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Platitude
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a trite or obvious remark
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Trite
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banal: repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'"
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Platitude:Trite
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Platitude is always trite
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Lucid
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coherent: capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner; "a lucid thinker"; "she was more coherent than she had been just after the accident"
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Obscurity
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obscureness: the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand
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Lucid:Obscurity
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Lucid is a lack of Obscurity
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Lethargy:Energy
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Lethargy is a lack of energy
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Lope
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jog: a slow pace of running
canter: a smooth three-beat gait; between a trot and a gallop run easily |
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Invidious
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discriminatory: containing or implying a slight or showing prejudice; "discriminatory attitudes and practices"; "invidious comparisons"
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Evanescent
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tending to vanish like vapor; "evanescent beauty"
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Panegyric
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A Panegyric is a formal public speech delivered in high praise of a person or thing, a generally highly studied and discriminating eulogy, not expected to be critical.
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Polemic
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polemicist: a writer who argues in opposition to others (especially in theology)
a controversy (especially over a belief or dogma) of or involving dispute or controversy |