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adulation
(n) excessive flattery
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affluence
(n) wealth, abundance
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amenable
(adj) willing to follow advice or suggestion; tractable; submissive
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celibate
(n) unmarried, especially by religious vows; abstaining from sex
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corroborate
(v) to confirm
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duplicity
(n) deceitfulness
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exemplary
(adj) serving as a model
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fetid
(adj) stinking; having an offensive smell
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indigent
(adj) poverty-stricken
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maniacal
(adj) characterized by madness
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pugnacious
(adj) eager and ready to fight; quarrelsome
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scoff
(v) to mock or jeer at; to make fun of
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travesty
(n) exaggerated imitation intended to ridicule
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unctuous
(adj) oily or slippery; insincerely earnest
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zany
(adj) clownish; foolish; funny; absurd
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anathema
(n) curse; denunciation; someone who is cursed, reviled, or shunned
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anomaly
(n) deviation from the common rule; abnormality
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castigate
(v) to punish, to criticize severely
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despot
(n) a monarch with unlimited power
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expunge
(v) to erase; to remove completely
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ingratiate
(v) to make oneself acceptable
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insouciant
(adj) carefree, or indifferent; lacking concern
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misanthropy
(n) hatred of mankind
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plethora
(n) overabundance; excess
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risqué
(adj) suggesting something indecent
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sagacious
(adj) very wise or shrewd
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squalid
(adj) dirty or wretched in appearance; morally repulsive; sordid
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subversion
(n) to undermine with the intention to overthrow
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vicissitude
(n) natural change or alternation; mutability
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voluble
(adj) fluent; garrulous
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