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imimitable |
one of a kind |
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iniquity |
gross injustice; wickedness |
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innervate |
to supply with nerves |
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inscrutable |
incapable of being discovered or understood |
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insensible |
unconscious; unresponsive |
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insouciant |
unconcerned; carefree |
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interdict |
to prohibit; to forbitd; to band |
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inveigh |
to attack verbally |
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inveterate |
deep-rooted; ingrained |
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involute |
intricate; complex |
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jejune |
vapid; uninteresting; immature; puerile |
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jibe |
to agree |
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jocose |
humorous; gay; blithe |
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labile |
readily open to change |
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lassitude |
listlessness. languor |
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limn |
to draw; to outline indetail |
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limpid |
transparent; serene; clear |
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lubricious |
lewd; wanton; greasy |
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luculent |
easily understood |
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macerate |
to waste away; to soften or wear away by excessive fasting |
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maculate |
marked with spots or blotches; impure |
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maunder |
to digress |
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mellifluous |
sweetly flowing, usually used to decsribe use of words |
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meretricious |
cheap; gaudy; tawdry |
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mettle |
strength of spirit |
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mettlesome |
courageous; high-spirited |
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militate |
to have weight; to bear on |
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minatory |
menacing; threatening |
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multifarious |
varied; motley |
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natty |
trimly neat and tidy; smart |
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nonplused |
baffled; in a quandry; |
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nostrum |
panacea; cure-all |
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nugatory |
trifling; inconsequential |
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obloquy |
abusively detractive language; sharp criticism |
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obstreperous |
noisy; loud |
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officious |
meddlesome; pushy in one's services |
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ostensible |
seeming; appearing as such |
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overweening |
presumptuosly arrogant |
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palliate |
to make something appear less serious |
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panegyric |
formal praise; eulogy |
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parsimonious |
cheap; miserly |
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peremptory |
admitting of no contradiction; haughty; imperious |
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perigee |
closest or lowet point; nadir |
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peripatetic |
itinerant; traveling; nomadic |
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peroration |
the concluding part of a speech; grandiloquent speech |
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petrous |
like a rock; hard; stony |
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phlegmatic |
impassive; stoical; lethargic |
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pillory |
to punish; to hold up to public scorn |
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piquant |
agreeably pungent; stimulating |
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pique |
resentment; to annoy, irritate, or offend |
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plangent |
pounding; thundering |
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plumb |
to measure the depth; to examine critically |
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prate |
to chatter; to babble |
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precept |
rule establishing standards of conduct |
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precis |
concise summary of essential points |
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preempt |
to replace; to supersede; to appropriate |
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profligate |
spendthrift; prodigal; wildly extravagant |
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prolix |
long-winded; verbose |
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propinquity |
nearness in time or place; affinity of nature |
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propitiate |
to appease; to conciliate |
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proscribe |
to ostracize; to banish |
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provident |
frugal; looking to the future |
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puissance |
power; strength |
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punctilious |
precise; paying attention to trivialities |
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pusillanimous |
cowardly; craven |
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querulous |
habitually complaining; whining |
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raffish |
tawdry; flashy; vulgar; base |
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ramify |
to be divided or subdivided; to branch out |
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rapacious |
voracious; greedy |
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rebus |
riddle; a representation of words by pictures or symbols |
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recidivism |
relapse into antisocial or criminal behavior |
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recondite |
abstruse; profound; arcane |
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recreant |
coward; cowardly |
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recumbent |
leaning; resting; prone |
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redolent |
fragrant; suggestive or evocative |
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refractory |
stubborn; unmanageable |
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regale |
to delight or entertain |
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remonstrate |
to protest; to object |
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repine |
to feel or express dejection or discontent |
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repudiate |
to disown; to disavow |
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salacious |
obscene |
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salutary |
wholesome; causing improvement; favorable to health |
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sanctimony |
self-righteousness |
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satiate |
to surfeit |
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seine |
a large net dragged to catch fish |
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seminal |
like a seed; constituting a source |
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sententious |
aphoristic or moralistic |
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sidereal |
astral; relating to stars |
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simper |
to smirk; a silly smile |
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sinuous |
winding; undulating |
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slake |
to satisfy or quench |
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sodden |
soaked or drenchedl dull |
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sophistry |
fallacious reasoning; faulty logic |
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splenetic |
bad-tempered; irritable |
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stentorian |
extremely loud and powerful |
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stint |
to restrain; to be sparing or frugal |
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striated |
striped; grooved; banded |
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succor |
assistance; relief in time of distress |
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sundry |
various; miscellaneous; separate |
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supercillious |
disdainful; arrogant; haughty |
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supine |
mentally or morally slack; lying on one's back |
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suppliant |
asking humbly |
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tamp |
to plug; to drive in or down by a series of blows |
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tautology |
a repitition; a redundancy |
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tendentious |
biased; showing marked tendencies |
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timorous |
timid; fearful |
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toady |
sycophant; flatterer |
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torrid |
scorching; ardent; passionate |
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tumid |
swollen |
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turbid |
roiled; muddy clouded to the point of being opaque |
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turgid |
swollen; tumid; thick; pompous |
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turpitude |
depravity; prurience |
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untoward |
perverse; unruly; unseemly |
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upbraid |
to scold; to censure |
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vaunt |
to brag or boast |
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venal |
capable of being bought or bribed |
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vitiate |
to pervert; to debase; to spoil |
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volubility |
fluency; verbosity |
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welter |
to writhe; to toss about |
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wend |
to go; to proceed |
