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banal
trite; lacking originality, obvious and boring
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rudimentary
basic; primitive, elementary
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timorous
mousy; fearful; meek
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sanguine
cheerful; optimistic
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fortuitous
accidental; chance unforeseen
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ennui
weariness; boredom, lethargic
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mendacity
lies; untruthful, deceit
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misfeasance
wrongful performance of a lawful act; the act of performing a legal action, but in an improper way. The following are examples of misfeasance occurrences:
- A public official hires his sister without realizing hiring family members is illegal.
- A lawyer has an incorrect deadline, and files important legal documents past the deadline’s actual date.
- An accountant makes an unintentional error on his client’s tax return.
- A business executive willfully ignores company policy and decides to try and take a short cut to save time and resources.
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ultra vires
without or beyond authority
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vicissitudes
- changing fortunes; the quality or state of being changeable : MUTABILITY
- b : natural change or mutation visible in nature or in human affairs
- 2a : a favorable or unfavorable event or situation that occurs by chance : a fluctuation of state or condition
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dilettante
an amateur, a dabbler
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obviate
- prevent; remove (a need or difficulty).
- "the Venetian blinds obviated the need for curtains"
- synonyms: preclude, prevent, remove, get rid of, do away with, get around, rule out, eliminate, make/render unnecessary
- "our latest agreement obviates any further discussion of the matter"
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a fortiori
with greater force
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nuncupative
verbal; oral; as in an orally or spoken will.
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sui generis
unique; one of a kind
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nefarious
criminal; sinister
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tenancy by the entirety
husband and wife
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ab initio
from the beginning
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existential
affirming existence; empirical
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hypothecate
pledge as security for debt
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non sequitur
illogical, does not follow
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obdurate
hardened in wrong doing
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ensconced
to settle; to place or conceal in a secure place
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elocution
oratory; the skill of clear and expressive speech
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empathy
identifying with and understanding another’s situation
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worthy of being copied
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compendium
syllabus, summary
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compunction
- guilty uneasiness; a feeling of guilt or moral scruple that prevents or follows the doing of something bad.
- "spend the money without compunction"
- synonyms: scruples, misgivings, qualms, worries, unease, uneasiness, doubts, reluctance, reservations
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comport
carry in a particular manner; carry oneself
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egregious
- monumentally bad; outstandingly bad; shocking.
- "egregious abuses of copyright"
- synonyms: shocking, appalling, terrible, awful, horrendous, frightful, atrocious, abominable, abhorrent, outrageous
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commodious
spacious, roomy
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malfeasance
performance of an unlawful act/ evil wrongdoing
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morass
quagmire; an area of muddy or boggy ground
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corpus delecti
essence of the crime
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raze
- demolish to ground level; completely destroy (a building, town, or other site).
- "villages were razed to the ground"
- synonyms: destroy, demolish, raze to the ground, tear down, pull down, knock down, level, flatten, bulldoze, wipe out, lay waste
- "the old library will be razed on Saturday"
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appellation
designation; name
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empirical
derived from observation
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filial
of a son or daughter
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rapacious
marauding, predatory
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jettison
discard, throw overboard
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onerous
oppressive, burdensome
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opprobrium
disgrace, reproach
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encomium
formal expression of praise
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nebulous
- vague; (of a concept or idea) unclear, vague, or ill-defined.
- "nebulous concepts like quality of life"
- synonyms: vague, ill-defined, unclear, hazy, uncertain, indefinite, indeterminate, imprecise, unformed, muddled, confused, ambiguous
- "nebulous ideas"
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millennium
future perfection in the world
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umbrage
offense, resentment
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prodigious
extraordinary, huge; remarkably or impressively great in extent, size, or degree.
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capricious
sudden, illogical change of mood or behavior
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temporal
worldly, nonspiritual
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videlicet
that is to say, namely
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sua sponte
voluntarily; on his own motion
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in pari delicto
in equal fault
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sui juris
in his own right
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pur autre vie
for (during) the life of another
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onus probandi
burden of proof
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sui generic
of its own kind or class
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ore tenus
by word of mouth, verbally; oral testimony
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somnambulist
sleep walker
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ebullient
bubbly, effervescent
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stentorian
exceptionally loud
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diaphanous
transparent; 1: characterized by such fineness of texture as to permit seeing through diaphanous fabrics a diaphanous curtain. 2 : characterized by extreme delicacy of form : ethereal painted diaphanous landscapes.
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dilettante
an amateur, a dabbler
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soporific
causing drowsiness
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didactic
- instructive, contains lessons; intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive.
- "a didactic novel that set out to expose social injustice"
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specious
misleading, incorrect
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reticent
- inclined to silence; not revealing one's thoughts or feelings readily.
- "she was extremely reticent about her personal affairs"
- synonyms: reserved, withdrawn, introverted, inhibited, diffident, shy
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