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Adamant
Any substance with exceeding hardness
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Alcove
A covered recess connected with or at the side of a larger room
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Animadversion
Censure, criticism
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Apostate
False
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Approbation
Official approval, sanction
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Arboreal
Of or pertaining to trees
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Argot
A specialized vocabulary peculiar to a particular group
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Asperity
Roughness of temper
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Astringent
Harsh in disposition or character
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Auspicious
Favorable omen
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Autocrat
Absolute ruler with infinite power
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Baleful
Harmful, malignant
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Beatfiy
To make supremely happy
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Bedaub
To smear over, as with something oily or sticky
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Bellicose
Agressive, warlike
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Blandishment
Flattery intended to persuade
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Blatant
Offensively loud, clamorous
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Bombast
Inflated or extravagant language, especially on unimportant subjects
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Broach
To bring up a topic
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Cabal
A number of people united for their private purpose.
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cajole
To persuade by flattering
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Callow
Young and inexperienced, fledgling
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Cant
To talk in a whining or singsong tone
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Captious
Hypercritical, tending to find faults
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Centurion
The leader of 100 soldiers (ancient Rome)
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Chagrin
Embarrassment, vexation
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Circumlocution
Indirect expression
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Coddle
To treat tenderly as a baby, pamper
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Coeval
Of the same period; contemporary
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Cogitate
Consider carefully and deeply, ponder
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Colloquial
Informal speech
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Collusion
A secret agreement for a wrongful purpose
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Commemorate
To serve as a remembrance of
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Comport
To behave properly
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Compunction
Remorseful feeling
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Conflagration
A great, uncontrolled fire
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Confluence
The place where 2 bodies of water meet
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Consummate
To bring to completion
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Contiguous
Connected; touching at boundary
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Cornucopia
The horn of plenty, symbolizing prosperity
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Corporeal
Of a material nature; physical
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Countervail
To offset, compensate for
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Curtail
To cut short, truncate
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Cynosure
A center of attention
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Deign
To deem worthy of notice
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Denouement
The conclusion or resolution of a plot
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Deposition
Testimony legally taken on interrogatories and reduced to writing, for use as evidence in court
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Deprecate
To express strong disapproval of, deplore
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Descry
To discern, detect
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Desuetude
A state of disuse or inactivity
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Disallow
To refuse to allow
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Discomfort
To confuse, disconcert
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Disconcert
To disturb the composure of, discomfit
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Disconsolate
Inconsolable
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Discountenance
To look upon with disfavor
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Edacious
Having an insatiable appetite; voracious, ravenous, piggish
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Educe
To bring out, elicit, deduce
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Egregious
Conspicuously bad
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Emblazon
To praise, extol
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Entreat
To ask for or request earnestly
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Epicurean
Devoted to pleasure, hedonic
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Epithet
An adjective phrase attached to the name of a person or thing
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Equable
Not varying; serene
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Errant
Roving or wandering, as in search of adventure
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Evince
To express, manifest
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Expatiate
To speak or write in great detail
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Expostulate
To reason earnestly with someone against something that person intends to do or has done, remonstrate
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Expropriate
To deprive of possession, confiscate
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Extempore
Without prior preparation
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Extenuate
To diminish the importance of
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Factious
Dissenting, discordant
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Finesse
Subtly skillful handling of a situation
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Flippant
Lacking respect or seriousness, showing levity; pert
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Flout
To treat with contempt, scoff, scorn
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Foible
A flaw; idiosyncrasy
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Foppish
Like a fop, a man overly concerned with his appearance, dandified
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Forswear
To renounce or deny something under oath
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Fugacious
Fleeting, ephemeral
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Fulminate
To cause to explode; criticize severely
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Fulsome
Offensively and excessively flattering, unctuous
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Gainsay
To contradict, deny
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Gamut
A complete range or extent
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Gesticulate
To express through gestures
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Gossamer
Something extremely light, flimsy, or delicate
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Harbringer
Something that precedes and indicates the approach of something
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Hoodwink
To deceive, bamboozle
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Ignoble
Not noble, plebeian, common
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Imbroglio
A misunderstanding of bitter nature
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Impecunious
Having no money
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Imperious
Domineering in a haughty manner
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Importunate
Pressing, urgent
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Importune
To harass with persistent demands
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Impugn
To verbally assault
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Inane
Silly, asinine, fatuous
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Inchoate
Incipient, beginning
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Inculcate
To teach by frequent repetitions
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Indelible
Cannot be removed or erased
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Indomitable
Impossible to subdue
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Inexorable
Unable to be persuaded
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Inscrutable
Impossible to comprehend
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Interdict
Authoritative act of prohibition
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Introspection
The contemplation of your own thoughts
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Invalid
One who is disabled by illness or injury
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Inveigh
To utter vehement censure or invective
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Irksome
Tedious, wearisome
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Junta
A group ruling a country, esp. immediately after a coup
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Lackadaisical
Lacking vigor, listless, lethargic
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Lascivious
Driven by lust
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Libel
Defamation, calumny, vilification, slander
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Licentious
Immoral, wanton
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Lugubrious
Excessively mournful
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Malaise
A physical discomfort
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Mellifluous
Sweet-sounding
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Meretricious
Showy, gaudy, tawdry
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Microcosm
A miniature of the world
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Mien
A person's manner or appearance
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Miscreant
Reprobate, villian
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Molt
To cast off, as hair, feathers, etc
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Mordant
Biting, caustic, acerbic
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Noisome
Offensive, as an odor; noxious
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Quack
Medically unqualified, charlatan
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Nostrum
panacea, quack medicine
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Nugatory
Trifling, trivial, worthless
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Obstreperous
Noisy, clamorous, boisterous
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Obtrude
To push (oneself, one's opinions, etc) on others in an unwelcome way
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Odious
Hateful, abominable
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Ominous
Exhibiting bad omen, portentous
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Onus
Onerous task, burden
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Opprobrium
Reproach or censure
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Palate
The roof of the mouth
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Palatial
Resembling a palace, magnificent
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Palpable
Capable of being perceived, especially by touch
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Panoply
A complete set of armor
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Paroxysm
A sudden outburst of any kind of activity
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Penurious
Parsimonious, excessively unwilling to spend
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Peremptory
Precluding question or appeal, dictatorial
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Persiflage
Banter, friendly teasing
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Physiognomy
The external appearance, especially the face
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Platitude
A trite or obvious remark
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Plumb
A weight suspended by a line to test the verticality of something
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Poignant
Keenly distressing to the feelings
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Ponderous
Of great weight, massive
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Portend
Foretell, augur, forebode
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Precarious
Dangerous; perilous
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Precocious
Unusually advanced or mature in development, esp. mental development
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Prescience
Knowledge of things before they exist or happen; foreknowledge; foresight
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Preternatural
Extraordinary
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Probity
Uprightness, rectitude
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Proclivity
Natural inclination, propensity, predisposition
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Prodigious
Immense, colossal
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Profligate
Shamelessly immoral or debauched
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Propitious
Favorable, auspicious
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Protuberant
Bulging, protruding
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Prudent
Careful, provident
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Pugnacious
Quarrelsome, belligerent
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Punctilious
Attentive to detail, meticulous
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Pusillanimous
Timid, cowardly
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Pyre
A heap of combustibles arranged for burning a dead body
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Qualm
A sudden feeling of sickness or nausea
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Quandary
A predicament, dilemma
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Ramify
To divide into branches
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Rapacious
Voracious, avaricious, given to taking by force
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Reactionary
Conservative, opposing political change
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Rebuff
A peremptory refusal of a request
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Recrudescent
Breaking out again, recurring
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Refractory
Impossible to control
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Regicide
The killing of a king
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Retinue
The group of people who accompany an important person during travels, suite
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Risible
Capable of causing laughter, ludicrous
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Ruffian
A tough, lawless person, roughneck, bully
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Salacious
Lustful, lecherous, lewd, wanton, lascivious, libidinous
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Satyr
A lascivious man, lecher
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Scabbard
The sheath of a sword
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Scintilla
A trace or spark
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Sedulous
Persevering, assiduous, diligent
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Somniferous
Soporific, sleep inducing
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Sophistry
An argument that seems plausible, but is fallacious or misleading
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Sordid
Filthy, morally degraded
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Spurious
Not genuine, specious
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Stanch
To stop the flow of
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Subterfuge
Deception used to evade something
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Sumptuous
Rich and costly
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Supercilious
Displaying arrogant pride
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Supersede
To displace, supplant
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Supplicate
To plead, implore, crave, solicit, beseech
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Sybarite
A luxurious person, voluptuary
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Taut
Tightly stretched, tense
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Temerity
Audacity, effrontery, foolhardiness
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Travail
Hard or agonizing labor, toil
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Trenchant
Biting, caustic
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Turbid
In a state of turmoil, muddled
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Tyro
A neophyte, beginner
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Vagary
A sudden desire or action
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Vainglory
Excessive elation or pride over one's own achievements, boastful vanity
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Valorous
Valient, courageous
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Vapid
Insipid, flavorless
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Venal
Mercenary, corruptible
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Venial
Able to be forgiven or pardoned, minor
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Verbiage
Verbosity, prolixity
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Virago
A noisy or scolding or domineering woman, amazon
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Virtu
Rare, beutiful quality
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Vituperate
To censure, vilify, berate
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Vivify
To give life to, animate
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Voluble
Glib, garrulous, loquacious
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Zeitgeist
The spirit of the time
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Epicure
A connoisseur, gourmet; voluptuary
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Carouse
To revel, regale, delight
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Constellation
A group or configuration
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Cider
A beverage made from apple juice
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Entrench
To settle, ensconce; trespass, infringe, encroach
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Delimit
To demarcate, outline, delineate, delimitate, subtend
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Covetous
Envious; greedy, rapacious, avaricious
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Conviction
A firm belief; a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case
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Dawdle
To waste time; idle; trifle; loiter
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Squalor
Sordidness, poverty
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Pestilent
Harmful, pernicious; likely to cause an epidemic disease
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Botany
The study of plants
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