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obstetrical of or pertaining to the care and treatment of women in childbirth before and after delivery pathology any deviation from a healthy, normal, or efficient condition juggernaut any large, overpowering, destructive force or object, a giant battleship, or a powerful football team; levity lightness of manner or speech, especially when inappropriate; lack of seriousness; frivolity supercilious proud, coolly and patronizingly haughty, arrogant, conceited asunder into separate parts; in or into pieces; apart; widely separated florid reddish, ruddy, rosy; flowery, excessively ornate, showy par excellence being the best or truest of a kind; the quintessential example of excellence; superior benediction an utterance of good wishes; the form of blessing pronounced by an officiating minister languid lacking in energy or vitality; effete; weak; slack; slow, listless implore to beg urgently or piteously, as for aid or mercy; beseech; entreat meretricious flashy, or tawdry; based on pretense, deception, or insincerity; pertaining to or characteristic of a prostitute appurtenance something subordinate to another, more important thing; adjunct, accessory, appendage fractious stubborn, obstinate, refractory, unruly; readily angered, peevish, irritable, quarrelsome, extemporize to do or perform without prior preparation or practice; improvise; ad lib laudable deserving praise; praiseworthy; commendable infinitesimal indefinitely or exceedingly small; minute; less than an assignable quantity; querulous full of complaints, apt to find fault; whiny, grumbling, complaining acumen keenness of insight; quickness or accuracy of judgment dissemble to hide or disguise one's true thoughts, feelings or intentions; conceal, dissimulate anachronism a chronological misplacing of events, objects, customs, or persons, in regard to each other empirical derived from, dependent upon, or guided by practical experience, observation, or experiment, rather than by theory apocryphal full of doubtful or questionable authenticity; pertaining to religious books outside of the canon disparity a difference or inequality in age, rank, degree, amount, or quality; immolate to kill as a sacrifice, especially by fire; to destroy or renounce for the sake of another sublimate to redirect the energy of a biological or instinctual impulse into a higher or more acceptable channel propitiate to make someone or something favorably inclined towards oneself to conciliate, satisfy, or appease nihilism a total rejection of existing laws, institutions, and moral values; anarchy or extreme radicalism liaison the contact or means of communication between groups; someone acting as such a contact; monolithic characterized by massiveness, solidness, and total uniformity; formed of a single block of stone effusive gushing, excessively demonstrative; unrestrained lugubrious sad, mournful, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree dichotomy a division into two mutually exclusive, opposed or contradictory parts sine qua non an essential indispensable element or condition bode to be an omen of; to indicate by signs fetid having an unpleasant odor incubus a male demon or spirit fabled to have sexual intercourse with women in their sleep fervid burning with enthusiasm or zeal; extremely heated beatitude . a state of perfect happiness or blessedness; a blessing ecumenical worldwide or universal in influence or application bête noire someone or something that one especially dislikes, dreads or avoids gargantuan of immense size, volume, or capacity; enormous, prodigious truckle to yield or submit tamely or submissively prolix long-winded and wordy; tending to speak or write in such a way lagniappe an extra or unexpected gift or gratuity sycophant someone who seeks favoritism through flattery or servile behavior; a brown-nose inveigle to entice; to persuade by using flattery or artful talk; to obtain by sweet talking