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Abjure (verb)
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to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid
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I abjure giving up! I will NOT give up on my dreams.
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Adumbrate (verb)
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to foreshadow vaguely or intimate; to suggest or outline sketchily; to obscure or overshadow
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The writer adumbrated that that would happen.
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Anathema (noun)
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a solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing
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That is an anathema curse that's commonly known in the game.
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Anodyne (adj.)/(noun)
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soothing; something that assuages or allays pain or comforts
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I need some anodyne lotion for this sunburn.
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Apogee (noun)
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farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith
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Once you reach the apogee of the mountain, you can see where you'll need to go to reach Mt. Doom.
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Apostate (noun)
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one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions
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I became an apostate after taking a few science courses. I don't attend church anymore now.
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Apotheosis (noun)
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deification; glorification to godliness; an exalted example; a model of excellence or perfection
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He's really the apotheosis of the bunch of students.
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Asperity (noun)
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severity, rigor; roughness, harshness; acrimony, irritability
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The asperity of the situation has reached a whole new level.
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Asseverate (verb)
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to aver, allege, or assert
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She's asseverate her opinion whenever she wants.
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Assiduous (adj.)
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diligent, hard-working, sedulous
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I'm quite the assiduous worker. I don't always get what I should for working so hard, but I will one day.
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Augury (noun)
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omen, portent
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That's an augury trinket. It's a little scary.
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Bellicose (adj.)
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belligerent, pugnacious, warlike
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That is a bellicose tribe that will fight nearly anyone. Be careful.
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Calumniate (verb)
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to slander, to make a false accusation; calumny means slander, aspersion
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She calumniated way too much, and now she feels like an idiot, because what she thought was wrong.
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Captious (adj.)
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disposed to point out trivial faults; calculated to confuse or entrap in argument
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She's so captious that she pointed out the most pointless thing in the show.
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Cavil (verb)
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to find fault without good reason
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He will cavil anyone for anything. He's a little insecure.
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Celerity (noun)
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speed, alacrity; think accelerate
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He wants a car with a higher celerity, which makes no sense, but whatever.
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Chimera (noun)
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an illusion; originally, an imaginary fire-breathing she-monster
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Where were in the dessert and saw a chimera. We thought we saw water, but we were wrong. It looked so real!
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Contumacious (adj.)
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insubordinate, rebellious, contumely means insult, scorn, aspersion
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He's a very contumacious young man to his parents. He's been spoiled and he is a terrible person now.
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Debacle (noun)
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rout, fiasco, complete failure
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School was such a debacle. It really wasn't worth it the hassle, but I do have a better life because of it, if that makes sense.
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Denouement (noun)
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an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot
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The story had no denouement. I'm kind of outraged.
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Descry (verb)
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to discriminate or discern
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I don't descry based off of skin color.
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Desuetude (noun)
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disuse
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It's a desuetude towel. It's old, so I don't use it.
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Desultory (adj.)
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random; aimless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose
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Some of these are desultory hints. I really just want to get these done so I can study.
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Diaphanous (adj.)
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transparent, gauzy
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She is such a diaphanous person, oh, my god.
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Diffident (adj.)
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reserved, shy, unassuming; lacking in self-confidence
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He's a very diffident introvert. He'll get more confident after this event, though.
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Dirge (noun)
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a song of grief or lamentation
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She sang a dirge when he died. It was both beautiful and sad.
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Encomium (noun)
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glowing and enthusiastic praise; panegyric, tribute, eulogy
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That was an encomium sermon, very praiseful of him.
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Eschew (verb)
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to shun or avoid
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I had to eschew her because she was stalking me!
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Excoriate (verb)
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to censure scathingly, to upbraid
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The president excoriated the terrible law.
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Execrate (verb)
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to denounce, to feel loathing for, to curse, to declare to be evil
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He execrated anything that didn't make him money. He was very money hungry, but he had a poor upbringing, so I can understand.
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Exegesis (noun)
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critical examination, explication
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The doctor performed an exegesis on his wound.
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Expiate (verb)
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to atone or make amends for
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The only way I can expiate what I've done is to write about it to the world.
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Extirpate (verb)
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to destroy, to exterminate, to cut out, to exscind
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I will extirpate all the bugs in this house!
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Fatuous (adj.)
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silly, inanely foolish
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What a fatuous girl. Such a fool.
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Fractious (adj.)
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quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory, irritable
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What a fractious person. I never want him to come in our group again, okay?
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Gainsay (verb)
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to deny, to dispute, to contradict, to oppose
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I will gainsay that it never happened!
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Heterodox (adj.)
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unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic
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He's such a heterodox guy when it comes to these things.
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Imbroglio (noun)
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difficult or embarrassing situation
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Well, that was quite the imbroglio. I think my cheeks went 60 shades of red.
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Indefatigable (adj.)
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not easily exhaustible; tireless, dogged
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I'm no an indefatigable studier. I'll stay up all night if I have to.
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Ineluctable (adj.)
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certain, inevitable
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It's an ineluctable event that occurs every 3 years.
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Inimitable (adj.)
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one of a kind, peerless
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I'm an inimitable individual, if I may say so myself.
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Insouciant (adj.)
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unconcerned, carefree, heedless
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My feelings are insouciant about the matter.
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Inveterate (adj.)
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deep rooted, ingrained, habitual
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That is an inveterate tree.
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Jejune (adj.)
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vapid, uninteresting, nugatory; childish, immature, puerile
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That is quite the jejune child. So immature.
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Lubricious (adj.)
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lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery
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That was such a lubricious video. I'm disgusted.
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Mendicant (noun)
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a beggar, supplicant
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When I travel to work through Pittsburgh, I see about 4 mendicants in a row, begging for money. It's sick. I'm about to go up to them and ask, "So, why should I give this beggar money over this other beggar?"
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Meretricious (adj.)
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cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flash, showy; attracting by false show
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That is meretricious material. That's how the company makes their money.
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Minatory (adj.)
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menacing, threatening (reminds you of the Minotaur, a threatening creature indeed)
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That's one minatory minotaur.
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Nadir (noun)
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low point, perigee
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That was a very nadir point in my life.
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Nonplussed (adj.)
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baffled, bewildered, at a loss for what to do or think
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I'm so nonplussed by it all.
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Obstreperous (adj.)
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noisily and stubbornly defiant, aggressively boisterous
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He is obstreperously loud.
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Ossified (adj.)
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tending to become more rigid, conventional, sterile, and reactionary with age; literally, turned into bone
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She's 100 years old and looks ossified. It's really sad.
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Palliate (verb)
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to make something seem less serious, to gloss over, to make less severe or intense
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You really should palliate your life more. It's not that serious.
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Panegyric (noun)
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formal praise, eulogy, encomium; panegyrical means expressing elaborate praise
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That was quite the panegyric tonight! Lots of praise!
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Parsimonious (adj.)
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cheap, miserly
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My parsimonious father said he'd charge $5 for a load of laundry but bought my little brother a $1000 bed. Jerk. He's cheap with me, but then buys expensive stuff.
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Pellucid (adj.)
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transparent, easy to understand, limpid
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It's pellucid material. You'll be fine.
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Peroration (noun)
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the concluding part of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech
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He is finally at the peroration after 5 hours of speaking!
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Plangent (adj.)
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pounding, thundering, resounding
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That's quite the plangent thunder.
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Prolix (adj.)
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long-winded, verbose; prolixity means verbosity
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He became prolix after running so hard.
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Propitiate (verb)
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to appease; to conciliate; propitious means auspicious, favorable
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I need to propitiate her or she'll be upset again.
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puerile (adj.)
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childish, immature, jejune, nugatory
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What a puerile little child. Immature and childish.
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Puissance (noun)
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power, strength; puissant means powerful, strong
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The puissance level is over 9,000... again!
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Pusillanimous (adj.)
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cowardly, craven
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She's a very pusillanimous person. What a coward.
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Remonstrate (verb)
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to protest, to object
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I will remonstrate that speaker with you all. I'm in.
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Sagacious (adj.)
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having sound judgment; perceptive, wise; like a sage
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I'm very sagacious when I want to be, especially when writing to my audience.
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Salacious (adj.)
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lustful, lascivious, bawdy
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I can be very salacious after hot girls.
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Salutary (adj.)
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remedial, wholesome, causing improvement
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We're all in the salutary, remedial math class.
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Sanguine (adj.)
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cheerful, confident, optimistic
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He was sanguine about his future. Good for him.
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Saturnine (adj.)
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gloomy, dark, sullen, morose
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He used to be a saturnine individual, but now he's...sanguine.
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Sententious (adj.)
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aphoristic or moralistic; epigrammatic;
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He's such a sententious person when it comes to morals.
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Stentorian (adj.)
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extremely loud and powerful
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That is a stentorian speaker -- I can't hear myself talk!
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Stygian (adj.)
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gloomy, dark
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It's stygian tonight. I can't see anything.
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Sycophant (noun)
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toad, servile, self-seeking flatterer; parasite
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That was a sycophant on the dog, disturbing enough.
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Tendentious (adj.)
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biased; sowing marked tendencies
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That is the most tendentious candidate ever. Very biased.
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Timorous (adj.)
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timid, fearful, diffident
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He's a timorous child, a little shy.
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Tyro (noun)
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novice, greenhorn, rank amateur
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He's a tyro pro gamer. He just started.
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Vitiate (verb)
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to corrupt, to debase, to spoil, to make ineffective
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The dictator vitiated his country.
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Voluble (adj.)
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fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language
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I'm going to be quite the voluble person after learning all these words. Finally I can stop inputting them all and study... after I sleep. You're welcome to those studying for the GRE, too :)
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