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1
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Belie

A

to give a false impression or misrepresentation

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2
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Diatribe

A

harsh denunciation

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3
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Discomfit

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to defeat, to put down

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4
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Dissemble

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disguise or conceal, to mislead

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5
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Irascible

A

easily angered, prone to temperamental outbursts

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6
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Misanthrope

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one who hates all other humans

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7
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Obdurate

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unyielding, hardhearted, intractable

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Opprobrium

A

disgrace, scorn, contempt

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Recalcitrant

A

obstinately defiant of authority, difficult to manage

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10
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Specious

A

seeming to be true, but actually fallacious, misleadingly attractive

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11
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Enervate

A

to weaken, to reduce in vitality

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12
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Inchoate

A

in an initial stage, not fully formed

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13
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Obviate

A

to anticipate and make unnecessary

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14
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Iconoclastic

A

attacking cherished beliefs, heretical, heterodox

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15
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Approbation

A

approval or praise

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16
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Aver

A

to state as a fact

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17
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Equivocate

A

to use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent

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18
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Laconic

A

using few words, terse

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19
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Propitiate

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to appease, to conciliate

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20
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Nonplussed

A

baffled, in a quandary

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21
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Probity

A

adherence to the highest principles, uprightness

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22
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Table

A

to remove from consideration (as in parliamentary bill)

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23
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Abscission

A

the act of cutting off or removing

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24
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Acarpous

A

effete, no longer fertile, worn out

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25
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Adumbrate

A

to foreshadow or intimate, to suggest sketchily, to obscure

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26
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Anodyne

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soothing, something that assuages or allays pain or comforts

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27
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Apotheosis

A

deification, glorification to godliness

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Apposite

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appropriate, pertinent, relevant, apropos

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Arrant

30
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Asseverate

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to allege, to assert, to aver

31
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Aver

A

to affirm, to assert, to prove, to justify

32
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Baleful

A

sinister, ominous

33
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Bedizen

A

to adorn, especially in a cheap showy manner, to festoon

34
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Cachinnate

A

to laugh loudly

35
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Cadge

A

to sponge or mooch

36
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Caparison

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to adorn or bedizen

37
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Captious

A

calculated to confuse or entrap in an argument, hypercritical, caviling

38
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Cavil

A

to find fault without good reason

39
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Contemn

A

scorn or despise

40
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Contumacious

A

insubordinate, rebellious

41
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Cozen

A

to deceive, beguile or hoodwink

42
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Defalcate

A

to embezzle or misappropriate

43
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Descant

A

comment at length

44
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Disuetude

45
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Desultory

A

random, thoughtless, marked by a lack of plan or purpose

46
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Distrait

A

distracted, absent minded especially due to anxiety

47
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Doggerel

A

trivial, poorly constructed verse

48
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Edacious

A

voracious person

49
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Encomium

A

glowing or enthusiastic praise, tribute, eulogy

50
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Expatiate

A

to descant, to discourse, to discuss or write at length

51
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Froward

A

intractable, not willing to yield or comply, recalcitrant

52
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Gainsay

A

deny or dispute

53
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Harrow

A

to distress, or create stress, to torment

54
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Hirsute

A

shaggy, hairy

55
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Homiletics

A

the art of preaching

56
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Ineluctable

A

certain, inevitable

57
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Interdict

A

to forbid, to ban, to halt

58
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Jejeune

A

vapid, uninteresting, immature, puerile

59
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Lachrymose

A

causing tears, tearful

60
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Limn

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to draw, to outline in detail, to describe

61
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Lubricious

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lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery

62
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Maculate

A

marked with splotches, besmirched, impure

63
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Maunder

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to digress, to meander, to stray from

64
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Meretricious

A

cheap, gaudy, tawdry

65
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Minatory

A

threatening, menacing

66
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Nostrum

A

panacea, cure-all, placebo

67
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Nugatory

A

trifling, inconsequential

68
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Obloquy

A

abusively detractive language, sharp criticism, calumny

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