Gre Vocab Round 6

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apace

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at a rapid pace; swiftly

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ancillary

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auxillary; helping / of secondary importance

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stalwart

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one who steadfastly supports an organization or cause; firm and resolute

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bilious

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having a peevish disposition; ill-humored

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pettish

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ill-tempered; peevish

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waspish

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easily irritated or annoyed; irascible

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dilettante

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a dabbler; one with superficial interest in a subject not professional

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novitiate

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the period of being a novice

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proselyte

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a new convert

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acidulous

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sharp or sour is speech or manner

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acrimonious

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bitter and sharp in language or tone; rancorous

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asperity

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roughness or harshness, as of surface, sound, or climate

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mordacious

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biting; causting; sarcastic

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mordant

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bitingly sarcastic

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iniquity

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gross immorality or injustice

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libertine

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one who acts without moral restraint; a dissolute person

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libidinous

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lustful

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reprobate

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a morally unprincipled person

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quintessence

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the pure, highly concentrated essence of a thing

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aspersion

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slander; an unfavorable or damaging remark

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calumny

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slander; a false statement made to injure another's reputation

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harangue

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a tirade; a long pompous speech

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pillory

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to expose, ridicule and abuse

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wraith

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the ghost of a dead person; shadowy, insubstantial; an apparition before death

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imperious

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urgent; imperial; regal; arrogantly domineering or overbearing

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recondite

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not easily understood; obscure

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invidious

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tending to rouse ill will, animosity, or resentment

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rebarbative

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unattractive and objectionable

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aberrant

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deviating from the proper or expected course; deviating form what is normal

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abash

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to make ashamed or uneasy, disconcert

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gaucherie

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an awkward or tactless act

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rue

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to feel regret remorse or sorrow for

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tantamount

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equivalent in effect or value

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ersatz

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artificial; a (usually) inferior substitute

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consanguine

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of the same lineage; having a common ancestor

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distaff

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the work of women; women considered as a group

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endogamous

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Marriage within a particular group in accordance with custom or law; Fertilization or reproduction of the same type, family

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scion

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a descendent or heir

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gibe

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to deride with taunting remarks

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levity

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lightness of manner or speech, esp. when inappropriate; frivolity

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raillery

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banter; good-natured teasing or ridicule

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riposte

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a return thrust; a quick retort

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rent

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a rift; a rip; a breach of relations between persons or groups

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interregnum

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a gap in continuity; a period of temporary suspension

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abatement

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a reduction; diminution in amount, degree or intensity; moderation

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interstice

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a space between things or parts, esp. small or narrow

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unstinting

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bestowed liberally

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penurious

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stingy; poverty-stricken, destitute

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asperity

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roughness or harshness, as of surface, sound, or climate; hashness of manner; a bump

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baleful

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harmful, injurious; evil, wicked

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dour

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sullen; gloomy; severe

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fell (adj.)

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fierce; cruel; destructive

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baneful

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destructive; pernicious; deadly

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minatory

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menacing; threatening

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strident

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making or having a harsh sound; grating; shrill or irritating quality or character

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churlish

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boorish; rude; mean

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unctuous

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excessively smooth or smug

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ostensible

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outwardly appearing but pretended; apparent, evident but conspicuous

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fulsome

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excessive; excessively or insincerely lavish

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dissemble

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disguise or conceal

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assay

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to examine or analyze

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descry

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to discern; perceive

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lassitude

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weariness of body or mind from strain; listlessness; indolent indifference

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cavil

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to raise irritating and trivial objections

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kismet

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fate; destiny

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portentous

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momentous; ominously significant or indicative

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propitiate

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to make favorably inclined; appease

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propitious

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favorable

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providential

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opportune, fortunate, or lucky

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admonish

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to caution or advise against; to scold; remind

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enjoin

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to prescribe with authority or emphasis; to direct or order

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hector

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a bully; to bully

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martinet

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a strict disciplinarian; someone who stubbornly adheres to rules

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remonstrate

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to plead in protest, or objection

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carom

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a strike or rebound

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sidle

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to move sideways or obliquely

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sinuous

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winding; indirect; curved

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grandiloquent

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speaking or expressed in a lofty style

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periphrastic

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circumlocutory; roundabout

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esurient

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hungry; greedy (poor)

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encomium

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a formal expression of high praise; eulogy

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augur

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to predict

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auspice

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a divination or prediction

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fey

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visionary; clairvoyant; attuned to the supernatural

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harbinger

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an omen; a sign; herald

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presage

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a foreboding; prophetic significance; prescience

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prognosticate

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to predict or forecast; prophesy

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forfend

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to defend or protect; to fend off, avert, prevent

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canny

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careful; cautious; astute; shrewd

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elegiac

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expressing sorrow

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doleful

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sorrowful; mournful; melancholy

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disconsolate

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inconsolable; without consolation; hopelessly unhappy

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threnody

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a poem, speech, or song of lamentation; dirge

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lugubrious

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mournful, dismal, or gloomy

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plaintive

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expressing sorrow; mournful

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renitent

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resistant; recalcitrant

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untoward

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unfavorable or unfortunate; improper

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curt

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brief; concise; terse; rudely brief in speech

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compendious

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concise, brief

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antedate

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to precede in time

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fealty

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fidelity; faithfulness

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peregrination

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travel from one place to another, esp. on foot; journey

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stultify

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render futile or ineffectual, esp. by degrading means

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adage

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a proverb

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apothegm

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a terse instructive remark or aphorism

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bromide

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a platitude or trite saying; a person who is platitudinous and boring

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dictum

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an authoritative pronouncement; maxim

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sententious

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abounding in pithy aphorisms or maxims

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abeyance

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temporary inactivity, suspension

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abjure

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to renounce, repudiate, or retract; recant

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decamp

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to depart quickly, secretly, or unceremoniously

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retrograde

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moving backward