Gre Beyond The Hit Parade

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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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appropriate

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to take for one's own use, confiscate

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august

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majestic, venerable

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bent

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leaning, inclination, proclivity

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brook

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to tolerate, endure, countenance

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chauvinist

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a blindly devoted patriot

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cardinal

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major, as in cardinal sin

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consequential

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pompous, self-important (primary definitions are logically following; important)

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meet

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fitting, proper; "It is altogether meet that Jackie Robinson is in the baseball hall of fame."

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mince

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pronounce or speak affectedly, euphemize, speak too carefully: "Don't mince words." Also, to take tiny steps, tiptoe

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nice

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exacting, fastidious, extremely precise: "He made a nice distinction between the two cases."

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obtain

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to be established, accepted, or customary: "Those standards no longer obtain."

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occult

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hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension

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pied

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multicolored, usually in blotches: "The pied piper of hamlin was so called because of his multicolored coat."

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pine

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to lose vigor (as though through grief); to yearn

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pine

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to lose vigor (as though through grief); to yearn

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plastic

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moldable, pliable, not rigid

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prize

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to pry, to press or force with a lever; something taken by force, spoils: "The information was prized from him."

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rent

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torn, past of rend: "He rent his garments:" an opening or tear caused by such: "a large rend in the fabric"

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quail

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to lose courage, turn frightened

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sap

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a fool or nitwit: "Don't be a sap."

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scurvy

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contemptible, despicable: "He was a scurvy old reprobate."

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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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tender

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to proffer or offer: "He tendered his resignation."

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waffle

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to equivocate; to change one's position: "His detractors say that the President waffles too much; he can never make up his mind."

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wag

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wit, joker: "Groucho Marx was a well known wag."

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abjure

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to renounce or reject solemnly; 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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a solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing

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anodyne

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soothing, something that allays pain or comforts

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apogee

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farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith

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apotheosis

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deification, glorification to godliness, an exalted example, a model or excellence or perfection

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asperity

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severity, rigor; roughness, harshness, acrimony, irritability

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assevervate

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to aver, allege, assert

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augury

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omen, portent

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calumniate

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to slander, 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

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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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contumacious

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insubordinate, rebellious; contumely means insult, scorn, aspersion

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descry

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to discriminate or discern

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desuetude

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disuse: "After years of desuetude, my french skills were finally put to use."

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desultory

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random; aimless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose: "Her desultory performance impressed no one."

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diaphanous

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transparent, gauzy

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diffident

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reserved, shy, unassuming; lacking in self-confidence: Surprisingly, the CEO of the corporation had been a diffident youth

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dirge

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a song of grief or lamentation: "We listened to the slow, funereal dirge"

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encomium

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glowing and enthusiastic praise; panegyric, tribute, eulogy

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eschew

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to shun or avoid: "She chose to eschew the movie theater, preferring to watch DVDs at home."

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excoriate

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to censure scathingly, to upbraid

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execrate

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denounce, feel loathing for, curse, 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: "Pia Zadora has expiated her movie career by good works and charity."

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extirpate

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to destroy, exterminate, cut out, exscind

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extirpate

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to destroy, exterminate, cut out, exscind

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fatuous

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silly, inanely foolish: "I would ignore such a fatuous comment."

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fractious

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quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory, irritable

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gainsay

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to deny, dispute, contradict, oppose

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heterodox

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unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic

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imbroglio

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difficult or embarrassing situation

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indefatigable

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not easily exhaustible; tireless; dogged

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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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insouciant

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unconcerned, carefree, heedless

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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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mendicant

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a beggar, supplicant

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meretricious

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cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy; attracting by false show

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minatory

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

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nadir

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low point, perigee

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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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ossified

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tending to become more rigid, conventional, sterile, and reactionary with age; literally, turned into bone

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palliate

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to make something seem less serious, to gloss over, to make less severe or intense

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panegyric

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formal praise, eulogy, encomium; panegyrical means expressing elaborate praise

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parsimonious

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cheap, miserly: "A parsimonious person parses out his money with great difficulty."

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pellucid

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transparent, easy to understand, limpid

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peroration

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the concluding part of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech

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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: "Mikhail Gorbachev is famous for his prolixity."

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propitiate

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to appease; to conciliate; propitious means auspicious, favorable

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puerile

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childish, immature, jejune, nugatory

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puissance

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power, strength; puissant means powerful strong: "The senator delivered a puissant speech to the convention."

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pusillanimous

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cowardly, craven

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remonstrate

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to protest, object

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sagacious

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having sound judgment; perceptive, wise; like a sage

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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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sanguine

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cheerful, confident, optimistic

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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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stentorian

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extremely loud and powerful

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stygian

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gloomy, dark

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sycophant

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toady, servile, self-seeking flatterer; parasite

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tendentious

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biased; showing marked tendencies

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timorous

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timid, fearful, diffident

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tyro

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novice, greenhorn, rank amateur

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vitiate

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to corrupt, debase, spoil, make ineffective

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voluble

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fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language