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Abate
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(verb) to lessen in intensity or degree
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Aberrant
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(adj) deviating from the norm
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Abjure
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(verb) to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid
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Abrogate
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(verb) to abolish or annul by authority; to put down
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Abscission
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(noun) The act of cutting off or removing
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Abscond
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(verb) to depart clandestinely; to steal off and hide
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Acarpous
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(adj) Effete; no longer fertile; worn out
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Accolade
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(noun) an expression of praise
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Accretion
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(noun) Growth; increase by successive addition; building up
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Acerbic
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(adj) having a sour or bitter taste or character
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Acumen
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(noun) quick, keen, or accurate knowledge or insight
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Admonish
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(verb) To reprove; to express warning or disapproval
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Adroit
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(adj) Adept; dextrous
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Adulation
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(noun) excessive praise; intense adoration
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Adulterate
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(verb) to reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients
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Adumbrate
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(verb) To foreshadow or intimate; to suggest sketchily; to obscure
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Aesthetic
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(adj) dealing with, appreciative of, or responsive to art or the beautiful
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Aggrandize
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(verb) to increase in intensity, power, or prestige
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Alacrity
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(noun) eager and enthusiastic willingness
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Alchemy
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(noun) a medieval science aimed at the transmutation of metals, esp. base metals into gold
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Amalgamate
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(verb) to combine several elements into a whole
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Ameliorate
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(verb) to make better or more tolerable
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Amenable
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(adj) agreeable; responsive to suggestion
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Anachronism
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(noun) something or someone out of place in terms of historical or chronological context
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Anathema
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(noun) A solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing
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Anodyne
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(adj/noun) Soothing; something that assuages or allays pain or comforts
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Anomaly
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(noun) deviation from the normal order, form, or rule; abnormality
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Antipathy
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(noun) Aversion; dislike
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Antithetical
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(adj) Diametrically opposed; as in antithesis
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Apocryphal
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(adj) Of dubious authenticity or origin; spurious
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Apogee
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(noun) Farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith (antonym: perigee)
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Apostate
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(noun) One who abandons long-held religious or political convictions
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Apotheosis
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(noun) Deification; glorification to godliness
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Apposite
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(adj) Appropriate; pertinent; relevant; apropos
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Apprise
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(verb) To give notice to; to inform
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Approbation
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(noun) an expression of approval or praise
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Arabesque
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(noun) A complex, ornate design; also to a dance position
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Arcane
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(adj) Mysterious; abstruse; esoteric; knowable only to initiates
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Archaic
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(adj) outdated; associated with an earlier, perhaps more primitive, time
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Arduous
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(adj) strenuous; taxing; requiring significant effort
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Arrant
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(adj) Impudent
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Artless
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(adj) Completely without guile; natural; without artificiality
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Ascetic
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(noun) one who practices rigid self-denial, esp. as an act of religious devotion
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Ascetic
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(noun/adj) Someone practicing self-denial; austere; stark
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Asperity
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(noun) Severity; rigor; roughness; harshness; acrimony; irritability
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Aspersion
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(noun) An act of defamation or maligning; animadversion
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Assay
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(noun/verb) An analysis; examination; test; to put to a test
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Asseverate
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(verb) To aver; to allege; to assert
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Assiduous
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(adj) Diligent; hard-working; sedulous
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Assuage
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(verb) to ease or lessen; to appease or pacify
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Astringent
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(adj) having a tightening effect on living tissue; harsh; severe
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Attenuate
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(verb) To rarefy; to weaken or make thinner
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Audacious
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(adj) daring and fearless; recklessly bold
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Augury
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(noun) Omen; portent
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Auspice
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(noun) Protection or support; patronage
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Auspicious
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(adj) Favorable; propitious; successful; prosperous
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Austere
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(adj) without adornment; bare; severely simple; ascetic
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Avarice
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(noun) greed, esp. for wealth
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Aver
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(verb) to state as a fact; to confirm or support
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Aver
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(verb) To affirm; to assert; to prove; to justify; to asseverate
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Axiom
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(noun) a universally recognized principle
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Axiomatic
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(adj) taken as a given; possessing self-evident truth
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Baleful
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(adj) Sinister; pernicious; ominous
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Bane
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(noun) Cause of injury; poison; source of harm
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Beatify
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(verb) To bless, make happy, or ascribe a virtue to; to regard as saintly
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Bedizen
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(verb) To adorn, especially in a cheap, showy manner; to festoon
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Belie
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(verb) To give a false impression of; to misrepresent
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Bellicose
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(adj) Belligerent; pugnacious; warlike
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Bilge
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(noun) Bulge the protuberance of a cask
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Blandish
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(verb) To toady or fawn
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Blithe
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(adj) Carefree; merry
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Boisterous
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(adj) Loud; noisy; rough; lacking restraint
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Bolster
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(verb) to provide support or reinforcement
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Bombast
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(noun) self-important or pompous writing or speech
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Bombastic
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(adj) pompous; grandiloquent
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Boor
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(noun) A rude or insensitive person; lout
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Bucolic
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(adj) rustic and pastoral; characteristic of rural areas and their inhabitants
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Burgeon
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(verb) to grow rapidly or flourish
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Burnish
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(verb) To polish; to rub to a shine
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Byzantine
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(adj) Labyrinthine; complex
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Cabal
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(noun) A scheme or plot; a group of plotters
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Cachinnate
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(verb) To laugh loudly
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Cacophony
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(noun) harsh, jarring, discordant sound; dissonance
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Cadge
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(verb) To sponge or mooch
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Cajole
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(verb) To inveigle, coax, or wheedle
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Calumniate
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(verb) To slander; to make a false accusation
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Calumny
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(noun) Slander; aspersion
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Canon
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(noun) an established set of principles or code of laws, often religious in nature
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Canonical
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(adj) following or in agreement with accepted, traditional standards
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Caparison
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(verb) To adorn or bedizen
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Capricious
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(adj) inclined to change one’s mind impulsively; erratic; unpredictable
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Captious
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(adj) Calculated to confuse or entrap in argument; hypercritical; caviling
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Caret
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(noun) An insertion mark used by editors and proof-readers
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Castigation
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(noun) severe criticism or punishment
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Catalyst
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(noun) a substance that accelerates the rate of a chemical reaction without itself changing
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Catalyst
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(noun) a person or thing that causes change
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Caustic
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(adj) burning or stinging; causing corrosion
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Cavil
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(verb) To find fault without good reason
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Celerity
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(noun) Speed; alacrity
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Censure
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(verb) to criticize severely; to officially rebuke
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Chary
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(adj) wary; cautious; sparing
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Chasten
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(verb) To chastise or correct
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Chauvinist
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(noun) A blindly devoted patriot
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Chicanery
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(noun) trickery or subterfuge
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Chimera
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(noun) An illusion; originally, an imaginary fire-breathing she-monster
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Churlish
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(adj) Boorish; vulgar; loutish; difficult and intractable
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Coalesce
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(verb) To come together; to fuse or unite
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Coda
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(noun) Concluding section of a musical or literary piece
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Coeval
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(adj) Of the same period; coexisting
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Cogent
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(adj) appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing
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Commensurate
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(adj) Matching; corresponding or proportionate in degree, size or amount
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Complaisance
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(noun) the willingness to comply with the wishes of others
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Connoisseur
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(noun) an informed and astute judge in matters of taste; expert
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Contemn
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(verb) To scorn or despise
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Contentious
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(adj) argumentative; quarrelsome; causing controversy or disagreement
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Contiguous
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(adj) sharing a border; touching; adjacent
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Contrite
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(adj) regretful; penitent; seeking forgiveness
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Contumacious
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(adj) Insubordinate; rebellious
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Convention
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(noun) a generally agreed-upon practice or attitude
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Convoluted
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(adj) complex or complicated
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Corrigible
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(adj) Capable of being set right; correctable; reparable
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Countenance
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(verb/noun) To approve of or tolerate; face; composure
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Cozen
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(verb) To deceive, beguile, or hoodwink
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Craven
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(adj) Contemptibly fainthearted; lacking any courage
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Credulous
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(adj) tending to believe too readily; gullible
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Culpable
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(adj) deserving blame
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Curmudgeon
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(noun) A crusty, ill-tempered coot; a misanthrope
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Cynicism
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(noun) an attitude or quality of belief that all people are motivated by selfishness
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Daunt
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(verb) To cow or dismay
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Dearth
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(noun) smallness of quantity or number; scarcity; a lack
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Debacle
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(noun) Rout; fiasco; complete failure
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Decorous
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(adj) Correct; formal; marked by decorum
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Decorum
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(noun) polite or appropriate conduct or behavior
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Defalcate
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(verb) To embezzle or misappropriate
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Demur
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(verb) to question or oppose
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Denigrate
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(verb) To blacken; to belittle; to sully; to defame; to disparage
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Denouement
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(noun) An outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot
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Deposition
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(noun) Accretion; depositing; building up layer by layer; official testimony
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Deprecate
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(verb) To disparage or belittle; to put down
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Depredate
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(verb) To plunder, pillage, ravage, or destroy; to exploit in a predatory manner
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Derision
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(noun) scorn; ridicule; contemptuous treatment
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Derivative
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(adj) Unoriginal; obtained from another source
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Descant
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(verb ) To comment at length
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Descry
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(verb) To discriminate or discern
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Desiccate
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(verb) to dry out or dehydrate; to make dry or dull
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Desuetude
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(noun) Disuse
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Desultory
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(adj) Random; thoughtless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose
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Detraction
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(noun) Slandering; verbal attack; aspersion
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Diaphanous
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(adj) Transparent; gauzy
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Diatribe
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(noun) a harsh denunciation
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Didactic
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(adj) intended to teach or instruct
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Diffident
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(adj) Reserved, shy, or unassuming; lacking in self-confidence
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Digress
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(verb) To stray from the point; to go off on a tangent
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Dilatory
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(adj) Causing delay; procrastinating
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Dilettante
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(noun) one with an amateurish or superficial interest in the arts or a branch of knowledge
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Din
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(noun) Loud, sustained noise
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Dirge
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(noun) A song of grief or lamentation
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Disabuse
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(verb) to undeceive; to set right
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Disaffect
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(verb) To estrange or alienate the affection of
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Discomfit
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(verb) To defeat; to put down
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Discordant
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(adj) conflicting; dissonant or harsh in sound
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Discretion
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(noun) cautious reserve in speech; ability to make responsible decisions
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Discursive
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(adj) Digressive; passing from one topic to another
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Disinterested
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(adj) indifferent; free from self-interest
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Disparage
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(verb) to slight or belittle
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Disparate
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(adj) Fundamentally distinct or dissimilar
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Dissemble
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(verb) to disguise or conceal; to mislead
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Dissolution
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(noun) Disintegration; looseness in morals
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Distention
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(noun) The state or act of extending or being swollen out of shape
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Distrait
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(adj) Distracted; absent-minded, especially due to anxiety
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Divulge
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(verb) to disclose something secret
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Doggerel
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(noun) Trivial, poorly constructed verse
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Dogmatic
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(adj) stubbornly opinionated
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Dross
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(noun) Slag, waste, or foreign matter; impurity; surface scum
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Dulcet
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(adj) Melodious; harmonious; mellifluous
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Dynamo
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(noun) Generator; forceful, energetic person
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Ebullience
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(noun) the quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings
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Eccentric
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(adj) departing from norms or conventions
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Eclectic
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(adj) composed of elements drawn from various sources
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Eclectic
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(adj) Culled from many sources
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Edacious
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(adj) Voracious; devouring
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Edifying
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(adj) Enlightening
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Effluvia
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(noun) Outflow in a stream of particles; a noxious odor or vapor
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Effrontery
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(noun) extreme boldness; presumptuousness
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Effrontery
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(noun) Boldness; impudence; arrogance
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Effusive
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(adj) Gushing; excessively demonstrative
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Egress
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(noun) Exit
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Elegy
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(noun) a mournful poem, esp. one lamenting the dead
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Eloquent
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(adj) well-spoken; expressive; articulate
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Emollient
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(adj) soothing, esp. to the skin; making less harsh
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Empirical
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(adj) based on observation or experiment
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Encomium
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(noun) Glowing and enthusiastic praise; panegyric; tribute; eulogy
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Endemic
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(adj) characteristic of or often found in a particular locality, region, or people
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Endemic
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(adj) Restricted or peculiar to a particular region; indigenous
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Enervate
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(verb) to weaken; to reduce in vitality
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Engender
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(verb) To cause; to produce; to give rise to
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Enigmatic
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(adj) mysterious; obscure; difficult to understand
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Ennui
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(noun) dissatisfaction and restlessness resulting from boredom or apathy
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Enormity
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(noun) Excessive wickedness; evilness
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Ephemeral
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(adj) brief; fleeting
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Ephemeral
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(adj) Evanescent; fleeting; short-lived
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Epicure
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(noun) One devoted to sensual pleasure, particularly in food and drink; gourmand; sybarite
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Episodic
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(adj) Loosely connected; not flowing logically
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Epithet
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(noun) Disparaging word or phrase
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Epitome
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(noun) Embodiment; quintessence
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Equanimity
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(noun) Composure; self-possession
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Equipoise
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(noun) Equal distribution of weight; equilibrium
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Equivocate
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(verb) to use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent
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Errant
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(adj) Traveling; itinerant; peripatetic
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Erudite
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(adj) very learned; scholarly
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Eschew
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(verb) To shun or avoid
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Esoteric
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(adj) intended for or understood by a small, specific group
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Estimable
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(adj) Worthy; formidable
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Eulogy
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(noun) a speech honoring the dead
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Evanescent
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(adj) tending to disappear like vapor; vanishing
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Evince
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(verb) To show clearly; to indicate
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Exacerbate
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(verb) to make worse or more severe
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Excoriate
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(verb) To censure scathingly; to upbraid
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Exculpate
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(verb) exonerate; to clear of blame
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Exegesis
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(noun) Critical examination; explication
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Exemplar
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(noun) Typical or standard specimen; paradigm; model
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Exigent
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(adj) urgent; pressing; requiring immediate action or attention
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Exonerate
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(verb) to remove blame
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Expatiate
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(verb) To descant; to discourse; to discuss or write about at length
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Expiate
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(verb) To atone or make amends for
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Expostulate
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(verb) To argue earnestly in order to dissuade
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Expurgate
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(verb) To remove obscenity; to purify; to censor
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Exscind
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(verb) To cut out or extirpate
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Extant
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(adj) Existing; not destroyed or lost
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Extemporaneous
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(adj) improvised; done without preparation
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Extirpate
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(verb) To destroy; to exterminate; to cut out; to exscind
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Facetious
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(adj) playful; humorous
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Fallacy
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(noun) an invalid or incorrect notion; a mistaken belief
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Fallow
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(adj) Untilled; inactive; dormant
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Fatuous
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(adj) Silly; inanely foolish
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Fawn
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(verb) to flatter or praise excessively
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Feckless
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(adj) Ineffectual;
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Felicitous
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(adj) Apt; suitably expressed; well-chosen; apropos
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Fervent
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(adj) greatly emotional or zealous
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Fetid
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(adj) Stinking; smelly; malodorous
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Fetter
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(verb) To shackle; to put in chains
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Filibuster
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(noun) intentional obstruction, esp. using prolonged speechmaking to delay legislative action
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Filigree
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(noun) An ornamental work, especially of delicate lacelike patterns
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Florid
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(adj) Flowery; ruddy; ornate
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Flout
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(verb) to demonstrate contempt for, as in a rule or convention
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Foment
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(verb) To incite; to rouse
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Forbearance
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(noun) Patience; willingness to wait
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Forestall
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(verb) To act in a way to hinder; to exclude or prevent an action; to avert
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Forswear
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(verb) To renounce; to disallow; to repudiate
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Fortuitous
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(adj) happening by fortunate accident or chance
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Fracas
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(noun) Noisy quarrel; imbroglio; brawl
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Fractious
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(adj) Quarrelsome; rebellious; unruly; refractory; irritable
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Frieze
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(noun) A semi-sculptural, raised-surface ornamental façade to a building
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Froward
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(adj) Intractable; not willing to yield or comply; recalcitrant
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Fulminate
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(verb) to loudly attack or denounce
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Furtive
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(adj) marked by stealth; covert; surreptitious
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Gainsay
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(verb) To deny, dispute, contradict, to oppose
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Gambol
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(verb) To skip about playfully
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Garner
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(verb) To gather and save; to store up
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Garrulous
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(adj) pointlessly talkative; talking too much
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Gauche
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(adj) Crude; awkward; tasteless
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Germane
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(adj) relevant to the subject at hand; appropriate in subject matter
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Glib
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(adj) marked by ease or informality; nonchalant; lacking in depth; superficial
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Gossamer
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(adj) Delicate; insubstantial or tenuous; insincere
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Grandiloquence
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(noun) pompous speech or expression
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Gregarious
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(adj) sociable; outgoing; enjoying the company of other people
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Guile
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(noun) Artfulness; trickery; chicanery; duplicity
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Hackneyed
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(adj) rendered trite or commonplace by frequent usage
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Halcyon
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(adj) calm and peaceful
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Hallow
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(verb) To make holy; to consecrate
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Harangue
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(verb) to deliver a pompous speech or tirade
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Harrow
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(verb) To distress; to create stress; to torment
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Hedonism
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(noun) devotion to pleasurable pursuits, esp. to the pleasures of the senses
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Hegemony
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(noun) the consistent dominance of one state or ideology over others
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Heretical
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(adj) violating accepted dogma or convention
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Heretical
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(adj) Unorthodox; iconoclastic; dissenting from established dogma
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Hermetic
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(adj) Sealed by fusion; airtight
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Heterodox
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(adj) Unorthodox; heretical; iconoclastic
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Hirsute
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(adj) Hairy; shaggy
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Homiletics
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(noun) The art of preaching
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Homily
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(noun) A sermon or morally instructive lecture
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Hubris
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(noun) arrogant presumption or pride
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Hyperbole
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(noun) an exaggerated statement, often used as a figure of speech
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Iconoclast
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(noun) one who attacks or undermines traditional conventions or institutions
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Iconoclastic
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(adj) Attacking cherished beliefs; heretical; heterodox
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Idolatrous
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(adj) given to intense or excessive devotion to something
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Idyll
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(noun) A carefree, light-hearted pastoral or romantic episode; a literary or musical piece describing such
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Ignominious
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(adj) Shameful; dishonorable; ignoble; undignified
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Imbroglio
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(noun) Difficult or embarrassing situation
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Imminent
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(adj) about to happen; impending
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Immutable
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(adj) not capable of change
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Impassive
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(adj) revealing no emotion
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Impassive
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(adj) Expressionless; stoic; stolid; unsusceptible to emotion; apathetic; phlegmatic
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Impecunious
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(adj) lacking funds; without money
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Imperious
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(adj) Commanding; masterful; arrogant; domineering; haughty
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Imperturbable
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(adj) marked by extreme calm, impassivity and steadiness
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Impetuous
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(adj) hastily or rashly energetic; impulsive and vehement
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Implacable
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(adj) not capable of being appeased or significantly changed
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Importune
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(verb) To ask incessantly; to beg; to nag
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Impugn
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(verb) To attack or assail verbally; to censure; to execrate
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Impunity
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(noun) immunity from punishment or penalty
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Impute
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(verb) To attribute to a cause or source; to ascribe
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Inchoate
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(adj) in an initial stage; not fully formed
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Incipient
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(adj) beginning to come into being or to become apparent
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Indefatigable
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(adj) Tirelessness; doggedness
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Indifferent
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(adj) having no interest or concern; showing no bias or prejudice
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Indolent
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(adj) Lazy; listless; torpid
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Ineluctable
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(adj) Certain; inevitable
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Inert
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(adj) unmoving; lethargic; sluggish
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Infelicitous
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(adj) unfortunate; inappropriate
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Ingenuous
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(adj) artless; frank and candid; lacking in sophistication
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Ingenuous
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(adj) Guileless; trusting; naïve; credulous
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Inherent
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(adj) Ingrained within one’s nature; intrinsic; innate; firmly established
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Inimical
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(adj) damaging; harmful; injurious
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Inimical
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(adj) Hostile; adverse; unfriendly
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Inimitable
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(adj) One of a kind; peerless
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Iniquity
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(noun) Gross injustice; wickedness
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Innervate
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(verb) To supply with nerves; to embolden; to energize
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Innocuous
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(adj) harmless; causing no damage
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Inscrutable
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(adj) Incapable of being discovered or understood
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Insensible
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(adj) Unconscious; unresponsive; unaffected; numb
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Insipid
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(adj) without taste or flavor; lacking in spirit; bland
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Insouciant
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(adj) Carefree; unconcerned; heedless
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Insular
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(adj) Parochial; narrow-minded
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Interdict
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(verb) To prohibit; to forbid; to ban; to halt
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Intractable
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(adj) not easily managed or directed; stubborn; obstinate
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Intransigent
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(adj) refusing to compromise
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Intrepid
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(adj) steadfast and courageous
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Inured
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(adj) accustomed to accepting something undesirable
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Inveigh
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(verb) To attack verbally; to denounce; to deprecate
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Inveigle
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(verb) to obtain by deception or flattery
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Inveterate
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(adj) Deep-routed; ingrained; habitual
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Involute
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(adj) Intricate; complex; convoluted
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Irascible
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(adj) easily angered; prone to temperamental outbursts
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Itinerate
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(adj) To travel from place to place; to peregrinate
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Jejune
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(adj) Vapid; uninteresting; immature; puerile
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Jibe
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(verb) To agree; to be in accord
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Jocose, Jocular
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(adj) Humorous; gay; blithe
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Labile
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(adj) Readily open to change; unstable
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Lachrymose
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(adj) Causing tears; tearful
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Laconic
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(adj) using few words; terse
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Lambaste
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(verb) To censure; to excoriate; to berate
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Lassitude
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(adj) Listlessness; languor; weariness
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Laud
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(verb) to praise highly
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Libertine
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(noun) Someone unrestrained by morality or convention
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Limn
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(verb) To draw; to outline in detail; to delineate; to describe
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Limpid
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(adj) Transparent; serene; clear; untroubled; pellucid
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Loquacious
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(adj) extremely talkative
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Lubricious
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(adj) Lewd; wanton; greasy; slippery
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Lucid
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(adj) clear; easily understood
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Luculent
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(adj) Easily understood; lucid; clear
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Luminous
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(adj) characterized by brightness and the emission of light
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Macerate
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(verb) To waste away; to soften or wear away by excessive fasting or by excessive steeping
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Maculate
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(adj) Marked with spots or blotches; besmirched; impure
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Magnanimity
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(noun) the quality of being generously noble in mind and heart, esp. in forgiving
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Malevolent
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(adj) having or showing often vicious ill-will, spite, or hatred
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Malinger
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(verb) To feign illness so as to avoid work; to avoid work
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Malleable
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(adj) capable of being shaped or formed; tractable; pliable
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Martial
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(adj) associated with war and the armed forces
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Maunder
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(verb) To digress; to meander; to stray from the topic or path
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Maverick
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(noun) an independent individual who does not go along with a group or party
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Mellifluous
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(adj) Sweetly flowing usually used to describe use of words
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Mendacity
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(noun) the condition of being untruthful; dishonesty
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Mendicant
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(noun) Beggar; supplicant
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Mercurial
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(adj) characterized by rapid and unpredictable change in mood
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Meretricious
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(adj) Cheap; gawdy; tawdry; flashy; showy
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Metamorphose
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(verb) To transform; to change utterly
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Meticulous
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(adj) characterized by extreme care and precision; attentive to detail
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Mettle
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(noun) Strength of spirit; courage; stamina
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Mettlesome
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(adj) Courageous; high-spirited
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Militate
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(verb) To have weight; to bear on; to argue (against)
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Minatory
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(adj) Menacing; threatening
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Misanthrope
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(noun) one who hates all other humans
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Misogynist
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(noun) One who hates women or females
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Mitigate
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(verb) to make or become less severe or intense; to moderate
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Mollify
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(verb) to calm or soothe; to reduce in emotional intensity
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Morose
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(adj) sad; sullen; melancholy
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Multifarious
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(adj) Varied; motley; greatly diversified
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Mundane
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(adj) of the world; typical of or concerned with the ordinary
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Nadir
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(noun) Low point; perigee
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Nascent
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(adj) coming into being; in early developmental stages
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Natty
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(adj) Trimly neat and tidy; smart
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Nebulous
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(adj) vague; cloudy; lacking clearly defined form
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Neologism
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(noun) a new word, expression, or usage; the creation or use of new words or senses
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Neophyte
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(noun) a recent convert; a beginner; novice
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Nexus
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(noun) A connection, tie, or link
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Noisome
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(adj) Offensive, especially to one’s sense of smell; fetid
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Nonplused
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(adj) Baffled; in a quandary; at a loss for what to say or do
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Nostrum
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(noun) Panacea; cure all; placebo; questionable remedy; palliative
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Noxious
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(adj) harmful; injurious
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Nugatory
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(adj) Trifling; inconsequential
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Obdurate
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(adj) unyielding; hardhearted; intractable
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Obfuscate
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(verb) to deliberately obscure; to make confusing
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Obloquy
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(noun) Abusively detractive language; sharp criticism; vituperation; calumny
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Obsequious
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(adj) exhibiting a fawning attentiveness
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Obstinate
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(adj) stubborn; hardheaded; uncompromising
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Obstreperous
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(adj) Noisy; loud
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Obtuse
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(adj) lacking sharpness of intellect; not clear or precise in thought or expression
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Obviate
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(verb) to anticipate and make unnecessary
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Occlude
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(verb) to obstruct or block
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Odious
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(adj) evoking intense aversion or dislike
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Officious
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(adj) Meddlesome; pushy in one’s services
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Onerous
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(adj) troubling; burdensome
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Opaque
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(adj) impenetrable by light; not reflecting light
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Opprobrium
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(noun) disgrace; contempt; scorn
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Oscillation
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(noun) the act or state of swinging back and forth with a steady, uninterrupted rhythm
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Ossified
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(adj) Tending to become more rigid; conventional; sterile and reactionary with age; literally, tuned into bone
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Ostensible
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(adj) Seeming; appearing as such; professed
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Ostentatious
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(adj) characterized by or given to pretentiousness
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Overweening
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(adj) Presumptuously arrogant; supercilious; overbearing
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Paean
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(noun) a song or hymn of praise and thanksgiving
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Palliate
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(verb) To make something appear less serious; to gloss over
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Panegyric
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(noun) Formal praise; eulogy; encomium
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Paradigm
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(noun) A mode, example, or pattern; exemplar
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Pariah
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(noun) An outcast; a rejected and despised person
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Parody
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(noun) a humorous imitation intended for ridicule or comic effect, esp. in literature and art
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Parry
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(verb) To block; to evade or ward off, as a blow
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Parsimonious
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(adj) Cheap; miserly
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Partisan
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(adj/noun) Committed to a party; biased or prejudiced; supporter; adherent
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Paucity
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(noun) Scarcity; a lacking of
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Peccadillo
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(noun) A slight offense; literally, a minor sin
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Pedagogy
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(noun) the art or profession of training, teaching, or instructing
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Pedantic
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(adj) the parading of learning; excessive attention to minutiae and formal rules
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Pellucid
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(adj) Transparent; easy to understand; limpid
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Penchant
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(noun) Strong inclination; a liking
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Penurious
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(adj) penny-pinching; excessively thrifty; ungenerous
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Penury
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(noun) poverty; destitution
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Peregrination
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(noun) Traveling about; wandering
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Peremptory
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(adj) Admitting of no contradiction; haughty; imperious
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Perennial
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(adj) recurrent through the year or many years; happening repeatedly
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Perfidy
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(noun) intentional breach of faith; treachery
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Perfunctory
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(adj) cursory; done without care or interest
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Perigee
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(noun) Closest or lowest point in an orbit; nadir
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Peripatetic
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(adj) Itinerant; traveling; nomadic
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Pernicious
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(adj) extremely harmful; potentially causing death
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Peroration
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(noun) The concluding part of a speech; grandiloquent speech
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Personable
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(adj) Pleasing in appearance; attractive
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Perspicacious
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(adj) acutely perceptive; having keen discernment
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Peruse
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(verb) to examine with great care
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Pervade
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(verb) to permeate throughout
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Pervasive
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(adj) having the tendency to permeate or spread throughout
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Petrous
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(adj) Like a rock; hard; stony
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Petulant
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(adj) Impatient; irritable
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Philistine
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(noun) A crass individual guided by material rather than by intellectual or artistic values
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Phlegmatic
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(adj) calm; sluggish; unemotional
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Phlegmatic
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(adj) Impassive; stoical; lethargic; sluggish
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Picaresque
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(adj) Involving clever rogues or adventures
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Pillory
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(verb) To punish; to hold up to public scorn
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Pine
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(verb) to yearn intensely; to languish; to lose vigor
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Pious
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(adj) extremely reverent or devout; showing strong religious devotion
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Piquant
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(adj) Agreeably pungent; stimulating
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Pique
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(noun/verb) Resentment; to annoy, irritate, or offend; to excite, provoke, or arouse
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Pirate
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(verb) to illegally use or reproduce
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Pith
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(noun) the essential or central part
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Pithy
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(adj) precise and brief
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Placate
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(verb) to appease; to calm by making concessions
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Placebo
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(noun) Inactive pill prescribed for mental relief rather than for physical effect; something tending to soothe
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Plangent
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(adj) Pounding; thundering; resounding
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Platitude
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(noun) a superficial remark, esp. one offered as meaningful
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Plethora
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(noun) an overabundance; a surplus
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|
Plumb
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(verb) To measure the depth; to examine critically
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Plummet
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(verb) to plunge or drop straight down
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Poignant
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(adj) Distressing; pertinent; touching; stimulating; emotional
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Polemical
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(adj) controversial; argumentative
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Poseur
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(noun) Affected or insincere person; literally, a poser
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Pragmatic
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(adj) practical rather than idealistic
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Prate
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(verb) To chatter; to babble, as in prattle
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Prattle
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(verb) to babble meaninglessly; to talk in an empty and idle manner
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Precarious
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(adj) Uncertain; risky; dangerous
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Precept
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(noun) Rule establishing standards of conduct
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Precipitate
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(adj) acting with excessive haste or impulse
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Precipitate
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(verb) to cause or happen before anticipated or required
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Précis
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(noun) Concise summary of essential points
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Precursor
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(noun) one that precedes and indicates or announces another
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Predilection
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(noun) a disposition in favor of something; preference
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Preempt
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(verb) To replace; to supersede; to appropriate
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Preen
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(verb) to dress up; to primp; to groom oneself with elaborate care
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Prescience
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(noun) foreknowledge of events; knowing of events prior to their occurring
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Presumptuous
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(adj) overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy); taking liberties
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Prevaricate
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(verb) to deliberately avoid the truth; to mislead
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Pristine
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(adj) pure; uncorrupted; clean
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Probity
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(noun) adherence to highest principles; uprightness
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Proclivity
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(noun) a natural predisposition or inclination
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Prodigal
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(adj) recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish
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Prodigious
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(adj) abundant in size, force, or extent; extraordinary
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Profligate
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(adj) excessively wasteful; recklessly extravagant
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Profligate
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(adj) Spendthrift; prodigal; wildly extravagant
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Profuse
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(adj) given or coming forth abundantly; extravagant
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Proliferate
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(verb) to grow or increase swiftly and abundantly
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Prolific
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(adj) producing large volumes or amounts; productive
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Prolix
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(adj) Long-winded; verbose
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Propensity
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(noun) a natural inclination or tendency; penchant
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Propinquity
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(noun) Nearness in time or place; affinity of nature
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Propitiate
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(verb) To appease; to conciliate
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Prosaic
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(adj) dull; unimaginative
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Proscribe
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(verb) To ostracize; to banish; to outlaw
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Provident
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(adj) Frugal; looking to the future
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Puerile
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(adj) Childish; immature
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Pugnacious
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(adj) Contentious; quarrelsome; contumacious; given to fighting; belligerent
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Puissance
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(noun) Power; strength
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Punctilious
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(adj) Precise; paying attention to trivialities, especially in regard to etiquette
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Pundit
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(noun) An authority on a subject; one who gives opinion
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Pungent
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(adj) characterized by a strong, sharp smell or taste
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Pusillanimous
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(adj) Cowardly; craven
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Putrefy
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(verb) to rot; to decay and give off a foul odor
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Quaff
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(verb) to drink deeply
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Qualms
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(noun) misgivings; reservations; causes for hesitancy
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Queries
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(noun) questions; inquiries; doubts in the mind; reservations
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Querulous
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(adj) prone to complaining or grumbling; quarrelsome
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Querulous
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(adj) Habitually complaining; whining
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Quiescence
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(noun) stillness; motionlessness; quality of being at rest
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Quixotic
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(adj) foolishly impractical; marked by lofty romantic ideals
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Quotidian
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(adj) occurring or recurring daily; commonplace
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Raffish
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(adj) Tawdry; flashy; meretricious; low; vulgar; base
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Ramify
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(verb) To be divided or subdivided; to branch out
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Rancorous
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(adj) characterized by bitter, long-lasting resentment
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Rapacious
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(adj) Voracious; greedy; plundering
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Rarefy
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(verb) to make or become thin, less dense; to refine
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|
Rebus
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(noun) Riddle; a representation of words by pictures or symbols
|
|
Recalcitrant
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(adj) obstinately defiant of authority; difficult to manage
|
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Recant
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(verb) to retract, esp. a previously held belief
|
|
Recidivism
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(noun) Relapse into antisocial or criminal behavior
|
|
Recondite
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(adj) hidden; concealed; difficult to understand; obscure
|
|
Recondite
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(adj) Abstruse; profound; arcane
|
|
Reconnaissance
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(noun) Preliminary survey to gain information, especially of an enemy
|
|
Reconnoiter
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(verb) To engage in reconnaissance
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Recreant
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(noun/adj) Coward; cowardly; craven; pusillanimous
|
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Recumbent
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(adj) Leaning; resting; prone
|
|
Redolent
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(adj) Fragrant; suggestive or evocative
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Redoubtable
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(adj) awe-inspiring; worthy of honor
|
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Refractory
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(adj) Stubborn; unmanageable; intractable; unruly; fractious
|
|
Refulgent
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(adj) radiant; shiny; brilliant
|
|
Refute
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(verb) to disprove; to successfully argue against
|
|
Regale
|
(verb) To delight or entertain; to feast
|
|
Relegate
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(verb) to forcibly assign, esp. to a lower place or position
|
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Remonstrate
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(verb) To protest; to object
|
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Renege
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(verb) to fail to honor a commitment; to go back on a promise
|
|
Repine
|
(verb) To feel or express dejection or discontent; to long for
|
|
Repudiate
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(verb) to refuse to have anything to do with; to disown
|
|
Repudiate
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(verb) To disown; to disavow; to reject as untrue
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|
Rescind
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(verb) to invalidate; to repeal; to retract
|
|
Resolute
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(adj) Adamant; steadfast; determined; irresolute
|
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Reticent
|
(adj) quiet; reserved; reluctant to express thoughts and feelings
|
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Reverent
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(adj) marked by, feeling, or expressing a feeling of profound awe and respect
|
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Rhetoric
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(noun) the art or study of effective use of language for communication and persuasion
|
|
Rubric
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(noun) Heading, title or category
|
|
Rue
|
(verb) To regret; to feel remorse or sorrow
|
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Runic
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(adj) Mysterious; magical
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|
Sagacious
|
(adj) Having sound judgment; perceptive; wise
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|
Salacious
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(adj) Obscene
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Salient
|
(adj) Prominent; protruding; conspicuous; relevant
|
|
Salubrious
|
(adj) promoting health or well-being
|
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Salutary
|
(adj) Wholesome; causing improvement; favorable to health
|
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Sanctimony
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(noun) Self-righteousness
|
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Sanction
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(noun) authoritative permission or approval; a penalty intended to enforce compliance
|
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Sanguine
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(adj) Cheerful; confident; optimistic
|
|
Satiate
|
(verb) To surfeit; to overindulge
|
|
Satire
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(noun) a literary work that ridicules or criticizes a human vice through humor or derision
|
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Saturnine
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(adj) Gloomy; dark; sullen; morose
|
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Sedulous
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(adj) diligent; persistent; hard-working
|
|
Seine
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(noun) A large net dragged to catch fish
|
|
Seminal
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(adj) Like a seed; constituting a source; originative
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Sententious
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(adj) Aphoristic or moralistic; epigrammatic; tending to moralize excessively
|
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Shard
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(noun) a piece of broken pottery or glass
|
|
Sidereal
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(adj) Astral; relating to stars or constellations
|
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Simper
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(verb/noun) To smirk; a silly smile
|
|
Sinecure
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(noun) Position requiring little or no work and usually providing an income
|
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Sinuous
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(adj) Winding; undulating; serpentine
|
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Slake
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(verb) To satisfy or quench
|
|
Sodden
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(adj) Soaked or drenched; unimaginative; dull
|
|
Solder
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(verb) To weld, fuse, or join
|
|
Solicitous
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(adj) concerned and attentive; eager
|
|
Solvent
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(adj) able to meet financial obligations; able to dissolve another substance
|
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Sophistry
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(noun) Fallacious reasoning; faulty logic
|
|
Sophomoric
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(adj) Self-assured though immature; affected; bombastic; lacking maturity
|
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Soporific
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(adj) causing drowsiness; tending to induce sleep
|
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Sordid
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(adj) characterized by filth, grime, or squalor; foul
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Sparse
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(adj) thin; not dense; arranged at widely spaced intervals
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Specious
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(adj) seeming true, but actually being fallacious; misleadingly attractive
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Spendthrift
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(noun) one who spends money wastefully
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Splenetic
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(adj) Bad-tempered; irritable
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Sporadic
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(adj) occurring only occasionally, or in scattered instances
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Spurious
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(adj) lacking authenticity or validity; false; counterfeit
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Squalid
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(adj) sordid; wretched and dirty as from neglect
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Squander
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(verb) to waste by spending or using irresponsibly
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Stanch
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(verb) To stop the flow of a fluid
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Static
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(adj) not moving, active, or in motion; at rest
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Stentorian
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(adj) Extremely loud and powerful
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Stint
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(verb) To restrain; to be sparing or frugal
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Stoic
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(adj) indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain; steadfast
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Striated
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(adj) Striped; grooved; banded
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Stupefy
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(verb) to stun, baffle, or amaze
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Stygian
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(adj) Gloomy; dark
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Stymie
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(verb) to block; thwart
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Subpoena
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(noun) a court order requiring appearance and/or testimony
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Subtle
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(adj) not obvious; elusive; difficult to discern
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Succinct
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(adj) brief; concise
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Succor
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(noun) Assistance; relief in time of distress
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Sundry
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(adj) Various; miscellaneous; separate
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Supercilious
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(adj) Disdainful; arrogant; haughty
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Superfluous
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(adj) exceeding what is sufficient or necessary
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Supine
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(adj) Mentally or morally slack; literally, lying on one’s back; prone
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Supplant
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(verb) to take the place of; supersede
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Suppliant
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(adj) Supplicant; asking humbly; beseeching
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Supplicant
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(noun) Beggar; mendicant
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Surfeit
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(verb) excess; overindulgence
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Synthesis
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(noun) the combination of parts to make a whole
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Tacit
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(adj) implied; not explicitly stated
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Tamp
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(verb) To plug; to drive in or down by a series of blows
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Tautology
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(noun) A repetition; a redundancy
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Tawdry
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(adj) Cheap; gaudy; showy; tacky; meretricious
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Tenacity
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(noun) the quality of adherence or persistence to something valued
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Tendentious
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(adj) Biased; showing marked tendencies
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Tenuous
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(adj) having little substance or strength; flimsy; weak
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Terse
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(adj) brief and concise in wording
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Timorous
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(adj) Timid; fearful; diffident
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Tirade
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(noun) a long and extremely critical speech; a harsh denunciation
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Toady
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(noun) Sycophant; flatterer
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Torpid
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(adj) lethargic; sluggish; dormant
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Torque
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(noun) a force that causes rotation
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Torrid
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(adj) Scorching; ardent; passionate
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Tortuous
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(adj) winding; twisting; excessively complicated
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Tout
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(verb) to publicly praise or promote
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Tractable
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(adj) Docile; obedient; easily led
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Transient
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(adj) fleeting; passing quickly; brief
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Travesty
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(noun) Mockery; caricature; parody
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Trenchant
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(adj) sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating
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Truculent
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(adj) fierce and cruel; eager to fight
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Tumid
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(adj) Swollen
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Turbid
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(adj) Roiled; muddy; clouded to the point of being opaque
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Turgid
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(adj) Swollen; tumid; thick; pompous; bombastic
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Turpitude
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(noun) Depravity; prurience
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Tyro
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(noun) Novice; greenhorn; rank amateur
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Ubiquitous
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(adj) existing everywhere at the same time; constantly encountered; widespread
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Umbrage
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(noun) Offense; resentment; pique
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Undulate
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(verb) To move in wavelike fashion; to fluctuate
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Unfeigned
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(adj) genuine; not false or hypocritical
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Untenable
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(adj) indefensible; not viable; uninhabitable
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Untoward
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(adj) Perverse; unruly; unseemly
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Upbraid
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(verb) To scold; to censure; to rebuke; to chastise
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Urbane
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(adj) sophisticated; refined; elegant
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Usury
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(noun) The practice of charging an exorbitant or illegal rate of interest
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Vacillate
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(verb) to waver indecisively between one course of action or opinion and another; to waver
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Variegated
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(adj) multicolored; characterized by a variety of patches of different color
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Vaunt
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(verb) To brag or boast
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Venal
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(adj) Capable of being bought or bribed; mercenary; purchasable
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Venerate
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(verb) To revere; to worship
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Veracity
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(noun) Truthfulness; honesty
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Verisimilitude
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(noun) Appearance of truth or reality
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Veritable
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(adj) Authentic; honest-to-goodness
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Vexation
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(noun) annoyance; irritation
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Vigilant
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(adj) alertly watchful
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Vilify
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(verb) to defame; to characterize harshly
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Virago
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(noun) A loud, domineering woman; a scold or nag
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Virulent
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(adj) extremely harmful or poisonous; bitterly hostile or antagonistic
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Viscous
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(adj) thick; sticky
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Vitiate
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(verb) To pervert; to debase; to spoil; to make ineffective
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Vituperate
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(verb) to use harsh condemnatory language; to abuse or censure severely or abusively; to berate
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Volatile
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(adj) readily changing to a vapor; changeable; fickle; explosive
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Volubility
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(noun) Fluency; verbosity; easy use of spoken language
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Voracious
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(adj) having an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit; ravenous
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Waft
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(verb) To cause to move as if by a light breeze
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Waver
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(verb) to move to and fro; to sway; to be unsettled in opinion
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Welter
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(verb) To writhe; to toss about; to be in turmoil
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Wend
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(verb) To go; to proceed; to walk
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Zealous
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(adj) fervent; ardent; impassioned
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