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riposte |
a quick and effective reply by word or act (from fencing) |
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sedition |
conduct or language inciting resistance to or rebellion against lawful authority |
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raillery |
good-humored banter or teasing |
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brackish |
somewhat salty; distasteful; unpalatable |
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punctilious |
strictly attentive to the details of form in action or conduct; precise |
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benison |
blessing; benediction |
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cornucopia |
the horn of plenty; an overflowing supply, abundance |
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exegesis |
exposition; explanation; especially, a critical explanation of a text |
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motil |
to work with painful effort; to labor; to toil; to drudge; to churn or swirl about continuously |
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etiolate |
to make pale or sickly; to make weak by stunting the growth or development of (botany: to bleach and alter the natural develpoment of by excluding sunlight) |
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languid |
drooping of flagging from or as is from exhaustion |
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disconsolate |
inspiring dejection; saddening; deeply degected and dispirited |
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germane |
appropriate or fitting; relevant |
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permeate |
to spread or diffuse through; to pass through the pores or openings of |
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recherche |
uncommon; exotic; rare; exquisite, choice; excessively refined, affected; pretentious, overblown |
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hoi polloi |
the common people generally; the masses |
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dulcet |
pleasing to the ear, melodious; generally pleasing, soothing, or agreable |
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aborning |
while being produced or born |
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raiment |
clothing in general; garments |
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forgo |
to obstain from; to do without |
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extemporaneous |
composed, performed, or uttered on the spur of the moment |
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solecism |
a nonstandard usage or grammatical construction; a breach of good manners or etiquette; an inconsistency, mistake or imporpriety |
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perfervid |
ardent, impassioned, marked by exaggerated or overwrought emotion |
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demur |
to object; to take exception; to delay |
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genuflect |
to bend the knee or touch one knee to the ground; as in worship; to grovel |
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