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Austere
(adj.) severe or stern in manner; without adornment or luxury, simple, plain; harsh or sour in flavor
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Beneficent
(adj.) performing acts of kindness or charity; conferring benefits, doing good
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Cadaverous
(adj.) pale, gaunt, resembling a corpse
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Concoct
(v.) to prepare by combining ingredients, make up (as a dish); to devise, invent, fabricate
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Crass
(adj.) coarse, unfeeling; stupid
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Debase
(v.) to lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade, adulterate; to cause to deteriorate
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Desecrate
(v.) to commit sacrilege upon, treat irreverently; to contaminate, pollute
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Disconcert
(v.) to confuse; to disturb the composure of
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Grandiose
(adj.) grand in an impressive or stately way; marked by pompous affectation or grandeur, absurdly exaggerated
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Inconsequential
(adj.) trifling, unimportant
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Infraction
(n.) a breaking of a law or obligation
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Mitigate
(v.) to make milder or softer, to moderate in force or intensity
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Pillage
(v.) to rob of goods by open force (as in war), plunder; (n.) the act of looting; booty
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Prate
(v.) to talk a great deal in a foolish or aimless fashion
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Punctilious
(adj.) very careful and exact, attentive to fine points of etiquette or propriety
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Redoubtable
(adj.) inspiring fear or awe; illustrious, eminent
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Reprove
(v.) to find fault with, scold, rebuke
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Restitution
(n.) the act of restoring someone or something to the rightful owner or to a former state or position; making good on a loss or damage
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Stalward
(adj.) strong and sturdy; brave; resolute; (n.) a brave, strong person; a strong supporter; one who takes an uncompromising position
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Vulnerable
(adj.) open to attack; capable of being wounded or damaged; unprotected
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Acrimonious
(adj.) stinging, bitter in temper or tone
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Bovine
(adj.) resembling a cow or ox; sluggish, unresponsive
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Consternation
(n.) dismay, confusion
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Corpulent
(adj.) fat; having a large, bulky body
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Disavow
(v.) to deny responsibility for or connection with
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Dispassionate
(adj.) impartial; calm, free from emotion
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Dissension
(n.) dissagreement, sharp difference of opinion
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Dissipate
(v.) to cause to disappear; to scatter, dispel; to spend foolishly, squander; to be extravagant in pursuit of pleasure
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Expurgate
(v.) to remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse, purify
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Gauntlet
(n.) an armored or protective glove; a challenge; two lines of men armed with weapons with which to beat a person forced to run betwwen them; an ordeal
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