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289 Cards in this Set
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Dissident |
Iconoclastic |
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Seditious |
Iconoclastic |
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Chide |
Reprimand |
Excoriate |
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Objurgate |
Reprimand |
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Charade |
Semblance;veneer |
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Diffident |
Shy or modest |
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Preclude |
Make impossible |
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Deferential |
Showing respect |
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Inexorable |
Impossible to stop |
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Superfluous |
Serving no useful purpose; more than is needed or required |
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Disaffected |
Discontented as towards authority |
Disgruntled; insubordination |
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Mockery |
Parody |
Travesty |
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Tenacious |
Stubbornly unyielding |
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Vivacity |
Of a women attractivey lively and animated |
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Petulant |
Easily irritable |
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Exonerate |
Pronounce not guilty of criminal charges |
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Expound |
State in depth |
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Denigrate |
Vilify;calumny |
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Provincial |
Limited perspective;not fashionable |
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Intrepid |
Fearless |
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Gauche |
Lacking social polish |
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Ostracize |
Exclude from a community or group |
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Ravenous |
Extremely hungry |
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Antithetical |
Sharply contrasted in character or purpose |
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Appease |
Pacify by acceding to the demands of |
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Specious |
Deceptively pleasing |
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Posit |
Assume as fact |
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Duress |
Compulsory force or threat |
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Retiring |
Modest or shy |
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Voracious |
Extremely hungry |
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Thrifty |
Spending money wisely |
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Reprobate |
An unprincipled person |
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Demean |
To insult |
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Brusque |
Abrupt or offhand in speech or manner |
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Peremptory |
Insisting on immediate attention especially in a brusquely imperious way |
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Corroborate |
To confirm or lend support to |
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Scintillating |
Someone brilliant and lively |
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Aboveboard |
Open and honest |
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Checkered |
Disreputable and unfortunate happenings |
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Proponent |
A person who proposes an idea |
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Flounder |
Have difficulties or behave awkwardly |
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Prognostic |
An omen |
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Respite |
A pause from doing something |
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Meander |
Wander aimlessly |
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Consummate |
Expert |
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Deter |
Turn away from by persuasion |
Try to prevent |
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Breezy |
Appearing calm informal |
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Jaunty |
Lively cheerful and self-confident |
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Conducive |
Make an event possible |
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Glib |
Speaking with ease but insincerity |
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Impeccable |
Without fault or error |
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Smattering |
Limited understanding of a subject |
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Commendable |
Worthy of high praise |
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Assuage |
Make something intense less severe |
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Devolve |
Pass on or delegate to another |
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Peevish |
Easily irritated |
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Rash |
Disregard for danger or consequences |
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Tout |
Advertize in strongly positive terms;show off |
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Unprecedented |
Never been done or known before |
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Credulity |
Tendency to believe readily |
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Exasperate |
To irritate intensely |
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Foible |
Eccentric;idiosyncrasy |
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Placid |
Not easily irritated |
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Leery |
Openly distrustful |
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Discord |
Lack of harmony or agreement |
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Reservation |
Unstated doubt that prevents you from accepting something wholeheartedly |
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Connive |
Taking part in immoral and unethical plots |
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Conundrum |
A difficult problem |
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Foolhardy |
Disregard for danger or consequences |
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Piquant |
Having a pleasantly sharp taste;intriguing |
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Deride |
Contempt |
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Antedate |
Precede in time |
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Besmirch |
Damage the good name and reputation of someone |
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Begrudge |
Envy;to give reluctantly |
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Incense |
Make furious |
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Presumptuous |
Excessively forward |
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Rile |
Disturbing or annoying by minor irritation |
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Finagle |
Achieve something through trickery |
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Ascribe |
Attribute or credit to |
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Wanton |
Without check or limitation;no moral restraint to anger desire or appetite |
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Clemency |
Leniency and compassion shown towards offenders by a person or agency charged with |
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Vie |
Compete for something |
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Staid |
Characterised by dignity and propriety |
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Qualm |
Uneasiness about the fitness of an action |
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Vanquish |
Come out better in a competition |
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Malodorous |
Having an unpleasant smell |
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Sordid |
Arousing loathing and contempt |
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Hamper |
Prevent the progress or free movement of |
Stymie |
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Besiege |
Harass as with questions or requests |
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Perquisite |
Right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group |
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Inkling |
A slight suggestion or vague understanding |
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Inarticulate |
Deprived of the use of speech or words |
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Morph |
Change in a seemless and barely noticeable fashion |
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Decimation |
Destroying or killing a large part of population |
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Debunk |
Expose as false ideas and claims especially while ridiculing |
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Obliging |
Showing a cheerful willingness |
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Antiquated |
Old fashioned |
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Snub |
Refuse to acknowledge or reject |
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Hector |
To bully and intimidate |
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Insufferable |
Intolerable |
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Malfeasance |
Misconduct by an official |
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Alacrity |
An eager willingness to do something |
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Byzantine |
Intricate and complex |
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Arrant |
A complete |
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Imbibe |
Drinking;to assimilate ideas |
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Vicissitude |
Change in one's circumstances usually in a worse way |
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Cow |
To intimidate |
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Pariah |
An outcast |
Leper |
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Turpitude |
Wickedness;Depravity |
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Exegesis |
Critical explanation or analysis of a text |
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Chary |
Cautious |
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Untoward |
Unfavourable |
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Expansive |
Prone to socialable |
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Defray |
To help pay the cost of |
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Overweening |
Arrogant;presumptous |
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Expunge |
To eliminate completely |
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Anathema |
A detested person |
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Ponderous |
Moving slowly |
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Choleric |
Easily angered |
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Prosiac |
Dull and lacking imagination |
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Feckless |
Lazy and irresponsible |
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Remonstrate |
To make objections while pleading |
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Parvenu |
Person who has suddenly become wealthy but not socially accepted |
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Arch |
Deliberately teasing |
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Curmudgeon |
Bad tempered or surly person |
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Sententious |
Moralizing usually in a pompous way |
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Fell |
Terribly evil |
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Jejune |
Dull;childish |
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Maudlin |
Overly sentence and sad |
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Limpid |
Having clarity in yerms of expression |
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Martinet |
A strict disciplinarian |
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Bilious |
always angry |
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Hedge |
Limit a statement;avoid making a direct statement |
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Venial |
Easily excused or forgiven |
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Tendentious |
Likely to lean towards a controversial view |
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Jaundiced |
To be biased against due to envy or prejudice |
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Mettlesome |
Brave |
Gallant;plucky |
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Mulct |
To swindle |
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Blinkered |
To have a limited outlook |
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Pyrrhic |
Victory that comes at a great cost and is not worthwhile |
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Palimpsest |
Something changed multiple times but traces of former iterations can still be seen |
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Picayune |
Of little value or significance |
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Pollyannaish |
Extremely optimistic |
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Arriviste |
A person who has recently reached a position of power |
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Execrate |
Curse;express great loathing |
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Expurgate |
Remove objectionable materials |
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Extirpate |
Destroy completely |
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Disabuse |
To persuade somebody that his belief is not valid |
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Invective |
Abusive language |
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Cupidity |
Greed for money or possession |
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Probity |
Integrity;strong moral principles |
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Derelict |
Abandoned; not doing one's duty |
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Sinecure |
An office that involves minimal duties |
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Illustrious |
Widely known |
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Lampoon |
Ridicule with satire |
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Pecuniary |
Relating to money |
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Provident |
Providing carefully for the future |
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Importune |
Beg persistently and urgently |
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Perspicatious |
Acutely onsightful and wise |
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Bowdlerize |
Edit by omiting or modifying indelicate parts |
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Maunder |
Wander;talk trivial rapidly and incessantly |
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Prolixity |
Boring verbosity |
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Entrall |
Hold spellbound |
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Quail |
Drawback with fear or pain |
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Gaffe |
Socially awkward |
Solecism |
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Flummox |
Bewildering |
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Portentous |
Omen |
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Mordant |
Caustic in thought manner or style |
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Insouciance |
Lack of concern |
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Anemic |
Lethargic |
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Stalwart |
Dependable;inured to fatigue or hardships |
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Invidious |
Likely to cause resentment |
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Cosset |
Pamper |
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Impetuous |
Haste lack of thought or deliberation |
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Decry |
Express strong disapproval of |
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Obstreperous |
Difficult to control |
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Inimitable |
Defying imitation |
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Puerile |
Childish;immature |
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Nonchalant |
Overly casual |
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Recrimination |
Mutual accusation |
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Magisterial |
Exercising unwarranted power |
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Ossify |
Make rigid and set into a conventional pattern |
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Dovetail |
Fit together tightly |
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Rarefied |
Make more subtle or refined |
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Lacerate |
Deeply hurt the feelings of |
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Crestfallen |
Brought low in spirit |
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Dispensation |
An exception from a rule |
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Presentiment |
A feeling of evil to come |
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Encumber |
Prevent or hold back |
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Hobble |
To hold back the progress of something |
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Immure |
To enclose usually in walls |
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Unviable |
Not likely to work or succeed |
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Ludicrous |
So foolish and out of place as to be amusing |
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Atavism |
Throwback |
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Embryonic |
In early stage of development |
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Appurtenant |
Supplying added support |
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Arrogate |
Seize and control withoit authority |
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Reprisal |
Retaliation |
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Recrudesce |
To break out or happen again |
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Disingenuous |
Not straightforward |
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Philistine |
Ignorant towards artistic and cultural values |
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Unstinting |
Very generous |
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Pith |
The most essential part of something |
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Ersatz |
Phony |
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Bristle |
Get offended |
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Doleful |
Sadness |
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Chagrin |
Embarrassment |
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Elegiac |
Expressing sorrow |
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Desideratum |
Something desired as a necessity |
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Turgid |
Pompous and tedious |
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Inequity |
Injustice |
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Enormity |
An act of extreme wickedness |
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Afford |
Provide with an opportunity |
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Conflate |
Mix together different elements or concepts |
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Proselytize |
Convert to another religion |
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Callow |
Naive |
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Tyro |
Noob |
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Doughty |
Brave |
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Complaisant |
Showing a cheerful willingness to do favour for others |
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Gumption |
Resourcefulness and determination |
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Noisome |
Extremely bad smell |
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Abjure |
Formally reject or give up a belief |
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Vaunted |
Highly praised or boasted about |
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Coterminous |
Being of equal extent or scope or duration |
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Appropriate |
To give or take something by force;to allocate |
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Transmute |
Change in form,appearance or nature |
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Fecund |
Intellectually productive |
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Obtuse |
Slow to learn and understand |
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Pontificate |
Talk in a dogmatic and pompous manner |
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Unimpeachable |
Free of guilt |
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Self-effacing |
Reluctant to draw attention to yourself |
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Palatable |
Acceptance to taste or mind |
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Dessicated |
Boring |
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Conflagration |
A very intense and uncontrolled fire |
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Veritable |
Truthfully;without a doubt |
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Surfeit |
Excessive amlunt of something |
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Dissemble |
Conceal true motive through deceit |
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Dissipate |
Squander money;debauchery |
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Bastardization |
An act that debases or corrupts |
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Splenetic |
Very irritable |
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Verisimilitude |
Appearance of truth |
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Palaver |
Speak rapidly and incessantly about trivial matters |
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Despotic |
Dictator |
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Simulacrum |
Scuptural representation of a person; a bad imitation |
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Loath |
Unwilling |
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Graft |
Corruption through bribery |
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Exiguity |
Meager |
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Raillery |
Light teasing |
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Dissolution |
Debauchery |
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Capitulate |
To surrender |
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Bereft |
Unhappy in love;sorrowful from loss |
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Row |
An angry dispute |
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Flag |
Sink;become less intense |
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Trenchant |
Full of force and vigor |
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Concomitant |
Event occuring at the same time |
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Estimable |
Deserving esteem |
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Infelicitous |
Inappropriate |
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Panacea |
A hypothetical cure;universal solution |
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Evanescent |
Vanish like vapour |
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Eponym |
Name derived from a person |
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Pillory |
Expose to public disgrace |
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Unmarred |
Unspoiled |
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Spate |
Series of |
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Fusillade |
A series of shots fired |
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Incriminating |
Make someone appear guilty of a crime |
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Inscrutable |
Impenetrable difficult to undertand |
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Quell |
Placate |
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Bravura |
Great skills |
Virtuoso |
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Virility |
Manliness |
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Chic |
Elegant |
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Draconia |
Harsh and severe |
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Retort |
A sharp reply |
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Genteel |
Politeness;refinement |
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Rehash |
Present something as new that is not very different from its previous form |
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Virtuous |
High moral standards |
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Contemplate |
Think about |
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Contemplate |
Think about |
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Prowess |
Skill in a particular field |
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Insularity |
Ignorance in cultures,ideas |
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Decrepit |
Worn out or ruined because of age or neglect |
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Mechanical |
Done without thought |
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Altercation |
Arguement or disagreement in public |
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Protracted |
Lasting longer than expected |
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Rebuttals |
Deny |
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Transgression |
Crime or offense |
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Inducement |
A positive motivational influence |
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Penchant |
Liking any activity others may not |
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Plethora |
Large amount of something |
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Proscribe |
Forbid |
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