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Minutia(e)
- Noun
- precise details; small or trifling matters
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Garrulous
- Adjective
- excessively talkative in a rambling, roundabout manner,especially about trivial matters.
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Salubrious
- Adjective
- favorable to or promoting health; healthful: salubrious air.
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Salutary
- Adjective
- favorable to or promoting health; healthful: salubrious air.
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Voluble
- Adjective
- characterized by a ready and continuous flow of words; fluent;glib; talkative: a voluble spokesman for the cause.
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Restive
- Adjective
- Unable to keep still or silent and becoming increasingly difficult to control.
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Retrench
- Verb
- (of a company, government, or individual) Reduce costs or spending in response to economic difficulty
- .Reduce or diminish (something).
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Machination
- Noun
- intrigue: a crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends.
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Precursor
- Noun
- A person or thing that comes before another of the same kind; a forerunner.
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Venerate
- Verb
- Regard with great respect; revere.
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Venerable
- Adjective
- Accorded a great deal of respect, esp. because of age, wisdom, or character: "a venerable statesman".
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Salient
- Adjective
- Most noticeable or important
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Vilify
- Verb
- Speak or write about in an abusively disparaging manner
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Vituperation/vituperate
- Verb
- Blame or insult (someone) in strong or violent language
- Noun
- Bitter and abusive language.
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Proscribe
- Verb
- Forbid, esp. by law.
- Denounce or condemn
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Forte
A thing at which someone excels
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Contentious/contention
- Adjective
- Causing or likely to cause an argument; controversial
- Noun
- Heated disagreement.
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Extol
- Verb
- Praise enthusiastically
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Deride
- Verb
- Express contempt for; ridicule.
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Ephemeral
- Adjective
- Lasting for a very short time
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Insouciance
- Noun
- Casual lack of concern; indifference.
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Efficacious
- Adjective
- Successful in producing a desired or intended result; effective
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Promethean
- Adjective
- creative; boldly original.
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Quiescent
- Adjective
- In a state or period of inactivity or dormancy:
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Redoubtable
- Adjective
- (of a person) Formidable, esp. as an opponent
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