GRE General Vocabulary Set 2 Flashcards
Studying this set, along with the others I created, got me a 162 on the verbal section and I didn't even have time to learn all of the words. On top of that, there were words that I didn't learn, from these sets, that were on the GRE. Had I learned them, my score would have been higher. I hope these sets help you get a solid score too. This set contains selections from the middle third of the Kaplan 900 GRE words list as well as various helpful words. My other sets contain more helpful words, wo (369 cards)
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Abrogate
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to abolish by formal or official means; to put aside; repeal.
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Abeyance
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a temporary suspension of activity.
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Abscond
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to leave quickly and secretly.
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Sanguine
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cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident; blood-red; red; bloody.
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Incarnadine
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blood-red; crimson; flesh colored; pale pink.
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Abstinence
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voluntarily refraining from eating certain foods or drink.
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Accolade
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award or honor; high praise.
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Accouterments
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personal clothing, accessories, or equipment.
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Acquit
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to find not guilty; to conduct oneself; behave.
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Adjure
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to command or urge earnestly and solemnly.
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Solemn
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grave, sober, or mirthless, as a person, the face, speech, tone, or mood; gravely or somberly impressive; causing serious thoughts or a grave mood; serious or earnest.
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Mirthful
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joyous; merry; gleeful.
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Adumbrate
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to suggest partly; to give a hint of things to come.
Also- to overshadow; to obscure
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Aegis
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protection; support; patronage.
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Aggrieve
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to distress; to oppress or wrong grievously.
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Akimbo
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having one’s hands in a bent position on the hips.
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Alchemy
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a process of transformation that is seemingly magical.
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Ambulatory
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able to walk or move about.
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Ameliorate
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to make better; to ease; to improve.
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Anathema
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someone or something loathed or intensely disliked.
An ecclesiastic curse including excommunication; a curse; execration.
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Execrate
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to detest utterly; abhor; abominate; curse; imprecate evil upon.
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Imprecate
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to invoke or call down.
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Ancillary
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subordinate; subsidiary; auxiliary; assisting.
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Anomie
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instability caused by an erosion of value or lack of purpose.
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Antipodal
situated on opposite sides of the earth; being exactly opposite.
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Apocryphal
false; spurious; of doubtful origin.
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Apoplexy
a stroke resulting from loss of blood to the brain; a hemorrhage in an organ cavity or tissue which may cause marked loss of bodily function.
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Occlude
to close; to shut in, out, or off.
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Apostasy
a total desertion of or departure from one's religion, principles, party, cause, etc.
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Pejorative
having a disparaging, derogatory, or belittling effect or force.
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Disparage
to speak of or treat slightingly; depreciate; belittle.
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Ascetic
hermit-like life including extreme self denial or austere attitudes.
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Assiduous
constant; unremitting; hardworking; busy; diligent.
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Unremitting
not slackening or abating; incessant.
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Assignation
a secret meeting, a tryst, or something assigned.
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Bacchanal
a drunken reveler or orgy.
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Glib
readily fluent, often thoughtlessly, superficially, or insincerely so; easy or unconstrained.
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Superficial
being at, on, or near the surface; concerned with or comprehending only what is on the surface or obvious; external or outward; shallow; not profound or thorough.
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Bandy
to toss back and forth; to exchange; to use in a glib way.
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Bathos
a transition from the illustrious to the commonplace; insincere pathos.
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Pathos
the quality or power of an experience or form of expression to evoke pity or compassion.
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Belie
to misrepresent; to disguise the nature of; to show to be untrue; contradict.
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Besmirch
to stain or soil (commonly as to reputation).
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Bilious
ill-tempered; cranky; angry; extremely unpleasant or distasteful.
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Bivouac
a temporary encampment.
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Bon Vivant
someone who enjoys luxurious living.
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Bowdlerize
to expurgate a written work by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or offensive.
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Expurgate
to amend by removing words, passages, etc. deemed offensive or objectionable; to purge or cleanse of moral offensiveness.
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Brook
to tolerate; to put up with something.
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Bumptious
pushy; conceited; noisily self-assertive.
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Byzantine
extremely intricate or complicated in structure.
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Cabal
a secret group of conspirators; a clique.
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Cachet
a mark or distinction; a quality that "says" prestige.
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Calumny
slander; deliberate false statements.
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Capricious
impulsive; whimsical; fanciful.
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Whimsy
capricious humor or disposition; extravagant, fanciful, or excessively playful expression; anything odd or fanciful; a product of playful or capricious fancy.
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Cataclysm
a violent upheaval; an earthquake; a flood.
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Upheave
to heave or lift up; raise up or aloft; to force or throw up violently or with much power; to cause a major disturbance or disorder in.
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Aloft
high up; far above the ground; in or into a high or higher place; up above.
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Cavil
to quibble; raise trivial objections.
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Quibble
an instance of the use of ambiguous, prevaricating, or irrelevant language or arguments to avoid a point or issue; a minor objection.
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Chary
careful; cautious; wary; fastidious; timid.
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Chicanery
trickery, deception, or evasion by quibbling, sophistry, or subterfuge.
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Subterfuge
a stratagem employed to conceal something, evade an argument, etc.
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Sophistry
a subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning.
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Chimerical
wildly fanciful; highly unrealistic; unreal; imaginary; visionary.
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Circumlocution
wordy language; an indirect, roundabout expression.
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Clout
influence; a forceful blow.
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Cogitate
to ponder over; to meditate; to think.
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Comport
to behave.
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Contrite
caused by or showing sincere remorse; penitent.
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Compunction
remorse; feeling uneasy after having done something caused by regret; an uneasiness or hesitation about the rightness of an action.
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Concomitant
accompanying; attending; going along with, often in a lesser way.
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Conflagration
a large, disastrous fire.
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Contentious
argumentative over a point; quarrelsome.
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Cortege
a procession; a group of attendees.
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Coterie
an intimate group of people with a common interest.
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Covet
to desire wrongfully; to wish for with envy.
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Debacle
a disaster or violent breakdown.
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Deleterious
injurious to health; harmful.
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Depredate
to prey upon, plunder, or pillage with violence if necessary.
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Descry
to discern or make out; catch sight of; to detect; to teach the sight of.
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Desiccate
to dry out; dehydrate (can be done to preserve food).
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Dichotomy
division into two mutually exclusive, opposed, or contradictory groups or parts.
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Dilettante
a dabbler; someone with a superficial knowledge (often of fine arts or science).
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Discomfit
to confuse and deject; deceive; thwart.
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Deject
to depress the spirits of; dispirit; dishearten.
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Disconcert
to throw into disorder or confusion; to disturb the self possession of; perturb; ruffle.
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Perturb
to disturb or disquiet greatly in the mind; to throw into disorder; agitate; derange.
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Disquiet
lack of calm, peace or ease; anxiety; uneasiness; to make uneasy.
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Dissolute
indifferent to moral constraints; given to immoral or improper conduct; dissipated; licentious.
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Licentious
sexually unrestrained; unrestrained by law or general morality; going beyond customary or proper bounds or limits.
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Dissipate
to break up or scatter; to squander; to engage in extravagant, intemperate, or dissolute pleasure.
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Diurnal
occurring during the day; happens every day.
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Doff
to remove or take off (as in clothing); to remove or tip (the hat), as in greeting; to get rid of.
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Doggerel
Adj.- comic; crude or irregular.
Noun- a doggerel verse. (as in a verse that has the properties of the above definition)
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Dossier
a file or collection of documents, letters, and records (especially one containing detailed information on a person or topic).
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Draconian
rigorous; unusually severe or harsh.
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Dulcet
having a nice, agreeable, melodious sound; pleasant or agreeable to the eye or feelings; soothing.
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Effete
lacking in wholesome vigor; degenerate; exhausted of vigor or energy; worn out; unable to produce; sterile.
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Wholesome
conducive to moral or general well-being; beneficial; healthy.
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Élan
vigor, distinctive, elegant style; impetuous ardor.
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Impetuous
of, pertaining to, or characterized by sudden or rash action, emotion, etc.
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Elliptical
oval;
(of a style of speech or writing-) obscure or ambiguous in expression;
(in speech or writing-) relieved of irrelevant matter.
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Encomium
a eulogy or expression of high praise.
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Endemic
natural to or characteristic of a specific people or place; native; indigenous.
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Enervate
to weaken; to sap the strength of.
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Ennui
a feeling of utter weariness and discontent resulting from satiety or lack of interest; boredom.
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Ensconce
to settle in snugly; to hide in a secure place.
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Erudite
scholarly; deeply learned; well read.
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Espy
to glimpse; to descry; to catch sight of.
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Ethnocentric
the belief in the superiority of one's race or ethnic group; a tendency to view alien groups or cultures from the perspective of one's own.
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Evanescent
scarcely perceptible; vanishing; fleeting; happening for the briefest moment.
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Exemplar
a model or pattern to be copied or imitated; a typical example or instance; a copy of a book or text.
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Exigent
urgent; requiring prompt action; requiring a great deal or more than is reasonable.
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Extirpate
to rip up as by the roots; to abolish; to annihilate.
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Fauna
the animals of a given region or period considered as a whole; a treatise on the animals of a given region or period.
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Feckless
lacking responsibility; lazy; indifferent; ineffective; incompetent.
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Fecund
producing or capable of producing offspring, fruit vegetation, etc. in abundance; prolific.
very productive or creative intellectually.
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Feral
wild; like a wild animal; savage.
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Fetter
to impede, restrain, or hamper.
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Hamper
to hold back; to interfere with; hinder; impede; curtail.
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Curtail
to cut short; cut off a part of; abridge; reduce; diminish.
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Catholic
broad or wide-ranging in tastes, interests, or the like; having sympathies with all; broad minded; liberal.
universal in extent; involving all; of interest to all.
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Fey
supernatural; unreal; being in unnaturally high spirits; whimsical; strange; otherworldly.
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Flagellate
to whip; flog; lash.
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Flog
to beat with a whip, stick, etc.
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Foment
to instigate or foster; promote the growth or development of; to apply warm water or medical liquid, ointments, etc.
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Forswear
to reject or renounce under oath; to deny vehemently or under oath.
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Fusillate
a general discharge or outburst; a spray of gunfire.
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Gainsay
to deny, dispute, or contradict; to speak or act out against; oppose.
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Gamin
a neglected boy left to run about the streets; street urchin.
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Gerrymander
to divide into election districts to gain political advantage.
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Gestalt
a configuration, pattern, or organized field having specific properties that can not be derived from the summation of its component parts; a unified whole.
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Gesticulate
to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
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Gird
to encircle or bind with a belt or band; to surround; enclose; to prepare (oneself) for action; to provide, equip, or invest, as with power or strength.
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Halitosis
bad breath.
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Hidebound
narrow and rigid in opinion; inflexible; oriented toward or confined to the past; extremely conservative.
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Histrionic
of or pertaining to actors or acting; deliberately affected or self consciously emotional; overly dramatic in behavior or speech.
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Hoary
gray or white with age; ancient; stale.
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Homeopathy
a system of natural healing.
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Husbandry
the judicious use of resources; livestock farming; the science of raising crops or food animals; agriculture.
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Ignominy
shameful or dishonorable quality or conduct or an instance of this; disgrace; dishonor; public contempt.
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Imbroglio
a difficult and confused situation; a complicated, sometimes bitter, disagreement (between people, nations, etc.).
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Impecunious
having little or no money; penniless; poor.
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Impervious
does not allow something to pass through; impenetrable.
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Impign
to challenge as false (another's ideas, motives, etc.); cast doubt upon.
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Entreaty
earnest request or petition; supplication.
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Supplicate
to pray humbly; make humble and earnest entreaty or petition.
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Iniquitous
characterized by injustice or wickedness; sinful.
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Insouciant
free from concern, worry, or anxiety; carefree; nonchalant.
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Interregnum
the period between two successive governments; any period during which a state has no ruler or only a temporary executive; any pause or interruption in continuity.
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Intransigent
refusing to agree or compromise; inflexible.
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Inveterate
firmly established by long continuance, as a disease, habit, practice, feeling, etc.; chronic.
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Itinerant
a person who travels from place to place, especially for duty or business. (can also be used as an adj. meaning one who does this i.e an itinerant preacher)
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Juggernaut
any large, overpowering, destructive force or object, as war, a giant battleship, or a powerful football team; anything requiring blind devotion or cruel sacrifice.
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Junta
a small group ruling a country, especially immediately after a coup d'état and before a legally constituted government has been instituted; a council.
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Largess
a generous giving of gifts; philanthropy.
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Lassitude
a state of weariness; listlessness; a state of lethargy.
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Lethargy
the quality or state of being drowsy and dull, listless and unenergetic, or indifferent and lazy; apathetic or sluggish inactivity.
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Leitmotif
a motif or theme associated throughout a music drama with a particular person, situation, or idea.
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Motif
a recurring subject, theme, idea, etc., especially in a literary, artistic, or musical work; a distinctive and recurring form, shape, figure, etc., in a design, as in a painting or on wallpaper; a dominant idea or feature.
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Levee
an embankment designed to prevent a river from flooding. (can also be used as a verb)
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Libation
a pouring of a drink for a religious ceremony; the mentioned drink itself; an intoxicating beverage.
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Libidinous
full of sexual lust; lewd; lascivious.
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Lascivious
inclined to lustfulness; wanton; lewd; arousing sexual desires.
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Lope
to run with a long easy stride.
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Macerate
to soften or separate into parts by steeping in a liquid; to cause to grow thin.
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Machinate
to contrive or plot, especially artfully or with evil purpose.
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Malapropism
an act or habit of misusing words ridiculously, especially by the confusion of words that are similar in sound.
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Malfeasance
an illegal act, especially by a public official.
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Martinet
one who adheres strictly to rules.
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Matriculate
to enroll in a college or a university as a candidate for a degree (can be a noun also).
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Maudlin
foolishly or mawkishly sentimental, can be because of drunkenness.
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Mawkish
characterized by sickly sentimentality; maudlin; having a mildly sickening flavor; slightly nauseating.
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Mellifluous
sweetly or smoothly flowing; sweet-sounding or tasting.
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Mercurial
changeable; volatile; fickle; erratic; animated; lively; quick-witted.
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Erratic
deviating from the usual or proper course in conduct or opinion; eccentric; having no fixed course; irregular in performance, behaviour, or attitude; inconsistent and unpredictable
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Miasma
a dangerous, foreboding, or deathlike influence or atmosphere.
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Milieu
surroundings, especially of a social or cultural nature.
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Mordant
sharply caustic or sarcastic, as wit or a speaker; incisive; burning; corrosive; having the property of fixing colors, as in dyeing.
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Incisive
keen, penetrating, or acute; biting or sarcastic; mordant; having a sharp cutting edge.
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Acute
sharp or severe in effect; intense;
extremely great or serious; crucial; critical;
sharp or penetrating in intellect, insight, or perception; extremely sensitive even to slight details or impressions.
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Moribund
in a dying state; on the verge of extinction; not progressing or advancing; stagnant.
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Muckrake
to search for and expose real or alleged corruption, scandal, or the like, especially in politics.
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Myopia
lack of foresight or discernment; obtuseness; narrow-mindedness; intolerance.
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Obtuse
not quick or alert in perception, feeling, or intellect; not sensitive or observant; dull; not sharp, acute, or pointed; blunt in form; indistinctly felt or perceived, as pain or sound.
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Nabob
any wealthy, influential, or powerful person.
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Nascent
beginning to exist or develop.
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Neophyte
a beginner or a novice.
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Nepotism
showing favoritism to friends or family, as in granting positions in jobs or politics.
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Niggardly
reluctant to give or spend; stingy; miserly; meanly or ungenerously small or scanty.
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Miser
a person who lives in wretched circumstances in order to save and hoard money; a stingy, avarice person.
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Nihilism
total rejection of established laws and institutions; anarchy, terrorism, or other revolutionary activity; the denial of all real existence or the possibility of an objective basis for truth (in philosophy).
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Nirvana
a place or state characterized by freedom from or oblivion to pain, worry, and the external world.
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Noisome
harmful; unwholesome; stinking (in odor): putrid
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Nonplus
to render utterly perplexed; puzzle completely.
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Obdurate
unmoved by persuasion, pity, or tender feelings; stubborn; stubbornly resistant to moral influence; persistently impenitent.
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Impenitent
not feeling regret about one's sin or sins; obdurate.
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Oeuvre
a work of art; the sum of an artist's work.
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Officious
objectionably aggressive in offering one's unrequested and unwanted services, help, or advice; meddlesome.
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Omniscient
all knowing; infinite awareness.
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Omnivorously
eating all kinds of foods indiscriminately (including both animals and plants); taking in everything, as with the mind.
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Onerous
burdensome, oppressive, or troublesome; causing hardship.
having or involving obligations or responsibilities, especially legal ones, that outweigh the advantages.
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Onus
a difficult or disagreeable obligation, task, burden, etc.; blame or responsibility.
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Opprobrium
the disgrace or the reproach incurred by conduct considered outrageously shameful; infamy; a cause or object of such shame or reproach.
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Reproach
to find fault with; blame; censure; to upbraid.
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Upbraid
to find fault with or reproach severely or angrily; censure.
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Opus
a musical composition; a literary work or composition.
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Oscillate
to swing back and forth.
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Ossify
to convert into or cause to harden like bone; to become rigid or inflexible in habits, attitudes, opinions, etc.
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Palliate
to hide the seriousness of something with excuses or apologies.
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Pallid
pale; faint or deficient in color; wan; lacking in vitality or interest.
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Wan
of an unnatural or sickly pallor; pallid; lacking color; showing or suggesting ill health, fatigue, unhappiness, etc.; lacking in forcefulness, competence, or effectiveness.
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Panacea
a remedy for all disease or ills; cure-all.
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Panegyric
lofty praise; eulogistic writing.
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Lofty
extending high in the air; of imposing height; towering; exalted in rank, dignity, or character; eminent; arrogantly or condescendingly superior in manner; haughty.
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Eminence
high station, rank, or repute; a high place or part; height.
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Paradigm
an example serving as a model; pattern; a framework containing the basic assumptions, ways of thinking, and methodology that are commonly accepted by members of a discipline or group.
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Parsimony
extreme or excessive economy or frugality; stinginess; niggardliness.
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Frugal
economical in use or expenditure; prudently saving or sparing; not wasteful; entailing little expense; requiring few resources; meager; scanty.
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Patina
surface discoloration caused by age and oxidation.
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Patois
a language used by a particular population that differs from standard speech; jargon; argot.
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Argot
the special vocabulary and idiom of a particular profession or social group.
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Penultimate
next to last.
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Penury
extreme poverty; destitution; scarcity; dearth; inadequacy; insufficiency.
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Destitute
without means of subsistence; lacking food, clothing, and shelter; deprived of, devoid of, or lacking.
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Peregrination
travel from one place to another, especially on foot; a course of travel; journey.
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Perfidious
deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful.
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Perfunctory
performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial; lacking interest, care, or enthusiasm; indifferent or apathetic.
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Perorate
to make a long, formal speech; to sum up a speech.
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Perquisite
a gratuity or tip; a privilege or perk that goes along with a job.
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Perspicacious
having keen mental perception and understanding; discerning.
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Petulant
moved to or showing sudden, impatient irritation, especially over some trifling annoyance.
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Phantasm
an apparition or specter; a creation of the imagination or fancy; fantasy; a mental image or representation of a real object.
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Phlegmatic
not easily aroused; calm; indifferent; self-possessed.
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Self-possessed
having or showing control of one's feelings, behavior, etc.; composed; poised.
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Piquant
agreeably pungent or sharp in taste or flavor; agreeably stimulating, interesting, or attractive.
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Abase
to reduce or lower, as in rank, office, reputation, or estimation; humble; degrade.
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Plebian
Common person; lower class person/people.
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Pluralism
a condition in which minority groups participate fully in the dominant society, yet maintain their cultural differences.
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Portent
an omen; a sign of something coming; a foreshadowing.
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Pregnant
Highly significant; overflowing; abounding.
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Prepossess
to possess or dominate mentally beforehand, as a prejudice does; to impress favorably beforehand or at the outset.
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Prescience
knowledge of things before they exist or happen; foreknowledge; foresight.
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Privation
lack of comforts; poverty; a state of being deprived.
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Probity
integrity and uprightness; honesty.
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Profligate
utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute; recklessly prodigal or extravagant.
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Prodigal
wastefully or recklessly extravagant; giving or yielding profusely; lavish.
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Profuse
spending or giving freely and in large amount, often to excess; extravagant; abundant.
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Propinquity
nearness in time, place, relation, or nature; proximity; kinship; similarity.
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Protean
changeable in shape or form, as an amoeba; extremely variable; versatile.
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Provenance
place of source or origin.
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Prowess
exceptional valor, bravery, strength, or ability, especially in combat or battle.
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Prurient
having, inclined to have, causing, or characterized by lascivious or lustful thoughts, desires, etc.
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Puissance
power, might, or force.
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Punctilious
meticulously attentive to detail; exacting; strict or exact in the observance of the formalities or amenities of conduct or actions.
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Meticulous
taking or showing extreme care about minute details; precise; thorough; finicky; fussy.
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Finicky
excessively particular or fastidious; difficult to please; fussy.
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Putrid
in a state of foul decay or decomposition; rotten; thoroughly corrupt, depraved, or evil; having the odor of decaying flesh.
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Quiescent
being at rest; quiet; still.
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Raffish
mildly or sometimes engagingly disreputable or nonconformist; rakish; gaudily vulgar or cheap; tawdry.
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Rakish
like a rake; dissolute.
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Rake
a dissolute or profligate person, especially a man who is licentious; roué.
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Roué
a dissolute and licentious man; rake.
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Tawdry
gaudy; showy and cheap; low or mean; base.
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Rapprochment
an establishment or reestablishment of harmonious relations.
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Exalted
raised or elevated, as in rank or character; of high station; noble or elevated; lofty; rapturously excited.
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Rapturous
full of, feeling, or manifesting ecstatic joy or delight.
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Recalcitrant
resisting authority or control; not obedient or compliant; refractory; hard to deal with, manage, or operate.
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Refractory
hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient.
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Recidivism
repeated or habitual relapse, as into crime.
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Redoubtable
formidable; fearsome; deserving of respect.
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Remunerate
to pay, recompense, or reward for work, trouble, etc.
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Recompense
to repay; remunerate; reward, as for service, aid, etc.
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Repartee
a quick, witty reply, a conversation full of such replies, or skill in making such replies.
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Reprobate
a morally unprincipled or wicked person; a person rejected by God and beyond hope of salvation.
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Reticent
disposed to be silent or not to speak freely; reserved; reluctant or restrained.
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Ribald
vulgar or indecent in speech, language, etc.; coarsely mocking, abusive, or irreverent; scurrilous.
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Scurrilous
grossly or obscenely abusive; harsh mockery.
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Rife
of common or frequent occurrence; prevalent; in widespread existence, activity, or use; abounding.
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Rout
to put (a crowd) to flight or scatter; to cause a huge defeat; tumultuous or disorderly crowd of persons.
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Rubric
any established mode of conduct or procedure; protocol; heading, title, category.
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Ruminate
to chew; to meditate or ponder upon.
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Sagacious
having or showing acute mental discernment and keen practical sense; shrewd:
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Sallow
a sickly, greenish-yellow tone.
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Sally
a clever, witty, or fanciful remark; an outburst or flight of passion, fancy, etc.; an excursion or trip, usually off the main course; a sudden rushing forth or activity; a sortie of troops from a besieged place upon an enemy.
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Sortie
a rapid movement of troops from a besieged place to attack the besiegers; the flying of an airplane on a combat mission.
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Salubrious
favorable to or promoting health; healthful.
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Sangfroid
coolness of mind; calmness; composure.
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Sartorial
of or pertaining to tailors or their trade; of or pertaining to clothing or style or manner of dress.
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Saturnine
sluggish in temperament; gloomy; taciturn.
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Savant
a person of profound or extensive learning; learned scholar.
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Scofflaw
a person who flouts rules, conventions, or accepted practices.
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Flout
to treat with disdain, scorn, or contempt; scoff at; mock.
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Scotch
to put a definite end to; crush; to cut, gash, or score; to block or prop with a wedge.
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Sententious
abounding in pithy aphorisms or maxims; given to excessive moralizing; self-righteous.
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Pithy
brief, forceful, and meaningful in expression; full of vigor, substance, or meaning; terse.
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Shibboleth
a peculiarity of pronunciation, behavior, mode of dress, etc., that distinguishes a particular class or set of persons; a slogan; catchword.
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Simper
to smile in a silly, self-conscious way.
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Sine qua non
an indispensable condition, element, or factor; something essential.
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Sinuous
having many curves, bends, or turns; winding; indirect; devious.
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Slattern
a slovenly, untidy woman or girl; a slut; harlot.
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Sloven
a person who is habitually negligent of neatness or cleanliness in dress, appearance, etc.; a person who works, acts, speaks, etc., in a negligent, slipshod manner.
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Somnolent
tending to cause sleep; sleepy; drowsy.
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Spate
a sudden, almost overwhelming, outpouring.
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Spelunker
a cave explorer.
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Stalwart
strongly and stoutly built; sturdy and robust; brave; valiant; steadfast or uncompromising.
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Stria
a slight or narrow furrow, ridge, stripe, or streak, especially one of a number in parallel arrangement.
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Striated
marked with striae; furrowed; striped; streaked.
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Sturm and drang
storm and stress; turmoil.
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Sui generis
unique; of its own kind; in a class by itself.
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Supercilious
haughtily disdainful or contemptuous, as a person or a facial expression.
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Haughty
disdainfully proud; snobbish; scornfully arrogant; supercilious.
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Surreptitious
obtained, done, made, etc., by stealth; secret or unauthorized; clandestine.
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Sycophant
a flatterer; a self-serving yes-man.
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Yes-man
a person who, regardless of actual attitude, always expresses agreement with his or her supervisor, superior, etc.; sycophant.
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Syllogism
a form of logic in which two premises, a major and minor, are made and a conclusion drawn.
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Sylvan
consisting of or abounding in woods or trees; wooded; woody.
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Synergy
the combined force of two distinct elements that is more powerful then each alone.
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Temerity
reckless boldness; rashness; audacity.
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Audacity
boldness or daring, especially with confident or arrogant disregard for personal safety, conventional thought, or other restrictions; effrontery or insolence; shameless boldness.
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Temporize
to be indecisive, evasive, or to compromise in order to gain time or delay acting; to effect a compromise (even if only temporarily).
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Tendentious
having or showing a definite tendency, bias, or purpose.
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Timorous
subject to fear; fearful; timid.
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Titular
existing or being such in title only; nominal; having the title but none of the associated duties, powers, etc.; having a title, especially of rank.
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Tony
fashionable; trendy; aristocratic.
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Toothsome
pleasing to the taste; palatable; pleasing or desirable; voluptuous; sexually alluring.
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Voluptuous
full of, characterized by, or ministering to indulgence in luxury, pleasure, and sensuous enjoyment; directed toward or concerned with sensuous enjoyment or sensual pleasure.
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Trice
noun- a very short time; an instant.
Verb- to pull or haul with a rope.
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Truculent
fierce; cruel; savagely brutal; vitriolic; belligerent.
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Vitriol
something highly caustic or severe in effect, as criticism.
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Umbrage
offense; annoyance; displeasure; the slightest indication or vaguest feeling of suspicion, doubt, hostility, or the like; shade or shadows; a shadowy appearance or semblance of something.
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Undulate
to move with a sinuous or wavelike motion; to have a wavy form or surface; bend with successive curves in alternate directions.
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Usury
the lending or practice of lending money at an exorbitant interest.
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Vacuous
lacking in ideas or intelligence; empty; purposeless; idle.
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Vagary
a whimsical, wild, or unusual idea, desire, or action; an unpredictable or erratic action, occurrence, course, or instance.
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Vainglory
excessive elation or pride over one's own achievements, abilities, etc.; boastful vanity.
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Veneer
a superficially valuable or pleasing appearance; facade; coating.
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Venerate
to regard or treat with reverence; revere.
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Veracity
habitual observance of truth in speech or statement; truthfulness; correctness or accuracy.
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Verdant
green with vegetation; covered with growing plants or grass; of the color green; inexperienced; unsophisticated.
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Vicarious
acting or substituting for another; sharing in an experience of another through the Imagination.
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Viscous
of a glutinous nature or consistency; sticky or thick.
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Glutinous
of the nature of glue; gluey; viscid; sticky.
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Gluttonous
tending to eat and drink excessively; voracious; greedy; insatiable.
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Wastrel
a wasteful person; spendthrift.
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Wizened
withered; shriveled.
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Wont
accustomed; habituated; to become or cause to become accustomed.
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Zaftig
(of a woman) having a pleasantly plump figure; full-bodied; well-proportioned.
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Zeitgeist
the spirit of the time; general trend of thought or feeling characteristic of a particular period of time.
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Zephyr
a gentle, mild breeze; any of various things of fine, light quality, as fabric, yarn, etc.
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Implacable
not to be appeased, mollified, or pacified; inexorable.
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Inexorable
unyielding; unalterable; not to be persuaded or moved by prayers or entreaties.
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Appease
to bring to a state of peace, quiet, ease, calm, or contentment; pacify; soothe; to satisfy, allay, or relieve; assuage; to yield or concede to the belligerent demands of (a nation, group, person, etc.) in a conciliatory effort.
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Assuage
to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate; to appease; satisfy; allay; relieve; to soothe, calm, or mollify.
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Conciliate
to overcome the distrust or hostility of; placate; win over; to make compatible; reconcile.
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Placate
to appease or pacify, especially by concessions or conciliatory gestures.
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Pacify
to bring or restore to a state of peace or tranquility; quiet; calm; to appease; to reduce to a state of submission; subdue.
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Subdue
to conquer and bring into subjection; to overpower by superior force; overcome; to bring under mental or emotional control, as by persuasion or intimidation; render submissive; to repress.
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Subject
being under domination, control, or influence; open or exposed; being dependent or conditional upon something; being under the necessity of undergoing something.
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Allay
to put (fear, doubt, suspicion, anger, etc.) to rest; calm; quiet; to lessen or relieve; mitigate; alleviate.
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Mitigate
to lessen in force or intensity, as wrath, grief, harshness, or pain; moderate; to make (a person, one's state of mind, disposition, etc.) milder or more gentle; mollify; appease.
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Mollify
to soften in feeling or temper, as a person; pacify; appease; to mitigate or reduce; soften.
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Propitiate
to make favorably inclined; appease; conciliate.
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Castigate
to punish; chastise; criticize severely.
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Chastise
to discipline, especially by corporal punishment; to criticize severely.
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Corporal
of the human body; bodily; physical; personal; a fine cloth, usually of linen, on which the consecrated elements are placed or with which they are covered.
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Consecrated
to make or declare sacred; set apart or dedicate to the service of a deity or to God; to devote or dedicate to some purpose.
