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Hue |
A shade of color |
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Relinquish |
To surrender or release |
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Tributary |
A stream flowing into a larger river; making additions or producing supplies |
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Mystical |
Having a spiritual sense or importance beyond human understanding |
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Staple |
A basic or principal item, esp. of food; principal |
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Maneuver |
To direct through a series of movements; to manipulate into a desired position |
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Ramshackle |
About to fall apart or fall down |
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Internecine |
Pertaining to conflict within a group; mutually destructive |
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Hearten |
Encourage; give strength |
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Sluggish |
Lazy; lacking energy |
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Orchestrate |
To arrange so as to achieve a desired effect |
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Verbiage |
Excessive wordiness |
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Pristine |
Remaining in a pure state |
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Scoff |
To make fun of; to ridicule |
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Inoculate |
To inject something, GDP. A medicine, into in order to create immunity |
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Defame |
To attack a person's reputation; to slander |
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Opaque |
Not letting in light; unintelligible |
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Vigorous |
Energetic; forceful; strong and healthy |
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Partisan |
A strong, often militant, supporter |
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Mausoleum |
A huge tomb |
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Monarch |
One who rules a state, usually for life and by hereditary right |
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Nadir |
The lowest point; the bottom |
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Bequeath |
To pass down to; to hand down, esp. In a will |
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Resuscitate |
To revive, esp. From apparent death or unconsciousness |
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Fallacy |
A false notion, esp. One based on incorrect reasoning |
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Polemic |
A controversial argument, esp. Attacking a particular opinion |
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Hearsay |
Rumor; gossip |
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Bellow |
To yell very loudly; to shout |
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Vagrant |
A person who wanders from place to place, GDP. One who lives on the streets and constitutes a public nuisance |
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Indigenous |
Native, occurring naturally |
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Inert |
Unable to move or respond; sluggish |
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Pandemic |
General, widespread; a very widespread disease |
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Nascent |
Coming into being; being born |
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Brazen |
Showing shameless, insolent boldness; made of brass |
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Harbinger |
Someone or something that indicates what is to come |
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Stalwart |
Firm and resolute; having imposing physical strength |
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Ledger |
A book for keeping financial records |
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Assiduous |
Diligent; hard-working; constant |
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Quarantine |
Enforced isolation to prevent the spread of disease; to isolate for such purpose |
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Harrowing |
Very distressing; painful |
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Abet |
To encourage, assist, or support, usually in wrongdoing |
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Obscure |
Lacking light; dim; dark |
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Immaculate |
Perfectly clean |
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Office |
A duty or function assigned to someone |
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Repository |
A place where things are kept for safekeeping |
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Verdant |
Green |
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Incite |
To provoke and urge on; yo encourage to act, esp. Ina hostile action |
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Indisposed |
Slightly ill; unwilling |
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Inveterate |
Established for a long time; habitual |
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Husband |
To use sparingly; to conserve |
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Admonish |
To warn so a fault can be corrected or a danger avoided |
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Commute |
To change a punishment to one less severe |
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Meager |
Lacking in quantity or vigor; scanty |
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Disparage |
To speak in a disapproving or slighting manner; to belittle |
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Neural |
Pertaining to a nerve, the nervous system, or the brain |
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Refuse |
Garbage |
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Prosperity |
Wealth; good fortune |
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Engulf |
To swallow up; overwhelm |
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Saturate |
To soak or fill to the capacity |
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Invalidate |
to cancel; deprive of legal importance; nullify |
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Wreak |
To inflict; to cause (something bad) |
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Auditory |
Relating to the sense of hearing |
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Muse |
To meditate; to consider thoughtfully |
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Disdain |
A feeling of contempt |
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Grovel |
To beg; to lower oneself to please another |
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Delegate |
To entrust to another person; a person authorized to act as the representative of another |
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Retrospect |
The consideration of past events |
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Utopia |
An ideally perfect place |
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Ponder |
To think over with great care |
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Intervene |
To come between two things |
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Ineffable |
Incapable of being expressed |
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Imposing |
Impressive by virtue of size, power, or manner |
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Vanguard |
The leading position in army or fleet; the leading position in a movement or trend |
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Calamity |
An event causing extreme trouble and misery |
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Irony |
A use of words in which the intended meaning is very different from the literal sense; an incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs, esp. one that actually suggests a lesson about human folly |
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Ingenuous |
Innocent; naive |
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Meritorious |
Deserving reward or praise |
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Prodigy |
One with exceptional talents |
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Fidelity |
Strict faithfulness to vows or promises; exact correspondence with fact |
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Primeval |
Relating to the beginning of the first world ages |
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Verisimilitude |
Resemblance to the truth |
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Rout |
An overwhelming defeat; a disorderly retreat or flight following a defeat; to defeat overwhelmingly |
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Presumptuous |
Excessively forward or overconfident |
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Translucent |
Letting light through, but no visual details |
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Defunct |
Having ceased to exist or live |
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Jetsam |
Cargo or equipment thrown overboard to lighten a ship in distress; discarded material washed ashore |
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Embellish |
To decorate; to add ornamental or fictitious details to |
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Malicious |
Spiteful |
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Acquiesce |
To agree without protest |
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Gambit |
A calculated, risky opening move |
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Pretext |
An excuse; a strategy intended to conceal something |
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Endorse |
To give approval or support to |
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Flotsam |
Wreckage of a ship or its cargo found floating on the sea |
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Recalcitrant |
Marked by stubborn defiance of authority or guidance |
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Gingerly |
Very carefully; cautiously |
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Discrete |
Individually distinct or separate |
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Prevaricate |
To speak or write evasively in order to avoid telling the truth |
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Prodigious |
Wonderful; amazing; very big |
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Impregnable |
Invincible; unconquerable |
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Modulate |
To adjust or regulate |
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Megalomania |
A condition marked by delusional fantasies of power, wealth, or omnipotence |
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Ingenious |
Inventive, cunning, clever |
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Grudge |
To be reluctant to give or admit |
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Concurrent |
Happening at the same time; acting together |
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Mesmerize |
To hypnotize or spellbind |
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Convalesce |
To recover from illness; to recuperate |
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Implore |
TO ask for unrgently; to beg |
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Incandescent |
Shining; glowing from within |
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Rhapsody |
A state of great happiness |
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Pentinent |
Feeling regret |
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Polymath |
one who knows a great deal about several different fields |
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Incense |
To make angry; to enragw |
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Mortal |
Subject to death; causing death |
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Eloquent |
Articulate; convincing and effective in speech |
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Prediclection |
A special liking ofr something; a preference |
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Macabre |
Suggesting the horror of death |
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Tourniquet |
A device, usually an enciricling bandage, used to cut off the flow of blood |
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Itinerary |
A route or proposed rout for a journey |
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Brawn |
Muscles; strength |
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Idiom |
A style or manner of expression peculiar to an indicidual or a group |
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Averse |
Opposed, reluctant; repelled |
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Hodgepodge |
Mixture; combination |
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Anterior |
Placed before or in front; earlier |
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Sedentary |
Sitting down most of the time |
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Mammoth |
Very large; of clumsy or unwieldy size |
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Evanescent |
Fading from sight; transient |
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Postulate |
To assume as true, esp. as a precondition in a chain of reasoning |
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Pariah |
A social outcastS |
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hoddy |
Inferior or cheap
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Pernicious |
Very harmful or destruct |
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Rvel |
To delight, to enjoy |
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Exhaustive |
Thorough |
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predatory |
Characterized by robbing or exploiting others; l |
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Hogwash |
worthless or false speech or writing |
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Virulent |
Extremely infectious or harmful; bitterly hostile |
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Extraneous |
Not an essential part of; unimportant |
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ADvent |
A coming or an arrival, esp. of something very importatn |
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Concoct |
To invent; to create by combining ingredients, as in cooking
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Accost |
To approach and speak to, usually aggressively |
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Luminescent |
Emitting light not derived from hear, e. g. through chemical reaction |
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Circuitous |
Being or taking a roundabout, lengthy course |
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Kudos |
Glory; fame |
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Litany |
A long repetitive recitationGri |
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Grime |
Dirt; mud |
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Coalesce |
To grow together; to merge into a single body |
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Effusive |
Overflowing; excessively emotionalImp |
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Impetuos
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Characterized by sudden emotion, enrgy |
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Expanse |
A large amount of something spread out |
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Displace |
To take the place of |
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Heady |
intoxicating; exhilarating |
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Mishap |
An unlucky or unfortunate accident |
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Mendacious |
Lying; false, esp. habitually |
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Prodigal |
Exceedingly or recklessly wasteful |
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Proscribe |
To prohibit or forbid; to denounce |
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Foreboding |
A sense of impending evil, esp. one without definite cause |
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Serene |
Calm and peaceful |
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Spontaneous |
Occurring naturally or without forethought |
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Propagate |
To multiply or reproduce; to transmit; to extend to a wider area |
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Infer |
To reason or conclude from evidence |
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Bolster |
To support or strengthen |
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Vacuous |
Lacking substance or intelligence |
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Visceral |
Instinctive; relating to the internal organs |
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Mutilate |
To disfigure by damaging irreparably |
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Subservient |
Subordinate in function; obsequious |
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Insouciant |
Calm and untroubled; carefree; indifferent |
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Precursor |
Someone or something that comes before another and announces or suggests what is to come |
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Ruminate |
To ponder at length |
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Obscene |
Offensive to accepted standard of decency or modesty |
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Accolade |
An award or honor; a sign of great respect |
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Suffrage |
The right to vote |
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Manifold |
Of many kinds; numerous and varied |
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Acclimate |
To make comfortable in a new environment; to adapt to |
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Impostor |
A person using a false identity |
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Echelon |
A level within an organization |
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Quiescent |
Inactive, often suggesting a temporary state |
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Marquee |
A sign over the entrance to a public building |
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Affront |
An open insult, usually intentional |
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Bestow |
To present or give (used with "on") |
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Deign |
To stoop to a level considered beneath one's dignity |
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Leviathan |
Something enormous and powerful; a sea monster |
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Gaudy |
Characterized by tasteless or showy colors |
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Obsolescent |
Becoming out-of-date; going out of use |
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Feisty |
Irritable; quarrelsome; full of spirit |
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Onerous |
Burdensome, hard to bear |
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Threadbare |
Old and worn out |
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Metamorphosis |
A transformation, as by magic; a marked change in appearance or function |
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Renege |
To fail to carry out a promise |
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Humbug |
Something done to trick or deceive |
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Counsel |
Advice or guidance; to give guidance to |
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Adhere |
To stick to; to be a firm follower |
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Iniquity |
Extreme immorality or injustice; wickedness |
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Obituary |
A newspaper account of a person's death, usually including biographical information |
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Sleuth |
A detective |
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Fecund |
Producing offspring; fruitful; intellectually productive |
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Progeny |
Children or descendants |
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Proficient |
Very skillful, esp. through training |
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Lurid |
Causing shock or horror; tastelessly vivid; glowing like fire through a haze |
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Grueling |
Exhausting |
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Farce |
A comedy based on crudely humorous, unlikely situations; something absurd or ridiculous, as an obvious pretense |
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Prognosis |
The anticipated progress of recovery |
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Avocation |
A hobby |
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Impinge |
To have an effect on something, esp. a negative one; to encroach |
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Cavalcade |
An order of events; a procession |
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Facade |
Outward appearance; the face of a building |
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Emphatic |
Done or expressed with force |
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Hallmark |
Any mark or symbol of genuineness or high quality |
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Propaganda |
The propagation of a belief, a cause, or information reflecting the views and interests of those advocating the belief; material reflecting such a belief or cause |
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Acrid |
Harsh; sarcastic; bitter to the taste |
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Abide |
To tolerate |
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Disconsolate |
Extremely unhappy; seemingly beyond comforting |
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Lugubrious |
Sad or mournful, esp. in a way that seems exaggerated or ridiculous |
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Dogmatic |
Arrogantly asserting unproved principles |
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Alienate |
To make unfriendly or hostile |
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Ascertain |
To discover with certainty, as through examination |
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Ulterior |
Lying beyond what is evident, revealed, or claimed |
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Subterfuge |
A sneaky or devious method for avoiding difficulty or unpleasantly |
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Vernacular |
Informal speech; native language |
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Rebuke |
To criticize sharply |
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Affluence |
Wealth |
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Camaraderie |
Loyalty; a warm, friendly feeling among members of a group |
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Regimen |
A set of rules, usually followed for therapeutic effect |
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Doctrine |
A set of principles (religious, political, etc.); a rule of law, esp. as established by precedent |
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Effrontery |
Bold and insulting behavior |
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Terse |
Without unnecessary words; succinct |
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Jilt |
To reject or cast off |
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Cantankerous |
Bad-tempered; quarrelsome |
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Berate |
To scold severely and at length |
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Vantage |
A position that gives a wide view |
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Redress |
To set right; to remedy |
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Arable |
Suitable for growing crops (of land) |
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Explicate |
To give a detailed, usually learned explanation or analysis |
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Claustrophobia |
Fear of confined spaces |
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Indefatigable |
Tireless, unceasing |
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Advocate |
To speak in support of something |
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Tract |
An area of land or water; a brief written work, usually on a religious or political topic |
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Itinerant |
Traveling from place to place, esp. for work |
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Acrimony |
Bitter, sharp hostility in speech or behavior |
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Incoherent |
Not sticking together; not logically connected |
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Moratorium |
Suspension of activity; authorized delay |
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Provenance |
Place or source of origin |
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Melancholy |
Sad, esp. a lingering or habitual state of mind; persistent sadness |
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Downtrodden |
Badly and unfairly treated; oppressed |
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Affable |
Friendly; easy to talk to |
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Disseminate |
To scatter widely; (of information) to make known |
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Panacea |
A cure-all or an all-purpose solution |
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Dire |
Warning of or having terrible consequences |
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Blight |
A plant disease; something that impairs growth, progress, or prosperity |
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Concur |
To agree |
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Moribund |
Approaching death; nearly obsolete |
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Cordial |
Warn and friendly; polite and respectful |
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Engender |
To beget; to cause; to promote |
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Phlegmatic |
Having a calm, sluggish temperament ; unemotional |
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Solicitous |
Showing great concern for or attention to another ; anxious or concerned |
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Recede
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To go back to withdraw
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Laudable |
Worthy of praise |
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Burgeon |
To sprout or grow rapidly |
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Halcyon |
Calm ; peaceful |
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Allegory |
A literary work in which the characters represent abstract ideas ; a symbolic representation |
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Hubris |
Excessive pride |
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Apogee |
The highest point; the farthest point in a satellites orbit |
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Sully |
To dirty or tarnish, esp. By disgracing |
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Ensue |
To happen subsequently |
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Catharsis |
Purging of the emotions |
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Choleric |
Easily angered; bad tempered |
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Mnemonic |
Pertaining to or assisting the memory |
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Equivocal |
Capable of multiple interpretations; unclear |
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Reprehensible |
Deserving to be severely criticized |
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Banish |
To drive away; to force to leave place by official decree |
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Sullen |
Showing silent anger and unwillingness to be to pleasant to people |
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Putrid |
In a foul state, as of decaying flesh; rotten |
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Epitome |
a representative example of a type |
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Assimilate |
To take in as one's own; to absorbabsorb |
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Robust |
Strong and dull of health |
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Congenial |
Suited to one's needs or nature ; friendly; sympathetic |
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Elaborate |
Detailed; carefully thorough |
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Defer |
t delay ; to out off |
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Transient |
Passing with time; remaining only briefly |
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Hemorrhage |
To bleed profusely; to lose rapidly and in great quantity |
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Opportunist |
One who takes advantage of every opportunity |
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Precarious |
Dangerously insecure or unstable |
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Germane |
Fitting and appropriate |
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Allege |
To assert to be true,e so. Without or before proof |
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Reticence |
The quality or state of being silent or uncommunicative |
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Inculcate |
To teach or impress by frequent repetition p; to instill |
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Burnish |
To polish |
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Inordinate |
Excessive, unrestrained |
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Abdicate |
To willingly give up the position of king queen, etc |
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Extricate |
To remove from an entanglement or difficulty |
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Crevice |
A crack or narrow fissure |
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Austere |
Stern or severe in appearance; without luxury |
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Manifest |
Obvious; very clear; evident |
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Voracious |
Devouring; extremely hungry |
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Repose |
Relaxation; a state of rest |
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Abrade |
To wear down a surface by or as if by scraping |
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Hoodwink |
To deceived ; to mislead |
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Bondage |
Slavery; servitude |
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Premonition |
A sense of a future event; a warning in advance |
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Dismay |
To destroy courage or resolutin |
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Posterity |
Future generations |
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Magnanimous |
Generous; noble in mind |
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Improvident |
Not preparing for the future; incautious |
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Sanguine |
Optimistic, cheerful |
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Impoverished |
Without money; deprived of natural resources |
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Diffident |
Lacking self-confidence; timid; shy |
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Tenor |
The general character or meaning of something |
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Excruciating |
Severely painful |
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Repel |
To drive or force back; to drive off |
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Surly |
Sullen and rude |
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Coax |
To persuade or obtain by pleading or flattery |
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Sinecure |
A paid position that requires little or no work |
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Venerable |
Worthy of honor and respect by reason of dignity, age, etc. |
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Emulate |
To copy someone; to imitate |
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Tandem |
A relationship between two people or things involving cooperative action |
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Sequester |
To move or set apart; to quarantine |
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Quinetessence |
A pure substance or essence of something |
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Squander |
To spend wastefully |
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Antiseptic |
Free from germs; thoroughly clean |
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Contrite |
Feeling sorry for what one has doen |
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Edifice |
A building; architectural monument |
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Antithesis |
Direct contrast; opposition |
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Improvise |
To do without preparation |
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Deplete |
To gradually use up |
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Amorphous |
Without definite shape; shapeless; unorganized |
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Ubiquitous |
Present everywhere |
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Recur |
To repeat; to occur again |
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Malady |
A disease; illness; sickness |
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Florid |
Flushed with rosy color; overdecorated |
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Obstreperous |
Noisily and stubbornly defiant |
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Nocturnal |
Occurring at night |
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Primordial |
Living or existing at the very beginning |
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Fastidious |
Showing or acting with careful attention to detail; not easy to please; very critical or discriminating |
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Tranquil |
Calm, unruffled |
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Forensic |
Related to the law or debate |
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Regime |
A government or form of government; the time when a particular government is in power |
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Incongruous |
Lacking agreement; incompatible |
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Temperate |
Consistent; moderate; without extremes |
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Quaint |
Odd, esp. in an old-fashioned way |
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Unkempt |
Sloppy; messy; unclean |
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Cacophony |
A harsh, jarring sound |
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Bravura |
A showy display |
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Purport |
To claim, esp. falsely |
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Ferment |
Excitement; agitation |
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Gangly |
Awkwardly tall |
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Adage |
A familiar saying; a proverb |
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Malaise |
A vague feeling of physical discomfort or uneasiness |
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Pervade |
To spread through or be present throughout |
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Lax |
Careless; lacking firmness |
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Indignation |
Anger aroused by something unjust or evil |
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Eon |
A long period of time |
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Arcane |
Understood only by a few |
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Nondescript |
Lacking distinction or individual character |
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Mar |
To damage |
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Docile |
Easy to teach; submissive |
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Ambiance |
Environment |
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Invoke |
To call upon; to appeal to, as for confirmation; to summon |
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Quotidian |
Daily; customary |
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Melange |
A mixture; a hodgepodge |
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Beatific |
Showing joy or saintliness |
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Succumb |
To give in or yield |
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Mountebank |
Someone who sells quack medicines; an impostor |
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Grimace |
A facial expression that shows disapproval or pain; to make such an expression |
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Occult |
Relating to the supernatural; beyond human comprehension; mysterious |
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Teeming |
Overfilled; crowded; pouring out |
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Pedantic |
Putting unnecessary stress on minor or purely academic knowledge |
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Mangle |
To mutilate; to disfigure something by cutting or crushing |
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Respite |
Temporary relief |
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Pandemonium |
A situation of great confusion, esp. because of fear or anger |
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Urban |
Relating to a city |
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Sweltering |
Oppressively hot and humid |
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Explicit |
Fully revealed or made clear |
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Candor |
Frankness or sincerity of expression |
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Surmise |
To infer something by intuition or with slender evidence; such an inference |
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Rectitude |
Conduct according to moral principles |
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Trek |
To travel or migrate, esp. slowly or with great difficulty |
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Aural |
Perceived by the ear |
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Resonate |
To echo |
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Quarry |
A hunted bird or animal; prey |
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Clamor |
A loud and continuous noise |
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Fluke |
An accidental stroke of good luck |
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Predominant |
Surpassing all others; most common |
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Insatiable |
Incapable of being satisfied |
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Sedate |
Calm; quiet |
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Nirvana |
A place of ideal peace and harmony |
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Haggard |
Appearing tired and thin, as from anxiety, disease, hunger, etc. |
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Collateral |
Parallel; serving to support; of a secondary nature |
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Rural |
Relating to the country or farming |
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Nuance |
Variation of meaning; subtlety |
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Etymology |
The study of origins of words |
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Mayhem |
Deliberate injury of someone esp. maiming; a state of violent chaos |
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Alliteration |
Repetition of initial consonants in several words in a phrase or line |
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Inception |
Commencement; beginning; origin |
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Tout |
To solicit customers; to praise or recommend highly |
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Acoustics |
Science of sound; quality that makes a room easy or hard to hear in |
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Assail |
To attack ; to assault |
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Lummox |
A clumsy person |
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Abject |
Of the lowest degree; bought low in condition |
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Xenophobia |
Fear or hatred of strangers or foreigners |
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Palpable |
Capable of being handled, touched, felt; easily perceived |
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Subvert |
To corrupt; to overthrow completely |
