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Vindicate

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v) to clear of suspicion or blame; to justify or support

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Reticent

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adj) reserved; reluctant; discreet

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Temerity

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n) recklessness boldness; rashness; foolhardiness

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Fervid

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adj) giving off intense heat; impassioned enthusiastic

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Foment

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v) to foster trouble, rebellion, or strife; to stir up; to incite

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Solicitous

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adj) showing concern or worry; anxiously concerned; eager

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Auspices

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n) approval and support; patronage

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Hiatus

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n) a space where something is missing; any break in continuity

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Clandestine

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adj) concealed, usually for a forbidden purpose; secret; covert

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Vestige

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n) a slight remnant; a trace of something that no longer exists; a minute quality

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Propensity

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n) a natural tendency or ability

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Recant

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v) to take a back formally or publicly; to withdraw or retract an opinion expressed in the past

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Contingency

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n) a possible happening; a chance event; something that depends on chance or uncertain conditions

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Litigation

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n) the carrying on of a lawsuit; a lawsuit

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Retaliate

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v) to return an injury for an injury; to get even

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Calumny

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n) a false statement made to injure someone’s reputation; slander

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Sedentary

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adj) used to sitting much of the time; moving little and rarely; staying in one place

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Impassive

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adj) not feeling or showing emotion

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Repudiated

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v) to completely reject; to disown; to refuse to accept

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Mollify

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v) to soothe the temper of; to appease; to pacify

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Extricate

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v) to release from an entanglement or a difficulty; to set free

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Menial

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adj) of or suited to a servant; servile

n) a domestic servant; a servile person

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Rampant

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adj) growing without check or restraint; flourishing; widespread

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Cajole

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v) to persuade by pleasant words; to coax with flattery and insincere talk; to wheedle

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Pestilence
n) a contagious and often fatal disease that spreads rapidly; an illness of epidemic proportions; a destructive or evil influence or factor
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Anarchy
n) the absence of government or law; political disorder
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Nadir
n) the point in the celestial sphere directly below the observer and opposite the zenith; the lowest possible point
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Ethnology
n) the branch of anthropology that deals with recent societies or language groups, their distribution, characteristics, and cultures
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Impaired
v) to make worse; to damage or weaken
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Commodious
adj) roomy; spacious
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Profuse
adj) giving freely; extravagant; plentiful
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Virulent
adj) very poisonous or harmful; deadly; intensely bitter or spiteful
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Strident
adj) having or making a harsh sound; shrill
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Consign
v) to deliver; to deliver goods to be sold; to send; to hand over; to assign to an undesirable position or place
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Elocution
n) the art of public speaking; a style or manner of public speaking or reading
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Subversion
n) the overthrowing or undermining of something established, such as a government
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Cadaverous
adj) corpselike; pale and ghastly; thing and gaunt; haggard
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Incorrigible
n) a person who will not be reformed | adj) incapable of being corrected or reformed; persistently bad
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Promulgate
v) to make known to the public; declare; to make widespread
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Maim
v) to wound or injure seriously; to disable in some way; to mutilate; to cripple
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perfidious
adj) deliberately faithless; treacherous
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Illicit
adj) forbidden by law; improper; unauthorized
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Discrepancy
n) an inconsistently; a contradiction; a difference
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Inundated
v) to cover by overflowing; to flood; to overwhelm (as if by flood)
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Sumptuous
adj) costly; magnificent; luxurious; lavish
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Inscrutable
adj) mysterious or obscure; hard to grasp; not easily understood
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Abeyance
n) a temporary suspension of an activity; a state of being put aside for future action
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Primordial
adj) from earliest times; primitive; fundamental; original
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Homogeneous
adj) to the same kind or nature; composed of similar or identical parts or elemental; uniform
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Pervaded
v) to extend all over; to spread or be diffused throughout
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Harbinger
v) to announce; to indicate what will follow | n) a forerunner; a herald
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Emanated
v) to issue from; to originate from
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Demagogue
n) a leader who stirs up people by appealing to their emotions; a rabblerouser
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Prevaricated
v) to evade the truth
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Detriment
n) damage; harm; injury; anything that causes damage or injury
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Obnoxious
adj) very disagreeable; highly offensive; hateful
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Chastise
v) to punish; to criticize severely; to scold
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Irrevocable
adj) not capable of being retracted, recalled, or withdrawn; unalterable
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Deplore
v) to feel very sorry about; to regret deeply; to lament; to disapprove of
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Interceded
v) to plead, or petition, on another's behalf; to act as a mediator in a dispute
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Gregarious
adj) outgoing; sociable
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Exhilaration
n) highly spirit; invigoration; excitement
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Patrimony
n) an inheritance from one's father or ancestors any heritage or legacy
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Obsequious
adj) too ready to please, praise, or obey; servile; fawning
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Civility
n) politeness; courtesy. a polite action
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Germane
adj) pertinent; to the point; truly relevant
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Punctilious
adj) paying attention to the fine details of etiquette; meticulous; scrupulous; very exact
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Foible
n) a minor weakness or fault; a minor but persistent personal failing; a shortcoming
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Connoisseur
n) someone who is an expert in some field, especially in art or in matters of taste
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Precocious
adj) showing unusually early development; mature or advanced for one's age
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Effusion
n) a pouring forth; an unrestrained expression of feeling in talking or writing
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Querulous
adj) complaining; faultfinding; peevish
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Indulgent
adj) very lenient; not strict enough; making allowances
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Affront
n) an open, intentional insult | v) to insult openly; to offend
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Propitious
adj) favorable; favorably inclined
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Munificent
adj) extremely generous; very liberal and lavish in giving
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Guffaw
n) a loud or coarse burst of laughter; a horselaugh | v) to laugh loudly or coarsely
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Capitulate
v) to surrender on certain terms; to give up; to stop resisting
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Incarcerate
v) to imprison; to confine
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Magnanimous
adj) noble in spirit; generous in forgiving; unselfish; rising above petty, mean concerns
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Artifice
n) a skill; a clever device; a sly or artful trick; trickery
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Configuration
n) the position of parts or elements of something; a shape; an outline
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Scrupulous
adj) giving strict attention to what is right or proper; exact and careful
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Deduce
v) to infer by reasoning; to conclude from known facts and principles
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Refute
v) to prove that someone or something is false or incorrect; to disapprove
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Captivate
v) to catch the attention of, by beauty or excellence; to enchant; to charm; to attract
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Proponent
n) a person who supports a cause or idea; someone who makes a proposition; an advocate
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Extant
adj) still in existence; not extinct, lost, or destroyed
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Chicanery
n) the use of clever talk or trickery to deceive or evade
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Augury
n) the practice of foretelling the future from signs and omens; an omen or sign
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Corroborates
v) to support or strengthen an idea or a statement; to attest to the truth of; to confirm
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Aberration
n) a departure from the usual course; a deviation; an abnormal development
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Herculean
adj) extremely demanding or difficult; requiring or having great courage or strength, like that possessed by Hercules
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Retrospect
n) a contemplation or survey of things that happened in the past
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Dearth
n) a scarcity, as of food; a lack; too small a supply of something
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Salient
adj) standing out; easily seen or noticed; conspicuous; noticeable; prominent
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Adjudged
v) to decree or decide by law; to pass sentence
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Diurnal
adj) occurring every day; daily; occurring during the daytime
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Candor
n) openness; saying what one really thinks; frankness; impartiality
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Ludicrous
adj) amusingly absurd; ridiculous

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