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GRE General Vocabulary Set 2 Flashcards

Studying this set, along with the others I created, got me a 162 on the verbal section and I didn't even have time to learn all of the words. On top of that, there were words that I didn't learn, from these sets, that were on the GRE. Had I learned them, my score would have been higher. I hope these sets help you get a solid score too. This set contains selections from the middle third of the Kaplan 900 GRE words list as well as various helpful words. My other sets contain more helpful words, wo

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Abrogate

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to abolish by formal or official means; to put aside; repeal.

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Abeyance

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a temporary suspension of activity.

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Abscond

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to leave quickly and secretly.

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Sanguine

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cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident; blood-red; red; bloody.

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Incarnadine

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blood-red; crimson; flesh colored; pale pink.

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Abstinence

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voluntarily refraining from eating certain foods or drink.

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Accolade

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award or honor; high praise.

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Accouterments

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personal clothing, accessories, or equipment.

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Acquit

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to find not guilty; to conduct oneself; behave.

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Adjure

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to command or urge earnestly and solemnly.

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Solemn

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grave, sober, or mirthless, as a person, the face, speech, tone, or mood; gravely or somberly impressive; causing serious thoughts or a grave mood; serious or earnest.

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Mirthful

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joyous; merry; gleeful.

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Adumbrate

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to suggest partly; to give a hint of things to come.

Also- to overshadow; to obscure

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Aegis

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protection; support; patronage.

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Aggrieve

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to distress; to oppress or wrong grievously.

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Akimbo

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having one’s hands in a bent position on the hips.

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Alchemy

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a process of transformation that is seemingly magical.

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Ambulatory

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able to walk or move about.

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Ameliorate

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to make better; to ease; to improve.

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Anathema

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someone or something loathed or intensely disliked.

An ecclesiastic curse including excommunication; a curse; execration.

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Execrate

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to detest utterly; abhor; abominate; curse; imprecate evil upon.

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Imprecate

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to invoke or call down.

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Ancillary

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subordinate; subsidiary; auxiliary; assisting.

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Anomie

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instability caused by an erosion of value or lack of purpose.

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Antipodal

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situated on opposite sides of the earth; being exactly opposite.

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Apocryphal

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false; spurious; of doubtful origin.

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Apoplexy

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a stroke resulting from loss of blood to the brain; a hemorrhage in an organ cavity or tissue which may cause marked loss of bodily function.

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Occlude

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to close; to shut in, out, or off.

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Apostasy

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a total desertion of or departure from one’s religion, principles, party, cause, etc.

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Pejorative

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having a disparaging, derogatory, or belittling effect or force.

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Disparage

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to speak of or treat slightingly; depreciate; belittle.

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Ascetic

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hermit-like life including extreme self denial or austere attitudes.

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Assiduous

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constant; unremitting; hardworking; busy; diligent.

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Unremitting

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not slackening or abating; incessant.

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Assignation

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a secret meeting, a tryst, or something assigned.

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Bacchanal

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a drunken reveler or orgy.

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Glib

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readily fluent, often thoughtlessly, superficially, or insincerely so; easy or unconstrained.

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Superficial

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being at, on, or near the surface; concerned with or comprehending only what is on the surface or obvious; external or outward; shallow; not profound or thorough.

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Bandy

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to toss back and forth; to exchange; to use in a glib way.

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Bathos

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a transition from the illustrious to the commonplace; insincere pathos.

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Pathos

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the quality or power of an experience or form of expression to evoke pity or compassion.

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Belie

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to misrepresent; to disguise the nature of; to show to be untrue; contradict.

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Besmirch

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to stain or soil (commonly as to reputation).

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Bilious

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ill-tempered; cranky; angry; extremely unpleasant or distasteful.

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Bivouac

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a temporary encampment.

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Bon Vivant

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someone who enjoys luxurious living.

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Bowdlerize

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to expurgate a written work by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or offensive.

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Expurgate

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to amend by removing words, passages, etc. deemed offensive or objectionable; to purge or cleanse of moral offensiveness.

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Brook

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to tolerate; to put up with something.

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Bumptious

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pushy; conceited; noisily self-assertive.

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Byzantine

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extremely intricate or complicated in structure.

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Cabal

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a secret group of conspirators; a clique.

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Cachet

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a mark or distinction; a quality that “says” prestige.

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Calumny

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slander; deliberate false statements.

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Capricious

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impulsive; whimsical; fanciful.

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Whimsy

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capricious humor or disposition; extravagant, fanciful, or excessively playful expression; anything odd or fanciful; a product of playful or capricious fancy.

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Cataclysm

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a violent upheaval; an earthquake; a flood.

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Upheave

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to heave or lift up; raise up or aloft; to force or throw up violently or with much power; to cause a major disturbance or disorder in.

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Aloft

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high up; far above the ground; in or into a high or higher place; up above.

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Cavil

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to quibble; raise trivial objections.

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Quibble

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an instance of the use of ambiguous, prevaricating, or irrelevant language or arguments to avoid a point or issue; a minor objection.

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Chary

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careful; cautious; wary; fastidious; timid.

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Chicanery

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trickery, deception, or evasion by quibbling, sophistry, or subterfuge.

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Subterfuge

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a stratagem employed to conceal something, evade an argument, etc.

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Sophistry

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a subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning.

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Chimerical

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wildly fanciful; highly unrealistic; unreal; imaginary; visionary.

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Circumlocution

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wordy language; an indirect, roundabout expression.

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Clout

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influence; a forceful blow.

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Cogitate

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to ponder over; to meditate; to think.

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Comport

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to behave.

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Contrite

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caused by or showing sincere remorse; penitent.

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Compunction

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remorse; feeling uneasy after having done something caused by regret; an uneasiness or hesitation about the rightness of an action.

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Concomitant

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accompanying; attending; going along with, often in a lesser way.

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Conflagration

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a large, disastrous fire.

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Contentious

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argumentative over a point; quarrelsome.

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Cortege

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a procession; a group of attendees.

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Coterie

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an intimate group of people with a common interest.

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Covet

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to desire wrongfully; to wish for with envy.

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Debacle

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a disaster or violent breakdown.

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Deleterious

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injurious to health; harmful.

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Depredate

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to prey upon, plunder, or pillage with violence if necessary.

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Descry

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to discern or make out; catch sight of; to detect; to teach the sight of.

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Desiccate

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to dry out; dehydrate (can be done to preserve food).

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Dichotomy

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division into two mutually exclusive, opposed, or contradictory groups or parts.

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Dilettante

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a dabbler; someone with a superficial knowledge (often of fine arts or science).

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Discomfit

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to confuse and deject; deceive; thwart.

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Deject

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to depress the spirits of; dispirit; dishearten.

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Disconcert

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to throw into disorder or confusion; to disturb the self possession of; perturb; ruffle.

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Perturb

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to disturb or disquiet greatly in the mind; to throw into disorder; agitate; derange.

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Disquiet

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lack of calm, peace or ease; anxiety; uneasiness; to make uneasy.

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Dissolute

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indifferent to moral constraints; given to immoral or improper conduct; dissipated; licentious.

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Licentious

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sexually unrestrained; unrestrained by law or general morality; going beyond customary or proper bounds or limits.

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Dissipate

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to break up or scatter; to squander; to engage in extravagant, intemperate, or dissolute pleasure.

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Diurnal

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occurring during the day; happens every day.

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Doff

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to remove or take off (as in clothing); to remove or tip (the hat), as in greeting; to get rid of.

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Doggerel

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Adj.- comic; crude or irregular.

Noun- a doggerel verse. (as in a verse that has the properties of the above definition)

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Dossier

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a file or collection of documents, letters, and records (especially one containing detailed information on a person or topic).

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Draconian

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rigorous; unusually severe or harsh.

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Dulcet

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having a nice, agreeable, melodious sound; pleasant or agreeable to the eye or feelings; soothing.

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Effete

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lacking in wholesome vigor; degenerate; exhausted of vigor or energy; worn out; unable to produce; sterile.

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Wholesome

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conducive to moral or general well-being; beneficial; healthy.

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Élan

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vigor, distinctive, elegant style; impetuous ardor.

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Impetuous

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of, pertaining to, or characterized by sudden or rash action, emotion, etc.

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Elliptical

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oval;
(of a style of speech or writing-) obscure or ambiguous in expression;
(in speech or writing-) relieved of irrelevant matter.

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Encomium

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a eulogy or expression of high praise.

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Endemic

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natural to or characteristic of a specific people or place; native; indigenous.

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Enervate

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to weaken; to sap the strength of.

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Ennui

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a feeling of utter weariness and discontent resulting from satiety or lack of interest; boredom.

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Ensconce

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to settle in snugly; to hide in a secure place.

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Erudite

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scholarly; deeply learned; well read.

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Espy

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to glimpse; to descry; to catch sight of.

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Ethnocentric

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the belief in the superiority of one’s race or ethnic group; a tendency to view alien groups or cultures from the perspective of one’s own.

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Evanescent

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scarcely perceptible; vanishing; fleeting; happening for the briefest moment.

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Exemplar

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a model or pattern to be copied or imitated; a typical example or instance; a copy of a book or text.

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Exigent

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urgent; requiring prompt action; requiring a great deal or more than is reasonable.

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Extirpate

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to rip up as by the roots; to abolish; to annihilate.

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Fauna

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the animals of a given region or period considered as a whole; a treatise on the animals of a given region or period.

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Feckless

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lacking responsibility; lazy; indifferent; ineffective; incompetent.

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Fecund

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producing or capable of producing offspring, fruit vegetation, etc. in abundance; prolific.

very productive or creative intellectually.

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Feral

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wild; like a wild animal; savage.

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Fetter

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to impede, restrain, or hamper.

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Hamper

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to hold back; to interfere with; hinder; impede; curtail.

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Curtail

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to cut short; cut off a part of; abridge; reduce; diminish.

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Catholic

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

universal in extent; involving all; of interest to all.

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Fey

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supernatural; unreal; being in unnaturally high spirits; whimsical; strange; otherworldly.

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Flagellate

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to whip; flog; lash.

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Flog

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to beat with a whip, stick, etc.

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Foment

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to instigate or foster; promote the growth or development of; to apply warm water or medical liquid, ointments, etc.

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Forswear

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to reject or renounce under oath; to deny vehemently or under oath.

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Fusillate

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a general discharge or outburst; a spray of gunfire.

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Gainsay

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to deny, dispute, or contradict; to speak or act out against; oppose.

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Gamin

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a neglected boy left to run about the streets; street urchin.

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Gerrymander

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to divide into election districts to gain political advantage.

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Gestalt

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a configuration, pattern, or organized field having specific properties that can not be derived from the summation of its component parts; a unified whole.

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Gesticulate

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to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.

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Gird

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to encircle or bind with a belt or band; to surround; enclose; to prepare (oneself) for action; to provide, equip, or invest, as with power or strength.

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Halitosis

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bad breath.

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Hidebound

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narrow and rigid in opinion; inflexible; oriented toward or confined to the past; extremely conservative.

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Histrionic

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of or pertaining to actors or acting; deliberately affected or self consciously emotional; overly dramatic in behavior or speech.

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Hoary

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gray or white with age; ancient; stale.

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Homeopathy

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a system of natural healing.

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Husbandry

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the judicious use of resources; livestock farming; the science of raising crops or food animals; agriculture.

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Ignominy

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shameful or dishonorable quality or conduct or an instance of this; disgrace; dishonor; public contempt.

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Imbroglio

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a difficult and confused situation; a complicated, sometimes bitter, disagreement (between people, nations, etc.).

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Impecunious

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having little or no money; penniless; poor.

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Impervious

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does not allow something to pass through; impenetrable.

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Impign

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

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Entreaty

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earnest request or petition; supplication.

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Supplicate

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to pray humbly; make humble and earnest entreaty or petition.

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Iniquitous

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characterized by injustice or wickedness; sinful.

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Insouciant

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free from concern, worry, or anxiety; carefree; nonchalant.

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Interregnum

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the period between two successive governments; any period during which a state has no ruler or only a temporary executive; any pause or interruption in continuity.

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Intransigent

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refusing to agree or compromise; inflexible.

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Inveterate

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firmly established by long continuance, as a disease, habit, practice, feeling, etc.; chronic.

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Itinerant

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a person who travels from place to place, especially for duty or business. (can also be used as an adj. meaning one who does this i.e an itinerant preacher)

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Juggernaut

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any large, overpowering, destructive force or object, as war, a giant battleship, or a powerful football team; anything requiring blind devotion or cruel sacrifice.

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Junta

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a small group ruling a country, especially immediately after a coup d’état and before a legally constituted government has been instituted; a council.

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Largess

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a generous giving of gifts; philanthropy.

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Lassitude

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a state of weariness; listlessness; a state of lethargy.

159
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Lethargy

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the quality or state of being drowsy and dull, listless and unenergetic, or indifferent and lazy; apathetic or sluggish inactivity.

160
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Leitmotif

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a motif or theme associated throughout a music drama with a particular person, situation, or idea.

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Motif

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a recurring subject, theme, idea, etc., especially in a literary, artistic, or musical work; a distinctive and recurring form, shape, figure, etc., in a design, as in a painting or on wallpaper; a dominant idea or feature.

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Levee

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an embankment designed to prevent a river from flooding. (can also be used as a verb)

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Libation

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a pouring of a drink for a religious ceremony; the mentioned drink itself; an intoxicating beverage.

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Libidinous

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full of sexual lust; lewd; lascivious.

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Lascivious

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inclined to lustfulness; wanton; lewd; arousing sexual desires.

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Lope

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to run with a long easy stride.

167
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Macerate

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to soften or separate into parts by steeping in a liquid; to cause to grow thin.

168
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Machinate

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to contrive or plot, especially artfully or with evil purpose.

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Malapropism

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an act or habit of misusing words ridiculously, especially by the confusion of words that are similar in sound.

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Malfeasance

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an illegal act, especially by a public official.

171
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Martinet

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one who adheres strictly to rules.

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Matriculate

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to enroll in a college or a university as a candidate for a degree (can be a noun also).

173
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Maudlin

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foolishly or mawkishly sentimental, can be because of drunkenness.

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Mawkish

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characterized by sickly sentimentality; maudlin; having a mildly sickening flavor; slightly nauseating.

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Mellifluous

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sweetly or smoothly flowing; sweet-sounding or tasting.

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Mercurial

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changeable; volatile; fickle; erratic; animated; lively; quick-witted.

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Erratic

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deviating from the usual or proper course in conduct or opinion; eccentric; having no fixed course; irregular in performance, behaviour, or attitude; inconsistent and unpredictable

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Miasma

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a dangerous, foreboding, or deathlike influence or atmosphere.

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Milieu

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surroundings, especially of a social or cultural nature.

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Mordant

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sharply caustic or sarcastic, as wit or a speaker; incisive; burning; corrosive; having the property of fixing colors, as in dyeing.

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Incisive

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keen, penetrating, or acute; biting or sarcastic; mordant; having a sharp cutting edge.

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Acute

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sharp or severe in effect; intense;
extremely great or serious; crucial; critical;
sharp or penetrating in intellect, insight, or perception; extremely sensitive even to slight details or impressions.

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Moribund

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in a dying state; on the verge of extinction; not progressing or advancing; stagnant.

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Muckrake

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to search for and expose real or alleged corruption, scandal, or the like, especially in politics.

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Myopia

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lack of foresight or discernment; obtuseness; narrow-mindedness; intolerance.

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Obtuse

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not quick or alert in perception, feeling, or intellect; not sensitive or observant; dull; not sharp, acute, or pointed; blunt in form; indistinctly felt or perceived, as pain or sound.

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Nabob

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any wealthy, influential, or powerful person.

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Nascent

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beginning to exist or develop.

189
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Neophyte

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a beginner or a novice.

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Nepotism

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showing favoritism to friends or family, as in granting positions in jobs or politics.

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Niggardly

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reluctant to give or spend; stingy; miserly; meanly or ungenerously small or scanty.

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Miser

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a person who lives in wretched circumstances in order to save and hoard money; a stingy, avarice person.

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Nihilism

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total rejection of established laws and institutions; anarchy, terrorism, or other revolutionary activity; the denial of all real existence or the possibility of an objective basis for truth (in philosophy).

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Nirvana

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a place or state characterized by freedom from or oblivion to pain, worry, and the external world.

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Noisome

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harmful; unwholesome; stinking (in odor): putrid

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Nonplus

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to render utterly perplexed; puzzle completely.

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Obdurate

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unmoved by persuasion, pity, or tender feelings; stubborn; stubbornly resistant to moral influence; persistently impenitent.

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Impenitent

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not feeling regret about one’s sin or sins; obdurate.

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Oeuvre

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a work of art; the sum of an artist’s work.

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Officious

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objectionably aggressive in offering one’s unrequested and unwanted services, help, or advice; meddlesome.

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Omniscient

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all knowing; infinite awareness.

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Omnivorously

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eating all kinds of foods indiscriminately (including both animals and plants); taking in everything, as with the mind.

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Onerous

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burdensome, oppressive, or troublesome; causing hardship.

having or involving obligations or responsibilities, especially legal ones, that outweigh the advantages.

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Onus

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a difficult or disagreeable obligation, task, burden, etc.; blame or responsibility.

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Opprobrium

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the disgrace or the reproach incurred by conduct considered outrageously shameful; infamy; a cause or object of such shame or reproach.

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Reproach

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to find fault with; blame; censure; to upbraid.

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Upbraid

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to find fault with or reproach severely or angrily; censure.

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Opus

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a musical composition; a literary work or composition.

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Oscillate

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to swing back and forth.

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Ossify

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to convert into or cause to harden like bone; to become rigid or inflexible in habits, attitudes, opinions, etc.

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Palliate

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to hide the seriousness of something with excuses or apologies.

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Pallid

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pale; faint or deficient in color; wan; lacking in vitality or interest.

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Wan

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of an unnatural or sickly pallor; pallid; lacking color; showing or suggesting ill health, fatigue, unhappiness, etc.; lacking in forcefulness, competence, or effectiveness.

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Panacea

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

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Panegyric

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lofty praise; eulogistic writing.

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Lofty

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extending high in the air; of imposing height; towering; exalted in rank, dignity, or character; eminent; arrogantly or condescendingly superior in manner; haughty.

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Eminence

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high station, rank, or repute; a high place or part; height.

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Paradigm

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an example serving as a model; pattern; a framework containing the basic assumptions, ways of thinking, and methodology that are commonly accepted by members of a discipline or group.

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Parsimony

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extreme or excessive economy or frugality; stinginess; niggardliness.

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Frugal

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economical in use or expenditure; prudently saving or sparing; not wasteful; entailing little expense; requiring few resources; meager; scanty.

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Patina

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surface discoloration caused by age and oxidation.

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Patois

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a language used by a particular population that differs from standard speech; jargon; argot.

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Argot

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the special vocabulary and idiom of a particular profession or social group.

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Penultimate

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next to last.

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Penury

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extreme poverty; destitution; scarcity; dearth; inadequacy; insufficiency.

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Destitute

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without means of subsistence; lacking food, clothing, and shelter; deprived of, devoid of, or lacking.

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Peregrination

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travel from one place to another, especially on foot; a course of travel; journey.

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Perfidious

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deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful.

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Perfunctory

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performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial; lacking interest, care, or enthusiasm; indifferent or apathetic.

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Perorate

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to make a long, formal speech; to sum up a speech.

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Perquisite

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a gratuity or tip; a privilege or perk that goes along with a job.

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Perspicacious

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having keen mental perception and understanding; discerning.

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Petulant

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moved to or showing sudden, impatient irritation, especially over some trifling annoyance.

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Phantasm

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an apparition or specter; a creation of the imagination or fancy; fantasy; a mental image or representation of a real object.

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Phlegmatic

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not easily aroused; calm; indifferent; self-possessed.

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Self-possessed

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having or showing control of one’s feelings, behavior, etc.; composed; poised.

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Piquant

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agreeably pungent or sharp in taste or flavor; agreeably stimulating, interesting, or attractive.

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Abase

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to reduce or lower, as in rank, office, reputation, or estimation; humble; degrade.

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Plebian

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Common person; lower class person/people.

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Pluralism

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a condition in which minority groups participate fully in the dominant society, yet maintain their cultural differences.

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Portent

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an omen; a sign of something coming; a foreshadowing.

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Pregnant

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Highly significant; overflowing; abounding.

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Prepossess

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to possess or dominate mentally beforehand, as a prejudice does; to impress favorably beforehand or at the outset.

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Prescience

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knowledge of things before they exist or happen; foreknowledge; foresight.

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Privation

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lack of comforts; poverty; a state of being deprived.

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Probity

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integrity and uprightness; honesty.

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Profligate

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utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute; recklessly prodigal or extravagant.

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Prodigal

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wastefully or recklessly extravagant; giving or yielding profusely; lavish.

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Profuse

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spending or giving freely and in large amount, often to excess; extravagant; abundant.

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Propinquity

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nearness in time, place, relation, or nature; proximity; kinship; similarity.

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Protean

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changeable in shape or form, as an amoeba; extremely variable; versatile.

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Provenance

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place of source or origin.

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Prowess

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exceptional valor, bravery, strength, or ability, especially in combat or battle.

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Prurient

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having, inclined to have, causing, or characterized by lascivious or lustful thoughts, desires, etc.

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Puissance

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power, might, or force.

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Punctilious

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meticulously attentive to detail; exacting; strict or exact in the observance of the formalities or amenities of conduct or actions.

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Meticulous

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taking or showing extreme care about minute details; precise; thorough; finicky; fussy.

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Finicky

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excessively particular or fastidious; difficult to please; fussy.

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Putrid

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in a state of foul decay or decomposition; rotten; thoroughly corrupt, depraved, or evil; having the odor of decaying flesh.

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Quiescent

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being at rest; quiet; still.

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Raffish

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mildly or sometimes engagingly disreputable or nonconformist; rakish; gaudily vulgar or cheap; tawdry.

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Rakish

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like a rake; dissolute.

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Rake

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a dissolute or profligate person, especially a man who is licentious; roué.

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Roué

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a dissolute and licentious man; rake.

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Tawdry

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gaudy; showy and cheap; low or mean; base.

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Rapprochment

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an establishment or reestablishment of harmonious relations.

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Exalted

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raised or elevated, as in rank or character; of high station; noble or elevated; lofty; rapturously excited.

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Rapturous

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full of, feeling, or manifesting ecstatic joy or delight.

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Recalcitrant

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resisting authority or control; not obedient or compliant; refractory; hard to deal with, manage, or operate.

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Refractory

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hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient.

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Recidivism

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repeated or habitual relapse, as into crime.

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Redoubtable

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formidable; fearsome; deserving of respect.

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Remunerate

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to pay, recompense, or reward for work, trouble, etc.

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Recompense

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to repay; remunerate; reward, as for service, aid, etc.

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Repartee

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a quick, witty reply, a conversation full of such replies, or skill in making such replies.

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Reprobate

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a morally unprincipled or wicked person; a person rejected by God and beyond hope of salvation.

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Reticent

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disposed to be silent or not to speak freely; reserved; reluctant or restrained.

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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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Scurrilous

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grossly or obscenely abusive; harsh mockery.

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Rife

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of common or frequent occurrence; prevalent; in widespread existence, activity, or use; abounding.

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Rout

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to put (a crowd) to flight or scatter; to cause a huge defeat; tumultuous or disorderly crowd of persons.

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Rubric

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any established mode of conduct or procedure; protocol; heading, title, category.

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Ruminate

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to chew; to meditate or ponder upon.

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Sagacious

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having or showing acute mental discernment and keen practical sense; shrewd:

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Sallow

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a sickly, greenish-yellow tone.

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Sally

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a clever, witty, or fanciful remark; an outburst or flight of passion, fancy, etc.; an excursion or trip, usually off the main course; a sudden rushing forth or activity; a sortie of troops from a besieged place upon an enemy.

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Sortie

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a rapid movement of troops from a besieged place to attack the besiegers; the flying of an airplane on a combat mission.

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Salubrious

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favorable to or promoting health; healthful.

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Sangfroid

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coolness of mind; calmness; composure.

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Sartorial

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of or pertaining to tailors or their trade; of or pertaining to clothing or style or manner of dress.

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Saturnine

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sluggish in temperament; gloomy; taciturn.

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Savant

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a person of profound or extensive learning; learned scholar.

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Scofflaw

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a person who flouts rules, conventions, or accepted practices.

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Flout

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to treat with disdain, scorn, or contempt; scoff at; mock.

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Scotch

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to put a definite end to; crush; to cut, gash, or score; to block or prop with a wedge.

296
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Sententious

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abounding in pithy aphorisms or maxims; given to excessive moralizing; self-righteous.

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Pithy

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brief, forceful, and meaningful in expression; full of vigor, substance, or meaning; terse.

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Shibboleth

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a peculiarity of pronunciation, behavior, mode of dress, etc., that distinguishes a particular class or set of persons; a slogan; catchword.

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Simper

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to smile in a silly, self-conscious way.

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Sine qua non

A

an indispensable condition, element, or factor; something essential.

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Sinuous

A

having many curves, bends, or turns; winding; indirect; devious.

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Slattern

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a slovenly, untidy woman or girl; a slut; harlot.

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Sloven

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a person who is habitually negligent of neatness or cleanliness in dress, appearance, etc.; a person who works, acts, speaks, etc., in a negligent, slipshod manner.

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Somnolent

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tending to cause sleep; sleepy; drowsy.

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Spate

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a sudden, almost overwhelming, outpouring.

306
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Spelunker

A

a cave explorer.

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Stalwart

A

strongly and stoutly built; sturdy and robust; brave; valiant; steadfast or uncompromising.

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Stria

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a slight or narrow furrow, ridge, stripe, or streak, especially one of a number in parallel arrangement.

309
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Striated

A

marked with striae; furrowed; striped; streaked.

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Sturm and drang

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storm and stress; turmoil.

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Sui generis

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unique; of its own kind; in a class by itself.

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Supercilious

A

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

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Haughty

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disdainfully proud; snobbish; scornfully arrogant; supercilious.

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Surreptitious

A

obtained, done, made, etc., by stealth; secret or unauthorized; clandestine.

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Sycophant

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a flatterer; a self-serving yes-man.

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Yes-man

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a person who, regardless of actual attitude, always expresses agreement with his or her supervisor, superior, etc.; sycophant.

317
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Syllogism

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a form of logic in which two premises, a major and minor, are made and a conclusion drawn.

318
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Sylvan

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consisting of or abounding in woods or trees; wooded; woody.

319
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Synergy

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the combined force of two distinct elements that is more powerful then each alone.

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Temerity

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reckless boldness; rashness; audacity.

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Audacity

A

boldness or daring, especially with confident or arrogant disregard for personal safety, conventional thought, or other restrictions; effrontery or insolence; shameless boldness.

322
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Temporize

A

to be indecisive, evasive, or to compromise in order to gain time or delay acting; to effect a compromise (even if only temporarily).

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Tendentious

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having or showing a definite tendency, bias, or purpose.

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Timorous

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subject to fear; fearful; timid.

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Titular

A

existing or being such in title only; nominal; having the title but none of the associated duties, powers, etc.; having a title, especially of rank.

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Tony

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fashionable; trendy; aristocratic.

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Toothsome

A

pleasing to the taste; palatable; pleasing or desirable; voluptuous; sexually alluring.

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Voluptuous

A

full of, characterized by, or ministering to indulgence in luxury, pleasure, and sensuous enjoyment; directed toward or concerned with sensuous enjoyment or sensual pleasure.

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Trice

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noun- a very short time; an instant.

Verb- to pull or haul with a rope.

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Truculent

A

fierce; cruel; savagely brutal; vitriolic; belligerent.

331
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Vitriol

A

something highly caustic or severe in effect, as criticism.

332
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Umbrage

A

offense; annoyance; displeasure; the slightest indication or vaguest feeling of suspicion, doubt, hostility, or the like; shade or shadows; a shadowy appearance or semblance of something.

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Undulate

A

to move with a sinuous or wavelike motion; to have a wavy form or surface; bend with successive curves in alternate directions.

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Usury

A

the lending or practice of lending money at an exorbitant interest.

335
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Vacuous

A

lacking in ideas or intelligence; empty; purposeless; idle.

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Vagary

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a whimsical, wild, or unusual idea, desire, or action; an unpredictable or erratic action, occurrence, course, or instance.

337
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Vainglory

A

excessive elation or pride over one’s own achievements, abilities, etc.; boastful vanity.

338
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Veneer

A

a superficially valuable or pleasing appearance; facade; coating.

339
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Venerate

A

to regard or treat with reverence; revere.

340
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Veracity

A

habitual observance of truth in speech or statement; truthfulness; correctness or accuracy.

341
Q

Verdant

A

green with vegetation; covered with growing plants or grass; of the color green; inexperienced; unsophisticated.

342
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Vicarious

A

acting or substituting for another; sharing in an experience of another through the Imagination.

343
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Viscous

A

of a glutinous nature or consistency; sticky or thick.

344
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Glutinous

A

of the nature of glue; gluey; viscid; sticky.

345
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Gluttonous

A

tending to eat and drink excessively; voracious; greedy; insatiable.

346
Q

Wastrel

A

a wasteful person; spendthrift.

347
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Wizened

A

withered; shriveled.

348
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Wont

A

accustomed; habituated; to become or cause to become accustomed.

349
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Zaftig

A

(of a woman) having a pleasantly plump figure; full-bodied; well-proportioned.

350
Q

Zeitgeist

A

the spirit of the time; general trend of thought or feeling characteristic of a particular period of time.

351
Q

Zephyr

A

a gentle, mild breeze; any of various things of fine, light quality, as fabric, yarn, etc.

352
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Implacable

A

not to be appeased, mollified, or pacified; inexorable.

353
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Inexorable

A

unyielding; unalterable; not to be persuaded or moved by prayers or entreaties.

354
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Appease

A

to bring to a state of peace, quiet, ease, calm, or contentment; pacify; soothe; to satisfy, allay, or relieve; assuage; to yield or concede to the belligerent demands of (a nation, group, person, etc.) in a conciliatory effort.

355
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Assuage

A

to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate; to appease; satisfy; allay; relieve; to soothe, calm, or mollify.

356
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Conciliate

A

to overcome the distrust or hostility of; placate; win over; to make compatible; reconcile.

357
Q

Placate

A

to appease or pacify, especially by concessions or conciliatory gestures.

358
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Pacify

A

to bring or restore to a state of peace or tranquility; quiet; calm; to appease; to reduce to a state of submission; subdue.

359
Q

Subdue

A

to conquer and bring into subjection; to overpower by superior force; overcome; to bring under mental or emotional control, as by persuasion or intimidation; render submissive; to repress.

360
Q

Subject

A

being under domination, control, or influence; open or exposed; being dependent or conditional upon something; being under the necessity of undergoing something.

361
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Allay

A

to put (fear, doubt, suspicion, anger, etc.) to rest; calm; quiet; to lessen or relieve; mitigate; alleviate.

362
Q

Mitigate

A

to lessen in force or intensity, as wrath, grief, harshness, or pain; moderate; to make (a person, one’s state of mind, disposition, etc.) milder or more gentle; mollify; appease.

363
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Mollify

A

to soften in feeling or temper, as a person; pacify; appease; to mitigate or reduce; soften.

364
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Propitiate

A

to make favorably inclined; appease; conciliate.

365
Q

Castigate

A

to punish; chastise; criticize severely.

366
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Chastise

A

to discipline, especially by corporal punishment; to criticize severely.

367
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Corporal

A

of the human body; bodily; physical; personal; a fine cloth, usually of linen, on which the consecrated elements are placed or with which they are covered.

368
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Consecrated

A

to make or declare sacred; set apart or dedicate to the service of a deity or to God; to devote or dedicate to some purpose.

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