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Ameliorate
- to improve, make better, correct a flaw or shortcoming
- ament, better
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Aplomb
- poise, assurance, great self-confidence, perpendicularity
- composure, self posession, levelheadedness
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Bombastic
- pompous or overblown in language, full of high-sounding words intended to conceal a lack of ideas
- inflated, high falutin, high-flown, pretentious
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Callow
- without experience, immature, not fully developed; lacking sophistication and poise; without feathers
- green, raw, unfledged, inexperienced, novice
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Drivel
- foolish, aimless talk or thinking; nonsense
- verb version: to utter nonsense or childish twaddle, to waste or fritter away foolishly
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Epitome
- a summary, condesed account; and instance that represents a larger reality
- abstract, digest, model
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Exhort
- to urge strongly, advise earnestly
- entreat, implore, encourage
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Ex Officio
- by virtue of holding a certian office
- ex: Vice President: by holding office of vice president, he is also in charge of the senate
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Infringe
- to violate, trespass, go beyond recognized bounds
- intrude, poach, steal
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Ingratiate
- to make oneself agreeable and thus gain favor or acceptance by others (sometimes used in critical or derogatory sense)
- ex: teacher's pets ingratiate
- cozy up to, curry favor with
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Interloper
- one who moves in where they are not wanted or has no right to be, an intruder
- trespasser, meddler, buttinsky
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Intrinsic
- belonging to someone or something by its very nature, essential, inherent; originating in a bodily organ or part
- immanent, organic
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Inveigh
- to make a violent attack in words, express strong dissaproval
- rail, harangue, fulminate, remonstrate
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Lassitude
- weariness of body or mind, lack of energy
- fatigue, lethargy
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millennium (plural: millennia)
- a period of one thousand years; a period of great joy
- chiliad, golden age, peace
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Occult
- Adj version: mysterious, magical, supernatural; secret, hidden from view, not detectable by ordinary means
- Noun version: matters involving the supernatural
- Verb version: to hide, conceal, eclipse
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Permeate
to spread through, penetrate, soak through
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Precipitate
- Verb version: to fall as moisture, do cause or bring about suddenlyl; to hurl down from a great height; to give distinct form to
- Adjective version: characterized by excessive haste
- Noun Version: moisture; the product of an action or process
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Stringent
- strict, severe; rigorously or urgently binding or compelling; sharp or bitter to the taste
- stern, tough
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Surmise
- Verb Version: to think or believe without certian proof or supporting evidence, to conjecture or guess
- infer, gather
- Noun Version: likely idea that lacks or doesnt have definate proof
- inference, presumption
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