Gre Vocab

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Glib

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(adj.) - showing little thought, preparation or concern

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Quiescent

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(adj.) - characterized by inactivity; tranquil

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Satiate

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(v.) - to satisfy (an appetie or desire) fully

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Raconteur

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(n.) - one who tells stories and anecdotes with skill and wit

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Omnipotent

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(adj.) - having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful

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Discerning

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(adj.) - having good judgment

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Machiavellian

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(adj.) - suggestive of or characterized by expediency, deceit, and cunning

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Diverge

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(v.) - to branch off, deviate, or turn aside

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Paean

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(n.) - a song of joyful praise or exultation

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Prolific

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(adj.) - producing abundant works or results; fertile

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Piety

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(n.) - devotion and reverence to parents and family; religious devotion

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Compendium

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(n.) - a brief summary or a list of inventory

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Insidious

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(adj.) - intended to entrap; treacherous

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Placate

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(v.) - to pacify, often by making compromises or concessions

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Propriety

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(n.) - the quality of being proper; appropriateness

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Sedulous

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(adj.) - perserving and constant in effort or application; assiduous

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Redoubtable

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(adj.) - arousing fear or awe; formidable

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Oscillate

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(v.) - to waver, as between conflicting opinions or courses of action; to vacillate

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Diffidence

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(n.) - lack of self-confidence

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Malinger

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(v.) - to feign illness or other incapacity to avoid duty or work

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Distend

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(v.) - to spread, strech, or expand

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Beneficent

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(adj.) - charitable or characterized by kindness

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Qualms

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(n.) - misgivings; reservations

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Exculpate

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(v.) - to free of blame

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Inchoate

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(adj.) - in early, rudimentary stages

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Deride

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(v.) - to mock or laugh at in scorn

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Censure

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(v.) - to criticize, reproach, or reprimand

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Indomitable

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(adj.) - incabable of being overcome, subdued, or vanquished; unconquerable

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Perspicacious

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(adj.) - having or showing penetrating mental discernment; clear-sighted

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Prodigious

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(adj.) - impressively great in size, force, or extent; enormous

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Impulsive

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(adj.) - inclined to act on impulse rather than thought

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Terse

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(adj.) - brief and to the point; effecively concise

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Obviate

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(v.) - to anticipate and dispose of effectively; render unnecessary

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Diatribe

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(n.) - a bitter criticism

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Nascent

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(adj.) - coming into existence; emerging

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Cabal

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(n.) - a sinister group of traitors or the schemes of such groups

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Anachronism

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(n.) - an error in chronology or a thing that belongs in another era or time

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Buttress

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(v.) - to suppport or give encouragment

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Querulous

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(adj.) - given to complaining; peevish

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Paradigm

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(n.) - one that serves as a pattern or model; a set of assumptions and concepts that defines a way of viewing the world

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Incendiary

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(adj.) - tending to excite or inflame factions, sedition, or quarrel; inflammatory; seditious

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Penchant

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(n.) - a definite liking; a strong inclination

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Probity

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(n.) - complete and confirmed integrity; moral uprightness

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Imperturbable

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(adj.) - unshakably calm and collected

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Synthesis

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(n.) - the combining of separate elements or substances to form a coherent whole

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Rhapsody

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(n.) - a state of elated bliss; ecstasy

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Delineate

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(v.) - to describe precisely or to trace

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Voluminous

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(adj.) - ample or lengthy in speech or writing

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Corroborate

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(v.) - to support with further evidence

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Dearth

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(n.) - a scarcity or a lack of

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Incipient

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(adj.) - beginning to exist or appear

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Commensurate

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(adj.) - corresponding in degree or amount proportionate, or having the same measure

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Derivative

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(n.) - not original, secondary, or something deduced

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Ascetic

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(n.) - someone who practices self-mortification for religious reasons or one who lives a chaste and simple life

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Incontrovertible

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(adj.) - impossible to dispute

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Plethora

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(n.) - a superabundance; an excess

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Pundit

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(n.) - a learned person

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Solvent

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(adj.) - capable of meeting financial obligations

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Renounce

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(v.) to give up (a title, for example), especially by formal announcement

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Fickle

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(adj.) -characterized by erratic changeableness or instability; capricious

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Verdant

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(adj.) - lush and green with vegetation

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Miscreant

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(n.) -a person without moral scruples

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Dissemble

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(v.) - to conceal true motives or to act hypocritically

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Benefactor

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(n.) - a person who makes a gift or endowment

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Indifferent

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(adj.) - having no particular interest or concern; apathetic

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Autonomous

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(adj.) - independent, regarding a self-governing state or organization

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Untenable

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(adj.) - being such that defense or maintenance is impossible

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Elicit

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(v.) - to draw out, provoke, or to arrive at by reasoning

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Inundate

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(v.) - to overwhelm as if with a flood

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Hegemony

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(n.) - the predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others

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Precarious

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(adj.) - dangerously lacking in security or stability

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Turpitude

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(n.) - utter depravity or wickedness; a complete lack of morals

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Squander

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(v.) - to spend wastefully or extravagantly; to dissipate

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Repudiate

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(v.) - to reject emphatically as unfounded, untrue, or unjust; to disown

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Flout

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(v.) - to mock or insult; to treat with contempt

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Viable

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(adj.) - capable of success or continuing effectiveness; practicable

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Laconic

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(adj.) - using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise

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Disingenuous

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(adj.) - insincere

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Aberrant

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(adj.) - deviating from the norm

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Histrionic

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(adj.) - excessively dramatic or emotional; affected

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Gratuitous

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(adj.) - unnecessary or unwarranted; unjustified

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Eulogy

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(n.) - a highly praiseful speech or piece of writing

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Enamored

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(v.) - to be filled with love or to be foolishly fond of

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Impunity

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(adj.) - exemption from punishment, penalty, or harm

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Paucity

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(n.) - smallness of number; fewness

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Presumptuous

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(adj.) - going beyond what is right or proper; excessively forward

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Imminent

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(adj.) - about to occur; impending

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Sullen

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(adj.) - showing a brooding ill humor or silent resentment; morose or sulky

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Reticent

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(adj.) - inclined to keep one's thoughts, feelings, and personal affairs to oneself

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Foster

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(v.) - to promote the growth and development of; to cultivate

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Vitriolic

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(adj.) - bitterly scathing; caustic

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Contrite

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(adj.) - remorseful, regretful, or desiring atonment

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Discredit

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(v.) - to damage one's reputation

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Aggrandize

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(v.) - to make greater or exaggerate

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Cogent

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(adj.) - logically convincing

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Itinerary

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(n.) - a route or proposed route of a jouney

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Welter

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(n.) - a disorganized, confused jumble

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Zealot

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(n.) - a fanatically committed person