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zealous (adj)
zealot
fervent; ardent; impassiononed, devoted to a cause
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viscous (adj)
viscosity (noun)
thick; sticky
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transient (adj)
fleeting; passing quickly; brief
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tirade (noun)
a long and extremely critical speech; a harsh denunciation
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tenuous (adj)
having little substance or strength; flimsy; weak
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tenacity (noun)
tenacious (adj)
the quality of adherence or persistance to something valued; persistent determination
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surfeit (noun/v)
an overabundant supply; excess; to feed or supply to excess
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superfluous (adj)
exceeding what is sufficient or necessary
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succinct (adj)
brief; concise
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subpoena (noun)
a court order requiring appearence and/or tetimony
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spurious (adj)
lacking authenticity or validity; false; cournterfeit
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specious (adj)
seeming true, but actually being fallacious; misleadingly attractive; plausible but false
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solvent (adj)
able to meet financial obligations; able to dissolve another substance
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salubrious (adj)
promoting health or wel-being
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rhetoric (noun)
the art or study of effective use of language for communication and persuasion
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reverent (adj)
reverence (noun)
marked by, feeling, or expressing a feeling of profound awe and respect
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rescind (v)
to invalidate; to repeal; to retract
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repudiate (v)
to refuse to have anything to do with; disown
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recalcitrant (adj)
obstinately defiant of authority; difficult to manage
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rancorous (adj)
rancor (noun)
characterized by bitter, long-lasting resentment
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querulous (adj)
prone to complaining or grumbling; peevish
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queries (noun)
questions; inquiries; doubts in the mind; reservations
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proliferate (v)
to grow or increase swiftly and abundantly
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profuse (adj)
given or coming forth abundantly; extravagent
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prodigal (adj)
recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish
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polemical (adj)
controversial; argumentative
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plummet (v)
to plunge or drip straight down
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platitude (noun)
a superficial remark, esp. one offered as meaningful
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placate (v)
to appease; to calm by making concessions
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pithy (adj)
precise and brief
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pith (noun)
the essential or central part
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pirate (v)
to illegaly use or reproduce
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pine (v)
to yearn intensely; to languish; to lose vigor
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pervasive (adj)
having the tendency to permeate or spread throughout
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penury (noun)
poverty; destitution
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pedantic (adj)
overly concerned with the trivial details of learning or education; show offish above one's knowledge
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pedagogy (noun)
the profession or principles of teaching, or instructing
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opprobrium (noun)
disgrace; contempt; scorn
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occlude (v)
to obstruct or block
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obsequious (adj)
exhibiting a fawning attentiveness
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obduvate (adj)
unyielding; hardhearted; intractable
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mitigate (v)
to make or become less severe or intense; to moderate
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misanthrope (noun)
misanthropic (adj)
one who hate all other humans
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meticulous (adj)
characterized by extreme care and precision; attentive to detail
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mendacity (noun)
mendacious (adj)
the condition of being untruthful; dishonesty
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malleable (adj)
capable of being shaped or formed; tractable; pliable
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malevolent (adj)
malevolence (noun)
having or showing often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred
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luminous (adj)
characterized by brightness and the emission of light
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loquacious (adj)
loquacity (noun)
extremely talkative
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insipid (adj)
without taste or flavor; lacking in spirit; bland
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infelicitous (adj)
unforunate; inappropriate
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inchoate (adj)
in an initial stage; not fully formed
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impunity (noun)
immunity from punishment or penalty
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implacable (adj)
not capable of being appeased or significantly changed
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imperturbable (adj)
marked by extreme calm, impassivity and steadiness
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impassive (adj)
revealing no emotion
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idolatrous (adj)
idolatry (noun)
given to intense or excessive devotion to something
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iconoclast (noun)
one who attacks or undermines traditional conventions or institutions
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hegemony (noun)
the consistent dominance of one state or idealogy over others
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hedonism (noun)
hedonist
devotion to pleasureable pursuits, esp. to the pleasures of the senses
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halcyon (adj)
calm and peaceful
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hackneyed (adj)
rendered trite or commonplace by frequent usage
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grandiloquence (noun)
grandiloquent (adj)
pompous speech or expression
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germane (adj)
relevant to the subject at hand; appropriate in subject matter
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fortuitous (adj)
happening by accident or change
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fervent (adj)
fervor (noun)
greatly emotional or zealous
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exacerbate (v)
to make worse or more severe
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evanescent (adj)
tending to disappear like vapor; vanishing
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endemic (adj)
characteristic of or often found in a particular locality, region, or people
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eccentric (adj)
departing from norms or conventions
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dissemble (v)
to disquise or conceal; to mislead
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diatribe (noun)
a harsh denuciation
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bombastic (adj)
bombast (noun)
pompous; grondiloquent
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bolster (v)
to provide support or reinforcement
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aver (v)
to state as a fact; to declare or assert
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archaic (adj)
outdated; associated with an earlier, perhaps more primitive, time
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amalgamate (v)
amalgamation (noun)
to combine several elements into a whole
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adulterate (v)
to reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients
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acumen (noun)
keen, accurate judgment or insight
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