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Lacerate |
tear roughly; mangle |
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Listless |
having or showing no intest in anything |
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Bigot |
Person who is utterly intolerant in differing in creed, belief or opinion |
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Hubris |
Excessive pride; arrogance |
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Lassitude |
weariness of body or mind from strain |
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fervor |
great warmth and earnestness of feeling |
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Zealot |
person who is ardently active, devoted, or diligent |
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miser |
a person who lives in wretched circumstances in order to save and hoard money |
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Servile |
slavishly submissive |
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Vigor |
Active strength or force |
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Scintillate |
to emit sparks |
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Saunter |
to walk with a leisurely gait; stroll: sauntering through the woods |
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Laudable |
deserving praise |
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Scrutinize |
to examine in detail with careful or critical attention |
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Posthumous |
arising, occurring, or continuing after one's death |
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Malinger |
to pretend illness |
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Soporific |
causing or tending to cause sleep |
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Precipitous |
extremely or impassably steep |
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Strident |
making or having a harsh sound |
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Noisome |
offensive or disgusting, as an odor |
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Elegy |
a mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem |
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Peculiarity |
a trait, manner, characteristic, or habit that is odd or unusual |
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Evince |
to show clearly; make evident |
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Regale |
a sumptuous feast |
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Vindicated |
to clear, as from an accusation, imputation, suspicion |
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Aggrandized |
to widen in scope; increase in size or intensity; enlarge; extend |
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Obviated |
to anticipate and prevent or eliminate |
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Mendacious |
telling lies, esp. habitually; dishonest; lying; untruthful |
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Truculent |
fierce; cruel; savagely brutal |
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Aberrant |
Deviating from the norm |
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Abscond |
to depart clandestinely; to steal off and hide |
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Alacrity |
eager and enthusiastic willingness |
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Anomaly |
deviation from the normal order, form or rule; abnormality |
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Approbation |
an expression of approvel or praise |
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Arduous |
Requiring signifiant effort |
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Assuage |
to ease or lessen, to appease or pacify |
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Audacious |
Daring and fearless; bold |
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Austere |
Without adornment; bare; severely simple; ascetic |
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Axiomatic |
Taken as given; processing self-evident truth |
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Canonical |
Following or in agreement with accepted, tranditional standards |
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Capricious |
Inclined to change one's mind impulsively; erratic, unpredictable |
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Censure |
To criticize severely; to officially rebuke |
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Chicanery |
Trickery or subterfuge |
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Connoisseur |
a person who is especially competent to pass critical judgments in an art, particularly one of the fine arts, or in matters of taste |
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Convoluted |
Complex or complicated |
