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Auspicious
prosperous; favorable
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Circumlocution
- 1: the use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea
- 2: evasion in speech
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Evanescent
tending to vanish like vapor
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Incorrigible
incapable of being corrected or amended
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Inquisitive
- 1: given to examination or investigation
- 2: inclined to ask questions
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Lexicon
- 1: a book containing an alphabetical arrangement of the words in a language and their definitions
- 2: the vocabulary of a language, an individual speaker or group of speakers, or a subject
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Provocative
serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate
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Paradigm
- 1: a philosophical and theoretical framework of a scientific school or discipline within which theories, laws, and generalizations and the experiments performed in support of them are formulated
- 2: an outstandingly clear or typical example or archetype
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Recapitulate
- 1: to restate briefly
- 2: to repeat the principal stages or phases
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Reparation
- 1: the act of making amends, offering expiation, or giving satisfaction for a wrong or injury
- 2: something done or given as amends or satisfaction
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Resonate
- 1: a repetitive pattern that resembles resonance
- 2: to relate harmoniously
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Supercilious
coolly and patronizingly haughty
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Taxonomy
the study of the general principles of scientific classification
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Totalitarian
of or relating to centralized control by an autocratic leader or hierarchy
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Usurp
- 1: to seize and hold (as office, place, or powers) in possession by force or without right
- 2: to take or make use of without right
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