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oratory
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public speaking
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voracious
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consuming large quantities/exceedingly eager or avid
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slovenly
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untidy or unclean in appearance of habits
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pretentious
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full of pretense(a false show of something)/characterized by assumption of dignity or importance.
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inveigh
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to protest strongly or attack vehemently with words
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systematize
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to arrange in or according to a system; reduce to a system; make systematic.
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disjointed
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having the joints or connections separated: disconnected; incoherent:
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inextricable
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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. |
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substantives
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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. |
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anathema
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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. |