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Stolid Stolidity

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Not easily stirred; impassive; showing little emotion or animation phlegmatic, nonchalant

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Adept Adeptness

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Very skilled; proficient

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Calumny

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Slander

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Impertinent Impertinence

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Rude, presumptuous, insolent Impertinent youth

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Adroit Adroitness

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Skillful, accomplished =/= maladroit

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Desiccant

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Drying substance (packets in shoes and clothes)

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Tyro Tyronic

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Beginner, novice, rookie

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Filigree - n, v

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Anything delicate, ornamental

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Tautology

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Needless repetition or an idea Using different words to say the same thing

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Quandary / qwan da ry

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Predicament

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Peroration

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Long speech Concluding part of speech

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Prestidigitation

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Magic trick Legerdemain

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Peregrination Peregrinate

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Journey (usually on foot)

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Pernicious

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Causing harm

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Mercurial

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Volatile, erratic, unstable Lively, animated, quick-witted

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Prescient / pre shunt Prescience / pre shuns

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Having knowledge of things before they exist

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Puerile Puerility

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Pertaining to childhood, immature

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Imbroglio / im bro lee oh

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Confusion, misunderstanding, disagreement Intricate, perplexing state of affairs

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Finesse - n and v

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Extreme delicacy/skill/taste; Skillfulness To use finesse

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Bemuse

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To bewilder, confuse

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Obfuscate Obfuscation

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To confuse, bewilder; to make unclear

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Kismet

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Luck, fate, destiny, lot قسمة

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Aplomb - n

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Self-assurance; poise; self-confident manner; composure

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Furtive - adj Furtively

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Something done in secret; done by stealth

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Stealth - n / stelth

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Secret

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Clandestine / clan DES tin

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Something done in secrecy

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Stentorian

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Powerful sound - stentorian voice Very loud in sound

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Vociferous Vociferance Vociferant

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Clamorous, crying out noisily; loud

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Imbibe / em BYE b

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To consume by drinking Absorb

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Sinecure - n / sin ek ure

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Job that doesn’t require actual work

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Addle

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To confuse

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Fervid - adj Fervidity

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Someone enthusiastic, zealous

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Fetid - adj

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Having an offensive odor

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Forlorn

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Sad, lonely, abject

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Acrimony

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Bitterness, animosity

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Acute - adj Acuity - n

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Sharp Sharpness

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Acumen Acuminous / ac YOO men ous

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Sharpness of insight

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Adage / ad - ij

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Old saying or proverb

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Egregious / eg ree djus

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Outstandingly bad, shockingly bad

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Peremptory

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Leaving little or no room for refusal or denial; imperative a peremptory command

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Prodigious

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Extraordinary in size, amount, etc. Wonderful or marvelous

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Inure / in Yoor - in noor

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To accustom to hardship

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Revile / re v EYE le

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To address with contempt; to address or speak of abusively Disparage

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Wizen Wizened

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To wither, shrivel, dry up Dried up

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Revere / re VEER

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To respect, venerate

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Expurgate

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To amend by removing words; to deem offensive To censor

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Edify

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To instruct, especially morally or spiritually Uplift

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Cosset

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To pamper, as a pet

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Dandle

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To pet, pamper

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Craven

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Timid, cowardly

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Pusillanimous / pyoo suh lan imous

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Lacking courage

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Deleterious

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Injurious to health, harmful, pernicious

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Noxious (knock shus)

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Nocuous (knock yoo us), harmful =/= innocuous

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Inchoate - in KO ate

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Not fully developed; in its rudimentary stage; not organized

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Vigilant Vigilance

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Keenly watchful to detect danger, wary Alert

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Calamity Calamitous

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Great misfortune, disaster

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Contrive / con tr EYE ve

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To invent, create, engender

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Parochial / pa RO key ul

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Very limited or narrow in scope, provincial

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Provincial

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Narrow minded, unsophisticated, perhaps uncouth

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Indelible

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Cannot be erased, permanent indelible ink; indelible memories of war

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Pertinacious

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Tenacious

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Haughty

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Condescending, proud, snobbish

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Supercilious

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Haughty

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Consequent

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(to, upon, on) following as an effect or result … a fall in price consequent to a rise in production

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Judicious

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Astute; wise, using or showing good judgement

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Pecuniary

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Of or pertaining to money Pecuniary difficulties = Financial difficulties

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Pellucid

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Clear; VERY LUCID (per-)

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Pulverize Pulverous

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To reduce to dust or powder; demolish Powdery, like powder

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Salacious / sala AY shus

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Lustful

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Lechery / letch ery Lecherous Lecher

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Unrestrained or excessive indulgence of sexual desire

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Invective

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N - abusive speech, vehement denunciation; diatribe

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Dearth

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Shortage, inadequate supply

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Depredate Depredation

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To plunder, prey upon, ravage

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Ravage

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N - havoc, ruinous damage; ravages of war V - to work havoc upon, damage; a face ravaged by grief

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Feign

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To pretend He feigned sickness to skip class.

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Undue

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Excessive; undue haste Inappropriate, unjustifiable, improper; undue influence

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Vehement / VEE uhment Vehemence / VEE umence

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Zealous, ardent, impassioned

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Consummate

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adj - perfect; highest or most extreme degree - consummate master; consummate skill v - to bring to a state of perfection; fulfill to complete agreement by signing name to complete union of a marriage by having sex

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Exacerbate / ex ass er bate

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To worsen

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Execrable / ek si kruh ble

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Despicable, detestable, abominable, abhorrent Very bad, egregious - an execrable stage performance

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Sidereal / si DEE re al

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Determined by or from the stars

Sidereal time

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Boisterous / bois ter ous

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Rough and noisy; clamourous; unrestrained - the sound of boisterous laughter

Could also be weather - boisterous winds, storm

Boisterous winds of Hurricane Sandy

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Etiolate / e tiol ate

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To cause to become weak or sickly; to drain of color or vigor

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Comportment

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Demeanor; poise

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Balk/ Bawk

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To hesitate or be unwilling to accpet as an idea;

To stop and refuse to proceed

I balked at coming to Purdue. Gardneres balk at enclosing gardens.

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Revel in

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To take great pleasure or delight

She likes revel in luxury

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Ominous

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Portenidng evil harm

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Quotidian / qwo tid ian

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Daily - a quotidian report

Usual; commonplace, ordinary

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Officious / offi shus

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Meddlesome; aggressive in offering one’s unrequested and unwanted services

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Flippant

Flippancy

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Disrespectful; caustic

His flippant comments about the Pope did not sit well with Catholics.

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Recreant / rek REE ant

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Pusillanimous; cowardly

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Querulous / kwer you lus

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Full of complaints, complaining

She only speaks in a querulous tone. That bitch.

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Dilatory

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Intended to cause delay, gain time

The senator used dilatory measures by excercising his right to a filibuster.

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Fastidious

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Excessively particular, hard to please, very picky

He’s a fastidious eater! He won’t eat anything but cereal! That bitch.

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Rescind / re send

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To abrogate, annul, revoke, repeal

The Supreme Court rescinded last year’s law.

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Obstreperous / ob strep ur ous

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1) Refractory, resisting control, unruly

The obstreperous cellmate

2) Boisterous, clamorous

Her children are so obstreporous. She ought to raise them right.

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Filial

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Of, pertaning to, befitting a son or daughter

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Sacrosanct

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Extremely sacred

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Lackadaisical / lak a day sical

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1) Without interest, vigor or determination; lethargic
2) Lazy, indolent

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Lethargic

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Tired, sluggish, lazy

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Conformable

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1- (to) Consistent, similar to,

2- Docile, submissive

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Rapture

Rapturous

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Ecstatic joy

Feeling of great pleasure or enthusiasm, ecstatic

He was greeted with rapturous applause

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Portend

Portent

Portentous / por tent us

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To foreshadow, to indiciate in advance

Presage, bode, forbode

The soothsayer portended the fate of Ceasar

Omen

Ominous, inauspicious, sinister

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Prosaic / pro zay ic

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Commonplace, ordinary, dull, unimaginative

The prosaic mind.

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Vituperate / v eye tuperate

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To revile, disparage

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Buffet

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N - a blow (hand or first)

Violent shock or concussion

V - To strike, perhaps repeatedly

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Contrite

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Remorseful, filled with guilt

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Impecunious / im pec yoo ne yus

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Poor, destitute

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Perpetual

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Continuing, enduring, everlasting

My love for Nutella is perpetual.

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Renege / re nig

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To be perfidious; to go back on your words

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Burgeon / bur gin

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To grow or develop quickly

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Indomitable

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Cannot be subdued or overcome

The indomitable warrior

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Conjure

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To make something appear as though by magic

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Sully

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To soil, stain, mar, defile

The senator tried his best to occlude the aspersion because it had the potential to sully his reputation as a heterosexual.

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Caliber

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1 - Diameter (3 in. caliber)

2 - Ability, degree of competence

3 - Degree of merit, quality

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Avant-garde

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Vanguard, forefront in any movement - especially arts

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Chagrin / cha GRIN

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Feeling of vexation marked by disappointment or humiliation

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Incisive / in s eye sive

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1) Penetrating
2) Remarkably clear and direct; sharp, acute

of someone = intelligent, clear-thinking

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Reprehend

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Reprove (be strongly disapproving of), find fault with, censure

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Liberality

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1) Quality of being liberal in giving; generous
2) Broadness in physical attributes

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Duplicity

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Deceitfulness; double-dealing

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Sumptuous

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Costly, entailing great expense, lavish

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Row

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Altercation

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Fracas

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Uproar, nosiy disturbance

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Panacea

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Remedy for all diseases; cure-all

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Vindicate

Vindication

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To clear someone of accusations

= Exculpate = Exonerate = Acquit

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Unwieldly

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Difficult to carry or move because of its size, shape, weight…

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Gargantuan

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Huge, enormous

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Cavalcade

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Procession

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Mendacious / men da shus

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Compulsive liar;

Not telling the truth, lying

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Surreptitious / surr ep ti shus

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Done by stelth, secret

A surreptitious glance

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Hallowed

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Regarded as holy

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Incendiary

Incinerator

(cind)

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Designed to cause fires

The incendiary bombs

cind = ashes

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Umbrage / um bridj

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Offense, annoyance, displeasure

I took umbrage at her insolent question.

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Lugubrious

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Sad, depressed but in an affected, exaggerated way

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Ersatz / air zatz

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Artificial

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Presage

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N - omen

V - to portend

138
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Henceforth

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From now on

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Insidious

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Intended to deceive - insidious plan

Deceitful - insidious enemy

140
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Fallacious

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Logically unsound

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Incipient

Incipiency

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Nascent, beginning ot exist or appear, in initial stage

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Foible

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Minor weakness or failing of character; slight flaw

Hanan’s eyebrows were a foible of many.

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Bastion / bas tchun

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anything seen as preserving/protecting some quality

The US is the bastion of true democracy.

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Plebeians / pleb eee ians

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belonging to common people

=/= burgeoise

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Patrician

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Aristocrat

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Indolent

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Slouthful, showing a disposition to avoid exertion

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Insolent

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boldly rude or disrespectful

insolent reply

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Esurient / es surient

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Hungry or greedy

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Expatiate / ex pay shi ate

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Speak or write at length or in detail

Khawla Matter is coming to WSU to expatiate about media in the Arab world.

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Vaunt

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To boast of

Mo loves to vaunt his achievments

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Provenance

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Place or source of origin

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Potentiate

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To cause to be potent; more powerful

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Solvent

Insolvent

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Able to pay debts

Unable to pay debts

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Tethered

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Tied so movement is restricted

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Myopic

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Near-sighted

Also narrow-minded

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Pliant

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Flexible, adaptable

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Disavow

A

Disclaim, disown, repudiate, deny responsibility or support for

The president disavowed the remark that had been attributed to him.

158
Q

Solace

A

Comfort in times of sorrow/trouble

159
Q

Consolation

A

Act of consoling, comforting

160
Q

Impinge upon / im pinge

A

Have an impact (upon) or infinge (upon)

Israel impinges upon Palestinian Human Rights.

161
Q

Decimate

A

To destroy a great number of (or proportion of)

The population was decimated by the plague.

162
Q

Disconsolate

A

Without consolation or solace; hopelessly unhappy

The death of her dog made her disconsolate.

163
Q

Inveterate

A

Settled or confirmed in a habit, practice…

Inveterate gambler

Firmly established by long continuance, chronic

Inveterae pain in my lower back

164
Q

Fatuous

A

Asinine

Rana Zaban.

(foolish, inane, pointless)

165
Q

Halcyon / hal see un

A

Calm, peaceful, tranquil (halcyon weather)

Rich, wealthy, prospoerous (halcyon times of peace)

Happy, joyful, carefree (halcyon times of youth)

166
Q

Scotch

A

To put a definite end to; crush

To scotch a rumor, to scotch a plan

167
Q

Frangible

A

Easily broken, breakable, fagile

Frangible toys are not suitable for young children

168
Q

Extraneous

A

Of external origin - extraneous substance in water

Not pertinent, irrelevant

169
Q

Salubrious

A

Favorable to or promoting health

Salabrious air along the Nile is JUST what I need

170
Q

Germane

A

Relevant, significantly related

Please keep all statemnts germane to the issue

171
Q

Windfall

A

Unexpected gain, good fortune

172
Q

Conflagration

A

Destructive fire

173
Q

Perquisite

A

Benefit, privilege or advantage over and above the regular income

Among the president’s many perquisites were free use of the company car

174
Q

Eschew / es chew

A

Abstain, keep away from, avoid

Ghandi persuaded the Hindus to eschew violence

175
Q

Nefarious

A

Wicked or criminal

The nefarious plot of the Purple gang

176
Q

Feckless

A

Ineffective, incompetent, futile

Feckless atempts to repair the car

Irresponsible

177
Q

Nugatory / noo ga tory

A

Worthless

178
Q

Dissipate

Dissipation

A

To scatter, disperse, squander away

Wasting or misuse of fortune

179
Q

Inscrutable

A

Cannot be scrutinized, abtruse, mysterious

Inscrutable smile

180
Q

Foil

A

To prevent the success of

Loyal troops foiled his attempt to overthrow the government

181
Q

Mephitic

A

Offensive to the smell

182
Q

Argot / ar go

A

Jargon or slang of a particular group or class

Teenage argot

183
Q

Introspection

A

Examination or observation of one’s own mental and emotional processes

184
Q

Equanimous

Equanimity

A

Mental calmness, composure, evenness of temper, especially in a difficult situation

185
Q

Extempore - adj

Extemporize - v

A

Spur of the moment, without preperation, offhand

186
Q

Protract

A

To draw out or lengthen, especially in time

187
Q

Sensational

A

Producing (or designed to produce) a startling effect, causing great public interest

188
Q

Palatable

A

Pleasant to the palates (taste)

Acceptable or agreeable to mind or feelings

Palatable ideas

189
Q

Wayward

A

Someone who turns away from what is right or proper; disobedient

Wayward youth

Wayward servent who stole from the Pope

190
Q

Winsome

A

Sweetly or innocently charming

Winsome smile

191
Q

Exiguous / ex zig you us

A

Scanty, meager, small

I live on an exigous income :(

192
Q

Fealty / fee uhl tee

A

Fidelity (especially to a lord)

193
Q

Bonhomie / bawn ahmie

A

N - Frank and simple; good heartedness; geniality

194
Q

Levity

A

Lightness of mind, character, behavior

humor or frivolity

دمــه خــفــيــف

195
Q

Behest / be hest

A

Command, order

They assembled at his behest

196
Q

Brevity

A

Shortness of time or duration; briefness

The brevity of human life

Expressing much in few words, terseness

Brevity is the soul of wit

197
Q

Extirpate

A

Remove or destroy totally, exterminate

198
Q

Conjecture

A

N - formation of an opinion or theory without sufficient evidence as proof

V - to do so ^

199
Q

Tractable

A

Docil, amenable, easy to control or influence

200
Q

Genial / jeen ial

Geniality

A

Warm and pleasantly cheerful, cordial

201
Q

Frivolity

Frivolous

A

Lack of seriousness, carefree,

The frivolity of Mardi Gras

little or no weight/worth

The frivolous lawsuit

202
Q

Conjuncture

A

Combination of circumstances or events

The peculiar political conjuncture culminated in a world war!

Crisis

203
Q

Covenant

A

Agreement

204
Q

Gossamer / gos am er

A

Thin cobweb;

extremely delicate, thin, flimsy

205
Q

Tensile / ten sul

A

Pertaining to tension,

Capable of being drawn out or stretched; malleable, pliant

206
Q

Adamantine / adam an teen

A

Obdurate, unyielding, intransigent

207
Q

Premordial / pre mor dial

A

Pertaining to or existing at or from the very beginning

208
Q

Moribund

A

In a dying state, almost dead

209
Q

Camaraderie

A

Mutual trust and friendship, comradeship, amity

210
Q

Denouement / (french)

A

final resolution, culmination, conclusion

211
Q

Deferment

A

Postponement

212
Q

Modish / mode ish

A

Trendy, fashionable, conforming to or following what is currently popular

213
Q

Redress

A

V - to remedy or set right, disabuse, to balance

N - ^^

The judge had to redress the lawyer’s misconception of Affirmative Action :D

214
Q

Conduit / con du it

A

N - pipe, tube for conveying fluids (water)

215
Q

Jovial

Joviality

A

Joyous humor, good spirit, jovial, cheerful, friendly

216
Q

Forbear

Forbearance

A

To refrain, abstain from

Act of ^

217
Q

Extant

A

Still in existance

218
Q

Actuate

A

To incite or move to action, impel, motivate

He was actuated by selfish motives

Dr. Roth’s email actuated me to move to Purdue

219
Q

Inculcate

Inculcation

A

Implant or instill by persistent instruction (upon/in)

He inculcated the five pillars of Islam in the youth

I’m trying to inculcate these vocabulary words in my mind

to cause or influence (someone) to accept an idea (with…)

Plato inculcated his students with the love of sophisty.

220
Q

Tenacious

Tenacity

A

Firm hold (of)

He was tenacious of old habits

Stubborn

221
Q

Ineluctable

A

Inescapable, cannot be evaded

Ineluctable destiny

222
Q

Levy

A

Imposing or collecting tax

conscription of troops

223
Q

Extol

A

Praise highly

224
Q

Inveigh

A

(against) fulminate, protest

speak or write w/ great hostility, revile, vituperate

225
Q

Assiduity

Assiduous

A

Consant or close attention to what one is doing

I’m an assiduous student!

226
Q

Seminal

A

Strongly influencing later developments

Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah’s works proved seminal; they continue to influence the works of his protege

227
Q

Despot / des pot

A

Autocrat, dictator

228
Q

Itinerant / i tin er ant

A

Someone traveling from place to place

229
Q

Impung / im pyoon

A

To challenge as false; cast doubt upon; challenge; call into question

The new judge impugned those preceeding him.

230
Q

Redound

A

Contribute greatly

Obama’s healthcare program will redound to his reelection.

231
Q

Peripatetic

A

Walking or traveling about

Aristotle school of thought

232
Q

Jaunty

A

Lively, cheerful, self-confident manner

He walks w/ a jaunty step.

233
Q

Supervene

A

(upon)

To ensue

To be consequent or additional of another

The garage supervenes upon the house itself.

234
Q

Postliminary

A

=/= Preliminary

Done or carried on after something else or as a conclusion

235
Q

Effable

Ineffable

A

Describable in words

Too great or too extreme to be expressed in words; inexpresisble

Ineffable beauty

236
Q

Incontestable

A

Indisputable - not able to be disputed

237
Q

Aptly

A

W/ competence; appropriate

238
Q

Hackneyed / hack need

A

Made ordinary or trite

The song instantly became hackneyed soon after the radio began playing it.

239
Q

Vagary / va gay re

A

Unpredictable, unexpected change in action/course, behavior

Michigan is known for its vagaries of weather

The vagaries of the economic scene

FORD STOCKS!

240
Q

Hapless

A

Unfortunate, unlucky

241
Q

Piecemeal

A

Adv - piece by piece

I tore the leatter piecemeal

242
Q

Synchronous

A

Simultaneous

243
Q

Flounder

A

N - type of fish :)

V - Struggle helplessly (about)

He was floundering about in the water

244
Q

Bungle

A

To do something clumsily and awkwardly; botch

He bungled every attempt to help

245
Q

Giddy

A

Dizzy - What a giddy climb!

Fivolous - I get all chukkly like a giddy school girl!

246
Q

Vertigo

Vertiginous

A

Dizzy sensation

Whirling; dizzy

247
Q

Pluck

Plucky

A

Courage

Courageous

248
Q

Frolic

Frolicsome

A

To play in a light-spirited way

Playful fun; merrily play

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