Lots more words I still Don't Know Cause I Don't Speeka Da Engrish Flashcards
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Recreant
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cowardly or craven
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Redolent
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Fragrant; pleasantly odorous
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Limpid
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Clear; easily understood
lucid
completely calm; not worried
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Droll
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Oddly Amusing
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Ossified
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Hardened
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Rarefied
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Lofty; high; elevated; exalted
Esoteric
Rare or less dense; thinned
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Estimable
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Deserving respect or admiration
Esteemable
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Verisimilitude
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The appearance or semblance of truth
Seeming to be true
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August
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Majestic
Venerable; eminent
Inspiring admiration
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Bovine
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Dull
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Pastoral
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having the characteristics of a rural area
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Noisome
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Offensive in odor
harmful to health; noxious
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Atavistic
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Reversion; Regression; Lapse; Throwback
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Mephitic
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Noxious; poisonous
Offensive to the smell
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Divest
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Strip or deprive
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Elicit
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Draw out by discussion
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Equanimity
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Calmness and composure
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Euphemism
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A toned down phrase used in place of a worse one
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Opprobrious
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Disgraceful; shameful
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Gainsay
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Oppose
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Extirpate
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Eradicate
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Effigy
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Depiction of something
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Jocund
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Happy; gay; blithe
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Abrogate
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Abolish; repeal; put an end to
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Delude
Trick; deceive
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Prurient
Erotic; Lascivious
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Disquietude
Uneasiness
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Abnegate
Deny oneself; relinquish
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Unctuous
Smug
Overly Pious
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Sonorous
Grandiloquent
Loud, full sound
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Belie
Misrepresent
Contradict
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Volubility
Can talk fluently without difficulty; glib
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Inexorable
Relentless; unyielding
Can't be persuaded by emotion/entreaties
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Impudent
Rude; effrontery
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Disaffected
discontent with authority
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Refractory
defiant; recalcitrant
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Subsume
engulf or consume
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Tantamount
Commensurate; equal
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Panache
flamboyant; showy
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Immutable
Unchangable; unchanging through time
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Myopic
Narrow minded
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Denigrate
Disparage or defame
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Espouse
Adopt or make one's own
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Idiosyncrasy
People's mannerisms
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Scrupulous
Principled
Detail oriented
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Incorrigible
Bad beyond correction
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Spurn
Reject with contempt
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Droll
Oddly amusing
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Slake
Allay (something) by satisfying
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Pique
Provoke or arouse
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Cant
Insincerely expressed
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Expiate
Make amends or reparations for
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Expatiate
To expound
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Propinquity
Near in proximity
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Effluvia
Unseen exhalation of vapor
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Recidivism
Habitual relapse into a habit (usually crime)
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Obstreperous
Recalcitrant; boistrous
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Detumescence
Reduction of swelling
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Redoubtable
Formidable; demanding respect
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contumacious
Intractable; refractory; rebellious
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Probity
Honesty; integrity; uprightness
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Indigence
Impoverished
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Inveterate
Established; habituated; settled in one's way
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Turgid
Swollen; pompous
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Quiescent
Being at rest; still; motionless
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Impunity
Exempt from punishment
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Stolidity
Unemotional; apathetic
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Benign (Benignant)
A kind/generous disposition
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Dissemble
Conceal; mislead
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Etiolate
Weaken; enervate
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Surfeit
Excess; Abundance
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Perennial
Frequently recurrent
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Impassive
Emotionless
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Impecunious
Without funds/money
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Stint
Frugal
Limit to a certain amount
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Doughty
Valiant; resolute
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Outlandish
Bizarre; odd; strange
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Retrench
Cut down; diminish; curtail; remove
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Sophistry
A false Argument
Subtle, tricky, and plausible but fallacious method of reasoning
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Sedulous
Assiduous; diligent
Persistent
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Preternatural
Supernatural; out of the ordinary course of nature
Abnormal
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Teleology
An account of a given thing's purpose
Explaining why a phenomena works by its purpose or design
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Candor
Candid, frank/open/etc.
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Grating
Irritating; annoying; offensive
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Cadge
Obtain by imposing on another's generosity or friendship
Obtain by begging
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Manducate
Masticate; chew
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Anodyne
Something that relieves pain
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Iridescent
Colorful
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Monocque
Constructed in one piece
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Pavonine
Colorful
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Parietal
Relating to college/university rules
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Attuned
Bring into accord; adjust
Bring "in tune"
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Salve
Anything that soothes, mollifies, or relieves
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Ardent
Fervent
Passionate
Intense feeling
Zealous
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Shallow
Superficial
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Dour
Sullen; gloomy
Stern
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Concierge
A service person (janitor, door man, warden, etc.)
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Curator
The person in charge; manager; superintendent
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Anachronism
Something not placed in the correct time period
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Effuse
Scattered; profuse; disseminate; shed forth
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Prosaic
dull; commonplace; unimaginative
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Colored
Embellished; ornamented
Deceptive
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Thewy
Of or relating to muscle or sinew
Physical strength
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Sinewy
Relating to strength, power, or vigor
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Pneumatic
relating to air/gas
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Flocculent
woolly
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Capitulate
To give up resistance
Surrender
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Abash
To destroy self-confidence or poise
Make embarrassed or ashamed
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Insolvent
Unable to meet monetary obligations
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Exscind
To cut off or out
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Obloquy
Censure, blame, or abusive language aimed at a person
Discredit; disgrace
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Evince
to show clearly
make evident or manifest
Prove
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Ossification
to harden
to become rigid or inflexible in habits/opinions/etc.
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Aggrandize
To increase in intensity, power, influence, prestige, etc.
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Astringent
Having a tightening effect on living tissue
Harsh; severe
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Cynicism
An attitude that all people are motivated by selfishness
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Fawn
Flatter or praise excessively
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Flout
Show contempt for
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Hubris
Overbearing presumption or pride
Arrogance
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Impetuous
Hastily or rashly energetic; impulsive and vehement
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Obstinate
Stubborn; uncompromising
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Ostentatious
Pretentious display or showy
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Pervade
Pervasive; to permeate
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Pragmatic
Practical rather than idealistic
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Proclivity
A natural predisposition or inclination
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Propensity
A natural inclination or tendency; penchant
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Rarefy
To make to become thin, less dense
To refine
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Refulgent
Radiant; shiny; brilliant
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Renege
To fail to honor a commitment
To go back on a promise
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Sedulous
Diligent; persistent; hard working
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Terse
Brief and concise wording
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Trenchant
Sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating
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Unfeigned
Genuine; not false or hypocritical
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Untenable
Indefensible; not viable; uninhabitable
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Variegated
Multicolored; different patches of color
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Vexation
Annoyance; irritation
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Volatile
Changeable; explosive; fickle
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Alloy
To commingle.
To debase by mixing with something inferior
Unalloyed means pure
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August
Majestic
Venerable
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Bent
Inclination
Proclivity
Tendency
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Brook
To tolerate or endure
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Cardinal
Major
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Chauvinist
A blindly devoted patriot
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Color
To change
To distort or affect
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Consequential
Pompous
Self-important
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Damp
As in dampen
To diminish the intensity
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Die
A tool for shaping
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Essay
To attempt
To experiment
To test or try
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Fell (adj.)
Inhumanly cruel
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Flag
To sag or droop
To become spiritless
To decline
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Flip
Sarcastic, as in flippant
Impertinent
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Grouse
To complain or grumble
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Guy
A rope/cord/cable attached to something as a support or brace
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Intimate
To imply or suggest or insinuate
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List
To tilt or lean to one side
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Lumber
To move heavily and clumsily
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Meet
Fitting or proper
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Milk
Exploit
To squeeze every last ounce of
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Mince
To pronounce it speak affectedly
To euphemize
To speak too carefully
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Nice
Exacting
Fastidious (particular; hard to please)
Extremely precise
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Obtain (adj.)
To be established, accepted or customary
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Pied
Multicolored
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Pine
To yearn
To lose vigor
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Plastic
Moldable or pliable
Not rigid
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Pluck
Courage, spunk, or fortitude
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Prize
To pry or to press or force with a lever
Something taken by force or spoils
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Rail
Complain about bitterly
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Quail
To lose courage
To turn frightened
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Sap
To enervate
A fool or nitwit
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Scurvy
Contemptible
Despicable
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Singular
Exceptional, unusual, or odd
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Stand
A group of trees
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Steep
To saturate or completely soak, as in to let a tea bag steep
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Strut
The supporting structural cross part of a wing
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Table
To remove from consideration
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Tender
To proffer or offer
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Waffle
To equivocate
To change one's position
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Wag
Wit
Joker
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Abjure
To recant
To renounce or reject
To avoid
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Anathema
A solemn or ecclesiastical curse
A curse or loathed person or thing
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Asseverate
To assert; aver; allege
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Augury
Omen, portent
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Calumniate
Relating to calumny; to defame or slander
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Captious
Disposed to point out trivial faults
Calculated to confuse or entrap in an argument
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Cavil
To find fault without good reason
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Celerity
Speed, alacrity
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Chimera
An illusion; imaginary or fanciful
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Contumacious
Insubordinate, rebellious
Contumely means insult, scorn, aspersion
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Denouement
An outcome or solution
The unraveling of a plot
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Descry
to discriminate or discern
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Desuetude
disuse (to stop using)
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Desultory
random; aimless; lack of purpose
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Execrate
To denounce
To feel loathing for
To curse
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Exegesis
Critical examination
Explication
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Explicate
To make clear or plain
To explain
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Fractious
Quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory, irritable
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Heterodox
Unorthodox
Heretical
Iconoclastic
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Indefatigable
Not easily exhaustible
Tireless
Dogged
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Ineluctable
Certain, inevitable
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Inimitable
One of a kind
Peerless (one of a kind)
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Jejune
Nugatory; childish; immature and puerile; uninteresting, insipid or vapid
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Lubricious
Lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery
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Meretricious
Cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy;
Attractive by false show
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Minatory
Menacing or threatening
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Nadir
Low point
Perigee (nearest point, opposite of apogee)
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Palliate
To make less severe or intense
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Plangent
Pounding, thundering, resounding
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Prolix
Long winded, verbose
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Propitiate
To appease
To conciliate
(propitious means auspicious or favorable)
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Puissance
Power, strength, powerful
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Pusillanimous
Cowardly or craven
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Salacious
Lustful
Lascivious
Bawdy
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Salutary
Remedial (intending to correct)
Wholesome
Causing improvement
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Saturnine
Gloomy, dark, morose, sullen
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Sententious
Aphoristic or moralistic
Epigrammatic (terse and ingenious in expression)
Tending to moralize excessively
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Stygian
Gloomy or dark
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Sycophant
Self-seeking flatterer; parasite
Butt kisser
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Tendentious
Biased; showing marked tendencies
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Vitiate
To corrupt
To debase (adulterate)
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Voluble
Fluent, can speak easily about things
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Prolix
Verbose
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Epitaph
An inscription on a grave marker
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Paragon
A model of excellence
A perfect example
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Nadir
Bottom, lowest point
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Amortize
Pay off a debt in installments
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Idyll
Lighthearted artistic work
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Paradigm
Serving as a model or mold (standard, paragon, etc.)
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Precept
A rule or commandment
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Hermetic
Sealed or isolated
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Indelible
That which cannot be forgotten, changed, muted.
Immutable
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Strident
Having a shrill, irritating quality or character (especially as in a sound)
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Incensed
Pleasant smelling
Adulation or homage
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Fetid
Having an offensive odor. Stinky.
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Involute
Intricate
Complex
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Luculent
Clear or lucid
Convincing or cogent
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Convoke
Call together for a meeting
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Perspicuous
Lucid; clear
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Byzantine
Complex or intricate
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Pusillanimous
Lacking courage; timid
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Plucky
Courageous
Brave
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Meretricious
Tawdry, vulgar, flashy, and tasteless
Based on pretense, deception, or insincerity
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Viridian
Blueish-green color
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Svelte
Slender and graceful in figure
Suave; lithe; urbane
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Lithe
Flexible, limber, pliant
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Wheedle
To coax
To obtain by persuasion or flattery
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Importune
To beg; to press; to beseech
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Adventurism
Defiance or disregard for accepted standards
Rash or irresponsible policies, methods or actions especially taken by a political official
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Outlay
An expenditure or spending of something
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Gaffes
A blunder or faux pas
A mistake
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Imperious
Domineering; arrogantly overbearing
Urgent; imperative
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Impious
Disrespectful
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Pennate
With wings
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Paucity
Scarcity; scant
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Decrepitude
Decrepit condition; feeble
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Temerity
Recklessly bold; rashness
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Rostrum
A platform or stage for speaking; a pulpit
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Antithesis
The exact opposite
Opposition; contrast
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Extraction
Descent or lineage
To extract.
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Pretense
Pretend; give a false show of something
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Arbitration
The settlement of a dispute by parties agreeing to terms
A conclusion
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Affectation
Pretending to have something you don't really have (a thing or attribute)
A pretense of actual possession.
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Antecedence
Preceded; the act of going before.
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Fallow
Inactive; not in use
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Facility
Readiness and easiness due to skill, aptitude, practice, etc.
An easy flowing manner
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Allusion
Allude; give a passing reference to something
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Solstice
A turning point; the furthest and culminating point
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Thrall
Slave
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Synergy
The interaction of elements that create a greater effect when combined
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Syllogism
A subtle and deceptive argument
Deductive reasoning
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Avant-Garde
Radical; unorthodox or daring
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Antediluvian
Old fashioned; outdated; antiquated; primitive
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Superannuated
Retired; too old; antiquated; obsolete
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Edacious
Devouring; voracious; consuming
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Blandish
To coax; cajole; persuade or influence through flattery
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Obsequence (obsequiousness)
Eagerness and willing to comply
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Obsequious
Obedient; dutiful; fawning; deferential
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Pugnacious
Belligerent; combative; quarrelsome
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Diminutive
A small thing or person
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Enmity
A feeling of hatred; animosity; antagonism; ill will
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Indignant
A feeling characterized by strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting, or base
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Terse
Very brief or concise
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Outmoded
Out of style
Obsolete
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Passé
No longer in style; outmoded
