Final Gre Flashcards

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alloy

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to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior; unalloyed means pure

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bent

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leaning, inclination, proclivity, tendency

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broach

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to bring up; to announce; to begin to talk about

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brook

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to tolerate; to endure; to countenance

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cardinal

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major

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consequential

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pompous, self-important

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die

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a tool used for shaping, as in a tool-and-die shop

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fell (adj)

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inhumanely cruel

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flip (adj)

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sarcastic, impertinent, as in flippant

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grouse (v)

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to complain or grumble

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encomium

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glowing and enthusiastic praise, panegyric

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guy

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a rope, cord, or cable attached to something as a brace or guide; to steady or reinforce using a guy: Think guide.

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intimate

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to imply, suggest, or insinuate

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list(v)

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to tilt or lean to one side

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meet (adj)

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fitting, proper

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mince

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to pronounce or speak affectedly; to euphemize to speak too carefully. Also, to take tiny steps; to tiptoe

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nice (adj)

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exacting, fastidious, extremely precise

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obtain (adj)

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to be established, accepted, or customary

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occult (adj)

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hidden, concealed, beyond comphrehension

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pine

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to lose vigor (as through grief); to yearn

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pluck

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courage, spunk, fortitude

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prize (v)

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to pry, to press or force with a lever; something taken by force, spoils

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rail (v)

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to complain about bitterly

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quail (v)

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to lose courage; to turn frightened

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qualify (v)

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to limit

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sap (v)

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to enervate or weaken the vitality of

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sap (n)

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a fool or nitwit

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scurvy (adj)

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contemptible, despicable

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stand

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a group of trees

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strut

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the supporting structural cross-part of a wing

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table (v)

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to remove (as a parlimentary motion) from consideration

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tender (v)

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to proffer or offer

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waffle (v)

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to equivocate; to change one's position

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wag

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wit, joker

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abjure

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to renounce or reject solemny; to recant; to avoid

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adumbrate

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to foreshadow vaguely or intimate; to suggest or outline sketchily; to obscure or overshadow

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anathema

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aa solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing

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anodyne

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soothing; something that assuages or allays pain or comforts

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apogee

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farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith

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asperity

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severity, rigor; roughness, harshness; acrimony, irritability

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asseverate

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to aver, allege, or assert

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assiduous

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diligent, hard-working, sedulous

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augury

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omen, portent

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bellicose

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belligerent, pugnacious, warlike

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calumniate (v)

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to slander, to make a false accusation; calumny means slander, aspersion

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captious

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disposed to point out trivial faults; calculated to confuse or entrap in argument

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cavil (v)

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to find fault without good reason

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celerity

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speed, alacrity; think accelerate

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chimera

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an illusion; originally, an imaginary fire-breathing she-monster

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debacle

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riot, fiasco, complete failure

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denouement

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an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot

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descry

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to discriminate or discern

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desuetude

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disuse

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desultory (adj)

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random; aimless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose

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excoriate

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to censure scathingly, to upbraid

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execrate

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to denounce, to feel loathing for, to curse, to declare to be evil

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exegesis

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critical examination, explication

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expiate

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to atone or make amends for

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extirpate

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to destroy, to exterminate, to cut out, to exscind

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gainsay

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to deny, to dispute, to contradict, to oppose

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imbroglio

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difficult or embarrassing situation

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ineluctable

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certain, inevitable

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inimitable

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one of a kind, peerless

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inveterate

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deep rooted, ingrained, habitual

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jejune

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vapid, uninteresting, nugatory; childish, immature, puerile

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lubricious

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lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery

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minatory

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menacing, threatening (reminds you of the Minotaur, a threatening creature indeed)

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nonplussed

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baffled, bewildered, at a loss for what to do or think

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obstreperous

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noisily and stubbornly defiant, aggressively boisterous

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pellucid

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transparent, easy to understand, limpid

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plangent

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pounding, thundering, resounding

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prolix

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long-winded, verbose; prolixity means verbosity

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pusillanimous

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cowardly, craven

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remonstrate

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to protest, to object

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salacious

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lustful, lascivious, bawdy

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salutary

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remedial, wholesome, causing improvement

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saturnine

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gloomy, dark, sullen, morose

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sententious

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aphoristic or moralistic; epigrammatic; tending to moralize excessively

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stygian

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gloomy, dark

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tendentious

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biased; showing marked tendencies

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vitiate

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to corrupt, to debase, to spoil, to make ineffective

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voluble

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fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language

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contentious

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argumentative, quarrelsome

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stoic

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unemotional, immune to pleasure or pain, steadfast, unaffected

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virulent

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extremely harmful or poisonous; bitterly hostile or antagonistic

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prodigal

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recklessly wasteful

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repudiate

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to disown; to refuse to have anything to do with

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odious

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causing intense dislike or hatred

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polemical

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controversial, argumentative

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recalcitrant

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obstinately defiant of authority; difficult to manage

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acumen

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keen accurate judgement or insight

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infelicitous

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unfortunate, inappropriate

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querulous

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prone to complaining, or grumbling, peevish

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renege

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to fail to honor a committment, to break a promise

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refulgent

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radiant, shiny, brilliant

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recondite

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hidden; concealed, difficult to understand, obscure

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impetuous

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hastily or rashly energetic; impulsive and vehement

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acerbic

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having a sour or bitter taste or character, sharp, bitter

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amenable

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agreeable; responsive to suggestion

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spendthrift

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recklessly wasteful; prodigal

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sedulous

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diligent, persistent, hard-working

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acrimonious

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using sharp language

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prodigious

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abundant in size, force, or extent

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harangue

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to deliver a pompous speech or tirade; a long, pompous speech

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incipient

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beginning to come into being or to become apparent

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slake

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to calm down or moderate

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phlegmatic

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calm and unemotional in temperment (phlegmatic demolition expert)

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lugubrious

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sorrowful; mournful; dismal

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dogma

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a firmly held opinion, especially a religious belief

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wan

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sickly pale

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profligate

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corrupt; degenerate

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abdicate

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to give up a position, right or power

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intrepid

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fearless; resolutely courageous

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lampoon

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to ridicule with satire

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sardonic

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cynical; scornfully mocking