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adumbrate
(verb)
to foreshadow vaguely or intimate; to suggest or outline sketchily; to obscure or overshadow
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anathema
(noun)
a solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing
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apogee
(noun)
farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith
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apotheosis
(noun)
deification, glorification to godliness, an exalted example, a model of excellence or perfection
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asperity
(noun)
severity, rigor; roughness, harshness; acrimony, irritability
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asseverate
(verb)
to aver, allege, assert
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assiduous
(adj)
diligent, hard-working, sedulous
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bellicose
(adj)
belligerant, pugnacious, warlike
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captious
(adj)
disposed to point out trivial faults, calculated to confuse or entrap in argument
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cavil
(verb)
to find fault without good reason
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celerity
(noun)
speed, alacrity; think accelerate
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chimera
(noun)
an illusion; originally, an imaginary fire-breathing she-monster
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debacle
(noun)
tout, fiasco, complete failure: My first attempt at a souffle was a total debacle.
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denouement
(noun)
an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot
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descry
(verb)
to discriminate or discern
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desuetude
(noun)
disuse: After years of desuetude, my French skills were finally put to use.
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dirge
(noun)
a song of grief or lamentation: We listened to te slow, funereal dirge.
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excoriate
(verb)
to censure scathingly, to upbraid
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execrate
(verb)
denounce, feel loathing for, curse, declare to be evil
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exegesis
(noun)
critical examination, explication
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expiate
(verb)
to atone or make amends for: Pia Zadora has expiated her movie career by good works and charity.
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extirpate
(verb)
to destroy. exterminate, cut out, exscind
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gainsay
(verb)
to deny, dispute, contradict, oppose
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heterodox
(adj)
unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic
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imbroglio
(noun)
difficult or embarassing situation
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indefatigable
(adj)
not easily exhaustible; tireless, dogged
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ineluctable
(adj)
certain, inevitable
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inimitable
(adj)
one of a kind, peerless
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insouciant
(adj)
unconcerned, carefree, heedless
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inveterate
(adj)
deep rooted, ingrained, habitual
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jejune
(adj)
vapid, uninteresting, nugatory; childish, immature, puerile
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lubricious
(adj)
lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery
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minatory
(adj)
menacing, threatening (reminds you of the Minotaur, a threatening creature indeed)
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nonplussed
(adj)
baffled, bewildered, at a loss for what to do or think
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obstreperous
(adj)
noisily and stubbornly defiant, aggressively boisterous
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parsimonious
(adj)
cheap, miserly: A parsimonious person parses out his money with great difficulty
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pellucid
(adj)
transparent, easy to understand, limpid
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peroration
(noun)
the concluding part of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech
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plangent
(adj)
pounding, thundering, resounding
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prolix
(adj)
long-winded, verbose; prolixity means verbosity: Mikhail Gorbachev is famous for his prolixity
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puissance
(noun)
power, strength; puissant means powerful, strong: The senator delivered a puissant speech to the convention.
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remonstrate
(verb)
to protest, object
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salacious
(adj)
lustful, lascivious, bawdy
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salutary
(adj)
remedial, wholesome, causing improvement
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saturnine
(adj)
gloomy, dark, sullen, morose
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sententious
(adj)
aphoristic or moralistic; epigrammatic; tending to moralize excessively
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stygian
(adj)
gloomy, dark
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tendentious
(adj)
biased; showing marked tendencies
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timorous
(adj)
timid, fearful, diffident
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vitiate
(verb)
to corrupt, debase, spoil, make ineffective
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