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to renounce under oath; to abandon forever; to abstain from
abjure
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cursing, profane; extremely irrevent
blasphemous
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critical; tending to blame and condemn
censorious
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component, part; citizen, voter
constituent
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to laugh at contemptuously, to make fun of
deride
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to direct or impose with urgent appeal, to order with emphasis; to forbid
enjoin
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feverish, marked by intense emotion or activity
febrile
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lacking social refinement
gauche
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a temporary halting of the usual operations of government or control
interregnum
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the physical or social setting in which something occurs or develops, environment
milieu
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stubbornly persistent, resistant to persuasion
obdurate
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elaborate praise; formal hymn of praise
panegyric
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to arouse anger or resentment in; provoke
pique
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to grow by rapid production of new parts; increase in number
proliferate
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excessively sweet or sentimental
saccharine
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having the ring of truth but actually being untrue; deceptively attractive
specious
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gaudy, cheap, showy
tawdry
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so keen and perceptive as to seem supernatural, peculiarly unsettling
uncanny
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