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reticent
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reserved
retincere=to be silent |
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taciturn
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reserved
syn: reticent, tacit ant: garrulous, loquacious, voluble |
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laconic
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short-spoken, spartan
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sententious
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short-spoken addages ("it is what it is")
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terse
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rudely abrupt
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tacit
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silent
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voluble
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talkative
flow of words |
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fastidious
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concerned with detail
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avocation
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hobby
"vocere" to call as in 'to call away from work' |
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loquacious
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talkative
syn: garrulous, voluble |
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garrulous
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talkative
syn: voluble, loquacious |
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celerity
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quickness, swiftness
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invidious
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discriminatory, giving offense
"made invidious remarks about his opponent" |
someone saying something offensive about a VIDEO cover
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odious
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deserving hatred, hateful
syn: excecrable |
garfield HATES odie
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execrable
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detestable
syn: odious |
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magnanimous
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generous, quick to forgive, like a good king.
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quondam
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adj., former
"a quondam hippie" |
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extol
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praise highly
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maligner
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someone who fakes sick to avoid work
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insensate
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lacking sense
1. inanimate 2. insensitive 3. stupid, senseless NO SENSE |
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mephitic
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odorous. smelly.
Mefit, goddess of smelly gas. LOL |
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supernumerary
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n or adj
more than what's needed a supernumerary guest that guy is a supernumerary |
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fecund
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prolific, capable of producing
fecund parents, fecund fruit tree, fecund writer |
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pusillanimous
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lacking courage, cowardly
pusil (small) animous (spirit) |
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cogent
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convincing, believable
relevant co gere: to drive together |
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belie
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reveal to be false:
his face belied his words. to lie the newspaper belied the facts. |
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oblite
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obscure
obsolite is SO oblite no one knows it anymore. |
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obviate
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remove, elliminate
obviate the risk of injury |
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evince
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to demonstrate, show clearly
evinced his anger by growling. (evincing means giving evidence) |
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diffident
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not confident
Fido's are confident, but little girls are diffident |
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mendacious
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lying
mendacity: ability to lie mendisa's mendacity shocks me. she is mendacious. |
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truculent
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fierce, brutal, scathing, hostile
american psycho was a truculent character. |
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deleterious
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harmful
(from delete, destroy) deletrious rusty nails strewn across the lawn. |
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heretic
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someone who doesn't conform to the accepted religious/social beliefs
catholics were accused of heracy in rome and fed to the lions. |
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inoccuous
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harmless
syn: innoxious |
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promulgate
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to put forth, declare
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ineluctable
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inescapable
an ineluctable destiny eluctare: to wrestle away from |
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antediluvian
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before the flood (from the bible)
aka: OLD AS THE HILLS your dad is antediluvian |
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jejune
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1. lacking interest
2. lacking knowledge 3. lacking value (ji JOON) |
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prestidigitation
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sleight of hand
literally: fast hands (presto digits) syn: legerdemain |
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peregrinate
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to journey all over, especially on foot
peregrine: foriegn froto peregrinated the whole of middle earth to ditch that ring. |
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legerdemain
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sleight of hand
syn: prestidigitation |
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perorate
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to make a loooong speech
per: through to orate through everyone snoring! |
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cozen
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to swindle
my cousin couzens his lemonade stand customers. |
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conflagration
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destructive fire
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punctilious
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attentive to etiquette
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obesience
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sign of courtesy: bow, ring-kiss
gave a show of __ to the king |
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epithet
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nickname
she earned the ___ 'miss know-it-all'. |
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evanescent
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adj. fleeting, vanishing
the difference between right and wrong can be ____ |
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eminent
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1. high in rank
2. prominent (an ___ nose) |
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aggrandize
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to exagerrate
increase in intensity, power, prestige |
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ambrosial
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pleasing to the senses, divine
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obstreperous
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unruly, defiant
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dearth
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scarcity
ant: plethora |
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anachronism
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something appearing out of its own time
allie's dressmaking is an ___ |
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esoteric
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belonging to a select few
poetry is full of ___ langauge |
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antipathy
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hatred, hostility
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arbitrate
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settle a dispute
arbiter: person who arbitrates |
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attenuate
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weaken
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aver
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declare, attest
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banal
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commonplace, trite
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exculpate
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exonerate
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adroit
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nimble with the hands
ant: maladroit |
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catholic
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universal
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quotidian
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daily, ordinary
my _____ tasks. |
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obsequious
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obedient, servient
an _______ bow. |
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alacrity
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eager willingness
he catered to her every whim with _____. |
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approbation
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praise
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austere
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without adornment, severely simple
syn: ascetic |
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axiom
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a truth
adj form: axiomatic |
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canonical
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following traditional standards
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capricious
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unpredictable, likely to change his mind
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chicanery
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trickery
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aberrant
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deviating from the norm
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disabuse
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to set right
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discordant
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conflicting, harsh in sound
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disparate
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not at all similar
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effrontery
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boldness; presumptuousness
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enervate
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to weaken
NOT to energize |
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ennui
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bored restlessness
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equivocate
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to use ambiguous language to be deceptive
NOT equal |
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erudite
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very learned, scholarly
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exigent
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urgent, requires immediate attention
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filibuster
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long speech to delay legislative action
V, N or ADJ!!! |
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fulminate
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loudly attack or cut down
fulmen = lightning bolt |
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ingenuous
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unreserved, candid, artless
ant: disingenuous (fake) |
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inured
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accustomed to hardship
"oeuvre" = work ____ to the poor living conditions. |
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irascible
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prone to anger
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laud
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to praise
adj: laudatory |
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rhetoric
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1. pompousness
2. study of language use 3. speechmaking |
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impetuous
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sudden or rash (as in a decision)
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impetus
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a moving force
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blandishment
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a calming statement
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querulous
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complaining, peevish
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burgeon
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to grow or flourish
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cadge
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to gain by cheating someone
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fatuous
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foolish
syn: inane |
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inane
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foolish, idiotic
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tenable
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defendable, capable of holding
a _____ argument |
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obdurate
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unyielding, intractable
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occlude
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block the way
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opprobrium
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scorn, disgrace
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reproach
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find fault, upbraid
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pedagogy
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study of teaching
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pedantic
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overly-teaching in a condescending way
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penury
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poor
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pith
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essential bit
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pithy
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short and sweet
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platitude
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superficial remark
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polemical
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controversial, argumentative
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prodigal
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excessively wasteful
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rancorous
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bitter, long-lasting resentment
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repudiate
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disown
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salubrious
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concerning health
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solvent
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1. able to pay
2. can dissolve another substance |
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specious
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too good to be true. untrue.
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spurious
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counterfeit
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surfeit
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excess
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tenuous
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weak
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transient
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fleeting
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maudlin
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overly sentimental, mawkish
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raconteur
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storyteller
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bathetic
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1. anti-climactic
2. mawkish, gushy 3. trite, commonplace all qualities of (n) BATHOS |
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mawkish
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oversentimientality, maudlin
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multifarious
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multifaceted
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presage
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portend something bad
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profligate
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extremely wasteful, prodigal
Marie Antoinette |
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dissolute
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licentious, immoral
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unction
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1. annointment by sacred oils
2. earnestness of speech |
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unguent
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annointing oil or salve
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ignominy
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dishonor, disgrace
syn: opprobrium |
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obloquy
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shaming language shouted by the public
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ablusive
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harshly criticizing
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incredulous
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skeptical
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decorous
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having appropriate conduct
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hubris
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pride, arrogance
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imminent
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about to happen
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temerity
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assertiveness, boldness
NOT timorous |
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timorous
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timid
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