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| voluble (adj.) |
fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language |
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| vitiate (v.) |
to corrupt, debase, spoil, make ineffective |
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| tyro (n.) |
novice, greenhorn, rank amateur |
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| timorous (adj.) |
timid, fearful, diffident |
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| tendentious (adj.) |
biased; showing marked tendencies |
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| sycophant (n.) |
toady, servile, self-seeking flatterer; parasite |
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| stygian (adj.) |
gloomy, dark |
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| stentorian (adj.) |
extremely loud and powerful |
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| sententious (adj.) |
aphoristic or moralistic; epigrammatic; tending to moralize excessively |
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| saturnine (adj.) |
gloomy, dark, sullen, morose |
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| sanguine (adj.) |
cheerful, confident, optimistic |
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| salutary (adj.) |
remedial, wholesome, causing improvement |
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| salacious (adj.) |
lustful, lascivious, bawdy |
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| sagacious (adj.) |
having sound judgment; perceptive, wise; like a sage |
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| remonstrate (v.) |
to protest, object |
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badlybefuddled Sun, 29 Jun 2008 06:20:22 GMT |
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| pusillanimous (adj.) |
cowardly, craven |
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| puissance (n.) |
power, strength; puissant means powerful, strong: The senator delivered a puissant speech to the convention. |
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| puerile (adj.) |
childish, immature, jejune, nugatory |
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| propitiate (v.) |
to appease; to conciliate; propitious means auspicious, favorable |
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| prolix (adj.) |
long-winded, verbose; prolixity means vebosity: Mikhail Gorbachev is famous for his prolixity. |
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| plangent (adj.) |
pounding, thundering, resounding |
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| peroration (n.) |
the concluding part of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech |
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| pellucid (adj.) |
transparent, easy to understand, limpid |
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| parsimonious (adj.) |
cheap, miserly: A parsimonious person parses out his money with great difficulty. |
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| panegyric (n.) |
formal praise, eulogy, encomium; panegyrical means expressing elaborate praise |
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| palliate (v.) |
to make something seem less serious, to gloss over, to make less severe or intense |
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| ossified (adj.) |
tending to become more rigid, conventional, sterile, and reactionary with age; literally, turned into bone |
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| obstreperous (adj.) |
noisily and stubbornly defiant, aggressively boisterous |
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| nonplussed (adj.) |
baffled, bewildered, at a loss for what to do or think |
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| nadir (n.) |
low point, perigee |
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| minatory (adj.) |
menacing, threatening (reminds you of the Minotaur, a threatening creature indeed) |
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| meretricious (adj.) |
cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy; attracting by false show |
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| mendicant (n.) |
a beggar, supplicant |
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| lubricious (adj.) |
lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery |
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| jejune (adj.) |
vapid, uninteresting, nugatory; childish, immature, puerile |
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| inveterate (adj.) |
deep rooted, ingrained, habitual |
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| insouciant (adj.) |
unconcerned, carefree, heedless |
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| inimitable (adj.) |
one of a kind, peerless |
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| ineluctable (adj.) |
certain, inevitable |
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| indefatigable (adj.) |
not easily exhaustible; tireless, dogged |
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| imbroglio (n.) |
difficult or embarrassing situation |
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| heterodox (adj.) |
unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic |
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| gainsay (v.) |
to deny, dispute, contradict, oppose |
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| fractious (adj.) |
quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory, irritable |
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| fatuous (adj.) |
silly, inanely foolish: I would ignore such a fatuous comment. |
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| extirpate (v.) |
to destroy, exterminate, cut out, exscind |
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| expiate (v.) |
to atone or make amends for: Pia Zadora has expiated her movie career by good works and charity. |
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| exegesis (n.) |
critical examination, explication |
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| execrate (v.) |
denounce, feel loathing for, curse, declare to be evil |
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| excoriate (v.) |
to censure scathingly, to upbraid |
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| eschew (v.) |
to shun or avoid: She chose to eschew the movie theater, preferring to watch DVDs at home. |
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| encomium (n.) |
glowing and enthusiastic praise; panegyric, tribute, eulogy |
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| dirge (n.) |
a song of grief or lamentation: We listened to the slow, funereal dirge. |
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| diffident (adj.) |
reserved, shy, unassuming; lacking in self-confidence: Surprisingly, the CEO of the corporation had been a diffident youth. |
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| diaphanous (adj.) |
transparent, gauzy |
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| desultory (adj.) |
random; aimless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose: Her desultory performance impressed no one. |
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| desuetude (n.) |
disuse: After years of desuetude, my French skills were finally put to use. |
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| descry (v.) |
to discriminate or discern |
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| denouement (n.) |
an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot. |
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| debacle (n.) |
rout, fiasco, complete failure: My first attempt at a souffle was a total debacle. |
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| contumacious (adj.) |
insubordinate, rebellious; contumely means insult, scorn, aspersion |
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| chimera (n.) |
an illusion; originally, an imaginary fire-breathing she-monster |
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| celerity (n.) |
speed, alacrity; think accelerate |
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| cavil (v.) |
to find fault without good reason |
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| captious (adj.) |
disposed to point out trivial faults, calculated to confuse or entrap in argument |
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| calumniate (v.) |
to slander, make a false accusation; calumny means slander, aspersion |
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| bellicose (adj.) |
belligerent, pugnacious, warlike |
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| augury (n.) |
omen, portent |
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| assiduous (adj.) |
diligent, hard-working, sedulous |
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| asseverate (v.) |
to aver, allege, assert |
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| asperity (n.) |
severity, rigor; roughness, harshness; acrimony, irritability |
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| apotheosis (n.) |
deification, glorification to godliness, an exalted example, a model of excellence or perfection |
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| apostate (n.) |
one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions |
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| apogee (n.) |
farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith |
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| anodyne (adj./n.) |
soothing, something that assuages or allays pain or comforts |
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| anathema (n.) |
a solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing |
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| adumbrate (v.) |
to foreshadow vaguely or intimate, to suggest or outline sketchily, to obscure or overshadow |
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| abjure (v.) |
to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid |
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