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accost: verb, to approach and speak to first; to confront in a challenging or aggressive way
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acquisitive: adj, able to get and retain ideas or information; conserned with acquiring wealth or property
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acuity: noun, sharpness, particularly of mind or senses
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animadversion: noun, a comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval
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arrogate: verb, to claim or take without right
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articulate: verb, to pronounce distinctly; to express well in words; to connect by a joint or joints; adjective, expressed clearly and forcefully; able to employ language clearly and forcefully; jointed
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atrophy: the wasting away of a body organ or tissue; any progressive decline or failure; verb, to waste away
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avid: adjective, desirous of something to the point of greed; intensely eager
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banal: adj, hackneyed, trite, commonplace
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bastion: noun, a fortified place, stronghold
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belabor: verb, to work on excessively; to thrash around
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brackish: adjective, having a salty taste and unpleasent to drink
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carping: adj, tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way; noun, petty, nagging criticism
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cavort: verb, to romp or prance around exuberantly; to make merry
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celerity: noun, swiftness, rapidity of motion or action
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coherent: adj, holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful
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concord: noun, a state of agreement, harmony, unanimity; a treaty, pact, covenant
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congeal: verb, to change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid
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consummate: adjective, complete or perfect in the highest degree; verb, to bring to a state of completion or perfection
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credence: noun, belief, mental acceptance
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decry: verb, to condemn, express strong disapproval; to officially depreciate
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delineate: verb, to portray, sketch, or describe in accurate and vivid detail; to represent pictorially
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depraved: adjective, marked by evil and corruption, devoid of moral principles
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devious: adjective, straying or wandering from a straight or direct course, done or acted in a shifty or underhanded way
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disarray: noun, disorder, confusion ; verb, to throw into disorder
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dissemble: verb, to disguise or conceal, deliberately give a false impression
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distraught: adjective, very much agaitated or upset as a result of emotion or mental conflict
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emulate: verb, to immitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model
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encomium: verb, a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute
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enervate: verb, to weaken or lessen the mental, moral, or physical vigor of; enfeeble, hamstring
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eschew: verb, to avoid, shun, keep away from
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esoteric: adjective, intended for or understood by only a select few, private, secret
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eulogy: noun, a formal statement of commendation; high praise
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evince: verb, to display clearly, to make evident, to provoke
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exhume: verb, to remove from a grave; to bring to light
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exigency: noun, urgency, pressure; urgent demand, pressuring need; an emergency
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feckless: adjective, lacking in spirit and strength; ineffective, weak; irresponsible, unreliable
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fecund: adjective, fruitful in offspring or vegetation; intellectually productive
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fiat: noun, an arbitrary order or decree; a command or act of will or consciousness
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figment: noun, a fabrication of the mind; an arbitrary notion
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flotsam: noun, floating debris; homeless, impoverished people
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frenetic: adjective, frenzied, highly agitated
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gambit: noun, in chess, an opening move that involves risk or sacrifice of a minor piece in order to gain a later advantage; any opening move of this type
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garner: verb, to acquire as the result of effort; to gather and store away, as for future use
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germane: adj, relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting
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glean: verb, to gather bit by bit; to gather small quantities of grain left in a field by the reapers
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grouse: noun, a type of game bird; a complaint; verb, to complain, grumble
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halcyon: noun, a legendary bird identified with the kingfisher; adjective, of or relating to the halcyon; calm, peaceful; happy, golden; prosperous, affluent
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hallow: verb, to set apart as holy or scared, sanctify, consecrate; to honor greatly, revere
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histrionic: adjective, pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial; melodramatic
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idiosyncrasy: noun, a peculiarity that serves to distinguish or identify
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ignominy: noun, shame and disgrace
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incarcerate: verb, to imprison, confine, jail
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incendiary: adjective, deliberately setting or causing fires; designed to start fires; tending to stir up strife or rebellion; noun, the one who deliberately sets fires, arsonist; one who causes strife
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incumbent: adjective, obligatory, required; noun, one who holds a specific office at the time spoken of
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insatiable: adj, so great or demanding as not to be satisfied
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intransigent: adj, refusing to compromise, irreconcilable
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invidious: adj, offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment
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jocular: adjective, humorous, jesting, jolly, joking
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largesse: noun, generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful countributions
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ludicrous: adjective, ridiculous, laughable, absurd
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maelstrom: noun, a whirlpool of great size and violance; a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction
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mordant: adjective, biting or caustic in thought, manner, or style; sharply or bitterly harsh
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mundane: noun,earthly, worldly, relating to practical and material affairs; concerned with what is ordinary
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murky: adjective, dark and gloomy, obscure; lacking in clarity and precision
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myopic: adjective, nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation; lacking foresight or discernment
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nefarious: adjective, wicked, depreaved, deoid of moral standards
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nettle: noun, a prickly or stinging plant; verb, to arouse displeasure, impatience, or anger; to vex or irritate severely
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nuance: noun, a subtle or slight variation, as in color, meaning, quality; delicate gradation or shade or difference
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overt: adjective, open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized
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overweening: adjective, conceited, presumptuous; excessive, immoderate
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pecuniary: adjective, consisting of or measured in money; of or related to money
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pejorative: adjective, tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory, deprecatory, belittling
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penchant: noun, a strong attraction or inclination
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piquant: adjective, stimulating to the tase or mind; spicy, pungent; appealingly provocative
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primordial: adjective, developed or created at the very beginning; going back to the most ancient times or earliest stage; fundamental, basic
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propinquity: noun, nearness in place or time; kinship
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propriety: noun, the state ofm being proper, appropriateness
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pusillanimous: adjective, contemptibly cowardly or mean-spirited
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reconnaissance: noun, a survery made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination
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recumbent: adjective, in a reclining position, lying down, in the posture of one sleeping or resting
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reputed: adjective, according to reputation or general belief; having widespread acceptance and good reputation; (part.) alleged
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sacrilege: noun, improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred
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sophistry: noun, reasoning that seems plausible but is actually unsound; a fallacy
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stratagem: noun, a scheme to outwit or deceive an opponent or to gain an end
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substantiate: verb, to establish by evidence, prove; to give concrete or substancial form to
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summarily: adverb, without delay or formality; briefly, concisely
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sumptuous: adjective, costly, rich, magnificent
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supplicant: adjective, asking humbly and earnestly; noun, one who makes a request humbly and earnestly, a petitioner, suitor
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taciturn: adj, habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little
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talisman: noun, an object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers, an amulet, fetish
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temporize: verb, to stall or act evasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpoe a decision; to compromise
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tenable: adj, capable of being held or defended
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ubiquitous: adjective, present or existing everywhere
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undulate: verb, to move in waves or with a wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearance or form
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unwonted: adjective, not usual or expected; not in character
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uptopian: adjective, founded upon or involving a visionarry view of an ideal world; impractical
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verbiage: noun, language thaqt is too wordy or inflated in proportion to the sense or content, wordiness; a manner of expression
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verdant: adjective, green in tint or color; immature in experience or judgement
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viscous: adjective, having a gelatinour or gluey quality, lacking in easy movement or fluidity
