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| zealous |
adj. fervent; ardent; impassioned, devoted to a cause (a zealot is a zealous person) |
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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 adherence or persistence to something valued; persistent determination (adj. form: tenacious) |
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| surfeit |
n./v. an overabundant supply; excess; to feed or supply to excess |
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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; plausible but false |
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| solvent |
adj. able to meet financial obligations; able to dissolve anther substance |
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| salubrious |
adj. promoting health or well-being |
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| rhetoric |
n. the art or study of effective use of language for communication and persuasion |
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| reverent |
adj. marked by, feeling, or expressing a feeling of profound awe and respect (n. form: reverence) |
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| rescind |
v. to invalidate; to repeal; to retract |
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| repudiate |
v. to refuse to have anything to do with; disown |
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| recalcitrant |
adj. obstinately defiant of authority; difficult to manage |
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| rancorous |
adj. characterized by bitter, long-lasting resentment (n. form: rancor) |
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| querulous |
adj. prone to complaining or grumbling; peevish |
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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; extravagant |
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| prodigal |
adj. recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish |
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| polemical |
adj. controversial; argumentative |
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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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| pirate |
v. to illegally use or reproduce |
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| pine |
v. to yearn intensely; to languish; to lose vigor |
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| pervasive |
adj. having the tendency to permeate or spread throughout |
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| penury |
n. poverty; destitution |
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| pedantic |
adj. overly concerned with the trivial details of learning or education; show-offish about one's knowledge |
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| pedagogy |
n. the profession or principles of teaching, or instructing |
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| opprobrium |
n. disgrace; contempt; scorn |
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| occlude |
v. to obstruct or block |
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| obsequious |
adj. exhibiting a fawning attentiveness |
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| obdurate |
adj. unyielding; hardhearted; intractable |
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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 (adj. form: misanthropic) |
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| meticulous |
adj. characterized by extreme care and precision; attentive to detail |
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| mendacity |
n. the condition of being untruthful; dishonesty (adj. form: mendacious) |
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| malleable |
adj. capable of being shaped or formed; tractable; pliable |
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| malevolent |
adj. having or showing often vicious ill will spite, or hatred (n. form: malevolence) |
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| luminous |
adj. characterized by brightness and the emission of light |
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| loquacious |
adj. extremely talkative (n. form: loquacity) |
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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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| implacable |
adj. not capable of being appeased or significantly changed |
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| imperturbable |
adj. marked by extreme calm, impassivity and steadiness |
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| impassive |
adj. revealing no emotion |
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| idolatrous |
adj. given to intense or excessive devotion to something (n. form: idolatry) |
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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 (a hedonist is someone who pursues pleasure) |
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| halcyon |
adj. calm and peaceful |
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| hackneyed |
adj. rendered trite or commonplace by frequent usage |
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| grandiloquence |
n. pompous speech or expression (adj. form: grandiloquent) |
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| germane |
adj. relevant to the subject at hand; appropriate in subject matter |
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| fortuitous |
adj. happening by accident or chance |
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| fervent |
adj. greatly emotional or zealous (n. form: fervor) |
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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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| diatribe |
n. a harsh denunciation |
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| bombastic |
adj. pompous; grandiloquent (n. form: bombast) |
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| bolster |
v. to provide support or reinforcement |
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| aver |
v. to state as a fact; to declare or assert |
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| archaic |
adj. outdated; associated with an earlier, perhaps more primitive, time |
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| amalgamate |
v. to combine several elements into a whole (n. form: amalgamation) |
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| adulterate |
v. to reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients |
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| acumen |
n. keen, accurate judgment or insight |
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