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Abate

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(verb)

To lessen in intensity or degree

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Accolade

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(noun)

An expression of praise

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Adulation

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(noun)

Excessive praise; intense adoration

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Aesthetic

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(adj.)

Dealing with, appreciative of, or responsive to art or the beautiful

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Ameliorate

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(verb)
To make better or more tolerable

(E) She ameloriated the hotel’s cold room by placing in bed-warming sheets onto her friend’s bed.

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Ascetic

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(noun)
One who practices rigid self-denial, esp. as an arct of religious devotion

(e) ascetic monks

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Avarice

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(noun)
Greed, esp. for wealth (adj. form: avaricious)

(E) the avarice of the Marcoses

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Axiom

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(noun)

A universally recognizable principle (adj. form: axiomatic)

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Burgeon

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(verb)
To grow rapidly or flourish

(E) burgeoning crowd

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Cacophony

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(noun)
Harsh, jarring, discordant sound; dissonance (adj. form: cacophonous)

(E) Cacophonous sound of nails scratching a blackboard

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Canon

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(noun)
An established set of principles or code of laws, often religious in nature (adj. form: canonical)

(E) biblical canons = gospels

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Castigation

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(noun)
Sever criticism or punishment (ver form: castigate

(E) Every artist’s fear of castigation

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Catalyst

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(noun)
A substance that accelerates the rate of a chemical reaction without itself changing;

A person or thing that causes change

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Caustic

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(adj.)
Burning or stinging, causing corrosion;

Severely critical or sarcastic

(E) caustic remarks that are better left unsaid; cautic love

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Chary

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(adj.)
Wary; cautious; sparing

(E) chary in demonstrations of affection

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Cogent

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(adj.)
Appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing

(E) the attorney’s cogent words

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Complaisance

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(noun)
Willingness to comply with the wishes of others (adj. form: complaisant)

(E) the rich man’s complaisant son unwillingly agrees to run the family business

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Contentious

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(adj.)
Argumentative; quarrelsome; causing controvery or disagreement

(E) contentious remarks all about, as if she wanted to start a fight

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Contrite

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(adj.)
Regretful; penitent; seeking forgiveness (noun form: contrition)

(E) that proud one’s lack of contrition

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Culpable

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(adj.) 
Deserving blame (noun: culpability)

(E) culpable thoughtlessness had kindled this burning envy onto the heart of his second son

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Dearth

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(noun)
Smallness of quantity or number; scarcity; a lack of

(E) in times of dearth and scarcity

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Demur

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(verb)
To question or oppose;

(noun)
Hesitation

(E) no room for demur or hesitation if you would not want to demur the unfolding of events

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Didactic

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(adj.)
Intend to teach or instruct

(E) a mentor’s didactic words and practice

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Discretion

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(noun)
Cautious reserve in speech; ability to make responsible decisions

(E) upon your discretion, whether to tell them or not

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Disinterested
(adj.) Free of bias or self-interest; impartial; Not interested; indifferent (E) Disinterested decisions, partially because he did not want to betray their friendship
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Dogmatic
(adj.) Expressing rigid opinion based on unproved or improvable principles Strong set of principles concerning faith, morals, etc. (E) tend to avoid arrogant dogmatic persons, no use in reasoning with them
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Ebullience
(noun) The quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings (E) friendships filled with ebullient communication
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Eclectic
(adj.) Composed of elements drawn from various sources (E) Post Modernism's electic approach
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Elegy
(noun) A mournful poem, esp. one lamenting the dead (adj. form: elegiac) (E) his playwrights tend to be melancholy, elegiac
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Emollient
(adj.) Soothing, esp. to the skin; making less hardh; mollifying, an agent that softens or smoothes the skin (E) emollient lotion or salve
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Empirical
(adj.) Based on observation or experiement (E) empirical data, empirical ethnographic record
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Enigmatic
(adj.) Mysterious; obscure; difficult to understand (noun: enigma) (E) make shape of your enigmatic thoughts and forms
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Ephemeral
(adj.) Brief; fleeting (E) the ephemeral appeal of flings
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Esoteric
(adj.) Intended for or understood by a small, specific group; Private, secret, confidential (E) esoteric allusions that only a few could understand
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Eulogy
(noun) Speech honoring the dead (verb form: eulogize) (E) a eulogy for his dead father
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Exonerate
(verb) To remove blame (E) A day of release and exoneration for those accused
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Facetious
(adj.) Playful; humurous Not meant to be taken seriously (E) He disguised his confession as a facetious anecdote
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Fallacy
(noun) An invalid or incorrect notion; a mistaken belief (adj. form: fallacious) Deceptive; misleading (E) A fallacious cheater
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Furtive
(adj.) Marked by stealth; covert; surrepticious (E) His steps too furtive, too covert and surrepticious to notice
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Gregarious
(adj.) Sociable; outgoing; enjoying the company other people (E) The gregarious extroverts
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Harangue
(verb/noun) To deliver forceful or angry speech; ranting speech or writing (E) From discussion to harangue, tension rose
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Heretical
(adj.) Violating accepted dogma or convention (E) They beheaded the heretics, those who questioned the church
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Hyperbole
(noun) An exaggerated statement, often used as a figure of speech (E) It was no hyperbole that cannibals existed in this land
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Impecunious
(adj.) Lacking funds; without money (E) The impecunious young couples
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Incipient
(adj.) Beginning to come into being or to become apparent (E) The incipient cold
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Inert
(adj.) Unmoving; lethargic; sluggish (E) He was reserved and inert, unappealing to thise used to ebullience
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Innocuous
(adj.) Harmless; causing no damage Not interesting; pallid; not stimulating (E) A dry and innocuous personality
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Intransigent
(adj.) Refusing to compromise (E) The intransigent old, so set in their ways
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Inveigle
(verb) To obtain by deception or flattery To lure, entice, ensnare by flattery (E) Avoid those who flatter too much to inveigle and entice you to do as they like
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Morose
(adj.) Sad; sullen; melancholy (E) Morose heavy words were all he could say
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Odious
(adj.) Evoking intense aversion or dislike (E) The judgmental and their odious remarks of everyone around them
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Opaque
(adj.) | Impenetrable by light or not reflecting light
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Penurious
(adj.) Penny-pinching, excessively thrifty; ungenerous (E) The poor man'a penurious daughter and her frugal ways
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Oscillation
(noun) | Act or state of swinging back and forth with a steady, uninterrupted rhythm
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Pernicious
(adj.) Extremely harmful in a way that is not easily seen or noticed (E) Overdosing in pills seemed to be a pernicious way to go
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Peruse
(verb) To examine with great care (noun form: perusal) (E) To peruse all strategies in preparation for the competition
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Pious
(adj.) | Extremely reverent or devout; showing strong religious devotion
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Precursor
(noun) | One that precedes and indicates or announces another
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Preen
(verb) To dress up; to primp; to groom oneself with elaborate care (E) Wish preening were a habit of mine
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Prodigious
(adj.) Abundant in size, force, or extent; extraordinary (E) His prodigious competitiveness
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Prolific
(adj.) | Producing large volumes or amounts; productive
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Putrefy
(verb) To rot; to decag and give off a foul odor (adj. form: putrid) (E) His farts putrefied the entire room
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Quaff
(verb) To drink deeply (E) She wanted something warm to quaff and warm her insides
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Quiescence
(noun) Stillness; motionless; quality of being at rest (E) You cannot be quiescent when pursuing something
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Redoubtable
(adj.) Awe-inspiring; worthy of honor (E) Redoubtable feats, winning competition after competition
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Sanction
(verb/noun) Authorative permission or approval; a penalty intended to enforce compliance; to give permission or authority (E) They thought dressing up as soldiers would sanction their being there
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Satire
(noun) | A literary work that ridicules or criticizes a human vice through humor or derision (adj. form: satirical)
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Squalid
(adj.) | Sordid; wretched and dirty as from neglect
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Stoic
(adj.) Indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain; steadfast (E) Best to be a stoic plant, unaffected by anything or anyone
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Supplant
(verb) To take place or supercede (E) Supplant his efforts and the original idea
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Torpid
(adj.) Lethargic, sluggish, dormant (noun form: torpor) (E) He lost the love of his life due to his torpor
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Ubiquitous
(adj. form) Existing everywhere at the same time; constantly encountered; widespread (E) Starbucks, the ubiquitous brand
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Urbane
(adj.) Sophisticated, refined and elegant (noun form: urbanity)
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Vilify
(verb) To defame; to characterize harshly (E) The unhappy wife tends to vilify her unknowing husband
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Viscous
(adj.) Thick; sticky (noun form: viscosity)

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