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Abrogate: to abolish, annul, do away with
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Adulterate: to cheapen or debase with inferior or harmful ingredients
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Allegory: A story in which all characters are symbolic
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Alleviate: to lessen, lighten, relieve
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Amalgamate: to combine, unite, fuse
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Amenity: A pleasing way or custom
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Amortize: to write off a debt by regular payments
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Ballet: A style of dancing
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Bourgeois: Member of the middle class (insulting)
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Clandestine: Done in secret or stealthily
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Clement: Mild, merciful
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Coherent: Sticking together, connected
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Compatible: capable of being harmonized
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Concomitant: an attendant condition varying at the same rate
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Connive: to approve of or secretly aid the wrongdoings of another
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Connoisseur: Competant judge of
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Coterie: Social set, clique
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Criterion: Basis or standard for judgement
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Critique: Written analysis of a work of art
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Crucial: supremely important or decisive, severe
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Curator: Custodian or a museum or art collection
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Debutante: A young woman about to make a formal appearance into society
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Deleterious: Harmful to health
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Denouement: Outcome; solution of a story or play
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Effect: to bring about, accomplish
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Hibernate: to spend the winter in a resting state
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Hyperbole: Exaggeration for rhetorical effect
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Impervious: Impenetrable, uneffected by
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Indigenous: Native, characteristic of a certain region
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Indigent: Poor, needy
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Integrity: Moral soundness, uprightness
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Intrigue: Plotting, scheming/ to cause an interest in
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Intuition: Instinctive knowledge
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Iridescent: Glistening with colors, glittering
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Liaison: Unofficial linkage
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Malapropism: Bumbling one's words
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Mentor: A wise, trusted advisor
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Mercury: messenger, carrier of news
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Mundane: Commonplace, earthly
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Nemesis: agent of retribution, a just punishment
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Nonchalance: Indifference, unconcern
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Obsolete: Outmoded, out of use
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Onerous: Burdensome, oppressive
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Optimism: Tendency to take on the most hopeful view
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Pacify: to make calm, appease
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Peremptory: Imperative, positive, dictatorial
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Pertinacity: Stubborn perserverance
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Pessimism: Tendency to expect the worst
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Protean: Highly versatilw, readily taking numerous forms
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Rapacity: Violence caused by greed
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Repertoire: List of works that can be performed by a particular person or company
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Reputable: Well thought of, respected
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Ribald: Coarsely mocking, scurrilous
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Specious: fair-seeming, deceptive, plausible but not genuine
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Stentorian: very loud or powerful
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Stulify: to render absurd or useless
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Symmetry: Balance, correspondance of parts
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Traumatic: Painful resulting from violent physical injury or emotional shock
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Virtuoso: Person skilled in one of the fine arts
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Voluptuous: Giving delight to the senses