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| zealous |
adj.
fervent; ardent; impassioned |
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| transient |
adj.
fleeting; passing quickly; brief |
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| tirade |
n.
a long and extremely critical speech; a harsh denunciation |
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| tenuous |
adj.
having little substance or strength; flimsy; weak |
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| tenacity |
n.
the quality of adjerence or persistence to something valued |
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| surfeit |
v.
excess; overindulgence |
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| superfluous |
adj.
exceeding what is sufficient or necessary |
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| succinct |
adj.
brief; concise |
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| subpoena |
n.
a court order requiring appearance and/or testimony |
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| spurious |
adj.
lacking authenticity or validity; false; counterfeit |
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| specious |
adj.
seeming true, but actually being fallacious; misleadingly attractive |
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| reverent |
adj.
marked by, feeling, or expressing a feeling of profound awe and respect |
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| rescind |
v.
to invalidate; to repeal; to retract |
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| recalcitrant |
adj.
obstinately defiant of authority; difficult to manage |
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| querulous |
adj.
prone to complaining or grumbling; quarrelsome |
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| queries |
n.
questions; inquiries; doubts in the mind; reservations |
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| proliferate |
v.
to grow or increase swiftly and abundantly |
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| profuse |
adj.
given or coming forth abundantly; extravagent |
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| prodigal |
adj.
recklessly wasteful; extravagent; profuse; lavish |
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| plummet |
v.
to plunge or drop straight down |
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| platitude |
n.
a superficial remark, esp. one offered as meaningful |
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| placate |
v.
to appease; to calm by making concessions |
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| pithy |
adj.
precise and brief |
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| pith |
n.
the essential or central part |
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| pine |
v.
to yearn intensely; to languish; to lose vigor |
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| penury |
n.
poverty; destitution |
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| pedagogy |
n.
the art or profession of training, teaching, or instructing |
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| occlude |
v.
to obstruct or block |
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| mitigate |
v.
to make or become less severe or intense; to moderate |
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| misanthrope |
n.
one who hates all other humans |
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| malevolent |
adj.
having or showing often vicious ill-will, spite, or hatred |
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| luminous |
adj.
characterized by brightness and the emission of light |
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| loquacious |
adj.
extremely talkative |
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| insipid |
adj.
without taste or flavor; lacking in spirit; bland |
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| infelicitous |
adj.
unfortunate; inappropriate |
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| inchoate |
adj.
in an initial stage, not fully formed |
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| impunity |
n.
immunity from punishment or penalty |
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| impassive |
adj.
revealing no emotion |
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| iconoclast |
n.
one who attacks or undermines traditional conventions or institutions |
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| hegemony |
n.
the consistent dominance of one state or ideology over others |
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| hedonism |
n.
devotion to pleasurable pursuits, esp. to the pleasures of the senses |
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| hackneyed |
adj.
rendered trite or commonplace by frequent usage |
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| grandiloquence |
n.
pompous speech or expression |
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| exacerbate |
v.
to make worse or more severe |
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| evanescent |
adj.
tending to disappear like vapor; vanishing |
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| endemic |
adj.
characteristic of or often found in a particular locality, region, or people |
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| eccentric |
adj.
departing from norms or conventions |
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| dissemble |
v.
to disguise or conceal; to mislead |
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| aver |
v.
to state as a fact; to confirm or support |
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| archaic |
adj.
outdated; associated with an earlier, perhaps more primitive, time |
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| adulterate |
v.
to reduce purity by combining with inferior ingrediants |
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| acumen |
n.
quick, keen, or accurate knowledge or insight |
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