English Vocabulary

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Perspicacity

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The quality of having a ready insight into things; shrewdness

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Recalcitrant

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Having an obstinately uncooperative attitude toward authority or discipline

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Bloviate

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Talk at length, especially in an inflated or empty way

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Desideratum

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Something that is needed or wanted

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Pretermit

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To leave undone; omit to do or mention

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Concomitant

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Naturally accompanying or associated

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Munificent

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Larger or more generous than is usual or necessary; very generous (of a person)

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Complaisant

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Willing to please others; obliging; agreeable

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Promulgate

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To promote or make widely known

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Gainsay

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To deny or contradict a statement; to speak against or oppose someone

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Imputation

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The attributing of actions to a source

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Inculcate

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To instill by persistent instruction

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Adroit

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Clever or skillful in using the hands or mind

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Calumniate

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Make false and defamatory statements about

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Ambulate

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Walk; move about

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Quixotic

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Exceedingly idealistic; unrealistic and impractical

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Abecedarian

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Arranged alphabetically; rudimentary or elementary

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Germane

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Relevant to the matter at hand

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Improvident

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Not having or showing forethought; spendthrift or thoughtless

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Encomium

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A speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly

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Prosody

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The patterns or rhythm and sound used in poetry; the patterns of stress and intonation in a language

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Elegiac

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Relating to, or characteristic of, an elegy

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Gallicism

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A French expression adopted by speakers of another language

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Abrogate

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Repeal or do away with(a law, right, or formal agreement); evade (a responsibility or duty)

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Consonant

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In accordance or harmony with

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Pecuniary

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Relating to or consisting of money

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Perspicuous

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Clearly expressed or presented

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August

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Respected and impressive

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Opprobium

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Harsh criticism or censure

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Sublunary

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Belonging to this world (in contrast to a better or more spiritual one)

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Argot

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Jargon or slang of a particular class

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Acme

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Pinnacle, culmination, peak

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Prolix

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Using or containing too many words; tediously lengthy

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Internecine

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Mutually destructive (most often applied to open warfare)

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Amanuensis

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A literary or artistic assistant, in particular one who takes dictation or copies manuscripts

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Bedizen

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To dress up or decorate gaudily

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Desultory

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Lacking plan, purpose, or enthusiasm

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Inveterate

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Having a particular habit, activity, or interest that is long established and unlikely to change

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Didactic

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Intended to teach, particularly having moral instruction as an ulterior motive

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Enjoin

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Instruct or urge someone to do something

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Polemical

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Relating to or involving strong critical, controversial, or disputatious writing or speech

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Laconic

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Using very few words (as a person, speech, or writing style)

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Locution

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A word or phrase, especially with regard to style or idiom

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Abstruse

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Difficult to understand; obscure

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Panoply

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A complete or impressive collection of things

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Abnegation

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The act of renouncing or rejecting something

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Reticent

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Not revealing one's thoughts or feelings readily

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Sybaritic

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Fond of sensuous luxury or pleasure; self-indulgent

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Philippic

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A bitter attack or denunciation, especially a verbal one

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Sententious

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Given to moralizing in a pompous or affected manner

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Aphorism

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A concise statement of a principle; an adage

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Potentate

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A monarch or ruler, especially an autocratic one

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Coruscation

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A sudden gleam or flash of light; a flash of wit

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Meretricious

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Apparently attractive but having in reality no real value or integrity

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Dilatory

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Slow to act

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Libertine

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A person who behaves without moral principles or a sense of responsibility

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Prig

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A self-righteously moralistic person who behaves as if superior to others

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Rancor

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Bitterness or resentfulness, especially long-standing

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Expostulate

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Express strong disapproval or disagreement

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Truculent

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Eager or quick to argue or fight; aggressively defiant

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Redolent

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Strongly reminiscent or suggestive of (something)

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Adventitious

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Happening or carried on according to chance rather than design or inherent nature

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Pasquinade

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A satire or lampoon, originally one displayed or delivered publicly or in a public place

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Erudite

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Having or showing great knowledge or learning

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Multifarious

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Many and of various types

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Collocation

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The habitual juxtaposition of a particular word with another word or words with a frequency greater than chance

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Exigency

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An urgent need or demand

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Desideratum

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Something considered necessary or highly desirable.

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Hortatory

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Urging some course of action or conduct

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Invidious

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Rousing ill will or animosity; Offensive and unfair

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Diaphanous

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So thin as to be transparent; clear

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Legerdemain

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Skillful use of one's hands when performing a trick; sleight of hand; deception

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Equivocate

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To use ambiguous language noncommittally or evasively