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Acrimony (n)
Bitterness or sharpness of temper, manner, speech; hostility
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Affinity (n)
An attraction for someone or something with which one feels a closeness or kinship
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Ambivalent (adj)
- Having mixed, often opposing feelings anout someone or something
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- He was ambivalent feelings about his future, for he could not decide what to do.
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Cessation (n)
- A stopping, either final or temporary
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- There was a cessation of mail during a severe snowstorm.
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Emaciated (adj)
- Very thin or wasted away, espescially from lack of nourishment; scrawny
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- His emaciated form told me all about his ways of living.
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Enclave (n)
- A distinct region or community enclosed withing a larger territory
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- Chinatown is an enclave of Chinese American people.
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Engender (v)
- To bring into being; to produce
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- Honesty engenders trust in others.
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Exacerbate (v)
- To make more severe, bitter, or violent
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- The gym class exacerbated the boy's injury.
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Illicit (adj)
Not allowed, improper, or unlawful
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Indigenuous (adj)
- Naturally growing or living in a certain area; native
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- The indigenuous species are being overrun by foreign ones.
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Inexorable (adj)
- Not to be persuaded, stopped, or moved by entreaty or plea; relentless
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- The inexorable movement of the destruction of rainforests is concerning environmentalists.
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Infatuated (adj)
Filled with excessive, shallow, or foolish love or desire for someone or something
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Insatiable (adj)
Never satisfied; greedy
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Poignant (adj)
- Painfully moving, affecting, or touching
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- The poignant play brought tears to the audience's eyes.
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Proselytize (v)
- To convert someone to a belief, faith, or cause
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- The political campains are all about proselytizing people to their cause.
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