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acclamation: ovation, cheering, plaudits
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aesthetic: artistic
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asperity: rigor, harshness
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badinage: banter, persiflage, repartee
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beatific: rapturous, ecstatic, transcendent
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behemoth: mammoth, whale, elephant, colossus
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cabal: clique, ring, gang, plot, conspiracy
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calumniate: defame, libel
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captious: faultfinding, nit-picking, carping
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chicanery: trickery, double-dealing
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cognizant: conscious, acquainted
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conciliate: placate, mollify, propitiate
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coup: blunder faux pas, gaffe
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desiccate: dehydrate, shrivel, parched
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dissidence: disagreement, dissent, disaffection
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ebuillient: exhilarated, elated, exuberant
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efficacy: effectiveness, potency, reliability
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exacerbate: aggravate, intensify, worsen
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fatuous: silly, vapid, inane, doltish, vacuous
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flaccid: soft, flabby
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fraught: charged with
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impecunious: penniless, improverished, indigent
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imperturbable: unflappable, unexcitable, serene, unruffled
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improvident: prodigal, spendthrift, extravagant
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increment: accretion, gain
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innate: intrinsic, congenital
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interpolate: inject, interpose, introduce
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irreparable: irremediable
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machination: plot, scheme, maneuver
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mesmerize: to hypnotize, entrance
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necromancer: sorcerer, conjurer
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onerous: oppressive, weighty
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panegyric: tribute, encomium, testimonial
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penitent: repentant, regretful, rueful, sorry
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perfunctory: slapdash, cursory, shallow
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portend: bode, foretell, foreshadow, suggest
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putative: supposed, presumed
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raze: pull down, demolish, shave off
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rectitude: probity, integrity
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refulgent: luminous, splendid
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slough: shed, slog
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subsist: last, survive, sustain
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tantamount: indistinguishable from
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tyro: neophyte
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winnow: sift, strain, filter, sort