Words And Meanings Flashcards

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Prescient

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Having or showing knowledge of events before they take place.

Eg. a prescient warning

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Incensed

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Very angry

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Vindicated

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Disposed or seek revenge

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Lionized

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Give a lot of public attention and approval to to someone

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Fastidious

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Very attentive to and concerned about accuracy and detail.

He chooses his words with fastidious care

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Ascendancy

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Occupation of a position of dominant or influence

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Primacy

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The fact of being primary, preeminent, or more important

The primacy of air power in the modern war

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Adjudicate

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Make a formal judgement or decision about a problem

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Contempt

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No respect

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Galling

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Humiliating

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Dilatory

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Slow to act

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Irascible

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Having of showing tendency to be easily angered

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Circumscribed

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Restricted/limited

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Cogent

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Clear logical and convincing

They put up cogent arguments

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Flagrant

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Wrong, immoral or offensive

A flagrant violation of law

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Bemoaning

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Express disconnect or sorrow

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Aberrant

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Departing from an accepted standard

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Belie

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Falsely represent

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Plundering

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Steal something aggressively

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Precocious

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Having developed certain activity

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Urbane

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Well mannered

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Caprice

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A sudden change in mood of behaviour

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Assiduity

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Constant effort or application

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Perspicacious

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Having an insight or understanding into something

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Dissembler
A person who has profound views or beliefs he doesn’t hold or conceal
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Maverick
An independent minded person
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Inured to
Accustomed by
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Benign
Gentle and kind
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Banal
Lacking in originality
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Paupe
Poor
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Perfunctory
Go through the motions
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Brusque
Rude
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Apposition
Follow one another
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Polemical
Passionate about a topic
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Contrived
Deliberately created
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Spuriously
In a way that is false and not what it appears to be
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Persnickety
Fussy about small details
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Objurgate
Scold
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Verisimilitude
Appearance of being real
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Ephemeral
Lasting a short time
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Defection
Act of living a country or political party
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Necropolis
Graveyard
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Contempt
Worthless
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Pedantic
Describe someone who annoys others by correcting
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Pedantic
Someone who annoys others by correcting
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Cede
Give up
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Pellucid
Clear
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Trivialize
Make something less important
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Relinquish
Voluntarily cease
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Incendiary
Designed to cause fires
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Astute
Having or showing an ability to assess situations or people
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Litanies of
Long account of
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Contentious
Controversial
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Vanguard
Forefront of an action or movement
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Unscrupulous
Having or showing no morals
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Riveting
Compelling
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Apotheosis
Highest point of climax
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Vicissitude
A change of circumstance or fortune
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Repudiation
Refuse to be associated with
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Ebb
Movement of tide out to see
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Ameliorate
Make something bad better
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Debonair
Confident stylish and charming
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Stolid
Calm, dependable
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Intransigent
Unwilling or refusing to change one’s views
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Ephemeral
Short lived
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Transient
Short lived
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Inimical
Harm/obstruct
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Vitiated
Spoiled or impaired
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Inundated with
Taken over by
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Racket
Fraudulent
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Mollify
Reduce the anger
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Besmirch
Damage reputation
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Indelible
Markings that can’t be removed
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Malaise
A general feeling of discomfort
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Nadir
Lowest point
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Precarious
Not securely held in position
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Stultifying
The ending to stifle enthusiasm or initiate freedom
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Voracious
Wanting large amounts of food
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Ravenous
Extremely hungry
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Pithy
Meaningful in expression
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Despondent
Low spirit
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Ebullient
Happy
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Fecund
Producing in abundance
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Apogee
Climax
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Overt
Readily apparent
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Nettlesome
Causing annoyance
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Countermand
Revoke an order
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Inveterate
Doing something constantly
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Harried
Harassed
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Mendacious
Doesn’t tell the truth
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Muckracking
Trying to find unpleasant info about people
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Machinating
Scheming
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Banal
Lacking in originality
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Tepid
Half hearted
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Parsimony
Stinginess
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Germane
Relevant to the topic
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Convoluted
Extremely complex or difficult to follow
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Onerous
Intensive
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Erudite
Possess profound knowledge
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Capriciously
A sudden change in mood or behavior
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Cumbrously
Something done with difficulty
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Ponderously
Something done slowly
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Brazen
Very bold
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Corral
Gather support
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Attenuated
Weaken or reduce in force
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Acerbic
A style of speaking
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Inviolable
Never to be broken
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Unconscionable
Unethical
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Timidity
Shy
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Stringent
Strict
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Remiss
Negligent
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Evanescence
Quickly fading or disappearing
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Noxious
Poisonous
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Rancid
Tasting unpleasant
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Clemency
Mercy
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Puritan
Pleasure is unnecessary
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Hedonist
Pursue of pleasure
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Sybarite
Pursue of pleasure
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Nonplussed
Confused
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Belligerent
Aggressive
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Conspicuous
Visible
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Stymed
Prevent hinder progress
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Largess
Generous
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Cravennesss
Lacking courage
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Cronies
Friends
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Untenable
Unable of being justified
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Exhaustive
Fully comprehensive
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Obsequious
Obedient or attentive to a certain degree
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Veracity
Conformity to facts
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Uncanny
Strange or mysterious
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Happenstance
Luck. Coincidence
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Farrago
A confused mixture of
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Insularity
Lack of interest in cultures, ideas or people’s own experiences
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Asceticism
Severe self discipline and avoidance of enjoyment
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Austerity
Living without unecceary things and without comfort with limited money or goods
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Aesthete
Have a special appreciation for art and beauty
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Philistine
Someone that has no understanding of the arts
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Convoluted
Complicated, intricately involved
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Salient
Most notable or important
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Scathing
Scornful
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retroactive
Starting from a point in the past
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Glibness
Quality of being confident but too simple and lacking in thought
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Martyr
Dying for a cause
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Heretic
Promoting religious heresay
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Parsimony
Extreme unwillingness to spend money or use resources
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Bellicose
Demonstrating a willingness to fight
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Timorous
Showing or suffering from fear, lack of confidence
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Soohoric
Inducing drowsiness or sleep
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Bastion
A stronghold or a place that upholds specific principles
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Jingoism
Saying how great something is
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Restiveness
Restlessness
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Curative
Able to cure diseases
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Facile
Shallow
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Histrionic
Dramatic behavior to draw attention
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Stymied
Prevent or hinder progress
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Peripatetic
Traveling from place to place
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Itinerant
Traveling from place to place
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Plucky
Having or showing determined courage in the face of difficulties
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Truculent
Eager or quick to fight
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Obsequious
Obedient or attentive
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Caving carping
Making unnecessary objections
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Blase cavalier
Something that is indifferent
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Gall rankle
Irritate
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Munificence
Generous
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Trounce
Defeat heavily in a contest
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Dithering
Hesitation
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Prevarication
Deviating from the truth
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UnEquivocal
Leaving no doubt
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Celebrity
Swiftness
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Fecklessness
Lacking initiative strength or character
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Austere
Strict and critical
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Bucolic
Rural
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Insolvent
Unable to pay debits
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Ardor
Passion
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Inclement
Severe changes in weather. Hot or cold
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Sweltering
Extreme hot situations
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Bucolic
Rural countryside
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Intrepid
Fearless adventurous
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Gratuitous
Unnecessary
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Genial
Friendly
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Stultified
Hamper
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Galvanized
Shocked
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Assuage
Make an unpleasant feeling less intense
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Solicitude
Care or concern for something
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Reprisal
An act of retaliation
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Subvert
Undermine the power and authority of an established system
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Lacrhysome
Tearful or close to weeping
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Soporific
Slow
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Plodding
Moving in a boring manner
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Exacting
Rigid or stressful
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Platitude
A remark or statement, especially with moral content that has been used too often to be interesting or thoughtful
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Pejorative
Expressing contempt or disapproval
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Cower
Crouch down in fear
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Satorial
Relating to clothes
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Ingratiating
Intended to gain formal approval
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Ornate
Complex style of writing
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Truculent
Quick to argue or fight
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Recondite
Little known
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Elucidates
Clearly explains
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Behooves
Forces someone
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Incumbent
Make someone do something
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Mercurial
Sudden and unpredictable changes in mood
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Repose
State of ease
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Efficaciosuly
Having the power to produce a desired effect
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Untoward
Inconvenient
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Boorishness
Rough and bad mannered
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Prosaic pedestrian
Lacking inspiration or excitement
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Poignant
evoking keen sense of sadness
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Puckish
Playful
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Tacitly
Done without being directly stated
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Treacly
Overly sentimental
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Subsume
Include or absorb something in something else
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Quixotic
Exceedingly idealistic
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Antedate
Assign something at an earlier time
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Pilloried
Attacked or ridiculed publicly
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Sclerotic
Rigid or unresponsive. Losing the ability to adapt
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Invigorated
Strengthened or energized
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Anachronism
An act of attributing a custom, event or object or period to which it does not belong to
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Misnomer
A wrong or in actuate name
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Cupidity
Love for money
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Reticent
Not revealing one’s thoughts or feelings readily
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Bristle bridle
Express anger
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Specious
Superficially plausible but actually wrong
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Charlatan
One who pretends to possess knowledge
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Chauvinist
One who is keen on their own views
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Proselytize
Convert someone from one religions belief to another
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Espouse
Adopt or support
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Dissent
Different opinions
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Instructive
Useful and informative
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Predilection penchant
Strong habitual liking
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Reticent
Very secretive
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Torpid
Mentally or physically inactive
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Turgid
Being unable to digest something
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Torpid
Mentally or physically inactive
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Surfeit
An overuse
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Canards
Rumors
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Moribund
Point of death
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Hackneyed
Lacking significance through having been overused
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Disheveled
Disordered or untidy
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Undergrid
Support
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Conflate
Join together 2 things
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Admonitory
Giving or conveying a warning
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Foreboding
An act of advance warning
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Numinous
Having a strong, religious or spiritual quality
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Arcane
Understood by few people
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Conflate
Join two things together
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Eschew
Deliberately avoided; abstained from
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Eschew
Deliberately avoided; abstained from
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Ostensibly
Apparently or purportedly but perhaps not actually
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Superannuated
Obselete
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Superannuated
Obselete
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Clandestine
Keep secret or done secret because illicit
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Clandestine
Keep secret or done secret because illicit
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Petered out
Decline
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Petered out
Decline
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Burgeoned
Begin to grow
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Burgeoned
Begin to grow
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Rejoinder
A sharp witty response
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Rejoinder
A sharp witty response
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Beguiling
Charm or possess someone often in a charming or witty way
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Beguiling
Charm or possess someone often in a charming or witty way
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Unprepossesing
Not attractive or pleasing to the eye
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Contumely
Insulting
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Brook
Small stream/tolerate
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Brook
Small stream
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Quixotic
Unrealistic
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Quixotic
Unrealistic
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Cronyism
Appointment of friends to places of high position
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Deftly
Smart skilled way
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Deftly
Smart skilled way
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Encomiastic
Praising someone
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Gaudy
Colorful
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Insipid
Dull not exciting
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Taciturn
Reserved
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Propitious
Giving a chance to be favourable successful
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Propitious
Giving a chance to be favourable successful
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Maladroit
Clumsy
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Tempestousness
Turbulent/ a state of wild storminess
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Exemptore
Spoken or done without preparation
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Ubiquitous
Universal
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Demystify
Make something clearer
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Sprightly
Full of energy
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Enervating
Draining one’s energy
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Tenacious
Expressing or supporting a particular opinion that many people disagree with
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Peccadillos
Minor misdemeanours
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Harangues
Lengthy aggressive speech
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Desultory
Superficial lacking a plan or purpose or enthusiasm
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Languorous
Peaceful
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Beholden
Owing
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Beholden
Owing
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Aplomb
Self assurance
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Disquediate
Not at ease
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Disquediate
Not at ease
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Presage portend
Lead to something brand worse
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Impugning
Dispute the truth
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Penurious
Poor
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Allaying
Diminishing put at rest
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Pugnacious
Quick to fight or argue
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Puerile
Childishly silly and trivial
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Demur
Raise objections
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Fringe
Not part of the mainstream
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Discomfiting
Confusing
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Bluster
Talk in a loud aggressive way with little effect
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Truncated
Short lived
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Phlegm
Calmness of tempermant
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Insidious
Proceeding in a gradual subtle way but with harmful effects
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Profligacy
Wastefulness
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Humdrum
Lacking excitement
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Motley
Assorted range
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Anodyne
Not likely to provoke or offend
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Mileau
A persons social environment
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Mileau
A persons social environment
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Fungible
Can easily be replaced
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Encomia paeans
Praises someone highly
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Frenetic
Fast and energetic
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Frenetic
Fast and energetic
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Expedient
Not morally convenient
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Foible
A minor weakness in someone’s character
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Penury
The state of being very poor
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Turpitude
Depraved or wicked behaviour
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Cacophony
A harsh discordant mixture of sounds
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Cacophony
A harsh discordant mixture of sounds
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Ingenuity
The quality of being clever
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Rebuffing
Quality of rejecting someone
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Dilettante
A person who cultivates an area of interest such as the arts without real communication or knowledge
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Averring
Asserting
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Averring
Asserting
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Commiserate console
Console a feeling of sadness
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Commiserate console
Console a feeling of sadness
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Lugubrious
sadness
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Lugubrious
sadness
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Sinecure
A position requiring little or no work
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Limpid
Clear
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Rapt
Completely fascinated by absorbed by
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Rapt
Completely fascinated by absorbed by
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Forswear
Agree to give up or do without
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Credulity
Ready to believe something without sufficient evidence
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Jettison
Drop something from a plane or ship
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Extenuating
Serving to lessen the seriousness of an offence
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Atavistic
Happening at a different time
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Serendipitous
Occurring or being discovered by chance
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fete
Honor
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fete
Honor
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Dowdy
Lacking in taste of fashion
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Dowdy
Lacking in taste of fashion
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Frumpish
Not looking nice in appearance
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Mordant
Showing a sharp or critical quality
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Mettlesome
A person full of spirit and energy
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Unseemly
A behavior not appropriate
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Unseemly
A behavior not appropriate
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Vestigial
Forming a very small remnant of something that was once greater
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Lassistude ennui
Lacking in energy
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Haughty
Arrogantly superior
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Haughty
Arrogantly superior
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Supercilious
Arrogant
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Occludes
Obstructs
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Eponyms
Assigning a popular name to a landmark
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Chicanery
Use of deception to achieve one’s purpose
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Skulduggery
Dishonest behavior or activities
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Feted
Praise
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Obfuscates
Render obscure, confuse
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Obfuscates
Render obscure, confuse
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Excoriated
Criticized seriously
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Ostentatious
Desire for flashy things and flamboyant
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Avaricious
Excessively greedy
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Vacillate
Be undecided about something
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Dogma
Accepted practices
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Dogma
Accepted practices
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Quotian
Happening everyday
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Effervescent
Vivacious or enthusiastic
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Anodyne
Not likely to provoke or dissent offense
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Shrewdness
Skillful
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Shrewdness
Skillful
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Shrewd
Canny showing good business judgement
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Panacea
Remedy for all difficulties
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Revered
Feel deep respect or admiration
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Adroit
Clever or skilful using hands or mind
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Hidebound
Unwilling or unable to change
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Adulator
One who loves to flatter. Sycophant
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Ersatz
Low quality substitute often regarded as fake
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Solipsistic
Means really selfish
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Ran the gamut
From a to z
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Ran the gauntlet
Withstood an attack from all sides
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Ape
Means copy or mimic
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Hoi polli
Common people
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Simpatico
Likeable and easy to get along with
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Inveigle
Persuade
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Sentries
A soldier aimed to keep guard or protect a place
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Progeny
Someone’s offspring
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Progeny
Someone’s offspring
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Heralded
A sign that something good is happen
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Concomitant
Naturally accompanying something
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Castigated
Reprimanded seriously
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Minutiae
Petty, small
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Dissipation
Wastefulness
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Canonization
To declare something as a saint
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Paragon
A thing declared as a perfect example of
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Plaudits
An expression of praise of approval
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Arcadian
Rural
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Hinterland
An area lying behind what is visible or known
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Whet
A thing they stimulates desire
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Halcyon
A time in the past that was happy or joyful
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Congenial
Pleasant and agreeable because suited to one persons taste
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Congenial
Pleasant and agreeable because suited to one persons taste
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Mutiny
An open rebellion against formal authorities
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Mutiny
An open rebellion against formal authorities
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Heuristic
Inciting and guiding discovery
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Spurning
Reject with disdain
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Spurning
Reject with disdain
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Imbroglio
An embarrassing situation
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Rectitude
Morally correct behavior
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Reprobate
An unprincipled person
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Florid
Having a red or flushed complexion/complex language
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Dereliction
Negligence
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Inanities bromides
A nonsensical remark
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Zealots
Inflexible- ideologues
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Cynics
People are motivated purely by self interest
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Anamalous
Deviating from what is standard or expected
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Balkanized
Classist society
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Maladies
A disease or ailment
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Chide
Scold
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Malign
Speak about someone in critical manner
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Imperious
Assuming power or authority without legal approval
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Fealty
Loyalty
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Retching
Physical effort of trying to vomit
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Debacle
A sudden failure
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Specter
Fear
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Boondoggle
Something worthless perceiving value
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Quantum
Smallest amount that can exist independently
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Ephemera
Printed matter not intended to be saved
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Apocrypha
Fake
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Anomie
Lack of ethical standards
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Proclitives
Desire tendency
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Solecisms
Grammatical errors
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Effette
Lacking vigour and class
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Venerable
Worthy of reverence
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