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mellifluous
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sweet and smooth
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discordnt
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not in harmony
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dulcet
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sweet harmonous
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garish
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extremely decorated
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plumb
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in a vertical direction
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palatial
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large, huge
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nadier
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bottom
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loquacious
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talkative
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mollify
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to lessen in intensity
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parish
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social outcast
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cacophony
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series of harsh sounds
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amalgamate
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gather things together
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elegy
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formal way to expresss sorrow
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mendicant
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beggar
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potentate
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monarch
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pretentious
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1. Marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction
2. Ostentatious; intended to impress others Her dress was obviously more pretentious than comfortable. |
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belie
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represent falsely
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cogent
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Reasonable and convincing; based on evidence.
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obsequies
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servile, submissive, slavishly respecful. ceremony rights beformed at a funeral
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betrothal
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engagement
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uxorious
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foolishly found of / overly submissive to his wife
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caper
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to leap around wildly or playful
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recondite
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not easily understood
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abstruse
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concealed or hidden out of the way.
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edification
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intellectual improvement
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lucid
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clear; bright, luminous, translucent or transparent
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pedantic
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Like a pedant, overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.
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allay
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To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm.
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desultory
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lack of direction
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nefarious
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lack of virtue
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insipid
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Flat; lacking character or definition.
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abdicate
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to resign or give up
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nebulous
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cloudy, misty, hazy
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concupiscent
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1. Amorous, lustful; feeling sexy.
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concomitant
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1. Following as a consequence, especially secondarily or incidentally.
Under no concomitant circumstance shall we die. Tom is dying from a concomitant disease. |
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tenacity
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holding steadily to a course of action
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sartorial
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clothing, quality of dress
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tonsorial
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barbers, haircutting
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peregrination
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to travel
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picayune
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trivial, not worthy of attention
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fallow
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unseeded or inactive
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vapid
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lacking life and zest
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plaudits
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expressions of approval
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profligate
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wildly extravagent and self indulgent
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Pastoral
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countryside
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mendacious
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untruthful, lacking honesty
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phlegmatic
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Not easily excited to action or passion; calm; sluggish.
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perfidy
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A state of act of violating faith or allegiance; violation of a promise or vow, or of trust reposed; faithlessness; treachery.
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decadence
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A state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration; decay
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Ephemeral
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# Lasting for a short period of time.
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churl
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# a boorish person; a peasant
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lope
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To travel an easy pace with long strides.
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panegyric
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A formal speech or opus publicly praising someone or something.
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polemic
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The art or practice of aggressive debate, attack on or refutation of the opinions or principles of another
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vulpine
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Of, or pertaining to, the fox. cunning
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adroit
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dexterous, deft or skillful
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avant-garde
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radically new or original
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castigate
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punish severely
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confound
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confuse or perplex
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subsume
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to include or contain under something else.
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galvanize
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To coat with a thin layer of metal by electrochemical means; to electroplate.
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predilection
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Condition of favoring or liking; tendency towards; proclivity; predisposition.
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repudiate
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To reject the truth or validity of something; to deny.
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recant/ recantation
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# To withdraw or repudiate formally and publicly (opinions formerly expressed); to contradict, as a former declaration; to take back openly; to retract; to recall.
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cobbler
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someone who makes or repairs shoes
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chandler
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someone who makes candles
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circumscribe
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draw or place a BOUNDARY around something
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gale
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strong and violent wind
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sycophant
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# One who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another.
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supplant
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to replace, to take the place of, to supersede
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quaint
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Having old-fashioned charm.
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acuity
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Sharpness or acuteness, as of a needle, wit, etc.
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stilted
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stiff and artificially formal
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expedient
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Simple, easy, or quick; convenient.
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onerous
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1. burdensome; difficult; wearing; tiring
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AMENABLE
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responsive or willing”;
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KNAVERY,
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dishonest or crafty dealing”;
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LIMN,
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to describe or depict
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PALATABLE
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acceptable
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Ire
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anger
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effrontery
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an act of insolent and shameless audacity
Any refusal to salute the president shall be counted as an effrontery. |
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ENGENDERED,
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brought into existence,
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bequeath
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To hand down; to transmit.
To give or leave by will; to give by testament; especially of personal property. |
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apiary
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a place where bees are kept
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conscription
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1. involuntary labor, especially military service, demanded by some established authority
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noisome
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# Offensive to the senses; disgusting, unpleasant, nauseous; foul, fetid, especially having an undesirable smell; sickening, nauseating.
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cacophonous
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unpleasant to the ear
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misanthrope
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1. One who hates all mankind; one who hates the human race.
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xenophobe
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1. One who fears that which is unknown; one who fears people who are different from oneself, especially in the case of foreign people
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cloister
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# A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion.
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aesthetic
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Concerned with beauty, artistic impact, or appearance.
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epigram
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CONCISE saying;
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platitude
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is a trite, or overused, saying.
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ameliorate
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to make better
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interlocutor
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someone involved in a conversation.
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recalcitrance
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stubbornness or disobedience,”
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fastidious
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discriminating” or “particular,”
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assent
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agreement
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capriciousness
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unpredictability
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inflammable
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easily ignited
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anodyne
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something that brings relief
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soporific
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something that brings sleep
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dliuvial
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having to do with a flood
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derisive
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Expressing or characterized by derision; mocking; ridiculing.
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rapt
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attentive
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seam
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a layer of rock or coal
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intractable
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does not like to obey
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miser
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(pejorative) A person who hoards money rather than spending it; one who is cheap or extremely parsimonious.
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proffer
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An offer made; something proposed for acceptance by another; a tender; as, proffers of peace or friendship.
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parvenu
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one who has risen quickly to a social position without the accompanying prestige
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fop
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man who is vain about his dress
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prolix
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someone who is word or talks a lot
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magnanimity
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generosity and nobility in spirit
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elan
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vigorous spirit
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brio
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vivacity and spirit/energy
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adumbrate
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to foreshadow/ sketch out in advance
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exonerate
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to forgive or free from blame
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pundit
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A scholar, teacher, or learned person.
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satiate
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satisfy
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catenary
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describes the curve formed by a cord hanging freely from two
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brazen
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(or contemptuouslybold) lacks scruples (or moral qualms).
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guile
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deceitfulness
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glen
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deceitfulness
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benighted
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(meaning naive, unenlightened
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sage
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wise
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braise
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a way to cook something
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restive
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difficult to control
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mendacious
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1. (of a person) lying, untruthful or dishonest
2. (of a statement etc) false or untrue |
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intransigent
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person possesses no MODERATION.
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Insouciant
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lighthearted or nonchalant
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GALVANIZED,
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meaning jolted to life. word comes from the world of electric shock
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TEPID,
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lukewarm
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salacious
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1. Promoting sexual desire or lust.
2. Lascivious or bawdy. 3. Obscene or lewd. |
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DENIZEN
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means inhabitant or frequenter
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delineate
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1. To sketch out, draw or trace an outline.
2. To depict, represent with pictures. 3. To describe or depict with words or gestures. 4. To outline or mark out. |
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RETICENT,
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“quiet” or “reluctant to speak,”
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BOMBASTIC,
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pompous,”
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tacit
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approval is understood without being spoken
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OSTENTATION
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synonym for flamboyance.
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OBSTINATE
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stubborn
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LACONIC
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using few words
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THREADBARE,
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worn out.”
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PLIANT,
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flexible.”
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PHILANDERER
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a man who has extramarital affairs.
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STOIC
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able to tolerate great pain.
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ERUDITE
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1. learned, scholarly, with emphasis on knowledge gained from books.
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AMICABLE,
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Showing friendliness or goodwill.
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VACILLATE,
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to sway back and forth; hesitate,”
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APERTURE
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an opening,
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DIATRIBE
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an abusive, condemnatory speech.
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abscond
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To depart secretly; to steal away, particularly to avoid arrest or prosecution : To withdraw from, to leave from; to hide from
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COGITATE
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to meditate, to ponder, to think deeply
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STAUNCH,
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“firm, steadfast, or
constant |
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foreswear
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To renounce or deny something, especially under oath.
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exculpate
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1. To clear of or free from guilt; exonerate.
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destitute
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1. Lacking something; devoid; especially lacking money; poor, impoverished, poverty-stricken
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clandestine
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secret hidden
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laconic
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“using of few words; terse or concise.”
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largess
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1. (uncountable) generosity in the giving of gifts or money
2. the gifts or money given in such a way 3. a benevolent demeanor |
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quagmire
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A swampy, soggy area of ground.
A perilous, mixed up and troubled situation; a hopeless tangle; a predicament. |
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consort
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1. The spouse of a monarch.
2. A husband, wife, companion or partner. |
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bane
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1. (obsolete) A killer, murderer, slayer
2. A cause of misery or death; an affliction or curse |
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tableau
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1. a striking and vivid representation; a picture
2. a vivid graphic scene of a group of people arranged as in a painting |
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pallid
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Positive
pallid Comparative more pallid Superlative most pallid 1. appearing weak, pale, or wan The patient left the hospital but was very pallid. |
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fracas
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A noisy disorderly quarrel, fight, brawl, disturbance or scrap.
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ravenous
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1. Very hungry
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reliquary
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A container to hold or display religious relics.
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mane
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1. longer hair growth on back of neck of a horse
2. longer hair growth around head of male lions |
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mare
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# An adult female horse.
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chargrin
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a feeling of unease resulting from disappointment or failure
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hurricane
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a tropical cyclone that occrs in the atlantic ocean
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typhoon
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tropical cycle that occurs int he pacific ocean
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spindle
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a kind of post that holds up a handrail
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axle
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1.The pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel.
2.A transverse bar or shaft connecting the opposite wheels of a car or carriage; an axletree. |
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bobbin
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1.A spool or cylinder around which wire is coiled.
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adobe
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An unburnt brick dried in the sun
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pueblo
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1.A communal building erected by certain Indian tribes of Arizona and New Mexico. It is often of large size and is usually built either of stone or adobe.
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rubber
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is derived from certain types of latex
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silica
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key element in glass
1.silicon dioxide. 2.any of the silica group of the silicate minerals. |
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vassal
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tithes a portion of his or her production in exchange for living on their lord's land
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invoice
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itemizes the costs of goods and services
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index
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itemizes pages in a book
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admonition
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a mild warning or bit of cautionary advice
1.Gentle or friendly reproof; counseling against fault or oversight; warning. |
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equivocation
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A logical fallacy resulting from the use of multiple meanings of a single expression.
2.The use of expressions susceptible of a double signification, possibly intentionally and with the aim of misleading. |
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acquiescent
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accepting something passively
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audacious
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bold behavior
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miscreant
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1.Lacking in conscience or moral principles; unscrupulous.
2.(theology) Holding an incorrect religious belief. |
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enamel
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hard outer substance that protects the inner nerves and tissue of a tooth
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lapel
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1.Each of the two triangular pieces of cloth on a suit which are folded back below the throat, leaving a triangular opening between.
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auspicious
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1.Of good omen; indicating future success.
2.Conducive to success. This is an auspicious day. 3.Marked by success; prosperous. |
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incomspicous
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1.Not prominent or easily noticeable
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supercede
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to take place of / supplant
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introspective
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1.Examining one's own perceptions and sensory experiences; contemplative or thoughtful about oneself.
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embellish
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1.To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.
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palliate
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improve or reduced the severity of
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assuage
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To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain etc.).
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mitigate
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To reduce, lessen, or decrease.
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Alacrity
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# eagerness; liveliness; enthusiasm
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clemency
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1. The moderation of the severity of a punishment
2. (uncountable) Forgiveness or compassion. |
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consternation
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1. Amazement or horror that confounds the faculties, and incapacitates for reflection; terror, combined with amazement; dismay.
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cygent
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a young swan
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cur
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a noun applied to ill-mannered dogs and ill-mannered people
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lout
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what you do and say is rude, crude, boorish, and socially unacceptable
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gyrate
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to turn with great intensity - to whirl
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emendation
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the process of correcting something
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haversack
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A small, strong bag carried on the back or the shoulder, usually with only one strap. Originally made of canvas.
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paean
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a fervent expression of joy or praise
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dirge
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a fervent expression of mourning
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crass
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coarse; crude; not refined or sensible
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excoriate
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To strongly denounce or censure.
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admonish
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To counsel against wrong practices; to caution or advise; to warn against danger or an offense; — followed by of, against, or a subordinate clause.
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nugatory
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Trivial, trifling or of little importance.
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destitute
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1. Lacking something; devoid; especially lacking money; poor, impoverished, poverty-stricken
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dereliction
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negligence, being run-down
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salient
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obvious. prominent, worthy of note; pertinent or relevant
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protract / protracted
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To draw out; to extend, especially in duration.
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recapitulate
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to summarize or repeat in concise form
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myopia
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# A lack of imagination, discernment or long-range perspective in thinking or planning.
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sere
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dry
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benighted
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naive, unenlightened
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assiduous
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someone who is diligent and persistent in work ethic
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indolent
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person who refrains from exerting effort
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overtures
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appeals often to help or compromise
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slake
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To slacken; to become relaxed.
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scruple
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To be reluctant or to hesitate, as regards an action, on account of considerations of conscience or expedience.
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aspersion
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# An attack on somebody's reputation or good name, often in the phrase to cast aspersions upon….
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sestina
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1. a highly structured poem consisting of six six-line stanzas followed by a tercet or envoy, for a total of thirty-nine lines.
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flamenco
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1. a Spanish dance
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