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alacrity
eager and enthusiastic willingness
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approbation
an expression of approval or praise
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capricious
inclined to change one's mind impulsively; erratic, unpredictable
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effrontry
extreme boldness; presumptuousness
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equivocate
to use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent
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erudite
very learned; scholarly
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exigent
urgent, pressing; requiring immediate action or attention
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fulminate
to loudly attack or denounce
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ingenuous
artless; frank and candid; lacking in sophistication
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inured
accustomed to accepting something undesirable
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irascible
easily angered; prone to tempramental outbursts
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obviate
to anticipate and make unnecessary
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paean
a song or hymn of praise and thanksgiving
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perfidy
intentional breach of faith; treachery
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perspicacious
acutely perceptive; having keen discernment
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prescience
foreknowledge of events; knowing of events prior to their occurring
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prevaricate
to deliberately avoid the truth; to mislead
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solicitous
concerned and attentive; eager
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truculent
fierce and cruel; eager to fight
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veracity
truthfulness, honesty
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chary
wary; cautious; sparing
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cogent
appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing
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contrite
regretful; penitent; seeking forgiveness
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demur
to question or oppose
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didactic
intended to instruct or teach
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emollient
soothing; making less harsh; molifying
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facetious
playful; humorous
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impecunious
lacking funds; without money
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intransigent
refusing to compromise
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inveigle
to obtain by deception or flattery
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penurious
penny-pinching; thrifty
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peruse
to examine with great care
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prodigous
abundant in size, force, extent
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quiescence
stillness; motionlessness; quality of being at rest
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redoubtable
awe-inspiring; worthy of honor
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torpid
lethargic; sluggish; dormant
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urbane
sophisticated; refined; elegant
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aver
to state as fact; declare, assert
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bombastic
pompous, grandiloquent
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germane
relevant to the subject at hand; appropriate in subject matter
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hackneyed
rendered trite or commonplace by frequent usage
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inchoate
in an initial stage; not fully formed
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infelicitous
unfortunate; inappropriate
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mendacity
the condition of being untruthful; dishonesty
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obdurate
unyielding; hardhearted; intractable
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obsequious
exhibiting a fawning attentiveness
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opprobrium
disgrace; contempt; scorn
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penury
poverty; destitution
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platitude
a superficial remark, esp. one offered as meaningful
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rancorous
characterized by bitter, long-lasting resentment
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recalcitrant
obstinately defiant of authority; difficult to manage
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salubrious
promoting health or well-being
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specious
seeming true, but actually being fallacious; misleadingly attrative; plausible but false
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credulous
tending to believe too readily; gullible
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dilettante
one with an amateurish or superficial interest in the arts or a branch of knowledge
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garrulous
pointlessly talkative
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intractible
not easily managed or directed; stubborn; obstinate
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laconic
using few words; terse
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probity
adherence to highest principles; complete and confirmed integrity; uprightness
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profligate
excessively wasteful; recklessly extravagant
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recondite
hidden, concealed; difficult to understand; obscure
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refulgent
radiant; shiny; brilliant
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sedulous
diligent; persistant; hard-working
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spendthrift
one who spends money wastefully
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trenchant
sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating
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vituperate
to use harsh condemnatory langugae; to abuse or censure severly or abtrusively; to berate
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brook
to tolerate, endure, countenance
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chauvinist
a blindly devoted patriot
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die
a tool used for shaping
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essay
to test or try, attempt, experiment
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abjure
to renounce/reject solemnly; recant
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adumbrate
to foreshadow vaguely or intimate; to suggest or outline sketchily
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anathema
a solmen or ecclesiastical curse
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anodyne
soothing; assuages or allays pain
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apotheosis
deification; glorification to godliness; an exalted example, model of perfection
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asperity
severity; rigor; roughness; harshness
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asseverate
to aver, allege, assert
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calumniate
to slander, male false accusation
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captious
disposed to point out trivial faults; calculated to confuse or entrap in argument
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cavil
to find fault without good reason
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celerity
speed, alacrity (think accelerate)
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contumacious
insubordinate, rebellious
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diaphanous
transparent, gauzy
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diffident
reserved, shy, unassuming; lacking in self-confidence
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encomium
glowing and enthusiastic praise; pangyric, tribute, eulogy
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excoriate
to censure scathingly; to upbraid
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exegesis
critical examination, explication
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expiate
to atone or make amends for
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gainsay
to deny, dispute, contradict, oppose
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indefatibable
not easily exhaustible, tireless, dogged
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ineluctable
certain, inevitable
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inimitable
one of a kind, peerless
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insouciant
unconcerned, carefree, heedless
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jejune
vapid, uninteresting, nugatory; childish, immature, puerile
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meretricious
cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy
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minatory
menacing, threatening
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nonplussed
baffled, bewildered, at a loss for what to do/think
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obstreperous
noisily and stubbornly defiant, aggresively boisterous
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palliate
to make something seem less serious, to gloss over, to make less severe/intense
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panegyric
formal praise, eulogy, encomium
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pellucid
transparant, easy to understand
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peroration
the concluding part of a speech, flowery, rhetorical
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plangent
poudning, thundering, resounding
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prolix
long-winded, verbose
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propitiate
to appease; to conciliate
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puerile
childlish, immature, jejune, nugatory
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puissance
pwoer, strength
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pusillanimous
cowardly, craven
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sagacious
having sound judgment; perceptive, wise; like a sage
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salutory
remedial, wholesome, causing improvement
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sanguine
cheerful, confident, optimistic
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saturnine
gloomy, dark, sullen, morose
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sententious
aphoristic or moralistic; epigrammatic; tending to moralize excessively
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stentorian
extremely loud and powerful
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tendentious
biased; showing marked tendencies
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tyro
novice, greenhorn, rank amateur
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vitiate
to corrupt, debase, spoil, make ineffective
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voluble
fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language
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antediluvian
made, evolved, or developed a long time ago
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superannuation
to make, declare, or prove obsolete or out-of-date
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laudable
worthy of praise
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pedant
one who makes a show of knowledge; one who is unimaginative or who unduly emphasizesminutiae in the presentation or use of knowledge
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capricious
impulsive; unpredictable
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acrimony
harsh or biting sharpness especially of words, manner, or disposition
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sinecure
an office or position that requires little or no work and that usually provides an income
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gainsay
to declare to be untrue or invalid
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scurrilous
vulgar and evil
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ignominious
marked with or characterized by disgrace or shame
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supercilious
coolly and patronizingly haughty
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mellifluous
having a smooth rich flow
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recondite
hidden from sight
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punctilious
marked by or concerned about precise accordance with the details of codes or conventions
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salubrious
favorable to or promoting health or well-being
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truculent
feeling or displaying ferocity
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ebullient
boiling, agitated
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phlegmatic
having or showing a slow and stolid temperament
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ambrosial
something extremely pleasing to taste or smell
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mollify
to soothe in temper or disposition
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consummate
complete in every detail
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conflagration
conflict, war; fire
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rapacious
excessively grasping or covetous
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