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Abscond |
To depart clandestinely; to steal off and hide |
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Aberrant |
Deviating from the norm |
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Alacrity |
Eager and enthusiastic willingness |
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Anomaly |
Deviation from normal order; abnormality |
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Approbation |
An expression of approval or praise |
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Arduous |
Strenuous, taxing; requiring significant effort |
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Assuage |
To ease or lessen; appease or pacify |
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Audacious |
Daring, fearless, bold |
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Austere |
Without adornment; bare; severely simple; ascetic |
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Axiomatic |
Given, posessing self-evident truth |
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Canonical |
Following/in agreement with accepted, traditional standards |
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Capricious |
Impulsive, erratic, unpredictable |
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Censure |
To criticize severely; to officially rebuke |
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Chicanery |
Trickery, subterfuge |
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Connoisser |
Expert; informed and astute judge |
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Convoluted |
Complex or complicated |
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Disabuse |
Rid of error, set right, undeceive |
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Discordant |
Conflicting; dissonant or harsh in sound |
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Disparate |
Fundamentally distinct or dissimilar |
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Effrontery |
Extreme boldness; presumptuousness |
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Eloquent |
Well-spoken, expressive, articulate |
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Enervate |
To weaken, reduce in vitality |
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Ennui |
Dissatis and restlessness resulting from boredom or apathy |
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Equivocate |
To use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent |
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Erudite |
Scholarly, well-read/learned |
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Exculpate |
Exonerate, clear of blame |
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Exigent |
Urgent, pressing; requiring immediate action or attention |
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Extemporaneous |
Improvised; done without preparation |
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Filibuster |
Intentional obstruction, esp. By prolonged speech in legislature |
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Fulminate |
To loudly attack or denounce |
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Ingenuous |
Artless; frank and candid, lacking in sophistication |
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Inured |
Becoming used to something unpleasant, accepting something undesirable. |
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Irascible |
Easily angered, short-tempered |
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Laud |
Praise highly |
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Lucid |
Clear, easily understood |
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Magnanimity |
The quality of being generously noble in mind and heart; forgiving |
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Martial |
Associated with war, armed forces. |
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Mundane |
Ordinary, of the world |
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Nascent |
Coming into being, in early developmental stages |
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Nebulous |
Vague, cloudy, lacking clearly defined form |
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Neologism |
Creation of new words, expressions, usages. |
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Noxious |
Harmful; injurious |
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Obtuse |
Lacking sharpness of intellect; not clear or precise in thought or expression |
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Obviate |
To anticipate and make unnecessary |
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Onerous |
Troubling; burdensome |
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Paen |
A song or hymn of praise and thanks |
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Parody |
A humorous imitation intended for ridicule or comic effect |
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Perennial |
Happens repeatedly, recurring through the year or many years |
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Perfidy |
Intentional breach of faith, trust; treachery |
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Perfunctory |
Cursory, done without care or interest |
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Perspicacious |
Acutely perceptive; having keen discernment |
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Prattle |
Babble on |
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Precipitate |
Acting with excessive haste or impulse |
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Predilection |
A disposition in favor of something |
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Prescience |
Foreknowledge of events, knowing before something occurs. |
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Prevaricate |
Mislead, deliberately avoid the truth |
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Qualms |
Misgivings |
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Recant |
To retract, esp. A previously held belief |
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Refute |
Disprove, successfully argue against |
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Relegate |
To forcibly assign, especially to a lower place or position |
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Reticent |
Quiet reserved; reluctant to express thoughts or feelings |
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Solicitous |
Concerned and attentive; eager |
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Sordid |
Foul, characterized by filth, grime or squalor |
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Sporadic |
Scattered, occuring occasionally |
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Squander |
To waste by spending or using irresponsibly |
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Static |
Unchanging, unmoving |
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Stupefy |
Shock into silence, stun, baffle, amaze |
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Stymie |
To block, thwart |
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Synthesis |
Combination of parts to make whole |
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Torque |
A force that causes rotation |
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Tortuous |
Excessively complicated, winding |
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Truculent |
Fierce and cruel, eager to fight |
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Veracity |
Honesty |
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Virulent |
Dangerous, harmful, poisonous, hostile |
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Voracious |
Insatiable appetite for activity, pursuit |
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Waver |
Move to and fro, be unselttled in opinion |