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acolyte
noun
somone who assists a priest or minister
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bibulous
adj
given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol
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coalesce
verb
fuse or cause to grow together
mix together different elements
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covert
adj
hidden
noun
a covering used to hide something
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declaim
- verb
- to speak against, protest
recite
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delineate
verb
- to describe in great detail
- trace shape of
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demagogue
- noun
- a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions and prejudices
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ecomium
a formal expression of praise
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obdurate
- adj
- stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing
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prescience
- noun
- the powere to foresee the future
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protagonist
- noun
- main person in a novel
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sedulous
- adj
- marked by care and persistent effort, diligent
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trechant
- adj
- characterized by of full of force and vigor
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utopia
- noun
- a perfect state, in its moral, political and social aspects
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valedictory
- noun
- a speech said at graduation
- adj
- of relating to an occasion or expression of farewell
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adumbrate
- verb
- give to understand, hint
describe roughly or briefly
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apothegm
- noun
- a short pithy instructive saying
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aspersion
an abusive attack on a person's character or good name
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coadjutor
- noun
- an assistant to a bishop
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congential
- adj
- present at birth, but not necessarily hereditary
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elan
- noun
- enthusiastic and lively
- strong eagerness
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germane
- adj
- relevant and appropriate
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hiatus
- noun
- a missing piece
- a natural opening
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ineluctable
- adj
- impossible to avoid and evade
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internecine
- adj
- characterized by bloodshed and carnage
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invoke
summon to action
request ernestly
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quadrennial
- adj
- occuring every four years
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amalgam
- noun
- a combination or blend of different things
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apothecary
- noun
- someone who is trained in preparing drugs
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ascetic
- noun
- someone who practices self denial
- adj
- practicing self denial
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beneficent
- adj
- doing or producing good
- generous in assistance to the poor
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charlatan
- noun
- one who attracts customers with tricks and joke
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denizen
- noun
- a plant that grows in a certain area
- person who inhabits a particular place
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doyen
- noun
- a person who is the senior member of the group
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flora
- noun
- all the plant life in a particular region or period
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nostrum
- noun
- a medicine whose effective is not sure yet
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obviate
- verb
- to get rid of
- prevent from happenning
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perennial
- noun
- a plant lasting for three seasons or more
- adj
- lasting three seasons or more
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putative
- adj
- commonly accepted as true
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savant
- noun
- someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field
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benighted
- adj
- lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture
overtaken by night or darkness
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bourgeois
- noun
- member of middle class
- adj
- belonging to middle class
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credo
- noun
- any system of priciniples or beliefs
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empirical
- adj
- derviced from experiemnt and observation rather than theory
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iconoclast
- noun
- someone who attacks cherished ideas or beliefs
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indigence
- noun
- a state of extreme poverty
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laudable
adj
worthy of praise
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mandate
- noun
- a document that has a command from official
- verb
- to make mandatory
- assign authority to
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ostensible
- adj
- represented or appearing as such; pretended
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recalcitrant
- adj
- marked by stubborn resistance to authority
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regurgitate
- verb
- to feed through process of vomititing
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archaic
- adj
- little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type
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carouse
- noun
- a merry drinking party
- verb
- to engage in drunken merry making
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chicanery
- noun
- the use of tricks to deceive someone
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contentious
- adj
- likely to cause controversy
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dissemble
- verb
- behave unnaturally of affected
- make believe witht the intent to decieve
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execrate
- verb
- curse or declare to be evil
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fealty
- noun
- the loyalty that citizens owe to their country
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microcosm
- noun
- a mini model of somethin
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paroxysm
- noun
- a sudden uncontrollable attack
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pecuniary
- adj
- relating to or involving money
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rectitude
- noun
- righteousness as a consequence of being nonorable and honest
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stratagm
- noun
- an elaborate scheme to deceive or evade
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stultify
- verb
- cause to appear foolish
prove to be unsound mind
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vendetta
- noun
- a feud in which member of the oppsosing parties murder each other
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