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Arcane

Mysterious secret

Imbue

Inspire or permeate with

Capitulate

Yeild

Impugn

Question

Stigmatized

Worthy of disgrace or disapproval

Obdurate

Stubborn

Flagrant

Obviously offensive

Clandestine

Secret because illicit

Incorrigible

Fixed in their negative ways

Conceit

Vanity

Recourse

Solution in difficult situation

Baneful

Harmful

Noxious

Harmful

Amenable

Easily persuaded

Stolid

Lifeless

Ambivalent

Mixed feelings

Equivocaly

Easy to understand

Officious

Assertive/ domineering in regards to trivial matters

Probity

Honesty and decency

Deluge

Severe flood

taciturn

Reserved in speech

Turgid

Tediously pompous and bombastic

Addlepate

Confused

Enervate

Exhuaste

Enigmatic

Mysterious

Facile

Ignoring complexities. Superficial

Urbane

(of a person, especially a man) courteous and refined in manner.

Hoi-polloi

The masses

Literati

well-educated people who are interested in literature.

Cabal

a secret political clique or faction.


Purported

appear to be or do something, especially falsely.


Poultices

a soft, moist mass of material, typically consisting of bran, flour, herbs, etc., applied to the body to relieve soreness and inflammation and kept in place with a cloth.

Pedagogy

the method and practice of teaching, especially as an academic subject or theoretical concept.

Demagogue

Political leader whogets support by appealing to popular desires and prejudice

Malign

Evil in nature or effect

Tendentious

expressing or intending to promote a particular cause or point of view, especially a controversial one.

Conversant

familiar with or knowledgeable about something.

Modish

conforming to or following what is currently popular and fashionable.

Denigrate

Criticize unfairly

Balkanize

divide (a region or body) into smaller mutually hostile states or groups.

Besmirch

Damage

Defeasible

open in principle to revision, valid objection, forfeiture, or annulment.


Nostrum

a medicine prepared by an unqualified person, especially one that is not considered effective."a charlatan who sells nostrums"synonyms: patent medicine, quack remedy, potion, elixir, panacea, cure-all, cure for all ills, universal remedy, sovereign remedy, wonder drug, magic bullet; Morea scheme or remedy for bringing about some social or political reform or improvement.

Adjuvant

(of therapy) applied after initial treatment for cancer, especially to suppress secondary tumour formation.noun1.a substance which enhances the body's immune response to an antigen.

Fissile

adjective1.(of an atom or element) able to undergo nuclear fission."a fissile isotope"2.(chiefly of rock) easily split."flat-bedded and very highly fissile shale"


Recidivist

a convicted criminal who reoffends, especially repeatedly.

Autodidact

Self taught person

Depredate

steal from, typically using force; plunder.

Neologism

a newly coined word or expression

Antithetical

directly opposed or contrasted; mutually incompatible.connected with, containing, or using the rhetorical device of antithesis.