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All 71 Terms

	Term	Definition
	tout	to solicit customers, votes, or patronage, especially in a brazen way
	tout	to obtain and deal in information on racehorses
	tout	to solicit or importune
	tout	to obtain or sell information on a racehorse or stable for the guidance of bettors
	tout	to promote or praise energetically; publicize
	tout	one who obtains or sells information on racehorses and sells it to bettors
	tout	one who solicits customers brazenly or persistently
	tout	one who informs against others; an informer
	demean	to conduct or behave (oneself) in a particular manner
	demean	to debase, as in dignity or social standing
	demean	to humble (oneself)
	scoff	to mock at or treat with derision
	scoff	to show or express derision or scorn
	scoff	an expression of derision or scorn
	scoff	to eat (food) quickly and greedily; to eat greedily
	encumber	to put a heavy load on; burden
	encumber	to hinder or impede the action or performance of
	encumber	to burden with legal or financial obligation
	lowly	having or suited for a low rank or position
	lowly	humble or meek in manner
	lowly	plain or prosaic in nature
	lowly	in a low manner, condition, or position
	lowly	in a meek or humble manner
	lowly	low in sound
	zeal	enthusiastic devotion to a cause, ideal, or goal and tireless diligence in its furtherance
	lionize	to look on or treat (a person) as a celebrity
	remonstrance	the act of remonstrating
	remonstrance	an expression of protest, complaint, or reproof, especially a formal statement of grievances
	immaterial	of no importance or relevance; inconsequential or irrelevant
	immaterial	having no material body or form
	debacle	a sudden, disastrous collapse, downfall, or defeat; a rout
	debacle	a total often ludicrous failure
	debacle	the breaking up of ice in a river
	debacle	a violent flood
	cloy	to cause distaste or disgust by supplying with too much of something originally pleasant, especially something rich or sweet; surfeit
	cloy	to be too filling, rich, or sweet
	ignoble	not noble in quality, character, or purpose; base or mean
	ignoble	not of the nobility; common
	cynic	a person who believes all people are motivated by selfishness
	cynic	a person whose outlook is scornfully and often habitually negative
	cynic	a member of a sect of an ancient Greek philosophers who believed virtue to be the only good and self-control to be the only means of achieving virtue
	cynic	cynical
	cynic	of or relating to the Cynics or their beliefs
	specious	having the ring of truth or plausibility but actually fallacious
	specious	deceptively attractive
	promulgate	to make known (a decree, for example) by public declaration; announce officially
	promulgate	to put (a law) into effect by formal public announcement
	facilitate	to make easy or easier
	ersatz	being an imitation or a substitute, usually an inferior one; artificial
	phlegmatic	of or relating to phlegm; phlegmy
	phlegmatic	having or suggesting a calm, sluggish temperament; unemotional
	dynamo	a generator, especially one for producing direct current
	dynamo	an extremely energetic and forceful person
	fortuitous	happening by accident or chance
	fortuitous	happening by a fortunate accident or chance; lucky or fortunate
	ravage	to bring heavy destruction on ; devastate
	ravage	to pillage; sack
	ravage	to wreak destruction
	ravage	the act or practice or pillaging, destroying, or devastating
	ravage	grievous damage; havoc
	officious	marked by excessive eagerness in offering unwanted services or advice to others
	officious	informal; unofficial
	officious	eager to render services or help others
	compunction	a strong uneasiness caused by a sense of guilt
	compunction	a sting of conscience or a pang of doubt aroused by wrongdoing or the prospect of wrongdoing
	qualm	a sudden feeling of sickness, faintness, or nausea
	qualm	a sudden disturbing feeling
	qualm	an uneasy feeling about the propriety or rightness of a course of action
	dogma	a doctrine or a corpus of doctrines relating to matters such as morality and faith, set forth in an authoritative manner by a church
	dogma	an authoritative principle, belief, or statement or ideas or opinion, especially one considered to be absolutely true
	dogma	a principle or belief or a group of them