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upbraid to scold sharply sardonic cynical; scornfully mocking panache flamboyance or dash in style and action; verve estimable admirable; laudable; commendable pallid lacking color or liveliness repast meal or mealtime unconscionable unscrupulous; shockingly unfair or unjust tyro beginner, novice tangential digressing, diverting, irrelevant taciturn silent, not talkative sycophant a self-serving flatterer, yes-man limpid clear, transparent largess generous giving (as of money) to others who may seem inferior legerdemain trickery missive a written note or letter; message fallow dormant, unused, idle, inactive encomium warm praise foment to arouse or incite; inflame or agitate engender to produce, cause, or bring about peccadillo minor sin or offense; misstep, lapse oblique indirect, evasive; misleading, devious gambol to dance or skip around playfully nadir lowest point potentate a monarch or ruler with great power impervious impossible to penetrate; incapable of being affected fecund fertile, fruitful, productive dyspeptic suffering from indigestion; gloomy and irritable; melancholy; morose; sour dictum authoritative statement expurgate to censor plucky courageous, spunky divine to foretell or know by inspiration; foresee; predict diurnal daytime; existing during the day sagacious shrewd, wise posit to assume as real or conceded; propose an explanation; suggest nettle to irritate; annoy; vex lionize to treat as a celebrity invidious envious, obnoxious, offensive; likely to promote ill-will slake to calm down or moderate inter to bury inimical hostile, unfriendly; recalcitrant; antagonistic scintilla a trace amount militate to operate against, work against peripatetic wandering from place to place, esp. on foot; itinerant; nomadic pugilism boxing; fighting; sparring mores fixed customs or manners; moral attitudes sobriquet nickname; alias; pseudonym lissome easily flexed, limber, agile indolent habitually lazy, idle droll amusing in a wry, subtle way; funny; witty restive impatient; uneasy, restless