Tums Vocab Words

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Valiant

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(adj.) very brave, especially in a difficult situation

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Anhedonic

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(adj.) the inability to experience pleasure in normally pleasurable acts

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Omnipresent

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(adj.) present in all places at all times

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Holistically

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(adv.) on the whole, as a complete set, in total.

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Waterlogged:

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(adj.) saturated with or full of water

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Integral:

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(adj.) essential to completeness

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Contumacious:

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(adj.) stubbornly perverse, willfully and obstinately disobedient

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Putative:

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(adj.) commonly regarded as such; reputed; supposed

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Ostentatious:

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(adj.) characterized by a pretentious or conspicuous show in an attempt to impress others

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Parsimony:

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(n.) cheapness, penny pinching

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Tepid:

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(adj.) lacking in passion, force, or zest

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Inexorably:

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(adj.) not to be persuaded, moved, or stopped; relentless

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Sedulously:

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(adv.) sincerely, diligently

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Superfluous:

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(adj.) unnecessary or needless

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Vitriolic

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(adj.) severely bitter or harsh

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Throes:

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(n.) a hard or painful struggle

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Aplomb:

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(n.) assurance, poise, or self-possession

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Flocculate

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(v.) to cause to aggregate into a mass

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Sporadic

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(adj.) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time

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Cajole

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: (v.) to persuade by flattery or promises; wheedle; coax

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Plethora

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(n.) overabundance; excess or superfluity

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Innocuous:

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(adj.) not harmful or injurious; harmless

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Predicate:

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: (v.) to found or base a statement on

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Ostracize:

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(v.) to exile; to exclude from a group by common consent

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Litigious:

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(adj.) prone to engage in lawsuits

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Analogous:

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(adj.) Proportionate; comparable in certain respects

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Idiosyncratic

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(n.) a characteristic, habit, or mannerism peculiar to an individual

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Eschew:

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(v.) to abstain or keep away from; shun; avoid

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Abscond:

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(v.) to depart in a sudden and secret manner, especially to avoid capture and legal prosecution

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Anthropomorphic:

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(adj.) ascribing human form or other attributes to a being or thing that is not human

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Discursive:

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(adj.) lengthy and including extra material that is not essential to what is being written or spoken about

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Aspersions:

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(n.) damaging or derogatory remark or criticism

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Ebb:

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(n.) a period of decline or diminuation

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Batik:

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(adj.) a design created by means of dying a fabric, and covering with removable wax those parts that aren’t intended to be dyed

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Impede:

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(v.) to retard in movement or progress by means of obstacles or hindrances; obstruct; hinder

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Amalgamation

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(n.) the process of combining or uniting entities into one form

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Austere:

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(adj.) severe or strict in manner, attitude, or appearance

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Anagram:

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(n.) the letters of a word or phrase so transposed as to make a different word or phrase

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Sophistry:

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(n.) subtle, deceptive reasoning or argumentation

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Aberration

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(n.) the act of departing from the right, normal, or usual course