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Gravity
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Calamity
Extreme misfortune great lost and sorrow
Impetuous
Inclined to do things suddenly with little thought
Scapegoat
Always being blamed others mistake.
Indomitable
Unconquerable
Reproved
Reprimand
Conversant
Familiar
Gamut
The range of products
Sly
Gulie or cunning intelligence
Infer
Deduction or concluded
Apex
Peak
Incredolous
A person who cannot believe what he is told
Acronym
Word formed as an abbreviation from another word
Furtive
Sneaky
Impotent
A person who feels helpless and powerless, inability to achieve an errection (in males)
Sparingly
Self-effacing, in a restricted manner or little use of
Bedlam
a scene of uproar and confusion
Scurrilous
Statements with coarse and abusive language
Sedulous
Diligent, showing dedication
Florid
Reddish
Inalienable
Rights that cannot be taking away
Vicissitudes
Unpredictable changes that keep taking place in a called life, unwanted changes or mishap
Pensive
Thoughtful, deep thinking
Veracity
Thoroughness, conformity to facts.
Indolent
Lazy
Biennial
Once every two years
Increment
Larger amount
Surly
Bad tempered
Nomenclature
Set of a profession's field of study, term or terms in which someone is classified.
Suppurated
undergo the formation of pus, discharge of pus
Sudorific
A substance that causes sweating
Abrasion
Scraps
Celestial
Heavenly
Petty
Unimportant
Conservative
holding to traditions, adverse to change
Explict
Clear stated
Partisan
strong supporter of a group, or a member of a military group.
Remission
Disease at a latent state
Malingering
faking, to avoid work. pretending or exaggeration of symptoms
Animosity
Strong hostility
Adversaries
Opponents, ones opponent in a competition
Agrarian
Farm production
Convalescence
A period of recovery
Castes
East Indian social classes
Incumbent
Duty or responsibility
Denoted
To have something of meaning. A mark or sign
Fallow
Plowed and horrowed
Caterwauling
Howling, of a cat.
Indigent
Impoverished, poor or needy
Domicile
country of which you call home.
Hierarchy
a system of which people are ranked by status
Inexplicable
Unable to explain
Flippant
Not serious or disrespectful attitude
Placate
Appease, make someone less hostile or angry
Cacophonous
producing a harsh, discordant mixture of sounds.
Vitriolic
filled with bitter critisism
Zealots
Fanatical uncompromising about political and religious beliefs
Migrant
Traveling
Empirical
based on experience, rather than theory or logic
Pernicious
Having harmfull affect
Quixotic
Idealistic and impractical
Necromancy
Practice of commute of the dead
Obstreperous
noisy and difficult to control
Menial
Not requiring much skill
Candid
Truthful and straightforward
Symposium
Conference or meeting to discuss particular subject
Ambiguous
more than one meaning.
Dissident
Person who opposes official policy
Saunter
Walk in slow relaxed manner
Redundant
Not necessary, not needed
Culpable
Deserving blame
Mundame
Lacking interest, commonplace
Sqaulid
Extreme dirty and unpleasant
Supercilious
thinking one is superior to the other.
Obfuscate
Unclear, or unintelligible
Lurid
Sensational, very vivid in color.
Pusillanimous
Cowardly
Pathos
Sympathy, pitty, or sadness
Tacit
an action or strategy
Labyrinth
Maze
Alchemy
turning metal into gold
Aberration
deviation from course
abjured
renounced
clandestine
secretive
choleric
easily provoked
caucus
a meeting of political members
conjecture
guessing, an opinion based on no information
disseminate
to convey, to make light of.
effervesce
to bubble up, to be vivacious or enthusastic
envince
to make known.
fortitude
courage in pain.
genteel
redefined, polite and respectful
harangue
tirade(a long angry speech)
knavery
forgery or mischievous act
languor
lack of energy, depression. state of feeling.
macadamize
to construct or to pave.
presaged
foretold, to perceive before hand
surreptitious
secretive
trepidation
fear
unctuous
excessive oil,
venal
corrupt
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