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  • Abandon<\/li>\n

    give up completely <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Abate<\/li>\n

    become less intense or widespread <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Abet<\/li>\n

    encourage or assist <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Accede<\/li>\n

    accent or agree to a demand <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Berate<\/li>\n

    scold or criticize <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Bovine<\/li>\n

    of or relating to cattle <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Braggart<\/li>\n

    a person who boasts about achievements <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Burnish<\/li>\n

    polish by rubbing <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Cache<\/li>\n

    a collection of similar items stored in a secret place <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Cacophony<\/li>\n

    harsh discordant mixture of sounds <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Catalyst<\/li>\n

    substance the increases the rate of chemical reaction <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Censorious<\/li>\n

    severely critical of others <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Dearth<\/li>\n

    scarcity or lack of something <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Demagogue<\/li>\n

    A political orator<\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Diluvial<\/li>\n

    of or relating to a flood <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Dispassionate<\/li>\n

    not influenced by strong emotion <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Effluvia<\/li>\n

    an unpleasant or harmful odor <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Emulate<\/li>\n

    match or surpass <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Epochal<\/li>\n

    extremely significant <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Expound<\/li>\n

    explain or present <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Facile<\/li>\n

    Easy, now especially in a disparaging sense<\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Fictive<\/li>\n

    created by imagination <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Flippant<\/li>\n

    not showing serious attitude <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Gauche<\/li>\n

    lacking grace <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Gregarious<\/li>\n

    outgoing or social <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Grotto<\/li>\n

    small cave or cave-like structure <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Hedonist<\/li>\n

    Someone devoted to hedonism <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Heretical<\/li>\n

    practicing religious heresy <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Hubris<\/li>\n

    excessive pride <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Hypocrite<\/li>\n

    a person who says one thing and does another <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Ignoble<\/li>\n

    not honorable in character <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Imbibe<\/li>\n

    drink alcohol <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Imperious<\/li>\n

    assuming power without justification <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Importunate<\/li>\n

    persistant <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Jettison<\/li>\n

    throw or drop for an airplane or ship <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Jocular<\/li>\n

    humorous or playful <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Junta<\/li>\n

    military group that rules after taking by force <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Kismet<\/li>\n

    destiny <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Lexicon<\/li>\n

    vocabulary of a person <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Licentious<\/li>\n

    immoral <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Limber<\/li>\n

    flexible <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Loquacious<\/li>\n

    talkative <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Malapropism<\/li>\n

    The blundering use of an absurdly inappropriate word<\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Malfeasance<\/li>\n

    wrongdoing <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Mawkish<\/li>\n

    sentimental in a sickening way <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Misnomer<\/li>\n

    wrong or inaccurate name in designation <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Modicum<\/li>\n

    small or minimal portion <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Mote<\/li>\n

    tiny piece of a substance <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Necromancy<\/li>\n

    practice of communicating with the dead <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Nihilism<\/li>\n

    rejection of religion <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Nomenclature<\/li>\n

    the choosing of names for things <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Novel<\/li>\n

    fictitious prose narrative <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Obfuscate<\/li>\n

    to confuse <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Olfactory<\/li>\n

    of or relating to the sense of smell <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Opprobrious<\/li>\n

    compressing scorn <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Ostracize<\/li>\n

    exclude from a society or group <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Palatial<\/li>\n

    resembling a palace <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Pandemic<\/li>\n

    disease prevalent over an entire country or countries <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Paramount<\/li>\n

    more important than anything else <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Patrician<\/li>\n

    an aristocrat <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Polyglot<\/li>\n

    knowing or using several languages <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Prestidigitation<\/li>\n

    magic tricks performed for entertainment <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Provincial<\/li>\n

    A person belonging to a province<\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Rancor<\/li>\n

    bitterness or resentfulness <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Rarefy<\/li>\n

    to make or become more dense or solid <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • recapitulate<\/li>\n

    summarize and state again the main points <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Refute<\/li>\n

    prove to be wrong or false <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Repose<\/li>\n

    a state of rest <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Resilient<\/li>\n

    able to withstand <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Revile<\/li>\n

    criticize in an abusive manner <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Rife<\/li>\n

    of common occurrence <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Sanctimonious<\/li>\n

    making a show of being morally superior <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Scrupulous<\/li>\n

    diligent attention to details <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Sedition<\/li>\n

    conduct or speech inciting people to rebel <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Sinecure<\/li>\n

    position requiring little or no work <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Stint<\/li>\n

    supply inadequate amount of something <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Sybarite<\/li>\n

    self indulgent person <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Tawdry<\/li>\n

    showy but cheap <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Tenacious<\/li>\n

    keep a firm hold on something <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Terse<\/li>\n

    sparing in use of words <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Tout<\/li>\n

    attempt to sell something by aggressively pestering <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Trounce<\/li>\n

    defeat heavily in a contest <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Tutelage<\/li>\n

    authority over someone or something <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Unconscionable<\/li>\n

    not right or reasonable <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Untoward<\/li>\n

    unexpected <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Usury<\/li>\n

    lending money at unlawful rates <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Vehemently<\/li>\n

    showing strong feeling <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Veritable<\/li>\n

    using as an intensifier <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Vilify<\/li>\n

    write or speak in an abusively disparaging way <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Vociferous<\/li>\n

    vehement <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Wan<\/li>\n

    pale with appearance of illness <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Wield<\/li>\n

    hold and use typically a weapon or tool <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Winsome<\/li>\n

    attractive appearance or character <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Wry<\/li>\n

    using dry or mocking humor <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Xenophobe<\/li>\n

    fear or dislike for people of different countries <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Yeoman<\/li>\n

    a man holding and cultivating a field <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Yen<\/li>\n

    Japanese monetary unit <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Yowl<\/li>\n

    loud waining cry <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Zenith<\/li>\n

    peak <\/p><\/div>\n

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  • Zephyr<\/li>\n

    soft gentle breeze<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n