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camaraderie rapport and goodwill Frangible fragile; easy to break Litany any long, repetitive, or dull recital Moratorium a suspension of activity; an authorized delay zealous fervent; fanatical desiccate to dry out; to remove moisture wrenching causing mental or physical pain replete full, abundant interminable tiresome and long; seemingly endless arable suitable for cultivation of land lugubrious mournful, gloomy truncate to shorten ubiquitous occurring or seeming to occur everywhere; omnipresent vernacular everyday language equanimity composure; calmness metamorphosis a transformation or dramatic change donnybrook a fight; an uproar nonchalant unconcerned; indifferent vestige a trace or evidence of something that one exisited interlocutor someone who participates in a conversation Procrustean adj. strictly disregarding individual differences or circumstances Stygian dark and foreboding sophistry a deliberately deceptive or misleading argument carte Blanche n. boundless authority; unlimited power to act incantation a chant; a recited magical spell cosmopolitan Worldly, Sophisticated rife abundant; prevalent nomenclature technical names or naming system in an art or science brigand a robber or bandit contemptuous haughty; scornful