Gre Hard Words

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probity

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honesty, integrity, uprightness

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recreant

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cowardly or craven

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recidivism

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a tendancy to lapse into a previous condition or pattern of behavior, especially criminal behavior

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vitiate

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to impair quaity or effectiveness

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pithy

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precisely meaningful in few words

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intransigent

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refusing to agree or compromise

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intractable

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hard to control or manage

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turgid

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bombastic

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abjur

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to renounce, esp. under oath

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prolix

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long and wordy

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occlude

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to stop up, to shut in

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lugubrious

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mournful in a way that seems feigned

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sententious

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abounding in pithy aphorisms

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untoward

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unfavorable or unfortunate, hard to control

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abrogate

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to annul or abolish by authoritative act

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obviate

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to anticipate and prevent by effective means, to render unnecessary

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refractory

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hard or impossible to manage

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perigrination

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traveling from place to place, esp. by foot

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stultify

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to render futile and ineffective

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impecunious

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penniless

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perspicacious

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keenly perceptive and observent

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renitent

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resisting pressure

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enjoin

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to order with authority

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asperity

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roughness or harshness, ill temper

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aspersion

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slander

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factitious

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lacking authority or genuineness, sham

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revile

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to denounce with abusive language

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inveigh

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to protest vehemently

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objurgate

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to berate, to scold sharply

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opprobium

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a scornful reproach

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excoriate

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to denounce, to censor strongly

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peremptory

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expecting to be obeyed

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obloquy

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abusive language, slander, calumny

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redress

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to set something right

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palliate

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to conceal the gravity of an offense

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expiate

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to atone or make amends for

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inviduous

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calculated to create ill will

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recondite

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requiring special knowledge in order to be understood

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diffident

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shy, lacking self-confidence

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riposte

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a quick sharp return in speaking

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turbid

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unclear, cloudy

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turpitude

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a base, depraved act

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specious

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having the ring, taste, or probability of, but actually fallacious

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prevaricate

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to speak misleadingly, to lie

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spurious

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not genuine or sincere (a spurious gesture)

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truculent

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cruel, savagly brutal

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quiescent

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being at rest, inactive

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inimical

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harmful, adverse, unfavorable

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ostensile

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outwardly showy and pretentious

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unctuous

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characterized by affected or insincere exuberence

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remonstrate

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to say or plead in protest/objecton

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unstinting

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bestowed liberally

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vitriolic

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harsh or corrosive in tone

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rancor

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hatred, bitter resentment or ill will

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penurious

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stingy

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fulsome

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offensively flattering

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minatory

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menacing

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abeyance

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a temporary cessation

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fealty

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fidelity

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stultify

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to render futile and ineffective

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expatiate

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to be copious in description, to wander intellectually (expatiate upon a theme)

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desultory

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jumping from one thing to another, disconnected

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disabuse

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to set right something wrong, to free from error

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dessicate

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to dry out, to remove vitality from

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sedulity

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diligence

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inscrutable

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mysterious, cannot be scrutanized or understood

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recondite

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dealing with abstract or profound subject matter

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pernicious

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causing insiduous harm

pernicious=baneful=baleful

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anathema

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a person or thing detested or loathed

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racuous

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harsh, grating

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torpid

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in a dormant state. lacking in energy

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diurnal

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daily

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threnody

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a poem or song of lamentation

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blandishments

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cajoling and flattering speeches and actions used to coax someone into doing something

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Expurgate

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to censor, to remove obscenities

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ineluctable

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inescapable

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modality

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mode, way of doing something

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dampen

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restrain

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abstemious

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one who abstains from certain pleasures

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mawkish

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sickenly sentimental

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bawdy

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lewd, racy

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rarefy

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to make thin or lessen the consistency of (to rarify a gas. The bones are rarified). To make more refined, spiritual, or exalted

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peroration

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1. a long speech characterized by lofty and often pompous language.
2.
Rhetoric. the concluding part of a speech or discourse, in which the speaker or writer recapitulates the principal points and urges them with greater earnestness and force.

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perigee

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the point in the orbit of a heavenly body, esp. the moon, or of an artificial satellite at which it is nearest to the earth.

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refulgent

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shining brightly; radiant; gleaming: Crystal chandeliers and gilded walls made the opera house a refulgent setting for the ball.

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petrous

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like stone, hardness, rocky

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precept

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a commandment or direction given as a rule of action or conduct.
2.
an injunction as to moral conduct; maxim.
3.
a procedural directive or rule, as for the performance of some technical operation.

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plangent

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Loud and resounding: plangent bells.
Expressing or suggesting sadness; plaintive: "From a doorway came the plangent sounds of a guitar" (Malcolm Lowry)

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regale

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to entertiain lavishly. a feast

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rebus

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a representation of a word or phrase by pictures, symbols,
etc., that suggest that word or phrase or its syllables:

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contiguous

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1.touching; in contact.
2.in close proximity without actually touching; near.
3.adjacent in time: contiguous events.

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propinquity

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1. Nearness in place; proximity._
2. Nearness in time._
3. Nearness of relation; kinship.
“I was stunned by the propinquity of the events: I had never been in the same room with anyone who was later murdered.”

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redolent

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1. Having or exuding fragrance; scented; aromatic._
2. Full of fragrance; odorous; smelling (usually used with 'of' or 'with')._
3. Serving to bring to mind; evocative; suggestive; reminiscent (usually used with 'of' or 'with').

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ramify

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1. To have complicating consequences or outgrowths:
The problem merely ramified after the unsuccessful meeting.
2. To send out branches or subordinate branchlike parts.

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recumbent

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lying down, leaning. inactive

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proscribe

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1. To denounce, condemn, or forbid as harmful; to prohibit._
2. To put outside the protection of the law; to outlaw._
3. To publish the name of (a person) as condemned to death with his property forfeited to the state.

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picaresque

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involving clever rogues or adventurers especially as in a type of fiction; "picaresque novels"; "waifs of the picaresque tradition"; "a picaresque hero"

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trenchant

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1. having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought, expression, or intellect; "searching insights"; "trenchant criticism" [syn: searching]
2.
characterized by or full of force and vigor; "a hard-hitting expose"; "a trenchant argument" [syn: hard-hitting]
3.
clear-cut, clearly or sharply defined to the mind; "clear-cut evidence of tampering"; "trenchant distinctions between right and wrong" [syn: clear-cut]

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puissance

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power, might, or force

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poignant

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affecting the emotions

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vigilant

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watchful to prevent danger

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precis

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a concise summary

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punctilious

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Strictly attentive to the details of form in action or conduct; precise; exact in the smallest particulars.

Example: The convert who is more punctilious in his new faith than the lifelong communicant is a familiar figure in Catholic lore.

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repine

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to fret, complain

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raffish

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cheap and showy, tawdry, gaudy

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plumb

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To determine the depth of with a plumb; sound.
To test the verticality or alignment of with a plumb.
To straighten or make perpendicular: plumb up the wall.
To examine closely or deeply; probe: "Shallow ideas are plumbed and discarded"

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mettle

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1. Courage and fortitude; spirit: troops who showed their mettle
in combat
Inherent quality of character and temperament

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flout

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to treat with or regard with disdain, scorn, or contempt; scoff at; mock: to flout the rules of propriety.

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lassitude

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weariness

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militate

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have force or influence; bring about an effect or change; "Politeness militated against this opinion being expressed"

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maunder

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to digress

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maverick

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an independent person

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soporific

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causing sleepiness

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malinger

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to feign illness, esp. to avoid work or duty

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labile

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apt to or open to change. Adaptable. (an emotionally labile person)

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mettelsome

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courageous

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halcyon

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1. calm; peaceful; tranquil: halcyon weather.
2. happy; joyful; carefree: halcyon days of youth.

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nugatory

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inconsequential, of no real worth or value, trifling

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glib

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readily fluent, often thoughtlessly, superficially, or insincerely so: a glib talker; glib answers.
2. easy or unconstrained, as actions or manners

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interdict

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to command against. To prohibit.

Also, an ecclesiastical censure by the Roman Catholic Church withdrawing certain sacraments and Christian burial from a person or all persons in a particular district

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nadir

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the lowest point

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overweening

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presumptuously conceited, overconfident, or proud: a
brash, insolent, overweening fellow.
“In a story as old as the Greeks, overweening pride brought condign disaster

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condign

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well-deserved; fitting; adequate: condign punishment

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meretricious

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cheap, showy, gaudy, tawdry, pertaining to a prostitute

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multifarious

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Having great diversity or variety; of various kinds; diversified.

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peccadillo

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a minor offense, a minor sin

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insouciant

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Marked by lighthearted unconcern or indifference; carefree;
nonchalant.

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involute

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intricate, complex

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macerate

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to waste away

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luculent

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easily understood. Clear or lucid. Convincing, cogent. (a luculent explanation)

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obstreperous

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noisy, clamorous, or boisterous: obstreperous children

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inveterate

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1. settled or confirmed in a habit, practice, feeling, or the like: an inveterate gambler.
2. chronic, firmly established by long continuance, as a disease, habit, practice, feeling, etc.;

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natty

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trimly neat and tidy. neatly or trimly smart in dress or appearance;
spruce: a natty white uniform

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mellifluous

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sweetly or smoothly flowing; sweet-sounding: a mellifluous
voice; mellifluous tone

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nostrum

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questionable remedy

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hubris

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arrogant pride

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nexus

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a connection

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inimitable

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unable to be imitated or reproduced, one-of-a-kind

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ossified

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conventional; tending to become more rigid

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polemical

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controversial. Argumentative

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jocose

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humorous, playful: a jocose and amusing manner.

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jejune

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without interest or significance; dull; insipid: a jejune novel.
juvenile; immature; childish: jejune behavior.
lacking knowledge or experience; uninformed: jejune attempts to
design a house.

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phlegmatic

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calm

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mendicant

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beggar

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germane

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relevant

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bellicose

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inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious.

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prurient

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having lasviscious or lustful thoughts

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lubricious

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arousing or expressive of sexual desires