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Acumen

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Keen, accurate judgment or insight

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Adulterate

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To reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients

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Amalgamate

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To combine several elements into a whole
“He amalgamated his company with another”

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Archaic

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Outdated, associated with an earlier, perhaps more primitive, time

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Aver

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To state as fact, to declare or assert
“He averred that he was innocent of the allegations”

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Bolster

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To provide support or reinforcement

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Bombastic

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Pompous, high sounding but with little meaning, inflated

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Diatribe

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A harsh denunciation

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Dissemble

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To disguise or conceal, to mislead

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Eccentric

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Departing from norms or conventions

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Endemic

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Characteristic of or often found in a particular locality, region, or people

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Evanescent

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Tending to disappear like vapor, vanishing

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Exacerbate

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To make worse or more severe

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Fervent

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Greatly emotional or zealous

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Fortuitous

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Happening by accident or chance

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Germane

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Relevant to the subject at hand, appropriate in subject matter
“That is not germane to our theme”

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Grandiloquence

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Pompous speech or expression

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Hackneyed

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Rendered trite or commonplace by frequent usage
“Hackneyed old sayings”

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Halcyon

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Calm and peaceful

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Hedonism

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Devotion to pleasurable pursuits, especially to the pleasures of the senses

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Hegemony

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The consistent dominance of one state or group over others
“Germany was united under Prussian hegemony after 1871”

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Iconoclast

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One who attacks or undermines traditional conventions or institutions

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Idolatrous

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Given to intense or excessive devotion to something

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Impassive

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Revealing no emotion

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Imperturbable

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Marked by extreme calm, impassivity, and steadiness

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Implacable

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Not capable of being appeased or significantly changed

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Impunity

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Immunity from punishment or penalty

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Inchoate

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In an initial stage, not fully formed
“a still inchoate democracy”

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Infelicitous

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Unfortunate, inappropriate

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Insipid

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Lacking in qualities that interest, stimulate, or challenge

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Loquacious

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Extremely talkative

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Luminous

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Characterized by brightness and the emission of light

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Malevolent

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Having or showing often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred

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Malleable

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Capable of being shaped or formed, tractable, pliable

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Mendacity

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The condition of being untruthful, dishonesty
“People publicly castigated for past mendacity”

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Meticulous

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Characterized by extreme care and precision, attentive to detail

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Misanthrope

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One who hates all other humans and avoids human society

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Mitigate

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To make or become less severe or intense, to moderate

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Obdurate

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Unyielding, hardhearted, intractable

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Obsequious

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Exhibiting a fawning attentiveness, obedient to an excessive degree
“They were served by obsequious waiters”

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Occlude

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To obstruct or block

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Opprobrium

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Disgrace, contempt, scorn
“His films and the critical opprobrium they have generated”

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Pedagogy

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The profession or principles of teaching or instructing

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Pedantic

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Overly concerned with the trivial details of learning or education, show-offish about one’s knowledge

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Penury

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Poverty, destitution

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Pervasive

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Having the tendency to permeate or spread throughout

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Pine

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To yearn intensely, to languish, to lose vigor

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Pirate

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To illegally use or reproduce

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Pith

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The essential or central part
“The book that he believed contained the pith of all his work”

50
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Pithy

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Precise and brief

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Placate

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To appease, to calm by making concessions

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Platitude

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A superficial remark, especially one offered as meaningful

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Plummet

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To plunge or drop straight down

54
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Polemical

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Controversial, argumentative
“A polemical essay”

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Prodigal

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Recklessly wasteful, extravagant, profuse, lavish
“Prodigal habits die hard”

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Profuse

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Given or coming forth abundantly, extravagant

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Proliferate

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To grow or increase swiftly and abundantly

58
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Queries

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Questions, inquiries, doubts, reservations

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Querulous

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Prone to complaining or grumbling, peevish

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Rancorous

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Characterized by bitter, long lasting resentment

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Recalcitrant

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Obstinately defiant of authority, difficult to manage

62
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Repudiate

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To refuse to have anything to do with, to disown

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Rescind

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To invalidate, to repeal, to retract

64
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Reverent

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Marked by, feeling, or expressing a feeling of profound awe and respect

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Rhetoric

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The art or study of effective use of language for communication and persuasion

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Salubrious

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Promoting health or well being

67
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Solvent

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Able to meet financial obligations, able to dissolve another substance

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Specious

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Seeming true, but actually being fallacious, misleadingly attractive, plausible but false

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Spurious

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Lacking authenticity or validity, false, counterfeit

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Subpoena

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A court order requiring appearance and/or testimony

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Succinct

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Brief, concise

72
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Superfluous

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Exceeding what is sufficient or necessary

73
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Surfeit

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An overabundant supply, excess, to feed or supply to excess

74
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Tenacity

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The quality of adherence or persistence to something valued, persistent determination

75
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Tenuous

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Having little substance or strength, flimsy, weak

76
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Tirade

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A long and extremely critical speech, a harsh denunciation

77
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Transient

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Fleeting, passing quickly, brief

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Zealous

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Fervent, ardent, impassioned, devoted to a cause

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Espouse

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adopt or support (a cause, belief, or way of life)

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