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 abide | to continue to be sure |
| adept | highly skilled |
| affluent | plentiful |
| allude | to refer in a casual or indirect way |
| anachronistic | from the wrong time period |
| arbitrary | determined by chance or impulse |
| ascribe | to attribute |
| attribute | to assign |
| bellicose | violent |
| bland | mild |
| broach | to start a discussion of |
| chicanery | deception |
| coerce | to force someone to do something |
| complicity | participation in wrongdoing or crime |
| consign | to put in the care of another |
| convey | to carry |
| culminate | to reach its highest point |
| deleterious | harmful |
| depravity | moral corruption |
| determined | firm of purpose |
| dismay | fill with apprehension or alarm |
| divert | to amuse |
| effigy | a dummy-usually symbolic for torturing |
| ensconce | to hide |
| erudite | scholarly |
| exemplify | to show by example |
| fecund | prolific |
| founder | to break down |
| hamper | to restrict |
| imbue | to inspire |
| impulsive | spontaneous |
| indulge | to gratify the wishes of |
| instigate | to provoke |
| jingoism | extreme nationalism or patriotism |
| machination | a secret plot or scheme with evil intent |
| momentous | very important |
| oblivious | unmindful |
| panegyric | lofty praise |
| pertinent | relevant |
| precocious | developed beyond what is normal for age |
| proliferate | to multiply rapidly |
| quixotic | extremely idealistic |
| remiss | careless in attending to a task |
| reverberate | to echo |
| serendipity | accidental good fortune |
| stupor | mental confusion |
| tactile | having to do with the sense of touch |
| tribulation | suffering |
| vacillate | to be indecisive |
| vituperate | berate |