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Vacuous |
Without contents; empty. Lacking in ideas or intelligence. |
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Sophomoric |
Exhibiting great immaturity and lack of judgment: |
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Nuance |
A very slight difference or variation. |
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Florid |
Flowery; excessively ornate; showy. |
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Maelstrom |
A destructive whirlpool |
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Debacle |
A complete collapse or failure. |
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Plethora |
Overabundance; excess |
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Ennui |
A feeling of utter weariness and discontent resulting from satiety or lack of interest; boredom: |
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Succinct |
Expressed in few words; concise; terse. (Presise and compact) |
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Pernicious |
Causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful |
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Vicarious |
Felt or enjoyed through imagined participation in the experience of others |
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Acrimony |
Sharpness, harshness, or bitterness of nature, speech, disposition, etc. |
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Insidious |
Stealthily treacherous or deceitful |
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Antithesis |
The absolute opposite |
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Uehemently |
Marked By intense force of emotion. |
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Effervescent |
Bubbly, or lively. (I.E. Atticus) |
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Ephemeral |
Short Lived, fleeting. |
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Perusal |
A careful examination or reveiw. |
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Ostentatious |
Excessively Showy or glitzy |
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Plausible |
Believable or Reasonable |
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Abscond |
To sneak away and hide. |
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Poignant |
Deeply affecting or moving. |
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Veracity |
Thruthfulness, accuracy |
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Precocious |
Advanced, Developed ahead of time. |
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Surreptitiouis |
Stealthy |
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Cocophony |
Trermendous Noise, Disharmonious noise |
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Ubiquitous |
Existing everywhere, Widespread. |
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Nuance |
A slight variation in meaning, tone, or expression. |
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Sedentary |
Sitting and Settled. not Moving |
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Convoluted |
Complicated or deeply involved |
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Obstrenperous |
Noisy and unrulely (A giant group of 6 year olds.) |
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Acrimony |
Bitterness, discord |
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Obsequious |
Excessively compliant or submissive |
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Mercurial |
Rapid Change in temperature |
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Debacle |
Disastorous failure or dissruption |
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Scathing |
Sharp, critical, hurtful. |
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Satiate |
To satisfy exessievely |
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Egregious |
Extremely bad. |
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Acquiesce |
Agreeing without protesting or resistence |
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Travesty |
Grossly inferior imitating. (Something that is like the thing but is way worse) |
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Edict |
An order or a decree |
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Abhor |
To hate or detest |
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Innocuous |
Harmless, inoffencive |
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Confection |
A sweet, fancy food (Confection sugar) |
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Recalcitrant |
Defiant, unapologitic |
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Feral |
Wild, savage |
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Repudiate |
reject, refuse to accept |
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Abate |
To reduce or lessen |
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Fractious |
Troublesome or irritable |
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sanguine |
optimistic, cheery |
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compunction |
distress caused by feeling guilty |
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querulous |
whiny, complaining |
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incorrigible |
incapable of correction, delinquent |
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acumen |
keen insight |
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ostensible |
appearing as such, seemingly |
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laceration |
a cut, tear |
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ecstatic |
intensely and overpoweringly happy |
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idolatrous |
excessively worshipping one object or person |
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efface |
to wipe out, obliterate, rub away |
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insatiable |
incapable of being satisfied |
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dogmatic |
aggressively and arrogantly certain about unproved principles |
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ambiguous |
uncertain, variably interpretable |
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larceny |
obtaining another's property by theft or trickery |
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mandate |
an authoritative command |
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magnanimous |
noble, generous |
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enthrall |
to charm, hold spellbound |
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insidious |
appealing but imperceptibly harmful, seductive |
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malleable |
capable of being shaped or transformed |
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vindictive |
vengeful |
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destitute |
impoverished, utterly lacking |
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latent |
hidden, but capable of being exposed |
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confidant |
a person entrusted with secrets |
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somnolent |
Sleepy or drowsy |
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clandestine |
Secret |
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serendipity |
Finding good things without looking for them |
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largess |
the generous giving of lavish gifts |
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scintillating |
Sparkily |
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corroborate |
to support with evidence |
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reprehensible |
deserving rebuke |
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philanthropic |
giving, charitible |
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consensus |
an agreement of opinion |
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incessant |
unending |
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indolent |
lazy |