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Disparaging

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To belittle something in value/ express the opinion that something is of little value

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Discursive

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Rambling or wandering from one subject to the next

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Antanaclasis

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A figure of speech wherein a word is used repeatedly, each meaning being different than the former eg: nice retreat to retreat to

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Anagram

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Using the letters of a word to form a new word for eg: tap and pat

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Anticlimax

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Transition from an important event to a trivial one eg: They bought the government, the house and a flower pot.

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Antithesis

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Something that’s opposite and contrary to the other eg: sun vs moon, devil vs god, good vs bad

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Gossamer

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Something superfine and delicate especially spider silk

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Cobwebby

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Having the structure or quality of a spider’s old dusty web

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Termagant

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Loud overbearing and quarrelsome woman

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Obstreperous

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Noisy and boisterous

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Fractious

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Grouchy and cross

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Do a devon loch

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Fail when someone is very close to winning

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A bee in one’s bonnet

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An idea or a thought that continuously occupies one’s head

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Pardon my French

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Excuse my profanity, taboo or swear words

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Surreptitiously

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Stealthily or in a way that doesn’t attract attention

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Annex

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Addition to a document/ additional building

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Pantheism

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A belief that reality is identical with divinity

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EXTOL

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Praise enthusiastically

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Venerate

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regard with respect/ worship

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Bucolic

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Relating to the peasant aspects of country life/ a pastoral poem

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Belligerent

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Hostile or aggressive/ a nation or a person in international conflict as recognized by the international community

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Dilatory

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Slow to act/ Intending to cause delay

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Prolific

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(Of a plant or animal) producing many species

(Of a writer/ author etc) Producing great works/ abundant

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Prosaic

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Opposed to poetry due to unimaginativeness/ ordinary or commonplace

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Polemic
Strong and critical verbal attack on someone / practice of engaging in controversial debate or dispute
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Vitriolic
Filled with bitter criticism or malice
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Bevy
Large group of people or things of a particular kind
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Group of monkeys
Troop or barrel
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Group of crooks
Bunch
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Taxidermy
Act of preparing, stuffing and mounting the skins of animals
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Osteopathy
A study that entails manipulation of the body's bones and muscles
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Proverbial
(used for a phrase or a verb) that is a part of an idiom or a phrase but not uttered / well known especially to be stereotypical
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inundated
overwhelm someone with things or people to deal with/ overburden/ flood
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eponymous
named after a particular person or thing
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seminal
influencing later developments/ groundbreaking/ influential
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Munificence
Quality or action of being extremely generous
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Rout
Disorderly retreat of defeated troops/ scattered and forced to retreat/ group of people committing the offence of riot
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Putschist
a believer in the philosophy of removing a government by force
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opprobrium
harsh criticism/ censure or public disgrace due to shameful conduct
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quixotic
extremely idealistic/unrealistic
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accrue
benefit that may be received by someone in increasing amount over time/ accumulate or receive over time
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Reification
Abstract ideas to concrete objects (sociology)/ human made conditions are universal
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synoptic
forming a general summary or synopsis
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accentuate
make more prominent
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vicissitude
change of situation (one which is unpleasant)/ alternation between contrasting things
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Quagmire
a soft boggy area of land that gives away underfoot/ an awkward complex or hazardous situation
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Jockeying
Handle or manipulate something in a skillful manner Struggle to achieve something eg: Thalia has been jockeying for a post in the municipal council
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Seamy
Sordid and disreputable
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Catechism
1) Religious instruction (especially catholic) | 2) a series of fixed answers, precepts and questions used for instruction.
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Allusion
An indirect or passing reference
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Reticent
Not revealing one's thoughts or feelings readily
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imbue
inspire or penetrate with | kanaksha's ideals are imbued with passion
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Accretion
a thing created by gradual increased
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Gainsaying
deny or contradict
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averred
state or assert to be the case
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echelons
a rank or a level in an organization
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alacrity
brisk and cheerful readiness
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scuppered
sink (a ship or its crew deliberately); prevent from succeeding/thwart
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puisne
a judge of a superior court inferior to a chief justice
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clarion
brilliantly clear
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Seraphic
Resembling an angel
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Corporeal
Relating to a person's body
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Septuagint
Oldest Greek Version of the old testament
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Malapropism
Mistaken use of word with a similar sounding one
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Infecund
Infertile
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Verdant
Green fields
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Aquifers
Reserved water in permeable rocks
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Pertinacious
stubbornly unyielding
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stooge
person who does someone's dirty work
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don juan
a fictional character who devoted his life to seducing women
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Chagrin
feeling of being annoyed or irritated
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poignant
evoking a great sense of emotion or sorrow; pungent or repulsive odor
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Circumlocution
use of an unecessarily large number of words to explain something
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RESILED
RECOIL OR RETRACT
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LIMPID
TRANSPARENT
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POIGNANT
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