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engender
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verb
beget, procreate |
generare = to generate
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countermand
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verb, transitive
to revoke (a command) by a contrary order |
from contre- counter- + mander to command
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palliate
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verb, transitive
to reduce the violence of (a disease) |
from Late Latin palliatus, past participle of palliare to cloak, conceal
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vainglory
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noun
excessive or ostentatious pride especially in one's achievements vainglorious |
vain+glory
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penury
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noun
severe poverty |
from Latin penuria, paenuria want
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tenebrous
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adjective
shut off from the light |
Marnie prefers airy spaces with many windoes to tenebrous areas.
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vituperative
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adjective
uttering or given to censure : containing or characterized by verbal abuse |
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truculent
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adjective
feeling or displaying ferocity |
from truc-, trux savage
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irascible
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adjective
marked by hot temper and easily provoked anger |
from Latin irasci to become angry, be angry
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umbrage
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noun
a feeling of pique or resentment at some often fancied slight or insult "I took umbrage at the speaker's remarks." |
Latin umbraticum, neuter of umbraticus of shade
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ignoble
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adjective
of low birth or common origin, plebian |
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nugatory
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adjective
of little or no consequence: trifling |
from nugari to trifle
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inure
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verb
transitive: to accustom to accept something undesirable intransitive: to become of advantage |
from Middle French uevre work, practice
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torpid
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adjective
having lost motion or the power of exertion or feeling |
Latin torpidus, from torpEre to be sluggish or numb
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nescience
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noun
lack of knowledge or awareness: ignorance |
from Latin nescient-, nesciens, present participle of nescire not to know
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lugubrious
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adjective
mournful |
akin to Greek lygros mournful
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