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Aberration

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A departure from what is normal, usual, or expected.

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Elucidation

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Explanation that makes something clear; clarification

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Peregrination

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Travel or wander around from place to place.

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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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Mendacious

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Not telling the truth; lying

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Flippant

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Not showing a serious or respectful attitude.

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Abjure

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Renounced (a belief, cause, or claim)

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Vexation

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The state of being annoyed, frustrated, or worried.

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Languidly

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Lazily, slow and relaxed

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Surreptitiously

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Secretly

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Incisive

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Clear and direct

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Capricious

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Erratic

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Discriminating

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Astute, showing good judgement

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Credulous

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Gullible

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Hallowed

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Holly

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Vindication

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Clear someone of blame or suspicion

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Umbrage

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Offense or annoyance

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Lugubrious

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Depressive, looking or sounding sad and dismal

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Ersatz

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Substitute

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Semblance

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Appearance

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Foible

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Quirk

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Deference

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Humble submission or yielding

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Obviate

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Prevent, preclude

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Presage

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Predict

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Specious

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Fallacious, false

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Pellucid

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Easy to understand

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Incipient

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Just beginning, in an initial stage

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Venerate

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Revere, respect

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Exploit

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Utilize, use

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Adulterate

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Weaken or contaminate

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Reprehend

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Criticize, reprimand

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Prosaic

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Commonplace, lacking poetic beauty

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Vituperate

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Speak abusively

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Buffeting

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To strike against forcefully

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Contrite

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Feeling or expressing remorse; affected by guilt

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Cynical

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Distrustful

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Pompously

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Arrogantly

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Insurgent

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Rebellious, mutinous

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Erudite

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Learned, scholarly

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Impecunious

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Penniless

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Abiding

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Enduring, continue without change

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Innocuous

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Harmless

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Ephemeral

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Short-lived

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Capitulate

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Accept defeat

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Castigate

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Criticize severely

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Indomitable

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Difficult to beat or subdue

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Noisome

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Putrid, rotten

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Savory

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Appetizing

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Trite

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Cliche, worn out

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Antithetical

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Opposite

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Anachronistic

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Belonging to another time

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Proliferation

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Fast increase

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Abatement

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Cutting down

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Precipitous

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Fast and unexpected

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Apostate

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Traitorous

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Liminal

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On the edge or at the point where one thing crosses into the other

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Row

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Fight

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Fracas

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A noisy disturbance or quarrel

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Accord

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Harmony

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Chasm

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Gap, gaping hole, or interruption

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Panacea

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Cure-all, elixir

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Objectionable

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Offensive

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Equivocal

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Wishy-washy, ambiguous

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Estimable

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Worthy of great respect

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Piquant

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Provocative, striking

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Recreant

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Cowardly, unfaithful

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Fastidiously

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Meticulously, very carefully

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Dilatorily

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Causing delay

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Rescind

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Take back

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Audacious

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Bold

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Obstreperous

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Boisterous and defiant

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Cogitation

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Thoughtful consideration

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Clement

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Merciful

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Implacable

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Opposed to someone or something in a very angry or determined way that cannot be changed

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Beneficent

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Compassionate

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Filial

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Of or relating to a son or a daughter, befitting a son or daughter

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Approbation

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Praises

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Decorum

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Behavior in keeping with good taste

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Saccharine

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Sweet

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Astringent

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Sharp or severe in manner or style. (Of taste or smell) sharp or bitter

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Exultant

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Rapturous, extremely happy

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Portent

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Forewarning

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Auguries

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Omen

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Probity

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The quality of having strong moral principles; honesty and decency

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Disabuse

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Persuade (someone) that an idea or belief is mistaken

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Deluge

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A severe flood

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Acerbic

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Sharp and forthright

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Caustic

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Sarcastic in a scathing and bitter way

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Turgid

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Swollen and distended

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Turbid

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Cloudy, opaque, or thick with suspended matter

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Inundate

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Flooded, overwhelmed

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Copiously

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Abundant in supply or quantity

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Enigmatic

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Difficult to interpret or understand

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Cajole

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Persuade someone to do something by coaxing and flattery

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Tepid

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Luke warm; showing little enthusiasm

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Presciently

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Having or showing knowledge of events before they take place

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Providential

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Occurring at a favorable time; opportune

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Inure

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Accustom to sometimes unpleasant

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Coalesce

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Come together and form one mass or whole

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Agglomerated

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Collect or form into a mass or group

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Beguile

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Charm or enchant (someone), sometimes in a deceptive way

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Chary

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Cautiously or suspiciously reluctant to do something

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Complaisant

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Willing to please others

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Puissant

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Having great power or influence

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Verdant

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Green with grass

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Motley

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Incongruously varied in appearance or character

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Convivial

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Cheerful and friendly, lively and friendly

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Sanguinary

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Involving or causing much bloodshed

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Modish

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Conforming to or following what is currently popular and fashionable

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Jejune

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Naive, simplistic, and superficial

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Artifice

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Clever or cunning devices as used to trick or deceive others

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Parsimony

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Extreme unwillingness to spend money or use resources

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Patrimony

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Property inherited from one’s father or male ancestor.

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Besmirch

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Damage the reputation of someone or something in the opinion of others

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Appose

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Place (something) in proximity to something else

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Sangfroid

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Composure or coolness

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Tarry

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Stay longer than intended

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Irascible

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Having or showing a tendency to be easily angered

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Scruple

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A feeling or doubt or hesitation with regard to the morality or propriety of a course of action

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Vitiate

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Spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of

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Derogate from

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Detract from

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Quixotic

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Exceedingly idealistic

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callow

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Inexperienced and immature

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Deft

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Neatly skillful and quick in one’s movement

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Clandestine

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Kept secret or done secretively

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Aspersion

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Malicious lies

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Effete

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No longer capable of effective action

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Abscond

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Leave hurriedly and secretly

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Schew

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Deliberately avoid using

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Fealty

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Vassal’s sworn loyalty to a lord

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Retch

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Make the sound and movement of vomiting

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Peruse

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Read (something), typically in a thorough or careful way

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Glean

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Extract (information) from various sources

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Chide

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Scold or rebuke

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Loaf

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Idle one’s time away

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Specter

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Something widely feared as a possible unpleasant or dangerous occurrence

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Aleatory

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Random

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Explicate

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Analyze and develop (an idea or principle) in detail

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Heuristic

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Enabling a person to discover or learning something for themselves

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Diffident

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Modest or shy because of a lack of self-confidence

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Mordant

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Having or showing a sharp or critical quality

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Quotidian

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Ordinary or everyday

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Costive

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Slow or reluctant in speech or action

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Acerbic

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Sharp and forthright

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Contrived

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Deliberately created rather than arising naturally or spontaneously

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Veracity

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Accuracy

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Sop

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A thing given or done as a concession of no great value to appease someone whose main concerns or demands are not being met

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Rend

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To tear into pieces

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Denigrate

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Criticize unfairly

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Sequela

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A condition that is the consequences of a previous disease or injury

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Specious

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Superficially plausible, but actually wrong

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Spurious

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False or fake

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Callow

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Inexperienced and immature

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Sedulous

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Showing dedication and diligence

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Solemn

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Formal and dignified

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Saturnine

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Slow, gloomy, and sluggish

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Torpid

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Mentally and physically inactive

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Pious

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Making a hypocritical display of virtue

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Penitential

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Expressing voluntary self-punishment inflicted as an outward expression of repentance for having done wrong

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Apocryphal

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Of doubting authenticity

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Appellation

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A name or title

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Sobriquet

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Nickname

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Vacillate

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Alternate or waver between different opinions or actions

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Pine

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Suffer a mental or physical decline, esp because of a broken heart

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Forwent

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Omit and decline to take (something pleasant and valuable)

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Anodyne

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Not likely to provoke dissent or offense

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Gibe

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An insulting or mocking remark

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Panegyrics

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A public speech in praise of someone or something

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Assiduous

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Showing great care and perseverance

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Perfidy

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Deceitfulness; untrustworthy

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Tacit

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Implied

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Extraneous

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Irrelevant to the subject being dealt with

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Flummoxed

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Bewildered or perplexed

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Meretricious

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Apparently attractive but having in reality no value or integrity

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Exculpate

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Show or declare that someone is not guilty of wrongdoing

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Beguile

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Charm or enchant someone, sometimes in a deceptive way

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Sangfroid

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Composure or coolness

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Assuage

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Make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense

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Palliate

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Make (a disease or its symptom) less severe

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Iimpid

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Clear

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Placate

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Make (someone) less angry or hostile

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Mollify

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Appease an anger or anxiety of (someone)

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Aberrant

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Departing from an accepted standard

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Pith

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The essence of something

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Burgeon

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Begin to grow or increase rapidly

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Rue

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Bitterly regret

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Compendious

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Containing or presenting the essential facts in a comprehensive but concise way

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Truculent

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Eager or quick to argue or fight

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Renege

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Go back on a promise

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Abrogate

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Repeal or do away with

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Accord

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Give or grant someone power, status, or recognition

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Improbity

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Wickedness or dishonesty

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Mendacity

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Untruthfulness

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Refulgence

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Shining brightly

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Sedulous

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Showing dedication and diligence

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Beseech

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Ask (someone) urgently and fervently to do something

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Supplicate

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Ask or beg for something earnestly or humbly

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Fastidious

A

Very attentive to and concerned about accuracy and detail

198
Q

Hegemony

A

Leadership or dominance

199
Q

Rejoinder

A

A sharp or witty reply

200
Q

Aver

A

To assert or affirm with confidence

201
Q

Extrapolate

A

To infer (an unknown) from something that is known

202
Q

Contend

A

To struggle in opposition

To strive in rivalry

203
Q

Postulate

A
  1. to ask, demand, or claim.
  2. to claim or assume the existence or truth of, especially as a basis for reasoning or arguing.
  3. to assume without proof, or as self-evident; take for granted.
204
Q

Propound

A

to put forward or offer for consideration, acceptance, or adoption; set forth; propose: to propound a theory.

205
Q

Gossamer

A

Thin or fine

206
Q

Adamantine

A

Very hard; unbreakable

207
Q

Frangible

A

Easy to break; fragile; brittle

208
Q

Forebearance

A

Patience or restraint

209
Q

Quiescence

A

Being at rest

210
Q

Pliable

A

Easily persuaded

211
Q

Capitulate

A

Surrendering or yielding to

212
Q

Extent

A

Existing

213
Q

Amorphous

A

Vague or unorganized

214
Q

Inculate

A

Instill

215
Q

Disparage

A

To mock

216
Q

Ingenuous

A

Honest or straightforward

217
Q

Extolled

A

Praised

218
Q

Soporific

A

Causing sleep or lethargy

219
Q

Assiduity

A

Constant effort

220
Q

Dispassionate

A

Not influenced by strong emotion

221
Q

Impugn

A

Dispute the truth, validity, or honesty of

222
Q

Maligning

A

Slandering or defaming something

223
Q

Macerating

A

To soften something by soaking it

224
Q

Redounding

A

Making someone look good or giving someone credit for something

225
Q

Gratuitous

A

Not justifiable

226
Q

Exorbitant

A

Unreasonable, extravagant

227
Q

Inimical

A

Tending to harm

228
Q

Unpropitious

A

Unfavorable

229
Q

Cohorts

A

An associate

230
Q

Impassioned

A

Emotional

231
Q

Facetious

A

Not meant to be taken serious

232
Q

Abstruse

A

Difficult to understand

233
Q

Derisively

A

Expressing contempt or ridicule

234
Q

Abnegate

A

To renounce

235
Q

Admonish

A

Warn or criticize

236
Q

Galvanize

A

Inspire or rouse

237
Q

Enjoin

A

Direct or order

238
Q

Quixotic

A

Romantically idealistic without regard for practicality

239
Q

Vacuous

A

Inane or empty

240
Q

Puerile

A

Juvenile or childish

241
Q

Inculcate

A

Instill

242
Q

Catechize

A

Teach by questioning

243
Q

Inimitable

A

Unique

244
Q

Callow

A

Inexperienced

245
Q

Exhortation

A

Speech intended to persuade

246
Q

Palliation

A

Apology or excuse

247
Q

Promulgation

A

Announcement

248
Q

Intimation

A

Suggestion

249
Q

Churlish

A

Rude in a mean- spirited and surly way

250
Q

Judicious

A

Cautious

251
Q

Circumspect

A

Prudent

252
Q

Subservient

A

Inferrior

253
Q

Explicate

A

Explain

254
Q

Propitiate

A

Appease

255
Q

Solipsistic

A

Self-involved

256
Q

Tumultuous

A

Disorderly

257
Q

Bourgeois

A

Commonplace

258
Q

Profundity

A

Depth of intensity

259
Q

Levity

A

Lightheartedness or frivolity

260
Q

Mawkish

A

Overly sentimental

261
Q

Taciturn

A

Uncommunicative

262
Q

Avant-garde

A

Daring, cutting edge

263
Q

Sententious

A

Preachy, sanctimonious

264
Q

Bromidic

A

Ordinary or dull

265
Q

Inimical

A

Harmful or unfriendly

266
Q

Epochal

A

Far-reaching, influential

267
Q

Picayune

A

Trivial, insignificant

268
Q

Engendered

A

Brought about or created

269
Q

Flouted

A

Scorned

270
Q

Hedonistic

A

Pleasure seeking

271
Q

Auspicious

A

Conducive to success

272
Q

Propitious

A

Giving or indicating a good chance of success

273
Q

Implausible

A

Failing to convince

274
Q

Inimitable

A

Defying imitation

275
Q

Improvident

A

Imprudent

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