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Ignominy
- deep personal humiliation and disgrace
- disgraceful or dishonorable conduct, quality, or action
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Haughty
blatantly and disdainfully proud
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Inauspicious
- not showing or suggesting that future success is likely
- not attended by good fortune, not prosperous
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Indubitably
- too evident to be doubted
- unquestionable
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Anathema
- 1a : one that is cursed by ecclesiastical authority
- b : someone or something intensely disliked or loathed
- 2a : a ban or curse solemnly pronounced by ecclesiastical authority and accompanied by excommunication
- b : the denunciation of something as accursed
- c : a vigorous denunciation : curse
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Celerity
rapidity of motion or action
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Remonstrance
- an earnest presentation of reasons for opposition or grievance
- a document formally stating such points
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Edifice
- building
- a large or massive structure
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Halcyon
- of or relating to the halcyon or its nesting (bird)
- calm, peaceful
- happy, golden
- prosperous, affluent
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Histrionic
- deliberately affected, theatrical
- of or relating to actors, acting, or the theater
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Incendiary
- a person who commits arson, arsonist
- a substance or weapon (as a bomb) used to start fires
- a person who excites factions, quarrels, or sedition :agitator
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Maelstrom
- a powerful often violent whirlpool sucking in objects within a given radius
- something resembling a maelstrom in turbulence
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Myopic
- a condition in which the visual images come to a focus in front of the retina of the eye resulting especially in defective vision of distant objects
- a lack of foresight or discernment, a narrow view of something
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Phantasmagoric
- an exhibition of optical effects and illusions
- a constantly shifting complex succession of things seen or imagined
- a scene that constantly changes
- a bizarre or fantastic combination, collection, or assemblage
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Pejorative
- a word or phrase that has negative connotations or that is intended to disparage or belittle
- having negative connotations; especially
- tending todisparage or belittle
- depreciatory
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Propreity
- obsolete : true nature
- obsolete : a special characteristic, peculiarity
- the quality or state of being proper or suitable, appropriateness
- conformity to what is socially acceptable in conduct or speech
- fear of offending against conventional rules of behavior especially between the sexes
- the customs and manners of polite society
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Sacrilege
- a technical and not necessarily intrinsically outrageous violation (as improper reception of a sacrament) of what is sacred because consecrated to God
- gross irreverence toward a hallowed person, place, or thing
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Summarily
- comprehensive, covering the main points succinctly
- done without delay or formality, quickly executed
- of, relating to, or using a summary proceeding
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Suppliant
humbly imploring, entreating
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Talisman
- an object held to act as a charm to avert evil and bring good fortune
- something producing apparently magical or miraculous effects
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Ponderous
- of very great weight
- unwieldy or clumsy because of weight and size
- oppressively or unpleasantly dull, lifeless
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