Gre Vocabulary Words

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Indelible

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1. That cannot be removed, erased or washed away
2. Making marks that cannot easily be removed or erased
3. Incapable of being forgotten; memorable

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Caterwaul

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1. To make a harsh cry
2. To have a noisy argument
3. A shrill, discordant sound

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Dishevelled

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In loose disorder; disarranged; unkempt

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Nolens Volens

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Whether willing or unwilling

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Effusive

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Excessively demonstrative; giving or involving extravagant or excessive emotional expression; gushing

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Callow

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Immature; lacking adult perception, experience or judgment

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Adventitious

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1. Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent
2. (Biology) out of the proper or usual place

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Abound

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1. To be in abundance; be plentiful
2. To have plenty; be rich
3. To be full; teem

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Affable

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Easy to approach and speak to; friendly; courteous

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Anathematize

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1. To pronounce an anathema against
2. To utter or express anathemas

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Anathema

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1. A formal ecclesiastical ban or curse, excommunicating a person or damning something, as a book or doctrine
2. Any curse or imprecation
3. One who or that which is greatly dislike
4. One who or that which is excommunicated or damned

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Autocrat

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1. A supreme ruler of unrestricted power
2. An arrogant, dictatorial person

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Compendium

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A brief, comprehensive summary; an abridgement

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Credence

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Belief especially as based upon the evidence of others

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Discourse

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1. Communication, as in conversation or writing
2. A formal, extensive oral or written treatment of a subject
3. To set forth one's ideas concerning a subject
4. To converse; confer

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Disquisition

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A formal treatise or discourse

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Quizzical

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1. Given to chaffing or bantering
2. Queer, odd
3. Questioning; puzzled

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Chaff

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1. To poke fun at
2. Good-natured raillery

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Arcane

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Secret, hidden

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Raillery

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Merry jesting or teasing; banter

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Banter

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1. Good-humored ridicule; raillery
2. To tease good-naturedly
3. To exchange good-natured repartee

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Repartee

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1. A witty or quick reply, a sharp rejoinder
2. Conversation characterized by such replies
3. Skill or quickness in such wit

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Rejoinder

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1. An answer to a reply; also, any reply or retort
2. (Law) - The answer filed by a defendant to a plaintiff's replication

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Replication

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1. A reply
2. (Law) - A plaintiff's reply to a defendant's plea or answer

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Conceit

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1. Overweening self-esteem
2. An ingenious, fanciful thought or expression
3. In poetry, an elaborate extended metaphor
4. Imagination, fancy

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Overweening

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1. Presumptuously proud or conceited
2. Excessive, exaggerated

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Subterfuge

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Any stratagem to avoid unpleasantness or difficulty

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Stratagem

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1. A maneuver designed to deceive or outwit an enemy in war
2. A device for obtaining advantage; trick

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Insidious

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1. Subtly cunning or deceitful; treacherous; wily
2. Progressing imperceptibly but harmfully

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Overt

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1. Open to view; observable
2. (Law) - Done with criminal intent

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Mutable

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Capable of, or subject to change

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Chide

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To speak reprovingly (to); scold

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Impolitic

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Not in keeping with good policy; not prudent; inexpedient; injudicious

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Inexpedient

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Not expedient; unsuited to a particular purpose; inadvisable

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Injudicious

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Not judicious; imprudent

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Expedient

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1. Serving to promote a desired end; suitable; advisable; or proper
2. Pertaining to or prompted by utility, interest or advantage rather than by what is right

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Judicious

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Having, showing or exercising good judgment; prudent

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Prudent

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1. Cautious; worldly-wise
2. Exercising sound judgment
3. Not extravagant
4. Decorously discreet

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Superfluous

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1. Exceeding what is necessary; excessively abundant; surplus
2. Unnecessary; uncalled for; irrelevant

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Indignant

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Feeling or showing indignation

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Indignation

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Anger aroused by injustice or baseness

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Adjunct

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1. Something joined to something else, but in an auxiliary or subordinate position
2. A helper, assistant
3. (Grammar) - A modifier
4. (Logic) - Any nonessential quality of a thing

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Ordnance

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1. Military weapons, ammunition, and associated equipment and material
2. Cannon or artilllery

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Lecher

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A lewd and prurient man

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Lecherous

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Given to lewdness or inciting to lust

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Prurient

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1. Having lustful cravings or desires
2. Lewd

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Ashen

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1. Of, pertaining to, or like ashes
2. Pale in color; gray

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Churlish

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1. Rude or surly
2. Stingy
3. Rustic, country(man)

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Beseech

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1. To entreat earnestly, implore
2. To beg for earnestly; crave

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Bemuse

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To stupefy or preoccupy

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Feint

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1. A deceptive movement or appearance; a ruse or pretense
2. An apparent or pretended blow or attack meant to divert attention

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Prig

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A formal and narrow-minded person who assumes superior virtue and wisdom

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Wrest

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1. To pull or force away by violent twisting or wringing; wrench
2. To turn from the true meaning, character intent or application, distort
3. To seize forcibly by violence, extortion, or usurpation
4. To extract by toil and effort
5. A misapplication or perversion
6. A crooked act
7. A key for tuning a stringed instrument, as a harp

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Extol

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To praise in the highest terms, exalt, laud

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Furor

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1. A great stir; commotion; rumpus
2. A state of intense excitement or enthusiasm

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Acquiescence

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Quiet submission; passive consent

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Ad Hoc

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(Latin) - For this purpose

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Tenuous

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1. Thin, slim, delicate, also, weak, flimsy, unsubstantial
2. Having slight density; rare

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Adumbrate

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1. To represent the mere shadow of; outline sketchily
2. To overshadow; darken

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Pell-mell

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1. In a confused or disordered way or manner
2. With a headlong rush; in wild haste
3. Devoid of order or method; confused
4. A jumble, disorder

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Stoic

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1. One who is apparently or professedly indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain, joy or grief
2. Not affected by passion, being or appearing indifferent to pleasure or pain, joy or grief

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Upbraid

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To scold or criticize harshly

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Nonagenarian

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A ninety year old person, someone whose age is in the nineties

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Primogeniture

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1. The state of being the firstborn of the same parents; seniority by birth among children of the same family
2. (Law) - An exclusive right of inheritance that belongs to the eldest son

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Inculcate

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To teach and impress by frequent repetition or instruction

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Refute

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1. To prove the incorrectness or falsity of a statement
2. To prove a person to be in error; confute

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Confute

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1. To prove to be wrong, false, or invalid; refute successfully
2. To overwhelm with proofs or disproofs; prove a person to be in the wrong
3. To bring to naught; confound

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Confound

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1. To confuse, amaze, or bewilder
2. To confuse with something else; fail to distinguish
3. To confuse or mingle (elements, things, or ideas) indistinguishably
4. To damn; use as a mild oath

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Naught

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1. Nothing
2. A cipher, zero, the character 0

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Arrogate

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1. To claim or take without right
2. To ascribe to another without reason

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Quibble

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1. An evasion of a point or question
2. A trivial distinction or objection; cavil
3. To evade the truth or the point in question as by raising trivial objection

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Cavil

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1. To raise trivial objections; argue captiously; carp with at or about
2. To find fault with; a captious objection

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Captious

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1. Apt to find fault; disposed to criticize
2. Designed to ensnare or perplex

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Carp

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To find fault unreasonably; complain, cavil

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Excise

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1. To cut out as a growth
2. To delete (a word, passage, etc.)

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Statutory

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1. A legislative enactment duly sanctioned and authenticated by constitutional rule; act of Parliament, Congress, etc.
2. Any authoritatively declared rule, ordinance decree or law; consisting of or regulated by statute.

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Apparent

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1. Readily perceived by the mind; evident; obvious
2. Easily seen, visible
3. Seeming, in distinction from real or actual

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Robust

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1. Possessing or characterized by great strength or endurance; rugged
2. Requiring strength
3. Violent, rude

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Ascribe

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1. to attribute or impute, as to a cause or source
2. To consider or declare as belonging (to); assign as a quality or attribute

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Exigency

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1. Urgency
2. Situation that requires immediate attention
3. A pressing need or necessity

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Trundle

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1. A small broad wheel as of a caster
2. Act, motion or sound of trundling
3. A trundle bed
4. A small low-wheeled truck

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Trundled

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1. To roll along
2. To rotate

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Cadre

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1. (Military) - The nucleus of officers and men needed to train a new military unit
2. A frame-work; nucleus, core

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Mitered

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1. Shaped like an Ecclesiastical miter
2. Wearing or permitted to wear a miter

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Miter

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1. A tall ornamental headdress; rising in peaks at the front and the back, worn by popes, bishops and abbots
2. The office or dignity of a bishop

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Crosier

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A staff surmounted by a crook or cross, borne by or before a bishop or archbishop on occasions of ceremony

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Cope

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1. A semicircular mantle worn by priests on ceremonial occasions
2. Something that arches overhead; a vault

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Stole

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1. A long narrow band of decorated cloth worn about the shoulders by officiating clergymen
2. A long scarf worn about the shoulders by women

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Deign

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1. To think it befitting oneself (to do something); condescend
2. To condescend to grant or allow

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Vociferous

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Making or characterized by a loud outcry; clamorous; noisy

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Puerile

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1. Pertaining to or characteristic of childhood, juvenile
2. Immature, weak, silly

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Congenial

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1. Having similar character or tastes; sympathetic
2. Suited to ones disposition; agreeable

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Fatuous

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1. Foolish and silly in a self-satisfied way; inane
2. Stupid

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Quietus

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1. Final discharge or acquittance, as from debt or obligation
2. Removal from activity; rest; death
3. Something that serves to suppress or quiet

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Deprave

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To render bad or worse, especially in morals; corrupt; pervert

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Injunction

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1. The act of enjoining
2. An authoritative order
3. (Law) - A judicial order requiring the party to do or refrain from some specified action

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Expunge

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To erase or wipe out

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Engram

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A permanently altered state in the protoplasm of animal cells assumed to result from the temporary excitation of certain stimuli

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Derelict

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1. Neglectful of obligation; remiss
2. Deserted or abandoned
3. A social outcast

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Dereliction

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1. Neglect of or failure in duty
2. Voluntary abandonment of something
3. The state or fact of being abandoned

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Accord

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1. To render as due; grant
2. To make harmonize or agree
3. Harmony as of sentiment, colors, sounds, etc.; agreement
4. A settlement of any difference, as between governments
5. By one's own choice

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Barrage

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1. (Military) - A curtain of fire designed to protect troops by impending enemy movements across defensive lines or areas
2. Any overwhelming attack, as of words, or blows

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Bastion

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1. In fortifications, projecting part of a rampart
2. Any fortified position

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Chagrin

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1. Distress or vexation caused by disappointment,; failure, etc.; mortification
2. To humiliate, mortify

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Circumvent

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1. To surround or entrap, as an enemy, by stratagem
2. To gain an advantage over; outwit
3. To go around or avoid

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Conjecture

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1. To conclude from incomplete evidence; guess and infer
2. Conclusion based on a guess; surmise

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Contingent

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1. Liable, but not certain to happen; possible
2. Occurring by chance; accidental
3. Dependent upon an uncertain event or condition
4. An accidental or possible occurrence
5. A proportionate share or quota of something to be furnished, as of troops
6. A representative group in an assemblage

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Contrive

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1. To plan, scheme or plot
2. To improvise, to invent
3. To manage as by some scheme

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Convolute

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1. Rolled one part over another or inward from one side
2. To coil up; form into a twisted shape

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Credulous

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1. Disposed to believe on slight evidence
2. Arising from credulity

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Curé

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A parish priest especially in France

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Dexterous

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1. Possessing dexterity, adroit
2. Done with dexterity

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Dexterity

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1. Skills in using the hands or body
2. Mental adroitness

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Disapprobation

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Disapproval

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Adroit

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Skillful, expert

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Ecclesiastic

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One officially in the service in the church, a cleric, churchman

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Enshrine

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1. To place in or as in a shrine
2. To cherish devoutly; hold sacred

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Entail

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1. To impose, involve, or result in by necessity
2. (Law) - To restrict or leave the inheritance of (real property) to an unalterable succession of heirs
3. A restricted line of succession or inheritance

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Equivocate

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To use ambiguous language with intent to mislead or deceive

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Evocative

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The act of evoking; a summoning as of memories

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Fencing

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The art or practice of making quick effective remarks or retorts, as in debate

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Fief

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A landed estate held under feudal tenure

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Herectical

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Of, pertaining to, or characterized by heresy

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Heresy

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1. A belief contrary to the established doctrines of a church or religious system
2. Any belief contrary to established doctrine
3. The holding of such a belief or opinion

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Fastidious

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Hard to please in matters of taste; exceedingly delicate or refined; overnice; squeamish

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Impetus

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The force that sets a body in motion; also the energy with which a body moves or is driven

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Impute

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1. To attribute (a fault, crime, etc.) to a person; charge
2. To consider as the cause or source of; ascribe

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Impunity

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Freedom or exemption from punishment, harm, or unpleasant consequence

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Incontrovertible

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not admitting of controversy; undeniable

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Incommunicado

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Confined without means of communication

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Inordinate

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1. Exceeding proper limit, immoderate, excessive
2. Unrestrained

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Laudable

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Deserving approbation

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Lintel

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A horizontal part above the opening of a door or window, supporting the structure above it

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Marginalia

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Marginal notes

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Misconstrue

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1. To interpret wrongly; misunderstand
2. (Grammar) To construe incorrectly

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Opulence

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1. Wealth, affluence
2. Luxuriance, abundance

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Ostensible

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Offered as real or genuine; apparent

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Perilous

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Involving or attended with peril; hazardous

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Potentate

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One having great power or sway; sovereign

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Preceptor

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A teacher; instructor

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Propound

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To put forward for consideration, solution, etc.; submit

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Prostrate

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1. Lying prone, or with face to the ground
2. Brought low in mind or spirit
3. Lying at the mercy of another
4. Trailing along the ground
5. To bow or cast (oneself) down, as in adoration or pleading
6. To throw flat; lay on the ground
7. To overcome; make helpless

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Purport

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1. To have or bear as its meaning; signify; imply
2. To claim or profess (to be), especially falsely
3. That which is conveyed or suggested to the mind as the meaning or intention; import
4. The substance of a statement, etc.; given in other than exact words

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Quixotic

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1. Of, pertaining to, or like Don Quixote
2. Ridiculously chivalrous or romantic; having high but impractical sentiments, aim, etc.

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Ramification

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1. Art or process of ramifying
2. An offshoot or subdivision
3. A result, consequence, etc. stemming from a main source

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Recourse

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1. Resort to or application for help or security
2. One who or that which is resorted to for help or supply

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Regale

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1. To give unusual pleasure or delight
2. To entertain sumptuously; feast

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Repudiate

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1. To refuse to accept as valid or binding; reject
2. To refuse to acknowledge or pay
3. to cast off; disown; as a son

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Requisite

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1. Required by the nature of things or by circumstance; indispensable
2. That which cannot be dispensed with; a necessity

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Reticent

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Habitually silent or reserved in utterance

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Sepulcher

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1. A burial place; tomb; vault
2. A receptacle for relics especially in an altar slab

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Simony

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Traffic in sacred things; the purchase or sale of Ecclesiastical preferment

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Tableau

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1. Any picture or picturesque representation; especially a striking scene presented dramatically
2. tableau vivant

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Tempestuous

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Stormy, turbulent, violent

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Transgression

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1. A violation of a law, command, etc.; especially a violation of divine law; sin
2. The act of transgressing

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Transient

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1. Passing away quickly; of short duration; brief
2. Not permanent, temporary, transitory
3. One who or that which is transient, especially a lodger or boarder who remains for a short time

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Tutelage

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1. The state of being under a tutor or guardian
2. The act or office of a guardian; guardianship
3. The act of tutoring; instruction

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Unction

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1. The state or quality of being unctuous
2. (Eccl.) A ceremonial anointing with oil
3. A sacramental rite of anointing those in danger of death
4. Unguent used in anointing; ointment

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Unduly

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1. excessively
2. In violation of a moral or of a legal standard; unjustly

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Unctuous

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1. Characterized by affected emotion; oily-tongued; unduly suave
2. Characterized by deep sympathetic feeling
3. Greasy, slippery to the touch, as an unguent

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Vague

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1. Lacking definiteness or precision
2. Of uncertain source or authority
3. Not clearly recognized, understood, stated, or felt
4. Shadowy, hazy

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Variance

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1. The act of varying, or the state of being variant; difference; discrepancy
2. Dissension, discord
3. Disagreeing or conflicting, as facts

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Vicissitude

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1. Irregular changes or variations, as of fortune
2. A change especially a complete change; mutation or mutability
3. Alternating change or succession, as of the seasons

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Veracity

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1. The habitual regard for the truth; truthfulness; honesty
2. Agreement with truth; accuracy
3. That which is true; truth

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Visigoth

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One the Western Goths, a Teutonic people that invaded the Roman Empire in the third and fourth centuries and settled in France and Spain

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Abstruse

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Hard to understand

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Accede

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1. To give one's consent or adherence; agree, assent
2. To come into or enter upon an office or dignity

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Bald

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1. Without natural covering or growth
2. Unadorned
3. Without disguise; forthright

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Capitulate

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1. To surrender on stipulated terms
2. To surrender

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Depredate

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To prey upon; pillage; plunder

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Destitute

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1. Not having; entirely lacking
2. Extremely poor

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Wax

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1. To become larger gradually; increase in size or numbers; grow said especially of the moon
2. To become

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Diocese

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The territory of the churches under a bishop's jurisdiction

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Elegiac

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1. Like an elegy, sad; lamenting
2. In classical prosody, written in distichs, the first line f which is a hexameter, and the second a pentameter

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Enclave

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1. A territory completely or partially enclosed by the territory of a power to which it is not politically subject as San Marino and Vatican City in Italy
2. A district as in a city, inhabited by a minority group

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Expiate

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To atone for; make amends for

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Extirpate

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To root out or up, destroy wholly

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Flagrant

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Openly disgraceful; notorious; heinous

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Idyllic

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Charmingly simple or picturesque

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Idyl

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A poem or prose piece, usually short, depicting simple scenes of pastoral, domestic, or country life

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Incorporeal

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1. Not consisting of matter; insubstantial
2. Of or pertaining to immaterial things; spiritual

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Import

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1. Importance
2. To be of consequence, matter

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Intercessor

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One who intercedes; a mediator

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Legate

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1. An ecclesiastic appointed as an official representative to the Pope
2. An official envoy usually acting as a diplomatic representative of a government

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Milieu

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Environment, surroundings

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Non sequitur

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1. (Logic) An interference that does not follow from the premises
2. Any comment not relevant to what has preceded it

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Obsequies

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Funeral rites

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Obsequious

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Excessively obedient or submissive; sycophantic; servile

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Palpable

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1. Capable of being touched or felt
2. Readily perceived; obvious
3. Perceptible by touching

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Phantasm

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1. An imaginary appearance; phantom
2. A mental image; fancy

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Posit

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1. To put in position; place
2. To lay down or assume as a fact or basis of argument; postulate

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Preposterous

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Contrary to nature, reason, or common sense; utterly absurd or impracticable

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Recant

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1. To withdraw formally one's belief in (something previously believed or maintained)
2. To disavow an opinion or belief previously held

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Reputed

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Generally thought or supposed

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Respite

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1. Postponement; delay
2. Temporary intermission of labor or effort; an interval of rest

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Stricture

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1. Severe criticism
2. (Pathology) An abnormal contraction of some duct or channel

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Vindictive

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1. Having a revengeful spirit
2. Revengeful or spiteful in quality, character, etc.

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Wholesale

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Made or done on a large scale or indiscriminately

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Abject

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Miserable; pitiful

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Adept

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1. Highly skilled; proficient
2. One fully skilled in any art; an expert

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Annals

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1. A record of events in their chronological order, year by year
2. History of records
3. A periodical publication of discoveries, publications, etc.

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Apotheosis

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1. Exaltation to divine rank; deification
2. Supreme exaltation of any person, principle, etc.

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Arbiter

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1. A chosen or appointed judge or umpire, as between parties in a dispute
2. One who has matters under his sole control; an absolute and final judge

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Bull

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An official and authoritative statement issued by the Pope

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Cavalier

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1. A horsemen; knight
2. Courtly or dashing gentleman, a gallant, also, a lady's escort
3. Haughty or supercilious
4. Free and easy; offhand
5. Show arrogance

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Clearinghouse

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An office where bankers exchange drafts and check and adjust balances

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Collusion

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A secret agreement for a wrongful purpose; conspiracy

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Countenance

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1. The face or features
2. Facial expression
3. An encouraging look; also, approval, support
4. Self-control, composure

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Dearth

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Scarcity, lack, famine

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Depose

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1. To deprive of office or rank; oust
2. (Law) To declare under oath

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Despot

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1. An absolute monarch; autocrat
2. A tyrant

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Emissary

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A person sent on a mission especially as a secret agent to advance certain interests

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Engender

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1. To cause to exist; produce
2. Rare to beget
3. To come into being

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Fulminate

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1. To make loud or violent denunciations; make scathing verbal attacks; inveigh
2. To explode suddenly and violently, as a chemical
3. To issue in scathing rebuke or condemnation

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Haughty

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Exhibiting great disdain for others; supercilious

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Impinge

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1. To strike, fall
2. To encroach, infringe

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Inveigh

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To utter vehement censure or invective

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Machination

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A concealed working and scheming for some devious purpose

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Penury

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Extreme poverty or want

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Pernicious

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1. Having the power of destroying or injuring; very injurious; deadly
2. malicious, wicked

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Poignant

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1. Painful and afflicting to the feelings
2. Piercing, sharp, and cutting
3. Penetrating and apt

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Postulant

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1. One who presents a request
2. (Eccl.) An applicant for admission into a religious order

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Precarious

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1. Subject to continued risk; uncertain
2. Subject or exposed to danger; hazardous

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Preclude

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1. To make impossible or ineffectual by prior action
2. To shut out; exclude

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Prelate

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An ecclesiastic of high rank as a bishop, archbishop,etc.

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Spurious

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Not proceeding from the source pretended; not genuine; false

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Supercilious

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Exhibiting haughty contempt or indifference; arrogant

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Tantamount

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Having equivalent value, effect, or import; equivalent

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Vassal

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1. In the feudal system, one who held land of a superior lord by a feudal tenure; a liege man or feudal tenant
2. A dependent, retainer, or servant; a slave or bondman
3. Servile

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Welter

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1. To roll about; wallow
2. To lie or be soaked in some fluid, as blood
3. To surge or move tumultuously, as the sea
4. A rolling movement as waves
5. A commotion, turmoil

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Abridge

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1. To give the substance of in fewer words; condense
2. To shorten as in time
3. To curtail or lessen, as rights
4. To deprive

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Allegory

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1. A story or narrative, as a fable, in which a moral principle or truth is revealed by means of fictional characters, events, etc.
2. Loosely, any symbolic representation in literature or art

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Antecedent

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1. Prior, preceding
2. One who or that which precedes
3. (Grammar) The word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refers
4. The past events circumstances, etc. of a person's life, also ancestry

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Appellation

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1. A name or title
2. The act of calling or naming

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Beleaguer

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1. To surround or shit in with an armed force
2. To surround, beset

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Caravel

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A small ship of the 15th and 16th centuries, used especially by the Portuguese and Spanish

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Coquette

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A woman who tries to attract men merely to gratify her vanity; a flirt

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Diametrical

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1. Of, pertaining to, or coinciding with a diameter
2. Directly opposite; as far removed as possible

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Domicile

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1. A home, house or dwelling
2. The place of one's legal abode
3. To establish in a place of abode
4. To dwell

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Emend

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1. To make corrections or changes in (a literary work, etc.) especially after scholarly study
2. To free from faults

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Extant

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Still existing; not lost nor destroying; surviving

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Fraught

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Filled; laden

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Harry

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1. To lay waste; as in war or invasion; pillage; sack
2. To harass in any way

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Imprecation

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A malediction; curse

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Imprecate

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To invoke or call down (some curse or calamity)

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Intimation

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1. Information given indirectly; a hint
2. A declaration or notification

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Intimate

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To make known without direct statement; hint

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Inviolate

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Not violated; not profaned or broken; intact

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Lurid

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1. Shocking or sensational
2. Pale and sickly in color
3. Lighted up with a yellowish red glare or glow especially in smoke or darkness

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Malediction

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1. The pronouncing of a curse against someone
2. Slander, calumny

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Nebulous

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1. Vague or confused; hazy
2. Cloud-like; misty
3. Of pertaining to or like a nebula

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Obfuscate

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1. To confuse or perplex; bewilder
2. To darken or obscure

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Paunch

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1. The abdomen or the belly especially if protruding
2. A rumen

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Prosaic

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1. Unimaginative; commonplace; dull
2. Of or like prose

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Recondite

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1. Remote from ordinary or easy perception, abstruse; secret
2. Dealing in abstruse matters
3. Hidden

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Reliquary

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A repository for relics, as a casket, coffer or shrine

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Repository

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1. A place in which goods are or may be stored
2. A person to whom a secret is entrusted
3. A burial vault
4. Receptacle for relics

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Seneschal

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An official in the household of a medieval prince or noble, having charge of feasts, etc.; a steward or major-domo

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Stead

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1. Place of another person or thing
2. Place or attitude of support; service
3. A homesteading or farm

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Subvert

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1. To overthrow; destroy utterly
2. To undermine the morals, character, or faith of; corrupt

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Tepid

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Moderately warm, lukewarm

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Tome

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1. A volume, large book
2. One of a series of volumes

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Vacillate

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1. To sway one way and the other; totter; waver
2. To fluctuate
3. To waver in mind, be irresolute

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Vest

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1. To confer (ownership, authority, etc.) upon some person or persons
2. To clothe as with vestments
3. To become vested; devolve

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Vestige

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A visible trace; impression; sign of something absent or lost; trace

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Aegis

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1. In Greek mythology, the breastplate of Zeus and Athena
2. Any shield or armor
3. A protecting influence

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Amalgam

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1. An alloy or union of mercury with another metal
2. A silver-white brittle compound of mercury and silver
3. Any combination of two or more things

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Append

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1. To add as something subordinate or supplemental
2. To hang or attach

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Arrant

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Notoriously bad; unmitigated

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Auspice

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1. Patronage
2. An omen or sign

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Behest

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An authoritative request; command

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Bellicose

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1. Pugnacious
2. Disposed or incline to fight; quarrelsome

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Connote

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To suggest or imply along with the literal meaning

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Cursory

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Rapid and superficial

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Dauphin

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The eldest son of a king of France, a title used from 1349 to 1830

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Deference

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1. Submission or yielding to the will, opinions, etc. of another
2. Respectful regard

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Distich

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In prosody, a couplet

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Ex Officio

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(Latin) By virtue of because of office or position

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Dubious

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1. Unsettled in judgment or opinion; doubtful
2. Causing doubt; equivocal
3. Not predictable; uncertain
4. Open to criticism, objection, or suspicion

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Facile

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1. Requiring little effort; easily achieved or performed; also, superficial
2. Ready or quick in performance; also, smooth, glib
3. Easily moved or persuaded; affable, agreeable

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Febrile

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Feverish

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Hegemony

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Domination or leadership; especially the predominant influence of one state over others

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Ineptitude

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1. The state of quality of being inept
2. An inept act or remark

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Inept

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1. Not suitable or appropriate
2. Clumsy, awkward

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Internecine

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1. Destructive to both sides
2. Involving great slaughter

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Insouciant

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Lighthearted; carefree; unconcerned

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Lacunae

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1. A space from which something is missing or has been omitted especially in a manuscript; hiatus
2. Any of the minute cavities in bone containing bone cells

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Oblique

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1. Not direct or straight forward in meaning; expression, etc.
2. Indirectly aimed at or attained
3.Not in the direct line of descent; collateral

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Portend

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To warn of as an omen; forebode

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Posterity

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1. Future generations taken collectively
2. All of one's descendants

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Precocious

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1. Unusually developed or advanced for one's age
2. Pertaining to or showing premature development

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Promulgate

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To make known or announce officially and formally; put into effect by public proclamation, as a law or dogma

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Prosody

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The science of poetical forms, including quantity and accent of syllables, meter, versification and metrical composition

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Pugnacious

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Disposed or inclined to fight; quarrelsome

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Quaff

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To drink especially copiously or with relish

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Rife

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1. Great in number or quantity; plentiful; abundant
2. Prevalent; current
3. containing in abundance

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Slap-dash

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1. Done or acting in a dashing or reckless way; impetuous; careless
2. Offhand or careless work, behavior, etc.

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Tacit

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1. Existing, inferred, or implied without being directly stated
2. Making no sound; silent; noiseless

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Trounce

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1. To beat or thrash severely; punish
2. To defeat

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Viticulture

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The science and art of grape growing

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Lubricious

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1. Lustful, lewd
2. Stimulating or appealing to sexual desire or imagination
3. Having a slippery mouth or smooth quality

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Ineffectual

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Not producing the proper effect; without effect; weak; useless; futile; unavailing

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Magniloquent

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Lofty or grandiose in speech or expression; using a high-flown style of discourse; bombastic

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Perquisite

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1. A profit or benefit in addition to a salary or wages
2. Broadly the benefits of a position or office
3. A gratuity or tip for services performed
4. Anything to which someone has or claims the sole right

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Mien

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1. Manner or bearing, especially as expressive of mood, attitude, or personality; demeanor
2. Aspect, appearance

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Irascible

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Prone to anger; easily provoke to anger; hot-tempered

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Canorous

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Richly melodious; pleasant sounding; musical

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Sylvan

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1. Of or pertaining to wood or forest regions
2. Living or located in a wood or forest
3. Abounding in forests or trees; wooded
4. A fabled deity or spirit of the woods
5. One that lives in or frequents the woods or forest; a rustic

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Neophyte

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1. A new convert or proselyte
2. A novice; a beginner in anything

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Egocentric

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Regarding oneself as the object of all experience and acts

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Flamboyant

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1. Extravagantly ornate; florid; showy
2. Brilliant in color; resplendent
3. Pertaining to a highly decorative style of architecture

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Garrulous

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1. Given to continual or glib talking
2. Rambling and wordy

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Gregarious

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1. Habitually associating with others, as in flocks, herds, or groups
2. Enjoying or seeking other; sociable
3. Of or characteristic of a flock, crowd, or aggregation

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Immutable

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Not mutable; unchanging; unalterable

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Innocuous

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Having no harmful qualities or effects; harmless

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Libretto

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1. The verbal text of an opera or other large-scale vocal work
2. A book containing such a text

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Licentious

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Lacking in moral restraint; lewd

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Magi

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The priestly caste of the Medes and Persians

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Militant

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1. Combative or warlike; aggressive
2. Positive and forceful in action; resolute
3. Engaged in conflict; fighting

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Noncommittal

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Not involving or revealing a committment to any particular attitude, opinion, etc.

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Patently

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Manifestly, clearly

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Proselyte

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One who has been brought over to any opinion, belief, sect or party especially from one religious belief to another

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Resplendent

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Shining with brilliant luster; vividly bright; splendid; gorgeous

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Signatory

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1. Bound by the terms of a signed document; having signed
2. One who has signed or is bound by a document especially a nation so bound

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Ulterior

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1. More remote; not so pertinent as something else
2. Intentionally unrevealed; hidden
3. Later in time or secondary in importance; following; succeeding
4. Lying beyond or on the farther side of a certain bounding line

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Viscount

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In England, a title of nobility ranking between those of Earl and Baron

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Abet

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Assist, usually in doing something wrong

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Abjure

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Renounce upon oath; disavow

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Abnegation

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Renunciation; self-sacrifice

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Abominate

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Loathe; hate

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Abrogate

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Abolish

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Resurgent

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1. Rising again
2. Surging back and again

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Abut

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Border upon; adjoin

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Abysmal

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1. Bottomless
2. Very bad

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Accost

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Approach and speak first to a person

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Accoutre

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Equip

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Acrimonious

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Bitter in words or manner

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Apostolate

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The dignity or office of an apostle

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Asperse

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To spread false charges against; slander

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Avuncular

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Of or pertaining to an uncle

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Archetype

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An original or standard pattern or model; a prototype

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Belabor

Back 342

1. To beat soundly; assail with blows; drub
2. To assail verbally

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Contemptible

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Deserving of contempt; disdainful; scornful

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Caliph

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The spiritual and civil head of a Moslem state

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Caesura

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1. In Greek and Latin prosody, a break occurring when a word ends within a foot
2. In modern prosody, a pause usually near the middle of a line. Indicated by two vertical lines (||)
3. (Music) A pause indicating a rhythmic division point

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Chancery

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1. In the United States:
A. A court of Equity
B. Equity or proceedings in equity
2. (Britain) One of the five divisions of the High Court of Justice
3. A chancellery
4. A court of records; archives
5. (Law) In litigation
6. In wrestling, with the head caught and held under an opponent's arm
7. In a hopeless predicament

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Chrism

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1. Consecrated oil used for anointing at baptism, confirmation, unction, etc.
2. Any sacramental anointing

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Complicity

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1. The state of being an accomplice; as in a wrong act
2. Complexity

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Comport

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1. To protect or behave (oneself)
2. To be compatible; agree

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Compunction

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1. An uneasiness of mind arising from wrongdoing; a sense of guilt or remorse
2. A feeling of slight regret or pity

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Consul

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1. An officer residing in a foreign city to protect his country's commercial interests and the welfare of its citizens
2. Either of the two chief magistrates ruling conjointly in the Roman republic
3. Any of the three chief magistrates of the French Repulic, 1799-1804

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Conventual

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Belonging or pertaining to a convent; one who belongs to a convent

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Convoke

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To call together; summon to meet

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Culpable

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Deserving of blame or censure

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Cumber

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1. To hinder; obstruct; hamper
2. To weigh down; burden
3. A hindrance or encumberance

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Defector

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One who deserts

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Dint

Back 357

1. Active agency; mean; force
2. A dent
3. To drive in forcibly

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Dispel

Back 358

To drive away by or as by scattering; disperse

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Dispensation

Back 359

1. The act of dispensing; a dealing out; distribution
2. That which is dispensed or distributed
3. A specific plan, order, or system of administering
4. A special exemption from something, as from a law or obligation; especially an exemption by ecclesiastical authority from an obligation or from church law

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Dossier

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A collection of papers, document, etc., relating to a particular matter or person

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Drub

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1. To beat as with a stick
2. To vanquish; overcome
3. A blow; thump

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Ecumenical

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World-wide in scope, especially of the Christian church

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Egregious

Back 363

Conspicuously bad; glaring; flagrant

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Enjoin

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1. To order or command (a person or group)
2. To impose (a condition, course of action, etc.) on a person or group
3. To forbid or prohibit especially by judicial order

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Expound

Back 365

To set forth in detail; state; declare

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Factotum

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A man of all work

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Fealty

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1. The obligation of fidelity owed to a feudal lord by his vassal or tenant
2. Faithfulness, loyalty

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Felicity

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1. Happiness, bliss (in general or an instance, source)
2. An agreeably pertinent or effective manner or style
3. A pleasantly appropriate remark

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Felicitous

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1. Most appropriate; apt
2. Using an agreeable pertinent or effective manner or style

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Fetter

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1. A chain or other bond put about the ankles to restrain movement or prevent escape
2. Anything checking freedom of movement or expression
3. To prevent the free movement or expression of

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Forestall

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1. To hinder, prevent, or guard against in advance
2. To deal with, think of, or realize beforehand; anticipate
3. To buy up goods for reselling

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Preeminent

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Supremely eminent; distinguished above all others; outstanding; conspicuous

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Garish

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Vulgarly showy or gaudy

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Gnosis

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Knowledge; recognition

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Gnostic

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Of or possessing knowledge, especially spiritual knowledge or insight

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Heft

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1. To test or gauge the weight of by lifting
2. To lift up, heave
3. The bulk or gist

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Histrionics

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1. Feigned emotional display, affectation in manner, speech, etc.
2. Theatrical art or representation, dramatics

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Impel

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1. To force or drive to an action; move
2. By an impulse; urge on
3. To drive or push forward

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Impregnable

Back 379

Incapable of being taken by force or overcome; unyielding

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Impugn

Back 380

To attack (a statement, motives, etc.) with criticism or arguments; dispute the truth of

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Impudent

Back 381

Offensively bold; insolently assured; saucy; brazen

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Inchoate

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1. In an early or rudimentary stage
2. Lacking order, form, coherence, etc.

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Incipient

Back 383

Coming into existence; just beginning to appear

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Ineluctable

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Not to be escaped from or avoided; inevitable

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Inimical

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1. Characterized by harmful opposition; antagonistic
2. Behaving as an enemy; hostile

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Litany

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(Eccl.) A liturgical form of prayer consisting of a series of supplications said by the clergy, to which the congregation repeat a fixed response.

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Malefactor

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1. One who commits a crime; criminal
2. An evildoer

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Misogyny

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Hatred of women

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Modicum

Back 389

Moderate or small amount

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Morass

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1. A tract of low-lying soft, wet ground, marsh, bog
2. Anything that impedes, perplexes, or traps

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Moribund

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1. At the point of death; dying
2. Approaching extinction

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Novitiate

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1. The state of period of being a novice
2. (Eccl.) A period of probation of a novice in a religious order or community; the quarters occupied by such novices

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Ostentatious

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Intended to attract notice; showy

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Lascivious

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Having, manifesting or arousing sensual desires; lustful

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Palimpsest

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A parchment, manuscript, etc. written upon two or three times, the earlier writing having been wholly or partially erased to make room for the next

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Pander

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1. A go-between in sexual intrigues; pimp
2. One who ministers to the passions or base desires of others

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Paragon

Back 397

A model or pattern of excellence, especially of a specific excellence

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Patrimony

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1. An inheritance from a father or an ancestor; also, anything inherited
2. An endowment, as of the church

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Perdition

Back 399

1. Eternal damnation; the utter loss of a soul
2. The place of eternal damnation; hell

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Perforce

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By or of necessity; necessarily

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Plutocrat

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1. A member of a plutocracy
2. Any wealthy person

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Plutocracy

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1. A government by the wealthy
2. A wealthy class controls the government

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Polemic

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1. Of or pertaining to controversy; disputations
2. An argument or controversy or one who engages thus

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Phantasmagoria

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1. A changing incoherent series of apparitions or phantasms as in a dream
2. An exhibition of pictures projected on a screen and made to increase or diminish in size rapidly while continously in focus; also, any exhibition of optical effects
3. An apparition

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Portentous

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1. Having the nature of a portent; foreboding
2. Causing astonishment or awe; extraordinary

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Portent

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1. An indication or sign of what is to happen especially of something momentous or calamitous
2. Ominous significance

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Posthaste

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1. (Archaic) Great haste or speed, like that of the post
2. With utmost speed

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Posthumous

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1. Denoting a child born after the father's death
2. Published after the author's death as a book
3. Arising or continuing after one's death

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Precarious

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1. Subject to continued risk; uncertain
2. Subject or exposed to danger; hazardous
3. Without foundation or basis

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Preferment

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1. The act of promoting to higher office; advancement
2. A position rank or office of social prestige or profit
3. The act of preferring

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Prefigure

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1. To serve as an indication or suggestion of; foreshadow
2. To imagine or picture to oneself beforehand

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Proclivity

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Natural tendencies

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Proffer

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To offer for acceptance

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Proletariat

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1. Wageworkers collectively; the working class; a term used especially in Marxism
2. In ancient Rome, the lowest class of the state

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Propitious

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1. Attended by favorable circumstances; auspicious
2. Kindly disposed; gracious

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Puissant

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Powerful; mighty

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Pundit

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1. In India, one versed in Sanskrit love and in the science, laws religion of Hindus
2. Any learned man

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Punitive

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Pertaining to or inflicting punishment

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Menagerie

Back 419

1. A collection of wild or unusual animals, especially for exhibition
2. An enclosure where those animals are kept
3. A diverse or varied group

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Raiment

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Clothing in general; garments

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Copacetic

Back 421

Very satisfactory; fine

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Perdurable

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Very durable; lasting; continually long

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Amative

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Pertaining to or disposed to love especially sexual love; full of love; amorous

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Ennui

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A feeling of weariness and dissatisfaction arising from lack of interest; boredom

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Virago

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1. A woman of extraordinary stature strength and courage
2. A woman regarded as loud, scolding, ill-tempered, quarrelsome, or overbearing

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Pestiferous

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1. Bearing or bringing disease
2. Infected with or contaminated by a pestilential disease
3. Morally evil or dangerous to society; pernicious
4. Bothersome; troublesome, annoying

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Sine Qua Non

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An essential condition or element; an indispensable thing

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Factitious

Back 428

1. Produced artifically in distinction from what is produced by nature
2. Artifical, not authentic or genuine, sham

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Relegate

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1. To assign to an inferior position, place, or condition
2. To assign to an appropriate category or class
3. To assign or refer (a matter or task for example) to another for appropriate action
4. To send into exile; banish

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Dissolute

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Loose in morals or conduct; marked by indulgence in sensual pleasures or vices

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Nettlesome

Back 431

Causing irritation, vexation or distress

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Irrupt

Back 432

1. To burst in forcibly or suddenly; to intrude
2. (Ecology) To increase rapidly in number

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Lissom

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1. Limber; supple; flexible
2. Light and quick in action; nimble; agile; active

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Aplomb

Back 434

Assurance of manner or of action; self-possession; confidence; coolness

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Bereft

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Deprived of or lacking something

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Quirk

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A peculiarity of action or behavior

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Quisling

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One who helps the invaders of one's own country

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Recalcitrant

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1. To be stubbornly disobedient
2. Stubbornly resisting authority
3. Resistant to handling or treatment

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Rankle

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To cause anger, irritation, or bitterness

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Regicide

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One who murders a king; murder of a king

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Remiss

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1. Negligent or careless in the performance of work or duty
2. Showing neglect or inattention

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Repose

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1. A state of resting
2. Eternal or heavenly rest
3. Cessation or absence of activity, movement or animation
4. To place (as trust) in someone or something
5. To place for control management or use

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Reprehensible

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Deserving blame or censure; culpable

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Salient

Back 444

1. Jutting forward beyond a line
2. A projecting part in a line of defense

Front 445

Scrupulous

Back 445

Having moral integrity

Front 446

Scurrilous

Back 446

Coarsely jesting; obscene; vulgar

Front 447

Sedition

Back 447

The causing of discontent, insurrection, or resistance against a government

Front 448

Servitor

Back 448

A male servant

Front 449

Soporific

Back 449

Causing sleep or drowsiness; lethargic

Front 450

Sordid

Back 450

1. Marked by baseness or grossness; vile
2. Dirty; squalid

Front 451

Skein

Back 451

A loosely twisted quantity of yarn or thread wound on a reel

Front 452

Spate

Back 452

A sudden outburst

Front 453

Specious

Back 453

Seeming to be genuine, correct, or beautiful, but not really so

Front 454

Spurn

Back 454

1. To kick away or trample on
2. To reject with disdain

Front 455

Squalid

Back 455

1. Filthy or degraded through neglect or poverty
2. Sordid, debased

Front 456

Surreptitious

Back 456

1. Obtained, done, made, etc. by stealth; secret or unauthorized; clandestine
2. Acting in a stealthy way
3. Obtained by subreption

Front 457

Subreption

Back 457

A fallacious representation or an inference from it

Front 458

Cohort

Back 458

1. A group or company
2. A companion or associate

Front 459

Stipulate

Back 459

To make an agreement; especially to make a special demand for something as a condition in an agreement

Front 460

Subsume

Back 460

To include or place within something larger or more comprehensive

Front 461

Succor

Back 461

To run to the rescue, bring aid

Front 462

Subservience

Back 462

A subordinate place or condition

Front 463

Sundry

Back 463

Several, diverse, various

Front 464

Tenable

Back 464

Capable of being held maintained, or defended

Front 465

Truism

Back 465

An undoubted or self-evident truth

Front 466

Tonsure

Back 466

1. The rite of admission to the clerical state by the clipping or shaving of the head
2. The shaven crown or patch worn by clerics

Front 467

Vituperate

Back 467

To abuse in words; scold

Front 468

Forebear

Back 468

Ancestor, forefather

Front 469

Acquit

Back 469

1. To pronouce not guilty
2. To conduct oneself usually satisfactorily

Front 470

Akimbo

Back 470

Having the hand on the hip and the elbow turned outward

Front 471

Accolade

Back 471

An expression of praise; award

Front 472

Alfresco

Back 472

Taking place in the open air

Front 473

Temerarious

Back 473

Reckless or presumptuously daring; rash

Front 474

Fallible

Back 474

1. Liable to make a mistake
2. Liable to be in accurate or erroneous

Front 475

Supererogatory

Back 475

1. Going beyond what is required or necessary
2. Superfluous, unnecessary

Front 476

Amanuensis

Back 476

A person employed to take dictation or to copy manuscripts

Front 477

Recherche

Back 477

1. Uncommon; exotic; rare
2. Exquisite; choice
3. Excessively refined; affected
4. Pretentious; overblown

Front 478

Probity

Back 478

Complete and confirmed integrity; uprightness

Front 479

Busker

Back 479

A person who entertains (as by playing music) in public places

Front 480

Rara Avis

Back 480

A rare or unique person or thing

Front 481

Cabal

Back 481

1. A secret conspiratory association of plotters or intriguers whose purpose is usually to bring about an overturn especially in public affairs
2. The schemes or plots of such an association
3. To conspire; to intrigue; to plot

Front 482

Kismet

Back 482

Destiny, fate

Front 483

Gewgaw

Back 483

A showy trifle; a trinket; a bauble

Front 484

Assuage

Back 484

1. To make milder or less severe; to reduce the intensity of; to ease; to relieve
2. To appease; to satisfy
3. To soothe or calm; to pacify

Front 485

Diffident

Back 485

1. Lacking self-confidence; distrustful of one's own powers; timid; bashful
2. Characterized by modest reserve; unassertive

Front 486

Rodomontade

Back 486

Vain boasting; empty bluster; pretentious; bragging speech; rant

Front 487

Bedizen

Back 487

to dress or adorn in gaudy manner

Front 488

Sojourn

Back 488

1. To stay as a temporary resident; to dwell for a time
2. A temporary stay

Front 489

Indolent

Back 489

1. Avoiding labor and exertion,; habitually idle; lazy; inactive
2. Conducive to or encouraging laziness or inactivity
3. Causing little or no pain
4. Slow to heal, develop, grow

Front 490

Nefarious

Back 490

Wicked in the extreme; iniquitous

Front 491

Iniquitous

Back 491

Characterized by injustice or wickedness; wicked; sinful

Front 492

Transmute

Back 492

To change from one nature, form, substance, or state into another

Front 493

Acerbic

Back 493

Sharp, biting, or acid in temper, expression or tone

Front 494

Myriad

Back 494

1. Consisting of a very great, but indefinite number
2. Composed of numerous diverse elements or aspects
3. An immense number, a very great many an indefinitely large number

Front 495

Rumunerate

Back 495

1. To pay an equivalent to for any service loss of expense; to recompensate
2. To compensate for; to make payment for

Front 496

Plethora

Back 496

1. An abnormal bodily condition characterized by an excessive amount of blood in the system
2. Excess; superabundance

Front 497

Repine

Back 497

1. To feel or express discontent
2. To long for something

Front 498

Acrid

Back 498

1. Sharp and harsh; or bitter to the taste or smell; pungent
2. Caustic in language or tone; bitter

Front 499

Hullabaloo

Back 499

Confused noise; uproar; tumult

Front 500

Excrescence

Back 500

1. Something (especially something abnormal) growing from something else
2. A disfiguring or unwanted mark, part or addition

Front 501

Xenophobia

Back 501

Fear or hatred of strangers, people from other countries, or of anything else that is strange or foreign

Front 502

Jollification

Back 502

Merrymaking; festivity; revelry

Front 503

Revelry

Back 503

Unrestrained, boisterous merrymaking

Front 504

Deus Ex Machina

Back 504

1. In Ancient Greek and Roman drama, a god introduced by means of a crane to unravel or resolve a plot
2. Any active agent who appears unexpectedly to solve an apparently unsolvable difficulty

Front 505

Bellwether

Back 505

A leader of a movement or activity, also a leading indicator of a future trend

Front 506

Ostentation

Back 506

Excessive or pretentious display; boastful showiness

Front 507

Camarilla

Back 507

A group of secret and often scheming advisers, as of a King; a cabal or clique

Front 508

Importunate

Back 508

Troublesomely urgent; overly persistent in request or demand; unreasonably solicitous

Front 509

Woebegone

Back 509

1. Beset or overwhelmed with woe; immersed in grief or sorrow; woeful
2. Being in a sorry condition; dismal looking; dilapidated; run-down

Front 510

Voluble

Back 510

1. Characterized by a ready flow of speech
2. Easily rolling or turning; rotating

Front 511

Afflatus

Back 511

A divine imparting of knowledge; inspiration

Front 512

Pugnacious

Back 512

Inclined to fight; combative; quarrelsome

Front 513

Objurgate

Back 513

To express strong disapproval of; to criticize severely

Front 514

Miasma

Back 514

1. A vaporous exhalation (as of marshes or putrid matter) formerly thought to cause disease; broadly, a thick vaporous atmosphere or emanation
2. A harmful or corrupting atmosphere or influence; also, an atmosphere that obscures; a fog

Front 515

Pin Money

Back 515

1. An allowance of money given by a husband to his wife for private and personal expenditures
2. Money for incidental expenses
3. A trivial sum

Front 516

Roister

Back 516

1. To engage in boisterous merrymaking; to revel; to carouse
2. To bluster; to swagger

Front 517

Abulia

Back 517

Loss or impairment of the ability to act or to make decisions

Front 518

Salubrious

Back 518

Favorable to health; promoting health; healthful

Front 519

Inveigle

Back 519

To persuade or obtain by ingenuity or flattery; to entice

Front 520

Lambaste

Back 520

1. To give a thrashing to; to beat severely
2. To scold sharply; to attack verbally; berate

Front 521

Chimera

Back 521

1. Any imaginary monster made up of grotesquely incongruous parts
2. An illusion or mental fabrication; a grotesque product of the imagination

Front 522

Lionize

Back 522

To treat or regard as an object of great interest or importance

Front 523

Ubiquitous

Back 523

Existing or being everywhere, or in all places, at the same time

Front 524

Winsome

Back 524

1. Cheerful; merry; gay; light-hearted
2. Causing joy or pleasur; agreeable; pleasant

Front 525

Epigone

Back 525

An inferior imitator, especially of some distinguished writer, artist, musician, or philosopher

Front 526

Confluence

Back 526

1. A flowing or coming together; junction
2. The place where two rivers, streams, etc., meet
3. A flocking or assemblage of a multitude in one place; a large collection or assemblage

Front 527

Maelstrom

Back 527

1. A large powerful and destructive whirlpool
2. Something resembling a maelstrom; a violent, disordered or turbulent state of affairs

Front 528

Gimcrack

Back 528

1. A showy but useless or worthless object; a gewgaw
2. Tastelessly showy; cheap; gaudy

Front 529

Lenity

Back 529

The state or quality of being lenient; mildness; gentleness of treatment; leniency

Front 530

Cloy

Back 530

1. To weary by excess, especially of sweetness, richness, pleasure, etc.
2. To become distasteful through an excess usually of something originally pleasing

Front 531

Sub Rosa

Back 531

1. Secretly, Privately, Confidentially
2. Designed to be secretive or confidential; private

Front 532

Halcyon

Back 532

1. A kingfisher
2. A mythical bird, kingfisher, that was fabled to rest at sea about the time of winter solstice and to calm the waves during incubation
3. Calm, quiet; peaceful; undisturbed; happy
4. Marked by peace and prosperity

Front 533

Disparate

Back 533

1. Fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind
2. Composed of or including markedly dissimilar events

Front 534

Fustian

Back 534

1. A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff, including corduroy, velveteen
2. An inflated style of writing or speech; pompous or pretentious language; bombastic

Front 535

Contrite

Back 535

Deeply affected with grief and regret for having done wrong; penitent

Front 536

Moiety

Back 536

1. One of two equal parts; a half
2. An indefinite part, a small portion or share
3. One of two basic tribal subdivisions

Front 537

Sentient

Back 537

1. Capable of perceiving by the senses; conscious
2. Experiencing sensation or feeling

Front 538

Parsimonious

Back 538

Sparing in expenditure; frugal to excess

Front 539

Acumen

Back 539

Quickness of perception or discernment; shrewdness shown by keen insight

Front 540

Umbrage

Back 540

1. Shade; shadow; hence, something that affords a shade, as a screen of trees or foliage
2. A vague or distinct indiction or suggestion; a hint
3. Reason for doubt; suspicion
4. Suspicion of injury or wrong; offense; resentment

Front 541

Paean

Back 541

1. A joyous song of praise, triumph or thanksgiving
2. An expression of praise or joy

Front 542

Subfusc

Back 542

Dark or dull in color; drab; dusky

Front 543

Tirade

Back 543

A long angry speech; a violent denunciation; a prolonged outburst of censure or abuse

Front 544

Latitudinarian

Back 544

1. Having or expressing broad and tolerant views, especially in religious matters
2. A person who is broad minded and tolerant; one who displays freedom in thinking, especially in religion

Front 545

Obtrude

Back 545

1. To thrust out; to push out
2. To force or impose (one's self, remarks, opinions) on others with undue insistence or without solicitation
3. To thrust upon a group or upon attention; to intrude

Front 546

Potemkin Village

Back 546

An impressive facade or display that hides an undesirable fact or state; a false front

Front 547

Boulevardier

Back 547

1. A sophisticated, worldly, and socially active man, a man who frequents fashionable places; a man-about-town
2. A frequenter of city boulevards, especially in Paris

Front 548

Cadge

Back 548

To beg or obtain by begging; to sponge

Front 549

Aright

Back 549

Rightly, correctly, properly, in a right way or manner

Front 550

Ruminate

Back 550

1. To chew the cud, to chew again what has been slightly chewed and swallowed
2. To think again and again; to muse; to meditate; to ponder; to reflect

Front 551

Listless

Back 551

Having no desire or inclination; indifferent; heedless; spiritless

Front 552

Vehemently

Back 552

1. Characterized by intensity of emotions or convictions; or forcefulness of expression
2. Characterized by or acting with a great force or energy; strong

Front 553

Ribald

Back 553

1. Characterized by or given to vulgar humor; coarse
2. A lewd fellow

Front 554

Forgo

Back 554

To abstain from; to do without

Front 555

Schadenfreude

Back 555

A malicious satisfaction obtained from the misfortunes of others

Front 556

Harridan

Back 556

A worn-out strumpet, a vixenish woman, a hag

Front 557

Strumpet

Back 557

Prostitute, harlot

Front 558

Vixen

Back 558

1. A female fox
2. An ill-tempered or quarrelsome woman

Front 559

Grandee

Back 559

1. A man of elevated rank or station
2. In Spain and Portugal, a nobleman of the first rank

Front 560

Patina

Back 560

1. The color or incrustation which age gives to works of art, especially the green rust which covers ancient bronzes, coins and medals
2. The sheen on any surface produced by age or use
3. An appearance or aura produced by habit, practice or use
4. A superficial layer or exterior

Front 561

Countermand

Back 561

1. To revoke (a former command); to cancel or rescind by giving an order contrary to one previously given
2. Revocation of a former order/command by a contrary order

Front 562

Rescind

Back 562

1. To abrogate, annui, revoke, repeal
2. To invalidate (an act, measure, etc.) by a later action or higher authority

Front 563

Bagatelle

Back 563

1. A trifle; a thing of little or no importance
2. A short, light musical or literary piece
3. A game played with a cue and balls on an oblong table having cups or arches at one end

Front 564

Tremulous

Back 564

1. Shaking, shivering, quivering
2. Affected with fear or timidity; trembling

Front 565

Repletion

Back 565

1. The condition of being completely full or suppled
2. Excessive fullness, as from overeating

Front 566

Minatory

Back 566

Threatening; menacing

Front 567

Raconteur

Back 567

One who excels in telling stories and anecdotes

Front 568

Surfeit

Back 568

1. An excessive amount or supply
2. Overindulgence, as in food or drink
3. Disgust caused overindulgence or excess

Front 569

Hyperbole

Back 569

Extravagant exaggeration

Front 570

Patrician

Back 570

1. A person of high birth; a nobleman
2. A person of refined upbringing, manners and taste
3. Of or pertaining to the patrician families of Ancient Rome

Front 571

Plebeian

Back 571

1. Belonging or pertaining to the common people
2. Common, commonplace, or vulgar
3. Of, pertaining to, or belonging to the ancient Roman plebs

Front 572

Apprise

Back 572

To give notice to; to inform

Front 573

Prink

Back 573

1. To dress up; to deck for show
2. To dress or arrange oneself for show; primp

Front 574

Claque

Back 574

1. A group hired to applaud at a performance
2. A group of fawning admirers

Front 575

Verdure

Back 575

Green; greenness; freshness of vegetation

Front 576

Dilatory

Back 576

1. Tending to put off what ought to be done at once; given to procrastination
2. Marked by procrastination or delay; intended to cause delay; said of actions or measures

Front 577

Cogent

Back 577

Having the power to compel conviction; appealing to the mind or to reason; convincing

Front 578

Defenestrate

Back 578

To throw out of a window

Front 579

Renascent

Back 579

Springing or rising again into being; showing renewed vigor

Front 580

Choler

Back 580

Irritation of the passions; anger; wrath

Front 581

Execration

Back 581

1. Curse or imprecation
2. The object execrated; a thing held in abomination

Front 582

Capacious

Back 582

Able to contain much; roomy; spacious

Front 583

Glutinous

Back 583

Of the nature of glue; resembling glue; sticky

Front 584

Cockaigne

Back 584

An imaginary land of ease and luxury

Front 585

Forlorn

Back 585

1. Sad and lonely because deserted, abandoned or lost
2. Bereft; forsaken
3. Wretched or pitiful in appearance or condition
4. Almost hopeless, desperate

Front 586

HARBINGER

Back 586

A FORERUNNER, A PRECURSOR, ONE THAT PRESAGES OR FORESHADOWS WHAT IS TO COME

Front 587

PRESAGE

Back 587

SOMETHING THAT PORTENDS OR FORESHADOWS A FUTURE EVENT; AN OMEN; PROGNOSTIC OR WARNING INDICATION

Front 588

MAZY

Back 588

RESEMBLING A MAZE IN FORM OR COMPLEXITY; WINDING; INTRICATE; CONFUSING; PERPLEXING

Front 589

PROGNOSTIC

Back 589

PREDICTIVE OF SOMETHING IN THE FUTURE

Front 590

PORTEND

Back 590

TO INDICATE IN ADVANCE; TO FORESHADOW OR PRESAGE, AS AN OMEN DOES

Front 591

AUGURY

Back 591

AN OMEN, TOKEN OR INDICATION; PROPHECY

Front 592

PRESCIENCE

Back 592

KNOWLEDGE OF THINGS BEFORE THEY EXIST OR HAPPEN; FOREKNOWLEDGE

Front 593

INTERPOLATE

Back 593

TO ALTER OR CORRUPT (BOOK/TEXT) BY THE INSERTION OF NEW OR FOREIGN MATTER

Front 594

INDIGENT

Back 594

EXTREMELY POOR; NOT HAVING THE NECESSITIES OF LIFE SUCH AS FOOD CLOTHING AND SHELTER

Front 595

CONDIGN

Back 595

SUITABLE TO A FAULT OR CRIME; DESERVED; ADEQUATE

Front 596

LACONIC

Back 596

USING OR MARKED BY THE USE OF A MINIMUM OF WORDS; BRIEF AND PITHY; BRUSQUE

Front 597

PITHY

Back 597

BRIEF, FORCEFUL, AND MEANINGFUL IN EXPRESSION; FULL OF VIGOR, SUBSTANCE, OR MEANING; TERSE; FORCIBLE

Front 598

TUTELAGE

Back 598

INSTRUCTION, ESPECIALLY INDIVIDUAL INSTRUCTION ACCOMPANIED BY CLOSE ATTENTION AND GUIDANCE

Front 599

DAPPLE

Back 599

TO MARK WITH PATCHES OF A COLOR OR SHADE; TO SPOT

Front 600

METICULOUS

Back 600

EXTREMELY OR EXCESSIVELY CAREFUL ABOUT DETAILS

Front 601

GUSTATORY

Back 601

OF OR PERTAINING TO THE SENSE OF TASTE

Front 602

TROGLODYTE

Back 602

ONE WHO IS REGARDED AS RECLUSIVE, REACTIONARY, OUT-OF-DATE; BRUTISH; CAVE DWELLER

Front 603

PALAVER

Back 603

1. TALK INTENDED TO BEGUILE OR DECEIVE; 2. A PARLEY USUALLY BETWEEN PERSONS OF DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS OR CULTURES OR LEVELS OF SOPHISTICATION; A TALK, HENCE A PUBLIC CONFERENCE OR DELIBERATION; 3. TO FLATTER; TO CAJOLE

Front 604

BEGUILE

Back 604

TO INFLUENCE BY TRICKERY; FLATTERY, ETC.; MISLEAD; DELUDE

Front 605

CAJOLE

Back 605

TO PERSUADE BY FLATTERY OR PROMISES; WHEEDLE; COAX

Front 606

WHEEDLE

Back 606

TO ENDEAVOR TO INFLUENCE (A PERSON) BY SMOOTH, FLATTERING, OR BEGUILING WORDS OR ACTS

Front 607

EMOLUMENT

Back 607

THE WAGES OR PREREQUISITES ARISING FROM OFFICE, EMPLOYMENT, OR LABOR; GAIN

Front 608

CONTEMN

Back 608

TO REGARD OR TREAT WITH DISDAIN OR CONTEMPT; TO SCORN; TO DESPISE

Front 609

PROPOUND

Back 609

TO OFFER FOR CONSIDERATION; TO PUT FORWARD; TO PURPOSE

Front 610

ANTEDILUVIAN

Back 610

ANTIQUATED; FROM OR BELONGING TO A MUCH EARLIER TIME

Front 611

CUPIDITY

Back 611

EAGER OR EXCESSIVE DESIRE; ESPECIALLY FOR WEALTH; GREED; AVARICE

Front 612

AVARICE

Back 612

INSATIABLE GREED FOR RICHES; INORDINATE; MISERLY DESIRE TO GAIN AND HOARD WEALTH

Front 613

INORDINATE

Back 613

NOT WITHIN PROPER OR REASONABLE LIMITS; IMMODERATE; EXCESSIVE; UNRESTRAINED IN CONDUCT

Front 614

MISER

Back 614

A PERSON WHO LIVES IN WRETCHED CIRCUMSTANCES IN ORDER TO SAVE AND HOARD MONEY; STINGY, AVARICIOUS PERSON

Front 615

CANTANKEROUS

Back 615

DISAGREEABLE TO DEAL WITH; CONTENTIOUS; PEEVISH

Front 616

FIDUCIARY

Back 616

SOMEONE WHO STANDS IN A SPECIAL RELATION OF TRUST, CONFIDENCE, OR RESPONSIBILITY IN CERTAIN OBLIGATIONS TO OTHER; A TRUSTEE

Front 617

MEPHITIC

Back 617

OFFENSIVE TO THE SMELL; POISONOUS; NOXIOUS

Front 618

TATTERDEMALION

Back 618

A PERSON DRESSED IN TATTERED OR RAGGED CLOTHING; A RAGAMUFFIN

Front 619

INSENSATE

Back 619

LACKING HUMAN FEELING OR SENSITIVITY; BRUTAL; CRUEL; LACKING SENSATION OR AWARENESS; LACKING SENSE; STUPID; FOOLISH

Front 620

GAMINE

Back 620

A GIRL WHO WANDERS ABOUT THE STREETS; AN URCHIN; A PLAYFULLY MISCHIEVOUS GIRL OR WOMAN

Front 621

VITUPERATION

Back 621

N. THE ACT OR AN INSTANCE OF SPEAKING ABUSIVELY TO OR ABOUT V. TO FIND FAULT WITH; TO SCOLD; TO CENSURE SEVERELY OR ABUSIVELY (VITUPERATE)

Front 622

MÉLANGE

Back 622

A MIXTURE; A MEDLEY

Front 623

EBULLIENT

Back 623

OVERFLOWING WITH FERVOR, ENTHUSIASM OR EXCITEMENT; HIGH-SPIRITED

Front 624

SEMPITERNAL

Back 624

OF NEVER ENDING DURATION; HAVING BEGINNING BUT NO END; EVERLASTING; ENDLESS

Front 625

DIADEM

Back 625

CROWN; ORNAMENTAL HEAD BAND WORN AS A BADGE OF ROYALTY; REGAL POWER SYMBOLIZED BY A CROWN

Front 626

SESQUIPEDALIAN

Back 626

LONG AND PONDEROUS HAVING MANY SYLLABLES; GIVE TO OR CHARACTERIZED BY THE USE OF LONG WORDS

Front 627

QUONDAM

Back 627

HAVING BEEN FORMERLY, FORMER; SOMETIME

Front 628

PUSILLANIMOUS

Back 628

LACKING IN COURAGE AND RESOLUTION; CONTEMPTIBLY FEARFUL; COWARDLY

Front 629

EXTOL

Back 629

TO PRAISE HIGHLY; TO GLORIFY; TO EXALT

Front 630

EGRESS

Back 630

THE ACT OF GOING OUT OR LEAVING, OR THE RIGHT OR FREEDOM TO LEAVE: DEPARTURE; MEANS OF EXIT

Front 631

PANOPLY

Back 631

SPLENDID OR IMPRESSIVE ARRAY; CEREMONIAL ATTIRE; FULL SUIT OF ARMOR; A COMPLETE DEFENSE OR COVERING

Front 632

SAPIENT

Back 632

WISE, SAGE, DISCERNING

Front 633

BRUMMAGEM

Back 633

CHEAP AND SHOWY, TAWDRY, ALSO SPURIOUS COUNTERFEIT

Front 634

OBEISANCE

Back 634

AN EXPRESSION OF DEFERENCE OR RESPECT, SUCH AS A BOW OR CURTSY

Front 635

SPOONY

Back 635

FOOLISH; SILLY; EXCESSIVELY SENTIMENTAL; FOOLISHLY IN LOVE

Front 636

AUSTRAL

Back 636

SOUTHERN

Front 637

EPIPHENOMENON

Back 637

AN ADDITIONAL SYMPTOM APPEARING DURING THE COURSE OF AN ILLNESS, BUT NOT NECESSARILY RELATED TO IT; SECONDARY PHENOMENON

Front 638

NUGACITY

Back 638

TRIVIALITY, FUTILITY

Front 639

ASPERITY

Back 639

ROUGHNESS OF SURFACE, SOUND, MANNER; HARSHNESS; SEVERITY

Front 640

VEXILLOLOGY

Back 640

STUDY OF FLAGS

Front 641

TITTLE-TATTLE

Back 641

IDLE, TRIFLING TALK, EMPTY PRATTLE

Front 642

EXALT

Back 642

TO PRAISE, GLORIFY, HONOR; HEIGHTEN, INTENSIFY; RAISE IN RANK, CHARACTER OR STATUS

Front 643

PROVENANCE

Back 643

ORIGIN, SOURCE

Front 644

ENERVATE

Back 644

TO DEPRIVE OF VIGOR, FORCE, STRENGTH; TO RENDER FEEBLE; WEAKEN; REDUCE THE MORAL OR MENTAL VIGOR OF

Front 645

CHICHI

Back 645

AFFECTEDLY TRENDY

Front 646

LACKADAISICAL

Back 646

LACKING SPIRIT OR LIVELINESS; SHOWING LACK OF INTEREST; LANGUID; LISTLESS

Front 647

FUGACIOUS

Back 647

LASTING A VERY SHORT TIME

Front 648

BLACKGUARD

Back 648

A RUDE OR UNSCRUPULOUS PERSON; SCOUNDREL; PERSON WHO USES ABUSIVE OR FOUL LANGUAGE; SCURRILOUS; WORTHLESS; VICIOUS

Front 649

REVILE

Back 649

TO ASSAIL WITH CONTEMPTUOUS OR OPPROBRIOUS LANGUAGE; ADDRESS OR SPEAK TO ABUSIVELY

Front 650

OPPROBRIOUS

Back 650

OUTRAGEOUSLY DISGRACEFUL OR SHAMEFUL

Front 651

AMELIORATE

Back 651

TO MAKE OR BECOME BETTER, MORE BEARABLE OR MORE SATISFACTORY; IMPROVE; MELIORATE

Front 652

JOCULAR

Back 652

GIVEN TO, CHARACTERIZED BY, INTENDED FOR, OR SUITED TO JOKING OR JESTING; WAGGISH; FACETIOUS

Front 653

WAGGISH

Back 653

ROGUISH IN MERRIMENT AND GOOD HUMOR

Front 654

FACETIOUS

Back 654

NOT MEANT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY OR LITERALLY; HUMOROUS; AMUSING; LACKING SERIOUS INTENT, CONCERNED WITH SOMETHING NONESSENTIAL, AMUSING OR FRIVOLOUS

Front 655

FRIVOLOUS

Back 655

SELF-INDULGENTLY CAREFREE; UNCONCERNED ABOUT OR LACKING ANY SERIOUS PURPOSE; OF LITTLE OR NO WEIGHT, WORTH OR IMPORTANCE, NOT WORTHY OF A SERIOUS NOTICE

Front 656

LEVITY

Back 656

LIGHTNESS OF MIND, CHARACTER OR BEHAVIOR; LACK OF APPROPRIATE SERIOUSNESS OR EARNESTNESS; FICKLENESS

Front 657

BREVITY

Back 657

SHORTNESS OF TIME OR DURATION; BRIEFNESS; THE QUALITY OF EXPRESSING MUCH IN FEW WORDS; TERSENESS

Front 658

TERSENESS

Back 658

NEATLY OR EFFECTIVELY CONCISE; BRIEF AND PITHY; ABRUPTLY CONCISE; CURT; BRUSQUE

Front 659

SUPERNUMERARY

Back 659

EXCEEDING THE STATED, STANDARD OR PRESCRIBED NUMBER; EXCEEDING WHAT IS NECESSARY; SUPERFLUOUS

Front 660

PHILTER

Back 660

A POTION OR CHARM SUPPOSED TO CAUSE THE PERSON TAKING IT TO FALL IN LOVE; CHARM/POTION WITH MAGIC POWER

Front 661

PEREGRINE

Back 661

FOREIGN, ALIEN, COMING FROM ABROAD; WANDERING, TRAVELING, MIGRATING

Front 662

GAINSAY

Back 662

TO DENY; DISPUTE; OR CONTRADICT; TO SPEAK OR ACT AGAINST; OPPOSE

Front 663

IRREVERENT

Back 663

LACKING PROPER RESPECT

Front 664

ATROCITY

Back 664

ENORMOUS WICKEDNESS; EXTREME HEINOUSNESS OR CRUELTY

Front 665

LOUCHE

Back 665

OF QUESTIONABLE CHARACTER; DUBIOUS; DISREPUTABLE

Front 666

KNELL

Back 666

THE STROKE OF A BELL TOLLED AT A FUNERAL OR AT THE DEATH OF A PERSON; A PASSING BELL

Front 667

CLOCHARD

Back 667

A BEGGAR; VAGRANT

Front 668

AESTIVAL

Back 668

OF OR BELONGING TO SUMMER

Front 669

MYOPIC

Back 669

NEARSIGHTED; SHORT-SIGHTED; LACKING FORESIGHT; NARROW-MINDED

Front 670

BRUIT

Back 670

TO REPORT; TO NOISE ABROAD

Front 671

DISCONCERT

Back 671

TO THROW INTO CONFUSION; TO DISTURB THE COMPOSURE OF

Front 672

DISCOMFIT

Back 672

TO FRUSTRATE THE PLANS OF; THWART; TO PUT INTO A STATE OF PERPLEXITY AND EMBARRASSMENT

Front 673

DEXTEROUS

Back 673

SKILLFUL OR ADROIT, MENTALLY OR BODILY

Front 674

JUJU

Back 674

AN OBJECT SUPERSTITIOUSLY BELIEVED TO EMBODY MAGICAL POWERS

Front 675

AUGUR

Back 675

TO FORETELL ESPECIALLY FROM OMENS; PRESAGE; ONE HELD TO FORETELL EVENTS

Front 676

AUGUST

Back 676

MARKED BY MAJESTIC DIGNITY OR GRANDEUR

Front 677

AMBISINISTER

Back 677

CLUMSY WITH BOTH HANDS; LITERALLY HAVING TWO LEFT HANDS

Front 678

HOBSON'S CHOICE

Back 678

A CHOICE WITHOUT AN ALTERNATIVE; THE THING OFFERED OR NOTHING

Front 679

FOMENT

Back 679

TO NURSE TO LIFE OR ACTIVITY; TO CITE; TO ABET TO INSTIGATE

Front 680

COMITY

Back 680

A STATE OF MUTUAL HARMONY, FRIENDSHIP, AND RESPECT, ESPECIALLY BETWEEN OR AMONG NATION OR PEOPLE; CIVILITY

Front 681

DACTYLOGRAM

Back 681

A FINGERPRINT

Front 682

BERATE

Back 682

TO SCOLD SEVERELY OR ANGRILY

Front 683

APOGRAPH

Back 683

A COPY OR A TRANSCRIPT

Front 684

PEREGRINATION

Back 684

A TRAVELING FROM PLACE TO PLACE; A WANDERING

Front 685

ANALGESIC

Back 685

PAIN KILLER

Front 686

PALL

Back 686

AN OVERSPREADING OF DARKNESS OR GLOOM

Front 687

IMMOLATE

Back 687

TO SACRIFICE; TO KILL; AS A SACRIFICIAL VICTIM, ESPECIALLY BY FIRE

Front 688

ARGILLACEOUS

Back 688

MADE OF, RESEMBLING, OR RELATING TO CLAY

Front 689

NAIF

Back 689

NAIVE; INEXPERIENCED

Front 690

MAQUILLAGE

Back 690

MAKEUP OR COSMETICS

Front 691

CHTHONIC

Back 691

DWELLING IN OR UNDER THE EARTH; ALSO, PERTAINING TO THE UNDERWORLD

Front 692

PLEONEXIA

Back 692

EXCESSIVE OR INSATIABLE COVETOUSNESS

Front 693

REDRESS

Back 693

TO SET RIGHT AS A WRONG; TO REPAIR, AS AN INJURY; TO MAKE AMENDS FOR; TO REMEDY; RELIEVE FROM

Front 694

FOP

Back 694

A MAN WHO IS OVERLY CONCERNED WITH OR VAIN ABOUT HIS DRESS OR APPEARANCE; A DANDY

Front 695

GUBERNATORIAL

Back 695

OF OR PERTAINING TO A GOVERNOR

Front 696

CACOGRAPHY

Back 696

BAD HANDWRITING; POOR PENMANSHIP; INCORRECT SPELLING

Front 697

THEREFOR

Back 697

FOR THAT; IN RETURN OR EXCHANGE FOR SOMETHING

Front 698

RAPACIOUS

Back 698

EXCESSIVELY GRASPING OR COVETOUS; LIVING ON PREY

Front 699

GERMANE

Back 699

BEING AT ONCE RELEVANT AND APPROPRIATE

Front 700

URBANE

Back 700

NOTABLY POLITE OR POLISHED MANNER

Front 701

EXTORTIONATE

Back 701

GROSSLY EXCESSIVE; EXORBITANT

Front 702

COMESTIBLE

Back 702

SUITABLE TO BE EATEN; EDIBLE

Front 703

PROROGUE

Back 703

TO DISCONTINUE A SESSION OF SOMETHING, FOR EXAMPLE, A PARLIAMENT; TO DEFER OR POSTPONE

Front 704

ADMONITION

Back 704

GENTLE OR FRIENDLY REPROOF; COUNSELING AGAINST A FAULT OR OVERSIGHT; FRIENDLY CAUTION OR WARNING

Front 705

VORACIOUS

Back 705

CRAVING OR CONSUMING LARGE QUANTITIES OF FOOD; EXCEEDINGLY EAGER AND AVID

Front 706

REPROOF

Back 706

CENSURING, REBUKING

Front 707

IMDEMNIFY

Back 707

TO COMPENSATE FOR DAMAGE OR LOSS SUSTAINED; EXPENSE INCURRED; TO GUARD OR SECURE AGAINST ANTICIPATED LOSS; GIVE SECURITY AGAINST

Front 708

DISSERT

Back 708

TO SPEAK OR WRITE AT LENGTH ON A SUBJECT

Front 709

GLOWER

Back 709

TO LOOK OR STARE ANGRILY OR WITH A SCOWL

Front 710

ACCLAIM

Back 710

PRAISE, ADMIRATION, FAME

Front 711

TREPIDATION

Back 711

FEAR, TREMBLING, APPREHENSION

Front 712

AMOROUS

Back 712

INCLINED TO LOVE, LOVING, AFFECTIONATE

Front 713

DILATORY

Back 713

MARKED BY PROCRASTINATION OR DELAY; TARDY

Front 714

BULWARK

Back 714

A RAMPART; A FORTIFICATION; THAT WHICH DEFENDS AN ENEMY ATTACK

Front 715

ARGOT

Back 715

JARGON, LINGO, THE LANGUAGE OF A PARTICULAR CLASS

Front 716

RIBALD

Back 716

BASE; FILTHY; DISGUSTING

Front 717

RESSENTIMENT

Back 717

A FEELING OF RESENTMENT AND HOSTILITY ACCOMPANIED BY THE LACK OF MEANS TO EXPRESS OR ACT UPON IT

Front 718

RECISION

Back 718

AN ACT OF CANCELING

Front 719

BEVY

Back 719

A GROUP; ASSEMBLY; COLLECTION

Front 720

LAUDABLE

Back 720

WORTHY OF PRAISE; COMMENDABLE

Front 721

PLAINTIVE

Back 721

EXPRESSIVE OF SORROW OR MELANCHOLY; MOURNFUL; SAD

Front 722

COSMOPOLITE

Back 722

ONE WHO IS AT HOME IN EVERY PLACE; A CITIZEN OF THE WORLD

Front 723

TORONTO BLESSING

Back 723

A FORM OF RELIGIOUS RAPTURE MARKED BY OUTBREAKS OF MASS FAINTING, LAUGHTER, SHAKING, WEEPING, SPEAKING IN TONGUES, ETC.

Front 724

REGALE

Back 724

TO ENTERTAIN WITH SOMETHING THAT DELIGHTS; ENTERTAIN WITH FOOD AND WINE; FEAST

Front 725

BRISTOL FASHION

Back 725

IN GOOD ORDER

Front 726

TORRID

Back 726

VIOLENTLY HOT; DRYING OR SCORCHING WITH HEAT; BURNING; PARCHING; EMOTIONALLY CHARGED AND VIGOROUSLY ENERGETIC

Front 727

VOLITION

Back 727

AN ACT OF MAKING A CHOICE OR DECISION; THE POWER OF CHOOSING OR DETERMINING; WILL

Front 728

VOLUBLE

Back 728

EASILY ROLLING OR TURNING; ROTATING; CHARACTERIZED BY READY OR RAPID SPEECH; GLIB; FLUENT

Front 729

EVANESCENT

Back 729

LIABLE TO VANISH OR PASS AWAY LIKE VAPOR; FLEETING

Front 730

GLASGOW KISS

Back 730

HEADBUTT; STRIKE WITH THE HEAD TO SOMEONE'S SENSITIVE AREA (NOSE)

Front 731

HOARY

Back 731

WHITE OR GRAY WITH AGE; EXTREMELY OLD; ANCIENT

Front 732

AUSPICIOUS

Back 732

GIVING PROMISE OF SUCCESS, PROPERITY OR HAPPINESS; PREDICITING GOOD; PROSPEROUS; FORTUNATE

Front 733

KITSCH

Back 733

ART CHARACTERIZED BY PRETENTIOUS BAD TASTE

Front 734

MAINSTAY

Back 734

A CHIEF SUPPORT OR MAIN PART

Front 735

DEPRECATE

Back 735

TO EXPRESS DISAPPROVAL OF; BELITTLE; DISPARAGE

Front 736

DEROGATE

Back 736

TO TAKE AWAY A PART SO AS TO IMPAIR; DETRACT; DISPARAGE; TO MAKE INFERIOR

Front 737

SUFFUSE

Back 737

TO SPREAD THROUGH OR OVER IN THE MANNER OF FLUID OR LIGHT; TO FLUSH

Front 738

FIGUREHEAD

Back 738

A PERSON WHO IS HEAD OF A GROUP IN NAME ONLY, HAVING NO AUTHORITY OR RESPONSIBILITY

Front 739

DISCONCERT

Back 739

TO DISTURB THE COMPOSURE OF; TO THROW INTO DISORDER OR CONFUSION

Front 740

VEER

Back 740

TO CHANGE DIRECTION OR COURSE

Front 741

VENEER

Back 741

THIN SHEET OF MATERIAL, I.E. WOOD

Front 742

STEERAGE

Back 742

THE PART OF A SHIP OFFERED TO THOSE TRAVELING AT THE CHEAPEST RATE

Front 743

VOCIFEROUS

Back 743

MAKING A LOUD OUTCRY; CLAMOROUS; NOISY

Front 744

LIMPET

Back 744

ONE THAT CLINGS STUBBORNLY; ANY OF THE VARIOUS LOW CONICAL-SHELLED MARINE ANIMALS THAT CLING TO ROCKS

Front 745

TINTINNABULATION

Back 745

THE TINKLING SOUND AS OF A BELL OR BELLS

Front 746

WAN

Back 746

LACKING VITALITY; FEEBLE; POOR HEALTH; SICKLY; PALLID; LANGUID; DIM; FAINT

Front 747

WANE

Back 747

TO DECREASE IN SIZE, EXTENT OR DEGREE

Front 748

KEELHAUL

Back 748

TO REBUKE SHARPLY; TO HAUL UNDER THE KEEL OF A SHIP

Front 749

MISPRIZE

Back 749

TO HOLD IN CONTEMPT; UNDERVALUE

Front 750

PROPONENT

Back 750

ONE WHO ARGUES IN SUPPORT OF SOMETHING, AN ADVOCATE; SUPPORTER

Front 751

BENEFICENCE

Back 751

THE PRACTICE OF DOING GOOD; ACTIVE GOODNESS, KINDESS OR CHARITY

Front 752

ARCHIPELAGO

Back 752

A LARGE GROUP OF ISLANDS

Front 753

UNDULATE

Back 753

TO MOVE IN OR HAVE WAVES; VIBRATE

Front 754

MONADNOCK

Back 754

AN ISOLATED HILL OR MOUNTAIN THAT, HAVING RESISTED EROSION RISES ABOVE A PLAIN

Front 755

SCION

Back 755

A DESCENDENT; AN HEIR; A DETACHED SHOOT OR TWIG OF A PLANT USED FOR GRAFTING

Front 756

SHOAL

Back 756

A SHALLOW AREA IN A BODY OF WATER; SANDBANK OR SANDBAR CAUSING A NAVIGATION HAZARD

Front 757

NUMISMATICS

Back 757

THE COLLECTION AND STUDY OF MONEY AND COINS

Front 758

COL

Back 758

A MOUNTAIN PASS

Front 759

EDIFY

Back 759

TO INSTRUCT AND IMPROVE, ESPECIALLY IN MORAL AND RELIGIOUS KNOWLEDGE; TO TEACH

Front 760

ISTHMUS

Back 760

A NARROW STRIP OF LAND WITH WATER ON BOTH SIDES, JOINS TWO LARGER LAND MASSES; A NARROW STRIP OF TISSUE JOINING TWO LARGE ORGANS OR CAVITIES

Front 761

MELEE

Back 761

A FIGHT OR HAND TO HAND STRUGGLE IN WHICH THE COMBATANTS ARE MINGLED IN ONE CONFUSED MASS; A CONFUSING CONFLICT OR MINGLING

Front 762

CAPTIOUS

Back 762

CALCULATED TO CONFUSE, ENTRAP, OR ENTANGLE IN ARGUMENT; MARKED BY AN OFTEN ILL-NATURED INCLINATION TO STRESS FAULTS AND RAISE OBJECTIONS

Front 763

CAPRICIOUS

Back 763

CHANGING ONE'S MIND QUICKLY AND OFTEN; IMPULSE; UNPREDICTABLE

Front 764

CAPITULATE

Back 764

TO SURRENDER UNDER AGREED CONDITIONS

Front 765

PANACHE

Back 765

DASH OR FLAMBOYANCE IN MANNER OR STYLE; PLUME OF DECORATIVE FEATHERS

Front 766

POLITICASTER

Back 766

A PETTY POLITICIAN

Front 767

VERBIAGE

Back 767

AN OVERABUNDANCE OF WORDS; MANNER OR STYLE OF EXPRESSION; DICTION

Front 768

QUIDNUNC

Back 768

A NOSY OR GOSSIPY PERSON

Front 769

FETTLE

Back 769

A STATE OR CONDITION OF FITNESS OR ORDER; STATE OF MIND; SPIRITS

Front 770

VERACIOUS

Back 770

TRUTHFUL; HONEST; ACCURATE

Front 771

ANALPHABET

Back 771

AN ILLITERATE, ONE WHO DOESN'T KNOW THE ALPHABET OR THE BASICS OF SOMETHING

Front 772

SLUGABED

Back 772

ONE WHO STAYS IN BED UNTIL A LATE HOUR; SLUGGARD

Front 773

WIFTY

Back 773

ECCENTRIC; SILLY; SCATTERBRAINED

Front 774

DONNYBROOK

Back 774

A BRAWL; QUARREL; FREE FOR ALL

Front 775

JOCOSE

Back 775

CHARACTERIZED BY JOKING; MERRY; HUMOUROUS

Front 776

JADED

Back 776

MADE DULL, APATHETIC, OR CYNICAL BY EXPERIENCE OR SURFEIT; FATIGUED BY OVERWORK; EXHAUSTED

Front 777

GORMANDIZER

Back 777

A GREEDY PERSON

Front 778

LITTORAL

Back 778

A COASTAL REGION ESPECIALLY THE ZONE BETWEEN THE LIMITS OF LOW AND HIGH TIDES; SEASHORE

Front 779

CAUSTIC

Back 779

1. CAPABLE OF DESTROYING OR EATING AWAY BY CHEMICAL ACTION; CORROSIVE 2. INCISIVE SARCASM

Front 780

CATHARSIS

Back 780

PURIFICATION OR PURGATION THAT BRINGS ABOUT SPRITUAL RENEWAL OR RELEASE FROM TENSION

Front 781

VOLTE-FACE

Back 781

AN ABOUT-FACE; A REVERSAL, AS IN POLICY OR OPINION

Front 782

RUBICUND

Back 782

INCLINING TO REDNESS; RED; RUDDY

Front 783

HYPERGELAST

Back 783

ONE WHO LAUGHS EXCESSIVELY

Front 784

OFFICIOUS

Back 784

MARKED BY EXCESSIVE EAGERNESS IN OFFERING SERVICE OR ADVICE WHERE THEY ARE NEITHER REQUSTED NOR NEEDED; MEDDLESOME

Front 785

SKEUOMORPH

Back 785

A DESIGN FEATURE COPIED FROM A SIMILAR ARTIFACT IN ANOTHER MATERIAL, EVEN WHEN NOT FUNCTIONALLY NECESSARY (EX: SHUTTER SOUND ON DIGITAL CAMERA)

Front 786

IMPLACABLE

Back 786

NOT TO BE APPEASED; INCAPABLE OF BEING PACIFIED; INEXORABLE

Front 787

HEYRUBE

Back 787

A FIGHT BETWEEN MEMBERS OF A CIRCUS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC; CALL TO RALLY CIRCUS MEMBERS IN A FIGHT

Front 788

CIRCUMLOCUTION

Back 788

THE USE OF MANY WORDS TO EXPRESS AN IDEA THAT MIGHT BE EXPRESSED BY FEW; INDIRECT OR ROUNDABOUT LANGUAGE

Front 789

SNOOD

Back 789

A NET FOR HOLDING A WOMAN'S HAIR AT THE NAPE OF THE NECK; FLESH OVER THE BEAK OF A TURKEY

Front 790

SEREIN

Back 790

FINE RAIN FALLING FROM AN APPARENTLY CLOUDLESS SKY

Front 791

LEGERDEMAIN

Back 791

A DISPLAY OF SKILL, TRICKERY, OR ARTFUL DECEPTION; SLEIGHT OF HAND

Front 792

FACTIOUS

Back 792

SEDITION; INCLINDED TO FACTION OR THE FORMATION OF FACTIONS

Front 793

FACTION

Back 793

A GROUP OR CLICHE WITHIN A LARGER GROUP, GOVERNMENT OR ORGANIZATION; PARTY STRIFE AND INTRIGUE; DISSENSION

Front 794

SEDITION

Back 794

INCITEMENT OF DISCONTENT OR REBELLION AGAINST A GOVERNMENT

Front 795

FICTITIOUS

Back 795

CHARACTERISTIC OF FICTION; IMAGINARY; CONVENTIONALLY OR HYPOTHETICALLY ASSED OR ACCEPTED FALSE

Front 796

PLAUDIT

Back 796

A ROUND OR DEMONSTRATION OF APPLAUSE; ENTHUSIASTIC APPROVAL

Front 797

EUPHONIOUS

Back 797

PLEASING OR SWEET IN SOUND

Front 798

EPEOLATRY

Back 798

THE WORSHIP OF WORDS

Front 799

SOBRIQUET

Back 799

A NICKNAME; AN ASSUMED NAME; AN EPITHET

Front 800

UNIVOCALIC

Back 800

A PIECE OF WRITING THAT USES ONLY ONE OF THE VOWELS

Front 801

OTIOSE

Back 801

BEING AT LEISURE, LAZY, INDOLENT, IDLE; INEFFECTIVE; FUTILE

Front 802

CANDOR

Back 802

UNRESERVED, HONEST OR SINCERE EXPRESSION; FORTHRIGHTNESS; FREEDOM FROM PREJUDICE OR MALICE; FAIRNESS; WHITENESS, BRILLIANCE; UNSTAINED PURITY

Front 803

DUPLICITY

Back 803

CONTRADICTORY DOUBLENESS OF THOUGHT SPEEDH OR ACTION; ESPECIALLY THE BELYING OF ONE'S TRUE INTENTIONS BY DECEPTIVE WORDS/ACTIONS

Front 804

PARAGOGE

Back 804

THE ADDITION OF A LETTER OR SYLLABLE AT THE END OF A WORDS, EITHER THROUGH NATRUAL DEVELOPMENT OR TO ADD EMPHASIS

Front 805

WAYLAY

Back 805

TO APPROACH OR STOP SOMEONE UNEXPECTEDLY; TO LIE IN WAIT AND ATTACK FROM AMBUSH

Front 806

SEMASIOLOGY

Back 806

THE STUDY OF MEANINGS IN A LANGUAGE, ESPECIALLY THE STUDY OF SEMANTICS CHANGE

Front 807

CACOLOGY

Back 807

POOR CHOICE OF WORDS; INCORRECT PRONUNCIATION

Front 808

EXPEDITIOUS

Back 808

CHARACTERIZED BY OR ACTING WITH SPEED AND EFFICIENCY

Front 809

ALFRESCO

Back 809

IN THE OPEN AIR; OUTDOORS

Front 810

BAILIWICK

Back 810

A PERSON'S SPECIFIC AREA OF KNOWLEDGE, AUTHORITY, INTEREST, SKILL OR WORK; OFFICE OR DISTRICT OF A BAILIFF

Front 811

OBAMBULATE

Back 811

TO WALK ABOUT

Front 812

MALFEASANCE

Back 812

WRONGDOING, MISCONDUCT, OR MISBEHAVIOR, ESPECIALLY BY A PUBLIC OFFICIAL

Front 813

BIDENTATE

Back 813

HAVING TWO TEETH OR TOOTH-LIKE PARTS

Front 814

SYNECDOCHE

Back 814

A FIGURE OF SPEECH BY WHICH A PART IS PUT FOR THE WHOLE OR WHOLE FOR A PART OR GENERAL FOR THE SPECIAL OR VICE VERSA

Front 815

PALINODE

Back 815

A POEM IN WHICH THE AUTHOR RETRACTS SOMETHING SAID IN AN EARLIER POEM

Front 816

MEEKEN

Back 816

TO MAKE OR BECOME MEEK OR SUBMISSIVE

Front 817

PLENARY

Back 817

FULL IN ALL RESPECTS; COMPLETE; ABSOLUTE; FULLY ATTENDED BY ALL QUALIFIED MEMBERS

Front 818

BARRACK

Back 818

TO SHOUT IN SUPPORT (CHEER) OR AGAINST (JEER); LODGING FOR SOLDIERS

Front 819

LIMN

Back 819

TO DEPICT BY DRAWING OR PAINTING OR TO PORTRAY IN WORDS; DESCRIBE

Front 820

QUANDARY

Back 820

A STATE OF DIFFICULTY, PERPLEXITY, DOUBT OR UNCERTAINTY

Front 821

CORROBORATE

Back 821

TO STRENGTHEN OR MAKE MORE CERTAIN WITH EVIDENCE

Front 822

GENUFLECT

Back 822

TO BE SERVILELY RESPECTFUL OR OBEDIENT; TO GROVEL; TO BEND THE KNEE OR TOUCH ONE KNEE TO THE GROUND AS IN WORSHIP

Front 823

CONTINUANCE

Back 823

AN ADJOURNMENT OF A PROCEEDING TO A FUTURE DAY

Front 824

EXECRABLE

Back 824

EXTREMELY BAD, OF VERY POOR QUALITY; VERY INFERIOR; DETESTABLE; ABOMINABLE

Front 825

ASPERSE

Back 825

TO SPREAD FALSE AND MALICIOUS CHARGES AGAINST SOMEONE

Front 826

BIVOUAC

Back 826

AN ENCAMPMENT FOR THE NIGHT, USUALLY LITTLE OR NO SHELTER

Front 827

COPEMATE

Back 827

ASSOCIATE; FRIEND OR ADVERSARY; OPPONENT

Front 828

HUBRIS

Back 828

OVERBEARING PRIDE OR PRESUMPTION

Front 829

QUIDDITY

Back 829

THE ESSENSE OF SOMETHING OR SOMEONE; A TRIFLING POINT

Front 830

GLOAMING

Back 830

TWILIGHT OR DUSK

Front 831

ADDLE

Back 831

TO MAKE OR BECOME MUDDLED; CONFUSED; ROTTEN OR PUTRID

Front 832

PACE

Back 832

WITH DUE RESPECT TO (USED TO EXPRESS POLITE DISAGREEMENT)

Front 833

AQUILINE

Back 833

CURVED LIKE AN EAGLE'S BEAK

Front 834

AVUNCULAR

Back 834

OF OR RELATING TO AN UNCLE

Front 835

MAUGRE (MAUGER)

Back 835

IN SPITE OF

Front 836

EPICURE

Back 836

A PERSON WHO ENJOYS EATING AND DRINKING AND WHO IS VERY PARTICULAR IN CHOOSING FINE FOODS AND BEVERAGES; GOURMET

Front 837

CAPARISON

Back 837

RICH AND SUMPTUOUS CLOTHING OR EQUIPMENT; TO DRESS RICHLY

Front 838

ERE

Back 838

BEFORE

Front 839

FOOTLESS

Back 839

INEPT; AWKWARD; WITHOUT SUPPORT

Front 840

DEPREDATION

Back 840

TO LAY WASTE, PLUNDER, RAVAGE

Front 841

CIRCA

Back 841

APPROXIMATELY

Front 842

CESSION

Back 842

YIELDING TO ANOTHER

Front 843

CESSATION

Back 843

A TEMPORARY OR FINAL CEASING OF AN ACT

Front 844

MOT JUSTE

Back 844

A WORD OR PHRASE THAT EXACTLY FITS THE CASE

Front 845

CHEZ

Back 845

AT THE PLACE OF

Front 846

CHECKERED

Back 846

MARKED BY ALTERATION OR CONTRAST OF FORTUNE; ESPECIALLY BY MANY PROBLEMS OR FAILURES

Front 847

CAPACIOUS

Back 847

CONTAINING OR CAPABLE OF CONTAINING A GREAT DEAL

Front 848

OLFACTORY

Back 848

SENSE OF SMELL; RELATING TO SMELL

Front 849

ADVERTORIAL

Back 849

A NEWSPAPER OR MAGAZINE AD RESEMBLING EDITORIAL CONTENT IN STYLE AND LAYOUT

Front 850

DELETERIOUS

Back 850

HARMFUL OFTEN IN A SUBTLE OR UNEXPECTED WAY

Front 851

FALLIBLE

Back 851

LIABLE TO BE ERRONEOUS; CAPABLE OF MAKING A MISTAKE

Front 852

INTIMATION

Back 852

AN INDIRECT OR SLIGHT SUGGESTION; HINT

Front 853

RESPLENDENT

Back 853

VERY BRIGHT OR SHINING; SPLENDID

Front 854

HORRIPILATION

Back 854

THE ACT OR PROCESS OF THE HAIR BRISTLING ON THE SKIN, AS FROM COLD OR FEAR

Front 855

CULTIVAR

Back 855

A VARIETY OF PLANT THAT HAS BEEN PRODUCED BY SELECTIVE BREEDING FOR SPECIFIC ATTRIBUTES

Front 856

EXCULPATE

Back 856

TO CLEAR FROM ALLEGED FAULT OR GUILT

Front 857

SIDEREAL

Back 857

MEASURED OR DETERMINED BY THE DAILY MOTION OF THE STARS; OF OR HAVING TO DO WITH THE STARS

Front 858

EXURB

Back 858

A RESIDENTIAL AREA OUTSIDE A CITY AND BEYOND ITS SUBURBS, TYPICALLY INHABITED BY WELL-TO-DO FAMILIES

Front 859

SOIREE

Back 859

AN EVENING PARTY OR SOCIAL GATHERING

Front 860

OBSEQUIES

Back 860

FUNERAL RITES OR CEREMONIES

Front 861

ROLLICK

Back 861

TO MOVE OR ACT IN A PLAYFUL CAREFREE MANNER

Front 862

FLACCID

Back 862

NOT FIRM OR STIFF; LACKING NORMAL OR YOUTHFUL FIRMNESS

Front 863

DERIDE

Back 863

TO SUBJECT TO UNUSUALLY BITTER OR CONTEMPTUOUS RIDICULE

Front 864

ENSCONCED

Back 864

SHELTERED COMFORTABLY; FIRMLY; SAFELY; HIDDEN

Front 865

FROWZY

Back 865

DIRTY; UNTIDY; SLOVENLY; SMELLING BAD; MUSTY

Front 866

ADDUCE

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TO OFFER AS A REASON IN SUPPORT OF AN ARGUMENT, BRING UP AS AN EXAMPLE, GIVE AS PROOF OR EVIDENCE; CITE

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LOGY

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LETHARGIC; GROGGY

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GAUCHE

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LACKING SOCIAL EXPERIENCE OR GRACE; NOT TACTFUL; CRUDE

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INSIDIOUS

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1. AWAITING A CHANCE TO ENTRAP; TREACHEROUS
2. HARMFUL BUT ENTICING; SEDUCTIVE
3. HAVING A GRADUAL AND CUMULATIVE EFFECT; SUBTLE

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PROLIX

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TEDIOUSLY WORDY

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HARP

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TO DWELL ON OR RECUR TO A SUBJECT; TIRESOMELY AND MONOTONOUSLY

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CARP

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TO FIND FAULT OR COMPLAIN QUERULOUSLY

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CADASTRAL

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OF OR RELATING TO A MAP OR SURVEY SHOWING PROPERTY LINES, BOUNDARIES, ETC.

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DESPOIL

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TO STRIP OF BELONGINGS, POSSESSIONS OR VALUE; PILLAGE

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EMINENCE GRISE

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A PERSON WHO WIELDS POWER OR EXERTS INFLUENCE BEHIND THE SCENES

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CORPULENT

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LARGE, BULKY, FAT

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AMATORY

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OF LOVE; EXPRESSING LOVE, ESPECIALLY SEXUAL

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MYTHOLOGEM

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A BASIC THEME OF A MYTH, FOR EXAMPLE: REVENGE HONOR BETRAYAL

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LUCULLAN

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RICH, MAGNIFICENT AND LUXURIOUS

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NABOB

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A VERY WEALTHY AND PROMINENT PERSON; MOGUL

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ESCUTCHEON

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1. A SHIELD WITH COAT OF ARMS
2. PROTECTIVE METAL PLATE AROUND A KEYHOLE AND LOCK OR DRAWER HANDLE, LIGHT SWITCH
3. PANEL ON SHIP'S STERN WITH HER NAME

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ARGAL

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THEREFORE

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PAUCITY

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SMALLNESS OF NUMBER; DEARTH; SCARCITY

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GUERDON

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A REWARD, PAY BACK

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SOBEIT

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PROVIDED THAT

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REPROBATE

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1. A VERY WICKED UNPRINCIPLED PERSON; SCOUNDREL
2. TO DISAPPROVE; CONDEMN; CENSURE
3. TO REJECT FROM SALVATION; DAMNED

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DECRY

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TO SPEAK DISPARAGINGLY OF; DENOUNCE AS FAULTY OR WORTHLESS; EXPRESS CENSURE OF

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EPICENE

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1. BELONGING TO OR PARTAKING IN THE CHARACTERISITICS OF BOTH SEXES
2. FLACCID, FEABLE, WEAK, EFFEMINATE, UNMASCULINE

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BEAUCOUP

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MANY, NUMEROUS, SIGNIFICANT

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TOOTHSOME

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1. PLEASING TO TASTE; PALATABLE
2. PLEASING OR DESIRABLE, AS FAME OR POWER
3. VOLUPTUOUS, SEXUALLY ALLURING

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CONTRETEMPS

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AN INOPPORTUNE OCCURENCE; EMBARRASSING MISCHANCE

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RECOMPENSE

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TO REPAY OR REMUNERATE REWARD FOR SERVICE, AS WELL AS FOR RESTITUTION OR REQUITAL FOR DAMAGES

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WHEREWITHAL

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THAT WITH WHICH TO DO SOMETHING; MEANS OR SUPPLIES FOR THE PURPOSE OR NEED

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PARLEY

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1. TO DISCUSS, CONFERENCE, CONFER
2. AN INFORMAL CONFERENCE BETWEEN ENEMIES TO DISCUSS TERMS AND CONDITIONS ETC.

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PORKINESS

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RESEMBLING PORK; FAT

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CAREEN

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TO LEAN, SWAY OR TIP TO ONE SIDE WHILE IN MOTION

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FASTIDIOUS

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EXCESSIVELY PARTICULAR, CRITICAL, OR DEMANDING, HARD TO PLEASE

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COMPLAISANT

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INCLINED OR DISPOSED TO PLEASE; OBLIGING; AGREEABLE OR GRACIOUS; COMPLIANT

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PRAGMATISM

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CHARACTER OR CONDUCT THAT EMPHASIZES PRACTICALITY

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INURE

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1. TO ACCUSTOM TO HARDSHIP, DIFFICULT PAIN ETC, TOUGHEN OR HARDEN
2. TO COME INTO USE; TAKE OR HAVE EFFECT
3. TO BECOME BENEFICIAL OR ADVANTAGEOUS

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DRUTHERS

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ONE'S OWN WAY, CHOICE OR PREFERENCE

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RESTITUTION

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1. REPARATION MADE BY GIVING AN EQUIVALENT OR COMPENSATION FOR LOSS, DAMAGE OR INJURY CAUSED; INDEMNIFICATION
2. THE RESTORATION OF PROPERTY OR RIGHTS PREVIOUSLY TAKEN AWAY, CONVEYED OR SURRENDERED

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REQUITAL

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1. A RETURN OR REWARD FOR SERVICE, KINDNESS ETC.
2. A RETALIATION FOR A WRONG, INJURY

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ILEX

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HOLM OAK

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REPREHENSILE

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DESERVING OF REPROOF, REBUKE, OR CENSURE; BLAMEWORTHY

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SMARMY

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EXCESSIVELY OR UNCTUOUS FLATTERING; INGRATIATING, SERVILE

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COMPLICIT

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CHOOSING TO BE INVOLVED IN AN ILLEGAL OR QUESTIONABLE ACT, ESPECIALLY WITH OTHERS

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DIVEST

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TO STRIP OR DEPRIVE SOMEONE OR SOMETHING OF PROPERTY OR RIGHTS; DISPOSSESS; RID OF; FREE FROM

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INGRATIATE

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TO ESTABLISH ONESELF IN THE FAVOR OR GOOD GRACES OF OTHERS BY DELIBERATE EFFORT

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PERNICIOUS

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CAUSING INSIDIOUS HARM OR RUIN; INJURIOUS; HURTFUL; DEADLY; FATAL; EVIL; WICKED

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DUDGEON

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A FEELING OF OFFENSE OR RESENTMENT; ANGER

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WHENCESOEVER

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FROM WHATEVER PLACE

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EMOLLIENT

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SOFTENING OR SOOTHING

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TACITURN

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TEMPERAMENTALLY DISINCLINED TO TALK

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DAUNT

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TO LESSEN THE COURAGE OF; COW; SUBDUE

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ALBEIT

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EVEN THOUGH; ALTHOUGH

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TAUT

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NO SLACK; HIGH STRUNG; TENSE; KEPT IN PROPER ORDER OR CONDITION

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DECADENCE

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A PERIOD OF DECLINE

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CADENCE

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A RISING AND FALLING SOUND; MODULATION; ALSO THE FALLING INFLECTION OF THE VOICE, AS AT THE END OF A SENTENCE

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TENDENTIOUS

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MARKED BY A TENDENCY IN FAVOR OF A PARTICULAR POINT OF VIEW BIASED

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DEBILITATE

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TO IMPAIR THE STRENGTH OF; ENFEEBLE

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EMINENT

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HIGH IN STATION, RANK OR REPUTE, PROMINENT, DISTINGUISHED; CONSPICUOUS, NOTEWORTHY

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BALUSTRADE

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A RAILING AT THE SIDE OF A STAIRCASE OR BALCONY TO PREVENT PEOPLE FROM FALLING

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THROTTLE

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TO PREVENT OR CHECK EXPRESSION OR ACTIVITY OF; SUPPRESS

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VERITY

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THE QUALITY OR STATE OF BEING TRUE OR REAL; HONEST

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SKEDADDLE

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TO LEAVE HURRIEDLY

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ABSTRACTION

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1. THE ACT OF CONSIDERING SOMETHING AS A GENERAL QUALITY OR CHARACTERISTIC, APART FROM CONCRETE REALITIES, SPECIFIC OBJECTS OR ACTUAL INSTANCES
2. AN IMPRACTICAL IDEA; VISIONARY; UNREALISTIC
3. ACT OF TAKING AWAY; WITHDRAWAL

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ACADEME

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ANY PLACE OF INSTRUCTION; SCHOOL; CAMPUS LIFE AND ACTIVITIES

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ACCLAMATION

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A LOUD SHOUT OR OTHER DEMONSTRATION OF WELCOME, GOODWILL OR APPROVAL

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ACOLYTE

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A DEVOTED FOLLOWER OR ATTENDANT

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ACTUATE

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TO INCITE TO ACTION; IMPEL; MOTIVATE

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ACUITY

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SHARPNESS; ACUTENESS; KEENNESS

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AD NAUSEAM

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TO A SICKENING OR DISGUSTING DEGREE

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ADDLEPATED

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ADDLEBRAINED

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ADDLEBRAINED

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HAVING A MUDDLED OR CONFUSED MIND; FOOLISH; SILLY; OR ILLOGICAL

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ADJUDICATE

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TO PRONOUNCE OR DECREE BY JUDICIAL SENTENCE

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ADJUVANT

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A PERSON OR THING THAT SERVES TO HELP OR ASSIST; AUXILIARY; ANYTHING THAT AIDS IN PREVENTING A DISEASE

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AFFRONT

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TO INSULT INTENTIONALLY, MEET DEFIANTLY, CONFRONT

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AGGRIEVED

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WRONGED, OFFENDED, OR INJURED; TROUBLE; WORRIED; DISTURBED; UNHAPPY

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ALACK

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USED AS AN EXCLAMATION OF SORROW, REGRET OR DISMAY

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ALBATROSS

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A SEEMINGLY INESCAPABLE MORAL OR EMOTIONAL BURDEN, AS OF GUILT OR RESPONSIBILITY THAT IMPEDES ACTION OR PROGRESS