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aberration not typical, deviation from the standard abstemious sparing when eating abstinent volutarily not doing something abstruse hard to understand acclaim praise or admiration accolade an award, high praise accrete to increase in growth acquiesce to give in or agree acute sharp or shrewd alacrity eagerness or liveliness allocate to distribute allusion indirect reference or hint in literature amass accumulate ambiguous unclear in meaning or confusing ambivalent undecided; blowing hot or cold ambulatory walking ameliorate to make tolerable amiable friendly amity friendship anecdote brief entertaining story anomaly abberation or deviation antipathy firm dislike or hatred apathy lack of emotion apocryphal false or doubtful origin appease soothe or pacify by giving in arbiter one who decides or a judge arid dry or dull ascetic hermitlike or practicing self-denial assiduous hardworking; busy; dilligent assauge to soothe or pacify (pain) astute perceptive; intelligent audacity boldness or reckless daring augment to make bigger auspicious promising or pointing to a good result austere stern, forbidding, without much money authoritarian dictator like axiom widely accepted saying baleful menacing or harmful banal ordinary bastion fortified place beget to cause or produce belligerent quarrelsome; waging war benefactor generous donor beneficent doing good benevolent kind hearted, generous benign gentle, not harmful, kind bereave to deprive or leave desolate regarding death bias prejudice, tendency, tilt blithe carefree or cheerful brawn bulk or muscles brevity briefness brook to tolerate something cacophony harsh-sounding mixture of words or sounds cajole to persuade someone to do something they don't want to do candid honest capricious likely to change at any moment, unpredictable caustic like acid or corrosive censure to condemn for doing bad chronology order of events circumlocution an indirect expression or wordy language coalesce to fuse or come together as one coda a passage at the end of a musical composition cognizant perceptive or observant complacent smug, pleased with oneself, or content to a fault compliant yielding; submissive concillatory making peace congenial agreeable suitable, pleasant conjure to summon connoisseur an expert in matters of art or taste consensus unanimity conspicious standing out or obvious contempt reproachful disdain contentious argumentative contrite remorseful contumacious stubbornly rebellious or disobedient conundrum a puzzle/riddle conventional common or customary correlate to find the relationship of two things corroborate to confirm credulous believing cryptic mysterious or mystifying dearth lack of or scarcity debacle sudden overthrow debauchery intemperance or wild living decorous good taste or orderly deference respect or courtesy deleterious harmful denounce to condemn deplete to use up or reduce depravity moral corruption deride to ridicule desecrate to make a place unholy dessicate to dry out deter to prevent or stop didactic instructive diffident timid or low self-esteem digress to go off topic diligent hardworking disavow deny discernment to see things clearly discomfit to confuse, frustrate, or deceive discord disagreement (opposite of concord) discourse to converse or discuss a subject disdain arrogant scorn or contempt disinterested unbiased disparage to belittle or talk about someone in an uncomplimentary way disparate different or incompatible dispassionate without passion or neutral disseminate to scatter or spreak widely dissent disagreement dissonant in disagrement divergent differing in opinion or deviating diverse varied divert to change course or amuse doggerel comic or loose verse dogmatic arrogantly claiming something is beyond dispute (of a belief system) drone to talk on in a dull way dubious doubtful or uncertain eclectic drawing from many sources economical frugal efface to erase or rub away the features effluvium noxious vapor or escaping gas elusive hard to pin down or evasive engender to create or produce enigma mystery enthrall to thrill ephemeral short lived or fleeting equivocal ambiguous, intentionally confusing erratic wandering or unpredictable erudite scholarly or deeply learned esoteric hard to understand, peculiar euphony pleasant sound evanscent vanishing or fading exemplary setting a good example exemplify to serve as an example exhaustive thorough or complete exigent urgent exonerate to free completely from blame exorbitance an exceeding large amount expedient providing an immediate advantage expedite to make faster or easier exposition expouding or explaining extol to praise extraneous irrelevant or extra exuberant extremely joyful or profuse in growth facetious humorous, clumsily humorous facilitate to make easier fallacious false fanatic extremely devoted to a cause or idea fastidious meticulous or demanding