Gre General Vocabulary Set 2 (Modified)

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Abeyance

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a temporary suspension of activity.

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Abrogate

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to abolish by formal or official means; to put aside; repeal.

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Abscond

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to leave quickly and secretly.

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Sanguine

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cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident; blood-red; red; bloody.

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Incarnadine

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blood-red; crimson; flesh colored; pale pink.

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Abstinence

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voluntarily refraining from eating certain foods or drink.

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Accolade

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award or honor; high praise.

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Accouterments

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personal clothing, accessories, or equipment.

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Acquit

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to find not guilty; to conduct oneself; behave.

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Adjure

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to command or urge earnestly and solemnly.

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Solemn

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grave, sober, or mirthless, as a person, the face, speech, tone, or mood; gravely or somberly impressive; causing serious thoughts or a grave mood; serious or earnest.

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Mirthful

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joyous; merry; gleeful.

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Adumbrate

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to suggest partly; to give a hint of things to come.

Also- to overshadow; to obscure

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Aegis

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protection; support; patronage.

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Aggrieve

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to distress; to oppress or wrong grievously.

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Akimbo

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having one's hands in a bent position on the hips.

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Alchemy

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a process of transformation that is seemingly magical.

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Ambulatory

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able to walk or move about.

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Ameliorate

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to make better; to ease; to improve.

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Anathema

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1. something or someone that one vehemently dislikes.
2. a formal curse by a pope or a council of the Church, excommunicating a person or denouncing a doctrine.

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Execrate

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to detest utterly; abhor; abominate; curse; imprecate evil upon.

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Imprecate

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to invoke or call down.

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Ancillary

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subordinate; subsidiary; auxiliary; assisting.

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Anomie

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instability caused by an erosion of value or lack of purpose.

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Antipodal

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situated on opposite sides of the earth; being exactly opposite.

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Apocryphal

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false; spurious; of doubtful origin.

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Apoplexy

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a stroke resulting from loss of blood to the brain; a hemorrhage in an organ cavity or tissue which may cause marked loss of bodily function.

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Occlude

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to close; to shut in, out, or off.

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Apostasy

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a total desertion of or departure from one's religion, principles, party, cause, etc.

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Pejorative

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expressing comtempt or disapproval

MORE - having a disparaging, derogatory, or belittling effect or force.

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Disparage

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to speak of or treat slightingly; depreciate; belittle.

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Ascetic

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hermit-like life including extreme self denial or austere attitudes.

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Assiduous

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constant; unremitting; hardworking; busy; diligent.

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Unremitting

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not slackening or abating; incessant.

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Assignation

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a secret meeting, a tryst, or something assigned.

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Bacchanal

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a drunken reveler or orgy.

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Glib

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readily fluent, often thoughtlessly, superficially, or insincerely so; easy or unconstrained.

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Bandy

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to toss back and forth; to exchange; to use in a glib way.

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Bathos

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a transition from the illustrious to the commonplace; insincere pathos.

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Pathos

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the quality or power of an experience or form of expression to evoke pity or compassion.

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Belie

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to misrepresent; to disguise the nature of; to show to be untrue; contradict.

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Besmirch

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to stain or soil (commonly as to reputation).

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Bilious

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1. affected by or associated with nausea or vomiting.
2. (of a color) lurid or sickly.
3. spiteful, bad tempered

MORE: ill-tempered; cranky; angry; extremely unpleasant or distasteful.

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Bivouac

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a temporary encampment.

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Bon Vivant

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someone who enjoys luxurious living.

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Bowdlerize

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to expurgate a written work by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or offensive.

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Expurgate

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to amend by removing words, passages, etc. deemed offensive or objectionable; to purge or cleanse of moral offensiveness.

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Brook

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to tolerate; to put up with something.

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Bumptious

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pushy; conceited; noisily self-assertive.

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Byzantine

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extremely intricate or complicated in structure.

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Cabal

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a secret group of conspirators; a clique.

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Cachet

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a mark or distinction; a quality that "says" prestige.

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Calumny

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slander; deliberate false statements.

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Capricious

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impulsive; whimsical; fanciful.

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Whimsy

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capricious humor or disposition; extravagant, fanciful, or excessively playful expression; anything odd or fanciful; a product of playful or capricious fancy.

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Cataclysm

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a violent upheaval; an earthquake; a flood.

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Upheave

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to heave or lift up; raise up or aloft; to force or throw up violently or with much power; to cause a major disturbance or disorder in.

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Aloft

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high up; far above the ground; in or into a high or higher place; up above.

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Cavil

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to quibble; raise trivial objections.

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Quibble

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1. a slight objection or criticism.
2. (archaic) a play on words; a pun.
3. argue or raise objections about a trivial matter.

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Chary

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careful; cautious; wary; fastidious; timid.

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Subterfuge

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a stratagem employed to conceal something, evade an argument, etc.

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Sophistry

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a subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning.

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Chimerical

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wildly fanciful; highly unrealistic; unreal; imaginary; visionary.

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Circumlocution

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wordy language; an indirect, roundabout expression.

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Clout

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influence; a forceful blow.

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Cogitate

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to ponder over; to meditate; to think.

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Comport

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to behave.

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Contrite

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caused by or showing sincere remorse; penitent.

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Compunction

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remorse; feeling uneasy after having done something caused by regret; an uneasiness or hesitation about the rightness of an action.

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Concomitant

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accompanying; attending; going along with, often in a lesser way.

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Conflagration

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a large, disastrous fire.

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Contentious

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argumentative over a point; quarrelsome.

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Cortege

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a procession; a group of attendees.

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Coterie

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an intimate group of people with a common interest.

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Covet

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to desire wrongfully; to wish for with envy.

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Debacle

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a disaster or violent breakdown.

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Deleterious

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injurious to health; harmful.

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Depredate

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to prey upon, plunder, or pillage with violence if necessary.

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Descry

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to discern or make out; catch sight of; to detect; to teach the sight of.

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Desiccate

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to dry out; dehydrate (can be done to preserve food).

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Dichotomy

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division into two mutually exclusive, opposed, or contradictory groups or parts.

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Dilettante

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a dabbler; someone with a superficial knowledge (often of fine arts or science).

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Discomfit

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to confuse and deject; deceive; thwart.

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Deject

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to depress the spirits of; dispirit; dishearten.

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Disconcert

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to throw into disorder or confusion; to disturb the self possession of; perturb; ruffle.

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Perturb

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to disturb or disquiet greatly in the mind; to throw into disorder; agitate; derange.

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Disquiet

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lack of calm, peace or ease; anxiety; uneasiness; to make uneasy.

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Dissolute

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indifferent to moral constraints; given to immoral or improper conduct; dissipated; licentious.

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Licentious

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sexually unrestrained; unrestrained by law or general morality; going beyond customary or proper bounds or limits.

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Dissipate

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to break up or scatter; to squander; to engage in extravagant, intemperate, or dissolute pleasure.

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Diurnal

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occurring during the day; happens every day.

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Doff

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to remove or take off (as in clothing); to remove or tip (the hat), as in greeting; to get rid of.

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Doggerel

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1. comic verse composed in irregular rhythm.
2. verse or words that are badly written or expressed

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Dossier

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a file or collection of documents, letters, and records (especially one containing detailed information on a person or topic).

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Draconian

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rigorous; unusually severe or harsh.

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Dulcet

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having a nice, agreeable, melodious sound; pleasant or agreeable to the eye or feelings; soothing.

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Effete

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lacking in wholesome vigor; degenerate; exhausted of vigor or energy; worn out; unable to produce; sterile.

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Wholesome

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conducive to moral or general well-being; beneficial; healthy.

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Élan

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vigor, distinctive, elegant style; impetuous ardor.

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Impetuous

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of, pertaining to, or characterized by sudden or rash action, emotion, etc.

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Elliptical

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oval;
(of a style of speech or writing-) obscure or ambiguous in expression;
(in speech or writing-) relieved of irrelevant matter.

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Enervate

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to weaken; to sap the strength of.

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Ennui

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a feeling of utter weariness and discontent resulting from satiety or lack of interest; boredom.

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Ensconce

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to settle in snugly; to hide in a secure place.

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Erudite

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scholarly; deeply learned; well read.

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Espy

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to glimpse; to descry; to catch sight of.

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Ethnocentric

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the belief in the superiority of one's race or ethnic group; a tendency to view alien groups or cultures from the perspective of one's own.

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Evanescent

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scarcely perceptible; vanishing; fleeting; happening for the briefest moment.

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Exemplar

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a model or pattern to be copied or imitated; a typical example or instance; a copy of a book or text.

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Exigent

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urgent; requiring prompt action; requiring a great deal or more than is reasonable.

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Extirpate

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to rip up as by the roots; to abolish; to annihilate.

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Fauna

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the animals of a given region or period considered as a whole; a treatise on the animals of a given region or period.

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Feckless

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lacking responsibility; lazy; indifferent; ineffective; incompetent.

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Fecund

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producing or capable of producing offspring, fruit vegetation, etc. in abundance; prolific.

very productive or creative intellectually.

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Feral

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wild; like a wild animal; savage.

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Fetter

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to impede, restrain, or hamper.

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Hamper

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to hold back; to interfere with; hinder; impede; curtail.

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Curtail

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to cut short; cut off a part of; abridge; reduce; diminish.

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Catholic

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broad or wide-ranging in tastes, interests, or the like; having sympathies with all; broad minded; liberal.

universal in extent; involving all; of interest to all.

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Fey

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supernatural; unreal; being in unnaturally high spirits; whimsical; strange; otherworldly.

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Flagellate

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to whip; flog; lash.

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Flog

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to beat with a whip, stick, etc.

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Foment

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to instigate or foster; promote the growth or development of; to apply warm water or medical liquid, ointments, etc.

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Forswear

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to reject or renounce under oath; to deny vehemently or under oath.

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Fusillate

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a general discharge or outburst; a spray of gunfire.

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Gainsay

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to deny, dispute, or contradict; to speak or act out against; oppose.

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Gamin

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a neglected boy left to run about the streets; street urchin.

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Gerrymander

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to divide into election districts to gain political advantage.

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Gestalt

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a configuration, pattern, or organized field having specific properties that can not be derived from the summation of its component parts; a unified whole.

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Gesticulate

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to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.

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Gird

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to encircle or bind with a belt or band; to surround; enclose; to prepare (oneself) for action; to provide, equip, or invest, as with power or strength.

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Halitosis

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bad breath.

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Hidebound

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narrow and rigid in opinion; inflexible; oriented toward or confined to the past; extremely conservative.

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Histrionic

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of or pertaining to actors or acting; deliberately affected or self consciously emotional; overly dramatic in behavior or speech.

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Hoary

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gray or white with age; ancient; stale.

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Homeopathy

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a system of natural healing.

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Husbandry

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the judicious use of resources; livestock farming; the science of raising crops or food animals; agriculture.

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Ignominy

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shameful or dishonorable quality or conduct or an instance of this; disgrace; dishonor; public contempt.

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Imbroglio

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a difficult and confused situation; a complicated, sometimes bitter, disagreement (between people, nations, etc.).

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Impecunious

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having little or no money; penniless; poor.

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Impervious

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does not allow something to pass through; impenetrable.

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Impign

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to challenge as false (another's ideas, motives, etc.); cast doubt upon.

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Entreaty

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earnest request or petition; supplication.

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Supplicate

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to pray humbly; make humble and earnest entreaty or petition.

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Iniquitous

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characterized by injustice or wickedness; sinful.

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Insouciant

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free from concern, worry, or anxiety; carefree; nonchalant.

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Interregnum

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the period between two successive governments; any period during which a state has no ruler or only a temporary executive; any pause or interruption in continuity.

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Intransigent

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refusing to agree or compromise; inflexible.

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Inveterate

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firmly established by long continuance, as a disease, habit, practice, feeling, etc.; chronic.

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Itinerant

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a person who travels from place to place, especially for duty or business. (can also be used as an adj. meaning one who does this i.e an itinerant preacher)

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Juggernaut

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any large, overpowering, destructive force or object, as war, a giant battleship, or a powerful football team; anything requiring blind devotion or cruel sacrifice.

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Junta

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a small group ruling a country, especially immediately after a coup d'état and before a legally constituted government has been instituted; a council.

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Largess

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a generous giving of gifts; philanthropy.

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Lassitude

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a state of weariness; listlessness; a state of lethargy.

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Lethargy

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the quality or state of being drowsy and dull, listless and unenergetic, or indifferent and lazy; apathetic or sluggish inactivity.

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Leitmotif

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a motif or theme associated throughout a music drama with a particular person, situation, or idea.

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Motif

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a recurring subject, theme, idea, etc., especially in a literary, artistic, or musical work; a distinctive and recurring form, shape, figure, etc., in a design, as in a painting or on wallpaper; a dominant idea or feature.

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Levee

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an embankment designed to prevent a river from flooding. (can also be used as a verb)

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Libation

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a pouring of a drink for a religious ceremony; the mentioned drink itself; an intoxicating beverage.

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Libidinous

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full of sexual lust; lewd; lascivious.

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Lascivious

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inclined to lustfulness; wanton; lewd; arousing sexual desires.

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Lope

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to run with a long easy stride.

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Macerate

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to soften or separate into parts by steeping in a liquid; to cause to grow thin.

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Machinate

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to contrive or plot, especially artfully or with evil purpose.

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Malapropism

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an act or habit of misusing words ridiculously, especially by the confusion of words that are similar in sound.

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Malfeasance

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an illegal act, especially by a public official.

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Martinet

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one who adheres strictly to rules.

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Matriculate

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to enroll in a college or a university as a candidate for a degree (can be a noun also).

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Maudlin

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foolishly or mawkishly sentimental, can be because of drunkenness.

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Mawkish

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characterized by sickly sentimentality; maudlin; having a mildly sickening flavor; slightly nauseating.

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Mellifluous

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sweetly or smoothly flowing; sweet-sounding or tasting.

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Mercurial

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changeable; volatile; fickle; erratic; animated; lively; quick-witted.

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Erratic

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deviating from the usual or proper course in conduct or opinion; eccentric; having no fixed course; irregular in performance, behaviour, or attitude; inconsistent and unpredictable

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Miasma

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a dangerous, foreboding, or deathlike influence or atmosphere.

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Milieu

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surroundings, especially of a social or cultural nature.

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Mordant

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sharply caustic or sarcastic, as wit or a speaker; incisive; burning; corrosive; having the property of fixing colors, as in dyeing.

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Incisive

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keen, penetrating, or acute; biting or sarcastic; mordant; having a sharp cutting edge.

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Acute

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sharp or severe in effect; intense;
extremely great or serious; crucial; critical;
sharp or penetrating in intellect, insight, or perception; extremely sensitive even to slight details or impressions.

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Moribund

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in a dying state; on the verge of extinction; not progressing or advancing; stagnant.

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Muckrake

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to search for and expose real or alleged corruption, scandal, or the like, especially in politics.

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Myopia

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lack of imagination, foresight, or intellectual insight

MORE: lack of foresight or discernment; obtuseness; narrow-mindedness; intolerance.

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Obtuse

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not quick or alert in perception, feeling, or intellect; not sensitive or observant; dull; not sharp, acute, or pointed; blunt in form; indistinctly felt or perceived, as pain or sound.

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Nabob

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any wealthy, influential, or powerful person.

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Nascent

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beginning to exist or develop.

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Neophyte

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a beginner or a novice.

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Nepotism

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showing favoritism to friends or family, as in granting positions in jobs or politics.

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Niggardly

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reluctant to give or spend; stingy; miserly; meanly or ungenerously small or scanty.

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Miser

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a person who lives in wretched circumstances in order to save and hoard money; a stingy, avarice person.

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Nihilism

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total rejection of established laws and institutions; anarchy, terrorism, or other revolutionary activity; the denial of all real existence or the possibility of an objective basis for truth (in philosophy).

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Nirvana

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a place or state characterized by freedom from or oblivion to pain, worry, and the external world.

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Noisome

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harmful; unwholesome; stinking (in odor): putrid

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Nonplus

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to render utterly perplexed; puzzle completely.

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Obdurate

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stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion or course of action

from 'ob' - in opositon and 'durare'- harden

MORE: unmoved by persuasion, pity, or tender feelings; stubborn; stubbornly resistant to moral influence; persistently impenitent.

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Impenitent

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not feeling regret about one's sin or sins; obdurate.

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Oeuvre

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a work of art; the works of a painter, composer or author regarded collectively

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Officious

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objectionably aggressive in offering one's unrequested and unwanted services, help, or advice; meddlesome.

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Omniscient

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all knowing; infinite awareness.

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Omnivorously

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eating all kinds of foods indiscriminately (including both animals and plants); taking in everything, as with the mind.

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Onerous

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burdensome, oppressive, or troublesome; causing hardship.

having or involving obligations or responsibilities, especially legal ones, that outweigh the advantages.

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Onus

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a difficult or disagreeable obligation, task, burden, etc.; blame or responsibility.

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Opprobrium

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the disgrace or the reproach incurred by conduct considered outrageously shameful; infamy; a cause or object of such shame or reproach.

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Reproach

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to find fault with; blame; censure; to upbraid.

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Upbraid

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to find fault with or reproach severely or angrily; censure.

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Opus

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a musical composition; a literary work or composition.

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Oscillate

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to swing back and forth.

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Ossify

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to convert into or cause to harden like bone; to become rigid or inflexible in habits, attitudes, opinions, etc.

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Palliate

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to hide the seriousness of something with excuses or apologies.

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Pallid

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pale; faint or deficient in color; wan; lacking in vitality or interest.

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Wan

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of an unnatural or sickly pallor; pallid; lacking color; showing or suggesting ill health, fatigue, unhappiness, etc.; lacking in forcefulness, competence, or effectiveness.

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Panacea

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a remedy for all disease or ills; cure-all.

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Lofty

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extending high in the air; of imposing height; towering; exalted in rank, dignity, or character; eminent; arrogantly or condescendingly superior in manner; haughty.

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Eminence

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high station, rank, or repute; a high place or part; height.

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Paradigm

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an example serving as a model; pattern; a framework containing the basic assumptions, ways of thinking, and methodology that are commonly accepted by members of a discipline or group.

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Parsimony

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extreme or excessive economy or frugality; stinginess; niggardliness.

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Frugal

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economical in use or expenditure; prudently saving or sparing; not wasteful; entailing little expense; requiring few resources; meager; scanty.

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Patina

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surface discoloration caused by age and oxidation.

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Patois

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a language used by a particular population that differs from standard speech; jargon; argot.

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Argot

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the special vocabulary and idiom of a particular profession or social group.

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Penultimate

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next to last.

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Penury

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extreme poverty; destitution; scarcity; dearth; inadequacy; insufficiency.

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Destitute

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without means of subsistence; lacking food, clothing, and shelter; deprived of, devoid of, or lacking.

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Peregrination

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travel from one place to another, especially on foot; a course of travel; journey.

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Perfidious

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deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful.

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Perfunctory

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performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial; lacking interest, care, or enthusiasm; indifferent or apathetic.

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Perorate

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to make a long, formal speech; to sum up a speech.

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Perquisite

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a gratuity or tip; a privilege or perk that goes along with a job.

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Perspicacious

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having keen mental perception and understanding; discerning.

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Phantasm

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an apparition or specter; a creation of the imagination or fancy; fantasy; a mental image or representation of a real object.

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Phlegmatic

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not easily aroused; calm; indifferent; self-possessed.

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Self-possessed

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having or showing control of one's feelings, behavior, etc.; composed; poised.

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Piquant

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agreeably pungent or sharp in taste or flavor; agreeably stimulating, interesting, or attractive.

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Abase

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to reduce or lower, as in rank, office, reputation, or estimation; humble; degrade.

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Plebian

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Common person; lower class person/people.

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Pluralism

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a condition in which minority groups participate fully in the dominant society, yet maintain their cultural differences.

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Portent

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an omen; a sign of something coming; a foreshadowing.

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Pregnant

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full of meaning; significant

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Prepossess

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to possess or dominate mentally beforehand, as a prejudice does; to impress favorably beforehand or at the outset.

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Prescience

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knowledge of things before they exist or happen; foreknowledge; foresight.

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Privation

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lack of comforts; poverty; a state of being deprived.

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Probity

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integrity and uprightness; honesty.

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Profligate

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utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute; recklessly prodigal or extravagant.

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Profuse

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spending or giving freely and in large amount, often to excess; extravagant; abundant.

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Propinquity

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nearness in time, place, relation, or nature; proximity; kinship; similarity.

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Protean

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changeable in shape or form, as an amoeba; extremely variable; versatile.

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Provenance

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place of source or origin.

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Prowess

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exceptional valor, bravery, strength, or ability, especially in combat or battle.

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Prurient

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having, inclined to have, causing, or characterized by lascivious or lustful thoughts, desires, etc.

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Puissance

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power, might, or force.

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Punctilious

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meticulously attentive to detail; exacting; strict or exact in the observance of the formalities or amenities of conduct or actions.

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Meticulous

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taking or showing extreme care about minute details; precise; thorough; finicky; fussy.

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Finicky

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excessively particular or fastidious; difficult to please; fussy.

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Putrid

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in a state of foul decay or decomposition; rotten; thoroughly corrupt, depraved, or evil; having the odor of decaying flesh.

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Raffish

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mildly or sometimes engagingly disreputable or nonconformist; rakish; gaudily vulgar or cheap; tawdry.

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Rakish

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like a rake; dissolute.

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Rake

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a fashionable or wealthy man of dissolute (lax in morals) or promiscuous habits.

MORE - a dissolute or profligate person, especially a man who is licentious; roué.

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Roué

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a dissolute and licentious man; rake.

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Tawdry

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gaudy; showy and cheap; low or mean; base.

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Rapprochment

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an establishment or reestablishment of harmonious relations.

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Exalted

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raised or elevated, as in rank or character; of high station; noble or elevated; lofty; rapturously excited.

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Rapturous

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full of, feeling, or manifesting ecstatic joy or delight.

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Recalcitrant

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resisting authority or control; not obedient or compliant; refractory; hard to deal with, manage, or operate.

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Refractory

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hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient.

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Recidivism

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repeated or habitual relapse, as into crime.

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Redoubtable

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formidable; fearsome; deserving of respect.

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Remunerate

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to pay, recompense, or reward for work, trouble, etc.

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Recompense

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to repay; remunerate; reward, as for service, aid, etc.

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Repartee

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a quick, witty reply, a conversation full of such replies, or skill in making such replies.

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Reprobate

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a morally unprincipled or wicked person; a person rejected by God and beyond hope of salvation.

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Reticent

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disposed to be silent or not to speak freely; reserved; reluctant or restrained.

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Ribald

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vulgar or indecent in speech, language, etc.; coarsely mocking, abusive, or irreverent; scurrilous.

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Scurrilous

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1. making or spreading scandalous claims about someone with the intention of damaging their reputation.
2. humorously insulting.

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Rife

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of common or frequent occurrence; prevalent; in widespread existence, activity, or use; abounding.

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Rout

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to put (a crowd) to flight or scatter; to cause a huge defeat; tumultuous or disorderly crowd of persons.

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Rubric

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any established mode of conduct or procedure; protocol; heading, title, category.

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Ruminate

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to chew; to meditate or ponder upon.

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Sallow

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a sickly, greenish-yellow tone.

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Sally

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a clever, witty, or fanciful remark; an outburst or flight of passion, fancy, etc.; an excursion or trip, usually off the main course; a sudden rushing forth or activity; a sortie of troops from a besieged place upon an enemy.

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Sortie

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a rapid movement of troops from a besieged place to attack the besiegers; the flying of an airplane on a combat mission.

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Salubrious

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favorable to or promoting health; healthful.

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Sangfroid

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coolness of mind; calmness; composure.

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Sartorial

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of or pertaining to tailors or their trade; of or pertaining to clothing or style or manner of dress.

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Savant

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a person of profound or extensive learning; learned scholar.

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Scofflaw

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a person who openly disregards rules, conventions, or accepted practices.

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Flout

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1. openly disreguard (a rule, law or convention)

2. (archaic) mock; scoff

MORE - to treat with disdain, scorn, or contempt; scoff at; mock.

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Scotch

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to put a definite end to; crush; to cut, gash, or score; to block or prop with a wedge.

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Sententious

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abounding in pithy aphorisms or maxims; given to excessive moralizing; self-righteous.

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Pithy

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brief, forceful, and meaningful in expression; full of vigor, substance, or meaning; terse.

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Shibboleth

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a peculiarity of pronunciation, behavior, mode of dress, etc., that distinguishes a particular class or set of persons

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Simper

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to smile in a silly, self-conscious way.

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Sine qua non

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an indispensable condition, element, or factor; something essential.

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Sinuous

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having many curves, bends, or turns; winding; indirect; devious.

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Slattern

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a slovenly, untidy woman or girl; a slut; harlot.

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Sloven

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a person who is habitually negligent of neatness or cleanliness in dress, appearance, etc.; a person who works, acts, speaks, etc., in a negligent, slipshod manner.

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Somnolent

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tending to cause sleep; sleepy; drowsy.

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Spate

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a sudden, almost overwhelming, outpouring.

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Spelunker

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a cave explorer.

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Stalwart

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strongly and stoutly built; sturdy and robust; brave; valiant; steadfast or uncompromising.

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Stria

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a linear mark, slight ridge, or groove on a surface, often one of a number of similar parallel features.

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Striated

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marked with striae; furrowed; striped; streaked.

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Sturm and drang

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storm and stress; turmoil.

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Sui generis

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unique; of its own kind; in a class by itself.

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Supercilious

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haughtily disdainful or contemptuous, as a person or a facial expression.

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Haughty

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disdainfully proud; snobbish; scornfully arrogant; supercilious.

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Surreptitious

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obtained, done, made, etc., by stealth; secret or unauthorized; clandestine.

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Sycophant

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a flatterer; a self-serving yes-man.

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Yes-man

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a person who, regardless of actual attitude, always expresses agreement with his or her supervisor, superior, etc.; sycophant.

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Syllogism

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a form of logic in which two premises, a major and minor, are made and a conclusion drawn.

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Sylvan

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consisting of or abounding in woods or trees; wooded; woody.

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Synergy

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the combined force of two distinct elements that is more powerful then each alone.

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Temerity

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reckless boldness; rashness; audacity.

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Audacity

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boldness or daring, especially with confident or arrogant disregard for personal safety, conventional thought, or other restrictions; effrontery or insolence; shameless boldness.

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Temporize

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to be indecisive, evasive, or to compromise in order to gain time or delay acting; to effect a compromise (even if only temporarily).

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Tendentious

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having or showing a definite tendency, bias, or purpose.

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Timorous

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subject to fear; fearful; timid.

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Titular

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existing or being such in title only; nominal; having the title but none of the associated duties, powers, etc.; having a title, especially of rank.

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Tony

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fashionable; trendy; aristocratic.

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Toothsome

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pleasing to the taste; palatable; pleasing or desirable; voluptuous; sexually alluring.

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Voluptuous

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full of, characterized by, or ministering to indulgence in luxury, pleasure, and sensuous enjoyment; directed toward or concerned with sensuous enjoyment or sensual pleasure.

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Trice

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noun- a very short time; an instant.

Verb- to pull or haul with a rope.

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Truculent

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fierce; cruel; savagely brutal; vitriolic; belligerent.

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Vitriol

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1. cruel or bitter criticism
2. (archaic) sulfuric acid

MORE - something highly caustic or severe in effect, as criticism.

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Umbrage

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offense; annoyance; displeasure; the slightest indication or vaguest feeling of suspicion, doubt, hostility, or the like; shade or shadows; a shadowy appearance or semblance of something.

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Undulate

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to move with a sinuous or wavelike motion; to have a wavy form or surface; bend with successive curves in alternate directions.

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Usury

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the lending or practice of lending money at an exorbitant interest.

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Vagary

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a whimsical, wild, or unusual idea, desire, or action; an unpredictable or erratic action, occurrence, course, or instance.

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Vainglory

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excessive elation or pride over one's own achievements, abilities, etc.; boastful vanity.

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Veneer

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a superficially valuable or pleasing appearance; facade; coating.

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Veracity

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habitual observance of truth in speech or statement; truthfulness; correctness or accuracy.

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Verdant

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green with vegetation; covered with growing plants or grass; of the color green; inexperienced; unsophisticated.

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Vicarious

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acting or substituting for another; sharing in an experience of another through the Imagination.

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Viscous

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of a glutinous nature or consistency; sticky or thick.

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Glutinous

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of the nature of glue; gluey; viscid; sticky.

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Gluttonous

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tending to eat and drink excessively; voracious; greedy; insatiable.

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Wastrel

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a wasteful person; spendthrift.

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Wizened

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withered; shriveled.

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Wont

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accustomed; habituated; to become or cause to become accustomed.

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Zaftig

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(of a woman) having a pleasantly plump figure; full-bodied; well-proportioned.

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Zeitgeist

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the spirit of the time; general trend of thought or feeling characteristic of a particular period of time.

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Zephyr

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a gentle, mild breeze; any of various things of fine, light quality, as fabric, yarn, etc.

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Implacable

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not to be appeased, mollified, or pacified; inexorable.

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Inexorable

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unyielding; unalterable; not to be persuaded or moved by prayers or entreaties.

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Appease

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to bring to a state of peace, quiet, ease, calm, or contentment; pacify; soothe; to satisfy, allay, or relieve; assuage; to yield or concede to the belligerent demands of (a nation, group, person, etc.) in a conciliatory effort.

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Conciliate

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to overcome the distrust or hostility of; placate; win over; to make compatible; reconcile.

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Placate

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to appease or pacify, especially by concessions or conciliatory gestures.

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Pacify

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to bring or restore to a state of peace or tranquility; quiet; calm; to appease; to reduce to a state of submission; subdue.

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Subdue

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to conquer and bring into subjection; to overpower by superior force; overcome; to bring under mental or emotional control, as by persuasion or intimidation; render submissive; to repress.

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Subject

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being under domination, control, or influence; open or exposed; being dependent or conditional upon something; being under the necessity of undergoing something.

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Allay

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to put (fear, doubt, suspicion, anger, etc.) to rest; calm; quiet; to lessen or relieve; mitigate; alleviate.

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Mitigate

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to lessen in force or intensity, as wrath, grief, harshness, or pain; moderate; to make (a person, one's state of mind, disposition, etc.) milder or more gentle; mollify; appease.

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Mollify

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to soften in feeling or temper, as a person; pacify; appease; to mitigate or reduce; soften.

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Chastise

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to discipline, especially by corporal punishment; to criticize severely.

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Consecrated

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to make or declare sacred; set apart or dedicate to the service of a deity or to God; to devote or dedicate to some purpose.