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abstruse: obscure; profound; difficult to understand
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acquiesce/acquiescing: to give in, to comply
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audacity: fearless daring
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augur/agured: a prophet or seer; to predict, foreshadow, to bode
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austerity: sternness or severity of manner or attitude
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dauntless: bold; fearless
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decorous/decorously: characterized by propriety and dignity and good taste in manners and conduct
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ethereal: very light; airy; delicate; heavenly, heavenly, unusually delicate, light, lacking material substance, intangible
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etymology: the study of word origins
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evanescent: vanishing, soon passing away; light and airy; fleeting
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firmament: the sky, the heavens
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gesticulate: to make gestures for emphasis
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imperious: overbearing, arrogant; seeking to dominate; pressing, compelling
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inauspicious: presaging ill-fortune
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inured: accustomed, usually to something undesireable
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languor: a feeling of lack of interest or energy
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lurid: causing shock, horror, or revulsion; sensational; pale or sallow in color; terrible or passionate in intensity or lack of restraint
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odious: evoking intense aversion or dislike
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paramour: a lover, often secret, not allowed by law or custom.
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precocity: exhibiting mature qualities at an unusually early age
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repining/repine: to be discontented or low in spirits; complain or fret
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rotund/rotundity: the state of being round
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somnambulism: sleepwalking
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trammeled: caught, confined, shackled, confined
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visage: the appearance conveyed by a person's face