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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 avarice | (n) extreme greed |
| avidity | (n) intense desire |
| cynosure | (n) center of interest or attention |
| extrovert | (n) one whose interests lay outs |
| futile | (a) having no useful result |
| irascible | (a) prone to outbursts of temper, easily angered |
| itinerant | (a) wandering from place to place |
| myriad | (a) a vast number |
| pugnacious | (a) willing or eager to fight |
| puerile | (a) childish, immature |
| pusillanimous | (a) cowardly |
| suave | (a) urbane, smoothly polite |
| surfeit | (v) to feed or supply to excess, to satiate |
| sycophant | (n) a servile self-seeker who attempts to win favor by flattering influential people |
| truism | (n) a self evident truth (some weather we're having) |
| tyro | (n) a novice, beginner |
| vortex | (n) eddy |
| presage | ( n or v) an indication or warning of a future occurrence (omen) to portend |
| pyromania | (n) love of fire |
| risible | (a) eliciting laughter, ludicrous |
| utilitarian | (a) in the interest of utility, stressing utility over beauty |
| ascetic | (n) one who leads a life of austerity, esp. for religious reasons |
| beneficent | (a) doing or producing good |
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