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perfunctory
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- indifferent
- done in a routine way
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placate
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plethora
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pragmatic
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- practical as opposed to idealistic
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precipitate
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- to throw violently or bring about abruptly
- lacking deliberation
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mitigate
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propriety
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- correct behavior, obedience to rules and customs
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quiescent
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rarefy
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- to make thinner or sparser
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repudiate
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- to reject the validity of
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reticent
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-
soporific
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- causing sleep or lethargy
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specious
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- deceptively attractive
- seeming plausible but fallacious
-
mollify
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- to calm or make less severe
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obdurate
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- hardened in feeling
- resistant to persuasion
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obsequious
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- overly submissive and eager to please
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opprobrium
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-
osentation
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-
pedant
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- someone who shows off learning
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perfidious
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- willing to betray one's trust
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prevaricate
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- to lie or deviate from the truth
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prodigal
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proliferate
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- to increase in number quickly
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stolid
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- unemotional
- lacking sensitivity
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tacit
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taciturn
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inchoate
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- disorganized and incoherent
-
endemic
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- inherent or belonging to a particular area
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intrepid
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- fearless and resolutely courageous
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lachrymose
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-
umbrage
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noisome
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maudlin
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cupidity
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- greed or irresistible desire for material goods
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largess
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- a generous giving or benevolence
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hegemony
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- domination of one state or group over another state or group
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intrepidity
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- fearless even reckless, courage
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penury
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- extreme poverty or lack of resources
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cosset
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- to pamper or treat with great care
-
lampoon
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ossify
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- to harden or set in a rigidly environment
- to change into bone
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pathogenic
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-
salubrious
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diaphanous
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- delicate or gauzy
- often used to describe fabric
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trenchant
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- incisive, sharp, even caustic or cutting
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venerable
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sanguine
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-
prevaricate
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- lie or deviate from the truth
-
burnish
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-
slake
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-
furtive
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-
irascible
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- ornery or easily made angry
-
quash
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-
hoary
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- very old
- white or gray from age
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tangential
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- digressing or extraneous to the matter at hand
-
unconscionable
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-
monastic
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- extremely plain, even austere
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voluble
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- talkative or speaking easily
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reticent
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-
turgid
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- bloated or swollen, as from a fluid
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audacious
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tawdry
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dilatory
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dilettante
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- someone with an amateurish and superficial interest in a topic
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dirge
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- a funeral hymn or mournful speech
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equivocate
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- to use expressions of double meaning in order to mislead
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vex
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volatile
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- lively or explosive
- easily aroused and changeable
-
waver
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- to flunctuate between choices
-
zeal
-
-
analogous
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- equivalent to
- similar or alike in some way
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capricious
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- changing one's mind quickly and often
-
castigate
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- to punish or criticize harshly
-
caustic
-
-
chicanery
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- deception by means of craft or guile
-
cogent
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- convincing and well reasoned
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condone
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- to overlook, pardon, or disregard
-
convoluted
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- intricate and complicated
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corroborate
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- to provide supporting evidence
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credulous
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deference
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deride
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- to mock
- to speak of or treat with contempt
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desiccate
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-
diatribe
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- an abusive, condemnatory speech
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desultory
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- jumping from one thing to another, disconnected
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diffident
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-
abscond
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-
abstain
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- to choose not to do something
-
adulterate
-
-
advocate
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-
aesthetic
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- concerning the appreciation of beauty
-
aggrandize
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- to increase in power, influence, and reputation
-
alleviate
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-
amalgamate
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- to combine, to mix together
-
ambiguous
-
- doubtful or uncertain
- able to be interpreted several ways
-
ameliorate
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- to make better, to improve
-
anachronism
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- something out of place in time
-
loquacious
-
-
lucid
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- clear and easily understood
-
meticulous
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- extremely careful about details