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Ephemeral
Lasting one day only.
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Cachet
An indication of approval carrying great prestige.
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Impresario
The person who puts on or sponsors an event.
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Rankle
To cause anger, irritation or deep bitterness.
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Limpid
Clear, transparent.
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Pejorative
Having negative connotations, tending to enrage or belittle.
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Panoply
A magnificent or impressive array.
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Edify
To instruct or improve especially in moral or religious matters. Uplift
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Protracted
Prolonged in time or space.
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Indefatigable
Incapable of being fatigued.
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Erudite
Possessing extensive knowledge, acquired chiefly from books.
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Dilettante
A person having a superficial knowledge in an art or branch of knowledge. Dabbler.
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Insouciant
Light hearted or unconcerned.
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Soporific
Something that causes you to tall asleep.
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Taciturn
Tempermentally disinclined to talk. (Pride and Prejudice)
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Salacious
Lustful, provoking lust in others.
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Lecherous
Inordinate attraction to sexual activity.
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Immanent
Indwelling, inherent.
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Sisyphean
Pointless, endless. (task)
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Collude
To act in secret concert with someone to trick a third party.
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Malinger
To pretend or exaggerate illness to avoid work.
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Inexorable
Not to be persuaded, moved or stopped.
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Consummate
To make perfect, or right.
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Lugubrious.
Mournful, dismal, or gloomy
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Parsimonious
Frugal to the point of stinginess.
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Inculcate
To teach or impress by repetition.
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Levity
Excessive or unseemly frivolity.
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Didactic
Designed or intended to teach.
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Hegemony
Preponderate influence or authority over others; domination.
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Prosaic
Everyday, ordinary, dull or unoriginal. Commonplace.
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Cynosure
Center of attraction.
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Celerity
Rapid of motion or action. "Hop to it!"
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Vicissitude
The quality or state of being changeable.
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Vitiate
To make faulty, to debase in moral or ethical standards.
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Factitious
Produced by humans rather than natural sources.
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Solipsism
A theory holding that the self can know nothing but itself.
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Compunction
An anxiety arising
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Disinterested
Free from selfish motive or interest unbiased
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Anamycal
Being adverse, often by reason of hostility. Having the disposition of an enemy.
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Licentious
Lacking sexual restraints. Lacking moral or legal restraint.
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Equivocal
Subject to 2 or more interpretations, usually used to mislead.
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Ascetic
Practicing strict self denial, as a measure of personal and especially spiritual denial.
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Magnanimity
Nobleness and generosity of spirit.
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Palliate
To ease the symptoms without affecting the cure.
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Germane
Closely akin to, relative.
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Non-Sequitur
(It does not follow) Makes no sense.
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Saturnine
Of a gloomy or surly disposition.
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Perfunctory
Characterized by routine or superfidality. Just going through the motions.
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Martinet
A strict disciplinarian. (too much)
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Superannuated
Outmoded or old fashioned, incapacitated due to age.
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Peremptory
Putting and end to, or preluding a right or debate.
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Precipitate
Falling, flowing or rushing with steep decent. Exhibiting violent or unwise speed.
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Redress
Relief from distress, seeking a remedy.
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Denizen
One that frequents a place.
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Badinage
Playful repartee or banter, flirtatious in nature.
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Modicum
Small portion or limited quality.
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Protean
Having a varied nature, ability to assume different forms. Changeable.
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Cognoscenti
People who have expert knowledge in the subject. Those in the know, connoisseur.
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Perfidious
Faithless or disloyal.
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Prerogative
An exclusive right, power or privilege, generally based on caste.
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Sartorial
Related to clothes.
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Recrudesce
To break our or become active again. To flair up.
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Inveterate
Firmly established by consistency.
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Extirpate
To pull up by the root, get rid of.
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Abstemious
Marked by restraint, especially in the consumption of food or alcohol.
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Bacchanalian
Wild rebellion.
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Mot Juste
The exact right word.
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Cupidity.
Inordinant desire for wealth.
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Abjure
To reject solemnly, to obstain from.
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Non pareil
An individual of unequaled excellence.
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Insidious
Waiting for a chance to entrap, harmful but enticing.
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Explicate
To give a detailed explanation of.
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Ostensible
Being such in appearance, plausable, rather then demonstratively true or real. Seeming to be so, but not being so.
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Nugatory
Of little or not consequence.
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Fledgling
An immature or inexperienced person.
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Esoteric
Designed for or understood by the specially initiated.
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Jeremaid
A long lamentation, tale of woe.
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Zeitgeist
The general intellectual, oral and cultural climate of an era.
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Raison d'etre
(Reason to be) Reason for existence.
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Proscribe
Forbidden, prohibited.
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Apocryphal
Of doubtful authenticity.
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De Requeur
Prescribed, required by fashion, custom or etiquette.
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Dissafected
Discontented or resentful, rebellious.
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Festoon
Garland or to decorate with garlands.
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Abscond
To depart secretly and hide oneself.
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Hoi Palloi
Normal, middle class.
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Cargot
A more or less secret vocabulary peculiar to a particular group.
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Enfant Terrible
(Terrible child) A young and successful person who is strikingly unorthadox.
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Prolix
Unduly prolonged or drawn out, using and excess of words.
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Corpulent
Obese, or having a large bulky body.
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Oeillade
A suggestive "come hither" flirtatious look, ogle.
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Evanescent
Tending to vanish like vapor, fleeting.
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Dissolute
Lack of moral restraint. (sex, drugs.)
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Implacable
Not capable of being appeased, significantly changed or mitigated.
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Disingenuous
Giving false appearance of simple frankness.
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Impervious
Not allowing passage or entrance. Incapable of being damaged or harmed.
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