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Impugn

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to challenge as false (another’s statements, motives, etc.); cast doubt upon.

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Acrimony

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sharpness, harshness, or bitterness of nature, speech, disposition, etc

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Sinecure

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an office or position requiring little or no work, especially one yielding profitable returns.

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Salient

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Prominent or conspicuous

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Salubrious

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favorable to or promoting health; healthful: salubrious air.

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Opprobrious

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outrageously disgraceful or shameful: opprobrious conduct.

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Quixotic

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extravagantly chivalrous or romantic; visionary, impractical, or impracticable.

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Venal

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Corrupt or capable of being bought

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Panacea

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a remedy for all disease or ills; cure-all.

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Apogee

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Astronomy. the point in the orbit of a heavenly body, especially the moon, or of a man-made satellite at which it is farthest from the earth. Compare perigee.
the highest or most distant point; climax.

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Gainsaid

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to deny, dispute, or contradict.

to speak or act against; oppose.

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Ebullience

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high spirits; exhilaration; exuberance.

a boiling over; overflow.

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Tepid

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Marked by lack of enthusiasm; lacking in force

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Stentorian

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Powerful of sound

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Felicitous

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Appropriately and pleasingly expressed

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Garrulous

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Wordy or overly talkative

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Vociferous

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Loudly and vehemently expressive

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Ochlocracy

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Mob rule

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Plutocracy

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run by the wealthy class

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Oligarchy

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Government run by a few high-ranking individuals

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Censure

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Official reprimand

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Scintillation

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Sparkliness

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Quittance

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Discharge from debt

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Irascible

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Easily angered

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Lambasted
Verbally attacked
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Iconoclastic
Eccentric
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Excogitating
Considering deeply and thoughtfully
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Impinging
Encroaching upon
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Quotidian
Commonplace
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Intransigent
Stubborn
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Esoteric
Inaccessible or hard to understand
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Abstruse
Inaccessible or hard to understand
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Nonplussed
Perplexed
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Dolorous
full of, expressing, or causing pain or sorrow; grievous; mournful
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Histrionic
of or relating to actors or acting. | deliberately affected or self-consciously emotional; overly dramatic, in behavior or speech.
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Inimical
adverse in tendency or effect; unfavorable; harmful
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Gregarious
fond of the company of others; sociable
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Scurrilous
grossly or obscenely abusive
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Arcane
Known or understood by very few; obscure
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Abjured
To renounce or recant
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Malfeasance
the performance by a public official of an act that is legally unjustified, harmful, or contrary to law
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Supercilious
haughtily disdainful or contemptuous, as a person or a facial expression.
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Sardonic
characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mocking; cynical; sneering: a sardonic grin.
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Fatuous
foolish or inane, especially in an unconscious, complacent manner; silly.
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Ribald
vulgar or indecent in speech, language, etc.; coarsely mocking, abusive, or irreverent; scurrilous.
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Ignominious
Discreditable; humiliating
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Apocryphal
of doubtful authorship or authenticity.
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Acumen
keen insight; shrewdness
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Acridity
sharp or biting to the taste or smell; bitterly pungent
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Trenchancy
incisive or keen, as language or a person; caustic; cutting
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Mellifluous
sweetly or smoothly flowing;
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Euphonic
Pleasant to the ear
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Extirpate
to remove or destroy totally; do away with; exterminate. | to pull up by or as if by the roots; root up: to extirpate an unwanted hair.
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Recondite
dealing with very profound, difficult, or abstruse subject matter
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Punctilious
strict or exact in the observance of the formalities or amenities of conduct or actions.
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Waggish
Jocular
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Salubrious
Favorable to or promoting health
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Truculent
fierce; cruel; savagely brutal.
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Panegyrical
a lofty oration or writing in praise of a person or thing; eulogy.
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Ebullient
overflowing with fervor, enthusiasm, or excitement
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Phlegmatic
not easily excited to action or display of emotion; apathetic; sluggish.
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catholic
broad or wide-ranging in tastes, interests, or the like; having sympathies with all
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Anecdotal
based on personal observation, case study reports, or random investigations rather than systematic scientific evaluation
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Nominal
being such in name only; so-called;
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Vituperate
to use or address with harsh or abusive language; revile.
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Orotund
(of the voice or speech) characterized by strength, fullness, richness, and clearness.
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Depilation
to remove the hair from (hides, skin, etc.).
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Sanguine
cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident
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Torrid
oppressively hot, parching, or burning
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Harbinger
anything that foreshadows a future event; omen
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Repudiate
to reject as having no authority or binding force
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Effigy
a representation or image, especially sculptured, as on a monument.
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Cosseted
to treat as a pet; pamper; coddle.
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Arid
being without moisture; extremely dry; parched
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Inundated
to flood; cover or overspread with water; deluge.
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Decried
to speak disparagingly of; denounce as faulty or worthless; express censure of
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Quaff
to drink a beverage, especially an intoxicating one, copiously and with hearty enjoyment.

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