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Effulgent

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Brilliant; sparkling; shining brilliantly

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Chaff

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The worthless product of an activity

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Posterity

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Future generations

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Vignette

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A small sketch

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Appellation

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A name, title, or designation; a sobriquet

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Putrefaction

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Becoming rotten

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Garner

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To gather or deposit in or as if in a granary or other storage place

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Cavalcade

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A procession of vehicles

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Conspicuous

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Standing out so as to be seen clearly

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Dissipated

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Indulging in excessive devotion to pleasure; hedonistic

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Cryptonym

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A secret word; a code word

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Quarry

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To dig into; to inquire; to bore into

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Scrupulous

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Diligent, thorough, and extremely attentive to details

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Mordant

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(Especially of humor) Having or showing a sharp or critical quality; biting

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Diffident

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Lacking confidence; timid, shy

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Acidulous

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Sour in attitude; sharp; bitter

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Multiplicity

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A large number, composed of many varieties

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Glean

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To extract (info) from various sources

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Ablution

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A washing, usually referring to the cleaning of ritual items

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Usury

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Lending money at high interest rates

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Doleful

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Sorrowful, melancholy

Syn: dolorous, lugubrious, plaintive, forlorn

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Hew

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To make, shape, smooth, etc with cutting blows; to cut down

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Abjure

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To renounce; to swear to refrain from something

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Exposition

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A clear explanation

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Scuttle

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To run hurriedly or furtively with short quick steps

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Loll

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To run, sit, or stand in a lazy way

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Hortatory

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Tending or aiming to exhort

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Reproof

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Scolding; criticism

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Abide

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(Without object) To remain; continue; stay

(With object) To put up with; to tolerate

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Fustian

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Pompous or bombastic, as language

Syn: arrogant, highfalutin, ostentatious; portentous

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Frangible

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Fragile; brittle

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Pique

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  1. Annoyance

2. To stimulate interest; to annoy

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Magniloquent

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Boastful; pompous

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Hamper

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Hinder; obstruct

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Rubicund

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(Especially of someone’s face) Having a ruddy complexion; high-colored

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Palpable

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Readily or plainly seen, heard, perceived, etc.; obvious, evident

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Epigram

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A witty saying

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Aubade

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A song sung at dawn, greeting the morning

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Glutinous

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Like glue in texture; sticky

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Balderdash

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Nonsense; illogical talk or reasoning

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Jocund

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Merry; happy

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Pedigree

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Ancestry; lineage

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Epistemologist

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A person concerned with the study of knowledge

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Magisterial

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Authoritative; imperious; commanding

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Abash

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To embarrass

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Insidious

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Treacherous and stealthy; sly

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Specious

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Superficially plausible, but actually wrong

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Hoary

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Old

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Inimical

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  1. Tending to obstruct or harm

2. Hostile, unfriendly

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Equable

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Free from many changes or variations; uniform

Syn: consistent, constant

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Verve

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Enthusiasm or vigor

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Ferret

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To search about

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Droll

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Dryly amusing

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Effete

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  1. Lacking in wholesome vigor; degenerate, decadent

2. Exhausted of vigor or energy

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Circumlocution

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The use of many words when fewer would suffice, especially to be vague or evasive

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Aegis

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A shield; protection; a defense

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Scintillate

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To sparkle; to glitter; to flash

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Espy

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To catch sight of

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Retrodict

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To explain or predict a past event using knowledge about the present

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