English Vocab

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abstruse

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hard to understand; recondite; esoteric

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affable

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pleasantly easy to approach and to talk to; friendly; cordial

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audacity

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boldness or daring, esp. with confident or arrogant disregard for personal safety

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contrite

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caused by or showing sincere remorse.

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credulous

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willing to believe or trust too readily

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depravity

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Moral corruption or degradation. act of...

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deprecate

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to express earnest disapproval of.

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didactic

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intended for instruction; instructive

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dormant

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lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive, as in sleep; torpid

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enigmatic

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resembling an enigma; perplexing; mysterious.

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erudite

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characterized by great knowledge; learned or scholarly

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exotic

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of foreign origin or character; not native; introduced from abroad

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fuse

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a tube, cord, or the like, filled or saturated with combustible matter

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immutable

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not mutable; unchangeable; changeless

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incorrigible

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not corrigible; bad beyond correction or reform

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loathe

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to feel disgust or intense aversion for

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mitigate

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to lessen in force or intensity, as wrath, grief, harshness, or pain; moderate

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nullify

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to render or declare legally void or inoperative

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pacifistic

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of or pertaining to pacifism or pacifists

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pretentious

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characterized by assumption of dignity or importance

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prologue

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a preliminary discourse; a preface or introductory part of a discourse, poem, or novel

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recant

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to withdraw or disavow

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servile

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slavishly submissive or obsequious; fawning:

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trepidation

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tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.

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vilify

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to speak ill of; defame; slander

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aesthetic

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pertaining to a sense of the beautiful or to the science of aesthetics

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aloof

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at a distance, esp. in feeling or interest; apart:

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archaic

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marked by the characteristics of an earlier period; antiquated

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assuage

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o make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate

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belie

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to show to be false; contradict

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contentious

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tending to argument or strife; quarrelsome

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daunt

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to overcome with fear; intimidate

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debilitate

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to make weak or feeble

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discord

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lack of concord or harmony between persons or things

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dissemination

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o scatter or spread widely, as though sowing seed

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egocentric

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having or regarding the self or the individual as the center of all things

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euphemism

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the substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt

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gluttonous

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ending to eat and drink excessively; voracious

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mundane

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of or pertaining to this world or earth as contrasted with heaven

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ominous

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portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious

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petulance

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the state or quality of being petulant

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pompous

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characterized by an ostentatious display of dignity or importance

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precocious

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unusually advanced or mature in development, esp. mental development

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slothful

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sluggardly; indolent

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trivia

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matters or things that are very unimportant, inconsequential, or nonessential

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verbose

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characterized by the use of many or too many words

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virulent

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actively poisonous; intensely noxious

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volatile

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actively poisonous; intensely noxious