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oratory
public speaking
voracious
consuming large quantities/exceedingly eager or avid
slovenly
untidy or unclean in appearance of habits
pretentious
full of pretense(a false show of something)/characterized by assumption of dignity or importance.
inveigh
to protest strongly or attack vehemently with words
systematize
to arrange in or according to a system; reduce to a system; make systematic.
disjointed
having the joints or connections separated: disconnected; incoherent:
inextricable
1.
from which one cannot extricate oneself: an inextricable maze.
2.
incapable of being disentangled, undone, loosed, or solved
3.
hopelessly intricate, involved, or perplexing: inextricable confusion.
substantives
a.
pertaining to substantives.
b.
used in a sentence like a noun: a substantive adjective.
c.
expressing existence: “to be” is a substantive verb.
4.
having independent existence; independent.
5.
belonging to the real nature or essential part of a thing; essential.
anathema
1.
a person or thing detested or loathed: That subject is anathema to him.
2.
a person or thing accursed or consigned to damnation or destruction.
3.
a formal ecclesiastical curse involving excommunication.
4.
any imprecation of divine punishment.
5.
a curse; execration.