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alloy (verb)

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alloy (verb) to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior; unalloyed means pure

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appropriate (verb)

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appropriate (verb) to take for one’s own use; to confiscate

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august (adj.)

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august (adj.) majestic, venerable

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bent (noun)

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bent (noun) leaning, inclination, proclivity, tendency

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brook (verb)

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brook (verb) to tolerate; to endure; to countenance

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chauvinist (noun)

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chauvinist (noun) a blindly devoted patriot

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damp (verb)

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damp (verb) to diminish the intensity or check the vibration of a sound

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essay (verb)

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essay (verb) to test or try; to attempt; to experiment

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fell (adj.)

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fell (adj.) inhumanly cruel

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flag (verb)

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flag (verb) to sag or droop; to become spiritless; to decline

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ford (verb)

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ford (verb) to wade across the shallow part of a river or stream

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grouse (verb)

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grouse (verb) to complain or grumble

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guy (noun)/(verb)

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guy (noun)/(verb) a rope, cord, or cable attached to something as a brace or guide; to steady or reinforce using a guy: think guide. (verb form: guyed, guying )

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list (verb)

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list (verb) to tilt or lean to one side

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pedestrian (adj.)

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pedestrian (adj.) commonplace, trite, unremarkable, quotidian

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scurvy (adj.)

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scurvy (adj.) contemptible, despicable

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stand (noun)

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stand (noun) a group of trees

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abjure (verb)

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abjure (verb) to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid

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adumbrate (verb)

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adumbrate (verb) to foreshadow vaguely or intimate; to suggest or outline sketchily; to obscure or overshadow

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anathema (noun)

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anathema (noun) a solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing

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anodyne (adj.)/(noun)

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anodyne (adj.)/(noun) soothing; something that assuages or allays pain or comforts

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apogee (noun)

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apogee (noun) farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith

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apostate (noun)

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apostate (noun) one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions

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apotheosis (noun)

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apotheosis (noun) deification; glorification to godliness; an exalted example; a model of excellence or perfection

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asperity (noun)
asperity (noun) severity, rigor; roughness, harshness; acrimony, irritability
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asseverate (verb)
asseverate (verb) to aver, allege, or assert
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augury (noun)
augury (noun) omen, portent
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calumniate (verb)
calumniate (verb) to slander, to make a false accusation; calumny means slander, aspersion
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captious (adj.)
captious (adj.) disposed to point out trivial faults; calculated to confuse or entrap in argument
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cavil (verb)
cavil (verb) to find fault without good reason
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celerity (noun)
celerity (noun) speed, alacrity; think accelerate
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chimera (noun)
chimera (noun) an illusion; originally, an imaginary fire-breathing she-monster
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contumacious (adj.)
contumacious (adj.) insubordinate, rebellious; contumely means insult, scorn, aspersion
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denouement (noun)
denouement (noun) an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot
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descry (verb)
descry (verb) to catch sight of
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desuetude (noun)
desuetude (noun) disuse
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desultory (adj.)
desultory (adj.) random; aimless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose
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diaphanous (adj.)
diaphanous (adj.) transparent, gauzy
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diffident (adj.)
diffident (adj.) reserved, shy, unassuming; lacking in self-confidence
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dirge (noun)
dirge (noun) a song of grief or lamentation
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encomium (noun)
encomium (noun) glowing and enthusiastic praise; panegyric, tribute, eulogy
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exegesis (noun)
exegesis (noun) critical examination, explication
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expiate (verb)
expiate (verb) to atone or make amends for
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extirpate (verb)
extirpate (verb) to destroy, to exterminate, to cut out, to exscind
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fatuous (adj.)
fatuous (adj.) silly, inanely foolish
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gainsay (verb)
gainsay (verb) to deny, to dispute, to contradict, to oppose
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imbroglio (noun)
imbroglio (noun) difficult or embarrassing situation
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indefatigable (adj.)
indefatigable (adj.) not easily exhaustible; tireless, dogged
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ineluctable (adj.)
ineluctable (adj.) certain, inevitable
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insouciant (adj.)
insouciant (adj.) unconcerned, carefree, heedless
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inveterate (adj.)
inveterate (adj.) deep rooted, ingrained, habitual
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jejune (adj.)
jejune (adj.) vapid, uninteresting, nugatory; childish, immature,
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mendicant (noun)
mendicant (noun) a beggar, supplicant
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meretricious (adj.)
meretricious (adj.) cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy; attracting by false show
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minatory (adj.)
minatory (adj.) menacing, threatening (reminds you of the Minotaur, a threatening creature indeed)
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obstreperous (adj.)
obstreperous (adj.) noisily and stubbornly defiant, aggressively boisterous
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ossified (adj.)
ossified (adj.) tending to become more rigid, conventional, sterile, and reactionary with age; literally, turned into bone
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palliate (verb)
palliate (verb) to make something seem less serious, to gloss over, to make less severe or intense
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panegyric (noun)
panegyric (noun) formal praise, eulogy, encomium; panegyrical means expressing elaborate praise
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parsimonious (adj.)
parsimonious (adj.) cheap, miserly
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pellucid (adj.)
pellucid (adj.) transparent, easy to understand, limpid
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peroration (noun)
peroration (noun) the concluding part of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech
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plangent (adj.)
plangent (adj.) pounding, thundering, resounding
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prolix (adj.)
prolix (adj.) long-winded, verbose; prolixity means verbosity
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propitiate (verb)
propitiate (verb) to appease; to conciliate; propitious means auspicious, favorable
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puerile (adj.)
puerile (adj.) childish, immature,
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puissance (noun)
puissance (noun) power, strength; puissant means powerful, strong
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pusillanimous (adj.)
pusillanimous (adj.) cowardly, craven
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remonstrate (verb)
remonstrate (verb) to protest, to object
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sagacious (adj.)
sagacious (adj.) having sound judgment; perceptive, wise; like a sage
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salutary (adj.)
salutary (adj.) remedial, wholesome, causing improvement
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timorous (adj.)
timorous (adj.) timid, fearful, diffident
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vitiate (verb)
vitiate (verb) to corrupt, to debase, to spoil, to make ineffective
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voluble (adj.)
voluble (adj.) fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language

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