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| zealot |
n. fanatic; person who shows excessive zeal |
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| whimsical |
n. capricious; fanciful |
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| welter |
n. turmoil; bewildering jumble |
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| wary |
adj. very cautious |
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| warranted |
adj. justified; authorized |
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| volatile |
adj. changeable; explosive; evaporating rapidly
n. volatility |
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| vituperative |
adj. abusive; scolding |
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| viscous |
adj. sticky, gluey
n. viscosity |
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| viable |
adj. practical or workable; capable of maintaining life |
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| verbose |
adj. wordy |
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| veracious |
adj. truthful
n. veracity |
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| venerate |
v. revere |
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| vacillate |
v. waver; fluctuate
n. vacillation |
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| truculence |
n. aggressiveness; ferocity
adj. truculent |
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| transgression |
n. violation of a law; sin |
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| tractable |
adj. docile; easily managed |
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| tortuous |
adj. winding; full of curves |
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| torpor |
n. lethargy; sluggishness; dormancy
adj. torpid |
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| tirade |
n. extended scolding; denunciation; harangue |
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| tenuous |
adj. thin; rare; slim |
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| tangential |
adj. peripheral; only slightly connected; digressing |
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| tacit |
adj. understood; not put into words |
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| supposition |
n. hypothesis; surmise |
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| supersede |
v. cause to be set aside; replace; make obsolete |
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| substantiate |
v. establish by evidence; verify; support |
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| subside |
v. settle down; descend; grow quiet |
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| subpeona |
n. writ summoning a witness to appear |
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| strut |
n. pompous walk
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n. supporting bar |
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| striated |
adj. marked with parallel bands; grooved |
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| stolid |
adj. dull; impassive |
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| stipulate |
v. make express conditions; specify |
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| stint |
v. be thrifty; set limits |
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| stigma |
n. token of disgrace; brand |
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| sporadic |
adj. occurring irregularly |
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| spectrum |
n. colored band produced when a beam of light passes through a prism |
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| specious |
adj. seemingly reasonable but incorrect; misleading (often intentionally) |
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| soporific |
adj. sleep-causing; marked by sleepiness |
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| solicitous |
adj. worried, concerned
n. solicitude |
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| skeptic |
n. doubter; person who suspends judgment until having examined the evidence supporting a point of view |
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| shard |
n. fragment, generally of pottery |
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| secrete |
v. hide away or cache; produce and release a substance into an organism |
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| savor |
v. enjoy; have a distinctive flavor, smell, or quality |
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| saturate |
v. soak thoroughly |
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| satiate |
v. satisfy fully
n. satiety |
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| sanction |
v. approve; ratify |
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| salubrious |
adj. healthful |
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| sage |
n. person celebrated for wisdom
also adj. |
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| reverent |
adj. respectful; worshipful
v. revere
n. reverence |
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| reticent |
adj. reserved; uncommunicative; inclined to silence
n. reticence |
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| resolve |
n. determination; firmness of purpose
also v. |
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| resolution |
n. determination
adj. resolute |
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| rescind |
v. cancel |
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| repudiate |
v. disown, disavow |
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| reprobate |
n. person hardened in sin, devoid of a sense of decency |
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| reproach |
v. express disapproval or disappointment |
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| relegate |
v. banish to an inferior position; delegate; assign |
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| refute |
v. disprove
n. refutation |
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| refractory |
adj. stubborn; unmanageable |
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| recondite |
adj. abstruse; profound; secret |
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| recluse |
n. hermit; loner
adj. reclusive |
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| recant |
v. disclaim or disavow; retract a previous statement; openly confess error |
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| recalcitrant |
adj. obstinately stubborn; determined to resist authority; unruly |
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| rarefied |
adj. made less dense (of a gas)
v. rarefy
n. rarefaction |
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| quiescent |
adj. at rest; dormant; temporarily inactive |
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| quibble |
n. minor objection or complaint
also v. |
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| qualified |
adj. limited; restricted |
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| pungent |
adj. stinging; sharp in taste or smell; caustic
n. pungency |
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| proscribe |
v. ostracize; banish; outlaw |
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| propriety |
n. fitness; correct conduct |
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| propitiate |
v. appease |
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| propensity |
n. natural inclination |
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