Gre General Vocabulary Set 3 (Modified)

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Ablution

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1. a cleansing with water or other liquid, especially as a religious ritual

2. the liquid thus used.

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Abnegate

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to refuse or deny oneself (some rights, conveniences, etc.); reject; renounce; relinquish; give up.

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Acidulous

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1. Sharp tasting or sour

2. (of a person's remarks or tone) bitter or cutting.

MORE:slightly sour; sharp; caustic; moderately acid or tart.

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Adventitious

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1. Arising from an external source

2. added or appearing accidentally or unexpectedly

3. extrinsic.

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Afflatus

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inspiration; an impelling mental force acting from within; divine communication of knowledge.

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Impel

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to drive or urge forward; press on; propel; incite or constrain to action.

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Agathism

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the belief that things ultimately lead to good.

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Agnate

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related or akin through males or on the father's side; allied or akin.

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Aleatory

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of or pertaining to accidental causes; of luck or chance; unpredictable

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Ana

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a collection of miscellaneous information, or an item, about a particular subject, person, place, or thing.

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Animus

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strong dislike or enmity; hostile attitude; animosity; purpose; intention; animating spirit.

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Antinomy

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opposition between one law, principle, rule, etc., and another (especially two seemingly true statements).

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Aphasia

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The loss of a previously held ability to speak or understand spoken or written language.

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Aphorism

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a terse saying embodying a general truth, or astute observation.

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Arable

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suitable for producing crops.

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Downright

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thorough; absolute; out-and-out; frankly direct; straightforward.

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Out-and-out

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complete; total; thoroughgoing.

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Thoroughgoing

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carried out to the full extent; thorough; complete; unqualified.

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Arriviste

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a person who has recently acquired unaccustomed status, wealth, or success, especially by dubious means and without earning concomitant esteem.

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Dubious

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of doubtful quality or propriety; questionable; wavering or hesitating in opinion.

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Aseptic

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free from the living germs of disease, fermentation, or putrefaction.

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Atrabilious

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gloomy; morose; melancholy; morbid; irritable; bad-tempered; splenetic.

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Morose

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gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood.

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Splenetic

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irritable; peevish; spiteful; of the spleen.

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Bailiwick

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a person's area of skill, knowledge, authority, or work.

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Banausic

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serving utilitarian purposes only; mechanical; practical.

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Bellwether

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a person or thing that assumes the leadership or forefront.

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Benison

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blessing; benediction.

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Bibulous

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fond of or addicted to drink; absorbent; spongy.

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Bifurcate

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to divide or fork into two branches.

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Boondoggle

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a product of simple manual skill; work of little or no value done merely to keep or look busy.

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Bosky

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covered with bushes, shrubs, and small trees; woody; shady.

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Braggadocio

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empty boasting; bragging; a boasting person; braggart.

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Brummagem

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showy but inferior and worthless.

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Caducity

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the infirmity or weakness of old age; senility; frailty; transitoriness.

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Infirm

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feeble or weak in body or health; unsteadfast, faltering, or irresolute, as persons or the mind; vacillating; unsound or invalid, as an argument or a property title..

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Vacillate

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to waver in mind or opinion; be indecisive or irresolute; to sway unsteadily; waver; totter; stagger.

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Transitoriness

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not lasting, enduring, permanent, or eternal; lasting only a short time; brief; short-lived; temporary.

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Canard

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a false or baseless, usually derogatory story, report, or rumor.

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Celerity

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swiftness; speed.

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Centrifugal

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moving or directed outward from the center.

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Centripetal

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directed toward the center.

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Claque

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a group of persons hired to applaud an act or performer; a group of sycophants.

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Obsequious

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characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning; obedient; dutiful.

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Clerisy

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learned persons as a class; intellectual elites.

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Compendium

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a concise treatise; a summary, epitome, or abridgment.

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Epitome

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a person or thing that is typical of or possesses to a high degree the features of a whole class; a condensed account, especially of a literary work; abstract.

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Culvert

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a drain or channel crossing under a road, sidewalk, etc.; sewer; conduit.

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Conduit

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a pipe, tube, or the like, for conveying water or other fluid.

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Daedal

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skillful; ingenious; cleverly intricate; diversified.

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Deciduous

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falling off or shed at a particular season, stage of growth, etc., as leaves, horns, or teeth; not permanent; transitory.

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Defalcation

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misappropriation of money or funds held by an official, trustee, or other fiduciary.

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Defenestration

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the act of throwing a thing, especially a person, out of a window.

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Deism

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belief in a God who created the world but has since remained indifferent to it.

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Demimonde

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prostitutes or courtesans in general; a group characterized by lack of success or status.

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Courtesan

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a prostitute or paramour, especially one associating with noblemen or men of wealth.

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Paramour

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an illicit lover, especially of a married person; any lover.

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Denouement

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the outcome or resolution of a doubtful series of occurrences, in life or as in a novel or drama.

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Denounce

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to condemn or censure openly or publicly.

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Diadem

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A crown or cloth headband that indicates royalty; royal dignity or authority.

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Dolorous

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full of, expressing, or causing pain or sorrow; grievous; mournful.

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Éclat

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brilliance of success, reputation, etc.; showy or elaborate display; acclamation; acclaim.

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Edacious

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devouring; voracious; consuming.

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Epicene

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belonging to, or partaking of the characteristics of, both sexes; flaccid; feeble; weak; effeminate; unmasculine.

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Effeminate

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(of a man or boy) having traits, tastes, habits, etc., traditionally considered feminine, as softness or delicacy; characterized by excessive softness, delicacy, self-indulgence, etc.

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Escarpment

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cliff, a steep slope resulting from erosion.

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Esculent

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suitable for use as food; edible.

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Etiolate

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to cause to become weakened or sickly; drain of color or vigor.

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Euthenics

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a science concerned with bettering the condition of human beings through the improvement of their environment.

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Evince

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to show clearly; make evident or manifest; prove.

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Filial

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of, pertaining to, or befitting a son or daughter; noting or having the relation of a child to a parent.

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Forward

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presumptuous, impertinent, or bold.

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Fustian

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a stout fabric of cotton and flax; inflated or turgid language in writing or speaking.

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Galoot

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an awkward, eccentric, or foolish person.

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Gemeinschaft

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an association of individuals having sentiments, tastes, and attitudes in common; fellowship.

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Grig

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a cricket or grasshopper; a small or young eel; a lively person.

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Hegira

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any flight or journey to a more desirable or congenial place.

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Congenial

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agreeable, suitable, or pleasing in nature or character; compatible.

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Homolgate

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to approve; confirm or ratify.

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Ratify

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to confirm by expressing consent, approval, or formal sanction.

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Sanction

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authoritative permission or approval, as for an action; something that serves to support an action, condition, etc.

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Horatory

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urging to some course of conduct or action; exhorting; encouraging.

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Exhort

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to urge, advise, or caution earnestly; admonish urgently.

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Admonish

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to caution, advise, or counsel against something; to reprove or scold, especially in a mild and good-willed manner; to urge to a duty; remind.

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Hugger-mugger

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disorder or confusion; muddle; secrecy; reticence.

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Imago

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an adult insect; an idealized concept of a loved one, formed in childhood and retained unaltered in adult life.

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Indeterminate

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not determinate; not precisely fixed in extent; indefinite; uncertain; not clear; vague; not established; not settled or decided.

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Indubitable

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that cannot be doubted; patently evident or certain; unquestionable.

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Ineffable

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incapable of being expressed or described in words; inexpressible; not to be spoken because of its sacredness; unutterable.

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Ineluctable

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inescapable, not to be evaded.

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Inquietude

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restlessness or uneasiness; disquietude; disquieting thoughts.

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Inure

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to accustom to hardship, difficulty, pain, etc.; toughen or harden; habituate; to come into use; take or have effect; to become beneficial or advantageous.

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Jejune

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without interest or significance; dull; insipid; juvenile; immature; childish; uninformed; deficient or lacking in nutritive value.

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Labile

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apt or likely to change.

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Apt

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inclined; disposed; given; prone; likely; appropriate; unusually intelligent; able to learn quickly and easily.

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Lachrymose

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suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful; tearful.

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Lambent

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running or moving lightly over a surface; dealing lightly and gracefully with a subject; brilliantly playful; softly bright or radiant.

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Lissome

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lithesome or lithe, especially of body; supple; flexible; agile, nimble, or active.

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Lithe

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bending readily; pliant; limber; supple; flexible.

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Pliant

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bending readily; flexible; supple; adaptable; easily influenced; yielding to others; compliant.

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Luminary

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a celestial body; a body, object, etc., that gives light; a person who has attained eminence in his or her field or is an inspiration to others.

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Lupine

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pertaining to or resembling the wolf; savage; ravenous; predatory; any of numerous plants belonging to the genus "Lupinus."

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Manqué

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having failed, missed, or fallen short; unsuccessful; unfulfilled or frustrated.

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Manumit

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to release from slavery or servitude.

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Matrix

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something that constitutes the place or point from which something else originates, takes form, or develops.

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Mélange

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a mixture; medley.

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Medley

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a mixture, especially of heterogeneous elements; hodgepodge; jumble.

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Hodgepodge

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a heterogeneous mixture; jumble.

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Mien

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air, bearing, or demeanor, as showing character, feeling, etc.

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Bearing

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the manner in which one conducts or carries oneself, including posture and gestures; the act, capability, or period of producing or bringing forth.

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Minion

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a servile follower or subordinate of a person in power; a favored or highly regarded person; a minor official.

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Moue

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a pouting grimace.

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Mugwump

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a person who is unable to make up his or her mind on an issue; a person who is neutral on a controversial issue.

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Nefandous

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unspeakable, unutterable; appalling.

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Nimbus

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a cloud, aura, atmosphere, etc., surrounding a person or thing; a rain cloud.

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Obloquy

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censure, blame, or abusive language aimed at a person or thing, especially by numerous persons or by the general public; disgrace or discredit from public blame.

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Obstreperous

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resisting control or restraint in a difficult manner; unruly; noisy, clamorous, or boisterous.

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Clamor

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a vehement expression of desire or dissatisfaction; a popular outcry; any loud and continued noise.

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Offal

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the parts of a butchered animal that are considered inedible by human beings; carrion; viscera; refuse; rubbish; garbage.

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Carrion

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dead and putrefying flesh; rottenness; anything vile.

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Viscera

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the organs in the cavities of the body, especially those in the abdominal cavity; the intestines, bowels.

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Opine

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to hold or express an opinion.

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Pace

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with deference to; with the permission of.

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Pachyderm

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any thick skinned hoofed animal, such as an elephant; a person who is not sensitive to criticism, ridicule, etc.; a thick-skinned person.

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Paralogism

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an argument or conclusion violating principles of valid reasoning.

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Paroxysm

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any sudden, violent outburst; a fit of violent action or emotion.

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Parvenu

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a person who has recently or suddenly acquired wealth, importance, position, or the like, but has not yet developed the conventionally appropriate manners, dress, surroundings, etc.

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Pastiche

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a literary, musical, or artistic piece consisting wholly or chiefly of motifs or techniques borrowed from one or more sources; an incongruous combination of materials, forms, motifs, etc., taken from different sources; hodgepodge.

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Percipience

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having perception; discerning; discriminating.

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Perdition

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a state of final spiritual ruin; loss of the soul; damnation; the future state of the wicked; hell; utter destruction or ruin.

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Plenary

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full; complete; entire; absolute; unqualified; attended by all qualified members; fully constituted.

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Pluvial

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of or pertaining to rain, especially much rain; rainy.

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Poltroon

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a wretched coward; craven.

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Proscenium

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the part of the stage in front of the curtain; the wall frame for the stage; the stage itself; the arch or opening separating the stage from the auditorium together with the area immediately in front of the arch.

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Proselytize

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to seek to convert someone to a religion, cause, belief, or political position.

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Pulchritude

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physical beauty; comeliness.

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Comely

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pleasing in appearance; attractive; fair; proper; seemly; becoming.

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Qua

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as; as being; in the character or capacity of.

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Quiddity

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the quality that makes a thing what it is; the essential nature of a thing; a trifling nicety of subtle distinction, as in argument.

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Quisling

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a person who betrays his or her own country by aiding an invading enemy.

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Quotidian

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usual or customary; ordinary; everyday; daily; characterized by paroxysms that recur daily.

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Retinue

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a body of retainers in attendance upon an important personage; suite.

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Retainer

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a servant or attendant who has served a family for many years; A fee paid to secure services, as of a lawyer.

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Suite

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a number of things forming a series or set; a company of followers or attendants; a train or retinue.

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Saporous

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full of flavor or taste; flavorful.

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Satrap

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a subordinate ruler, often a despotic one.

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Subordinate

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placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank; of less importance; secondary; subservient; subject; dependent.

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Despot

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a king or other ruler with absolute, unlimited power; autocrat; any tyrant or oppressor.

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Sciolism

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superficial knowledge.

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Senescence

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growing old; aging; characteristic of old age.

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Sequacious

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following with smooth or logical regularity; ready to follow any leader; pliant; slavish; obsequious.

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Slavish

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of or befitting a slave; abjectly submissive; base; mean; ignoble; deliberately imitative; lacking originality.

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Abject

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utterly hopeless, miserable, humiliating, or wretched; contemptible; despicable; base-spirited; shamelessly servile; slavish.

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Ignoble

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of low character, aims, etc.; mean; base; of low grade or quality; inferior.

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Serried

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pressed together or compacted; crowded together.

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Tyro

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a beginner in learning anything; novice.

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Grandiloquent

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speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.

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Chauvinist

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a person who is aggressively and blindly patriotic; a person who believes one gender is superior to the other.

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Desultory

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lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected; fitful; digressing from or unconnected with the main subject; random.

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Diffident

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lacking confidence in one's own ability, worth, or fitness; timid; shy; restrained or reserved in manner, conduct, etc.; modest

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Equivocate

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to use ambiguous or unclear expressions, usually to avoid commitment or in order to mislead; prevaricate or hedge.

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Hedge

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any barrier or boundary; an act or means of preventing complete loss of a bet, an argument, an investment, or the like, with a partially counterbalancing or qualifying one; to prevent or hinder free movement; obstruct.

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Gregarious

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fond of the company of others; sociable; pertaining to a flock or crowd.

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Imperturbable

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incapable of being upset or agitated; not easily excited; calm.

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Inimical

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adverse in tendency or effect; unfavorable; harmful; unfriendly; hostile.

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Adverse

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unfavorable or antagonistic in purpose or effect; opposing one's interests or desire; being or acting in a contrary direction; opposite; confronting.

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Malinger

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to pretend illness, especially in order to shirk one's duty, avoid work, etc.

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Monotony

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wearisome uniformity or lack of variety; the continuance of an unvarying sound; monotone.

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Obstinate

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firmly or stubbornly adhering to one's purpose, opinion, etc.; not yielding to argument, persuasion, or entreaty; not yielding readily to treatment, as a disease; not easily controlled or overcome.

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Paragon

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a model or pattern of excellence or of a particular excellence; quintessence; someone of exceptional merit; an unusually large, round pearl.

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Superfluity

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a superabundant or excessive amount; something superfluous, as a luxury.

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Superfluous

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unnecessary or needless; exceeding what is sufficient or required; being more than is sufficient or required; excessive.

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Precipitate

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to hasten the occurrence of; bring about prematurely, hastily, or suddenly; to cast, plunge, or send, especially violently or abruptly.

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Quiescent

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being at rest; quiet; still; inactive or motionless; dormant.

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Rhetoric

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the undue use of exaggeration or display; bombast; the study of the effective use of language; the ability to use language effectively; the art of prose in general as opposed to verse; the art of using speech to persuade, influence, or please; oratory; speech or discourse that pretends to significance but lacks true meaning.

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Oratory

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skill or eloquence in public speaking; the art of public speaking.

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Soporific

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causing or tending to cause sleep; sleepy; drowsy.

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Stigma

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a mark of disgrace or infamy; a stain or reproach, as on one's reputation; a small scar or mark such as a birthmark.

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Stolid

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not easily stirred or moved mentally; unemotional; impassive.

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Impassive

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without emotion; apathetic; unmoved; calm; serene; unconscious; insensible; not subject to suffering.

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Sublime

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fear to the point of awe; elevated or lofty in thought, language, etc.; impressing the mind with a sense of grandeur or power; inspiring awe, veneration, etc.; supreme or outstanding; complete; absolute; utter.

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Torpor

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sluggish inactivity or inertia; lethargic indifference; apathy; dormancy, as of a hibernating animal.

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Inertia

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inertness, especially with regard to effort, motion, action, and the like; inactivity; sluggishness.

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Inert

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having no inherent power of action, motion, or resistance; inactive or sluggish by habit or nature.

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Serviette

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a table napkin.

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Shantung

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a heavy silk fabric with a knobbly surface.

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Supervene

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to take place or occur as something additional or extraneous; to follow closely; to ensue.

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Ensue

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to follow in order; come afterward, especially in immediate succession; to follow as a consequence; result.

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Surcease

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to cease from some action; desist; to come to an end.

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Desist

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to cease, as from some action or proceeding; to stop or abstain.

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Tatterdemalion

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a person in tattered clothing; a shabby person; ragged; unkempt or dilapidated.

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Unkempt

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not combed; uncared-for or neglected; disheveled; messy; unpolished; rough; crude.

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Teleology

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the doctrine that there is evidence of purpose or design in the universe, and esp that this provides proof of the existence of a Designer.

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Theology

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the field of study and analysis that treats of God and of God's attributes and relations to the universe; study of divine things or religious truth; divinity.

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Temerarious

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reckless; rashness or boldness.

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Tenebrous

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dark; gloomy; obscure.

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Termagant

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a violent, turbulent, or brawling woman; violent; turbulent; brawling; shrewish.

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Shrew

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a woman of violent temper and speech; termagant; any of several small, mouselike insectivores of the genus Sorex and related genera, having a long, sharp snout.

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Tor

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a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.

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Pinnacle

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a lofty peak; the highest or culminating point, as of success, power, fame, etc.; any pointed, towering part or formation, as of rock; to set on or as if on a pinnacle.

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Trilemma

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a situation, analogous to a dilemma, in which there are three almost equally undesirable alternatives; a quandary posed by three alternative courses of action.

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Quandary

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a state of perplexity or uncertainty, especially as to what to do; dilemma; predicament.

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Ukase

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any order or proclamation by an absolute or arbitrary authority; an official edict.

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Edict

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a decree issued by a sovereign or other authority; any authoritative proclamation or command.

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Arbitrary

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subject to individual will or judgment without restriction; contingent solely upon one's discretion; decided by a judge or arbiter rather than by a law or statute; having unlimited power; uncontrolled or unrestricted by law; despotic; tyrannical; capricious; unreasonable; unsupported.

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Arbiter

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a person empowered to decide matters at issue; judge; umpire; a person who has the sole or absolute power of judging or determining.

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Umpire

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one selected to settle disputes about the application of settled rules or usages; a person agreed on by disputing parties to arbitrate their differences.

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Usufruct

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the right to use someone else's property as long as it is not damaged in the process.

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Vernal

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of, pertaining to, or suggesting spring; springlike; belonging to or characteristic of youth.

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Vituperation

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verbal abuse or castigation; violent denunciation or condemnation.

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Acrimonious

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caustic, stinging, or bitter in nature, speech, behavior, etc.

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Votary

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a person who is bound by solemn religious vows; a person who is devoted or addicted to some subject or pursuit; a devoted follower or admirer.

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Welter (verb)

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to roll, toss, or heave; to writhe, or tumble about; wallow, as animals; to lie bathed in or be drenched in something, especially blood; to become deeply or extensively involved, associated, entangled, etc.

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Welter (noun)

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a confused mass; a jumble or muddle; a state of commotion, turmoil, or upheaval; a rolling, tossing, or tumbling about.

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Writhe

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to twist the body about, or squirm, as in pain, violent effort, etc.; to shrink mentally, as in acute discomfort; to twist or bend out of shape or position; distort; contort.

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Wallow

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to roll about or lie in water, snow, mud, dust, or the like, as for refreshment; to live self-indulgently; luxuriate; revel; to flounder about; move along or proceed clumsily or with difficulty; to surge up or billow forth, as smoke or heat.

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Luxuriate

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to enjoy oneself without stint; revel; to grow fully or abundantly; thrive; to take voluptuous pleasure.

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Stint

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to be frugal; get along on a scanty allowance; to limit to a certain amount, number, share, or allowance, often unduly; set limits to; restrict; a period of time spent doing something.

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Unduly

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excessively; in an inappropriate, unjustifiable, or improper manner; immoderately; in contradiction of moral or legal standards.

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Winnow

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to blow off or away; to separate the good from the bad; to subject to some process of separating or distinguishing; sift; to analyze critically.

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Wraith

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an apparition of a living person supposed to portend his or her death; a visible spirit; a ghost or any apparition; an insubstantial copy of something; something pale, thin, and lacking in substance, such as a column of smoke.

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Portend

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to indicate in advance; to foreshadow or presage, as an omen does; to signify.

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Presage

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a presentiment or foreboding; something that portends or foreshadows a future event; an omen, prognostic, or warning indication; prophetic significance; augury; foresight; prescience.

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Forebode

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to foretell or predict; be an omen of; to warn or indicate beforehand; portend; to have a strong inner feeling or notion of; have a presentiment of.

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Augur

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soothsayer; prophet; to divine or predict, as from omens; prognosticate; to conjecture from signs or omens; predict; to argue, talk, or converse; an excessively talkative person.

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Prognostic

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of or pertaining to prognosis; predictive of something in the future; a forecast or prediction; an omen or portent; sign.

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Prognosis

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a forecasting of the probable course and outcome of a disease, especially of the chances of recovery; a forecast or prognostication.

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Ziggurat

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massive structure built in the ancient Mesopotamian valley and western Iranian plateau, having the form of a terraced step pyramid of successively receding stories or levels.

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Terrace

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a raised level with a vertical or sloping front or sides faced with masonry, turf, or the like, especially one of a series of levels rising one above another; the flat roof of a house.

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Soothsayer

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a person who professes to foretell events; a seer.

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Arrant

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downright; thorough; unmitigated; notorious; wandering; errant.

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Errant

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deviating from the regular or proper course; erring; straying; moving in an aimless or lightly changing manner.

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Err

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to go astray in thought or belief; be mistaken; be incorrect.