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 abandon | to leave |
| acquiesce | to give in |
| advent | an arrival |
| agile | quick and easy of a movement |
| ambivalent | uncertain |
| apportionment | planned distribution |
| arid | extremely dry |
| assauage | to relieve |
| barren | unproductive |
| berate | to scold severely |
| boisterous | undisciplined |
| censure | strong disapproval |
| circumscribed | limited |
| commodity | goods that can be traded in commerce |
| congenital | existing as such at birth |
| contentious | argumentative |
| corrosive | gradually destructive |
| defile | to pollute |
| demise | death |
| desecrate | to damage a holy place |
| discrepant | lacking agreement |
| disseminate | to scatter widely |
| drone | to talk on and on in a dull way |
| endemic | belonging to a specific region or people |
| ephemeral | temporary |
| euphemism | the use of a word or phrase that is less offensive than another |
| facile | easy |
| forfeit | to give up something |
| gratuitous | unearned |
| iconoclast | one who attacks popular beliefs or institutions |
| importune | to make urgent requests or demands |
| indeterminate | indefinite |
| inordinate | excessive |
| irascible | easily angered |
| lionize | to treat as a celebrity |
| milieu | environment |
| notorious | having a bad reputation |
| overt | not hidden |
| permeate | to penetrate |
| pontificate | to speak or act in a pompous way |
| prodigious | amazing |
| putative | supposed |
| refute | to disprove |
| resound | to utter loudly |
| scanty | minimal |
| steadfast | loyal |
| surmise | to guess |
| transitory | not staying for a long time |
| unscrupulous | unprincipled |
| vignette | a short, descriptive literary sketch |