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Rebuke

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Re- byook

Expressing sharp disapproval or criticism

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Stymie

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Hinder the progress of

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Creed

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Set of beliefs used to guide one’s actions

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Bastion
Bass-Chen

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Institutions or place strongly defending or upholding particular ideas, principles, attitudes or activities. “The last bastion of male privilege “

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Pugnacious

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Quick to start fighting

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Perspicuity
(n.)
PerSPICuous (adj.)

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Lucid, clarity, acute perception
2. Clearly expressed or presented.

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Objectionable

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Arousing distaste or opposition, unpleasant as offensive

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Nondescript

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Lacking distinctive or interesting features

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Plenary

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To be attended by all the participants of a conference who otherwise meet in smaller groups

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Paucity

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Presence of something in insufficient amounts, scarcity.

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Trope

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Figurative or metaphorical use of word or expression
2. Overused theme, recurring theme, stereotype

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Provost (pro- vohst)

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Senior administrative officer in college

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With impunity

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Free from punishment or other adverse consequences
Commonly Wrong: “without” impunity

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Interjacent

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Lying between or among others (interjacent pitches would be between semitones)

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Infinitesimal
(In-fin-nih-TEH-si-muhl

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Extremely small

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Ostentation (n.)
Ostentatious (adj.)

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Pretentious and vulgar display, especially of wealth and luxury, intended to attract attention.

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Vitriol

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Cruel and bitter criticism

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Untenable

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Not able to be maintained or defended against attack or objection (flimsy argument)

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Tenuous

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Very weak or slight

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Duplicitous

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Deceitful

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Wabi-sabi

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Ancient aesthetic philosophy rooted in Zen Buddhism on acceptance of transience and imperfection. Appreciating beauty that is imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete in nature.

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Tenuity

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Lack of solidity or substance; thinness. S. Feebleness

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Conciliatory

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Make some feel better, placate or pacify

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Dialectics

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  1. Art of investigating truth of opinion
  2. Inquiry into metaphysical contradictions & solutions
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Supersede

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Take the place of (a person or thing previously in authority) supplant. “Celebrity has superseded authority” — frank kern

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Vicissitude

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Change in circumstance or fortune that is undesirable

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Burnish

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To polish or enhance (skill or reputation)

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Axiom

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Statement or proposition regarded to be true

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Capricious

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Subject to suddenly unaccountable change in mood or behavior

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Categorical

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Unambiguous

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Congenial

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Pleasant because persons personality and interests similar to own (like attracts like)

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Acrid

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Strong unpleasant taste or smell

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Sprightly

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Gay & vivacious

A super gay sprite can singing

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Shrive (v.)

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To free from guilt

Past tense : shrove

The priest is waiting to shrive me of my sins!

Maria shriver freed Arnold from guilt by divorcing him

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Importunate
(Im-POR-chuh-nut)

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Persistent to the point of annoying Troublesomely urgent.

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Veracity
(n.)

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Conformity to truth or fact
2. Devotion to truth

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Blithesome
(Adj.)

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With lightheartedness or unconcern, merry

Blake lively is carefree

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Heinus (hay-nus)

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Shockingly evil

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Magnum Opus

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A great work; especially the greatest achievement of an artist

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Pore
(V.)

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  1. Gaze intently
  2. Reflect or meditate steadily

“He pored over the briefings”

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Gadfly
(N.)

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Person who annoys others esp by persistent criticism

Mom as a giant fly
Mom & Lauren

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Hubris (n.)
Hubristic (adj.)

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Excessive pride or over confidence, arrogance

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Specter
(n.)

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1.ghost
2. Something widely feared as a possible unpleasant or dangerous experience

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Crotchet
(n.)

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  1. Quarter note
  2. An unfounded or perverse belief
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Perverse
(adj.)

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  1. Deliberate desire to behave in a way that is unacceptable, often in spite of consequences. Difficult. (Katie Neely reciting the nazi creed verse by verse at her hospital)
  2. Contrary to the accepted or expected standard (illogical)
46
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Feckless

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Irresponsible, lacking strength of character

47
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Inroad
(N.)

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an advance or penetration of something often at the expense of something

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Ardent
Ardently
(adj.)

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Enthusiastic or passionate

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Ensconce ensconced
(v.)

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Establish or settle (someone) in a comfortable safe or secret place

50
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Volubility
(n.)
Voluble
(adj.)

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The quality of talking fluently, readily, or incessantly.

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Conjunctive
(Adj.)

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Serving to join; connective.
‘Conjunctive tissue’

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Nettle
(v.)

53
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Elegiac(adj.)
El-uh- JYE-ak
(Elegy)

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(Relating to ) a poem that expresses sorrow often for the dead (elegant eye makeup at a funeral)

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Polemic
(n.)

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A strong verbal or written attack on someone or something.
A continuous rhetoric that’s intended to support of specific position by forthright claims & undermining of the opposing position. (Donald trump, Richard Wagner).
Puh-Lem-ik

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Rigamarole
(n.)

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Confused or meaningless talk (Nadira)
2. Complex sometimes ritualistic procedure

56
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Proxy
(n.)

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  1. Authority to represent someone else esp in voting
  2. A figure that can be used to represent the value of something in a calculation “US wealth measure is used as a proxy for the true worldwide measure
57
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Laurel
(v.)

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Bestow an award or praise someone for achievement
“She will be laureled alongside other musicians”

58
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Mirth
(n.)

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Amusement , especially as expressed by laughter “his 6-ft frame shook with mirth”

59
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Dessicate
(V.)

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  1. To dry up
  2. To dry if emotional or intellectual vitality

Kate (Neely) has dried up of all intellectual vitality

60
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Flounder (v)

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To struggle to move, thrash
2. Act clumsily

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Parry (v)

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  1. To ward (guard) off something (like a weapon or blow)
  2. To evade a question by Android answer
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Attenuate (v)

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  1. To lessen the amount, weaken
  2. Reduce the severity, virulence or vitality of “coral reefs can attenuate the effects of ocean acidification.”
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Urbane (adj)

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Notably polite and polished

64
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Multiverse (muhl-tee-verse)

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Our current universe would constitute just a small subset of a multiverse.

65
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Cassandra

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One who predicts misfortune or disaster

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Exemplary (adj.)
Ex-ZEM-pluh-rhee

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  1. Deserving imitation because of excellence
67
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Iconoclastic (adj.)
Or
Iconoclast (n.)

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  1. A person who attacks settled beliefs or institutions
  2. Characterized by attack on cherished beliefs or institutions.
68
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Definitive
(Adj)

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  1. Of a conclusion or agreement done or reached decisively and with authority
69
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Protean
(Adj)

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Tending or able to change frequently or easily

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Callow
(Adj.)

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Lacking adult sophistication
Callie the cat is low to the ground in preschool

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Divestment (n.)

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Die- vest-ment

Reduction of assets. The opposite of investment

72
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Deleterious
Del-ah-teer-rhee-uhs

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Causing harm or damage

73
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First principles

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An axiom that cannot be deduced from any other in its system.

Reasoning by first principles removes the impurity of assumptions and conventions. What remains is the essentials. It’s one of the best mental models you can use to improve your thinking because the essentials allow you to see where reasoning by analogy might lead you astray.

While both the coach and the play stealer start from something that already exists, they generally have different results. These two people look the same to most of us on the sidelines or watching the game on the TV. Indeed, they look the same most of the time, but when something goes wrong, the difference shows. Both the coach and the play stealer call successful plays and unsuccessful plays. Only the coach, however, can determine why a play was successful or unsuccessful and figure out how to adjust it. The coach, unlike the play stealer, understands what the play was designed to accomplish and where it went wrong, so he can easily course-correct. The play stealer has no idea what’s going on. He doesn’t understand the difference between something that didn’t work and something that played into the other team’s strengths.

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Confound (v)

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  1. Cause surprise in someone especially by acting against expectations
  2. Mix up something with something else so individual elements become difficult to distinguish
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Odious (adj.)

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Causing strong hatred or dislike

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Inane (adj.)

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Lacking significance, empty (synonym: silly)

77
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Commensurate (adj.) kuh- MEN- sir- it

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Equal in size or degree. “The job posting states salary is commensurate to experience “

78
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Imperious (adj.)

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Assuming power or authority without justification.

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Elemental (adj.)

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  1. Primary or basic 2. Embodying the forces of nature
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Sovereign (n.) (adj.)

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  1. Supreme ruler
  2. (Adj) supreme or ultimate power
81
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Carte blanche

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Complete freedom to act as one wishes or thinks best

82
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Cogent(adj.)

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Clear, logical, convincing (Denny, Tom bilyeu)

83
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Carte Blanche (kart- blahnch)

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Permission to do something however one chooses.

84
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Active vs passive voice

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The active voice asserts that the person or thing represented by the grammatical subject performs the action represented by the verb.

The passive voice makes the subject the person or thing acted on or affected by the action represented by the verb.

Active voice: Jerry knocked over the lamp.

Passive voice: The lamp was knocked over by Jerry.

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Sanguine (adj.)

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Optimistic especially in a bad situation. SANG- gwen

86
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Hyperbolic (hyper- ball-ick)

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  1. Exaggerated speech, overstates the truth
    Hyper giant ball bouncing super high i to the stratosphere
87
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Wherewithal (n.)

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Resources, money, necessary to get something done

88
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Perfunctory (adj.)

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Carried out with minimum effort or reflection
Cat purring with funky glasses lying down

89
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Milieu (n.)

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Environment

Meal-you : you eating a meal in the hot sahara environment

90
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Gauche (go-shh)

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Unsophisticated and socially awkwafd, lacking grace.
Seth go sh-in is super awkward

91
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Nocebo effect

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Predicting pain

92
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Germane (adj.)

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Relevant to a subject under consideration
(A mane is relative to German nazis)

93
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Mollify

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(MAH-lih-fy)
Soothe , reduce intensity

mall - no wi FI, soothe yourself so you don’t get too angry and throw your phone to the first floor.

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Antiquated

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Old fashioned
An-tuh- kwaited

Antiques are waiting tapping their fingers

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Bucolic (byoo-colick)

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Relating to pleasant aspects of the countryside

Buick parked in the leaves on Terry Lane

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Solicitous sol-leh-seh-tuhs

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Showing interest and concern

Sohl-licit- us
Sohl did something illicit and we have concerns

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Nacreous (nay-kree-us)

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Possessing iridescent qualities, mother-of-pearl

Naked with loads of pearl necklaces

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Incendiary

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Device or attack designed to cause fires “incendiary bombs”

In- send- dee- air — huge bombs, reacts with oxygen and explodes

99
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Listlessness

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Lacking energy or enthusiasm, unwilling to do anything requiring energy
Depressed.
LISZT- crying and sad that Chopin is bettet

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Peevish

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Easily irritated esp by unimportant things

Larry David

Peeing Vishnu irritated that he’s peeing on himself

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Reproachful

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Expressing disappointment or disapproval

Republicans are full of roaches and I dissaprove

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Epigraph

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Short quotation at the beginning of a book intended to suggest its theme

Epi- no graph at the beginning of a book inset

103
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Tawdry

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Showy but cheap

Todd wearing fubu

104
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Beguile (beh- GUY-al)

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To charm someone sometimes in a deceptive way

Jeffrey beigel tricked me into a lesson!

105
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Rabble-rouser

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Person who speaks with intention of inflaming emotions of a crowd, typically for political reasons.

Rabbi asking me if I’m Jewish on the street then discarding me when I’m not!

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Importune im-pour- TOON

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Harass someone persistently to do something

The important tunes of Christmas harassing the guests

107
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Plunder

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Steal goods during a time of disorder

A plumb stealing from urban outfitters during BLM

108
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Obviate

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Remove (a need or difficulty)
Blinds obviated need for curtains
Avoid; prevent
“Parachutes are used to obviate disaster

109
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Ambivert

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Between extroverted and introverted

110
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Unavowed

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Not mentioned
“Unavowed dreams”

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