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Perspicacity
shrewdness, cleverness, sharpness
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Ambivalence
doubt,fluctuation
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Ambiguity
vagueness,obscurity
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Iconography
setof recognized images, symbols
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Ellipses
truncations,leaps
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Stentorian
loud,powerful, booming
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Delineation
describesomething, portray something
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Oneiric
inor like a dream
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Opacity
cloudiness,dullness
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Tableau
Montague,representation
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Ambivalent
havingmixed, uncertain, or conflicting feelings
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Anathema
abomination,loathing, curse
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Laconic
terse, brief, short
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Beneficence
generosity, charity
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Austere
serious, grim, severe
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Tangentially
loosely,indirectly, peripherally
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Synecdoche
figureof speech in which the word for part means the whole
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Venial
forgivable,excusable
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Analogue
equivalent, similarity
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Dramaturgical
art of theater
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Fulcrum
pivot,hinge, point
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Alacrity
eagerness,quickness, speed
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Incredulously
skeptically
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Undulations
waves,crinkles, flutters
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Modulations
inflections,variations
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Convivial
friendly, social
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Pedagogical
informative, academic
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Inexorably
inevitably, unalterable
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Dialectic
tension, discussion
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Epistemological
the study of the nature of knowledge, in particular its foundations, scope, and validity
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Ancillary
providing support, secondary
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Inductive
reaching conclusion based on observation; generalizing to produce a universal claim/principle
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Belies
give false impression/disguise the true nature of something
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Superannuated
aged, retired
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Ameliorate
better, upgrade, improve
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Unwieldy
awkward, bulky, cumbersome
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Eidetic
able to recall with startling accuracy
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Unequivocally
clearly, obviously
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Seminal
influential, pivotal
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Intelligible
clear, plain, lucid
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Coterminous
Having the same boundaries or extent in space, time, or meaning
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Denotative
specific, direct
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Connotative
implied/suggesting additional meaning
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Paradigmatic
classic, typical, stock
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Syntagmatic
the function and behavior of a word or phrase within a syntactic unit
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Synecdoche
figure of speech
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