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Abjure

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v.
to solemnly renounce or reject
to recant; to avoid

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Adumbrate

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v.
to foreshadow vaguely or intimate;
to suggest or outline sketchily;
to obscure or overshadow

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Anathema

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n.
a solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse;
accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing

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Anodyne

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adj. n.

soothing; something that assuages or allays pain or comforts

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Apogee

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n.
farthest or highest point;
culmination;
zenith

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Apostate

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n.

one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions

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Apotheosis

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n.

deification; glorification to godliness; an exalted example; a model of excellence or perfection

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Asperity

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n.

severity, rigor; roughness, harshness; acrimony, irritability

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Asseverate

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v.

to aver, allege, or assert

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Assiduous

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adj.

diligent, hard-working, sedulous

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Augury

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n.

omen, portent

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Bellicose

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adj.

belligerent, pugnacious, war like

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Calumniate

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v.
to slander, to make a false accusation

calumny means slander, aspersion

kelein (GK): to bewitch, cast a spell
holon (Gothic): to slander

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Captious

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adj.
disposed to point out trivial faults;
calculated to confuse or entrap in argument

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Cavil

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v.

to find fault without good reason

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Celerity

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n.

speed, alacrity; think accelerate

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Chimera

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n.

an illusion; originally, an imaginary fire-breathing she-monster

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Contumacious

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adj.
insubordinate, rebellious

contumely means insult, scorn, aspersion

con- (LT): with
tumere (LT): to swell

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Debacle

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n.

rout, fiasco, complete failure

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Denouement

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n.

an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot

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Descry

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v.

to discriminate or discern

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Desuetude

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n.

disuse

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Desultory

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adj.

random; aimless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose

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Diaphanous

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adj.

transparent, gauzy

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Diffident
adj. | reserved, shy, unassuming; lacking in self-confidence
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Dirge
n. | a song of grief or lamentation
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Encomium
n. glowing and enthusiastic praise; panegyric, tribute, eulogy en- (LT): in komos (LT): banquet
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Eschew
v. | to shun or avoid
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Excoriate
v. to censure scathingly, to upbraid ex- (LT): out corium (LT): hide, skin
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Execrate
v. | to denounce, to feel loathing for, to curse, to declare to be evil
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Exegesis
n. | critical examination, explication
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Expiate
v. | to atone or make amends for
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Extirpate
v. | to destroy, to exterminate, to cut out, to exscind
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Fatuous
adj. | silly, inanely foolish
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Fractious
adj. | quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory, irritable
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Gainsay
v. to deny, to dispute, to contradict, to oppose gegn- (Old EN): against
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Heterodox
adj. | unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic
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Imbroglio
n. difficult or embarrassing situation in-: into brouiller (IT): confuse
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Indefatigable
adj. | not easily exhaustible; tireless, dogged
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Ineluctable
adj. | certain, inevitable
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Inimitable
adj. | one of a kind, peerless
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Insouciant
adj. | unconcerned, carefree, heedless
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Inveterate
adj. | deep rooted, ingrained, habitual
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Jejune
adj. | vapid, uninteresting, nugatory; childish, immature, puerile
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Lubricious
adj. | lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery
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Mendicant
n. | a beggar, supplicant
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Meretricious
adj. | cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy; attracting by false show
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Minatory
adj. | menacing, threatening (Minotaur)
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Nadir
n. | low point, perigee
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Nonplussed
adj. | baffled, bewildered, at a loss for what to do or think
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Obstreperous
adj. | noisily and stubbornly defiant, aggressively boisterous
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Ossified
adj. | tending to become more rigid, conventional, sterile, and reactionary with age; literally, turned into bone
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Palliate
v. | to make something seem less serious, to gloss over, to make less severe or intense
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Panegyric
n. formal praise, eulogy, encomium panegyrical: expressing elaborate praise
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Parsimonious
adj. | cheap, miserly
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Pellucid
adj. | transparent, easy to understand, limpid
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Peroration
n. | the concluding part of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech
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Plangent
adj. | pounding, thundering, resounding
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Prolix
adj. long-winded, verbose; prolixity: verbosity
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Propitiate
v. to appease; to conciliate propitious: auspicious, favorable
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Puerile
adj. | childish, immature, jejune, nugatory
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Puissance
n. power, strength puissant: powerful, strong
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Pusillanimous
adj. | cowardly, craven
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Remonstrate
v. | to protest, to object
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Sagacious
adj. | having sound judgment; perceptive, wise; like a sage
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Salacious
adj. | lustful, lascivious, bawdy
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Salutary
adj. | remedial, wholesome, causing improvement
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Sanguine
adj. | cheerful, confident, optimistic
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Saturnine
adj. | gloomy, dark, sullen, morose
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Sententious
adj. | aphoristic or moralistic; epigrammatic; tending to moralize excessively
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Stentorian
adj. | extremely loud and powerful
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Stygian
adj. | gloomy, dark
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Sycophant
n. | toady, servile, self-seeking flatterer; parasite
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Tedentious
adj. | biased; showing marked tendencies
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Timorous
adj. | timid, fearful, diffident
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Tyro
n. | novice, greenhorn, rank amateur
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Vitiate
v. | to corrupt, to debase, to spoil, to make ineffective
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Voluble
adj. | fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language
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Qualify
v. | to limit
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Sap
v. to enervate or weaken the vitality of n. a fool or nitwit
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Scurvy
adj. | contemptible, despicable
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Singular
adj. | exceptional, unusual, odd
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Stand
n. | a group of trees
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Steep
v. | to saturate or completely soak, as in to let a tea bag steep
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Strut
n. | the supporting structual cross-part of a wing
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Table
``` v. to remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration ```
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Tender
v. | to proffer or offer
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Waffle
v. | to equivocate; to change one's position
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Wag
n. | wit, joker
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Reprimand
``` v. to rebuke (someone), esp. officially ```
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Concession
n. a thing that is granted, especially in response to demands; a thing conceded syn. compromise Latin con-: with cedere: to go, grant, give away
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Destitution
n. poverty so extreme that one lacks the means to provide for oneself Latin de-: away statuere: put, place
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Lavish
adj. | sumptuously rich, elaborate, or luxurious
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Revere
v. feel deep respect or admiration for (something) Latin re- vereri: to fear
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Gird
v. | encircle (a person or part of the body) with a belt or band
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Nonchalant
adj. (of a person or manner) feeling or appearing casually calm and relaxed; not displaying anxiety, interest, or enthusiasm French non-: not chaloir: have concern for
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Vehement
adj. | showing strong feeling, forceful, passionate, or intense
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Permeate
v. to spread throughout (something); pervade Latin per-: through meare: pass, go
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Feign
v. to pretend to be affected by (a feeling, state, or injury) Latin fingere: mold, contrive
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Tenable
adj. able to be maintained or defended against attack or objection Latin tenere: to hold, keep

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