Vocab Flashcards
(140 cards)
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To make easier or milder, relieve; to quiet, calm; to put an end to, appease, satisfy, quench
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Assuage
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A combination, union, or merger for some specific purpose
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Coalition
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Decline, decay, or deterioration; a condition or period of decline or decay; excessive self-indulgence
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Decadence
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To draw forth, bring out from some source (such as another person)
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Elicit
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To attempt to dissuade someone from some course or decision by earnest reasoning
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Expostulate
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Use so often as to lack freshness or originality
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Hackneyed
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A gap, opening, break (in the sense of having an element missing)
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Hiatus
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A hint, indirect suggestion, or reference (often in a derogatory sense)
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Innuendo
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To plead on behalf of someone else; to serve as a third party or go-between in a disagreement
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Intercede
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Wearied, worn-out, dulled (in the sense of being satiated by excessive indulgence)
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Jaded
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Causing shock, horror, or revulsion; sensational; pale or sallow in color; terrible or passionate in intensity or lack of restraint
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Lurid
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Worthy, deserving recognition and praise
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Meritorious
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Peevish, annoyed by trifles, easily irritated and upset
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Petulant
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A special right or privilege; a special quality showing excellence
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Prerogative
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Pertaining to an outlying area; local; narrow in mind or outlook…
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Provincial
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To make a pretense of, imitate; to show the outer signs of
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Simulate
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To rise above or beyond, exceed
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Transcend
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Shade cast by trees; foliage giving shade; an overshadowing influence or power; offense, resentment; a vague suspicion
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Umbrage
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Excessively smooth or smug; trying too hard to give an impression of earnestness, sincerity, or piety; fatty, oily; pliable
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Unctuous
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The expression of approval or favorable opinion, praise; official approval
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Approbation
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To improve, make better, correct a flaw or shortcoming
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Ameliorate
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Poise, assurance, great self-confidence; perpendicularity
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Aplomb
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Pompous or overblown in language; full of high sounding words intended to conceal a lack of ideas
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Bombastic
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Without experience; immature, not fully developed; lacking sophistication an poise; without feathers
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Callow
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Saliva or mucus flowing from the mouth or nose; foolish, aimless talk or thinking; nonsense; to let saline flow from the mouth; to utter nonsense or childish twaddle; to waste or fritter away foolishly
Drivel
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A summary, condensed account; an instance that represents a larger reality
Epitome
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To urge strongly, advise earnestly
Exhort
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By virtue of holding a certain office
Ex officio
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To violate, trespass, go beyond recognized bounds
Infringe
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To make oneself agreeable and thus gain favor or acceptance by others
Ingratiate
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One who moves in where he or she is not wanted or has no right to be, an intruder
Interloper
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Belonging to someone or something by its very nature, essential, inherent; originating in a bodily organ or part
Intrinsic
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To make a violent attack in words, express strong disapproval
Inveigh
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Weariness of body or mind, lack of energy
Lassitude
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A period of one thousand years; a period of great joy
Millennium
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Secret, hidden from view; not detectable by ordinary means; mysterious, magical, uncanny; to hide, cover up; eclipse
Occult
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To spread through, penetrate, soak through
Permeate
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To fall as moisture; to bring about suddenly; to hurl down from a great height; to give distinct form to; characterized by excessive haste; moisture; the product of an action or process
Precipitate
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Strict, severe; rigorously or urgently binding or compelling; sharp or bitter to the taste
Stringent
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To think or believe without certain supporting evidence; to conjecture or guess; likely idea that lacks definite proof
Surmise
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To have an intense dislike or hatred for
Abominate
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The modification of the social patterns, traits, or structures of one group or society by contact with those of another; the resultant blend
Acculturation
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Resulting from chance rather than from an inherent cause or character; accidental, not essential; (medicine) acquired, not congenital
Adventitious
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To assign or refer to (as a cause or source), attribute
Ascribe
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Roundabout, not direct
Circuitous
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To sympathize with, have pity or sorrow for, share a feeling of distress
Commiserate
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To direct or order; to prescribe a course of action in an authoritative way; to prohibit
Enjoin
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To make easy, cause to progress faster
Expedite
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To make amends, make up for; to avert
Expiate
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A state of great excitement, agitation, or turbulence; to be in or work into such a state; to produce alcohol by chemical action
Ferment
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Resulting from or marked by lack of attention; unintentional, accidental
Inadvertent
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Existing in name only, not real; too small to be considered or taken seriously
Nominal
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Not decisive or definite; unwilling to take a clear position
Noncommittal
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To steal something that has been given into one's trust; to take improperly for one's use
Peculate
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A natural or habitual inclination or tendency (especially or human character or behavior)
Proclivity
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Composure or coolness, especially in trying circumstances
Sangfroid
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Resistant to lawful authority; having the purpose of overthrowing an established government
Seditious
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Thin, slender, not dense; lacking clarity or sharpness; of slight importance; lacking a sound basis, poorly supported
Tenuous
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Bitter, sarcastic; highly caustic or biting (like a strong acid)
Vitriolic
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To use coaxing or flattery to gain some desired end
Wheedle
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Courteous and pleasant, sociable, easy to speak to
Affable
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To increase in greatness, power, or wealth; to build up or intensify; to make appear greater
Aggrandize
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Shapeless, without definite form; of no particular type or character; without organization, unity, or cohesion
Amorphous
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An original model on which something was patterned or replicated; the ideal example of a particular type of person or thing
Archetype
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That which surrounds (as an atmosphere; a distinctive air or personal quality
Aura
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Illegal traffic, smuggles goods; illegal, prohibited
Contraband
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Scholarly, learned, bookish, pedantic
Erudite
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Thin, light, delicate, insubstantial; a very thin, light cloth
Gossamer
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Incapable of being understood; impossible to see through physically
Inscrutable
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Relating to, characteristic of, or situated on an island; narrow or isolated in outlook or experience
Insular
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Incapable of being changed or called back
Irrevocable
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A natural inclination or predilection toward
Propensity
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Peevish, complaining, fretful
Querulous
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To argue with someone against something, protest against
Remonstrate
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To disown, reject, or deny the validity of
Repudiate
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Able to return to an original shape or form; able to recover quickly
Resilient
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To re-echo, resound; to reflect or be reflected repeatedly
Reverberate
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Coarsely abusive, vulgar or low (especially in language), foul-mouthed
Scurrilous
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Persistent, showing industry and determination
Sedulous
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Thin or flimsy in texture; cheap; shoddy or inferior in quality or character; ethically low, mean, disreputable
Sleazy
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A general pardon for an offense against a government; in general, any act of forgiveness or absolution
Amnesty
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Self-government, political control
Autonomy
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Self-evident, expressing a universally accepted principle
Axiomatic
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To adorn or embellish; to display conspicuously; to publish or proclaim widely
Blazon
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A warning or caution to prevent misunderstanding or discourage behavior
Caveat
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Fair, just, embodying principles of justice
Equitable
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To free from entanglements or difficulties; to remove with effort
Extricate
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To steal, especially in a sneaky way and in petty amounts
Filch
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To mock, treat with contempt
Flout
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Tending to be troublesome; unruly, quarrelsome, contrary; unpredictable
Fractious
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A rule of conduct or action
Precept
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Beneficial, helpful; healthful, wholesome
Salutary
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Bitterly severe, withering; causing great harm
Scathing
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To whip, punish severely; a cause of affliction or suffering; a source of severe punishment or criticism
Scourge
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Funereal, typical of the tomb; extremely gloomy or dismal
Sepulchral
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Tending to cause sleep, relating to sleepiness or lethargy; something that induces sleep
Soporific
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Extremely strict in regard to moral standards and conduct; prudish, puritanical
Straitlaced
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Lasting only a short time, fleeting; one who stays only a short time
Transient
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Not easily carried, handled, or managed because of size or complexity
Unwieldy
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Dull, uninteresting, tiresome; lacking in sharpness, flavor, liveliness, or force
Vapid
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Abnormal, irregular, departing from the usual
Anomalous
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A damaging or derogatory statement; the act of slandering or defaming
Aspersion
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Extremely strange, unusual, atypical
Bizarre
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Abrupt, blunt, with no formalities
Brusque
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To coax, persuade through flattery or artifice; to deceive with soothing thoughts or false promises
Cajole
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To punish severely; to criticize severely
Castigate
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To plan with ingenuity; to bring about through a plan
Contrive
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A leader who exploits popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power
Demagogue
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To free from deception or error, set right in ideas or thinking
Disabuse
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Weariness and dissatisfaction from lack of occupation or interest, boredom
Ennui
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A chain or shackle places on the feet (often used in plural); anything that confines or restrains; to chain or shackle; to render helpless or impotent
Fetter
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Very wicked, offensive, hateful
Heinous
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Not subject to change, constant
Immutable
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One who rebels or rises against authority; rising in revolt, refusing to accept authority; surging or rushing in or on
Insurgent
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A delusion marked by a feeling of power, wealth, talent, etc., far in excess of reality
Megalomania
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Stealthy, secret, intended to escape observation; made or accomplished by fraud
Surreptitious
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To go beyond a limit or boundary; to sin, violate a law
Transgress
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To change from one nature, substance, or form to another
Transmute
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Performed, suffered, or otherwise experienced by one person in place of another
Vicarious
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A position requiring little or no work; an easy job
Sinecure
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Severe or stern in manner; without adornment or luxury, simple, plain; harsh or sour in flavor
Austere
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Performing acts of kindness or charity; conferring benefits, doing good
Beneficent
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Pale, gaunt, resembling a corpse
Cadaverous
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To prepare by combining ingredients, make up (as a dish); to devise, invent, fabricate
Concoct
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Coarse, unfeeling; stupid
Crass
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To lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade, adulterate; to cause to deteriorate
Debase
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To commit sacrilege upon, treat irreverently; to contaiminate, pollute
Desecrate
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To confuse; to disturb the composure of
Disconcert
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Grand in an impressive or stately way; marked by pompous affectation or grandeur, absurdly exaggerated
Grandiose
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Trifling, unimportant
Inconsequential
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A breaking of a law or obligation
Infraction
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To make milder or softer, to moderate in force or intensity
Mitigate
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To rob of goods by open force (as in war), plunder; the act of looting; booty
Pillage
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To talk a great deal in a foolish or aimless fashion
Prate
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Very careful and exact, attentive to fine points of etiquette
Punctilious
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Inspiring fear or awe; illustrious, eminent
Redoubtable
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To find fault with, scold, rebuke
Reprove
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The act of restoring someone or something to the rightful owner or to a former state or position; making good on a loss or damage
Restitution
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Strong and sturdy; brave; resolute; a brave, strong person; a strong supporter; one who takes an uncompromising position
Stalwart
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Open to attack; capable of being wounded or damaged; unprotected
Vulnerable
