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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 perspicacity | mental penetration, discernment |
| predilection | preconceived preference or partiality |
| prerogative | privilege, right |
| propensity | natural tendency, bent |
| propriety | confomity to accepted standards of behavior, rightness or suitability |
| prostration | a falling down in worship, exhaustion |
| resitution | restoration, reparation |
| sagacity | shrewdness, sound judgement |
| surfeit | excess, disgust from excess |
| vicissitude | irregular change, ups and downs |
| lambent | softly radiant, playing lightly over a surface or subject |
| latent | hiddne or unrevealed, potential |
| marital | of, or relating to, marriage |
| partisan | one-sided; partial to a party or cause; supporter of an idea or person |
| recumbent | reclining or leaning, inactive |
| salient | prominent, conspicuous, outward projecting angle |
| seditious | inciting discontent or rebellion |
| succint | terse, concise |
| tangible | real, substantial, palpable |
| tentative | provisional, experimental |
| coalition | combination or alliance (especially of opposing parties and usually temporary) |
| covenant | solemn agreement or compact |
| fetish | something worshiped for magical power |
| incentive | stimulus, that which stirs one to do or be - external |
| incubus | nightmare, depressing burden |
| insurrection | armed uprising or rebellion |
| paradox | self-contradictory statement or condition |
| paragon | perfect model or pattern |
| plagiarism | the stealing of ideas, the stolen ideas |
| solstice | time when the sun is farthest from the equator |
| aesthetic | responsive to beauty, artistic |
| chimerical | of the nature of fantasy, imaginary |
| exotic | strage, foreign |
| forensic | pertaining to public debate, oratorical |
| ineffable | unutterable, inexpressible |
| maudlin | weakly emotional, foolishly sentimental |
| occult | of a magical nature, mysterious |
| portentous | foreshadowing evil, awe-inspiring |
| relevant | pertinent, bearing on the topic |
| sadistic | cruel, fond of cruelty |
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