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HAVOC
WIDESPREAD DISTRUCTION
GREAT CONFUSION OR DISORDER
STRAFE
TO ATTACK WITH MACHINE GUNS FROM THE AIR
BRAZENLY
BOLD AND SHAMELESS
EGREGIOUS
OUTSTANDINGLY BAD
PROTRACTED
LASTING LONGER THAN EXPECTED
DRAWN OUT IN TIME
PROLONG
BUTTRESS
(N) SUPPORTS A WALL
INTRACTABLE
STUBBORN, NOT OBEDIENT
SUBSTANTIVELY
A LOT
OR HAVING TO DO WITH THE SUBSTANCE
COGNOSCENTE
AN EXPERT
EPICURE
GOURMAND, GLUTON
EPITAPH
WORDS IN GRAVESTONE
EPIPHANY
SUDDEN REVELATION
EPITHET
WORD OR PHRASE THAT DESCRIBES
PARODY
SATIRE. MOCKERY
HOLD
A PLACE WHERE CARGO IS KEPT
CONTENT
TO SATISFY
REFRACTORY
OF A DISEASE, NOT RESPONDING TO TREATMENT
STUBBORN
CAVALIER
GALLANT
UNCEREMONIOUS, HAUGHTY, DISDAINFUL
DISINTERESTEDNESS
IMPARTIAL, UNBIASED
CONVICTION
A FIRMLY HELD BELIEF
IN COURT, "FOUND GUILTY"
SCRUTINY
CLOSE AND CRITICAL EXAMINATION
PUNGENCY
SHARPNESS, STINGING QUALITY IN SMELLS OR TASTES

VS BLANDNESS
PERFIDIOUS
TREACHEROUS
ABROGATE
DO AWAY WITH...
TO END A LAW OR AGREEMENT
INSULARITY
STATE OF BEING ISOLATED OR CONFINED
VS. COSMOPOLITANISM
PREMONITION
FOREWARNING
PRESAGE
TO PREDICT, TO FORESHADOW
PRECURSOR
A FORERUNNER, AHEAD OF THEIR TIME
QUIXOTIC
UNREALISTICLY ROMANTIC IDEALS
PROPITIATE
TO CONCILIATE, APPEASE.
SALUTARY
BENEFICIAL IN GENERAL
SALUBRIOUS
EDIFY
TO INSTRUCT SO AS TO FOSTER MORAL AND INTELLECTUAL GROWTH
EVENHANDED
FAIR
SPELL
SIGNIFY
HARDHEADED
STUBBORN, INSENSITIVE, TOUGH
IMPASSIVE
UNFEELING
LOQUACIOUS
TALKATIVE
ELOCUTION
SKILL OF SPEAKING CLEARLY AND PRONOUNCING WORDS DISTINCTLY
TANGENTIAL
ONLY SLIGHTLY RELEVANT OR CONNECTED
VERBATIM
WORD FOR WORD. IN EXACTLY THE SAME WORDS AS THE ORIGINAL ONES
CIRCUMLOCUTION
INDIRECT EXPRESSION
CONTRITE
REGRETFUL, PENITENT
DISINGENUOUS
APPARENTLY, BUT NOT ACTUALLY, HONEST
DOGGEREL
LOOSE UNSKILLFUL WRITING OR SPEECH
EFFLUVIUM
EMANATION OR EXHALATION AS A VAPOR OR GAS
EXTEMPORIZE
TO SPEAK SPONTANEOUSLY
FLIPPANT
FRIVOLOUSLY SHALLOW AND DISRESPECTFUL
FORBEAR
TO REFRAIN FROM DOING SOMETHING
FLOUT
SHOW SCORN OR CONTEMPT FOR
DEBAUCHERY
EXTREME INDULGENCE OF ONE'S APPETITES
CONUNDRUM
A PUZZLE
DISSEMINATE
TO DISTRIBUTE
DISSONANT
DISCORDANT
EPHEMERAL
SHORT LIVED
FRIVOLOUS
OF LITTLE VALUE, TRIFLING OR SILLY AND LIGHT MINDED
FURTIVE
SECRETIVE
GARRULOUS
TALKATIVE
GENIAL
GOOD HUMORED
CUNNING
SKILLED AT DECEIVING PEOPLE, CLEVER
SLY
OF DECEITFUL NATURE. HAVING SECRET KNOWLEDGE
GUILE
slyness and cunning in dealing with others
IMPEDE
to thwart
IMPROVIDENT
LACKING FORESIGHT, UNWISE
IMPUGN
TO ATTACK (ESPECIALLY THE INTEGRITY OF SOMEONE)
INCIPIENT
JUST BEGINNING TO EXIST
INCURSION
HOSTILE INVASION
MELLIFLUOUS
SOUNDING SWEET AND SMOOTH
MUNDANE
OF THE WORLD, COMMONPLACE
MUNIFICENT
VERY GENEROUS; LAVISH (GIVING IN GREAT AMOUNTS)
NULLIFY
TO MAKE INVALID
OBDURATE
HARDHEARTED, STUBBORN
PALLIATE
EASE THE PAIN WITHOUT ACUTALLY CURING
PARADOX
A STATEMENT THAT SEEMS CONTRADICTORY BUT THAT MAY ACTUALLY BE TRUE
PEDAGOGUE
A TEACHER (USUALLY A PEDANTIC ONE)
PLUMB
TO EXAMINE SOMEHTHING CLOSELY
GUILE
slyness and cunning in dealing with others
IMPEDE
to thwart
IMPROVIDENT
LACKING FORESIGHT, UNWISE
IMPUGN
TO ATTACK (ESPECIALLY THE INTEGRITY OF SOMEONE)
INCIPIENT
JUST BEGINNING TO EXIST
INCURSION
HOSTILE INVASION
MELLIFLUOUS
SOUNDING SWEET AND SMOOTH
MUNDANE
OF THE WORLD, COMMONPLACE
MUNIFICENT
VERY GENEROUS; LAVISH (GIVING IN GREAT AMOUNTS)
NULLIFY
TO MAKE INVALID
OBDURATE
HARDHEARTED, INTRACTABLE, CALLOUS
PALLIATE
TO LESSEN PAIN OF AN ILLNESS WITHOUT ACUTALLY CURING IT
PARADOX
A STATEMENT THAT SEEMS CONTRADICTORY BUT THAT MAY ACTUALLY BE TRUE
PEDAGOGUE
A TEACHER (USUALLY A PEDANTIC ONE)
PLUMB
TO EXAMINE SOMEHTHING CLOSELY
TO MEASURE DEPTH
PLUMMET
TO FALL STRAIGHT DOWN
PROPINQUITY
PROXIMITY, KINSHIP OR SIMILARITY
PUNDIT
A LEARNED PERSON, A CRITIC
SALIENT
PROMINENT
CONSPICUOUS=EASILY NOTICED
SEVER
TO BREAK OFF
SPECIOUS
FALSE, MISLEADING. DECEPTIVELY ATTRACTIVE
VS. GENUINE
SURREPTITIOUS
OBTAINED OR DONE IN A CLANDESTINE OR STEALTHY WAY
TEMERITY
RASHNESS OR FOOLISH BOLDNESS CONSIDERED RUDE OR DISRESPECTFUL BY OTHERS
TRUCULENT
SAVAGE, FIERCE
UBIQUITOUS
PRESENT OR SEEMING TO BE PRESENT EVERYWHERE AT THE SAM TIME