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abeyance: suspension
2.
abnegation: surrender
3.
abrogate: revoke
4.
accentuate: accents
5.
acquiesce: consent
6.
acquisitive: greedy
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adulation: admiration
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affinity: kinship
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aggrandize: exalt
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allegory: fable
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allusion: reference
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altercation: [n] quarrel
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altruistic: benevolent (charitable)
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ameliorate: improve
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anachronism: misdate (something belonging in history)
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anathema: curse
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animosity: enmity (strong dislike)
18.
anomaly: paradox (not normal)
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antithesis: opposition
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aphorism: adage (saying)
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approbation: praise
22.
aquiline: beaked (bird-like)
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arable: tillable (farmable)
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archipelago: group of islands
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arduous: difficult
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argosy: large merchant ship
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ascetic: severe
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atrophy: degeneration (waste away)
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auspicious: favorable
30.
automation: mechanization
31.
avow: declare
32.
banal: ordinary
33.
bane: woe (distress)
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beleaguer: harassed
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bellicose: quarrelsome
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blazon: display
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bode: foretell
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bravado: boasting
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broach: introduced (raise for discussion)
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bullion: uncoined silver
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bumptious: self-assertive
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bureaucracy: administration
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cadaverous: gaunt
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calumny: slander
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castigate: punish
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caustic: biting (sarcasm)
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celerity: swiftness
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chauvinistic: partial (displaying aggressive patriotism...)
49.
choleric: angry
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circumscribe: limited
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circumvent: frustrated (prevented)
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clandestine: secret
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climactic: peak
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coalesce: fused (combined)
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coalition: union
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cogitation: thought (meditation)
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collateral: security deposit
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colloquy: dialogue
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collusion: secret agreement
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commensurate: equal (corresponding in size or degree)
61.
commiseration: sympathizing
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complement: [n] a thing that completes or brings to perfection [v] add to something in a way that improves it
63.
comprehensive: [adj] complete
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conclave: [n] a private meeting
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concomitant: associated with
66.
condiment: [n] a substances such as salt or ketchup that is used to add flavor to food
67.
confederation: [n] an organization that consists of a number of parties or groups united in an alliance
68.
configuration: arrangement
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congenital: disease
70.
congruent: [adj] in agreement or harmony
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connotation: [n] an idea or feeling that a word invokes person in addition to its literal meaning
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consensus: [n] general agreement
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consonant: [n] a basic speech sound in which the breath is at least partly obstructed
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consternation: anxiety
75.
constituent: [adj] being a part of a whole
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consummate: [v] complete; make perfect
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contemptuous: scornful
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contrition: remorseful
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convivial: friendly, lively and enjoyable
80.
convoke: summon
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corollary: result
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correlate: relate (correspond)
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corroborate: support
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credence: assurance (belief or acceptance into something as true)
85.
credulous: gullible
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crystallize: harden (to form)
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culpable: blameworthy (guilty)
88.
cumbersome: burdensome (large or heavy)
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debacle: fiasco
90.
debility: weakness
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defray: pay
92.
degenerate: degraded from the normal moral standard
93.
delineate: portray (represent)
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demeanor: outward manner
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denote: signify
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deprecate: disapprove
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depreciate: lower in value
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dereliction: abandonment
99.
desecrate: profane (disrespect)
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desist: cease (end)
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despicable: contemptible
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deterrent: hindrance
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detrimental: harmful
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devastation: destruction
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dictum: pronouncement (announcement from authoritative source)
106.
didactic: intended to teach
107.
diffident: modest (shy)
108.
digress: deviated
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dilettante: amateur
110.
disconsolate: sorrowful
111.
discrepancy: difference
112.
disparage: degraded
113.
disparate: incongruous (disagreeable)
114.
dissemble: disguised
115.
dissimulation: false appearance
116.
dissolute: lacking in restraint
117.
distend: expand
118.
distraught: agitated
119.
duplicity: contradiction
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duress: restrictions