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abjure
- to
- renounce under oath; to abandon forever; to abstain from
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blasphemous
- cursing,
- profane; extremely irreverent
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censorious
- critical;
- tending to blame and condemn
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constituent
- component,
- part; citizen, voter
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deride
- to
- laugh at contemptuously, to make fun of
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enjoin
- to
- direct or impose with urgent appeal, to order with emphasis; to forbid
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febrile
- feverish,
- marked by intense emotion or activity
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interregnum
- a
- temporary halting of the usual operations of government or control
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milieu
- the
- physical or social setting in which something occurs or develops, environment
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obdurate
- stubbornly
- persistent, resistant to persuasion
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panegyric
- elaborate
- praise; formal hymn of praise
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pique
- to
- arouse anger or resentment in; provoke
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proliferate
- to
- grow by rapid production of new parts; increase in number
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saccharine
- excessively
- sweet or sentimental
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specious
- having
- the ring of truth but actually being untrue; deceptively attractive
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uncanny
- so
- keen and perceptive as to seem supernatural, peculiarly unsettling
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