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Ineluctable

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inescapable

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Denouement

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The climax in a chain of events

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Invidious

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Causing envy

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Plangent

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melancholy

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Nugatory

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Not important

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Probity

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good behavior

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Parsimony

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stinginess

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Odium

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hatred or dislike

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Debacle

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complete collapse or failure

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Florid

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Intricate, complicated

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Maladroit

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ineffective, clumsy

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Astute

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Having/ showing ability to accurately assess

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Inept

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Having no skill

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Morose

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Ill tempered; sullen

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Physiognomy

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appearance, phenotype

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Abscond

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to depart secretly

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Aberrant

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deviating from the norm

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Alacrity

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eager and enthusiastic willingness

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Anomaly

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deviation from the normal order

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Approbation

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Expression of approval/ praise

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Arduous

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Strenuous

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Assuage

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to appease; make less intense; satisfy

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Audacious

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daring, fearless, recklessly bold

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Austere

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severely simple in appearance

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Axiomatic

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Self-evident, unquestionable

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Canonical

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following accepted traditional standards

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Capricious

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Unpredictable, erratic

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Censure

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Severely criticized/ disapproved

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Chicanery

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trickery

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Subterfuge

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Use deceit to accomplish goal

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Connoisseur

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expert

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Convoluted

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Complex

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Disabuse

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to set right

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Discordant

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conflicting or harsh in sound

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Disparate

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fundamentally distinct or dissimilar

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Effrontery

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extreme boldness; presumptuous

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Eloquent

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Well spoken; articulate

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Enervate

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to weaken; reduce in vitality

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Ennui

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dissatisfaction & restlessness resulting from boredom

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Equivocate

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to use ambiguous language with deceptive intent

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Erudite

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very learned; scholarly

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Exculpate

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exonerate; to clear of blame

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Exigent

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Urgent, requiring immediate action

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Extemporaneous

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improvised

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Filibuster

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intentional obstruction

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Fulminate

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to loudly attack

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Ingenuous

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lacking sophistication

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Inured

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accustomed to accepting something undesirable

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Irascible

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easily angered

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Laud

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to praise highly

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Lucid

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clear; easily understood

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Magnanimity

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quality of being generously noble in mind and sport

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Marital

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having to do with war and armed forces

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Mundane

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concerned with ordinary

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Nascent

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coming into being; early development

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Nebulous

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Vague, cloudy

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Neologism

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creation of new worlds

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Noxious

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Toxic

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Obtuse

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lacking sharpness of intellect

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Obviate

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to anticipate & make unnecessary

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Onerous

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troubling; burdensome

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Paean

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a song or hymn of praise

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Parody

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A humorous imitation intended for ridicule

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Perennial

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recurrent thru the year or many years

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Perfidy

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Intentional breach of faith ; treachery

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Perfunctory

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done without care or interest

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Perspicacious

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acutely perceptive

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Prattle

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to babble meaninglessly

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Precipitate (adj)

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acting with excessive haste

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Precipitate (v)

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to happen before anticipated

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Predilection

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preference

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Prescience

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foreknowledge of events

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Prevaricate

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to avoid the truth; evasive

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Qualms

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reservations; causes for hesitancy

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Recant

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to retract

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Refute

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to disprove; successfully argue against

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Relegate

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to forcibly assign

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Reticent

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quiet; reluctant to express thoughts

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Solicitous

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eager; concerned, attentive

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Sordid

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filthy, grime, squalor

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Sporadic

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scattered instances

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Squander

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To waste by spending

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Static

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Not moving

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Stupefy

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Stun

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Stymie

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To block; thwart

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Synthesis

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Combination of parts to make a whole

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Torque

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Force that causes rotation

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Tortuous

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Winding, twisting, complicated

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Truculent

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Cruel, fierce

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Veracity

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Truthfulness, honesty

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Virulent

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Extremely harmful or poisonous

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Voracious

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Insatiable appetite for activity

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Waver

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To move to and fro

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Abate

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To lessen in intensity

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Accolade

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An expression of praise

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Adulation

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Excessive praise

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Aesthetic

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Appreciation of art or beauty

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Ameliorate

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To make better or tolerate

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Ascetic

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One who practices rigid self-denial

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Avarice

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Greed

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Axiom

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Universally recognized principle

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Burgeon

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to grow rapidly

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Bucolic

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rustic; characteristic of rural areas

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Cacophony

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harsh sound

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Canon

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established set of principles

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Castigation

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severe criticism or punishment

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Catalyst

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accelerates rate of change

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Caustic

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burning; causing corrosion

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Chary

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wary, cautious

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Cogent

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convincing forcibly

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Complaisance

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Willingness to comply

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Contentious

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argumentative

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Contrite

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regretful, seeking forgiveness

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Culpable

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deserving blame

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Dearth

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smallness of quantity

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Demur

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to question or oppose

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Didactic

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intended to teach or instruct

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Discretion

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Cautious reserve in speech

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Disinterested

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impartial

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Dogmatic

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opinion based on improvable principles

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Ebullience

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enthusiastic expression

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Eclectic

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composed from various sources

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Elegy

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mournful poem

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Emollient

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smooths skin

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Empirical

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based on observation or experiment

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Enigmatic

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Mysterious

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Ephemeral

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fleeting, brief

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Esoteric

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intended/ understood by a small group

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Exonerate

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to remove blame

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Facetious

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playful, humorous

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Furtive

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marked by stealth

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Gregarious

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social, outgoing

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Harangue

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deliver a pompous speech/ tirade

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Heretical

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violating dogma

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Hyperbole

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exaggerated sentence

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Impecunious

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lacking funds

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Incipient

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Becoming apparent

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Inert

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sluggish, unmoving

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innocuous

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harmless

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Intransigent

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refusing to compromise

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Inveigle

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to obtain by deceit/ flattery

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Penurious

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penny pinching

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Pernicious

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extremely harmful

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Peruse

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to examine with great care

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Preen

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to dress up

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Quaff

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to drink deeply

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Quiescence

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stillness, motionless

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Redoubtable

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awe inspiring

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Supplant

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to take the place of

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Torpid

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sluggish, lethargic

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Ubiquitous

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existing everywhere at the same time

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Urbane

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sophisticated, elegant

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Vilify

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to defame

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Acumen

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keen judgement/ insight

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Aver

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to state as a fact

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Bombastic

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pompous

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Diatribe

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bitter verbal attack

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Dissemble

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to disguise/ conceal

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Evanescent

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tending to disappear

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Fervent

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greatly emotional

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Fortuitous

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happening by accident

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Germane

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relevant to the subject at hand

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Grandiloquence

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pompous speech

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Hackneyed

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lacking significance, unoriginal

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Halcyon

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peaceful and calm

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Hedonism

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pursuit of pleasure

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Hegemony

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leadership/ dominance over social group

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Iconoclast

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one who attacks traditional conventions

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Idolatrous

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excessive devotion to something

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Impassive

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revealing no emotion

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Imperturbable

A

marked by extreme calm

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Implacable

A

no capable of being appeased

172
Q

Impunity

A

immunity from punishment

173
Q

Inchoate

A

initial stage; not fully formed

174
Q

Infelicitous

A

unfortunate, inappropriate

175
Q

Insipid

A

bland

176
Q

Malevolent

A

showing hatred

177
Q

Mendacity

A

dishonesty

178
Q

Meticulous

A

attention to detail

179
Q

Misanthrope

A

one who hates all other humans

180
Q

Mitigate

A

to moderate

181
Q

Obdurate

A

Unyielding

182
Q

Obsequious

A

extremely attentive or obedient

183
Q

Occlude

A

to obstruct or block

184
Q

Opprobrium

A

disgrace; scorn; contempt

185
Q

Pedagogy

A

method & practice of teaching

186
Q

Pedantic

A

showoff about knowledge

187
Q

Penury

A

poverty

188
Q

Pervasive

A

spread out / permeate through entire group

189
Q

Pith

A

the essential/ central part

190
Q

Pithy

A

precise & brief

191
Q

Platitude

A

a superficial remark

192
Q

Polemical

A

controversial

193
Q

Prodigal

A

recklessly wasteful

194
Q

Querulous

A

prone to complaining

195
Q

Rancorous

A

Long-lasting resentment

196
Q

Recalcitrant

A

difficult to manage

197
Q

Repudiate

A

to disown

198
Q

Rescind

A

to retract

199
Q

Reverent

A

feeling of profound awe & respect

200
Q

Salubrious

A

promoting health

201
Q

Solvent

A

able to meet financial obligations; dissolve substances

202
Q

Specious

A

seemingly true, but actually false

203
Q

Spurious

A

lacking authenticity, counterfeit

204
Q

Succinct

A

brief; concise

205
Q

Superfluous

A

exceeding what is necessary

206
Q

Surfeit

A

overabundance

207
Q

Tenacity

A

quality of persistence to something

208
Q

Tenuous

A

flimsy, weak

209
Q

Tirade

A

long critical speech

210
Q

Transient

A

brief, fleeting

211
Q

Zealous

A

devoted to a cause

212
Q

Acerbic

A

bitter taste or character

213
Q

Aggrandize

A

to increase in power, intensity, and influence

214
Q

Alchemy

A

medical science

215
Q

Astringent

A

having a tightening effect

216
Q

Contiguous

A

sharing a boarder, adjacent

217
Q

Credulous

A

tending to believe to readily, gullible

218
Q

Cynicism

A

belief that all people are motivated by selfishness

219
Q

Decorum

A

polite/ appropriate conduct

220
Q

Derision

A

Scorn, ridicule

221
Q

Dilettante

A

one with an amateurish interest in a branch of knowledge

222
Q

Disparage

A

to belittle

223
Q

Flout

A

show contempt for

224
Q

Garrulous

A

pointlessly talkative

225
Q

Glib

A

marked by ease/ informality; nonchalant

226
Q

Hubris

A

overbearing pride; arrogance

227
Q

Immutable

A

not capable of change

228
Q

Impetuous

A

hastily or rashly energetic

229
Q

Inimical

A

damaging; harmful

230
Q

Intractable

A

not easily managed; stubborn

231
Q

Intrepid

A

steadfast & courageous

232
Q

Laconic

A

using few words; terse

233
Q

Maverick

A

independent individual; goes against group party

234
Q

Mercurial

A

rapid/ unpredictable change in mood

235
Q

Mollify

A

to soothe/ calm

236
Q

Neophyte

A

recent convert

237
Q

Obfuscate

A

deliberately obscure

238
Q

Obstinate

A

stubborn

239
Q

Ostentatious

A

pretentious display

240
Q

Pervade

A

to permeate throughout

241
Q

Phlegmatic

A

calm, sluggish, unemotional

242
Q

Pragmatic

A

practical rather than idealistic

243
Q

Probity

A

adherence to highest principles

244
Q

Proclivity

A

natural predisposition

245
Q

Profligate

A

excessively wasteful

246
Q

Prosaic

A

dull, lacking in spirit or imagination

247
Q

Quixotic

A

foolishly impractical

248
Q

Quotidian

A

commonplace

249
Q

Rarefy

A

to refine, make less dense

250
Q

Recondite

A

hidden, obscure

251
Q

Refulgent

A

shiny; brilliant

252
Q

Sedulous

A

diligent, hardworking

253
Q

Soporific

A

Causing drowsiness

254
Q

Spendthrift

A

one who spends money wastefully

255
Q

Tacit

A

implied, not explicitly stated

256
Q

Tout

A

to publicly praise or promote

257
Q

Trenchant

A

keen; very perceptive

258
Q

Unfeigned

A

genuine

259
Q

Untenable

A

not viable, uninhabitable

260
Q

Variegated

A

multicolored

261
Q

Vituperate

A

to berate

262
Q

Alloy

A

to comingle

263
Q

August

A

majestic

264
Q

Consequential

A

self-important

265
Q

Fell

A

inhumanely cruel

266
Q

Flag

A

to droop; become spiritless

267
Q

Flip

A

sarcastic

268
Q

Ford

A

to wade across

269
Q

Grouse

A

to grumble/ complain

270
Q

Guy

A

rope/ cord attached at a brace

271
Q

Pied

A

multicolored or blotched

272
Q

Rail

A

to complain bitterly

273
Q

Quail

A

to lose courage

274
Q

Wag

A

wit, joker

275
Q

Abjure

A

to renounce, reject solemnly

276
Q

Adumbrate

A

to outline sketchily

277
Q

Anathema

A

Solemn curse; thoroughly loathed person/ thing

278
Q

Anodyne

A

soothing

279
Q

Apogee

A

farthest/ highest point

280
Q

Apostate

A

one who abandons long held convictions

281
Q

Apotheosis

A

glorification to godliness

282
Q

Asperity

A

severity, rigor

283
Q

Asseverate

A

to allege or assert

284
Q

Assiduous

A

diligent, hardworking

285
Q

Augury

A

omen

286
Q

Bellicose

A

belligerent

287
Q

Calumniate

A

to slander

288
Q

Captious

A

disposed to point out trivial faults

289
Q

Cavil

A

to find fault without good reason

290
Q

Celerity

A

speed

291
Q

Chimera

A

an illusion (she-monsters, firebreathing)

292
Q

Contumacious

A

insubordinate, rebellious

293
Q

Debacle

A

fiasco

294
Q

Descry

A

to discriminate

295
Q

Desuetude

A

to disuse

296
Q

Desultory

A

random, aimless

297
Q

Diaphanous

A

transparent, gauzy

298
Q

Diffident

A

shy, reserved

299
Q

Dirge

A

song of grief

300
Q

Encomium

A

glowing & enthusiastic praise

301
Q

Eschew

A

to shun or avoid

302
Q

Excoriate

A

to disapprove scathingly

303
Q

Execrate

A

to denounce

304
Q

Exegesis

A

critical explanation

305
Q

Expiate

A

to atone

306
Q

Extirpate

A

to destroy

307
Q

Fatuous

A

silly, foolish

308
Q

Fractious

A

quarrelsome, unruly

309
Q

Gainsay

A

to deny, oppose

310
Q

Heterodox

A

unorthodox

311
Q

Imbroglio

A

Difficult or embarrassing situation

312
Q

Indefatigable

A

no easily exhaustible

313
Q

Ineluctable

A

inevitable

314
Q

Inimitable

A

one of a kind

315
Q

Insouciant

A

carefree, unconcerned

316
Q

Inveterate

A

deep rooted, habitual

317
Q

Jejune

A

vapid, immature

318
Q

Lubricious

A

wanton, greasy

319
Q

Mendicant

A

beggar

320
Q

Meretricious

A

cheap, flashy

321
Q

Minatory

A

threatening, menacing

322
Q

Nadir

A

low point

323
Q

Nonplussed

A

baffled, bewildered

324
Q

Obstreperous

A

noisily & stubbornly defiant

325
Q

Palliate

A

to make something seem less serious

326
Q

Panegyric

A

formal praise

327
Q

Parsimonious

A

cheap, miserly

328
Q

Pellucid

A

transparent

329
Q

Peroration

A

concluding part of speech

330
Q

Plangent

A

pounding, resounding

331
Q

Prolix

A

verbose

332
Q

Propitiate

A

to appease

333
Q

Puerile

A

Childish, immature

334
Q

Puissance

A

power, strength

335
Q

Pusillanimous

A

cowardly

336
Q

Remonstrate

A

to protest

337
Q

Sagacious

A

having sound judgment

338
Q

Salacious

A

lustful

339
Q

Salutary

A

remedial, wholesome

340
Q

Sanguine

A

cheerful, optimistic

341
Q

Saturnine

A

gloomy, sullen

342
Q

Sententious

A

tending to moralize

343
Q

Stentorian

A

extremely loud and powerful

344
Q

Stygian

A

Dark and Gloomy

345
Q

Sycophant

A

parasite, self-seeking flatterer

346
Q

Tendentious

A

Biased

347
Q

Timorous

A

timid, fearful

348
Q

Tyro

A

Novice

349
Q

Vitiate

A

to corrupt, spoil

350
Q

Voluble

A

fluent, verbal

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