 | Term | Definition |
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Adulation |
worship; great praise |
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Amiable |
friendly, lovable |
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Arable |
can be cultivated ("arable land") |
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Articulation |
1. joining, 2. speaking clearly |
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Autocrat |
absolute ruler; dictator |
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Bountiful |
generous |
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Callous |
cruel; hard and unfeeling |
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Cerebral |
concerned with thinking |
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Compendious |
containing a lot in a small space/few words |
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Conciliatory |
bringing together; ending a dispute |
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Connoisseurs |
experts with good taste/judgment |
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Convivial |
sociable |
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Corpulence |
being fat |
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Dearth |
shortage |
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Debacles |
disasters |
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Demonstrative |
expressing emotion freely |
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Depreciatory |
devaluing; criticizing |
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Facile |
over-simplified |
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Floridity |
1. floweriness in language, 2. redness |
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Haranguing |
attacking verbally |
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Heterogeneity |
variety; non-uniformity |
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Histrionic |
melodramatic; expressing exaggerated emotion |
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Imperious |
in a commanding manner |
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Indulgent |
kindly; pampering |
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Inscrutable |
not east to comprehend |
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Insufferable |
cannot be tolerated |
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Insular |
narrow-minded |
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Intemperate |
not moderate; excessive |
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Intonation |
tone of voice |
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Lavish |
1. (verb) to spend freely, 2. (adj.) opulent; costing a lot |
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Litigious |
seeking legal remedies |
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Magnanimous |
generous minded; big-hearted |
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Mandatory |
compulsory |
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Momentous |
of great importance |
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Nemesis |
fate, doom |
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Opacity |
lack of transparency; being opaque |
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Palliative |
something that makes better but does not cure |
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Peer |
1. (noun) an equal, 2. (verb) to look closely at |
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Profundity |
depth (of ideas/thought) |
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Radical |
revolutionary |
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Redolent |
smelling of (literal or metaphoric) |
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Reprehensible |
very bad |
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Robust |
strong and sturdy |
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Solicitous |
expressing care and concern |
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Somber |
gloomy |
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Succulent |
juicy |
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Sycophants |
toadies; flatterers |
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Therapeutic |
medicinal |
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Thwarted |
prevented |
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Toadies |
sycophants; flatterers; boot-lickers |
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Undermined |
weakened |
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Vex |
annoy |
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Viscous |
thick and sticky |
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Wistful |
sad, yearning; longing in a thoughtful way |
