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Aplomb

Complete and confident composure or self-assurance

Bracing

Giving strength, vigor, or freshness

Constrained

To force or produce in an unnatural or restrained manner

Furor

An outbreak of public anger or excitement

Toil

Exhausting physical labor

Paean

Song of praise or triumph

Beaver

Work hard

Incongruence

Not the same; incompatible: out of place

Vacuous

Having or showing a lack if thought or intelligence; mindless

Facetious

Treating serious issues with deliberately ill humor; flippant

Ubiquitous

Presenting, appearing, or found everywhere

Recrudescence

Recurring of an undesirable condition

Distill

Emanate as vapor; extract the essential meaning or most important aspect

Jettison

Abandon or discard something

Sanguine

Optimistic or positive; blood-red

Salubrious

Health-giving; healthy; pleasant

Linchpin

Person or something vital to an organization

Acquiesce

Accept something reluctantly and without protest

Litigate

Take to a court of law

Adjucate

Make a formal judgement/decision about a disputed matter

Pliant

Pliable or bendable

Rapt

Completely fascinated

Frenetic

Fast and energetic in a wild way

Equivocation

Intentional vagueness

Convivial

Lively

Hauteur

Overbearing pride and self superiority

Asperity

Harshness in tone it manner

Disparage

Regard as being if little worth

Insouciance

Cheerful feeling when nothing is troubling you

Aver

State or assert as trye

Prose

Written or spoken language

Loath

Unwilling to do something contrary to custom

Unstinting

Very generous

Self-effacing

Reluctant to draw attention to self

Churlish

Have a bad disposition

Bent

Inclination

Patina

The appearance of something

Célèbre

A legal case that excites interest; a notorious person/thing

Unflappable

Having/showing calmness in a crisis

Hector

Talk to someone in a bullying way

Diminutive

Unusually small

Inept

Showing no skill; clumsy

Middling

Average

Bawdy

Humorously indecent; dealing with sexual matters in comical way

Conflate

Combine into one

Undergird

Provide support

Benighted

A state if intellectual/moral ignorance; overtaken by darkness

Dishevel

Make untidy

Debonair

Confident, stylish, and charming