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Piquancy

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a pleasantly sharp and appetizing flavor, or the quality of being pleasantly stimulating or exciting.

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Wastrel

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a wasteful person, spendthrift; a goodfornothing

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Sybarite

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a person devoted to luxury or pleasure; an effeminate voluptuary or sensualist

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Dilly

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an excellent example of a particular type of person or thing.

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Gadabout

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a habitual pleasureseeker

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Solicitude

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care or concern for someone or something

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Curlicue

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a decorative curl or twist in calligraphy or in the design of an object

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Plangent

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(of a sound) loud, reverberating, and often melancholy.

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Derisory

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ridiculously small or inadequate, or expressing contempt or ridicule

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Plenipotentiary

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(noun) a person, especially a diplomat, invested with the full power of independent action on behalf of their government, typically in a foreign country, or (adj) having full power to take independent action.

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Proviso

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a condition attached to an agreement.

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Remunerative

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financially rewarding; lucrative.

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Pallid

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(of a person’s face) pale, typically because of poor health, or, feeble or insipid

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Skylark

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pass time by playing tricks or practical jokes; indulge in horseplay.

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Lark

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something done for fun, especially something mischievous or daring; an amusing adventure or escapade.

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Fecund

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producing or capable of producing an abundance of offspring or new growth; fertile

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Boudoir

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a woman’s bedroom or private room.

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Consternation

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feelings of anxiety or dismay, typically at something unexpected

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Misprision

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the deliberate concealment of one’s knowledge of a treasonable act or a felony

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Emboss

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carve, mold, or stamp a design on (a surface) so that it stands out in relief.

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Zugzwang

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a situation in which the obligation to make a move in one’s turn is a serious, often decisive, disadvantage.

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Frisson

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a sudden strong feeling of excitement or fear; a thrill.

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Verisimilitude

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the appearance of being true or real.

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Acalculia

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loss of the ability to perform simple arithmetic calculations, typically resulting from disease or injury of the parietal lobe of the brain.

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Improvident

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not having or showing foresight; spendthrift or thoughtless.

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Autodidact

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a selftaught person.

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Amanuensis

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a literary or artistic assistant, in particular one who takes dictation or copies manuscripts.

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Sussuration

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whispering, murmuring, or rustling.

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Abnegation

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the act of renouncing or rejecting something, or self denial.

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Paroxysm

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a sudden attack or violent expression of a particular emotion or activity.

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Paradisiac

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of or like Paradise; heavenly, delightful.

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Seraphic

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characteristic of or resembling a seraph or seraphim (an angel)

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Atavism

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a tendency to revert to something ancient or ancestral.

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Sisyphean

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denoting or relating to a task that can never be completed, laborious, futile.

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Bailiwick

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one’s sphere of operations or particular area of interest.

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Peristyle

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a row of columns surrounding a space within a building such as a court or internal garden or edging a veranda or porch.

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Praxis

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the process by which a theory, lesson, or skill is enacted, embodied, or realized, or accepted practice or custom.

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Garrulous

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excessively talkative, especially on trivial matters.

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Graphomania

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the obsessive impulse to write.

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Panegyric

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a public speech or published text in praise of someone or something.

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Circuitous

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(of a route or journey) longer than the most direct way.

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Troubadour

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a French medieval lyric poet composing and singing in Provençal in the 11th to 13th centuries, especially on the theme of courtly love, or a poet who writes verse to music.

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Semiotic

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relating to signs and symbols.

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Academe

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the academic environment or community; academia.

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Picaresque

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relating to an episodic style of fiction dealing with the adventures of a rough and dishonest but appealing hero.

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Jaunty

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having or expressing a lively, cheerful, and selfconfident manner.

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Abstruse

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difficult to understand; obscure.

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Tractable

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(of a person) easy to control or influence, or (of a situation or problem) easy to deal with.

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Capacious

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having a lot of space inside; roomy.

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Salvo

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a sudden, vigorous, or aggressive act or series of acts, or a simultaneous discharge of artillery or other guns in a battle.

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Anathema

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something or someone that one vehemently dislikes.

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Sobriquet

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a person’s nickname.

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Ecumenical

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representing a number of different Christian Churches.

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Iniquitous

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grossly unfair and morally wrong.

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Effrontery

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insolent or impertinent behavior.

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Physiognomy

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a person’s facial features or expression, especially when regarded as indicative of character or ethnic origin, or the general form or appearance of something.

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Arrogate

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take or claim (something) without justification.

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Assiduous

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showing great care and perseverance.

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Evince

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reveal the presence of a quality or feeling.

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Androgynous

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partly male and partly female in appearance; of indeterminate sex.

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Lothario

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a man who behaves selfishly and irresponsibly in his sexual relationships with women.

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Declaim

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utter or deliver words or a speech in a rhetorical or impassioned way, as if to an audience.

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Supercilious

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behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others.

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Askance

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with an attitude or look of suspicion or disapproval.

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Casuist

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a person who uses clever but unsound reasoning, especially in relation to moral questions; a sophist, or a person who resolves moral problems by the application of theoretical rules to particular instances.

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Apotheosis

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the highest point in the development of something; culmination or climax.

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Canaille

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the common people; the masses (derogatory).

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Inimical

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tending to obstruct or harm, or unfriendly, hostile.

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Sententious

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given to moralizing in a pompous or affected manner.

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Incorrigible

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(of a person or their tendencies) not able to be corrected, improved, or reformed.

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Fanfaronade

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arrogant or boastful talk.

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Indenture

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a legal agreement, contract, or document.

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Enrapture

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give intense pleasure or joy to.

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Stricture

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a restriction on a person or activity, or a sternly critical or censorious remark or instruction.

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Louche

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disreputable or sordid in a rakish or appealing way.

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Sordid

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involving ignoble actions and motives; arousing moral distaste and contempt.

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Rakish

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having or displaying a dashing, jaunty, or slightly disreputable quality or appearance.

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Wanton

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(of a cruel or violent action) deliberate and unprovoked.

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Efface

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erase (a mark) from a surface, or to make oneself appear insignificant or inconspicuous.

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Recalcitrant

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having an obstinately uncooperative attitude toward authority or discipline

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Precipice

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a very steep rock face or cliff, especially a tall one.

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Purview

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the scope of the influence or concerns of something, or range of experience or thought.

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Inexorable

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impossible to stop or prevent.

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Quorum

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the minimum number of members of an assembly or society that must be present at any of its meetings to make the proceedings of that meeting valid.

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Insouciant

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showing a casual lack of concern; indifferent.

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Segue

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an uninterrupted transition from one piece of music or film scene to another.

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Cipher

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a secret or disguised way of writing; a code, or a person or thing of no importance, especially a person who does the bidding of others and seems to have no will of their own.

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Aria

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a long accompanied song for a solo voice, typically one in an opera or oratorio.

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Approbation

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approval or praise.

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Effrontery

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insolent or impertinent behavior.

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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.

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Winnow

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blow a current of air through (grain) in order to remove the chaff, or remove (people or things) from a group until only the best ones are left, or (of the wind) blow.

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Apologia

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a formal written defense of one’s opinions or conduct.

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Rapt

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completely fascinated by what one is seeing or hearing, or indicating or characterized by a state of fascination, or filled with an intense and pleasurable emotion; enraptured.

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Euphonious

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(of sound, especially speech) pleasing to the ear.

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Pillory

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attack or ridicule publicly.

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Pantomime

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a dramatic entertainment, originating in Roman mime, in which performers express meaning through gestures accompanied by music.

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Clarion

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loud and clear

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Epigone

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a less distinguished follower or imitator of someone, especially an artist or philosopher.

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Temerity

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excessive confidence or boldness; audacity.

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Ensconce

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establish or settle (someone) in a comfortable, safe, or secret place.

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Supine

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(of a person) lying face upward, or failing to act or protest as a result of moral weakness or indolence.

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Lattice

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a structure consisting of strips of wood or metal crossed and fastened together with square or diamondshaped spaces left between, used as a screen or fence or as a support for climbing plants.

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Oocyte

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a cell in an ovary which may undergo meiotic division to form an ovum.

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Lacuna

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an unfilled space or interval; a gap.

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Zany

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amusingly unconventional and idiosyncratic.

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Verboten

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forbidden, especially by an authority.

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Verdure

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lush green vegetation.

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Portentous

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done in a pompously or overly solemn manner so as to impress.

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Foment

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instigate or stir up (an undesirable or violent sentiment or course of action).

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Truculent

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eager or quick to argue or fight; aggressively defiant.

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Phatasm

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a phantom; an apparition; something unreal, as in a dream or a vision

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Phantasmagoria

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a sequence of real or imaginary images like those seen in a dream

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Ensconce

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establish or settle (someone) in a comfortable, safe, or secret place.

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Supine

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lying on the back

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Inchoate

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just begun and so not fully formed or developed; rudimentary.

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Declension

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(in the grammar of Latin, Greek, and other languages) the variation of the form of a noun, pronoun, or adjective, by which its grammatical case, number, and gender are identified.

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Enema

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a procedure in which liquid or gas is injected into the rectum, typically to expel its contents, but also to introduce drugs or permit Xray imaging.

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Bonhamie

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cheerful friendliness; geniality.

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Languorous

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characterized by tiredness or inactivity, especially of a pleasurable kind, or characterized by an oppressive stillness.

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Declivity

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a downward slope.

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Firmament

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the heavens or the sky, especially when regarded as a tangible thing, or a sphere or world viewed as a collection of people.

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Atavistic

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relating to or characterized by reversion to something ancient or ancestral.

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Deracinate

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uproot (someone) from their natural geographical, social, or cultural environment.

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Parsimonious

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stingy, miserly; meager, poor, small

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Menagerie

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collection of animals, or a strange or diverse collection of people or things.

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Retinue

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a group of advisers, assistants, or others accompanying an important person

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Enfilade

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a volley of gunfire directed along a line from end to end.

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Bivouac

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temporary encampment

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Seance

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a meeting at which people attempt to make contact with the dead, especially through the agency of a medium.

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Aphorism

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a pithy observation that contains a general truth, such as, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”.

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Colonnade

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a row of columns supporting a roof, an entablature, or arcade.

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Procurator

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an agent representing others in a court of law in countries retaining Roman civil law.

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Cavalcade

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a formal procession of people walking, on horseback, or riding in vehicles.

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Anodyne

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not likely to provoke dissent or offense; inoffensive, often deliberately so.

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Inveigh

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speak or write about (something) with great hostility.

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Ineffable

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too great or extreme to be expressed or described in words.

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Plenary

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(of a meeting) to be attended by all participants at a conference or assembly, who otherwise meet in smaller groups, or unqualified; absolute.

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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.

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Besotted

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strongly infatuated, or intoxicated; drunk (archaic)

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Belletrist

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a person who writes essays, particularly on literary and artistic criticism, that are composed and read primarily for their aesthetic effect.

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Omnium gatherum

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a collection of miscellaneous people or things.

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Usury

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the illegal action or practice of lending money at unreasonably high rates of interest.

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Cordon

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prevent access to or from an area or building by surrounding it with police or other guards.

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Emendation

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the process of making a revision or correction to a text.

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