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1
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Disparaging

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To belittle something in value/ express the opinion that something is of little value

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Discursive

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Rambling or wandering from one subject to the next

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Antanaclasis

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A figure of speech wherein a word is used repeatedly, each meaning being different than the former eg: nice retreat to retreat to

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Anagram

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Using the letters of a word to form a new word for eg: tap and pat

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Anticlimax

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Transition from an important event to a trivial one eg: They bought the government, the house and a flower pot.

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Antithesis

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Something that’s opposite and contrary to the other eg: sun vs moon, devil vs god, good vs bad

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Gossamer

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Something superfine and delicate especially spider silk

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Cobwebby

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Having the structure or quality of a spider’s old dusty web

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Termagant

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Loud overbearing and quarrelsome woman

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Obstreperous

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Noisy and boisterous

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Fractious

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Grouchy and cross

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12
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Do a devon loch

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Fail when someone is very close to winning

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A bee in one’s bonnet

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An idea or a thought that continuously occupies one’s head

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Pardon my French

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Excuse my profanity, taboo or swear words

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15
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Surreptitiously

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Stealthily or in a way that doesn’t attract attention

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16
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Annex

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Addition to a document/ additional building

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17
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Pantheism

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A belief that reality is identical with divinity

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18
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EXTOL

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Praise enthusiastically

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19
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Venerate

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regard with respect/ worship

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Bucolic

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Relating to the peasant aspects of country life/ a pastoral poem

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21
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Belligerent

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Hostile or aggressive/ a nation or a person in international conflict as recognized by the international community

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Dilatory

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Slow to act/ Intending to cause delay

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23
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Prolific

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(Of a plant or animal) producing many species

(Of a writer/ author etc) Producing great works/ abundant

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24
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Prosaic

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Opposed to poetry due to unimaginativeness/ ordinary or commonplace

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25
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Polemic

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Strong and critical verbal attack on someone / practice of engaging in controversial debate or dispute

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Vitriolic

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Filled with bitter criticism or malice

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27
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Bevy

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Large group of people or things of a particular kind

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28
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Group of monkeys

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Troop or barrel

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29
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Group of crooks

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Bunch

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30
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Taxidermy

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Act of preparing, stuffing and mounting the skins of animals

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31
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Osteopathy

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A study that entails manipulation of the body’s bones and muscles

32
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Proverbial

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(used for a phrase or a verb) that is a part of an idiom or a phrase but not uttered / well known especially to be stereotypical

33
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inundated

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overwhelm someone with things or people to deal with/ overburden/ flood

34
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eponymous

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named after a particular person or thing

35
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seminal

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influencing later developments/ groundbreaking/ influential

36
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Munificence

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Quality or action of being extremely generous

37
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Rout

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Disorderly retreat of defeated troops/ scattered and forced to retreat/ group of people committing the offence of riot

38
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Putschist

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a believer in the philosophy of removing a government by force

39
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opprobrium

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harsh criticism/ censure or public disgrace due to shameful conduct

40
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quixotic

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extremely idealistic/unrealistic

41
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accrue

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benefit that may be received by someone in increasing amount over time/ accumulate or receive over time

42
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Reification

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Abstract ideas to concrete objects (sociology)/ human made conditions are universal

43
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synoptic

A

forming a general summary or synopsis

44
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accentuate

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make more prominent

45
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vicissitude

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change of situation (one which is unpleasant)/ alternation between contrasting things

46
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Quagmire

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a soft boggy area of land that gives away underfoot/ an awkward complex or hazardous situation

47
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Jockeying

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Handle or manipulate something in a skillful manner
Struggle to achieve something
eg: Thalia has been jockeying for a post in the municipal council

48
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Seamy

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Sordid and disreputable

49
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Catechism

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1) Religious instruction (especially catholic)

2) a series of fixed answers, precepts and questions used for instruction.

50
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Allusion

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An indirect or passing reference

51
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Reticent

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Not revealing one’s thoughts or feelings readily

52
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imbue

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inspire or penetrate with

kanaksha’s ideals are imbued with passion

53
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Accretion

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a thing created by gradual increased

54
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Gainsaying

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deny or contradict

55
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averred

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state or assert to be the case

56
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echelons

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a rank or a level in an organization

57
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alacrity

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brisk and cheerful readiness

58
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scuppered

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sink (a ship or its crew deliberately); prevent from succeeding/thwart

59
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puisne

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a judge of a superior court inferior to a chief justice

60
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clarion

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brilliantly clear

61
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Seraphic

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Resembling an angel

62
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Corporeal

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Relating to a person’s body

63
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Septuagint

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Oldest Greek Version of the old testament

64
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Malapropism

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Mistaken use of word with a similar sounding one

65
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Infecund

66
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Verdant

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Green fields

67
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Aquifers

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Reserved water in permeable rocks

68
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Pertinacious

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stubbornly unyielding

69
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stooge

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person who does someone’s dirty work

70
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don juan

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a fictional character who devoted his life to seducing women

71
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Chagrin

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feeling of being annoyed or irritated

72
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poignant

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evoking a great sense of emotion or sorrow; pungent or repulsive odor

73
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Circumlocution

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use of an unecessarily large number of words to explain something

74
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RESILED

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RECOIL OR RETRACT

75
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LIMPID

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TRANSPARENT

76
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POIGNANT

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