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aesthete (n)
1. He said he was an aesthete due to his appreciation of literature.
2. Many of the transcendentalism period were aesthetes.: a person who professes to have refined sensitivity toward the beauties of art or nature
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anomaly (n)
1. Her views were just anomalies, something she had realized long ago.
2. She herself was an anomaly with her bright pink hair.: deviation from the common rule; irregularity
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atavism (n)
1. Many drinks resorted to an atavism by using cane sugar.
2. I had an atavism whenever I sat on the floor with my Barbie dolls scattered about.: reversion to an earlier type; throwback
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callow (adj)
1. The man was so callow that he was almost a boy.
2. Her behavior, normally mature, was callow this evening.: lacking adult sophistication; immature
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derelict (n)
1. Sarah Osborn was a derelict.
2. My sister can be a bit of a derelict at times when she refuses to get off the couch.: a destitute homeless social misfit; vagrant; bum
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enigmatic (adj)
1. The way that the murder had occurred was so enigmatic that the coroner even had trouble.
2. It was all so enigmatic that Sophie couldn't help but investigate.: in a manner that is hard to understand or explain; mysterious
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ephemeral (adj)
1. Their relationship felt ephemeral.
2. When you're having fun, time is often ephemeral.: lasting a very short time
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espouse (v)
1. Since going through depression, she had espoused people who suffered.
2. She espoused the way of life as her own.: to take up and support as a cause; adopt or embrace
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incendiary (adj)
1. The ASPCA commercial was incendiary.
2. The young boy's pouting was incendiary within his father.: tending to inflame the senses; causing anger
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itinerant (adj)
1. The gypsy was itinerant.
2. Thom's family was always itinerant since his father got the job.: traveling from place to place
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mercurial (adj)
1. The weather is often mercurial
2. The girl was mercurial and changed her likes and dislikes often.: changeable; volatile; fickle; flighty; erratic
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overwrought (adj)
1. She was overwrought with her family's behavior.
2. The girl was overwrought, bouncing up and down.: extremely excited; agitated
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sonorous (adj)
1. The opera singer's voice was sonorous.
2. The sound was so sonorous that it echoed through the stadium.: full or loud in sound
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surfeit (n)
1. Money is never surfeit.
2. The lies were surfeit enough that even the liar got tangled.: an overabundant supply; excess
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taciturn (adj)
1. He became taciturn whenever he was upset.
2. She was taciturn to the strangers around her.: inclined to silence; reserved in speech or expression.