Words From Study Material

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Lucubration

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A learned or pedantic piece of writing

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Indigent

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Poor. Needy

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Portentous

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Done in a pompous manner

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Refractory

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Stubborn. Unmanageable

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Execrable

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Extremely bad or unpleasant

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Euphuism

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An artificial or highly elaborate way of speaking

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Divagate

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Stray or digress

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Assignation

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A secret romantic tryst

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Staid

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Sedate. Respectable. Unadventerous. Serious.

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Unflagging

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Tireless. Persistent.

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Ecumenical

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Worldwide or general in extent.

Referring to a whole body of churches.

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Bluster

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Talk in a loud offensive indignant way. Bragging

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Aggrandize

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Increase the power status and wealth of

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Pretension

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Pretension is inflation. Trying to make something about someone seem grander than it is. It's also a claim. Like claim to the throne

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Salutary Vs Salutation

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Salutary is promoting good effects. Beneficial. Nothing to do with Salutation

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Frisson

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Sudden strong feeling of excitement

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Doughty

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Brave and Persistent

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Pleonasm

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Use of more words than necessary. Prolix. Verbose.

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Countermand

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Revoke or Cancel

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Undulating

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Moving with a smooth wave like motion

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Armistice

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Agreement made by opposing sides in the war

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Proselyte

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Person converted from one religion to another

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Crotchet

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A perverse or unfounded belief or notion

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Sidle

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Walk in an unobstrusive or timid manner

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Effulgent

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Shining. Bright. Radiant

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Haggard

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Worn out

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Epaulet

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Ornamental shoulder piece

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Animadversion

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Criticism or censure

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Condign

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Punishment appropriate to the crime.

Condign was rare when the criminal was rich

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Flagitious

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Criminal. Villainous

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Simulacra

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An image or representation of someone or something

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Costive

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Reluctant. Unforthcoming

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Bathetic

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Producing an unintentional effect or anticlimax

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Risible

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Provoking Laughter

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Malaise

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Sick or ill

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Emend

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Make corrections or revisions to a text

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Peremptory

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Insisting on immediate attention or obedience

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Protract

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Prolong

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Prolepsis

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The anticipation and answering of possible objections

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Saturnine

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Sad or gloomy. Opposite of sanguine

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Elysian

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Delightful. Like say the garden of Eden

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Plenary

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Absolute. Without limits

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Adduce

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Cite as evidence

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Conferment

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The act of conferring a title. I don't know how the fcuk I got this one wrong

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colloquium

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An academic conference or seminar

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continence

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Exercising self restraint. Specially sexually

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climacteric

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1 a critical period or event: the first major climacteric in twentieth-century poetry.

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grouse

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complain about something trivial; grumble:

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Foist

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Impose something on

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Callow

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Inexperienced or immature

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Wane

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Reduce.

CANNOT BE USED IMPERSONALLY. I. E THE MOON WANES ON IT'S OWN. YOU CAN'T WANE SOMETHING LIKE WANING AGGRESSION

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Feckless

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Lacking initiative or strength

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ratiocinate

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form judgements by using login. To use rationale

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Interpose

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Insert between two things. As opposed to juxtapose

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Debonair

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Confident. Stylish. Charming

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Bloviate

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Talk at length in a pompous way

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amatory

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relating to or induced by sexual love or desire: his amatory exploits.

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aleatory

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depending on the throw of a dice or random chance

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Pollard

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Cut off the top branches of a tree

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payola

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bribe

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lucre

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money, especially when regarded as sordid or distasteful or gained in a dishonourable way: officials getting their hands grubby with filthy lucre.

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Limn

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depict or describe in painting or words

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caliginous

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dark grim misty

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avuncular

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Kind and friendly towards a younger more inexperienced person

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Ineluctable

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Unable to be avoided. Inexorable

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bilk

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to cheat or defraud

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Byzantine

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Excessively complicated. Like the Byzantine empire

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Brook

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Tolerate allow. The Dictator will tolerate no dissent

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Go down to the tubes.

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Become much worse. Fail

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Syncretism

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Amalgamation of many religions

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Arboreal

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Living in or related to trees.

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Lackadaisical

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Lacking enthusiasm and energy

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Exculpate

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Declare someone free from wrong doing

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Capricious

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Given to sudden changes in mood

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Laconic.

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Using few words. Taciturn

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Saccharine

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Sweet. From the word saccharin which is a sweetener

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Pertinacious

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Holding firmly to an opinion

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Hypochondriac

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Someone who's excessively worried

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Ephemeral

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Lasting a short time.

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Felicitous

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Working out well

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Vaunted

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Highly or widely praised and boasted about

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Renegade

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Outlaw or rebel

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Curio

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A strange and interesting object that invokes curiosity

She was relegated to Curio status

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Plebiscite

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A referendem. Specially one that involves a change in sovriegnity

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Vituperative

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Marked by harsh spoken or written abuse

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Reprobate

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Rejected. Cast of as worthless

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Probity

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Integrity

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Onerous

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Imposing a physical or mental load

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Disabuse

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To free someone of a misconception or falsehood. Vindicate. Exculpate

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Prehensile

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Able to take hold of and grab objects

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Extirpate

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Pull up by the roots. Eradicate

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Detritus

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Organic waste material

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Intransigent

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Unwilling to compromise

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Rectitude

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Straightness or the quality of having a constant direction

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Contravene

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To act contrary to an order

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Stygian

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Dark gloomy. Infernal or hellish

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Rhapsodic

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Highly emotional

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Abet

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To urge. To stimulate.

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Effusive

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Gushy. Unrestrained. Extravagant. Overflowing.

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Jackleg

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Amateur. Untrained.

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Prurient

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Uneasy with desire. Lustful

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Febrility

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Feverish. Having excess energy

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Tremulous

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Trembling. Quivering. Shaking.

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Lapidary

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A person's who cuts and polishes gems.

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Epistemology

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The branch of philosophy dealing with the study of knowledge.

What is knowledge?

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Couquettish

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Flirtacious

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Preening

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Grooming. Or posturing.

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Disaffected

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Alienated. Estranged.

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Latitude

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Scope for freedom or action of thought.

Journalists need more latitude.

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Ardor

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Intense and passionate feeling

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Probity

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The quality of having strong moral principles

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Cavil

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Make petty or unnecessary objections

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Consonance

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Agreement or compatibility between thoughts and actions

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Chary

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Cautiously suspicious or reluctant

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Becalm

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Of a ship unable to move through lack of wind. Used in a negative context

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Manacled

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Confined. With the links of a chain.

Prisoners are Manacled.

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Antinomies or Antinomy

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A contradiction between two beliefs that are in themselves reasonable. A paradox.

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Antinomian

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Person who believes Christians are released from grace by observing moral law

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Evanescent

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Soon passing out of sight. Memory or existence

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Discomfiting

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Make someone feel uneasy or embarrassed

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Rapturous

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Characterized by great pleasure or enthusiasm

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Filial

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Relating to son or daughter. Filial affection

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Cogitation

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The act of thinking deeply.

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Astringent

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Sharp or severe in manner and style.

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Portents

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Signs or warnings or a calamitous event about to occur

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Abate

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Reduce or remove. Reduce something un pleasant.

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Indomitable

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Impossible to subdue or defeat.

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Liberality

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The quality of speeding freely

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Libretto

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Text of an opera or vocal work

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Sumptuous

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Splendid and expensive looking

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Cavalcade

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A procession of people riding on horseback. On cavalry

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Presage

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A sign or warning of an imminent event.

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Doge

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Chief magistrate of Venice or Greece

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Compunction

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Feeling of guilt that prevents someone from doing something bad

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Deft

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Skillful

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Brigand

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a member of a gang that ambushes and robs people in the forest

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Consign

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Deliver something to a persons keeping.

He consigned three paintings to him

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Tetchy

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irritale and bad tempered

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Azure

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bright blue

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Avant Garde

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New and experimental. Not gothic

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Vestment

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Robes worn by clergy

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Dudgeon

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A feeling of offence or deep resentment

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Indolence

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Laziness

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Ululate

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how or wail as an expression of strong emotion

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Regnant

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Reigning

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Fugacious

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tending to dissappear