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Admonish: (v) to express warning or disapproval to especially in a gentle, earnest, or SOLICITOUS (anxious or concerned) manner
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Anomaly: (n) something different, abnormal, peculiar, or not easily classified
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Ascribe: (v) to refer to a supposed cause, source, or author
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Astute: (adj) having or showing shrewdness and PERSPICACITY (discrimination)
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Banal: (adj) stresses the complete absence of freshness, novelty, or immediacy
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Cacophony: (n) a harsh or discordant sound; dissonance b. specifically, harshness in the sound of words or phrases
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Caricature: (n) exaggeration by means of often LUDICROUS (Casing laughter, ridiculous) distortion of parts or characteristics
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Conundrum: (n) a. question or problem having only a CONJECTURAL (an opinion or theory so formed or expressed) answer
b. an intricate and difficult problem
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Exhort: (v) [transitive sense] to incite by argument or advice, urge strongly
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Malcontent: (adj) dissatisfied with the existing state of affairs; discontent
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Moot: (adj) a. open to question, debateable, subjected to discussions
b. deprived of practical significance, made abstract of purely academic
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Pertinent: (adj) having a clear decisive relevance to the matter in hand
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Puerile: (adj) juvenile; childish, silly
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Quandary: (n) a state of perplexity or doubt
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Satiate: (v) to satisfy (As a need or desire) fully or to excess
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Sophomoric: (adj) conceited and overconfident of knowledge but poorly informed and immature
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Tenuous: (adj) having little substance or strength; flimsy, weak
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Unequivocal: (adj) a. leaving no doubt; unambiguous b. unquestionable
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Vindicate: (v) to free from allegation or blame, to EXCULPATE (Free from blame)
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Whet: (v) to make keen or more acute; excite, stimulate