Definitions

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Decadent

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To fall off the rails, Characterized by or reflecting a state of moral or cultural decline.

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Anachronistic

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Belonging to a period other than that being portrayed.

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Perch

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alight or resting on something

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lapidary

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relating to stones and gems and the work involved, cutting or polishing.

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Ascetic

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Characterized by or suggesting the practice of severe self-discipline and abstention from all forms of indulgence, usually for religious reasons.

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Aptitude

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A natural ability to do something

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Remedial

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Given or intended as a remedy

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Deserving or causing public disgrace or shame

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Ignomonious

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Treatise

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A written work dealing formally or systematically with a subject

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Tenuous

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Very weak or slight

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Vacillate

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Alternate or waver between opinions or actions

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Maelstrom

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A powerful whirlpool in the sea or a river

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Dissonance

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A lack of harmony among musical notes

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Verisimilitude

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The appearance of being real or true

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Hard to control or deal with

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Intractable

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Antiquity

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The ancient past, especially the period before the middle ages.

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Disagreeing or incongruous

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Discordant

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Vagary

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an unexpected and inexplicable change in a situation or someone’s behavior

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Austere

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Severe or strict in manner, attitude, or appearance.

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Ineluctable

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Unable to be resisted or avoided. Inescapable.

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Multiply or spread prolifically or rapidly

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Pullulate

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Somnolent

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sleepy or dreamy

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Vouchsafe

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give or grant (something) to (someone) in a gracious or condescending manner.

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Intimation

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an indication or a hint

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prosaic

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having the style or diction of prose

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prose

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written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure.

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laconic

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[of a persons speech or style of writing] using very few words

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unassailable

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Unable to be attacked, questioned, or defeated.

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The line connecting 2 points on a curve

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Secant line

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Squalid

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An extremely dirty and unpleasant place, especially as a result of poverty and neglect

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Incommensurable

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Not able to be judged by the same standard as something; having no common standard of measurement.

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Insouciant

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Showing a casual lack of concern; Indifferent