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Impugn

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to challenge as false (another’s statements, motives, etc.); cast doubt upon.

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Acrimony

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sharpness, harshness, or bitterness of nature, speech, disposition, etc

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Sinecure

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an office or position requiring little or no work, especially one yielding profitable returns.

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Salient

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Prominent or conspicuous

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Salubrious

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favorable to or promoting health; healthful: salubrious air.

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Opprobrious

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outrageously disgraceful or shameful: opprobrious conduct.

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Quixotic

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extravagantly chivalrous or romantic; visionary, impractical, or impracticable.

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Venal

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Corrupt or capable of being bought

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Panacea

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a remedy for all disease or ills; cure-all.

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Apogee

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Astronomy. the point in the orbit of a heavenly body, especially the moon, or of a man-made satellite at which it is farthest from the earth. Compare perigee.
the highest or most distant point; climax.

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Gainsaid

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to deny, dispute, or contradict.

to speak or act against; oppose.

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Ebullience

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high spirits; exhilaration; exuberance.

a boiling over; overflow.

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Tepid

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Marked by lack of enthusiasm; lacking in force

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Stentorian

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Powerful of sound

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Felicitous

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Appropriately and pleasingly expressed

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Garrulous

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Wordy or overly talkative

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Vociferous

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Loudly and vehemently expressive

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Ochlocracy

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Mob rule

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Plutocracy

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run by the wealthy class

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Oligarchy

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Government run by a few high-ranking individuals

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Censure

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Official reprimand

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Scintillation

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Sparkliness

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Quittance

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Discharge from debt

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Irascible

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Easily angered

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Lambasted

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Verbally attacked

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Iconoclastic

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Eccentric

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Excogitating

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Considering deeply and thoughtfully

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Impinging

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Encroaching upon

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Quotidian

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Commonplace

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Intransigent

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Stubborn

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Esoteric

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Inaccessible or hard to understand

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Abstruse

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Inaccessible or hard to understand

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Nonplussed

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Perplexed

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Dolorous

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full of, expressing, or causing pain or sorrow; grievous; mournful

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Histrionic

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of or relating to actors or acting.

deliberately affected or self-consciously emotional; overly dramatic, in behavior or speech.

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Inimical

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adverse in tendency or effect; unfavorable; harmful

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Gregarious

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fond of the company of others; sociable

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Scurrilous

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grossly or obscenely abusive

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Arcane

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Known or understood by very few; obscure

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Abjured

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To renounce or recant

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Malfeasance

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the performance by a public official of an act that is legally unjustified, harmful, or contrary to law

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Supercilious

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haughtily disdainful or contemptuous, as a person or a facial expression.

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Sardonic

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characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mocking; cynical; sneering: a sardonic grin.

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Fatuous

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foolish or inane, especially in an unconscious, complacent manner; silly.

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Ribald

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vulgar or indecent in speech, language, etc.; coarsely mocking, abusive, or irreverent; scurrilous.

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Ignominious

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Discreditable; humiliating

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Apocryphal

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of doubtful authorship or authenticity.

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Acumen

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keen insight; shrewdness

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Acridity

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sharp or biting to the taste or smell; bitterly pungent

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Trenchancy

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incisive or keen, as language or a person; caustic; cutting

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Mellifluous

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sweetly or smoothly flowing;

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Euphonic

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Pleasant to the ear

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Extirpate

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to remove or destroy totally; do away with; exterminate.

to pull up by or as if by the roots; root up: to extirpate an unwanted hair.

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Recondite

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dealing with very profound, difficult, or abstruse subject matter

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Punctilious

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strict or exact in the observance of the formalities or amenities of conduct or actions.

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Waggish

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Jocular

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Salubrious

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Favorable to or promoting health

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Truculent

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fierce; cruel; savagely brutal.

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Panegyrical

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a lofty oration or writing in praise of a person or thing; eulogy.

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Ebullient

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overflowing with fervor, enthusiasm, or excitement

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Phlegmatic

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not easily excited to action or display of emotion; apathetic; sluggish.

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catholic

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broad or wide-ranging in tastes, interests, or the like; having sympathies with all

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Anecdotal

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based on personal observation, case study reports, or random investigations rather than systematic scientific evaluation

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Nominal

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being such in name only; so-called;

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Vituperate

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to use or address with harsh or abusive language; revile.

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Orotund

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(of the voice or speech) characterized by strength, fullness, richness, and clearness.

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Depilation

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to remove the hair from (hides, skin, etc.).

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Sanguine

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cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident

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Torrid

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oppressively hot, parching, or burning

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Harbinger

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anything that foreshadows a future event; omen

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Repudiate

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to reject as having no authority or binding force

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Effigy

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a representation or image, especially sculptured, as on a monument.

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Cosseted

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to treat as a pet; pamper; coddle.

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Arid

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being without moisture; extremely dry; parched

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Inundated

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to flood; cover or overspread with water; deluge.

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Decried

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to speak disparagingly of; denounce as faulty or worthless; express censure of

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Quaff

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to drink a beverage, especially an intoxicating one, copiously and with hearty enjoyment.

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