Vocabulary 11

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Vocabulary 11

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Adamant

• Resolved or implacable or unyielding

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Affinity

• Likeness or fellow feeling attraction or kinship

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Affluent

• wealthy

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Allegory

• Metaphorical story

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Alleviate

• Lessen or relieve

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Altercation

• fight

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Ambiguous

• Vague or hazy or not clear

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Ambivalent

• Undecided of two minds

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Anagram
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Anecdote

• Story or short narrative sketch

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Abash

• Humiliate or mortify embarrass

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Abate

• Decrease or subside

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Abominable

• Repulsive and monstrous

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Abridge

• Shorten or edit reduce

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Abstain

• Refrain or withhold go without

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Abut

• Adjoin be next to be adjacent to

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Accentuate

• Emphasize or high light

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Accost

• Approach or stop or waylay confront

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Acquiesce

• Agree to

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Acquisition

• Purchase or gain

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Assay

• Examine or assess

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Assertion

• Declaration or contention or claim

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Attrition

• Slow destruction erosion

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Audacious

• Daring and bold impudent and foolhardy

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Augment

• increase

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Auspicious

• favorable

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Austere

• severe

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Autocrat

• Dictator or tyrant

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Baleful

• Threatening and menacing sinister and malignant

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Bandy
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Antagonize

• Provoke or irritate rile

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Apprise

• Explain or impart

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Arable

• plow able

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Arbitrary

• Random subjective or uninformed

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Archives

• Records or files

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Arduous

• difficult

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Array

• Collection or assortment range

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Askew

• Crooked or awry off center

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Assail

• Attack or assault

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Brusque

• Curt and short rude

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Bulwark

• Fortification wall or rampart

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Bumptious

• Self-satisfied or overbearing brash and immodest

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Bureaucracy

• Government administration officialdom

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Camaraderie

• Friendship and amity comradeship

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Carnage

• Bloodshed and slaughter

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Catharsis

• A purging of emotions

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Cede

• Yield or let go give to

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Chagrin

• Mortification and disappointment a mixture of
  embarrassment and sorrow

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Circumspect

• Proper with careful attention to rules guarded
  or wary

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Beleaguer

• Bother or harass

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Beneficent
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Bestow
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Betrothed
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Bilateral
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Blithe

• Carefree and unconcerned merry happy go lucky

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Bolster

• Boost or strengthen reinforce or shore up

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Brevity

• Quality of being brief

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Browbeat

• Badger or bully dragoon

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Brunt

• Force or impact burden substance

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Cite

• Quote or mention refer to

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Climactic

• High point

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Coalition

• Alliance or union partnership or league

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Coherent

• understandable

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Comely

• attractive

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Comprehensive

• Complete and inclusive wide ranging

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Concerted

• Concentrated or intensive strenuous

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Congenital

• Present at birth

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Conjecture

• Guess or surmise inference or speculation or
  supposition

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Connotation

• Associated meaning of a word

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Consensus

• agreement

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Consonant
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Contraband

• Illegal imports

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Contrition

• Act of repentance or remorse

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Convivial

• Warm and hospitablegenial or cordial

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Correlate

• Associate or compare show a relationship to to
  draw a parallel

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Credence

• Believability credibility authority

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Debacle

• Catastrophe or disaster fiasco or shambles

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Debonair

• Suave, refined, elegant and charming
  sophisticated

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Decadence

• Corruption and debauchery depravity and
  dissolution

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Dissolute

• Degenerate and immoral depraved

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Diverge

• Deviate move away differ vary be at variance

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Effete

• Feminine weak

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Efficacious

• Efficient effective successful

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Elation

• Great joy

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Embellish

• Adorn embroider exaggerate elaborate

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Emendation
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Encroach

• Intrude or impinge or infringe or trespass

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Enormity

• Size or extent scale or vastness

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Enthrall

• Captivate or rivet charm or beguile

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Deference

• Respect or regard reference

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Demeanor

• Manner or conduct deportment

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Defile

• Taint, besmirch, tarnish or corrupt

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Deprecate

• Denounce or deplore criticize or censure

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Degenerate

• Deteriorate or worsen immoral or corrupt or an
  immoral person a reprobate

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Derogatory

• Disparaging and critical insulting and offensive

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Deign

• Condescend stoop lower oneself

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Despicable

• hateful

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Deluge

• Flood or inundation torrent

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Dissipate

• Dispel or disperse scatter

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Entity

• Body, unit, thing, article, being

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Entourage

• Staff or associates followers

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Epicure

• Gourmet connoisseur lover of luxuries

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Epithet

• Nickname soubriquet appellation

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Equestrian

• A rider of horses

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Erroneous

• Mistaken or incorrect invalid

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Evasive

• Elusive and shifty equivocal and vague

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Evoke

• Call forth

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Exhaustive

• Thorough and comprehensive in depth and extensive

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Exodus

• Mass departure flight

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Exonerate

• Free from guilt or blame absolve or acquit

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Expedite

• Speed up or accelerate advance or further

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Expletive

• Curse or oath invective

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Extemporaneous

• Without preparation

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Faction

• Group or section splinter group

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Factious
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Fallible

• Imperfect mortal or weak

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Flay

• Whip or lash thrash

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Foreshadow

• Prefigure or presage predict or foretell

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Forgo

• Miss or relinquish

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Forte

• Strong point or speciality gift

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Frustrate

• Irritate or discourage thwart or foil block

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Fulminate

• Blow up

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Furor

• Uproar or tumult fracas or disturbance

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Furtive

• Secretive and sly

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Garrulous

• Talkative loquacious

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Gibe

• Taunt or mock

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Fastidious

• Fussy and finicky particular

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Felicitous

• Fortunate or blessed

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Felony

• Criminal act

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Ferocity

• Fierceness or intensity wildness

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Fidelity

• Loyalty and constancy

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Filial

• child

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Finality

• conclusiveness

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Fiord

• inlet

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Flail
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Flaunt

• Show off or exhibit

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Hypochondriac

• One who believes himself sick when he isnt

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Idiomatic

• Colloquial natural

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Idyll
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Imbibe

• drink

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Immemorial
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Imperious

• Arrogant and domineering

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Impetuous

• Impulsive and rash hasty

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Impotent

• Without power

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Impregnable

• Unassailable invincible impenetrable

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Impromptu

• On the spur of the moment

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Gird

• bind

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Goad

• Provoke or stimulate stir badger

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Gourmet

• epicure

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Gradation

• Shade or nuance degree

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Grandiose

• Ostentatious pretentious

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Guise

• Semblance pretext

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Haggard

• Worn and fatigued exhausted

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Heinous

• Odious wicked and dreadful

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Holocaust
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Hypercritical

• Fault finding carping

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Infer

• deduce, or suppose conjecture

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Ingratiate

• Curry favor toady suck up to grovel to

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Inherent

• Intrinsic or innateinbuilt or inborn

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Innocuous

• Harmless innocent safe inoffensive

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Insatiable

• Not to be satisfied voracious ravenous greedy
  unquenchable

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Insidious

• Sinister and dangerous in a subtle way

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Insular

• Inward looking narrow and limited

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Intangible

• Indefinable not to be touched ethereal

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Interminable

• Endlessceaselessperpetual

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Interpose

• Interject or insert introduce

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Impunity

• Without punishment or concern

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Inane

• Silly or absurd ridiculousidiotic

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Inception

• Beginningcommencementinitiaqtion

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Incise

• Slit opennotch or score

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Incoherent

• Disjointed and confusedrambling not
  understandable

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Incongruous

• Out of place incompatible inconsistent

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Incredulous

• Skeptical and disbelieving doubtful or dubious

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Indigenous

• Native or original

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Indolence

• Laziness or sloth

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Inexplicable

• Unexplainable unfathomnable

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Lucid

• clear

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Lucrative

• profitable

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Malevolent

• Evil or ill intentions

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Martyr

• One who dies for what he believes in

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Mercenary

• One who fights not for a cause but for money

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Microcosm

• A small world

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Misanthrope

• One who hates mankind

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Miscreant

• Reprobate wrongdoerscoundrelvillain

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Noncommittal

• Evasive and vague not committed

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Nostalgic

• Reflective wistfullongingregretful evocative

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Intrepid

• Fearless and brave

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Invidious

• Odious and offensive

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Intricacy

• Complexity convolution difficulty

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Invoke

• Call forth raise

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Intrinsic

• Inherent or innate inbuilt

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Irascible

• Irritable and choleric

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Introspective

• Looking inward reflective

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Laconic

• Terse short of speech taciturn disinclined to
  speak

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Inure
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Laudable

• praiseworthy

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Nurture

• Care for raise

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Occult

• Mysterious and magic otherworldly

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Omnivorous

• Eating everything including meat, vegetable and
  fruit non-selective

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Oracular

• Prediction or proclamation of the future

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Orient

• Adjust or familiarize

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Oscillate

• Vacillate or waver move back and forth

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Ostentatious

• Pretentious and affected showy and flamboyant

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Panacea

• Cure-all solution answer universal remedy

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Peremptory

• Authoritative and unconditional dictatorial and
  dogmatic

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Permeate

• Move through infuse saturate

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Pernicious

• Destructive and harmful insidious

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Phalanx
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Philistine
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Platitude

• Cliché or trite expression banality of comfort

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Plebeian

• Fit for the masses working class blue collar

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Politic

• Diplomatic and prudent wise or expedient

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Populace

• Public or general population

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Precipitate

• Hasty or impulsive hurried or rash

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Propagate

• Spread or proliferate circulate

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Protagonist

• Main character

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Prototype

• First of its kind

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Protract

• Prolong or draw out extend

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Provocation

• Irritation cause for action

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Provocative

• Challenging or stimulating

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Proxy

• Substitute or alternate stand in

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Purport

• Claim or asser allege or profess significance
  or importance

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Quadruped

• Animal with four feet

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Query

• question

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Predecessor

• One who comes before precursor or forerunner

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Premeditated

• Thought out beforehand deliberate and
  calculated intended

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Presumptuous

• Arrogant and presuming

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Pretentious

• Affected and ostentatious

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Proboscis

• nose

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Procrastinate

• To put off delay in doing

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Prodigy

• One who is naturally gifted

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Proficient

• Capable and efficient

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Proletarian

• Worker blue collar one of the working masses

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Prologue

• Introduction or preface

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Repugnant

• Disgusting and revolting repulsive

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Resilient

• Elastic and flexible tough and durable hardy

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Rigorous

• Precise and meticulous hard and severe

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Rudiment

• Origin or seed beginning

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Sallow

• Yellow or sickly pale or ashen

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Sanction

• Authorize give permission

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Sartorial
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Satiate

• Sate or satisfy fill or quench or slake

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Scapegoat

• One who is blamed for the action of others one
  who becomes the guilty party so that others may
  go without punishment

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Quixotic

• Foolishly idealistic