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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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Adjective: Dealing with, appreciative of, or responsive to art and the beautiful.

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Ameliorate

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Verb: to make better or more reliable.

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Ascetic

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Noun: one who practices rigid self-denial, especially as an act of religious devotion.

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Avarice

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Noun: greed, especially for wealth.

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Burgeon

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Verb: To grow rapidly or flourish.

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Bucolic

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Adjective: rustic and pastoral; characteristic of rural areas and their inhabitants.

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Cacophany

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Noun: harsh, jarring, discordant sound; dissonance.

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Canon

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Noun: an established set of principles or code of laws, often religious in nature.

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Castigation

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Noun: severe criticism or punishment.

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Catalyst

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Noun: a substance that accelerated 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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Adjective: burning or stinging; causing corrosion.

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Chart

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Adjective: wary, cautious, sparing.

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Cogent

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Adjective: appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing.

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Complaisance

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Noun: the willingness to comply with the wishes of others.

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Contentious

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Adjective: argumentative, quarrelsome, causing controversy or disagreement.

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Contrite

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Adjective: regretful, penitent, seeking forgiveness.

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Culpable

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Adjective: deserving blame

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Dearth

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Noun: smallness of quantity or number, scarcity, a lack.

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Demur

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Verb: to question or oppose

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Didactic

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Adjective: intended to teach or instruct

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Discretion

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Noun: cautious reserve in speech; ability to make responsible decisions

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Disinterested
Adjective: free of bias or self interest, impartial.
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Phantasmagoria
Noun: a sequence of real or imagined images like those in a dream.
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Dogmatic
Adjective: expressing a rigid opinion based on unproven or improbable principles.
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Ebullience
Noun: the quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings.
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Eclectic
Adjective: composed of elements drawn from various sources.
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Elegy
Noun: a mournful poem, especially one lamenting the dead.
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Emollient
Adjective: soothing, especially to the skin, making less harsh. Synonym: mollifying Noun: an agent that softens or smoothed the skin.
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Empirical
Adjective: based on observation or experience.
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Enigmatic
Adjective: mysterious, obscure; difficult to understand. Noun: “enigma”
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Emphemeral
Adjective: brief, fleeting
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Esoteric
Adjective: intended for or understood by a small, specific group.
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Eulogy
Noun: a speech honoring the dead
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Exonerate
Verb: to remove blamed
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Facetious
Adjective: playful, humorous, jesting.
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Fallacy
Noun: an invalid or incorrect notion; a mistaken belief.
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Fallacy
Noun: an invalid or incorrect notion; a mistaken belief.
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Furtive
Adjective: marked by stealth, convert, surreptitious.
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Gregarious
Adjective: sociable; outgoing; enjoying the company of other people.
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Harangue
Verb: to deliver a forceful and angry speech. Noun: ranting speech or writing.
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Heretical
Adjective: violating accepted dogma or convention.
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Hyperbole
Noun: an exaggerated statement, often used as a figure of speech.
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Impecunious
Adjective: lacking funds; without money.
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Incipient
Adjective: beginning to come into being or to become apparent.
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Inert
Adjective: unmoving; lethargic, sluggish.
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Innocuous
Adjective: harmless; causing no damage.
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Intransigent
Adjective: refusing to compromise
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Inveigle
Verb: to obtain by deception or flattery.
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Morose
Adjective: sad, sullen, melancholy.
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Odious
Adjective: invoking intense dislike
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Opaque
Adjective: impenetrable by light; not reflecting light; not see-through.
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Oscillation
Noun: the act or state of swinging back and forth with a steady, uninterrupted rhythm.
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Penurious
Adjective: penny pinching, excessively thrifty, ungenerous.
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Pernicious
Adjective: extremely harmful in a way that is not easily seen or noticed.
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Peruse
Verb: to examine with great care
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Pious
Adjective: 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.
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Prodigious
Adjective: abundant in size, force, or extent; extraordinary.
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Prolific
Adjective: producing large volumes or amounts; productive.
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Putrefy
Verb: to rot, to decay and give off a foul odor.
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Quaff
Verb: to drink deeply
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Quiescence
Noun: stillness; motionlessness; quality of being at rest
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Redoubtable
Adjective: awe-inspiring, worthy of honor.
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Sanction
Noun: authoritative permission or approval; a penalty intended to enforce compliance. Verb: to give permission or authority.
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Satire
Noun: a literary work that ridiculed or criticized a human vice through humor or derision.
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Squalid
Adjective: sordid, wretched, and dirty as from neglect.
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Stoic
Adjective: indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain; steadfast.
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Supplant
Verb: to take the place of, to supersede.
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Torpid
Adjective: lethargic, sluggish, dormant.
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Ubiquitous
Adjective: existing everywhere at the same time; constantly encountered; widespread.
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Urbane
Adjective: sophisticated; refined; elegant
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Vilify
Verb: to defame; to characterize harshly.
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Vicious
Adjective: thick; sticky

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