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tenuous?

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weak flimsy thin

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fugacious?

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temporary that are easy to pass by

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repudiate

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cast off reject

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assuage

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to relieve to ease to allay

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covetous

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greedy desire to own something that is someone else’s

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protracted

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careful exhaustive

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clement

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moderate mild calm

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defray

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cover the costs of, pay

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solicitous

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showing concern care and attention

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ingratiating

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to win favour of, flattering

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unctuous

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flattering

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extemporize

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to improvise

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expunge

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to expel erase eradicate

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quiescent

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quiet still inactive

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quandry

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state of uncertainty

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cavil

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nitpick, point put petty flaws

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clairvoyant

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having exceptional powers of perception

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fastidious

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finicky extremely delicate

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punctilious

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paying attention to extremely fine points of detail

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categorical

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absolute

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provident

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economical saving thrifty

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impute

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charge or assign a blame

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trenchant

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sharp acute

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laity

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non professionals

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prosaic

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dull ordinary

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perfunctory

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routine mechanical perform without enthusiasm

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morass

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swamp march bog, sticky or troublesome situation

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sophistry

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deceptive reasoning

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pontificate

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speak in a pompous way

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surreptitious

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stealthy sly shifty

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pugnacious

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quarrelsome

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facile

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Easy, easily done, performed or achieved in an easy effortless way

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Convivial

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Festive, sociable

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Eschew

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To abstain from, shun, avoid

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Approbation

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Approval, acceptance

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Legerdemain

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Deception, cleverly executed trick, slight of hand

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Puerile

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Childish, immature

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Transmute

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Transform or change the nature of, usually into something better

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Edify

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Beach, to make better, enlighten

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Supercilious

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Arrogant, haughty

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Vacuous

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Empty vacant, devoid of any substance interest or intelligence

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Capacious

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Rumi, spacious, ample

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Mnemonic

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Related to memory

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Circuitous

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Indirect, roundabout

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Tangential

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Slightly connected or not connected

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Tenable

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Easily defended, reasonable something you can defend

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Untenable

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Something indefensible unreasonable

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supine

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Lying on your back, face upward

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Heterodox

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Having an opinion different from the conventional or the excepted opinion

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Malinger

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To pretend to be sick to get out of responsibility

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Aver

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State or declare with confidence

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Refractory

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Resisting control or authority, unruly

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Discursive

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Digressing, going from one topic to another

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Redress

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Compensation Reparation 

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Obsequious

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Submissive, subservient

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Truncate

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Cut short, shortened by cutting

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Pernicious

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Dangerous fatal deadly

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Catholic?

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All inclusive, universal comprehensive

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Objuration

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Harsh rebuke, vehement scolding

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Effusive

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Gushing overflowing

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Umbrage

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Offence, resentment

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Vicissitude

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Mutation, fluctuation, change

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Obeisance

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A gesture of respect, veneration, homage and attitude of respect or submission

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Assiduous

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Hard-working, industrious careful

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Duplicity

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Deceit, cunning double dealing

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Insouciant

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Carefree, calm nonchalantI am concerned, free from worry

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Fortuitous

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Happening by chance, accident

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Apprise

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Inform to inform

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Appraise

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To evaluate the worth of

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Myrmidon

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A loyal follower

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Germane

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Relevant, fitting precisely to the point

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Licentious

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lustful, lewd, sexually abandoned, lacking moral restraint

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Libertine

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Sexually abandoned, lacking moral restraint, lustful

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Lubricious

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lustful, loose,

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Superannuated

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Retired due to old age, obsolete, outmoded

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effete

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Obsolete, outmoded ineffective

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descrepit

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Outmoded, obsolete, old and worn out

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Vapid

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Dull lifeless boring

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Crotchet

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An old way more fancy that one clings onto stubbornly

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Epigraph

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an scription in the beginning

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Epitaph

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and inscription at the grave of somebody

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Epigram

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A quick witty saying

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Expatiate

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To write, speak at great length

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sinecure

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A job or a position that requires no work but rewards handsomely

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Predilection

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inclination

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Imbroglio

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A tougher intricate situation, a difficult perplexing state of affairs

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Ineffable

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Unable to be expressed in words

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Stolid

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Not easily moved aroused or excited showing little or no feelings motions

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offal

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Garbage, rubbish, waste

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lissome

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Moving gracefully

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Surfeit

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To feel excessively usually to the point of discomfort sickness or disgust

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Blandishment

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An act or speech that flatters

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Prolixity

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Wordy, long winded and boring, for

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Apocryphal

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unauthentic false

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Cupidity

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Greedy avarice

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vernal

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Related to spring

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temerity

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Recklessness rashness

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rapprochement

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re-establishing of friendly relations

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Disquisition

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Discourse

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Munificence

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Great generosity

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Probity

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Honesty integrity

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puissant

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Powerful strong mighty

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Pusillanimous

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Cowardly

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peculate

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Embezzlement

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Diffident

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Shy, scared to speak up

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Venal

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Corruptible

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Extant

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Existing

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Meretricious

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gaudy, tawdry, flashy in a cheap way

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Quotidian

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Daily, recurring every day

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bet noire

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A great beast, something somebody dislikes or wants to avoid

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bon mot

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A witty and clever remark

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elan

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spirited self assurance

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chutzpa

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Audacity

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on the qui vive

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On the alert, ready and watchful

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coup de grâce

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A final stroke that brings mercy to someone

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pro tempore

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For the time being, temporary

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sine qua non

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Something which is absolutely necessary

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Pulchritude

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Beauty loveliness attractiveness

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Denouements

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Unravelling of the plot

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fugacious

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Temporary passing away

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Turbid

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Mercury cloudy and clear

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indefeasible

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In alienable - not subject to being loat

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Scurrilous

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Foulmouthed, obscene vulgar

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Recrudescence

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Something that occurs over a brief break again

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defenestrate

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Throwing something out of the window

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desultory

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Lacking a plan, purpose

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Salubrious

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Health full, wholesome

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Noisome

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Unwholesome harmful to health

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dilatory

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Something that causes delay

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vilify

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Slander, defame

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Phlegmatic

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calm sluggish

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Adventitious

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Accidentally or casually acquired

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Desiccated

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Deprived of moisture

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Comity

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civilness, politeness

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Specious

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Appearing to be true at first glance but actually unauthentic false unreasonable

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Calumny

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Defamation of character

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Excoriate

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denounce someone harshly

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Lassitude

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, fatigue. weariness

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traduce

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To defame in public by using false or malicious statements

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dishabille

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Partial undress

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Saturnalia

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orgy licentious merrymaking 

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Extirpate

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Exterminate abolish

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flagitious

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Extremely wicked

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Peripatetic

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Itinerant

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cachinnate

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Laughing loudly and convulsively

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Manumit

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To liberate, free from slavery or bondage

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Expiation

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Atonement of sins

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jejune

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dull, uninteresting, insipid, vapid

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minatory

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Threatening

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Putative

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supposed, reputed

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lucubration

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Labour done at night

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Lives in a cave, primitive man, act in a primitive way, lives in seclusion

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aleatory

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Depending on luck or chance, unpredictable

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Farrago

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Mix, especially a confusing mix

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cynosure

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Focal point, centre of attention

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badinage

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Friendly banter

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hieratic

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Only by priests, used only for holy purposes

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Saturnine

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gloomy, sombre

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Execrate

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to denounce vehemently

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Vitiate

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To corrupt to ruin

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Venial

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Forgiveable

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Risible

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Capable of arousing laughter

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Lionise

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To treat somebody like a celebrity or an important personality

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contretemps

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An embarrassing situation

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rodomontade

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Arrogant bragging

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hebetude

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dull, stupid

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deipnosophist

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An adept conversationalist

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Frangible

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Fragile

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apodictic

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absolute

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fulminate

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To explode, along with invective language

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hebdomadal

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Weekly,or a period of seven days

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Divagate

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Digress

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iatrogenic

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Caused due to medical treatment

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tergiversation

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Abandon, desertion

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Presage

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To indicate something bad is about to happen

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Precipitate

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Rash, acting impulsively

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Presentiment

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Feeling that something bad is about to happen

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pretense

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an action that makes people believe that something is not true
example: she could not keep up the pretence that she likes him

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pyrrhic

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A victory at great cost

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Jeremiad

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A long speech full of complaints

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Spartan

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Lacking comfort

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hector

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Bully

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demur

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Object

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parvenu

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Somebody who recently rose to power but is not accepted in the general society

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rapport

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General understanding between a community or a group of people

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PASSE

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Not in fashion anymore

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cache

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A collection of items hidden away for fiture use

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raconteur

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A skilled storyteller

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Sangfroid

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calm

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tete a tete

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A private conversation between two people

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kaput

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No longer in existence, no longer functioning

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littoral

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Along the coast

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Insular

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Separated from the rest of the world

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jaunt

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A journey for pleasure

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Sedulous

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Assiduous, hard-working

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Restive

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Restless

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peruse

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Go through carefully

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pre possessing

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Attractive

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Intemperate

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Given to access, especially in matters of imbibing alcohol

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Burnish

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Making shiny

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quiescent

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In activity

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Remiss

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Neglect

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Obstreperous

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Very loud and out of control

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chary

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Careful and cautious, prudent

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Palaver

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idle chatter

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Extraneous

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Non-essential

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Superfluous

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Excessive non-essential

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histrionics

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excessively grammatical or theatric in style

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Adjunct

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Something added, joined

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amenable

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Friendly, cordial

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antidiluvian

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Prehistoric

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apothegm

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Witty remark

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apposite

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Relevant, strikingly appropriate

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Approbation

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Approval, prayers, acceptance

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apropos

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Relevant

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argot

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Specialised vocabulary of a group or community

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Artless

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Guileless, natural

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asperity

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Harshness, severity

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aspersion

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False rumour, deliberately misleading rumour

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Astringent

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Harsh severe

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Atavism

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Return of traits after a period of time

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attenuate

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exacerbate, weaken

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Austere

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unadorned, stern

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avocation

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Secondary occupation

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Axiomatic

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Taken for granted

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bacchanalian

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licentious merrymaking, drunken festivity

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beatify

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to sanctify, to bless

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bedizen

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dressing in an obscene manner

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belie

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To contradict, to give false impression of

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badge

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Beg

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canard

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False, deliberately misleading story

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cant

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Noiseless talk, insincere talk

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Carping

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Fault finding

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caucus

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A group within an organisation

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Centrifugal

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Away from the centre

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Centripetal

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Towards the centre

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Churlish

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Boorish, rude

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clamour

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Outcry, noise

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Cloister

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to seclude to confine

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coalesce

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To come together for a cause

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coda

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Concluding part of a literary novel

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Concomitant

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existing concurrently

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Confound

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Baffled, perplex

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Consecrate

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Declared sacred

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Continence

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Self control, self abnegation, abstention from sexual activity

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Abstention

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Self control, refraining from doing something especially alcohol

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Contumacious

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rebellious, disobedient, recalcitrant

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Conundrum

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Problem with no solution, riddle, Puzzle

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Convention

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Practice that’s widely observed

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convulated

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Twisted, complicated

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Coquette

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Woman who flirts

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Covert

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Secret, hidden

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 cozen

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deliberately mislead, fraud trick

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Craven

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cowardly

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Credence

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Acceptance of something as true

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daunt

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Intimidate, threaten, frighten

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Defunct

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no longer existing no longer functioning, kaput

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Deference

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Respect

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Delineate

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depict, represent

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Demotic

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relating to people 

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Denigrate

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Defame, slur somebody’s reputation

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deride

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Mock

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desuetude

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State of disuse

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Diaphanous

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transparent

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DIRGE

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funeral hymn

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Discomfit

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to make uneasy

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Disabuse

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to free from misconception, exculpate

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Discordant

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Not in tune

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Dissemble

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Disguise one’s motives

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Discrete

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Distinct, different

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Discretion

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Minding one’s language and speech

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doctrinaire

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Dogmatic, unyielding

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Dissident

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Somebody who disagrees about beliefs

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Dissonance

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Lack of harmony

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distrait

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 inattentive, preoccupied

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Distill

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Extract the important elements

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Thespian

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dramatic, acting theatrical

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Expatriate

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sent into exile

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Explicate

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Explain clarify

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Expository

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explanatory

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Facetious

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Humorous

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Factotum

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Handyman that does all sorts of jobs

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Fatuous

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Self-satisfied foolishly

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felicitous

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appropriate, well chosen

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Flout

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, disregard treat scornfully

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Foment

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to stir it up, instigate

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Forbearance

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Patience

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Forswear

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denounce renounce, repudiate

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fracas

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Quarrel, loud

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Quarrelsome

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Froward

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Stubborn, disobedient, obstinate

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fulsome

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excessively disgusting

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Gainsay

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deter

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Gambol

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Frolic

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halycon

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Calm and composed

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Hallowed

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Sacred, holy

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harangue

A

Long pompous speech

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homily

A

sermon

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idolatry

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Idol worship

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Imprecation

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curse

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inchoate

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imperfectly formulated

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indolent

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Lazy

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Ineluctable

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Inevitable

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Insularity

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Narrowmindedness, isolation

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peremptory

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expected to be obeyed immediately

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insuperable

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Unconquerable

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Interdict

A

For bid

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Internecine

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Harmful to both sides

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Interpolate

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Insert

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Interregnum

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Gap in continuity

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Intransigence

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Stubborn, opposing authority

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inured

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Accustomed to, used to

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inveigh

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To disapprove

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inveigle

A

To win over by flattery

315
Q

Invidious

A

Offensive

316
Q

jibe

A

to mock, insult

317
Q

Jocose

A

amusing jocular

318
Q

labile

A

Likely to change

319
Q

lambaste

A

To thrash verbally or physically

320
Q

Libertine

A

Having loose morals

321
Q

limn

A

To describe

322
Q

Limpid

A

Clear, transparent

323
Q

Diaphanous

A

Transparent

324
Q

lucre

A

Money or profit

325
Q

machiavellian

A

Crafty

326
Q

menagerie

A

Collection of variety of animals

327
Q

mettle

A

Courage

328
Q

minutia

A

Small details, petty details

329
Q

neophyte

A

tyro, amateur

330
Q

nexus

A

centre

331
Q

nugatory

A

Invalid

332
Q

occlude

A

Opposite of include,

333
Q

officious

A

Meddlesome

334
Q

Opprobrium

A

Disgrace

335
Q

paean

A

Song of joy

336
Q

pallid

A

lacking color, dull

337
Q

panegyric

A

elaborate praise

338
Q

Pathological

A

Away from normal

339
Q

patois

A

Regional dialect

340
Q

pellucid

A

Transparent

341
Q

Peregrination

A

Itinerant, travelling from one place to another

342
Q

Perfidious

A

Untrustworthy, disloyal

343
Q

Perrigee

A

closest to the earth

344
Q

physiognomy

A

Facial features

345
Q

pique

A

Fleeting feeling of hurt

346
Q

piquant

A

Attractive

347
Q

plumb

A

Examine deeply

348
Q

poseur

A

Somebody who changes themselves to appeal to others

349
Q

prate

A

idle chatter

350
Q

precept

A

law or principle

351
Q

Prevaricate

A

Evade the truth

352
Q

Propitiate

A

To appease, win over

353
Q

Propriety

A

Correct conduct

354
Q

purport

A

claim

355
Q

quagmire

A

Difficult situation

356
Q

quail

A

To lose heart

357
Q

qualms

A

moral restrictions

358
Q

raiment

A

Clothing

359
Q

rarefied

A

Different from the lives and concerns of ordinary people

360
Q

recant

A

taking back something said (publicly)

361
Q

recondite

A

Something about which little is known

362
Q

Abstruse

A

Difficult to understand

363
Q

relegate

A

to consign an inferior position

364
Q

renege

A

To go back on one’s word

365
Q

repine

A

Complain

366
Q

Reprise

A

Repetition

367
Q

Reproach

A

Blame

368
Q

Reprobate

A

Extremely wicked

369
Q

riposte

A

Retaliatory action

370
Q

Rubric

A

Heading, establish mood of procedure or conduct, protocols

371
Q

subterfuge

A

Trick

372
Q

stratgem

A

Trick

373
Q

Salutary

A

Favourable to health

374
Q

Sartorial

A

Pertaining to Tailor

375
Q

sedulous

A

Diligent, hard-working

376
Q

serville

A

Subservient

377
Q

sidereal

A

Related to stars

378
Q

Simiam

A

Ape like

379
Q

sinuous

A

intricate,

380
Q

Stentorian

A

Extremely loud

381
Q

Stultify

A

To impair

382
Q

stygian

A

Dark, hellish

383
Q

Sundry

A

Various

384
Q

sylvan

A

Relating to woodd and forest

385
Q

tome

A

Large. Old book

386
Q

torpor, torpid

A

Lethargy, sluggishness

387
Q

tout

A

Promote

388
Q

Tractable

A

Obedient, yielding

389
Q

travail

A

Work

390
Q

Travesty

A

Parody

391
Q

Tremulous

A

Trembling

392
Q

truculence

A

Aggressiveness

393
Q

Tutelary

A

Tutelage

394
Q

Untoward

A

Not wholesome, troublesome

395
Q

vaunt

A

boast, Brag

396
Q

veracious

A

Truthful

397
Q

veracity

A

Accuracy

398
Q

Virtuoso

A

Master

399
Q

visage

A

Appearance

400
Q

weltor

A

To be in turmoil

401
Q

zealot

A

Rebel

402
Q

abstemious

A

Moderate in appetite

403
Q

gourmand

A

Person who enjoys fine food

404
Q

hoodwink

A

To deceive

405
Q

charlaton

A

Some person who indulges in chicanery

406
Q

bilk

A

To cheat

407
Q

stalwart

A

Faithful, loyal, reliable

408
Q

dirisory

A

Derisive, disparaging

409
Q

Reproach

A

To express disappointment

410
Q

Slight

A

To insult by ignore 

411
Q

Vivacious

A

Lively and animated

412
Q

celerity

A

Swiftness

413
Q

Feckless

A

Irresponsible, unmotivated

414
Q

Portmanteau

A

Word formed by joining to words, example smog

415
Q

eponymous

A

Named after a person

416
Q

Bombastic

A

Pompous

417
Q

Sesquipedalian

A

Somebody who enjoys using very long words

418
Q

Benighted

A

unelightened

419
Q

Unlettered

A

Illiterate

420
Q

Collegial

A

Camaraderie within a group

421
Q

Brusque

A

Short and to the point, almost to the degree of being impolite

422
Q

Impolitic

A

Unwise

423
Q

Philistine

A

Ignorant of art and culture

424
Q

reverie

A

The state of being lost in day dreams

425
Q

palimpset

A

something reused or altered but still bearing visible traces of its earlier form.

426
Q

curio

A

rare, unusual, or intriguing object.

427
Q

educe

A

bring out or develop (something latent or potential).

428
Q

Bereavement

A

the state of having lost a relative or close friend who has recently died

429
Q

Ignoble

A

Having dishonourable character

430
Q

Contemptible

A

Despicable

431
Q

mullish

A

stubborn, obstinate

432
Q

waspish

A

Irascible, easily angered

433
Q

Apostate

A

Someone who rejects widely excepted beliefs

434
Q

priggish

A

Sanctimonious, holier than thou

435
Q

Sacrilege

A

blasphemy

436
Q

Inviolable

A

Pure

437
Q

Novitiate

A

Beginner in a religion

438
Q

syncretic

A

Fusion of several different beliefs

439
Q

ecclesiastical

A

Related to clergy or church

440
Q

Anathema

A

curse

441
Q

Ecumenical

A

Union of different churches

442
Q

Extenuate

A

lessen the severity

443
Q

Execrate

A

to express disappointment disapproval

444
Q

Expurgate

A

To remove objectionable content

445
Q

discreet

A

Not drawing attention to an activity that is generally kept private

446
Q

Flounder

A

Flail about

447
Q

Founder

A

to sink

448
Q

Ingratiate

A

To appease

449
Q

Cloying

A

Overly sentimental to the point of being disgusting

450
Q

mawkish

A

Synonym of cloying, overly sentimental

451
Q

besmirch

A

To slander

452
Q

Raillery

A

to tease

453
Q

Jingoist

A

patriotic and constantly calling for war

454
Q

Propitiate

A

To appease

455
Q

Phantasmagorical

A

Characterised by many suddenly changing images, as in a nightmare or hallucination

456
Q

Schism

A

A major rift within a large group

457
Q

coterie

A

A group that has shared interest

458
Q

Diminutive

A

Very tiny

459
Q

Prodigious

A

Great

460
Q

Slipshod

A

Careless

461
Q

Persnickety

A

Fault finding, nitpicky

462
Q

Moribund

A

Almost dying

463
Q

verdant

A

Lush and green

464
Q

Intermittent

A

Occurring on and off

465
Q

Interminable

A

Without an end

466
Q

Stasis

A

State of inactivity

467
Q

blithe

A

Calm and happy

468
Q

dour

A

morose, persistently glum

469
Q

crepuscular

A

Describing the evening

470
Q

fin de siecle

A

describing the period at the end of the 19th century

471
Q

Palatable

A

Agreeable, pleasant tasting

472
Q

toothsome

A

Delicious

473
Q

Impertinent

A

Rude

474
Q

Garish

A

gaudy, obtrusily bright and showy

475
Q

Panache

A

Stylish

476
Q

protean

A

able to take different forms

477
Q

largesse

A

Munificent, generosity in giving gifts

478
Q

sybarite

A

A person who indulges in highly luxurious and sensual things

479
Q

Profligate

A

Excessively wasteful

480
Q

Epicurean

A

devoted to a life of lavish living

481
Q

maudlin

A

silly and sentimental

482
Q

Hamstring

A

To make someone powerless

483
Q

choleric

A

Easily angered

484
Q

Bilious

A

Bad Tempered

485
Q

Chimera

A

Illusion

486
Q

Apollonian

A

Relating to peoples rational side

487
Q

dionysian

A

Relating to peoples emotional side

488
Q

Chereb

A

Baby or somebody with angelic features

489
Q

Seraphic

A

Describing someone with an angelic feature

490
Q

theodicy

A

belief that evil has a purpose

491
Q

empyrean

A

Heavens

492
Q

numinous

A

Supernatural

493
Q

Polymath

A

somebody w skills in various fields

494
Q

Destitute

A

Very poor

495
Q

maven

A

Skilful, an expert

496
Q

barnstorm

A

Go to rural places to collect vote

497
Q

Apparatchik

A

Blindly loyal officer of an organisation

498
Q

plenary

A

A meeting with all the members

499
Q

Scapegoat

A

somebody who is blamed for things that isnt their fault

500
Q

uproarious

A

Extremely humorous

501
Q

Disconsolate

A

So sad that you can’t console

502
Q

elegiac

A

Extremely mournful

503
Q

snub

A

Ignore

504
Q

cipher

A

Person of no importance

505
Q

aquiesce

A

Agree reluctantly

506
Q

Turpitude

A

Depraved

507
Q

kowtow

A

Meek, To kowtow’ means to show somebody in authority too much respect and be too willing to obey them.

508
Q

Imperious

A

Extremely bossy and commanding

509
Q

Impudent

A

cheeky and Rude

510
Q

Lugubrious

A

Excessively mournful

511
Q

redowned

A

contribute greatly to (a person’s credit or honour).

512
Q

Tenacious

A

Determined

513
Q

perspicacity

A

shrewdness

514
Q

gravitas

A

Seriousness, dignity

515
Q

Welsh

A

Break a promise

516
Q

Rapture

A

Feeling of extreme happiness

517
Q

Deliquesce

A

Melt away

518
Q

comely

A

Pleasant to look at

519
Q

Nebbish

A

meek

520
Q

kvetch

A

Complain

521
Q

kibitz

A

To talk to someone formally

522
Q

nonpareil

A

Unparalleled

523
Q

Fulcrum

A

The point on which something is supported

524
Q

Entropy

A

Disorganised

525
Q

Ascendant

A

Gaining influence

526
Q

rife

A

Describing something that is very harmful but widespread

527
Q

Entreat

A

To plead

528
Q

Inexorable

A

Incapable of being stopped

529
Q

Indomitable

A

Impossible to stop

530
Q

armistice

A

An agreement between two parties to stop fighting

531
Q

maraud

A

raid or Pillage

532
Q

revanshism

A

Seeking of lost territory

533
Q

Curmudgeon

A

Ill tempered person

534
Q

Bromide

A

platitude

535
Q

Self aggrandisement

A

Portraying one self as highly important

536
Q

Self-effacing

A

Taking the conversation away from oneself

537
Q

vie

A

To compete

538
Q

Pith

A

The essence of something

539
Q

Indefatigable

A

Not tiring not giving up

540
Q

detente

A

The lessening of hostility between nations

541
Q

ado

A

fuss

542
Q

avant garde

A

Somebody who creates or invents new ideas or things

543
Q

Flummox

A

To perplex

544
Q

Discombobulate

A

Completely confused

545
Q

Intrepid

A

Fearless

546
Q

edict

A

A decree or proclamation

547
Q

bailiwick

A

Somebody’s area of interest or knowledge

548
Q

Malapropism

A

Using a word in a wrong way

549
Q

eudaemonic

A

Promoting happiness

550
Q

euphony

A

Harmonious pleasant sound

551
Q

Anthropomorphic

A

Having human characteristics

552
Q

Anthropophagy

A

Cannibalism

553
Q

circumambulate

A

walk Around something

554
Q

Circumvent

A

To figure your way around a problem

555
Q

Protuberance

A

Something that sticks out, protrudes

556
Q

Provenance

A

The origin of something

557
Q

Providential

A

Opportune, fortunate, happening at the right time

558
Q

Transmogrified

A

Transform in a surprising manner

559
Q

transpose

A

Cause two things to swap places

560
Q

Transgress

A

To stay away from what is moral behaviour

561
Q

discry

A

To discern

562
Q

periphrastic

A

long winded, talk in a roundabout way

563
Q

Parapet

A

A protective wall

564
Q

Paroxysm

A

A burst of emotion

565
Q

panoply

A

A lavish display of something



566
Q

Pantomime

A

use only hands to indicate something or communicate something

567
Q

Pantheist

A

Somebody who is a believer in a great spiritual being

567
Q

Pantheist

A

Somebody who is a believer in a great spiritual being

568
Q

Pantheist

A

Somebody who is a believer in a great spiritual being

569
Q

Apotheosis

A

A perfect example

570
Q

apothegm

A

A old saying

571
Q

Apoplectic

A

Extremely angry

572
Q

Reconnoitre

A

To inspect and learn something about an area

573
Q

Antebellum

A

before the Civil War

574
Q

casus bellie

A

A justification for war war

575
Q

Subterranean

A

Underground

575
Q

Subterranean

A

Underground

575
Q

Interloper

A

Intruder

576
Q

Interlocutor

A

somebody’s engagement conversation

577
Q

Inimical

A

Hostile

578
Q

inter

A

To bury

579
Q

Indoctrination

A

teaching instruction

580
Q

Arrogate

A

Take something without justification

581
Q

supererogatory

A

Unnecessary, beyond what is necessary

582
Q

abut

A

Share boundaries with

583
Q

Aficionado

A

Somebody who has special interest in something, somebody who is passionate about some subject or some field

584
Q

Atrophy

A

Wearing down due to lack of use

585
Q

Aphasia

A

Inability to speak

586
Q

Consanguinity

A

Relatedness through blood

587
Q

Contumacious

A

Stubborn

588
Q

Decadent

A

Something that is inclined to disrepute

589
Q

Detritus

A

To refuse

590
Q

enjoin

A

To urge someone to do something

591
Q

ensconce

A

To hide

592
Q

Encomium

A

Speech with highest praise

593
Q

Factoid

A

A false fact that has been around for so long that it accepted as true

594
Q

Putrefaction

A

Decaying of body

595
Q

Endogenous

A

Originating internally

596
Q

Unmitigated

A

Aisa kuch Kam nahin hua Hai, absolute

597
Q

Compendious

A

Comprehensive but concise

598
Q

Antiquated

A

Old-fashioned

599
Q

Bedlam

A

Utter chaos

600
Q

beguile

A

To deceive in a charming way

601
Q

carouse

A

To go around partying

602
Q

Festoon festoon

A

Decorate something

603
Q

Finagle

A

to get something through chicanery

604
Q

foist

A

For someone to do something

605
Q

Fritter

A

Waste

606
Q

filigree

A

Fanciful decoration around the edges

607
Q

Gentrification

A

Converting from low to high end

608
Q

glom

A

Grab on to something

609
Q

harry

A

harass incessantly

610
Q

Impervious

A

Something that cannot be penetrated

611
Q

Languorous

A

Pleasant lethargic

612
Q

leery

A

Being suspicious

613
Q

nary

A

Not any

614
Q

Natter

A

Talk aimlessly and unnecessarily, idle chatter

615
Q

natty

A

Dressing in fine clothes

616
Q

Ossify

A

To get rigid, Harden

617
Q

Ornery

A

mean spirited

618
Q

oeuvre

A

The complete work of an artist

619
Q

Quisling

A

Traitor

620
Q

ululate

A

howl like a wolf

621
Q

Prognosticate

A

Predict through currently available information

622
Q

rarefy

A

to make rare, to weaken

623
Q

Unwonted

A

Unaccustomed

624
Q

Caparisoned

A

Adorn

625
Q

DOUGHTY

A

Valiant, brave

626
Q

paladin

A

Champion of a cause

627
Q

rancor

A

Deep seated hatred

628
Q

Bellwether

A

Leader

629
Q

Contumacious

A

Stubborn

630
Q

Ablutions

A

Act of Washing oneself, religious connotation

631
Q

volte face

A

Complete change of attitude

632
Q

savoir faire

A

the ability to act in a particular way in public

633
Q

rechereche

A

To obsecure and unusual to be understood

634
Q

pro rata

A

proportional

635
Q

zephyer

A

Soft gentle breeze

636
Q

putsch

A

secretly plotted and suddenly executed attempt to overthrow a government

637
Q

paroxysm

A

a sudden attack or outburst of a particular emotion or activity.

638
Q

auscultate

A

To listen to sounds within such cavities of the body as the chest and abdomen

639
Q

effeminate

A

Having qualities that are feminine

640
Q

immure

A

To build a wall around

641
Q

Proffer

A

To bring forward, to offer

642
Q

divulsion

A

Tearing apart

643
Q

encaustic

A

Fixed by heat

644
Q

Supernumerary

A

Not essential, superfluous above the number

645
Q

secede

A

Go away, with draw

646
Q

Hyperborean

A

Beyond the north

647
Q

out herod

A

Exceed in violence

648
Q

periphrastic

A

talk in a roundabout way

649
Q

antepenult

A

Before almost the last

650
Q

Prognosis

A

Forecast

651
Q

nonage

A

Youth, immaturity

652
Q

Unstinting

A

Not holding back

653
Q

Countermands

A

Cancel, rescind

654
Q

Obloquy

A

Disgrace, censure

655
Q

dyspepsia

A

Bad digestion

656
Q

Rectitude

A

Righteousness

657
Q

autochthonous

A

Native, aboriginal, original, indigenous

658
Q

bedight

A

Adorned

658
Q

bedight

A

Adorned

659
Q

paronomasia

A

Play on words, in which one uses words whose sounds are closely alike but whose meanings are different, pun

660
Q

Oblation

A

a thing presented to God

661
Q

colloquy

A

Conversation

662
Q

prorogue

A

postpone, defer

663
Q

penumbra

A

almost shade

664
Q

Adumbrate

A

Foreshadow, indicate

665
Q

perfidy

A

untrustworthy, deceitful

666
Q

Apostate

A

Projector of religion,

667
Q

Animadversion

A

Criticise, censure

668
Q

accretion

A

gradual increase

669
Q

sexton

A

Church custodian

670
Q

eleemosynary

A

Dependent upon charity

671
Q

asseverate

A

To declare solemnly

672
Q

Benison

A

Blessing

672
Q

costive

A

Slow, reluctant

672
Q

desideratum

A

Something that was needed, required, prerequisite

673
Q

solipsist

A

Extreme egocentrism

674
Q

sequestered’

A

means isolated or separated.

675
Q

Poltroon

A

means an utter coward.

676
Q

portent

A

sign or warning tyat somethung cataclysmic is ab to happen

677
Q

beleaguered

A

in a very difficult situation.

678
Q

credulous

A

Having to greater readiness to believe things

679
Q

inimical

A

Tending to obstruct, harm, hostile

680
Q

emend

A

make changes or improvements to a text

680
Q

palliate

A

lessen the severity, allay

680
Q

exiguous

A

very small in size

681
Q

preponderance

A

1 : a superiority in weight, power, importance, or strength

682
Q

emollient

A

attempting to avoid confrontation or anger; calming or conciliatory.

683
Q

bedvil

A

something bad) cause great and continual trouble to.

684
Q

conscientacious

A

wishing to do one’s work or duty well and thoroughly.

685
Q

obtrude

A

intrude

686
Q

cthonic

A

relating to or inhabiting the underworld.

687
Q

mordant

A

especially of humour) having or showing a sharp or critical quality; biting.

688
Q

ignominy

A

public shame or disgrace.

689
Q

impunity

A

pardon

690
Q

lurid

A

unpleasantly bright in colour, especially so as to create a harsh or unnatural effect.

691
Q

billious

A

(of a colour) lurid or sickly.

692
Q

gravamen

A

the essence or the most serious part of a complaint or accusation

693
Q

effluvium

A

bad odour

694
Q

perspicuity

A

the ability to think write and speak clearly

695
Q

regurgitate

A

to bring up or repeat information without understanding it

696
Q

regurgitate

A

to bring up or repeat information without understanding it

697
Q

redoubtable

A

formidable person

698
Q

lodestar

A

a person or thing that serves as an inspiration or guide.

699
Q

lodestar

A

a person or thing that serves as an inspiration or guide.

700
Q

languorous

A

lazy, lethargic

701
Q

impassive

A

not showing any emotion

702
Q

bone idle

A

lazy

703
Q

fainéant

A

an idle or ineffective person

704
Q

otiose

A

serving no practical purpose, without any significance, vain, idle

705
Q

bumfuzzle

A

confused, perplexed or flustered

706
Q

cattywampus

A

something that is in disarray, something that is askewed

707
Q

gardyloo

A

warning given by people to pedestrians before they dumped their loo buckets into the streets

708
Q

taradiddle

A

something that is a great lie, or something/someone that is filled with pretentious nonsense

709
Q

widdershins

A

something that is going in the opposite direction, synonym of counter-clockwise

710
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