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| voluble |
fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language |
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| vitiate |
to corrupt, spoil |
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| stygian |
gloomy, dark |
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| stentorian |
extremely loud and powerful |
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| sententious |
aphoristic or moralistic |
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| saturnine |
gloomy, dark, sullen, morose |
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| salutary |
remedial, wholesome, causing improvement |
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| salacious |
lustful, lascivious, bawdy |
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| sagacious |
having sound judgment |
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| pusillanimous |
cowardly, craven |
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| puissance |
power, strength |
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| puerile |
childish, immature, jejune |
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| propitiate |
to appease, to conciliate |
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| prolix |
long-winded, verbose |
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| plangent |
pounding, thundering, resounding |
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| peroration |
the concluding part of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech |
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| pellucid |
transparent, easy to understand, limpid |
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| parsimonious |
cheap, miserly |
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| palliate |
to make something seem less serious |
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| ossified |
tending to become more rigid, conventional, and reactionary with age |
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| obstreperous |
noisily and stubbornly defiant |
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| nonplussed |
baffled, bewildered, at a loss |
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| nadir |
low point |
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| minatory |
menacing, threatening |
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| meretricious |
cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy |
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| mendicant |
a beggar, supplicant |
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| lubricious |
lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery |
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| jejune |
vapid, uninteresting, childish, immature |
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| insouciant |
unconcerned, carefree, heedless |
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| ineluctable |
certain, inevitable |
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| imbroglio |
difficult or embarrassing situation |
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| heterodox |
unorthodox, heretical |
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| gainsay |
to deny, dispute, contradict, oppose |
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| fatuous |
silly, inanely foolish |
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| extirpate |
to destroy, exterminate, cut out |
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| expiate |
to atone or make amends for |
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| execrate |
denounce, feel loathing for, curse, declare to be evil |
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| excoriate |
to censure scathingly, to upbraid |
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| diffident |
reserved, shy, unassuming; lacking in self-confidence |
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| diaphanous |
transparent; gauzy |
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| desultory |
random; aimless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose |
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| desuetude |
disuse (noun) |
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| descry |
to discriminate or discern |
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| denouement |
an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot |
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| contumacious |
insubordinate, rebellious |
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| celerity |
speed, alacrity; (like accelerate) |
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| cavil |
to find fault without good reason |
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| captious |
disposed to point out trivial faults, calculated to confuse or entrap in argument |
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| calumniate |
to slander, make a false accusation |
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| bellicose |
belligerent, pugnacious, warlike |
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| augury |
omen, portent |
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| asseverate |
to aver, allege, assert |
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| asperity |
severity, rigor; roughness, harshness; acrimony, irritability |
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| apotheosis |
deification, glorification, a model of excellence or perfection |
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| apostate |
one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions |
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| anodyne |
soothing, something that assuages or allays pain or comforts |
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| adumbrate |
to foreshadow vaguely or intimate; to suggest or outline sketchily; to obscure or overshadow |
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| abjure |
to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid |
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| table |
to remove from consideration |
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| stand |
a group of trees |
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| quail |
to lose courage, turn frightened |
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| pied |
multicolored, usually in blotches |
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| obtain |
to be established, accepted, or customary |
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| nice |
exacting, fastidious, extremely precise |
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| mince |
pronounce or speak affectedly, euphemize, speak too carefully |
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| guy |
a rope, cord, or cable attached to something as a brace or guide |
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| grouse |
to complain or grumble |
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| flip |
sarcastic, impertinent, as in flippant |
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| essay |
to test or try; attempt, experiment |
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| die |
a tool used for shaping, as in a tool-and-die shop |
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| consequential |
pompous, self-important |
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| brook |
to tolerate, endure, countenance |
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| vituperate |
to use harsh, condemnatory language; to abuse or censure severely or abusively; berate |
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| untenable |
indefensible; not viable; uninhabitable |
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| trenchant |
sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating |
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| spendthrift |
one who spends money wastefully |
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| refulgent |
radiant; shiny; brilliant |
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| rarefy |
to make or become thin, less dense; to refine |
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| quotidian |
occurring or recurring daily; commonplace |
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| probity |
adherence to highest principles; complete and confirmed integrity; uprightness |
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| phlegmatic |
calm; sluggish; unemotional |
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| mollify |
to calm or soothe; to reduce in emotional intensity |
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| laconic |
using few words; terse |
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| intractable |
not easily managed or directed; stubborn; obstinate |
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| inimical |
damaging; harmful; injurious |
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| impetuous |
hastily or rashly energetic; impulsive and vehement |
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| hubris |
overbearing presumption or pride; arrogance |
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| dilettante |
one with an amateurish or superficial interest n the arts or a branch of knowledge |
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| desiccate |
to dry out or dehydrate; to make dry or dull |
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| credulous |
tending to believe too readily; gullible |
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| amenable |
agreeable; responsive to suggestion |
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| acerbic |
having a sour or bitter taste or character; sharp; biting |
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| tenuous |
having little substance or strength; flimsy; weak |
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| spurious |
lacking authenticity or validity; false; counterfeit |
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| specious |
seeming true, but actually being fallacious; misleadingly attractive; plausible but false |
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| salubrious |
promoting health or well-being |
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| recalcitrant |
obstinately defiant of authority; difficult to manage |
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| rancorous |
characterized by bitter, long-lasting resentment |
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| querulous |
prone to complaining or grumbling; peevish |
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| prodigal |
recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish |
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| polemical |
controversial; argumentative |
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| platitude |
a superficial remark, esp. one offered as meaningful |
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| pithy |
precise and brief |
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| pith |
the essential or central part |
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| penury |
poverty; destitution |
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| opprobrium |
disgrace; contempt; scorn |
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| occlude |
to obstruct or block |
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| obsequious |
exhibiting a fawning attentiveness |
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| misanthrope |
one who hates all other humans |
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| impassive |
revealing no emotion |
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| impunity |
immunity from punishment or penalty |
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| inchoate |
in an initial stage; not fully formed |
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| insipid |
without taste of flavor; lacking in spirit; bland |
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| mendacity |
the condition of being untruthful; dishonesty |
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| halcyon |
calm and peaceful |
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| dissemble |
to disguise or conceal; to mislead |
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| aver |
to state as a fact; to declare or assert |
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| vilify |
to defame; to characterize harshly |
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| urbane |
sophisticated; refined; elegant |
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| torpid |
lethargic; sluggish; dormant |
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| redoubtable |
awe-inspiring; worthy of honor |
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| quiescence |
stillness; motionlessness; quality of being at rest |
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| quaff |
to drink deepy |
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| putrefy |
to rot; to decay adn give off a foul odor |
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| preen |
to dress up; to primp; to groom oneself with elaborate care |
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| penurious |
penny-pinching; excessively thrifty; ungenerous |
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| intransigent |
refusing to compromise |
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| innocuous |
harmless; causing no damage |
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| inert |
unmoving; lethargic; sluggish |
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| incipient |
beginning to come into being or to become apparent |
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| impecunious |
lacking funds; without money |
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| harrangue |
(verb/noun) to deliver a pompous speech or tirade; a long, pompous speech |
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| facetious |
playful; humorous |
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| enigmatic |
mysterious; obscure; difficult to understand |
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| emollient |
soothing, esp. to the skin; making less harsh; mollifying an agent that softens or smoothes the skin |
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| ebullience |
the quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings |
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| demur |
(verb) to question or oppose |
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| contrite |
regretful; penitent; seeking forgiveness |
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| cogent |
appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing |
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| chary |
wary; cautious; sparring |
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| bucolic |
rustic and pastoral; characteristic of rural areas and their inhabitants |
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| ameliorate |
to make better or more tolerable |
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| virulent |
extremely harmful or poisonous; bitterly hostile or antagonistic |
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| truculent |
fierce and cruel; eager to fight |
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| stymie |
to block; thwart |
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| solicitous |
concerned and attentive; eager |
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| reticent |
quiet; reserved; reluctant to express thoughts and feelings |
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| prevaricate |
to deliberately avoid the truth; to mislead |
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| precipitate |
acting with excesssive haste or impulse (adj.) |
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| perspicacious |
acutely perceptive; having keen discernment |
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| obviate |
to anticipate and make unnecessary (to prevent) |
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| fulminate |
to loudly attack or denounce |
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| exculpate |
exonerate; to clear of blame |
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| equivocate |
to use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent |
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| enervate |
to weaken; to reduce in vitality |
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| alacrity |
eager and enthusiastic willingness |
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