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Ramparts
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A defensive wall of a castle or walled city, having a broad top with a walkway and typically a stone parapet; A defensive or protective barrier
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Incisive
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penetrating; cutting; biting; trenchant: an incisive tone of voice.
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Petulant
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moved to or showing sudden, impatient irritation, especially over some trifling annoyance: a petulant toss of the head.
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Exigent
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requiring immediate action or aid; urgent; pressing.
requiring a great deal, or more than is reasonable. |
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Doggerel
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comic or burlesque, and usually loose or irregular in measure.
rude; crude; poor. |
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Exorbitant
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exceeding the bounds of custom, propriety, or reason, especially in amount or extent; highly excessive: to charge an exorbitant price; exorbitant luxury.
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Invective
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vehement or violent denunciation, censure, or reproach.a railing accusation; vituperation.an insulting or abusive word or expression.
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Baleful
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full of menacing or malign influences; pernicious.
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Incursion
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a hostile entrance into or invasion of a place or territory, especially a sudden one; raid: The bandits made brief incursions on the village.
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Impugn
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to challenge as false (another's statements, motives, etc.); cast doubt upon.
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Facetious
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not meant to be taken seriously or literally: a facetious remark.amusing; humorous.lacking serious intent; concerned with something nonessential, amusing, or frivolous: a facetious person.
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Placate
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to appease or pacify, especially by concessions or conciliatory gestures: to placate an outraged citizenry.
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Fractious
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refractory or unruly: a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness.
readily angered; peevish; irritable; quarrelsome: an incorrigibly fractious young man. . |
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Beget
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(especially of a male parent) to procreate or generate (offspring).
to cause; produce as an effect: a belief that power begets power. |
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Allocated
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to set apart for a particular purpose; assign or allot: to allocate funds for new projects.
to fix the place of; locate. |
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Truculent
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fierce; cruel; savagely brutal.
brutally harsh; vitriolic; scathing: his truculent criticism of her work. aggressively hostile; belligerent. |
