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| furtive |
adj marked by stealth; covert; surreptitious |
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| fallacy |
n an invalid or incorrect notion; a mistaken belief (adj fallacious) |
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| facetious |
adj playful; humorous |
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| exonerate |
v to remove blame |
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| eulogy |
n a speech honoring the dead (v eulogize) |
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| esoteric |
adj intended for or understood by a small, specific group |
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| ephemeral |
adj brief; fleeting |
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| enigmatic |
adj mysterious; obscure; difficult to understand (n enigma) |
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| empirical |
adj based on observation or experiment |
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| emollient |
adj soothing, esp. to the skin; making less harsh; mollifying; an agent that softens or smoothes the skin |
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| elegy |
n a mournful poem, esp. one lamenting the dead (adj elegiac) |
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| eclectic |
adj composed elements drawn from various sources |
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| ebullience |
n the quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings (adj ebullient) |
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| dogmatic |
adj expressing a rigid opinion based on unproved or improvable principles |
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| disinterested |
adj free of bias or self-interested; impartial |
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| discretion |
n cautious reserve in speech; ability to make responsible decisions (adj. discreet) |
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| didactic |
adj intended to teach or instruct |
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| demur |
v to question or oppose |
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| culpable |
adj deserving blame (n culpability) |
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| contrite |
adj regretful; penitent; seeking forgiveness (n contrition) |
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anahitb Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:43:17 GMT |
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| contentious |
adj argumentative; quarrelsome; causing controversy or disagreement |
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| complaisance |
n the willingness to comply with the wishes of other (adj complaisant) |
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| cogent |
adj appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing |
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| chary |
adj wary; cautious; sparing |
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| caustic |
adj burning or stinging; causing corrosion |
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| castigation |
n severe criticism or punishment (v castigate) |
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| canon |
n an established set of principles or code of laws, often religious in nature (adj canonical) |
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| cacophony |
n harsh, jarring, discordant sound; dissonance (adj. cacophonous) |
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| bucolic |
adj rustic and pastoral; characteristic of rural areas and their inhabitants |
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| burgeon |
v to grow rapidly or flourish |
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| axiom |
n a universally recognized principle (adj axiomatic) |
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| avarice |
n greed, esp. for wealth (adj. avaricious) |
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| ascetic |
n one who practices rigid self-denial, esp. as an act of religious devotion |
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| aesthetic |
adj dealing with, appreciative of, or responsive to art or the beautiful |
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| adulation |
n excessive praise; intense adoration |
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| accolade |
n an expression of praise |
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| abate |
v to lessen in intensity or degree |
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| virulent |
adj extremely harmful or poisonous; bitterly |
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| waver |
v to move to and fro; to sway; to be unsettled din opinion |
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| voracious |
adj having an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit; ravenous |
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| veracity |
n truthfulness, honestyhostile or antagonistic |
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| tortuous |
adj fierce and cruel; eager to fight |
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| stymie |
v to block; thwart |
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| stupefy |
to stun, baffle, or amaze |
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| static |
adj not moving, active, or in motion; at rest |
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| squander |
v to waste by spending or using irresponsibly |
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| Sporadic |
adj occurring only occasionally, or in scattered instances |
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| Sordid |
adj characterized by filth, grime, or squalor; foul |
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| Solicitous |
adj concerned and attentive; eager |
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| Reticent |
adj quiet; reserved; reluctant to express thoughts and feelings |
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| Relegate |
v to forcibly assign, esp. to a lower place or position |
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| Refute |
v to disprove; to successfully argue against |
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| Recant |
v to retract, esp. a previously held belief |
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| qualms |
n misgivings; reservations; causes for hesitance, uncertainty, doubts |
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| prevaricate |
v to deliberately avoid the truth; to mislead |
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| presience |
n foreknowledge of events; knowing of events prior to their occurring |
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| Predilection |
n a disposition in favor of something; preference |
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| Precipitate |
adj acting with excessive haste or impulse |
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| prattle |
v to babble meaninglessly; to talk in an empty and idle manner |
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