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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 incessant | never ending unceasing |
| ephemeral | short lived fleeting |
| brevity | brief short |
| acclaim | praise applause |
| indolence | laziness |
| solitude | state of being alone |
| tentative | temporary not final |
| intangible | not capable of being touched or felt abstract |
| irrational | unreasonable unpredictable |
| expedite | to make faster or easier |
| compatible | able to co-exist harmonious |
| exhaustive | thorough complete |
| authoritarian | like a dictator |
| redundant | repetitive redundant |
| fervor | passion zeal great enthusiasm |
| sagacious | wise (wise person) |
| temper | to moderate to weaken |
| fortuitous | accidental happening by chance |
| hackneyed | overused trite banal |
| amass | to accumulate pile up |
| lethargic | tired languid weak |
| jeopardy | danger |
| orthodox | standard commonly accepted conventional |
| mitigate | to make milder less severe |
| insipid | bland boring tasteless |
| slander | to speak maliciously about someone |
| hedonistic | pleasure seeking indulgent |
| avarice | greed |
| esoteric | understood by only a select few |
| blasphemy | going against accepted religious practices |
| banal | dull ordinary common |
| sycophant | brown noser suck up |
| censor | to delete objectional matter |
| complacent | self satisfied overly confident |
| virtue | moral excellence |
| innocuous | harmless |
| ameliorate | to make better improve |
| fickle | unpredictable capricious whimsical |
| taciturn | quiet saying little |
| dogmatic | stubbornly opinionated |
| extraneous | irrelevant extra unnecessary |
| blithe | free spirited carefree |
| pretentious | pompous self important |
| scrutinize | to examine closely |
| meander | to wander randomly |
| verbose | wordly overly talkative |
| assuage | to soothe |
| supercilious | arrogant |
| objective | without bias |
| revere | to worship adore honor |
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