pressure from inside

- Eating quickly can cause bloating, which distends your stomach

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Diverting

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  1. To divert / change course or action
  2. To distract / bring attention from something
  3. To entertain/amuse
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Dogmatic

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As if opinions/beliefs are certainly true

- Pauline was dogmatic about the PhD writing sample, but Tom felt otherwise

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Droll

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Odd/amusing quality

Nick’s demeanor is droll, but minus the amusing part

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Ebb

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  1. The movement of the tide out to sea / move away from land or recede
    - The tide began to ebb
  2. Gradually lessen / get worse
    - My enthusiasm for studying for the GRE was ebbing away
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Eclipse

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  1. A loss of power/success/popularity
  2. To make less important/popular
    - My PhD class achievements were eclipsed by that Harvard guy
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Effusive

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Expressing feelings of gratitude/pleasure/approval, in an unrestrained or heartfelt manner
- He gave an effusive thank you in response to the standing desk gift

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Elegiac

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Elegy… mournful

- My experience in NJ was haunting and egeliac

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Emblematic

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Symbolic. Totemic. Representing something that cannot be seen by itself.
- How NYU treats its RAs during Covid is emblematic of a larger problem

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Embryonic

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Early stage of development. Rudimentary

- RAs are at an embryonic stage of their research career

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Emendation

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Revision. Alteration designed to correct or improve.

- Most papers go through many emendations before being submitted

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Enamor

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To cause to be loved or admired

- Tom’s advising of RAs made him enamored by all the RAs

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Encomium

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Glowing, enthusiastic praise

- Cumby once gave an encomium of my thesis

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Endemic

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Restricted to one area. Opposite of pandemic.

- Covid is not just endemic to the US

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Enfeeble

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Deprive of strength

- The hot sun enfeebled me

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Engender

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To cause to exist or to develop

- The difference in pay between RAs and professor engendered many other inequalities such as housing and food

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Enterprising

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Ability/desire to do new/difficult things

- Growing up I was much more enterprising than I am now, willing to move into an apartment via Amtrak

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Entreat

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To ask in a serious / anxious way

- My plead to HR entreated help with Shan

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Ephermeral

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Transitory, short-lived

- My dream apartment 4B was a ephemeral stay

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Equable

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  1. Calm, even-tempered
    - Anthony’s demeanor is quite equable
  2. No varying or fluctuating greatly
    - My day-to-day is quite equable, doing the same thing everyday
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Equanimity

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Calm emotion when dealing with problems or pressure

- Tom Shields mentioned Will Copeland exhibited equanimity during NCAAs

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Equivalent

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Commensurate. Having the same value/use/meaning

- Not getting a letter is equivalent to not working as a RA

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Erstwhile

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In the past / one time / former

- Working at BlackRock was in my erstwhile days

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Espouse

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To support/adopt

- Rob espoused the notion of working out everyday

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Eulogize

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Praise highly. Not to be confused with eulogy.

- Lasse eulogized Niels as an amazingly talented researcher

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Evanescent

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Transitory, ephermeral, momentary. Lasting a short time.

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Evangelist

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An enthusiastic advocate

- Rob was a emacs evangelist

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Evenhanded

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Impartial, not favoring one side or group.

- HR said they would be evenhanded in their approach

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Exacting

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Requiring a lot of time/attention/effort

- Studying for the GRE has been more exacting than I thought

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Exactitude

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Accurate and correct. Quality of being exact

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Exalt

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Praise highly. Think of highly. Extol

- Tom is exalted above the RAs

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Excoriate

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Criticize. Indict, crab

- I was excoriated for not checking in enough

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Exculpate

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Vindicate, exonerate. To prove someone is not guilty of something
- I was exculpated of Shan’s accusations after the HRs process

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Exigent

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Pressing. Requiring immediate attention

- Most research is not 100% exigent, and longer term and slower moving

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Exiguous

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Very small in amount. RAs get paid an exiguous salary

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Extirpate

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Eliminate. Destroy/remove completely

- I hope to extirpate any red flags due to Shan

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Facile

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  1. Not showing enough thought/effort
  2. Superficial
    - He was facile and careless in his work
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Fallacious

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Containing a mistake

- I hope this code isn’t fallacious

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Fastidious

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Attentive to detail and accuracy

- I am fastidious when it comes to coding

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Fealty

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Loyalty

- The peasant vowed fealty to the king

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Feckless

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Lack of character, irresponsible, lacking initiative

- Harry Potter is not feckless

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Fester

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To become worse as time goes on

- My fitness has festered since I stopped swimming

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Flout

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Spurn, defy, disregard.

- The professor flouted rules designed for

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Flummery

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Empty compliments, nonsense

- GS was full of flummery, especially from interns

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Flummox

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Confuse someone, bewilder

- I was flummoxed by Tom’s asset pricing test

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Forbear

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Refrain from doing

- Tom forbore on commenting on Shan’s google doc

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Foreground

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  1. Part of view nearest to the observer
  2. Most prominent/important situation or position
    - Pauline said taking the GRE should be in the foreground
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Fractious

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Difficult to control, unruly.

1. Tom’s kids are well behaved and not fractious at all

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Fungible

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Able to replaced by identical item; mutually interchangeable

- Standing desks are expensive but fungible

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Fusty

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  1. Smelling stale/damp/stuffy
  2. Old-fashioned
    - Cumby is fusty in style, always wearing a collared shirt in the office
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Futurity

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The future time

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Gainsay

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To declare untrue/invalid. Oppose. To deny or contradict

- The impact of Covid cannot be gainsaid

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Galvanize

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Shock/excite someone into taking action

- Tom’s pitch for the CS decomposition galvanized me into working hard

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Garrulous

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Especially talkative

- I’m incredibly garrulous and can’t stop chit chatting

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