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Vituperative

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Given to censure

Containing are characterized by verbal abuse

“Frankly, I’m impressed by almost no one in Egypt’s mess. The rhetoric on both sides is absurd, reductionist, and vituperative”

“Guarantee to engender by vituperative threats”

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Welter

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To wallow writhe or toss

To rise and fall or toss about in or with waves

To become deeply sunk or involved

To be in turmoil

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Truculence

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1 : feeling or displaying ferocity : cruel, savage 2 : deadly, destructive 3 : harsh : vitriolic 4 : aggressively self-assertive : belligerent

“Beneath his suave polished exterior lay the truculence of a common street thug”

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Striated

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Marked with my new grooves or scratches

Alternating light and dark bands of a muscle

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Stolid

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Unemotional

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Salubrious

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Favorable to or promoting health or well-being

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Recondite

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Hidden from sight

Difficult or impossible for one of ordinary understanding or knowledge to comprehend

Or relating to something little-known or obscure.

“These words are recondite”

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Recalcitrant

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Obstinately defiant of authority or restraint

Difficult to manage or operate

Not responsive to treatment

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Rarefied

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Of being less dense

Of a select group

Very high

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Quiescent

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Marked by inactivity or repose tranquility at rest

Causing no trouble or symptoms

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Propitiate

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To gain or regain favor of or Goodwill of

“@tsemtulku: Remember, just once a day propitiate Manjushri from the heart and it benefits into infinity….until you gain enlightenment. #tsemtulku”

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Prevaricate

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To deviate from the truth

@bPositive_: Former instructor unintentionally reveals #GeorgeZimmerman’s propensity to blatantly prevaricate with a straight face. #LiarPantsOnFire

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Penury

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A cramping and oppressive lack of resources such as money especially severe poverty

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Paucity

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Smallness of number smallness of quantity: dearth

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Opprobrium

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Something that brings disgrace

Public disgrace

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Officious

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Volunteering one services where they are neither asked for nor needed

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Obdurate

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Stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing

Hardened in feelings

Resistant to persuasion or softening influences

@Dream_Haxor: Darkside Taurus Personality: Obdurate, opinionated, overpowering. Supermaterialistic.

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Mendacious

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Characterized by deception or falsehood or divergence from absolute truth

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Lassitude

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A condition of weariness or debility

A condition of listlessness

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Irascible

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Marked by a hot temper and easily provoked anger

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Intransigence

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characterized by refusal to compromise or to abandon an extreme position or attitude :

uncompromising

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Inchoate

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Being only partially in existence or operation

Imperfectly formed or formulated

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Implacable

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Not capable of being appeased, significantly changed, or mitigated

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Imperturbable

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Marked by extreme calm: serene

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Harangue

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A speech address to a public assembly

A ranting speech or writing

Lecture

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Grandiloquence

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A lofty extravagantly colorful, pompous or bombastic style, manner or quality especially in language

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Goad

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Something that painted by pricking: thorns

Something that urges or stimulates into action

It pointed Rod used to urge on an animal

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Gainsay

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To declare to be untrue

contradict oppose

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Foment

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To promote the growth or development of

Rouse

Insight

“Foment a rebellion

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Flout

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To treat with contemptuous disregard

“@FaithfulEarth: “The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn.”
― M”

“@fyShakespeare: I’ll tell thee what, prince; a college of wit-crackers cannot flout me out of my humour.”

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Felicitous

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Very well suited or expressed

Pleasant delightful

Synonym: fit

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Fatuous

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Complacently or inanely foolish silly

“The fatuous skiers continued even after the weather warning”

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Exigency

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That which is required in a particular situation (usually used in plural)

“Responding to the exigencies of modern warfare”

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Exculpate

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To clear from alleged faults or guilt

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Alacrity

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Promptness in response

cheerful readiness

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Abeyance

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Collapse in succession during which there’s no person in whom the title is vested

Temporary inactivity

“After the tech committee was dissolved there was an abeyance before the STC was formed.”

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Abstemious

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Marked by restraint especially in the consumption of food or alcohol

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Enervate

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[Both a verb and noun]

Lacking physical mental or moral vigor

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Effrontery

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Shameless boldness

“The little squirt had the effrontery to deny eating any cookies even though there were crumbs all over his face”

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Disabuse

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Two free from error misconception or fallacy

“Let me disabuse you of your foolish notions about married life”

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Compendium

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A brief summary of a longer work

A list of a number of items

Collection compilation

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Cogent

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Having power to compel or constrain

Appealing forcibly to the mind or evidence

Pertinent or relevant

“Cogent evidence for the acquittal”

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Coda

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A concluding musical section

A concluding part of a literary work

Something that serves to round out or conclude or summarize and usually has its own interest

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Burnish

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To polish

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Aver

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To verify or prove to be true

To allege or assert: pleading

To declare positively

“He averred that he was innocent”

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Approbation

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And act of approving formally or officially

Commendation praise

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Anomalous

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Inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual normal or expected

Of a certain nature or classification

Marked by incongruity or contradiction

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Aberrant

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Straying from the right or normal way

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