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Approbation
Expression of approval or favorable opinion;praise'official approval
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Assuage
To make easier or milder;relieve;to quiet, calm, put an end to
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Coalition
A combination, union, or merger for some specific purpose
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Decadence
Decline, decay; excessive self indulgence
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Elicit
To draw forth, bring out from some source
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Expostulate
To attempt to dissuade someone from some decision by earnst reasoning
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Hackneyed
Used so often as to lack freshness or originality
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Hiatus
A gap, opening, break
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Innuendo
A hint, inderect suggestion, or reference
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Intercede
To plead on behalf of someone else; to serve as a third party in a dissagreement
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Jaded
weary, worn out, dulled
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Lurid
causing shock, horror, or revultion, pale in color; passionate in intensity
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Meritorious
Worthy, deserving of recognition or praise
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Petulant
Peevish, annoyed by trifles, easily irritated or upset
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Prerogative
A special right or privilage; a special quality showing excellence
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Provincial
Pertaining to an outlying area;local; narrow in mind; simple plan ormind originating in the countryside; person from an outlying area
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Simulate
To make a pretence of; imitate; show the outer signs of
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Trancend
To rise above or beyond; exceed
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Umbrage
Shade cast by trees; foliage giving shade; an overshadowing influence or power; a vauge suspision
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Unctuous
excessivly smoothe or smug; trying too hard to give an impression of earnestness; sincerity; fatty, oily; pliable
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Ameliorate
To improve, make better, correct
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Aplomb
Poise, assurance, great self confidence
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Bombastic
pompous or overblown in language, full of high sounding words intended to conceal a lack of ideas
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Callow
without experience, immature, not developed, without feathers
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Drivel
saliva or mucus; foolish, aimless, nonsence
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Epitome
A summary, condenced account
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Exhort
To urge strongly, advise earnstly
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Ex Officio
virtue of holding a certain office
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Infringe
To violate, trasspass; go beyond recognized bounds
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Ingratitate
To make ones self agreeable to gain favor with others
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Interloper
One who moves where he or she is not wanted; an intruder
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Intrinsic
Belonging to someone by its very nature; Originating in a body part
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Inveigh
To make a violent attack in words, express strong disaproval
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Lassitude
Wearyness of the body or mind; lack of energy
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Millenium
1000 years, a period of great joy
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Occult
Mysterious, magical, secret, undetectable, hidden
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Permeate
To spread through, penetrate, soak through
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Precipitate
To fall as moisture, bring about suddenly, hurl down from a great height; excessive haste
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Stringent
Strict, severe, sharp or bitter to taste
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Surmise
To think w/o evidence, guess; a likely idea lacking definite proof
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Abominate
To have an intense dislike or hatred for
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Acculturation
The modification of social patters, traits, or structures of one group or society with another
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adventitious
Accidental, resulting from chance; aquired
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Ascribe
To assign or refer to, attribute
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Circuitous
roundabout, not direct
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Commiserate
To sympathize with, have a feeling of pity or sorrow
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Enjoin
To direct or order; to prescribe a course of action; to prohibit
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Expedite
To make easy, faster
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Expiate
TO make amends, make up for, avert
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Ferment
A state of great excitement; to produce alchohol
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Inadvertent
Resulting from or marked by lack of attention
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Nominal
Existing only in name; to small to be considered or taken seriously
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Noncommittal
Not decisice or definite, unwilling to take a clear position or to say yes or no
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Peculate
To steal something that has been given into ones trust
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Proclivity
A natural or habitual tendancy
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Sangfroid
Composure or coolness, especially in trying circumstances
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Sedituous
resistant to lawful athority, having the purpose of overthrowing an established government
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Tenuous
thin, slender, not dense; lacking clarity or sharpness; of slight importance; poorly supported
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Vitriolic
Bitter, sarcastic; highly biting like an acid
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Wheedle
To use coaxing or flattery to gain some desired end
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