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Adept
Adjective: Very skilled or proficient at something.
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Astute
Having or showing an ability to accurately assess situations or people and turn this to one's advantage: "an astute businessman"
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Quotidian
Of or occurring every day; daily; Ordinary or everyday, esp. when mundane.
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Recalcitrant
Having an obstinately uncooperative attitude toward authority.
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Amorphous
Without a clearly defined shape or form; Vague; ill-organized; unclassifiable.
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Calumnious
calumniatory: (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign.
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Maladroit
Adjective: Ineffective or bungling; clumsy.
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Dessicant
A hygroscopic substance used as a drying agent.
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Tyro
A beginner or novice.
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Demagogue
A political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular desires and prejudices rather than by using rational argument
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Filigree
Delicate and intricate ornamental work made from gold, silver, or other fine twisted wire. 2. a. An intricate, delicate, or fanciful ornamentation
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Tautology
The saying of the same thing twice in different words, generally considered to be a fault of style (e.g., they arrived one after the other in succession); A statement that is true by necessity or by virtue of its logical form.
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Quandary
Perplexity or uncertainty over what to do in a difficult situation: "Jim is in aquandary
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Peregrination
traveling or wandering around
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Prestidigitation
Magic tricks performed as entertainment
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Peroration
The concluding part of a speech, typically intended to inspire enthusiasm in the audience.
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Mercurial
(of a person) Subject to sudden or unpredictable changes; A drug or other compound containing mercury
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Pernicious
Having a harmful effect, esp. in a gradual or subtle way
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Prescient
Having or showing knowledge of events before they take place.
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Puerile
Childishly silly and trivial.
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Intransigence
intransigency: the trait of being intransigent; stubbornly refusing to compromise
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Etiolated
(of a plant) Pale and drawn out due to a lack of light.; Having lost vigor or substance; feeble.
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Sidereal
Of or with respect to the stars (i.e., the fixed stars, not the sun or planets).
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Circumscribe
draw a line around; "He drew a circle around the points".
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Prodigous
Remarkably or impressively great in extent, size, or degree.
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Profligate
Recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources.
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Stolidity
emotionlessness: apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions
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Execrable
Extremely bad or unpleasant
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Laconic
(of a person, speech, or style of writing) Using very few words.
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Apocryphal
(of a story or statement) Of doubtful authenticity, although widely circulated as being true.
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