| Term | Definition |
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| alacrity | noun: eager, cheerful, rapidity or promptness |
| auspices | noun: support, encouragement, or patronage |
| balderdash | noun: nonsense; a ridiculous idea or suggestion |
| copious | adj: abundant; large or generous in extent |
| derision | noun: ridicule |
| dubious | adj: tending to cause skepticism, uncertainty, or doubt |
| effrontery | noun: impudent boldness |
| elitism | noun: adherence to the belief that leadership is best managed by an elite (a group considered to be the highest or best class) |
| impugn | verb: to brand as false in argument or discourse |
| inchoate | adj: incomplete |
| obsolescence | noun: the state or condition of becoming outdated |
| omniscient | adj: all-knowing |
| peripatetic | adj: wandering |
| placebo | noun: a medicine having no fixed medical purpose or healing property given either to pacify a patient or as a control method, to test effectiveness of another drug |
| Pyrrhic | adj: gained at an unjustifiably high cost |
| Rubicon | noun: a point beyond which permanent change is unavoidable |
| torpor | noun: indifference, sloth or inactivity |
| veritable | adj: authentic, true |
| vicarious | adj: arising from the experiences of others rather than one's own experience |
| zenith | noun: the highest point attained |
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