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Vocab. Builder – Academic Flashcards

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In ac. citation, the idea that a concept can be found throughout a text, rather than in one single location

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Ad passim

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Excessively lavish; praising; obeisant; panegyric

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Adulatory

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A cat-lover.

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Ailurophile

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Assistant to an artist

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Amanuensis

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Lacking colour or vitality

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Anaemic

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Feeble

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Anemic

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Having rings or ringed

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Annulate

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Something that is inoffensive or unchallenging, such as a bland or generic piece of art or music (lit: an analgesic)

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Anodyne

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Pithy observation which contains a general truth.

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Aphorism

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Confidence

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Aplomb

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Highest part, peak, apogee

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Apotheosis

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Member of a Communist Party apparat; an official in a large political organization. “Tory apparatchiks”

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Apparatchik

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13
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Formal title or name

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Appellation

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Ambitious upstart or nouveau-riche

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Arriviste

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Attack on the integrity or character of someone

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Aspersion

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16
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Devoid of cadence

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Atonic

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17
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Respected or well-to-do

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August

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18
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Relating to an elaborately ornamented style of art and music

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Baroque

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19
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To exhaust with attacks

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Beleaguer

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The leading sheep of a flock, with a bell on its neck; something that leads or indicates a trend.

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Bellwether

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Conventional or orthodox

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Bien pensant

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A novel dealing with one person’s formative years or spiritual education.

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Bildungsroman

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Obtain or withhold money from (someone) unfairly or by deceit; cheat or defraud.

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Bilk

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A person who has a good social life

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Bon vivant

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25
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Work of little or no value done merely to look busy

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Boondoggle

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26
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To cut out or edit an offensive section of a work, esp. so as to render it less moving

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Bowdlerise

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A trite, unoriginal, or clichéd statement that is intended to soothe or placate.

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Bromide

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28
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In a lovely rural setting.

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Bucolic

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29
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Irritatingly self-assertive.

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Bumptious

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30
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A secret political clique or faction.

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Cabal

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31
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Convertible whip

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Cabriolet

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32
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A modulation or inflection of the voice

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Cadence

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33
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A lie

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Canard

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34
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Determined by chance or impulse rather than by necessity

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Capricious

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35
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Cavil; complain or find fault continually about trivial matters

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Carp

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Carp; complain / make petty or unnecessary objections

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Cavil

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37
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Assuming all else remains unchanged

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Ceteris paribus

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38
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Brilliantly loud and clear

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Clarion

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39
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Intermediary between buyer and seller

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Clearing house

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40
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Conversation

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Colloquy

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41
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Phenomenon which occurs together with another

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Concomitant

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42
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To blend together.

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Conflate

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43
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Friendly, amicable, or easy to get along with

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Congeniality

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44
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Lively and atmospheric

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Convivial

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45
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Related to person’s body, vis-a-vis their spirit

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Corporeal

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46
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(Of wit or humour) light and sparkling

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Coruscating

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47
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(Of someone’s character) niggardly, (of speech or movement) slow

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Costive

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A small group or cabal of people with shared interests or tastes, especially one that is exclusive of other people “a coterie of friends and advisers”

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Coterie

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49
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Grumpy old guy

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Curmudgeon

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50
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Something that strongly attracts attention by its brilliance, interest, etc.; something serving for guidance or direction:

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Cynosure

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51
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A brief love affair.

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Dalliance

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52
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To take leave

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Decamp

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53
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To cover an expense or outgoing

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Defray

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54
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Dominion, territory.

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Demesne

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55
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Quotidian language used by laymen

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Demotic

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56
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Shy and reserved; diffident

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Demure

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57
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The final part of a play, where all the strings are drawn together; The resolution of a mystery.

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Denouement

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58
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Disuse

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Desuetude

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59
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Slow, sluggish

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Desultory

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60
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An event that comes out of nowhere to change trajectory of story

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Deus ex machine

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61
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Scale back

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Dial back

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62
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Process of inquiry

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Dialectic

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63
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Filmy

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Diaphanous

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64
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Intended primarily to teach

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Didacticism

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65
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Modest or shy

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Diffident

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66
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Relating to sexual or hedonistic gratification

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Dionysian

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67
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Enjoying oneself sans inhibitions

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Disporting

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68
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A long speech

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Disquisition

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69
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Seeking to impose a doctrine in all circumstances without regard to practical considerations

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Doctrinaire

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70
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Poorly written verse or stanza

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Doggerel

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71
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Resembling a college don, particularly because of having a pedantic, scholarly manner.

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Donnish

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72
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Vaguely macho way of saying research something

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Drill down

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73
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Something regarded as worthless; rubbish.

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Dross

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74
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Able to be guided; malleable

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Ductile

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75
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Sweet, sugary

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Dulcet

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76
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Bubbling enthusiasm.

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Ebullience

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77
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Representing a number of diff. Christian churches

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Ecumenical

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78
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Bubbly

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Effervescent

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79
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Feminine and overly affected (particularly of a man); camp

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Effete

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80
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Flowering, blooming

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Efflorescence

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81
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Use of detailed description of a work of visual art as a literary device.

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Ekphrasis

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82
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(Of a work or art) like a lament

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Elegiac

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83
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Join different things together as if they are the same; to become joined in this way:

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Elide

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84
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A good potion.

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Elixir

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85
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Beauty and persuasion in speech

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Eloquence

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86
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Rubbing on a lotion

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Embrocation

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87
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A softener

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Emollient

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88
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Salary, fee, or profit from office

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Emoluments

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89
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Action borne of frustration with bureaucracy (e.g. ‘can we do an end run on this’?)

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End run

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90
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Lasting a very short time; lasting one day only

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Ephemeral

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91
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A witty, often paradoxical remark, concisely expressed. 2. a short, pungent, and often satirical poem, esp one having a witty and ingenious ending

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Epigram

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92
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A sudden revelation

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Epiphany

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93
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Repetition of clauses throughout a phrase

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Epistrophe

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94
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Used as a poor substitute for someone else

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Ersatz

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95
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Former

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Erstwhile

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96
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Gaseous, invisible but detectable.

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Ethereal

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97
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Looking sick, unwell, or emaciated

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Etiolated

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98
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Vanishing quickly, lasting a very short time

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Evanescent

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99
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Suggestive

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Evocative

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100
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Demanding

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Exigent

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101
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Elaborate

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Expatiate

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102
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To make up for (a sin)

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Expiate

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103
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Destroy

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Extirpate

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104
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Triumphantly happy

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Exultant

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105
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Pleasantness

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Felicity

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106
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Group of people who undermine a larger group from within, usually in favor of an enemy group or nation.

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Fifth column

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107
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Capable of or prone to being split or divided 2 : something deviating from the proper, normal, or accepted order

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Fissile

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108
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One who lounges around

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Flâneur

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109
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Hollow compliments

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Flummery

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110
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Minor flaw or a weakness

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Foible

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111
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The soft spot on a baby’s head

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Fontanelle

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112
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Withholding response to provocation

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Forbearance

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113
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Rule out or prohibit

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Foreclose

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114
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Fleeting; tending to disappear; ephemeral

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Fugacious

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115
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Express violent outcry against

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Fulminate

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116
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Exceedingly

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Fulsome

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117
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Having the qualities of the deceased; morbid; moribund

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Funereal

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118
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Shifty, sneaky

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Furtive

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119
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Person who annoys or criticizes others in order to provoke them into action.

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Gadfly

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120
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To skip or leap about joyfully

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Gambol

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121
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To embellish (lit: to decorate w/ flowers)

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Garland

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122
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An organized whole that is perceived as more than the sum of its parts.

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Gestalt

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123
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Made in broad sweeps

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Gestural

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124
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Artfully persuasive in speech

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Glib

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125
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An extremely difficult or involved problem.

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Gordian knot

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126
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The finest piece of thread, a spider’s silk

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Gossamer

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127
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Slender

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Gracile

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128
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Denoting a period of time in the past that was idyllically happy and peaceful.

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Halcyon

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129
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Fatal flaw; Achilles

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Hamartia

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130
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Clumsy; doing things in an awkward or unskilled way when using the hands or dealing with people

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Ham-fisted

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Relating to the sense of touch, in particular relating to the perception and manipulation of objects using the senses of touch and proprioception.

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Haptic

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132
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Messenger with news of the future

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Harbinger

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133
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Feeling strained as a result of having demands persistently made on one; harassed.

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Harried

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134
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Pride, self-belief

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Hauteur

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135
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(Of a seal or closure) complete and airtight.

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Hermetic

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136
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Not conforming with accepted or orthodox standards or beliefs

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Heterodox

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137
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A person who explains; a person who defends; a priest in Ancient Greece

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Hierophant

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138
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An area beyond that which is known or established (about someone) (e.g. Obama’s hinterland)

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Hinterland

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139
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A tedious moralising lecture

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Homily

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One who attacks institutions or beliefs

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Iconoclast

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Overlapping and forming a regular pattern

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Imbrication

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An altercation or complicated situation

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Imbroglio

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143
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To infuse, instill

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Imbue

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Arrogant or demanding

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Imperious

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Having just begun and so not fully formed; rudimentary

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Inchoate

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Beginning, in an early stage

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Incipient

147
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Having little to no self-restraint

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Incontinent

148
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(Of a person or their behaviour) not able to be changed or reformed.

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Incorrigible

149
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Poor or impoverished

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Indigent

150
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Harden

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Indurate

151
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Unutterable, inexpressible

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Ineffable

152
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Incapable of being avoided

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Ineluctable

153
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A naïve young woman

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Ingénue

154
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A cozy nook by the hearth

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Inglenook

155
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Blithe nonchalance

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Insouciance

156
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Destructive to both sides in a conflict

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Internecine

157
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To appear soon (lit: on the horizon)

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In the offing

158
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Verbally rally against

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Inveigh against

159
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Angry

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Irascible

160
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Too simple and/or dull

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Jejune

161
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A long, mournful complaint or lamentation; a list of woes.

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Jeremiad

162
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Inspect or test the quality of something before purchasing it

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Kick the tires

163
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Tacky, appeals to popular rather than highbrow style

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Kitsch

164
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Offshoring of jobs

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Labour arbitrage

165
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Twisting and turning

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Labyrinthine

166
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A blank space or missing part

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Lacuna

167
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Something given as a bonus or gratuity; A special kind of gift

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Lagniappe

168
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A small gulf or inlet

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Lagoon

169
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(Of a light) flickering; (of a person’s sense of humour) brilliant but with a light touch

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Lambert

170
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Tiredness or inactivity, especially when pleasurable; an oppressive stillness of the air

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Languor

171
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Weariness; fatigue; a state of dreamy idleness

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Lassitude

172
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Slight of hand

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Legerdemain

173
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Recurrent theme throughout a musical or literary composition, associated with a particular person, idea, or situation

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Leitmotif

174
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Treatment of a serious matter with humour or lack of due respect.

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Levity

175
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To move musically or lively

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Lilt

176
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Of, or related to, a border

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Liminal

177
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Thin, supple, svelte; slender and graceful

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Lissom

178
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Slender and flexible

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Lithe

179
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In place of a parent or guardian

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Loco parentis

180
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Person or thing which serves as a guiding force

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Lodestar

181
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Regarding words and language as a fundamental expression of an external reality (especially applied as a negative term to traditional Western thought by postmodernist critics).

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Logocentric

182
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Talkative

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Loquacious

183
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Disreputable or rakish

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Louche

184
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Impractical contemplative person having no definite income or business

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Luftmensch

185
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Like a wolf

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Lupine

186
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Forgiving, especially towards a lesser opponent

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Magnanimous

187
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Idea that pop. growth is exponential, food is linear

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Malthusianism

188
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Sweet sounding

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Mellifluous

189
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Given to begging

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Mendicant

190
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Alluring but vulgar (lit: like a prozzie)

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Meretricious

191
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Unpleasant cloud, atmosphere, or stench

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Miasma

192
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Rule of logic which states that if a conditional statement (‘if p then q ’) is accepted, and the antecedent ( p ) holds, then the consequent ( q ) may be inferred.

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Modus ponens

193
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One of two equal parts

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Moiety

194
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A slip of the ear

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Mondegreen

195
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Large and resistant to change

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Monolithic

196
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Biting

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Mordant

197
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At point of death

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Moribund

198
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Generous

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Munificent

199
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Person of great wealth or prominence

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Nabob

200
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Activity of spending too much time considering your own thoughts, feelings, or problems

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Navel-gazing

201
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Logical fallacy occurring when a conclusion is drawn that does not follow from the premises or evidence presented

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Non sequitur

202
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False accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone’s words or actions

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Obloquy

203
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Extremely unpleasant

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Odious

204
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The sea between the horizon and the offshore

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Offing

205
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Oleaginous, unctuous, obsequious

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Oily/sycophantic

206
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A word that sounds like its meaning

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Onomatopoeia

207
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Lush, luxuriant

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Opulent

208
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Something horrid

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Ordure

209
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Bad-tempered or difficult to deal with

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Ornery

210
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Mechanical model of solar system

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Orrery

211
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Right angles

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Orthogonal

212
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A manuscript written over earlier ones

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Palimpsest

213
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Hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases

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Panacea

214
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Conviction in one’s own sense of style

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Panache

215
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Poem delivered in high praise of someone/something

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Panegyric

216
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Optimistic no matter what

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Panglossian

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A complete set

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Panoply

218
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Circular prison with cells arranged around a central well, from which prisoners could at all times be observed.

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Panopticon

219
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Group of distinguished people

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Pantheon

220
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Always in danger; full of uncertainty; precarious

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Parlous

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Narrow scope

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Parochial

222
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Sudden burst of either emotion or disease

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Paroxysm

223
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Art work combining materials from various sources.

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Pastiche

224
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Surface that has altered due to age

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Patina

225
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Repentant

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Penitential

226
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A half-shadow

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Penumbra

227
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A journey, esp. a long or meandering one

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Peregrination

228
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(Of an action) carried out w/o enthusiasm or interest; done carelessly as a matter of routine

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Perfunctory

229
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Use of more words than necessary to convey meaning

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Perissology

230
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Made uneasy or anxious

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Perturb

231
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Smell of earth after rain

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Petrichor

232
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Strategy of controlling petroleum sales as a way of achieving international political goals.

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Petropolitics

233
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(Of a person) childish or sulky

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Petulant

234
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Study of stamps

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Philatelist

235
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Person who is guided by materialism and is usually disdainful of intellectual or artistic values

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Philistine

236
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Having a disposition which cannot be perturbed

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Phlegmatic

237
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Very softly

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Pianissimo

238
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Terse and vigorously expressive

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Pithy

239
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Sad or sorrowful

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Plaintive

240
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(Of a sound) like a lament

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Plangent

241
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(Of a remark or statement) used too often to be interesting or thoughtful; hackneyed.

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Platitudinous

242
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A large quantity

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Plethora

243
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A strong written attack

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Polemic

244
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Formal politeness

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Politesse

245
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Of, or related to, the growing of fruit

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Pomological

246
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Sign or warning that a momentous or calamitous event is likely to happen.

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Portent

247
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All potential knowledge can be revealed through scientific methods

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Positivism

248
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Rejection or skepticism if the “grand narratives” of modernism, in the affable march of progress. How truth emerges in contextual and subjective circumstances.

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Post-modernism

249
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One who rules with reckless abandon; a dictator

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Potentate

250
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Magic tricks involving sleight of hand

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Prestidigitation

251
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Outrageously good

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Preternatural

252
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Quality or right of being firstborn

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Primogeniture

253
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Of speech or writing: using too many words; perissology

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Prolix (adj.)

254
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An inclination

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Propinquity

255
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Fair chance of success

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Propitious

256
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Able to change with ease

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Protean

257
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Overly sexual or horny

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Prurient

258
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Eager to fight; pugnacious

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Pugilistic

259
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Period of non-partisanship pre-election; period of social segregation for women

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Purdah

260
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Extent of the influence (of someone or something)

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Purview

261
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Pusillanimous, shy, timid, demure, reticent

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Pusillanimous

262
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Successful with heavy losses

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Pyrrhic

263
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The unique, unidentifiable essence of someone or something

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Quiddity

264
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Extremely idealistic; unrealistic and impractical

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Quixotic

265
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Once was; former; erstwhile

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Quondam

266
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Teasing of a light-hearted nature

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Raillery

267
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A defensive wall of a castle or walled city, having a broad top with a walkway and typically a stone parapet.

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Rampart

268
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Expressed in or of the nature of short, pithy maxims or aphorisms.

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Gnomic

269
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Excessively greedy

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Rapacious

270
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A spicy French stew

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Ratatouille

271
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To knit or unknit

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Ravel

272
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Unattractive; repellent; offensive; disgusting

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Rebarbative

273
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Reminiscent; evocative; suggestive. Also fragrant, odorous, etc.

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Redolent

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Contribute to; result in; lead to; bring about.

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Redound to

275
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Brought back; restored

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Redux

276
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Make something abstract more real

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Reify

277
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Cancel or postpone (lit: capital punishment)

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Reprieve

278
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Pusillanimous, shy, timid, or demure

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Reticent

279
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Referring to sexual matters in an amusing coarse or irreverent manner

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Ribald

280
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By the bank of a stream

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Riparian

281
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One who terrorises on supposedly benevolent grounds

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Robespierre

282
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Quarrel; dispute; argument

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Ruction

283
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Excessively sweet or sugarcoated; cloying; mawkish

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Saccharine

284
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Good for mind and/or body

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Salubrious

285
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Optimistic, Panglossian

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Sanguine

286
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A spark or very small thing

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Scintilla

287
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A young shoot or twig of a plant, especially one cut for grafting or rooting; a descendant of a notable family.

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Scion

288
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Lesser of two evils

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Scylla and Charybdis

289
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To a certain extent, or to some degree. Used in logic and philosophy to to describe a logical fallacy in which a general statement is applied to a specific case without taking into account relevant qualifications or exceptions.

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Secundum quid

290
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With diligence

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Sedulous

291
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Finding something nice while looking for something else

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Serendipity

292
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Sullied through frontline use

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Shopworn

293
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A (usually poor) recreation of someone or something

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Simulacrum

294
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Essential ingredient

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Sine qua non

295
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Remarkable, noticeable, uniquely

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Singularly

296
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A descriptive name or epithet

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Sobriquet

297
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An ungrammatical combination of words in a sentence; also : a minor blunder in speech

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Solecism

298
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A sense of extreme self-centeredness, egoism, or a tendency to disregard the feelings and experiences of others

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Solipsistic

299
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The realization that each passerby has a life as complex as one’s own, or the feeling of being a small part of a larger universe

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Sonder

300
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A specious type of argumentation or reasoning that is deceptive, misleading, or superficially plausible, but ultimately flawed or fallacious. It often involves the use of clever rhetoric or language to obscure the truth, manipulate people’s beliefs or emotions, or defend a flawed or unsound argument.

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Sophistry

301
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Seemingly plausible, but actually incorrect

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Specious

302
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An artifice or a trick for misleading the enemy

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Stratagem

303
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Presenting a view in an excessively forceful manner

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Strident

304
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People’s behaviours must be parsed in the context of the social environs they exist within

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Structuralism

305
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Subjugated, overlorded

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Suborned

306
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Erupting w/ anger; irascible

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Sulphurous

307
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Light, delicate or warm and sunny

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Summery

308
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Lush, luxurious; amenable to a sybarite

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Sumptuous

309
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Secretive, sneaky, furtive

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Surreptitious

310
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A person who controls another

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Svengali

311
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The swan song (ancient Greek: κύκνειον ᾆσμα; Latin: carmen cygni) is a metaphorical phrase for a final gesture, effort, or performance given just before death or retirement.

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Swan song

312
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One overly fond of luxury

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Sybarite

313
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Suck-up

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Sycophant

314
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Meeting centred on one particular topic

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Symposium

315
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Fig. of speech in which whole is used to refer to a part or vice-versa (e.g. “Fingers” for thief)

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Synecdoche

316
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Blank slate. Particularly relevant to philosophy, where it entails the concept that each individual is born without preconceptions

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Tabula rasa

317
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Reserved in terms of speech or detail; to a lesser extent, reticent and/or demure

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Taciturn

318
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A harsh-tempered or overbearing woman who frequently quarrels or scolds

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Termagant

319
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Survey camera

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Theodolite

320
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Thrifty or lacking

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Threadbare

321
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To expose to shame or blame by means of falsehood and misrepresentation

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Traduce

322
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(Roman) group of three men holding power

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Triumvirate

323
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Easy or quick to fight – see also pugilistic and/or pugnacious

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Truculent

324
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Attractive items of ostentation, or little use

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Trumpery

325
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Unable to be quenched

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Unslakable

326
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Not restricted or restrained

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Untrammelled

327
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Scold (a person)

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Upbraid

328
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(Of a man) devoted to his wife to an intense degree

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Uxorious

329
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Units at the front of a squadron.

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Vanguard

330
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Addition of colour or distinction

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Variegate

331
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(Of a fault) trivial

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Venial

332
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Forming a very small remnant of something that was once greater or more noticeable

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Vestigial

333
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Contentious

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Vexed

334
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Harm the quality of

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Vitiate

335
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Bitter and abusive language

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Vituperation

336
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Give or acquiesce to, in a condescending manner

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Vouchsafe

337
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The means

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Wherewithal

338
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Sorrowful, downcast

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Woebegone

339
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A gentle breeze

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Zephyr

340
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A phrase in which a word applies to two others in different senses (e.g. John and his driving licence expired last week).

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Zeugma

341
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The investigation or attribution of the cause or reason for something, often expressed in terms of historical or mythical explanation

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Etiology

342
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Beginning to take place and/or develop

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Incipient

343
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Word form that remains unchanged singular vs. plural

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Invariant or uninflected

344
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Peak

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Acme, zenith, apogee

345
Q

Lack of respect, rudeness

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Impertinence; impudence; contempuity

346
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Restrictions or impediments to freedom of action

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Trammel

347
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Presented in vividly shocking or sensational terms.
“the more lurid details of the massacre were too frightening for the children”

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Lurid

348
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Person or thing that attracts attention, criticism, or controversy. In this context, a lightning rod is seen as a way of deflecting negative attention or criticism away from other people or issues

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Lightning rod

349
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Confident style of manner; flair

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Panache

350
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The state of feeling remorseful and penitent

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Contrition

351
Q

A retaliatory act

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Reprisal

352
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denoting or relating to the kind of language used by ordinary people; colloquial

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Demotic

353
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Showing great skill and/or flair

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Consummate

354
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Relating to or consisting of money.
“he admitted obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception”

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Pecuniary

355
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conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch

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Sedition

356
Q

A feeling of unease or embarrassment; awkwardness

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Discomfiture

357
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Knowledge independent from current experience (e.g., as part of a new study).

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A priori

358
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Given to moralizing in a pompous or affected manner

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Sententious

359
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Harmful, hostile, or unfriendly

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Inimical

360
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Authentic and typical

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Echt

361
Q

Humanity to others

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Ubuntu

362
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Pretentious or juvenile

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Sophomoric

363
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threatening harm; menacing.

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Baleful

364
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Witty remark or saying

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Epigram

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