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Prodigious |
exciting amazement or wonder, extraordinary in bulk, quantity, or degree |
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Caustic |
capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action, marked by incisive sarcasm |
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Assiduous |
marked by careful unremitting attention or persistent application |
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Whimsical |
subject to erratic behavior or unpredictable change |
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Hackneyed |
lacking in freshness or originality |
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Rancorous |
deeply malevolent, marked by deep-seated ill will |
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Propriety |
the quality or state of being proper, conformity to what is socially acceptable in conduct or speech |
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Dogmatic |
characterized by or given to the expression of opinions very strongly or positively as if they were facts |
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Ambivalent |
simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action, uncertainty as to which approach to follow |
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Opulent |
amply or plentifully provided or fashioned often to the point of ostentation |
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Exculpate |
a clearing from blame or fault |
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Ebullience |
the quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts or feelings |
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Dilatory |
tending or intended to cause delay, characterized by procrastination |
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Dilettante |
an admirer or lover of the arts, a person having a superficial interest in an art or a branch of knowledge |
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Fastidious |
having high and often capricious standards |
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Equanimity |
evenness of mind especially under stress |
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Paradigm |
an outstandingly clear or typical example or archetype |
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Disparity |
containing or made up of fundamentally different and often incongruous elements, markedly distinct in quality or character |
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Trepidation |
timorous uncertain agitation, apprehension |
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Disingenuous |
lacking in candor/honesty/purity/sincerity |
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Malfeasance |
wrongdoing or misconduct especially by a public official |
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Stratagem |
a cleverly contrived trick or scheme for gaining an end |
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Obdurate |
stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing, hardened in feelings |
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Staid |
marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint |
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Stoic |
not affected by or showing passion or feeling |
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Equivocate |
to avoid committing oneself in what one says |
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Impinge |
to strike or dash especially with a sharp collision, to have an effect : make an impression |
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Austere |
stern and cold in appearance or manner, morally strict, |
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Ponderous |
unwieldy or clumsy because of weight and size, oppressively or unpleasantly dull |
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Egregious |
conspicuously bad |
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Servile |
of or befitting a slave or a menial position |
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Solvent |
that dissolves or can dissolve |
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Transitory |
tending to pass away, of brief duration |
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Inveterate |
firmly established by long persistence, confirmed in a habit |
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Amenable |
readily brought to yield, submit, or cooperate |
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emollient |
making less intense or harsh |
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truncated |
cut short, curtailed |
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apathetic |
having or showing little or no feeling or emotion |
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coup |
an overturn, an upset |
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prosaic |
characteristic of prose as distinguished from poetry, everyday, ordinary |
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laudatory |
of, relating to, or expressing praise |
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spurious |
outwardly similar or corresponding to something without having its genuine |
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camaraderie |
a spirit of friendly good-fellowship |
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fractious |
tending to be troublesome |
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conception |
the originating of something in the mind, the process of becoming pregnant involving fertilization or implantation or both |
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feral |
of, relating to, or suggestive of a wild beast, having escaped from domestication and |
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indolent |
habitually lazy, slow to develop or heal |
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nascent |
coming or having recently come into existence |
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vindicated |
to free from allegation or blame, to provide justification or defense for |
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facetious |
meant to be humorous or funny |
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pugnacious |
having a quarrelsome or combative nature |
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vilify |
to defame, to utter slanderous andst abusive atements against |
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pejorative |
having negative connotations, depreciatory |
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disparage |
to depreciate by indirect means, to lower in rank or reputation |
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astute |
having or showing shrewdness and perspicacity |
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insipid |
lacking taste or savor, lacking in qualities that interest, stimulate, or challenge |
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tenuous |
having little substance or strength |
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jurisprudence |
the science or philosophy of law |
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disdain |
a feeling of contempt for someone or something regarded as unworthy or inferior, |
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listless |
characterized by lack of interest, energy, or spirit |
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effusive |
marked by the expression of great or excessive emotion or enthusiasm |
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didactic |
designed or intended to teach, making moral observations |
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enmity |
positive, active, and typically mutual hatred or ill will |
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frenetic |
frenzied, frantic |
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lucid |
suffused with light, having full use of one's faculties, clear to the understanding |
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incorrigible |
incapable of being corrected or amended |
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affable |
characterized by ease and friendliness |
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replete |
fully or abundantly provided or filled |
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penitent |
feeling or expressing humble or regretful pain or sorrow for sins or offenses |
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incontrovertible |
not open to question |
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torpor |
a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility |
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cogent |
having power to compel or constrain, convincing to the mind or reason |
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capricious |
inconstant, unpredicatble |
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candor |
unreserved, honest, or sincere expression, forthrightness |
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facile |
easily accomplished or attained |
