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machination an evil design or plan pejorative having a negative effect; insulting harbinger an omen or sign nubile suitable for marriage in age and physical development, referring to a female sapient wise; full of knowledge chimerical imaginary; fantastic masochist one who enjoys his or her own pain and suffering heterogeneous different; dissimilar raiment clothing; garments blanch to whiten; to make pale deride to ridicule; to mock censure to criticize sharply gambol to frolic; to romp about playfully immolate to kill someone as a sacrificial victim, usually by fire recondite difficult to understand; profound gibe to scoff, to ridicule agape open-mouthed, surprised, agog imperious domineering; haughty neologism a new word or expression hackneyed commonplace; overused non sequitur something that does not logically follow sanguine cheerful; optimistic bowdlerize to remove offensive passages of a play, novel, etc. quandary a puzzling situation; a dilemma ebullient enthusiastic deference respect; consideration nebulous hazy, vague, uncertain rakish carefree; dashing; jaunty elegy a sad or mournful poem pedantic tending to show off one's learning adroit skillful; clever fatuous foolish; inane ferret to search or drive out dichotomy a division into two parts callow young and inexperienced laconic using few words; short; concise quiddity an essential quality patent evident or obvious peccadillo a minor offense, a misdeed sagacious wise; having keep perception and sound judgment antipathy an intense dislike imminent likely to happen; threatening banal common, ordinary obdurate stubborn, hardhearted bedlam a noisy uproar; a scene of wild confusion scurrilous coarsely abusive; vulgar sedulous hard working; diligent onerous burdensome; heavy; hard to endure amoral lacking a sense of right and wrong eschew to keep away from; to avoid; to shun