Etm Vocab

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winsome

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attractive or appealing in appearance or character

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inviolable

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never to be broken, infringed, or dishonored.

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phalanx

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a bone of the finger or toe; a body of troops or police officers moving or standing in close formation

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coterie

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a small group of people with shared interests or tastes, especially one that is exclusive of other people.

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welter

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v. move in a turbulent fashion; n. a large number of items in no order; a confused mass

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sine qua non

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an essential condition; a thing that is absolutely necessary

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badinage

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humorous or witty conversation.

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sophistry

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the use of fallacious arguments, especially with the intention of deceiving

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casuistry

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the use of clever but unsound reasoning, especially in relation to moral questions; sophistry.

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effete

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(of a person) affected, overrefined, and ineffectual

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naif

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a naive or ingenuous person

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caprice

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a sudden and unaccountable change of mood or behavior

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debouch

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to cause to emerge

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filch

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pilfer or steal (something, especially a thing of small value) in a casual way

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pinion

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tie or hold the arms or legs of (someone)

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perambulate

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walk or travel through or around a place or area, especially for pleasure and in a leisurely way

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excoriate

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censure or criticize severely; damage or remove part of the surface of (the skin)

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disquisition

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a long or elaborate essay or discussion on a particular subject

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presage

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to protend, foreshow or foreshadow

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apposite

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suitable, well-adapted, pertinent, relevant

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miasma

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noxious exhalations from putrescent organic matter; poisinous effluvia or germs polluting the atmosphere

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hector

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to act in a blustering, domineering way; be a bully

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lugubrious

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mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially in an affected, exagerrated or unrelieved manner

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desultory

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lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order; disconnected; fitful

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lambent

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softly bright or radiant

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numinous

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surpassing comprehension or understanding; mysterious

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laconic

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using few words; expressing much in few words; concise

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impertinent

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trivial, silly or absurd (of a person)

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besotted

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to infatuate, obsess

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inveigle

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to aquire, win, or obtain by beguiling talk or methods

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capricious

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erratic; subject to, led by, or indicative of caprice or whim

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restive

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impatient of control, restraint, or delay, as persons; restless, uneasy

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feckless

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ineffective; incompetent; futile

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insipid

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lacking flavor, vigor or interest; uninsipired

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specious

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apparently good or right though lacking real merit; superficially pleasing or plausible

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peripatetic

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walking or traveling about; itinerant

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baleful

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full of menacing or malign influences; pernicious

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pernicious

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having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way

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harangue

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any long, pompous speech or writing of a tediously horatory or didactic nature; sermonizing lecture or discours

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horatory

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tending or aiming to exhort

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belie

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to show to be false; contradict

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pluralism

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a theory that there is more than one basic substance or principle

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atavism

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the reappearance in an individual of characteristics of some remote ancestor that have been absent in intervening generations

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perspicacious

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having keen mental perception and understanding; discerning

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exhort

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strongly encourage or urge (someone) to do something.

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Impel

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To urge to action through moral pressure; drive

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Deliquesce

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To disappear as if by melting.

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Effluvium

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1. A usually invisible emanation or exhalation, as of vapor or gas.
2.
a. A byproduct or residue; waste.
b. The odorous fumes given off by waste or decaying matter.
3. An impalpable emanation; an aura.

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Baleful

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1. Portending evil; ominous. See Synonyms at sinister.
2. Harmful or malignant in intent or effect.

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Onanism

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1. Masturbation.
2. Coitus interruptus.

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Spoor

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1 : a track, a trail, a scent, or droppings especially of a wild animal
2 : a trace by which the progress of someone or something may be followed

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Immolate

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1. To kill as a sacrifice.
2. To kill (oneself) by fire.
3. To destroy.

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Unstinting

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Bestowed liberally: unstinting approval.

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Fastidious

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1. Possessing or displaying careful, meticulous attention to detail.
2. Difficult to please; exacting.
3. Excessively scrupulous or sensitive, especially in matters of taste or propriety. See Synonyms at meticulous.

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Solicitous

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1a. Anxious or concerned: a solicitous parent.
1b. Expressing care or concern: made solicitous inquiries about our family. See Synonyms at thoughtful.
2. Full of desire; eager.
3. Marked by or given to anxious care and often hovering attentiveness.

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Aureole

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1 a : a radiant light around the head or body of a representation of a sacred personage
b : something resembling an aureole <an aureole of hair>
2 : radiance, aura <an aureole of youth and health>
3 : the luminous area surrounding the sun or other bright light when seen through thin cloud or mist : corona

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Sensate

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1. Perceived by a sense or the senses.
2. Having physical sensation.

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Vertiginous

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1. Turning about an axis; revolving or whirling.
2. Affected by vertigo; dizzy. See Synonyms at giddy.
3. Tending to produce vertigo: "my small mind contained in earthly human limits, not lost in vertiginous space and elements unknown" (Diana Cooper).
4. Inclined to change quickly; unstable.

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Incandescent

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1. Emitting visible light as a result of being heated.
2. Shining brilliantly; very bright. See Synonyms at bright.
3. Characterized by ardent emotion, intensity, or brilliance: an incandescent performance.

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Paucity

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A smallness in number. Less than what is needed.