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  1. scintillate: (verb) to sparkle; to twinkle; to sparkle intellectually
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  1. quandary: (noun) a puzzling situation; a dilemma
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  1. ascend: (verb) to move or slope upward; to rise from a lower level or degree SYN: to go up
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  1. augment:(verb) to increase, to make greater, more numerous, larger, or more intense
    SYN: increase
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  1. bestow: (verb) to convey as a gift (usually used with on or upon) SYN: give
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  1. garner: to gather; to acquire SYN: to harvest
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  1. covert: (adjective) not openly shown, engaged in, or avowed SYN: veiled; secret
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  1. gumption: (noun) courage and intiative; common sense
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  1. languid: (adjective) sluggish; drooping from weariness
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  1. homage: (noun) an expression of high regard SYN: respect; honor
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  1. instigate: (verb) to goad or urge forward SYN: provoke; incite
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  1. knotty: (adjective) full of difficulties and complications SYN: complex
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  1. melancholy: (adjective) depression of spirits; a pensive mood
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  1. mettle: (noun) vigor and strength of spirit and temperament; staying quality SYN: stamina; courage
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  1. ebullient: (adjective) zestfully enthusiastic
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  1. rhetoric: (noun) the art of persuasion
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  1. banal: (adjective) common, ordinary SYN: trivial; insipid
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  1. spurn: (verb) to reject with disdain or contempt SYN: scorn
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  1. bedlam: (noun) a noisy uproar; a scene of wild confusion SYN: mayhem; chaos
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  1. hackneyed: (adjective) commonplace; overused SYN: trite, banal, unimaginative
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  1. visage: (noun) the face, countenance, or appearance of a person or sometimes an animal
    SYN: aspect; appearance
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  1. ferret: (verb) to search or drive out
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  1. gallant: (adjective) brave; heroic; chivalrous
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  1. dichotomy: (noun) a division into two parts
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  1. progeny: (noun) a descendant or the descendants of a person, animal, or plant; offspring
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  1. adamant: (adjective) unshakable or insistent especially in maintaining a position or opinion
    SYN: unyielding; inflexible
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  1. flout: (verb) to openly disregard a law or rule SYN: scoff; disregard
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  1. odious: (adjective) extremely unpleasant; revolting SYN: intolerable; atrocious; awful
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  1. enthrall: (verb) capture the fascinated attention of SYN: captivate; charm; enchant; bewitch
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  1. shrew: (noun) an ill-tempered scolding woman

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