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Compendium

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Collection of concise but detailed info

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Curtail

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reduce in extent or quantity; impose a restriction

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Asperity

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harshness of tone or manner

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Salubrious

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health-giving; healthy

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Intractable

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hard to control or deal with, difficult, stubborn

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Exculpate

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Declare that someone is not guilty

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Expiate

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Atone for sins

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Jocular

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They like to joke, humorous, playful

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Facetious

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treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor; flippant

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Enjoin

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Instruct or urge someone to do something

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diffidence

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modesty or shyness resulting from a lack of self confidence

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injudicious

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poor judgment; unwise

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volubility

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talkativeness

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prolixity

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unnecessarily or tediously wordy

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impetuous

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impulsive; acting quickly or without care; moving rapidly

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prodigality

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spending money w/o restraint

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pellucidity

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easy to understand; translucent

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prosaic

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lacking poetic beauty; commonplace/ unromantic

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vociferous

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vehement

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restive

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unable to keep still; becoming increasingly difficult to control because of impatience, dissatisfaction, or boredom

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indecorous

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improper

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circumscribed

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restricted within limits

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probity

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quality of having strong moral principles; honesty or decency

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disapprobation

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strong disapproval, typically on moral grounds

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acquisitive

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excessively interested in acquiring money or material things

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illiberal

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opposed to liberal principles; restricting freedom of thought or behavior

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tendentious

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tendency to promote a particular, biased point of view

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fractiousness

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unruly, quarelsome, peevish

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inimical

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unfriendly, hostile

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diffuse

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spread over a large area

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paucity

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scarcity; presence of something only in small or insufficient quantities

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credulous

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overly ready to believe something; gullible

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martinet

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strict disciplinarian

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dissembler

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pretending to believe something to hide their true feelings

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ascetic

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someone who practices strict self-discipline and abstention

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sophist

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a person who reasons with clever but fallacious arguments

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pastiche

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imitating that of another work/ artist/ and or period. like parody, but it celebrates instead of mocks.

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spurn

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reject with disdain or contempt

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flout

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openly disregard

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germane

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relevant

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spurious

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false/ bogus

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moribund

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a person at the point of death. something in terminal decline, lacking vitality and rigor (like the moribund S&P500)

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ideologue

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an uncompromising and dogmatic adherent of an ideology

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immured in

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enclose or confine (someone) against their will

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indemnify

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compensate (someone) for harm or loss ; to protect (someone) by promising to pay for the cost of possible future damage, loss, or injury

“the amount of insurance that may be carried to indemnify the owner in the event of a loss”

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antimonian

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relating to the view that Christians are released by grace from the obligation of observing the moral law

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venal

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corrupt; showing or motivated by susceptibility to bribery

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latitude

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scope for freedom of action or thought

“journalists have considerable latitude in criticizing public figures”

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normative

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a standard or norm, especially of behavior

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equivocal

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open to more than one interpretation; ambiguous

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debased

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reduced in quality or value

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recrudescent

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a new outbreak after a period of abatement or inactivity : renewal a recrudescence of the symptoms a recrudescence of guerrilla warfare

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florid

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having a red or flushed complexion OR elaborately or excessively intricate or complicated

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inveigle

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persuade (someone) to do something by means of deception or flattery

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calumny

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a false and slanderous statement

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prevarication

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to deviate from the truth; equivocate.

Some common synonyms of prevaricate are equivocate, fib, lie, and palter. While all these words mean “to tell an untruth,” prevaricate softens the bluntness of lie by implying quibbling or confusing the issue

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equivocate

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use ambiguous language so as to conceal the truth or avoid committing oneself

““Not that we are aware of,” she equivocated”

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mendacity

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untruthfulness

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modish

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conforming to or following what is currently popular and fashionable

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notwithstanding

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in spite of

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inductive

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observations are synthesized to come up with a general principle (contrast: deductive - reasoning from one or more statements to come up with a logical conclusion)

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valedictory

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a farewell address

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encomiastic

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formally praising; eulogistic

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excoriate

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censure or criticize severely

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querulous

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complaining in a petulant or whining manner

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pugnacity

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readiness to quarrel or fight

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prudence

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1 : the ability to govern and discipline oneself by the use of reason. 2 : sagacity or shrewdness in the management of affairs. 3 : skill and good judgment in the use of resources. 4 : caution or circumspection as to danger or risk.

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tractable

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opposite of intractable. easy to control or influence

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apace

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swiftly; quickly

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countenance

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a person’s face
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admit as acceptable or possible

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mainstay

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a person or thing on which something else is based or depends

“farming is the mainstay of the rural economy”

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munificent

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larger or more generous than is usual or necessary

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dudgeon

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a feeling of offense or deep resentment

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pique

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stimulate (interest or curiosity)
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feel irritated or resentful

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umbrage

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offense or annoyance

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waspish

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readily expressing anger or irritation

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novitiate

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being a novice, especially in religion

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proselyte

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someone who has converted from one opinion, religion, or party to another

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tyro

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a beginner or novice

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buregoning

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beginning to grow or increase rapidly; flourishing

“manufacturers are eager to cash in on the burgeoning demand”

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callow

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inexperienced and immature

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inchoate

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just begun and so not fully formed or developed

“an inchoate democracy”

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incipient

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in an initial stage; beginning to happen or develop

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acerbic

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sharp and forthright

“his acerbic wit”

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acidulous

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share-tasting; sour

(of a person’s remarks or tone) - bitter; cutting

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mordacious

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biting sarcasm

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invective

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insulting, abusive, or highly critical language

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mordant

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sharp/ critical/ biting sense of humor

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trenchant

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vigorous or incisive in expression or style

“she heard angry voices, not loud, yet certainly trenchant”

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insipid

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lacking flavor, vigor, or interest

“many artists continued to churn out insipid, shallow works”

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quotidian

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ordinary or everyday, especially when mundane

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iniquity

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immoral or grossly unfair behavior

“a den of iniquity”

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reprobate

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unprincipled (often used humorously or affectionately)

“a long-missed old reprobate drinking comrade”

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turpitude

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depravity; wickedness

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mercurial

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a person subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind

“his mercurial temperament”

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facsimile

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an exact copy, especially of written or printed material

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factitious

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artificially created or developed

“a largely factitious identity”

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aspersion

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an attack on the reputation or integrity of someone or something

“I don’t think anyone is casting aspersions on you”

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castigate

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reprimand severely

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gainsay

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deny or contradict (a fact or statement)

“the impact of the railroads cannot be gainsaid”

101
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impugn

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dispute the truth, validity, or honesty of (a statement or motive); call into question

“the father does not impugn her capacity as a good mother”

102
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inveigh

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speak or write about (something) with great hostility

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objurgate

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rebuke severely; scold

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obloquy

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strong public criticism or verbal abuse.
“he endured years of contempt and obloquy”

disgrace, especially that brought about by public abuse.
“conduct to which no more obloquy could reasonably attach”

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opprobrium

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harsh criticism or censure
“his films and the critical opprobrium they have generated”

the public disgrace arising from someone’s shameful conduct.
“the opprobrium of being closely associated with thugs and gangsters”

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pillory

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attack or ridicule publicly

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remonstrate

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make a forcefully reproachful protest

“he turned angrily to remonstrate with Tommy”

108
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reprove

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reprimand or censure (someone)

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vituperate

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blame or insult someone in strong or violent language

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dolorous

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feeling or expressing great sorrow or distress

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obsequies

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funeral rites

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sepulchral

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relating to a tomb
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gloomy; dismal

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abnegate

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renounce or reject (something desired or valuable).

“he attempts to abnegate personal responsibility”

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peremptory

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not open to appeal or challenge; final.

insisting on immediate attention or obedience, especially in a brusquely imperious way.
““Just do it!” came the peremptory reply”

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bemuse

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puzzle, confuse, or bewilder someone

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recondite

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little known; abstruse

“the book is full of recondite information”

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abstruse

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difficult to understand; obscure

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turbid

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confused or obscure in meaning or effect

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invidious

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unfairly discriminating; unjust. likely to arouse or incur resentment or anger in others.
“it seems invidious to make special mention of one aspect of his work”

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noisome

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having an extremely offensive smell

disagreeable unpleasant (“noisome scandals”)

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rebarbative

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unattractive and objectionable

“rebarbative modern buildings”

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compunction

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a feeling of guilt or moral scruple that prevents or follows the doing of something bad.
“spend the money without compunction”

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foible

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a minor weakness or eccentricity in someone’s character

“they have to tolerate each other’s little foibles”

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gaucherie

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awkward, embarrassing, or unsophisticated ways.

“she had long since gotten over gaucheries such as blushing”

125
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apocryphal

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of doubtful authenticity, although widely circulated as being true

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canard

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an unfounded rumor or story

127
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dissemble

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conceal one’s true motives, feelings, or beliefs

128
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equivocate

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concealing truth with ambiguous language

““Not that we are aware of,” she equivocated”

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prevaricate

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speak or act in an evasive way.

“he seemed to prevaricate when journalists asked pointed questions”

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specious

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superficially plausible, but actually wrong.

“a specious argument”

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consanguine

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people descended from the same ancestor

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distaff

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of or concerning women

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endogamous

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marriage within a specific group as required by custom or law. characteristic of aristocracies, religions, and ethnic minorities

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scion

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a person who was born into a rich, famous, or important family
He’s a scion of a powerful family.

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palliate

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allay or moderate. make (a disease or its symptoms) less severe or unpleasant without removing the cause.

“this eliminated, or at least palliated, suspicions aroused by German unity”

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gibe

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an insulting or mocking remark; a taunt.

“a gibe at his old rivals”

137
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raillery

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good-humored teasing.

“she was greeted with raillery from her fellow workers”

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riposte

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a quick, clever reply to an insult or criticism.

139
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interregnum

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a period when normal government is suspended, especially between successive reigns or regimes.
an interval or pause between two periods of office or other things.
“the interregnum between the discovery of radioactivity and its detailed understanding”

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unstinting

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given or giving without restraint; unsparing.

“he was unstinting in his praise”

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penurious

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extremely poor; poverty-stricken.
“a penurious old tramp”

parsimonious; mean.
“a tight-fisted, penurious boss whose wage scale is well below other bandleaders”

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rapacious

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aggressively greedy or grasping.

“rapacious landlords”

143
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venal

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showing or motivated by susceptibility to bribery.

“their generosity had been at least partly venal”

144
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fell

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of terrible evil

145
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mordant

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(especially of humor) having or showing a sharp or critical quality; biting.
“a mordant sense of humor”

146
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truculent

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eager or quick to argue or fight; aggressively defiant`

147
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vituperation

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bitter and abusive language

“no one else attracted such vituperation from him”

148
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baleful

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threatening harm; menacing

“shooting baleful looks”

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baneful

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harmful or destructive

“the baneful effects of envy and jealousy”

150
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deleterious, injurious

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causing harm or damage

“divorce is assumed to have deleterious effects on children”

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pernicious

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harmful, especially in a gradual or subtle way

“the pernicious influences of the mass media”

152
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strident

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loud and harsh; grating.

“his voice had become increasingly sharp, almost strident”

153
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minatory

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expressing or conveying a threat.

“he is unlikely to be deterred by minatory finger-wagging”

154
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perfidious

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deceitful and untrustworthy.

“a perfidious lover”

155
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anathema

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something or someone that one vehemently dislikes.

“racial hatred was anathema to her”

156
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antipathy

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a deep-seated feeling of dislike; aversion.

“his fundamental antipathy to capitalism”

157
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enmity

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the state or feeling of being actively opposed or hostile to someone or something.
“decades of enmity between the two countries”

158
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odium

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general or widespread hatred or disgust directed toward someone as a result of their actions.
“his job had made him the target of public hostility and odium”

159
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salutary

A

(especially with reference to something unwelcome or unpleasant) producing good effects; beneficial.
“a salutary reminder of where we came from”

160
Q

dither

A

be indecisive.

“he was dithering about the election date”

161
Q

antithetical

A

directly opposed or contrasted; mutually incompatible.

“people whose religious beliefs are antithetical to mine”

162
Q

churlish

A

rude in a mean-spirited and surly way.

“it seems churlish to complain”

163
Q

curmudgeon

A

a bad-tempered person, especially an old one.

164
Q

fulsome

A

complimentary or flattering to an excessive degree.

“they are almost embarrassingly fulsome in their appreciation”

165
Q

unctuous

A

excessively or ingratiatingly flattering; oily.

“he seemed anxious to please but not in an unctuous way”

166
Q

assay

A

attempt.

“I assayed a little joke of mine on him”

167
Q

descry

A

catch sight of.

“she descried two figures”

168
Q

peruse

A

read (something), typically in a thorough or careful way.
“he has spent countless hours in libraries perusing art history books and catalogues”

examine carefully or at length.
“Laura perused a Caravaggio”

169
Q

phlegmatic

A

having an unemotional and stolidly calm disposition.

“the phlegmatic British character”

170
Q

quiescent

A

in a state or period of inactivity or dormancy.

“strikes were headed by groups of workers who had previously been quiescent”

171
Q

torpid

A

mentally or physically inactive; lethargic.

“we sat around in a torpid state”

172
Q

propitiate

A

win or regain the favor of (a god, spirit, or person) by doing something that pleases them.
“the pagans thought it was important to propitiate the gods with sacrifices”

173
Q

propitious

A

giving or indicating a good chance of success; favorable.

“the timing for such a meeting seemed propitious”

174
Q

cavil

A

make petty or unnecessary objections.

“they caviled at the cost”

175
Q

exhort

A

strongly encourage or urge (someone) to do something.

““Come on, you guys,” exhorted Linda”

176
Q

obviate

A

remove (a need or difficulty).
“the Venetian blinds obviated the need for curtains”

avoid; prevent.
“a parachute can be used to obviate disaster”

177
Q

aplomb

A

self-confidence or assurance, especially when in a demanding situation.
“Diana passed the test with aplomb”

178
Q

magnanimity

A

generosity

179
Q

askance

A

with an attitude or look of suspicion or disapproval.

“the reformers looked askance at the mystical tradition”

180
Q

reproof

A

an expression of blame or disapproval.

“she welcomed him with a mild reproof for leaving her alone”

181
Q

carom

A

to strike and rebound (the car caromed off a tree)

182
Q

bombastic

A

high-sounding but with little meaning; inflated.

“bombastic rhetoric”

183
Q

garrulous

A

excessively talkative, especially on trivial matters.

“Polonius is portrayed as a foolish, garrulous old man”

184
Q

grandiloquent

A

pompous or extravagant in language, style, or manner, especially in a way that is intended to impress.
“a grandiloquent celebration of Spanish glory”

185
Q

periphrastic

A

(of speech or writing) indirect and circumlocutory.

“the periphrastic nature of legal syntax”

186
Q

prolix

A

(of speech or writing) using or containing too many words; tediously lengthy.
“he found the narrative too prolix and discursive”

187
Q

turgid

A

swollen and distended or congested.
“a turgid and fast-moving river”

(of language or style) tediously pompous or bombastic.
“some turgid verses on the death of Prince Albert”

188
Q

esurient

A

hungry or greedy.

189
Q

impecunious

A

having little or no money.

“a titled but impecunious family”

190
Q

indigent

A

poor; needy.

“a charity for the relief of indigent artists”

191
Q

aggrandize

A

increase the power, status, or wealth of.
“an action intended to aggrandize the Frankish dynasty”

enhance the reputation of (someone) beyond what is justified by the facts.
“he hoped to aggrandize himself by dying a hero’s death”

192
Q

encomium

A

a speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly.

193
Q

augur

A

(of an event or circumstance) portend a good or bad outcome.

“the end of the cold war seemed to augur well”

194
Q

fey

A

giving an impression of vague unworldliness.

“his mother was a strange, fey woman”

195
Q

prognosticate

A

foretell or prophesy (an event in the future).

“the economists were prognosticating financial Armageddon”

196
Q

forfend

A

avert, keep away, or prevent (something evil or unpleasant).
““The fiend forfend” said the grim Earl”

protect (something) by precautionary measures.
“the sacrifice of Mississippi was forfended against even the treason of Wilkinson”

197
Q

perspicacious

A

having a ready insight into and understanding of things.

“it offers quite a few facts to the perspicacious reporter”

198
Q

dolor

A

a state of great sorrow or distress.

“they squatted, hunched in their habitual dolor”

199
Q

plaintive

A

sounding sad and mournful.

“a plaintive cry”

200
Q

threnody

A

a lament.

“a brooding threnody to urban desolation”

201
Q

intransigent

A

unwilling or refusing to change one’s views or to agree about something.
“her father had tried persuasion, but she was intransigent”

202
Q

obdurate

A

stubbornly refusing to change one’s opinion or course of action.
“I argued this point with him, but he was obdurate”

203
Q

refractory

A

stubborn or unmanageable.

“his refractory pony”

204
Q

renitent

A

resisting physical pressure; resisting constraint; recalcitrant

205
Q

untoward

A

unexpected and inappropriate or inconvenient.

“both tried to behave as if nothing untoward had happened”

206
Q

compendious

A

containing or presenting the essential facts of something in a comprehensive but concise way.
“a compendious study”

207
Q

antecede

A

to go before in time

208
Q

diurnal

A

of or during the day

daily; of each day (diurnal rhythms)

209
Q

penultimate

A

second to last

210
Q

craven

A

contemptibly lacking in courage; cowardly.

“a craven abdication of his moral duty”

211
Q

pusillanimous

A

showing a lack of courage or determination; timid.

212
Q

recreant

A

cowardly.
“what a recreant figure must he make”
2.
unfaithful to a belief; apostate.

213
Q

apostate

A

a person who renounces a religious or political belief or principle.
“after fifty years as an apostate he returned to the faith”
Similar:
dissenter
heretic
nonconformist

214
Q

timorous

A

showing or suffering from nervousness, fear, or a lack of confidence.
“a timorous voice”

215
Q

peripatetic

A

traveling from place to place, in particular working or based in various places for relatively short periods.
“the peripatetic nature of military life”

a person who travels from place to place.
“peripatetics have been cut under local management of schools”

216
Q

discursive

A

digressing from subject to subject.

“students often write dull, secondhand, discursive prose”

217
Q

expatiate

A 
speak or write at length or in detail.
"she expatiated on working-class novelists"
218
Q

itinerant

A

traveling from place to place.

“itinerant traders”

219
Q

peregrination

A

a journey, especially a long or meandering one.

“she kept Aunt Ilsa company on her peregrinations”

220
Q

enervate

A

cause (someone) to feel drained of energy or vitality; weaken.
“the heat enervated us all”

221
Q

stultify

A

tending to stifle enthusiasm, initiative, or freedom of action.
“the corporate environment, with its relentless emphasis on results, has become stultifying”

222
Q

vitiate

A

spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of.

“development programs have been vitiated by the rise in population”

223
Q

apothegm

A

a concise saying or maxim; an aphorism.

“the apothegm “tomorrow is another day””

224
Q

axiom

A

a statement or proposition which is regarded as being established, accepted, or self-evidently true.
“the axiom that supply equals demand”

225
Q

bromide

A

a trite and unoriginal idea or remark, typically intended to soothe or placate.
“feel-good bromides create the illusion of problem solving”

226
Q

epigram

A

a pithy saying or remark expressing an idea in a clever and amusing way.
“a Wildean epigram”

227
Q

sententious

A

given to moralizing in a pompous or affected manner.

“he tried to encourage his men with sententious rhetoric”

228
Q

truism

A

a statement that is obviously true and says nothing new or interesting.
“the truism that you get what you pay for”

229
Q

aphorism

A

1 : a concise statement of a principle. 2 : a terse formulation of a truth or sentiment : adage the high-minded aphorism, “Let us value the quality of life, not the quantity”

230
Q

abeyance

A

a state of temporary disuse or suspension.

“matters were held in abeyance pending further inquiries”

231
Q

abjure

A 
solemnly renounce (a belief, cause, or claim).
"his refusal to abjure the Catholic faith"
232
Q

abnegation

A

the act of renouncing or rejecting something.
“abnegation of political lawmaking power”

self-denial.
“people are capable of abnegation and unselfishness”

233
Q

abrogate

A

repeal or do away with (a law, right, or formal agreement).
“a proposal to abrogate temporarily the right to strike”

evade (a responsibility or duty).
“we believe the board is abrogating its responsibilities to its shareholders”

234
Q

abortive

A

failing to produce the intended result.

235
Q

recant

A

say that one no longer holds an opinion or belief, especially one considered heretical.
“heretics were burned if they would not recant”

236
Q

recidivism

A

the tendency of a convicted criminal to reoffend.

“the prison has succeeded in reducing recidivism”

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