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Forestall

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Prevent/obstruct an anticipated action/event by taking action ahead of time

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Scanty

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Small or insufficient in quantity/amount

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Panegyric (n)

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Elaborate praise or laudation

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Gauche (adj)

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Tactless

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Unstinting (adj)

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Bestowed liberally

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Limpid (adj)

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Characterized by transparent clearness; easily intelligible; calm and untroubled

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Fatuous (adj)

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Foolish (especially in a smug or self-satisfied way)

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Teratoid (adj)

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Monstrously deformed

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Decorous (adj)

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Marked by propriety and good taste

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Felicitous (adj)

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Very well suited or expressed; pleasant or delightful

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Diffident (adj)

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Hesitant in acting or speaking through lack of self-confidence

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Capricious (adj)

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Impulsive; unpredictable

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Facile (adj)

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Easily accomplished or attained; readily manifested and often lacking sincerity or depth (facile tears)

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Bellicose (adj)

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Favoring or inclined to start quarrels or wars

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Doughty (adj)

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Marked by fearless resolution

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Retrench (v)

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To cut down; reduce

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Rebuke (v)

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To criticize severely

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Sophistry (n)

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Subtly deceptive reasoning or argumentation

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Exacerbate (v)

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To make more violent, bitter, or severe (exacerbate the situation)

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Expiate (v)

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Extinguish the guilt incurred by; make amends for

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Coruscate (v)

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To give off or reflect bright beams or flashes; to be brilliant or showy in technique or style

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Preternatural (adj)

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Existing outside of nature

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Teleological (adj)

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Exhibiting or relating to design or purpose–especially in nature

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Countenance (n)

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Calm expression; mental composure

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Preclude (v)
To make impossible by necessary consequence
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Variance
The fact or state of being in disagreement; state of being a variable
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Consonant (adj)
Being in agreement or harmony
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Candor (n)
Freedom from prejudice or malicious; unreserved, honest, or sincere expression; Forthrightness
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Edify (v)
To instruct and improve--especially in moral and religious knowledge
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Cadge (v)
Beg
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Mendicate (v)
To beg
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Allay (v)
To reduce the intensity of; relieve; to calm or pacify
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Anodyne (adj)
Capable of soothing or eliminating pain; relaxing
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Monocoque (adj)
Constructed in one piece
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Pavonine (adj)
Of or resembling a peacock (in color, design, or iridescence)
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Parietal (adj)
Having to do with college
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Saturnine (adj)
Melancholy or sullen; being bitter or sardonic
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Attuned (v)
To bring into a harmonious or responsive relationship
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Execrable (adj)
Detestable, very bad, wretched
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Expediency (n)
Appropriateness to the purpose at hand; adherence to self-serving means
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Prodigious (adj)
Impressively great in size, force, or extent; extraordinary, marvelous
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Sidereal (adj)
Pertains to time...
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Etiolate (v)
To cause to appear pale and sickly; to cause a plant to develop without chlorophyll by preventing exposure to sunlight
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Intransigent (adj)
Refusing to moderate a position; uncompromising
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Comportment (n)
Bearing; deportment
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Invidious (adj)
Likely to arouse or incur resentment or anger in others (of an action/situation, not person)
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Plangent (adj)
Loud and resounding; expressing or suggesting sadness
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Nugatory (adj)
Of little or no importance
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Denouement (n)
The final resolution or clarification of a dramatic or narrative plot; the end result
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Antediluvian (adj)
Extremely old and antiquated
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Pusillanimous (adj)
Lacking courage; cowardly
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Jejune (adj)
Not interesting. Dull.
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Ludology (n)
The study of games/gaming
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Disencumber (v)
Relieve from an encumbrance (problem, etc)
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Demarcate (v)
Set the boundary
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Repudiate (v)
To reject the validity or authority of; to disown
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Disburse (v)
To pay out, as from a fund
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Equanimity (n)
The quality of being calm and even-tempered; composure
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Tyro (n)
A beginner in learning something
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Agronomy (n)
Application of the various soil and plant sciences to soil management and crop production; scientific agriculture
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Effusive (adj)
Unrestrained or excessive in emotional expression; gushy; profuse or overflowing
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Serpentine (adj)
Of or resembling a serpent
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Thewy (adj)
Muscular
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Sinewy (adj)
Lean and muscular
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Pneumatic (adj)
Of or relating to air or other gases
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Flocculent (adj)
Fluffy; wooly
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Burke (v)
The suppress or extinguish quietly; stifle
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Fete (v)
To celebrate or honor with a festival, feast, or an elaborate entertainment
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Adroit (adj)
Dexterous; deft
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Venal (adj)
Corruptible, obtainable for a price, open to bribery
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Exscind (v)
To cut out; excise
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Obloquy (n)
Abusively detractive language or utterance
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Calumny (n)
A false statement maliciously made to injure another's reputation
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Evince (v)
To show or demonstrate clearly; manifest
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Ossification (n)
The natural process of bone formation; hardening or calcification
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Recreant (adj)
Unfaithful or disloyal to a belief, duty, or cause; craven or cowardly
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Redolent (adj)
Having or emitting a fragrance, aromatic; suggestive or reminiscent
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Recondite (adj)
Not easily understood
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Arcane (adj)
Known or understood by only a few
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Droll (adj)
Amusingly odd or whimsical; comical
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Verisimilitude (n)
The quality of appearing to be true or real
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Noisome (adj)
Offensive to the point of arousing disgust; harmful ad dangerous
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Atavism (n)
The reappearance of a characteristic in an organism after several generations of absence, usually cases by the chance recombination of genes
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Mephitic (adj)
Poisonous or foul-smelling

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