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beckon
signal, sign, summon, gesture, make a gesture, indicate
fortified
carrying weapons, equipped, prepared
unduly
excessively, overly, disproportionately, out of all proportion, unjustifiably, undeservedly, improperly
egregious
conspicuously bad or offensive, flagrant
amicably
good-naturedly, cordially, harmoniously, kindly, politely, good-humoredly
Incongruous
out of place, incompatible, inappropriate, inconsistent, absurd, odd
Voluble
adj fluent, verbal, articulate, verbose, having easy use of spoken language, talking easily and at length, or involving lengthy talking
Vitiate
v to corrupt, debase, spoil, make ineffective
Tyro
n novice, greenhorn, rank amateur, trainee, novice, learner, student, pupil, beginner
Timorous
adj timid, fearful, diffident, nervous, shy
Tendentious
adj biased; showing marked tendencies, written or spoken with personal bias in order to promote a cause or support a viewpoint
Sycophant
n toady, servile, self-seeking flatterer for personal gain; parasite
Stygian
adj gloomy, dark, unremittingly dark and frightening, as hell is imagined to be
Stentorian
adj extremely loud and powerful
Sententious
adj aphoristic, moralistic; epigrammatic; tending to moralize excessively
Saturnine
adj gloomy, dark, sullen, morose, melancholy, caused by lead poisening
Sanguine
adj cheerful, confident, optimistic, positive
Salacious
adj lustful, lascivious, having or showing explicit or crude sexual desire or interest, bawdy, scandalous, spicy, exciting
Remonstrate
v to protest, object, argue, oppose, complain
Pusillanimous
adj cowardly, timid, fearful, spineless, craven
Puissance
n power, strength; puissant means powerful, strong: The senator delivered a puissant speech to the convention.
Puerile
adj childish, immature, jejune, nugatory
Propitiate
v to appease, to win somebody’s favor; to conciliate (make peace); propitious means auspicious, favorable
Prolix
adj long-winded, verbose; prolixity means verbosity: Mikhail Gorbachev is famous for his prolixity.
Plangent
adj pounding, thundering, resonant, resounding, expressing or suggesting sadness and grief
Peroration
n the concluding part of a speech; speech, oration, discourse (dialogue, conversation), flowery, rhetorical speech
Pellucid
adj transparent, easy to understand, limpid
Parsimonious
adj cheap, frugal, ungenerous, miserly: A parsimonious person parses out his money with great difficulty.
Panegyric
(pa’nn@ji’rrik) n formal praise, eulogy, encomium; panegyrical means expressing elaborate praise
Palliate
v to make something seem less serious, to gloss over, to make less severe or intense
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