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Bevy

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A large group

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Bilk

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To steak; to embezzle

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Boor

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A rude person

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Acme

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High point; zenith

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Windfall

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1 : something (as a tree or fruit) blown down by the wind

2 : an unexpected, unearned, or sudden gain or advantage

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Fawn

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To flatter subserviently

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Gait

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A manner or rate of walking

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Glib

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Easeful w speaking, storytelling

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Glut

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To oversupply; to stuff

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Hail

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To praise

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Hale

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Healthy

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Iota

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A very small amount

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Onus

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A duty or burden

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Opus

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A great work, esp of music

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Tout

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To flaunt

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Tyro

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A beginner, a neophyte, a fledgling

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Whet

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To sharpen; to stimulate an interest in

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Wily

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Crafty, sly

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Alacrity

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Cheerful readiness

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Aphorism

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A wise saying; an adage; a maxim

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Appropriate

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To take another’s property as one’s own

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Asylum

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A safe place to practice one’s religion or follow one’s convictions

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Auspicious

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Foretelling well for the future

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Avant-garde

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Cutting-edge; new; experimental

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Behemoth

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A huge animal; sth of great size or power

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Bequest

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A gift upon one’s death

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Breadth

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Range or scope

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Bungle

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To botch; to mess up

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Byzantine

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Ornate; fancy

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Chagrin

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Embarrassment

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Circumscribed

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Defined or limited; isolated

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Constituents

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Voters

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Consummate

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Complete; perfect

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Curtail

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To cut short; abridge

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Debased

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Morally low; base

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Decorous

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Having propriety

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Denuded

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Made infertile or ineffective

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Desultory

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Aimless; lacking a plan or purpose

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Didactic

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Relating to instruction, lecturing

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Dilatory

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Lacking goals of purpose; aimless

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Din

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Noise

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Dirge

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Funeral song

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Discomfited

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Embarrassed; disconcerted

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Discretionary

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Showing prudence; based on personal choice

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Disingenuous

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Dishonest; crafty

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Disposed

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Behaviorally inclined

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Edifice

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A building

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Egregious

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Blatantly wrong

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Emollient

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A soothing lotion

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Enervate

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To weaken; to drain of energy

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Enfranchise

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To free from slavery; to bestow the right to vote

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Espouse

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To support

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Expurgate

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To delete obscene or other undesirable material from text

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Facile

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Easy

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Felicitous

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Suitable; pleasant

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Galvanize

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To incite; to arouse into action

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Gaunt

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Thin; haggard

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Gingerly

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Carefully

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Hapless

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Unlucky; unfortunate

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Harbringer

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A messenger; an omen

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Hermetic

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Sealed in an airtight manner

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Histrionic

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Over theatrical; melodramatic

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Incantation

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A calling out for inspiration or guidance; an invocation

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Inchoate

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Not fully formed

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Incisive

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Harsh; cutting; vitriolic

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Incumbent

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One who holds political office

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Indelible

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Permanent; unable to be erased

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Ineffable

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Incapable of expression in words

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Inexorable

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Steadfast; resolute

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Inflammatory

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Likely to excite rage or disorder

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Insular

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Isolated; remote

ignorant of or uninterested in cultures, ideas, or peoples outside one’s own experience.
“a stubbornly insular farming people”

Relating to or from an island

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Interlocutor

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One who participates in conversation or dialogue

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Intractable

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Hard to manage or control

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Jaded

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Bored from too much pleasure or overindulgence

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Jingoism

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Aggressive touting of one’s patriotism

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Juggernaut

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Relentless force

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Juxtapose

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To place things side by side for the sake of comparing

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Legion

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A very large number

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Licentious

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Morally lax

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Leviathan

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Something huge; a subaquatic, mythological sea creature

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Melee

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A hand-to-hand fight involving several participants

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Milieu

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Environment

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Myopic

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Short-sighted

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Naivete

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Lack of exp or sophistication

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Nihilism

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A philosophical belief involving the rejection of established valued and morality

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Nondescript

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Hard to describe; featureless

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Nonplussed

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Confused to the point of being unable to act or speak

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Obfuscate

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To obscure the meaning of

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Oblique

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Indirect; slanted

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Onerous

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Burdensome

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Opprobrium

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Disgrace, disapproval

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Ostensible

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Apparent

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Panacea

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A cure-all

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Partisan

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Biased; opinionated

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Pedantic

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Narrowly or pretentiously learned

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Perfidious

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Traitorous; disloyal

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Petulant

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Irritable

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Plaudits

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Applause; praise

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Pontificate

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To speak in a supercilious and self-important manner

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Pragmatist

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A practical person

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Precept

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A rule of behavior or action

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Precipitate

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To hurry up; to make happen before planned

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Prescience

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Advance knowledge; foresight; anticipation

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Probity

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Honesty; integrity

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Profligate

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Extravagant to a fault; prodigal

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Proliferate

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To reproduce or multiply quickly

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Prose

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Writing that is not poetry; language ordinarily used in speaking

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Prowess

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Valor; skill

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Pundits

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Erudite persons

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Quibble

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To find fault with

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Refracftory

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Stubborn

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Relegate

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To demote to an inferior position

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Reprehensible

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Worthy of blame

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Rescind

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To take back, to withdraw

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Retrograde

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Going backward and therefore not progressing

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Sanctimonious

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Pretending to be religious

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Sanction

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To approve

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Scrupulous

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Very conscientious

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Sophistry

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Deceptive thinking; invalid arguments

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Spate

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An outpouring

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Specious

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False, not authentic; spurious

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Steadfastness

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Loyalty, resolve

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Subterfuge

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Deception

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Supplant

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To replace; to substitute for

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Surfeit

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A surplus

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Sybarite

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A pleasure-loving person

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Table(v)

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To set aside an issue to be discussed at a later time

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Tawdry

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Cheap-looking; gaudy

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Temerity

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Reckless boldness

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Temper (v)

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To lessen the severity of

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Threadbare

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Very worn; shabby

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Perfidy

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Treachery

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Unctuous

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Inky, oily

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Untenable

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Unable to be defended

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Upstary

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A rebel, an insurgent; a maverick

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Vaunt

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To brag or boast

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Venial

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Forgivable

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Verisimilitude

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Probability; sth that has the appearance of truth

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Vestigial

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Extremely small

140
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Victuals

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Food

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Vignette

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A brief written description

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Virile

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Manly, strong

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Visceral

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Relating to the abdomen,; instinctive rather than reasoned

144
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Vitiate

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To impair; to render ineffective

145
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Vitriolic

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Harsh, biting, caustic

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Vocation

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A profession to which one feels called to carry out

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Watershed

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A defining moment; a turning point

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Waylay

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To ambush

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Wheedle

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To cajole or coax

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Wily

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Sly

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Windfall

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An unexpected gain or boon

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Winsome

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Attractive

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Witticism

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A clever remark

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Xenophobic

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Fearful of foreigners

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Zephyr

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A light breeze

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Obsequious

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: marked by or exhibiting a fawning attentiveness

synonyms see subservient

SAT Encountered vocab (3 decks)

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