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1
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Ingratiate

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(with)
To make people like you by doing things to please them

Jarod tried ingratiating his way with Saatchi

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Subvert

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To overthrow; to cause the downfall, ruin, destruction of

Sunnis are trying to subvert the Alawite regime

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Wistful

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Sad, gloomy, melancholy;
Yearning, longing;
Pensive in a gloomy way

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Debunk

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To expose a claim as false

He tried to debunk dubious advertising campaigns

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Descry / des cry

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To catch sight of; discover

Christopher Columbus thought he descried India. Fool.

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Effluvium (s) / Effluvia (p)

Effluviate (v)

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An unpleasant/harmful odor or secretion

To give forth a mephitic odor

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Embitter

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To make bitter

Failure has embittered her.

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Contravene

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To come or be in conflict with; go against; deny; oppose

He contravened the president’s statement.

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Avuncular

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Pertaining to, or characteristic of an uncle

Avuncular affection

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Premature

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Done too soon, before appropriate time; precipitate

A premature announcement

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Mawkish

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Weakly emotional; maudlin

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Maudlin

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Foolishly sentimental, like a holocaust/jew story meant to evoke crocodile tears

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Sanguine / san gwin

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Cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, confident

Sanguine disposition

Ruddy, reddish (complexion)

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Brusque / brusk

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Abrupt in manner, blunt, rough, perhaps rude

The waitress this evening was very brusque so we only tipped her 12%

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Assimilate

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Take in information and understand fully

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Timorous

Timorousness

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Fearful

Thunder makes little children timorous.

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Slake

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To allay (thirst, desire, wrath) by satisfying; quench

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Whet

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Stimulate

Maysa was wrong. Whet does not mean “tide you over.” It means to stimulate, as an appetizer would.

Whet curiosity

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Sate

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To satisfy (appetite, desire) fully; satiate; surfeit

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Surfeit

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N - excess, excessive amount OR overindulgence in eating/drinking

V - to stuff yourself to a state of surfeit; to glut

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Toady

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An obsequious flatterer

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Sycophant / sik o phant

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Self-seeking servile flatterer

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Servile

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Slavishly submissive

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Billow

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A large undulating mass of something

Billows of smoke, billows of people…

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Undulate / un djulate

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To move with wave-like motion

The flag undulates in the breeze.

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Jounce

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To move joltingly or roughly up and down; JOUNCE IS TO BOUNCE

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Slipshod

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Careless, untidy, sloppy

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Protean

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Extremely variable

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Espouse / es powz

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To adapt, make one’s own, adopt or embrace

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Uncanny

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Strange or mysterious, especially in an unsettling way

She had an uncanny feeling that she was being watched by Mohamed Dagher

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Occult

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Pertaining to magic, astrology, supernatural powers

A little esoteric and arcane

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Ruminate

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(over) to mediate, ponder

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Salient

Salience

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Prominent or conspicuous; protruding, prominent

Salient traits

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Truncate

Truncated

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To shorten by cutting off a part; cut short; abridge

He truncated the detailed explanation

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Sententious / sen ten shus

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Someone or something that moralizes (in a pompous, affected way)

Self righteous; abounding in pithy, apothegms

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Moralize

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Comment on issues of right and wrong with an unfounded air of superiority

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Brood

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(on/over)
To think about something that makes one unhappy

‘Till this day, he continues to brood over his wife’s death.

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Trenchant

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Incisive, as language or person; caustic (trenchant wit)

Vigorous, effective, energetic (President’s trenchant policy)

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Blithe / bl eye th

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Showing a casual and cheerful indifference; HAPPY

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Fleet
Fleetly
Fleeting

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To move swiftly
Swiftly
Ephemeral

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Fitful

Fitfully

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Active or occurring intermittently, sporadic, intermittent

Intermittently, sporadically

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Inviolable

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Incapable of being violated; prohibiting violation

Inviolable sanctuary; inviolable promise

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Corrigible

Incorrigible

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Capable of being corrected
Bad beyond correction or reform

Incorrigible behavior, incorrigible liar

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Sallow

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Sickly yellow in color; jaundiced

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Rubicund, sanguine, ruddy, flushed

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Red in complexion

46
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Repose

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N - peace, tranquility, calmness

47
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Deign

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To do something that you think you shouldn’t do because you’re too cool

The king deigned to speak to the peasant

48
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Sedulous

Sedulity

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Diligent, assiduous

49
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Multifarious

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Having many different parts, elements;

Greatly diverse, numerous and varied

50
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Confluence

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Flowing together of two or more streams
The confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers

Place of convergence

To converge

51
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Volatile

Volatility

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Evaporating quickly
Ready to erupt into violence
Mercurial

52
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Begrudge

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To envy or resent the pleasure or good fortune of someone

Rana begrudged Maysa her acceptance into a MD program

53
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Expediate = Expedite

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To hasten, speed up

To precipitate

54
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Iterate
Iteration
Iterative

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To repeat
Repetition
Repetitive

55
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Cost overrun

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The amount of money over the allocated budget

56
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Tandem

In tandem

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One following or behind the other

In single file - They swam in tandem
In association or partnership

57
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Repugnate = repugn / rep yoon

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To oppose, to fight against, refute

58
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Reprobate / rep ro bait

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(N) Depraved, unprincipled, wicked person - drunken reprobate

Person rejected by God and beyond hope of salvation

59
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Bromide

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Flat, dull person; platitudinous

60
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Vassal

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Subordinate, subject, servant, slave

61
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Rogue

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Dishonest, scoundrel, unprincipled

62
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Gentry

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Well-born, well-bred, patricians/aristocrats

63
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Tenebrous

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Dark, gloomy, obscure

Nancy opened the shades to let light into the tenebrous room

64
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Macabre / mac ab ra

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Gruesome, horrifying, horrible

The museum holds macabre memorabilia remnant of WWII

65
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Vapid

Vapidity

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Lacking or having lost life, flavor; insipid

THE ENGLISH DRINK VAPID TEA.

Dull - vapid conversation; vapid party

66
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Mirthful

Mirth

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Joyous, jolly - Santa Claus has a mirthful laugh

Jollity, laughter…
Excitement and mirth of the holiday seasons!

67
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Replete

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Filled, abundantly supplied; surfeit (WITH)

His speech was replete with run on sentences.

68
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Proscribe

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To ban, denounce, condemn (as dangerous or harmful)

After the accident, the principal decided to proscribe bikes on school.

To banish, to exile

69
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Mote

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Small particle or speck (mote of dust)

70
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Breadth

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Wide range, extent

71
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Plutonian

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“Lower world,” infernal; underworld

72
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Saturnine

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Sluggish, gloomy, taciturn

Suffering from lead poison

73
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Ape (v)

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To imitate, mimic

74
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Compunction

Compunctious

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Feeling of anxiety due to regret for doing wrong

Feeling compunction

75
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Deft

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Nimble, skillful, clever - deft hands, deft mechanic

76
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Vitriolic

Vitriol

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Cruel and caustic - vitriolic criticism

Something highly caustic and cruel

77
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Categorical

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Without exception, absolute, unambiguous

78
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Diametrical

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Being at opposite extremes

Although identical twins, they’re really diametrical opposites

79
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Petulant

Petulance

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Showing sudden impatient irritation

Irritability

80
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Tetchy

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Irritable, touchy

81
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Impertinent

Impertinence

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Rude - brash, impertinent youth; insolent

not relevant/germane

82
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Acuity

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NOUN OF ACUTE

Sharpness, acuteness

83
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Oviparous

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Egg-laying animal - birds, reptiles, etc

84
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Bijoux

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Jewels

85
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Deprecate / dep rek ate

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To disapprove

86
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Cryptic

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Mysterious, ambiguous, secretive

87
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Cleave

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(to) - to adhere closely to

Stick, remain faithful to
Shia cleave to their principles in spite of persecution

88
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Tenable

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Able to me maintained or defended against attack or objection

Gravity is a tenable theory, don’t you agree?!

89
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Procure / pro cyoore

Procurement

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To obtain or get, especially with great effort and care

I would procure food for the Free Syrian Army <3

Dr. Roth did not appreciate the procurement I went through finding him that souvenir.

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Compendious

Compendium

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Brief, concise, succinct

Brief account, summary

91
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Otiose / o she uhs

Otiosity

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Being at leisure, idle, indolent

OR feckless, useless and unnecessary

92
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Curio / k yoo rio

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Rare, unusual intriguing object

93
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Paragon

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Person or thing regarded as prefect example

94
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Paradigm

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Typical example

95
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Plumage

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Bird feathers

96
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Imbue

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To impregnate/inspire with feelings or opinions

New president was imbued with teachings of Gandhi.

Hanan thinks she imbued me with feelings of love.

97
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Elucidate

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To make lucid or clear; explain

98
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Regale

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To entertain lavishly; delight

Khawla Matter regaled her guests at her lavish penthouse along the Nile.

99
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Ululate / ol you late

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To howl as a dog, moan

100
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Construe

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To interpret, analyze, explain

101
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Preponderant

Preponderance

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Prevailing - superior in weight, force, influence; predominate

The preponderant misconception!

102
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Bonanza

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Situation that creates sudden increase in wealth and profit

103
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Fiasco

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Complete failure in humiliating way

Christina Aguilera’s Bionic album was a sheer fiasco.

104
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Regnant

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Reigning, ruling

Queen regnant (noun first, then adjective)

ALSO WIDESPREAD

105
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Fugacious / f you gay shus

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Transitory, ephemeral

“Gay girl in Damascus” had a fugacious hold of the public

106
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Spendthrift

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Prodigal, spends money lavishly

107
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Obtuse

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Slow to understand, unintelligent

108
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Execrate

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To abhor utterly

109
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Repugnant

Repugnance

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Distasteful, objectionable, offensive

Repugnant smell

110
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Intrepid, intrepidity

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Resolutely fearless, dauntless

Columbus thought he was an intrepid explorer

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