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Aberrant: Abnormal, different from the accepted norm
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Abeyance: State of suspension, temporary inaction
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Abstemious: State of self-denial, particularly in the area of food or drink
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Acrid: Bitter, harsh
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Acumen: Keen, quickness of intellectual insight
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Admonition: A gentle reproof
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Amalgamate: To mix together in a homogenous body
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Ameliorate: To relieve, as from pain or hardship
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Ascetic: Given to severe self-denial, practicing excessive abstinence
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Assiduous: Persistent, unceasing
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Astute: Keen, wise
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Audacious: Fearless
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Austere: Unadorned, severely simple
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Aver: To avouch, justify, or prove
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Banal: Trite, commonplace
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Blatant: Offensively loud
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Bolster: To support, to reinforce
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Bombastuc: Using inflated language, pompus
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Burgeon: To grow forth, to send out buds
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Cacophony: A disagreeable, harsh, or discordant sound or tone
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Chicanery: Use of trickery to deceive
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Coda: Concluding section of a musical or literary piece, something that summarizes
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Cognizant: Aware, taking notice
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Colloquial: Pertainng to common speach
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Consternation: Panic
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Contentious: Quarrelsome
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Contrite: extremely apologetic, remorseful, repentant
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Contumacious: Rebellious
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Craven: Cowardly
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Decorum: Orderliness and good taste in manners
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Deleterious: Hurtful, morally or physically
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Delineate: To represent by sketch or diagram
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Deride: To ridicule, to make fun of
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Derision: Ridicule
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Desultory: Aimless, haphazard
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Diatribe: Bitter or malicious criticism
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Didactic: Pertaining to teaching
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Dilatory: Causing delay
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Disconcert: To disturb the composure of
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Dissemble: To disguise or pretend
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Dissolution: Breaking up of a union of persons
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Divest: To strip, to deprive
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Divulge: To tell or make known, generally of something secret or private
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Dubious: Doubtful
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Dupe: Someone easily fooled
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Ebullient: Showing great enthusiasm or exhilaration
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Efficacy: Power to produce an intended effect
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Effrontery: Shamless boldness, impudence
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Egress: Exit
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Elegy: A poen lamenting the dead
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Elicit: To extract without violence, to learn through discussion
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Embellish: To add attractive and ornamental features
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Emulate: Imitate
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Enervate: To weaken
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Engender: To produce
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Ennui: Boredom
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Ephemeral: Short-lived, fleeting
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Equanimity: Evenness of mind or temper
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Equivocal: Ambiguous
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Eradicate: To destroy completely
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Erudite: Very learned
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Eschew: To keep clear of
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Esoteric: Hard to understand, known only by a few
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Exacerbate: To make more sharp or severe, to make worse
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Exculpate: To free from blame
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Exigency: Urgent situation
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Expatiate: To speak or write at some length
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Extirpate: To root out, to eradicate
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Facetious: humorous, not meant seriously
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Fallacious: Illogical
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Fatuous: Idiotic
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Fervor: Ardor or intensity of feeling
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Fledgling: Inexperienced
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Foment: To nurse to life, to encourage
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Forestall: To prevent by taking action in advance
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Frugal: Economical
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Fulminate: To cause to explode
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Gainsay: To contradict, to deny
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Garrulous: Trivial talking
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Germane: Relevant
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Goad: To urge on
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Grandiloquent: Pompus, bombastic
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Gregarious: Sociable, outgoing
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Guileless: Without deceit
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Gullible: Easily deceived
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Halcyon: Calm
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Harangue: A tirade
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Harbinger: One who foreruns and announces the coming of a person thing
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Heresy: Opinion or doctrine subversive of settled or accepted beliefs
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Homogenous: Of the same kind
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Hyperbole: Exaggeration or overstatement
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Iconoclast: one who attacks traditional beliefs
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Ignominious: Shameful
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Impecunious: Having no money
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Impede: To hinder, to block
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Imperious: Insisting on obedience
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Imperturbable: Calm
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Impervious: Impenetrable
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Implicit: Implied
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Importune: To assail with arguments or accusations