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abate
to make less in amount, degree, to subside, lessen, dimminish, decrease, subside, let up
adulation
praise or flattery that is excessive, adoration, idolization, hero-worship
anathema
an object of intense dislike, melediction, imprecation, abomination
astute
shrewd, crafty, cleaver, acute, wily, judicious
avarice
a greedy desire, particularly for wealth, cupidity, rapacity, acquisitiveness
culpable
deserving blame, worthy of condemnation, guilty, delinquent, peccent, blameworthy
dilatory
tending to delay or precrastinate, not prompt, stalling, slow, tardy, laggard
egregious
consqicuous, standing out from the mass, glaring, flagrant, blatant
equivocate
to speak or act in a way that allows for more than one interpretation, to talk out of both sides of one's mouth
evanescent
vanishing, soon passing away, light and airy, ephemeral, transient, transitory
irresolute
unable to make up one's mind, hesitating, indecisive, vacillating, wavering
nebulous
cloudlike, resembling a cloud, not transparent, vague, confused, indistinct, hazy, fuzzy, murky, indeterminate
novice
biginer, neophyte, tyro, trainee, apprentice
penury
extreme poverty, barrenness, insufficiency, destitution, want, indigence
ppretentious
done for show, striving to make a big impression, inflated, ambitious, ostentatious, affected
recapitulate
to review a series of facts, to sum up, review, summarize, sum up, go over
resuscitate
to revive, bring back to consciousness or existence, revitalize, reanimate, restore, reactivate
slovenly
untidy, dirty, careless, unkempt, slatternly, slipshod, lax
supposition
something that is assumed or taken for granted with out conclusive evidence, assumption, presumption, hypothesis
torpid
inactive, sluggish, dull, lethargic, otiose, languid