Sat Vocab

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Infelicity (noun)

• These show that both age-groups are competent with informativeness, butalso tolerant of pragmatic infelicity.
• The cause of his removal was domestic infelicity and a consequent divorce suit.

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1. the quality or state of being unhappy; unhappiness.

2.misfortune; bad luck.

3.an unfortunate circumstance; misfortune.

4.inaptness, inappropriateness, or awkwardness, as of action or expression.

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Boor (noun)

• Maybe he'd best use an alias, lest he come across as a total boor.
• Do it poorly, and you risk coming across as a narcissistic boor.

Back 2

an ill-mannered, clumsy, or insensitive person,

or

a country bumpkin

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Anomalous (adjective)

• He conveys as few other writers have the anomalous position of being the insider who is also an outsider.
• In the case of the gall, the plant is co-opted — it secretes compounds thatpromote anomalous tissue growth.

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1.deviating from or inconsistent with the common order, form, or rule;irregular; abnormal:

Advanced forms of life may be anomalous in the universe.

2.not fitting into a common or familiar type, classification, or pattern;unusual:

He held an anomalous position in the art world.

3.

incongruous or inconsistent.

4.

Grammar, irregular.

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Fastidious (adjective)

• fastidious about facts and dates, he talks at great speed and with anunusual, exhausting intensity.

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1. excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please:

a fastidious eater.

2.

requiring or characterized by excessive care or delicacy; painstaking.

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Sedulous (adjective)

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1. diligent in application or attention; persevering; assiduous.

2.

persistently or carefully maintained:

3.

constant or persistent in use or attention; assiduous; diligent

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Vindictive (adjective)

• Second, you indicate that you believe the requester has some kind of avindictive or malicious motive.
• Criticism is silently belittled as political disagreement, a settling of scores,as vindictive.

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1.

disposed or inclined to revenge; vengeful:

a vindictive person.

2. proceeding from or showing a revengeful spirit:

vindictive rumors.

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Petulant (adjective)

• On the one hand she could be a moody and petulant bully, who carefullycultivated inflexible opinions and fostered great hates.

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moved to or showing sudden, impatient irritation, especially oversome trifling annoyance:

irritable, impatient, or sullen in a peevish or capricious way

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Mercenary (adjective)

Mercenaries (noun)

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(adj) influenced by greed or desire for gain/working or acting merely for money or other reward, or smth related to mercenaries.

(noun) a soldier hired to fight for a foreign army

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Cursory (adjective)

• But, publicly, the agency released only cursory information about what themalware affected and how it could be mitigated.
• But the administration's preparations have been cursory.

Back 9

going rapidly over something, without noticing details; hasty; superficial:

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Prosaic (adjective)

• If all of this seems too outlandish, there is a more prosaic way of obtaining negative interest rates: through inflation.

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1.

commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or lacking imagination:

a prosaic mind.

2.

of or having the character or form of prose rather than poetry.

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Consecrated (Verb, used with objects)

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1.to make or declare sacred; set apart or dedicate to the service of adeity:

to consecrate a new church building.

2.to make (something) an object of honor or veneration; hallow:

a custom consecrated by time.

3.to devote or dedicate to some purpose:

a life consecrated to science.

4.

to admit or ordain to a sacred office, especially to the episcopate.

5.

to change (bread and wine) into the Eucharist.

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Chagrin (Noun)

Chagrin (Verb) - chagrined, chagrining

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(noun) a feeling of vexation, marked by disappointment or humiliation.

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Ineffable (adjective)

• There may indeed be cases where all of the disvalues of suicide can be outweighed by ineffable pain and aloneness.

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1. too great or intense to be expressed in words; unutterable

2.

too sacred to be uttered

3.

indescribable; indefinable

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Deleterious (adjective)

• But that's not to say that they couldn't have some deleterious healtheffects.
• In animals, individuals who have suffered deleterious changes areremoved by the process of natural selection.

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1.

harmful; injurious; hurtful

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Censured, censuring (verb)

Censure (noun)

• But do not risk the censure of your supervisor by refusing to extend co-authorship.

Back 15

(noun)
1.

severe disapproval; harsh criticism

(verb)
2.

to criticize (someone or something) severely; condemn

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Indictment (noun)

• Such a stark indictment would surely draw reaction from the governmentand oil companies.
• The indictment against the large unwanted family is written in human woe.

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noun (criminal law)

1. a formal written charge of crime formerly referred to and presented on oath by a grand jury

2.

any formal accusation of crime

3.

(Scot) a charge of crime brought at the instance of the Lord Advocate

4.

the act of indicting or the state of being indicted

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Equivocal (adjective)

• But the evidence is at best equivocal.
• All answers are a bit equivocal, given the chronic onshore and offshore movement of publishing waves.

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1.

capable of varying interpretations; ambiguous

2.

deliberately misleading or vague; evasive

3.

of doubtful character or sincerity; dubious

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Opulent (adjective)

• Additionally, it shouldn't be ignored that the rich entertain in an opulentstyle.
• The opulent jewelry that accompanied their burials, she says, indicatesthat the group belonged to a ruling family.

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1.

having or indicating wealth

2.

abundant or plentiful

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Stupefaction (noun)

• Their stupefaction was gratifying, in that it confirmed the felt gravity of my decision.
• As you can imagine, this advice was greeted with stares of stupefaction.

Back 19

1.

astonishment

2.

the act of stupefying or the state of being stupefied

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Byzantine (adjective)

- This deal requires byzantine financing, its driving me nuts.

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In Lower Case, means

1. complex or intricate:

2. by elaborate scheming and intrigue, especially for the gaining of political power or favor

In Upper Case, means

1. relating to Byzantium or the Byzantine Empire

2. characterizing the Orthodox Church or its rites andliturgy

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Adroit (adjective)

• He is apparently also as adroit at wielding a kitchen knife as he is a samurai sword.
• These recycled turns of phrase mar the novel, which in spite of Guy'sadroit storytelling is disappointingly slight.

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1.expert or nimble in the use of the hands or body.

2.cleverly skillful, resourceful, or ingenious:

'an adroit debater'

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Nefarious (adjective)

• Working with the newspaper and police, they squelched the nefarious goings-on in just two months.

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extremely wicked or villainous; iniquitous:

a nefarious plot.

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Lackadaisical (adj)

• But that same lackadaisical guy is the star who talks openly about theburdens of being the breadwinner for two labels.
• lackadaisical customer service, with erratic parts supplies, are only badmemories.

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1. without interest, vigor, or determination; listless; lethargic:

a lackadaisical attempt.

2.

lazy; indolent:

a lackadaisical fellow.

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Onerous (adj)

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1. burdensome, oppressive, or troublesome; causing hardship:

onerous duties.

2.

having or involving obligations or responsibilities, especially legal ones, that outweigh the advantages:

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Ingenuous (adj)

• It is impossible not to accept it in the ingenuous spirit in which it was fabricated.

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1 free from reserve, restraint, or dissimulation; candid; sincere.

2.

artless; innocent; naive.

3.

Obsolete. honorable or noble.

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Arcane (adj)

• He was a disciplined and chiselled prose stylist who could not resist dropping names and arcane terms into his work.

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known or understood by very few; mysterious; secret; obscure;esoteric:

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Abstruse (adj)

• Unfortunately, it is sometimes difficult for the economic operators tocomprehend the abstruse provisions correctly.
• If your initial topic seems abstruse, consider the motivation that led you to it in the first place.

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1. hard to understand; recondite; esoteric:

abstruse theories.

2.

Obsolete. secret; hidden.

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Didactic (adj)

• Furthermore you must have teaching experience and good didactic skills.
• Some colleges and universities are already being didactic about safe computing.

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1. intended for instruction; instructive:

didactic poetry.

2.inclined to teach or lecture others too much:

a boring, didactic speaker.

3.

teaching or intending to teach a moral lesson.

4.

didactics, (used with a singular verb) the art or science of teaching.

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Lucid (adj)

• The moonlight, which seems so lucid and brilliant when you look up, is all just pearl and smoke.
• Although the grant has been renewed, the best efforts of the few lucid participants have met only cold rebuke.
• It's taken years, and in her more lucid moments, she's not even there yet.

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1.

readily understood; clear

2.

shining or glowing

3.

(psychiatry) of or relating to a period of normality between periodsof insane or irresponsible behaviour

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Esoteric (adj)

• In any event, the debate is really rather esoteric and non-pertaining to anything else.
• Some of their anthems can be a bit too intricate and esoteric for newcomers.

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1. understood by or meant for only the select few who have specialknowledge or interest; recondite:

poetry full of esoteric allusions.

2.

belonging to the select few.

3.

private; secret; confidential.

4.(of a philosophical doctrine or the like) intended to be revealed onlyto the initiates of a group:

the esoteric doctrines of Pythagoras.

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Insolent (adj/noun)

• The only exceptionalism they exhibit is the exceptionally incoherent,incompetent and insolent.

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(adjective)

1.boldly rude or disrespectful; contemptuously impertinent; insulting:

an insolent reply.

(noun)

2.

an insolent person.

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Efface (verb)

• It might please me to efface in my mind the troubled present with dreams of past glories.

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1. to wipe out; do away with; expunge:

to efface one's unhappy memories.

2.

to rub out, erase, or obliterate (outlines, traces, inscriptions, etc.).

3.

to make (oneself) inconspicuous; withdraw (oneself) modestly orshyly.

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Subvert (verb)

• If the client side package requires any download that can be detected andpossibly used to subvert the system.
• Her talent allowed her to subvert convention and redefine beauty.

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1. to overthrow (something established or existing).

2.

to cause the downfall, ruin, or destruction of.

3.

to undermine the principles of; corrupt.

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Sedition (noun)

• Then, she wrote down her experience and the stories of her studentsdemonstrating how a book club can be an act of sedition.
• Anyone who dares criticise it may be prosecuted for sedition.

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1. incitement of discontent or rebellion against a government.

2.

any action, especially in speech or writing, promoting such discontentor rebellion.

3.

Archaic. rebellious disorder.

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Insurrection (noun)

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an act or instance of rising in revolt, rebellion, or resistance againstcivil authority or an established government.

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Congenial (adj)

• And in this case there's a strong motive to come to particular congenial results, too.
• They therefore find it congenial, the theory posits, to see those forms ofbehavior as dangerous and thus worthy of restriction.

Back 36

1.agreeable, suitable, or pleasing in nature or character:

congenial surroundings.

2.suited or adapted in spirit, feeling, temper, etc.; compatible:

a congenial couple.

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Pilfer (verb)

• Will it create a data set that the less than honest can pilfer.
• Looters drop by to pilfer whatever scraps of metal still wink of profit.

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to steal, especially in small quantities.

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Predilection (noun)

• The objectification was tied to a predilection for violence.
• Psychologists and neuroscientists have recently become fascinated by the human predilection for storytelling.

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a tendency to think favorably of something in particular; partiality;preference:

a predilection for Bach.

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Tribulation (noun)

• For these tribulations he deserves a degree of sympathy.
• He drops you into their world so that you feel their trials and tribulations.

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1. a cause of distress

2. a state of suffering or distress

3. affliction

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Perquisites (noun)

• But the club has one perquisite enjoyed by few others in the state.
• It has become less of a perquisite or a way to build client relationships andmore of a job.

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1.an incidental payment, benefit, privilege, or advantage over andabove regular income, salary, or wages:

Among the president's perquisites were free use of a company car and paid membership in a country club.

2.a gratuity or tip.

3.something demanded or due as a particular privilege:

homage that was once the perquisite of royalty.

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Anachronism (noun)

• This is not an anachronism, this is a poet.
• At other moments, the film wallows in sentimental anachronism.

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1.something or someone that is not in its correct historical orchronological time, especially a thing or person that belongs to anearlier time:

The sword is an anachronism in modern warfare.

2.an error in chronology in which a person, object, event, etc., isassigned a date or period other than the correct one:

To assign Michelangelo to the 14th century is an anachronism.

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Quixotic (adj)

• Going to war against an ideology is quixotic.
• She is a quixotic mixture of illusion and reality.

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1. (sometimes initial capital letter) resembling or befitting Don Quixote.

2.

preoccupied with an unrealistically optimistic or chivalrous approachto life; impractically idealistic

3.

impulsive and often rashly unpredictable.

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Gaiety (noun)

• The writers in this volume bear witness to his gaiety and happiness as wellas to his grievances.
• Hence a government drive to inject some gaiety and spontaneity.

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1. the state or condition of being merry, bright, or lively

2.

festivity; merrymaking

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Brevity (noun)

• In oral argument, the author urges brevity, clarity and equanimity.
• In the pleading of cases nothing pleases so much as brevity.

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1. conciseness of expression; lack of verbosity

2. a short duration; brief time

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Indigenous (adj)

• In the distant past, scientists often ignored and even made fun of theknowledge of indigenous people.
• They say that being indigenous doesn't grant a species special rights toinhabit an ecosystem.

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1.originating in and characteristic of a particular region or country;native (often followed by to):

the plants indigenous to Canada; the indigenous peoples of southernAfrica.

2.innate; inherent; natural (usually followed by to):

feelings indigenous to human beings.

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Pliant (adj)

• Caulk and glazing that remains pliant or that has hardened but can not becrumbled by hand pressure is considered non-friable.
• Under the magic of many skillful hands the pliant boughs are soon tied andtwisted into a thousand devices.

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1.bending readily; flexible; supple; adaptable:

She manipulated the pliant clay.

2.easily influenced; yielding to others; compliant:

He has a pliant nature.

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Arboreal (adj)

• The orangutan evidence adds a new twist to the debate of arboreal versus terrestrial bipedalism theories.

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1. of or pertaining to trees; treelike.

2.

Also, arboreous. living in or among trees.

3.

Zoology. adapted for living and moving about in trees, as the limbsand skeleton of opossums, squirrels, monkeys, and apes.

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Extoll (verb)

• And sadly, ambience of the type you extoll doesn't figure into the bottomline.
• The second and third offer their services, extoll their excellence, andbargain with hand gestures and body language.

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to praise highly; laud; eulogize:

to extol the beauty of Naples.

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Disparage (verb)

• Providers must not publicly criticize or disparage other providers.
• They came up with all sorts of new and creative ways to disparage the president.

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1.to speak of or treat slightingly; depreciate; belittle:

Do not disparage good manners.

2.to bring reproach or discredit upon; lower the estimation of:

Your behavior will disparage the whole family.

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Venal (adj)

• Mayors were either the venal bosses of dishonest machines or figureheadsfor the bosses.
• It's all well and good to rail about evil chemical companies or venal politicians.

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1.willing to sell one's influence, especially in return for a bribe; open to bribery; mercenary:

a venal judge.

2.able to be purchased, as by a bribe:

venal acquittals.

3.associated with or characterized by bribery:

a venal administration; venal agreements.

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Belabour (verb)

• It's important to shine a light on lobbying, more than to belabor thisinevitable calling.
• There is no need to belabor the wobbly nature of this third term.

Back 51

1. smallness of quantity; scarcity; scantiness:

a country with a paucity of resources.

2.

smallness or insufficiency of number; fewness.

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Paucity (noun)

• We would never allow this paucity of journalism in print.
• Eventually, frustrated with the paucity of tools for working directly with the brain, he started building his own.

Back 52

1. (military) the firing of artillery to saturate an area, either to protectagainst an attack or to support an advance

2.

an overwhelming and continuous delivery of something, as words,questions, or punches

3.

a usually gated construction, similar to a low dam, across awatercourse, esp one to increase the depth of water to assistnavigation or irrigation

4.

(fencing) a heat or series of bouts in a competition

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Barrage (noun)

• Chinese city freezes plans for chemical plant after barrage of complaints.
• Students often struggle to get reliable information amid a barrage of in-your-face marketing.

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1. harsh discordance of sound; dissonance:

a cacophony of hoots, cackles, and wails.

2.a discordant and meaningless mixture of sounds:

the cacophony produced by city traffic at midday.

3.

Music. frequent use of discords of a harshness and relationshipdifficult to understand.

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Cacophony (noun)

• On such networks, conventional wiretaps will yield a cacophony of uselesselectronic noise.
• When I blog on politics, on the other hand, there's a cacophony of voices.

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1.to explain, worry about, or work at (something) repeatedly or morethan is necessary:

He kept belaboring the point long after we had agreed.

2.to assail persistently, as with scorn or ridicule:

a book that belabors the provincialism of his contemporaries.

3.

to beat vigorously; ply with heavy blows.

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Ameliorate (verb)

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to make or become better, more bearable, or more satisfactory;improve; meliorate.

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Wend (verb)

• Stroll along the boardwalk, wend your way through the curling pathways,and behold the best view of the city.
• As you wend your way through cacti and random boulders in the outback,watch for iguanas and skittish cottontails.

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to direct (one's course or way); travel: wend one's way home

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Marsh (noun)

• This is the marsh that now separates the sea from the city of ephesus.
• He founded a new town located on some afforested dunes in the middle of a marsh.

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a tract of low wet land, often treeless; low poorly drained land that is sometimes flooded and often lies at the edge of lakes, streams,

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Pathos (noun)

• The ensuing confrontation is at once bleakly funny and ridden with pathos
• The final scene was an odd mixture of chaos and pathos.

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1. the quality or power in an actual life experience or in literature,music, speech, or other forms of expression, of evoking a feeling ofpity or compassion.

2. a feeling of sympathy or pity: a stab of pathos

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Pedagogy (noun)

• All sides of every education debate agree that quality learning happenswhen knowledgeable, caring teachers use sound pedagogy.

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1. the principles, practice, or profession of teaching

2.

the art or science of teaching; education; instructional methods.

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Palpable (adjective)

• At the meeting, the electricity about it was palpable, and it was obviouswhat it was.
• There was some palpable resentment.

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1.

(usually prenominal) easily perceived by the senses or the mind;obvious: the excuse was a palpable lie

2.

capable of being touched; tangible

3.

(med) capable of being discerned by the sense of touch: a palpabletumour

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Convivial (adjective)

• Throughout their whole journey by boat and train they were highlyconvivial, but they instinctively kept together.
• Hot tubs and fireplaces make for convivial canoodling.

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1. friendly; agreeable:

a convivial atmosphere.

2.

fond of feasting, drinking, and merry company; jovial.

3.

of or befitting a feast; festive.

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Winnow (verb)

• Gross and his colleagues winnow the list of possible explanations.
• The science can and should help us winnow down the options.

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Verb (used with object)

1. to free (grain) from the lighter particles of chaff, dirt, etc., especially by throwing it into the air and allowing the wind or a forced current of air to blow away impurities.

2. to drive or blow (chaff, dirt, etc.) away by fanning.

3. to blow upon; fan.

4.to subject to some process of separating or distinguishing; analyse critically; sift: to winnow a mass of statements.

5.to separate or distinguish (valuable from worthless parts) (sometimes followed by out): to winnow falsehood from truth.

6. to pursue (a course) with flapping wings in flying.

7. to fan or stir (the air) as with the wings in flying.

verb (used without object)

8. to free grain from chaff by wind or driven air.

9. to fly with flapping wings; flutter.

noun

10. a device or contrivance used for winnowing.

11. an act of winnowing.

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Finagle (verb)

• It gives owners and general managers a legal excuse not to finagle.
• So, adjuncts might consider trying to finagle the perks in this category from outside sources.

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verb (used with object), finagled, finagling.

1.to trick, swindle, or cheat (a person) (often followed by out of):

He finagled the backers out of a fortune.

2.to get or achieve (something) by guile, trickery, or manipulation:

to finagle an assignment to the Membership Committee.

verb (used without object), finagled, finagling.

3. to practice deception or fraud; scheme.

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Supplant (verb)

• But you still use those highways and road projects, so other programbudgets are negatively effected to supplant your lost fees.
• Alternative energy can not, at this date, supplant dinosaur energy.

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to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy,or the like.

2.

to replace (one thing) by something else.

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Diffident (adj)

• She's more reserved and diffident, he's a chatterbox.
• He has attracted many students from the fringe of prejudice who for various reasons felt diffident about the other race.

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1. lacking confidence in one's own ability, worth, or fitness; timid; shy.

2.

restrained or reserved in manner, conduct, etc.

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Chimerical (adj)

• The heraldic fauna is chiefly remarkable for the large number of chimericalanimals that it contains.
• Their new-found popularity turned out to be chimerical.

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1. unreal; imaginary; visionary:

a chimerical terrestrial paradise.

2.wildly fanciful; highly unrealistic:

a chimerical plan.

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Voracious (adj)

• Though his days were consumed with farm work, he was a voracious reader.

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1.craving or consuming large quantities of food:

a voracious appetite.

2. exceedingly eager or avid:

voracious readers; a voracious collector.

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Decrepit (adj)

• Most people become decrepit as they age.
• He only had one eye now and was too decrepit to do anything other than greet me.

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1. weakened by old age; feeble; infirm:

a decrepit man who can hardly walk.

2.worn out by long use; dilapidated:

a decrepit stove.

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Benign (adj)

• The second jolt came in the form of a benign tumor the size of a golf ball.
• You guys are being comically defensive about what was originally a fairly benign statement.

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1. having a kindly disposition; gracious:

a benign king.

2.showing or expressive of gentleness or kindness:

a benign smile.

3. favorable; propitious:

a series of benign omens and configurations in the heavens.

4.

(of weather) salubrious; healthful; pleasant or beneficial.

5.

Pathology. not malignant; self-limiting.

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Peruse (verb)

• The precise history to be perused depends on the context.
• They perused through some of the antique books and magazines housed in the history section.

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1. to read through with thoroughness or care:

to peruse a report.

2.

to read.

3.

to survey or examine in detail.

opposite of skimming

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Dichotomy (noun)

• The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a falseone.
• This dichotomy will not end until mankind frees itself from the bondage of fragmented allegiance.

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1.

division into two parts or classifications, esp when they are sharplydistinguished or opposed: the dichotomy between eastern andwestern cultures

2.

(logic) the division of a class into two mutually exclusive subclasses:the dichotomy of married and single people

3.

(botany) a simple method of branching by repeated division into twoequal parts

4.

the phase of the moon, Venus, or Mercury when half of the disc isvisible

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Bifurcate (verb)

• The developmental anomaly that causes animals to occasionally form twoheads is called axial bifurcation.
• The only remedy for this disease is to get liberated from the mind itself,because it is the mind which creates this bifurcation.

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verb (used with object), verb (used without object),bifurcated, bifurcating.

1.

to divide or fork into two branches.

adjective

2.

divided into two branches.

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Cantankerous (adj)

• He could be cantankerous and rude, yet hated to be embarrassed.
• She's 25, an aspiring singer and as open-hearted and accepting as Rogeris cantankerous and edgy.

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disagreeable to deal with; contentious; peevish:

a cantankerous, argumentative man.

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Obliterated (verb)

The murderer obliterated all evidences, making it difficult for the police to trace him.

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1. to remove or destroy all traces of; do away with; destroy completely.

2.

to blot out or render undecipherable (writing, marks, etc.); efface.

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Antipode (noun)

Annie is probably the antipode of feminity.

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a direct or exact opposite.

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Reticent

• Being an introvert does not mean being incompetent, shy, or even reticent.

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1.

disposed to be silent or not to speak freely;

reserved.

2.

reluctant or restrained.

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Bellicose (adj)

• The current dispute has excited bellicose passions.
• Both countries have stepped up their bellicose rhetoric.

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inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent;pugnacious.

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Bereave, simple past tense: Bereft (verb)

• Illness bereaved them of their mother.
• The war bereaved them of their home.

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1. to deprive and make desolate, especially by death (usually followed by of):

2.to deprive ruthlessly or by force (usually followed by of):

3.

Obsolete. to take away by violence.

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Placid (adj)

• And the placid beasts still gazing with their mild eyes full of loving.
• Even placid Oman is being dragged into the row.

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pleasantly calm or peaceful; unruffled; tranquil; serenely quiet orundisturbed:

placid waters.

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Impetuous (adj)

• Student did exhibit impetuous behavior without thinking about the possible consequences.
• My father was unpredictably impetuous, an excellent rider on a capricious,powerful horse.

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1.

of, pertaining to, or characterized by sudden or rash action, emotion,etc.; impulsive:

an impetuous decision; an impetuous person.

2.having great impetus; moving with great force; violent:

the impetuous winds.

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Tacit (adj)

• All effective writers and speakers have learned the convention of tacitknowledge.
• The first category has been around for a long time, as preparing, forming individuals was the tacit aim of education.

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1. understood without being openly expressed;

implied:

tacit approval.

2. silent; saying nothing:

a tacit partner.

3. unvoiced or unspoken:

a tacit prayer.

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Watershed (noun)

• The vaccinal eradication of smallpox was a watershed achievement.
• The crisis that engulfed first the financial industry and then entire economies is a watershed event.

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1. the dividing line between two adjacent river systems, such as a ridge

2.

an important period or factor that serves as a dividing line

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Loquacious (adj)

• Through it all, however, the professor brings a loquacious integrity to hisstyle and his discoveries.
• They were more loquacious, but still constrained by the ongoing criminal investigation into the matter.

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1.

talking or tending to talk much or freely; talkative; chattering;babbling; garrulous:

a loquacious dinner guest.

2. characterized by excessive talk; wordy:

easily the most loquacious play of the season.

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Levity (noun)

• They that desire to excel in too many matters, out of levity and vain glory,are ever envious.
• The simple rise as by specific levity not into a particular virtue, but into the region of all the virtues.

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1. inappropriate lack of seriousness

2.

fickleness or instability

3.

(archaic) lightness in weight

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Resolute (noun)

• Jenny, equally resolute, sat on the bed and buried her face.
• Now, bedded down, they turned resolute and disapproving.

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1.

firmly resolved or determined; set in purpose or opinion.

2.

characterized by firmness and determination, as the temper, spirit,actions, etc.

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Reverence (noun)

• Far too many literary adaptations wear the fancy dress of high cultureprestige or bind themselves into corsets of reverence.
• There was no way, it seemed, that he could dim expectations or escape public reverence.

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1.

a feeling or attitude of deep respect tinged with awe; veneration.

2.the outward manifestation of this feeling:

to pay reverence.

3.

a gesture indicative of deep respect; an obeisance, bow, or curtsy.

4.

the state of being revered.

5.

(initial capital letter) a title used in addressing or mentioning a member of the clergy (usually preceded by your or his).

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Insolent (adj/noun)

• Instead, they vented their hatred of dogmatism and intolerance inpersonalities so insolent as to become in themselves intolerant.
• And sometimes, especially if the other side is dishonest, a more insolent tack is called for.

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Adjective

boldly rude or disrespectful; contemptuously impertinent; insulting:

an insolent reply.

Noun

an insolent person.

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Mellifluous (adj)

• The most noteworthy thing about him is his mellifluous voice.
• In recent years, though, their personal relationship has reportedly been as fractious as their music was mellifluous.

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1.

sweetly or smoothly flowing; sweet-sounding:

a mellifluous voice; mellifluous tones.

2.

flowing with honey; sweetened with or as if with honey.

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Dictum (noun)

• Another dictum : perception is reality.
• The old Washington dictum of "don't do anything unless there's a crisis"has taken on the status of international law.

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1. a formal or authoritative statement or assertion; pronouncement

2.

a popular saying or maxim

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Denunciation (noun)

• Perhaps most damaging, former supporters publicly denounce its ideology.
• We denounce this privatization of justice.

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1.

an act or instance of denouncing; public censure or condemnation.

2.

an accusation of crime before a public prosecutor or tribunal.

3.

notice of the termination or the renouncement of an internationalagreement or part thereof.

4.

Archaic. warning of impending evil; threat.

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Equivocate (verb, used w/o object)

• Because he is in the right, he cannot afford to compromise and his leaderscannot afford to equivocate.
• You may equivocate, you may lie in your business, but you don't lie to the press.

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to use ambiguous or unclear expressions, usually to avoid commitmentor in order to mislead; prevaricate or hedge:

When asked directly for his position on disarmament, the candidateonly equivocated.

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Derivative (adj)

• The second derivative, they say, is turning positive.
• It does not have to be a replica, it's called a derivative.

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1. resulting from derivation; derived

2.

based on or making use of other sources; not original or primary

3.

copied from others, esp slavishly; plagiaristic

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Inept (adj)

• Running out of tea would have been inexcusably inept.
• Disappointing because it reinforces the notion that scientists are sociallyinept and unconsciously repressed types.

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1.

without skill or aptitude for a particular task or assignment; maladroit:

He is inept at mechanical tasks. She is inept at dealing with people.

2.

generally awkward or clumsy; haplessly incompetent.

3.

inappropriate; unsuitable; out of place.

4.absurd or foolish:

an inept remark.

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Prognosis (noun)

• We actually have an almost identical situation at my house, and theprognosis isn't good.

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1.

(med)

1. a prediction of the course or outcome of a disease or disorder
2. the chances of recovery from a disease

2.

any forecast or prediction

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Cryptic (adj)

• There are a few cryptic inscriptions on the wax discs and cylinders and somenotes from past curators.
• Sometimes, unfortunately, departmental reviews and faculty mentoring arecryptic or unhelpfully positive.

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1.

hidden; secret; occult

2.

(esp of comments, sayings, etc) obscure in meaning

3.

(of the coloration of animals) tending to conceal by disguising orcamouflaging the shape

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Judicious (adj)

• You're very judicious about when and where you distribute that e-mailaddress.
• Because without judicious planning, an unexpected bestseller can bedevastating.

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having or proceeding from good judgment

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Supercilious (adj)

• It should also be pointed out that many planners have a supercilious view ofintelligence and intelligence officers.
• The supercilious bearing of the old nobility could not be borne by the newpeers.

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displaying arrogant pride, scorn, or indifference

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Pugnacious (adj)

• Because of their highly predaceous and pugnacious nature they are one ofthe easiest fish to catch.
• When he got serious, she imagined he was pugnacious, and tried to egg himon to an open quarrel.

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inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent;combative.

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Perfidy (noun)

• The perfidy and mendacity that follow mesmerize as much as they ring true.
• For example, the extent and perfidy of the "ethanol" scam is now coming tolight.

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1.

deliberate breach of faith or trust; faithlessness; treachery:

perfidy that goes unpunished.

2.

an act or instance of faithlessness or treachery.

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Indigence (noun) synonym: destitution

• He is ever a handful of pocket change away from utter indigence.
• The coastal counties have lots of people on indigence.

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seriously impoverished condition; poverty.

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Effusive (adj)

• His more effusive colleague had come over for the day to listen.
• The style is sentimental and effusive, but it is also winning.

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1. extravagantly demonstrative of emotion; gushing

2. unduly demonstrative; lacking reserve:

effusive greetings; an effusive person.

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Implacable (adj)

• At this point and this was where his cruel, implacable nature showed itself the past ceased to exist for him.
• His good efforts were met with implacable ideological warfare and will to power from the other side.
• In the face of the implacable evil witnessed this week, the answer may have changed.

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incapable of being placated or pacified; unappeasable

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Callous (adj)

• People tend towards generosity after holding a warm cup of coffee, and aremore callous after holding a cold drink.
• Her anguished memories of painful treatment at the hands of callous andbrutal doctors provide clues to her troubled psyche.

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1. made hard; hardened.

2. insensitive; indifferent; unsympathetic:

They have a callous attitude toward the sufferings of others.

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Remiss (adj) synonym: derelict, negligent,

• How remiss of me and an interesting quirk of academic isolation.
• Counselors have been remiss in not providing for the counseling needs ofelderly.

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1.

negligent, careless, or slow in performing one's duty, business, etc.:

He's terribly remiss in his work.

2.

characterized by negligence or carelessness.

3.

lacking force or energy; languid; sluggish.

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Bucolic (adj)

• The war interrupted his bucolic plans, but only briefly.
• Its unique architecture, winding streets and bucolic setting make it a great getaway.

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1.

of or characteristic of the countryside or country life; rustic

2.

of or relating to shepherds; pastoral

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Aspersion (noun)

• It has been left for his professed friends to fasten upon him this damningaspersion.
• As an aside, casting aspersion on the whole nation is despicable.

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1.

a disparaging or malicious remark; slanderous accusation (esp in thephrase cast aspersions (on))

2.

the act of defaming

3.

(rare) the act of sprinkling, esp of water in baptism

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Belligerence (noun)

• No one is ascribing any specific belligerence to them.
• His onstage belligerence and posturing have also occasioned strong critical reproof.

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1.

a warlike or aggressively hostile nature, condition, or attitude.

2.

an act of carrying on war; warfare.

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Atypical (adj)

• If it technically is, then I'd be inclined to think it was an atypical variant.

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not conforming to the type; irregular; abnormal:

atypical behavior; a flower atypical of the species.

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Derelict (adj)

• Ten years ago the original village was becoming a ghost town of derelictbuildings and deserted dirt roads.
• She dressed like a derelict.

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1.

deserted or abandoned, as by an owner, occupant, etc

2.

falling into ruins; neglected; dilapidated

3.

neglectful of duty or obligation; remiss

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Austerity

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1. stern or severe in attitude or manner: an austere schoolmaster

2.

grave, sober, or serious: an austere expression

3.

self-disciplined, abstemious, or ascetic: an austere life

4.

severely simple or plain: an austere design

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Lassitude

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noun

1. weariness of body or mind from strain, oppressive climate, etc.; lack of energy; listlessness; languor.

2. a condition of indolent indifference:

the pleasant lassitude of the warm summer afternoon.

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Languid

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adjective

1.lacking in vigor or vitality; slack or slow:

a languid manner.

2.

lacking in spirit or interest; listless; indifferent.

3.

drooping or flagging from weakness or fatigue; faint.

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Deft

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adjective, defter, deftest.

1. dexterous; nimble; skillful; clever:

deft hands; a deft mechanic.

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Mercurial (adj)

• She's very mercurial and emotes before thinking, while I'm the opposite.

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adjective

1.changeable; volatile; fickle; flighty; erratic:

a mercurial nature.

2.

animated; lively; sprightly; quick-witted.

3.

pertaining to, containing, or caused by the metal mercury.

4.

(initial capital letter) of or pertaining to the god Mercury.

5.

(initial capital letter) of or pertaining to the planet Mercury.

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Phlegmatic

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adjective

1.

not easily excited to action or display of emotion; apathetic; sluggish.

2.

self-possessed, calm, or composed.

3.

of the nature of or abounding in the humor phlegm.

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Disingenuous

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adjective

1.lacking in frankness, candor, or sincerity; falsely or hypocriticallyingenuous; insincere:

Her excuse was rather disingenuous.

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Ambivalent

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adjective

1.having mixed feelings about someone or something; being unable tochoose between two (usually opposing) courses of action: The wholefamily was ambivalent about the move to the suburbs.

She is regarded as a morally ambivalent character in the play.

2.

Psychology. of or pertaining to the coexistence within an individual ofpositive and negative feelings toward the same person, object, oraction, simultaneously drawing him or her in opposite directions.

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Incorrigible

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adjective

1.not corrigible; bad beyond correction or reform:

incorrigible behavior; an incorrigible liar.

2.impervious to constraints or punishment; willful; unruly;uncontrollable:

an incorrigible child; incorrigible hair.

3.firmly fixed; not easily changed:

an incorrigible habit.

4.not easily swayed or influenced:

an incorrigible optimist.

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Facetious

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adjective

1.not meant to be taken seriously or literally:

a facetious remark.

2.

amusing; humorous.

3.lacking serious intent; concerned with something nonessential,amusing, or frivolous:

a facetious person.

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Erudition

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(noun)

knowledge acquired by study, research, etc.; learning; scholarship.

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Chicanery

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noun, plural chicaneries.

1.trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry:

He resorted to the worst flattery and chicanery to win the job.

2.

a quibble or subterfuge used to trick, deceive, or evade.

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Diaphanous

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adjective

1.

very sheer and light; almost completely transparent or translucent.

2.

delicately hazy.

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Variegated

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adjective

1.

varied in appearance or color; marked with patches or spots ofdifferent colors.

2.

varied; diversified; diverse.

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Iconoclast

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noun

1.

a person who attacks cherished beliefs, traditional institutions, etc., as being based on error or superstition.

2.

a breaker or destroyer of images, especially those set up for religiousveneration.

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Indignant

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adjective

1.feeling, characterized by, or expressing strong displeasure atsomething considered unjust, offensive, insulting, or base:

indignant remarks; an indignant expression on his face.

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Dilettante

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noun, plural dilettantes, dilettanti [dil-i-tahn-tee] (Show IPA)

1.

a person who takes up an art, activity, or subject merely foramusement, especially in a desultory or superficial way; dabbler.

2.

a lover of an art or science, especially of a fine art.

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Dowager

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noun

1.a woman who holds some title or property from her deceased husband,especially the widow of a king, duke, etc. (often used as an additionaltitle to differentiate her from the wife of the present king, duke, etc.):

a queen dowager; an empress dowager.

2.an elderly woman of stately dignity, especially one of elevated socialposition:

a wealthy dowager.

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Purveyor

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noun

1.a person who purveys, provides, or supplies:

a purveyor of foods; a purveyor of lies.

2.

Old English Law. an officer who provided or acquired provisions for thesovereign under the prerogative of purveyance.

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Impugn

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verb (used with object)

1.

to challenge as false (another's statements, motives, etc.); cast doubtupon.

2.

Archaic. to assail (a person) by words or arguments; vilify.

3.

Obsolete. to attack (a person) physically.

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Mollify

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verb (used with object), mollified, mollifying.

1.

to soften in feeling or temper, as a person; pacify; appease.

2. to mitigate or reduce; soften:

to mollify one's demands.

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Reconnoiter

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verb (used with object)

1.

to inspect, observe, or survey (the enemy, the enemy's strength orposition, a region, etc.) in order to gain information for militarypurposes.

2.

to examine or survey (a region, area, etc.) for engineering, geological,or other purposes.

verb (used without object)

3.

to make a reconnaissance.

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Raiment

• Prizes will also be given to riders and horses decked out in noteworthyraiment.
• In this striking raiment she goes to her husband's room, expecting volubleadmiration from him.

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noun

1.

clothing; apparel; attire.

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Flotsam

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noun

1.the part of the wreckage of a ship and its cargo found floating on thewater.

Compare jetsam, lagan.

2.

material or refuse floating on water.

3.

useless or unimportant items; odds and ends.

4.a vagrant, penniless population:

the flotsam of the city slums in medieval Europe.

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Decimation

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verb (used with object), decimated, decimating.

1.to destroy a great number or proportion of:

The population was decimated by a plague.

2.

to select by lot and kill every tenth person of.

3.

Obsolete. to take a tenth of or from.

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Wistful

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adjective

1.

characterized by melancholy; longing; yearning.

2.

pensive, especially in a melancholy way.

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Fractious

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adjective

1.refractory or unruly:

a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness.

2.

readily angered; peevish; irritable; quarrelsome:

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Erudite

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adjective

1.characterized by great knowledge; learned or scholarly:

an erudite professor; an erudite commentary.

Synonyms: educated, knowledgeable; wise, sapient.

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Egalitarian

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adjective

1.

asserting, resulting from, or characterized by belief in the equality of all people, especially in political, economic, or social life.

noun

2.

a person who adheres to egalitarian beliefs.

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Capricious

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adjective

1.subject to, led by, or indicative of a sudden, odd notion orunpredictable change; erratic:

He's such a capricious boss I never know how he'll react.

2.

Obsolete. fanciful or witty.