Vocabulary

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Vocabulary 1
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Aberration

• abnormality

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Abeyance

• Cease stop

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Abject

• Miserable or wretched

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Abnegation

• denial

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Abscond

• Flee, run away with

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Absolve

• Free from sin or guilt

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Admonish

• Warn, punish or criticize

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Adroit

• Skillful, especially with hands

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Affront

• offend

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Allay

• Relieve or lessen

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Amorphous

• shapeless

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Anarchy

• No government/chaos

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Antipathy

• Deep hatred

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Antipodes

• At the opposite ends of the earth

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Apostasy

• Backsliding, forswearing

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Artifice

• Deceit or trickery

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Abstruse
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Acrimonious
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Adjudge

• Judge

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Adjure
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Ascetic

• A person who lives with only lifes barest
  necessities

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Ascribe

• attribute

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Aspersion

• Lies and calumnies

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Assiduous

• Diligent and hardworking

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Assimilate
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Atrophy

• Waste away

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Augury

• Predicting the future particularly using the
  entrails of animals

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Aver

• swear

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Banal

• Commonplace and trite

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Bauble

• Trinket of little worth

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Bellicose

• Warlike or argumentative

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Benevolence

• kindness

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Biennial

• Occurring every two years

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Blazon

• Proclaim public ally or a chest shield

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Bode

• Foretell/omen

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Bravado

• False bravery/swagger

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Broach

• Open/introduce

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Auspices

• Support or patronage

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Austerity

• severity

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Avarice

• greed

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Buffoon

• Clown or fool

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Bullion

• ingot

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Burnish

• polish

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Cadaverous

• Corpse-like

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Cajole

• Persuade by flattery and pleading

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Calumny

• lies

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Candor

• Genuine/honest

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Caricature

• Exaggerated image

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Cessation

• stop

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Charlatan

• Quack or imposter

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Chastise

• punish

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Chauvinism

• Fanatical patriotism to a cause

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Chicanery

• Trickery or deceit

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Choleric

• Bad tempered

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Circumvent

• To go around

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Civility

• Politeness/proper behavior

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Clandestine

• Secret/furtive

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Capitulate

• Yield or give up

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Capricious

• Done on a whim/without thought or reason/spur of
  the moment

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Captivate

• enchant

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Coerce

• force

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Cognizant

• Aware of

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Colloquy

• Meeting or conference

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Commensurate

• In proper proportion

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Commiserate

• sympathize

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Commodious

• Roomy or spacious

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Consign

• send

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Consternation

• Great dismay

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Contingency

• Unforeseen event or possibility

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Copious

• Voluminous or many

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Corollary
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Corroborate

• Confirm or support or substantiate

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Cosmopolitan

• A citizen of the world

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Dearth

• scarcity

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Decorum

• Proper behavior

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Deduce

• To arrive at a conclusion by reasoning

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Conciliate

• Pacify or appease or placate or mollify to
  resolve differences

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Configuration

• Outline or shape

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Confer

• Bestow or consult

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Demagogue

• A rabble rouser or a leader of the masses

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Denizen

• inhabitant

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Deplore

• Strongly disapprove or

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Desist

• stop

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Detriment

• harmful

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Devoid

• empty

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Disparity

• inequality

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Dissent

• Disagreement or opposition

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Distraught

• Extremely upset or unhappy

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Diurnal

• Occurring daily

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Doggerel

• A badly written poem

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Dogma

• Doctrine or law

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Duress

• Force or coercion

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Effusion

• outpouring

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Elegy

• Poem of lament for the transitory nature of human
  existence

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Elicit

• Call forth

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Differentiate

• Note differences

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Dirge

• Funeral hymn

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Discrepancy

• Inconsistency/incongruity

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Discursive

• Rambling or too wordy

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Elocution

• Speech enunciation and diction

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Emaciate

• Thin or wasted away

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Emanate

• Originate or stem from or derive from

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Empirical

• Deduction arrived at by practical experience,
  pragmatic, observed or practical

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Engender

• Produce or create

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Erudite

• Learned or scholarly

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Esoteric

• Capable of being understood by only a few

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Espouse

• Wed or adopt or support or champion

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Ethereal

• Otherworldly or wraithlike

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Ethnology

• Study or races

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Eulogy

• A speech in praise

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Euphemism

• Substituting a good phrase for a harsh one

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Euphony

• Good sound or harmonious

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Evanescent

• Fleeting or temporary

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Exhilaration

• Great joy

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Enigma

• A puzzle or mystery

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Ennui

• Boredom or languor or tedium

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Epitome

• example

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Equanimity

• Even tempered

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Exhort

• Urge strongly

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Expatriate

• A person who has renounced citizenship

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Expound

• Explain or expand on

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Extant

• Still in existence

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Extenuate

• mitigating

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Extol

• praise

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Facile

• Easy with an implication of superficial

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Farcical

• Ridiculous or ludicrous

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Feign

• pretend

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Festoon

• Decorate with garlands or swath or drape

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Fiasco

• Complete failure

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Finesse

• Skill or flair

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Firmament

• heavens

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Fissure

• Crack or split or crevice or gap

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Foible

• Shortcoming or small fault

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Foment

• Stir up or provoke

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Extort

• Obtain under duress or wrest or obtain by force

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Extraneous

• Irrelevant or unrelated not pertinent or
  superfluous

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Extricate

• Free from entanglement

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Facetious

• Not to be taken seriously

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Fortuitous

• By chance or random

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Fresco

• A painting on plaster

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Frugal

• thrifty

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Gambol

• To frolic or play

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Gauntlet

• A glove or by implication a challenge or obstacle

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Germane

• Relevant or pertinent

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Glib

• Smooth slick and convincing

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Guile

• Sharp witsslynesscunning

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Hackneyed

• Trite and overused

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Harbinger

• A forerunner or herald

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Herculean

• Staggering or prodigious or formidable requiring
  great strength or effort

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Hiatus

• gap

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Homily

• Lecture or sermon

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Homogenous

• Same kind

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Humdrum

• Boring and commonplace

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Hyperbole

• Figure of speech a gross exaggeration for effect

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Idiosyncrasy

• Quirk or peculiarity

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Gratuitous

• unnecessary

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Gregarious

• Flock together

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Guffaw

• Loud laugh

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Ignominy

• Deep disgrace

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Illicit

• illegal

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Immutable

• Unmovable or unchanging

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Impair

• Harm or blight or weaken

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Impassive

• Unemotional or inexpressive

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Impeccable

• Without flaw

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Incarcerate

• Jail or imprison

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Incognito

• In disguise

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Inconsequential

• Not important

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Incorrigible

• Incapable of being controlled

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Indigent

• poor

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Indulgent

• lenient

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Inexorable

• Unalterable or inevitable

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Infringe

• Breach or violate

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Ingenuous

• Naïve and gullible

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Iniquity

• Wickedness or evilness

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Inordinate

• Excessive or undue unreasonable or immoderate

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Inscrutable

• mysterious

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Intercede

• To come between mediate

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Introvert

• Shy person

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Inundate

• Flood or overwhelm swamp

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Inveigle

• Wheedle or trick

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Iridescent

• Shimmering or sparkling

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Irrevocable

• Binding and irreversible

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Lampoon

• Parody ridicule or satirize

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Litigation

• Legal proceedings

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Longevity

• Long lived

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Loquacious

• talkative

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Ludicrous

• ridiculous

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Lugubrious

• Gloomy or doleful dismal

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Magnanimous

• Generous and noble

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Maim

• cripple

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Malign

• Lie or slander

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Malinger

• Pretend to be sick to avoid working

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Maudlin

• Mawkish and overly sentimental sappy and self
  pitying

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Menial

• Fit for a servant

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Mercurial

• Quickly changing

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Mesmerism

• hypnotism

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Mete

• To give out in proper proportion

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Misnomer

• misname

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Mollify

• Placate or appease

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Moot

• debatable

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Mottled

• Dappled or blotchy

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Mundane

• Routine and commonplace

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Munificent

• Generosity or to be bountiful or open handed

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Nadir

• Lowest point

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Nebulous

• Vague or imprecise or hazy tenuous or
  unformulated

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Nefarious

• Wicked and disreputable despicable and
  reprehensible

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Nemesis

• Fate especially as it mean retribution or doom

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Nettle

• Sting or vex or annoy

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Nondescript

• Unremarkable or ordinary dull and uninteresting

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Nonentity

• Insignificant person

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Obese

• fat

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Obnoxious

• Loathsome and hateful insufferable and repugnant

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Obsequious

• Toadying or sycophantic fawning

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Officious

• Pompous or self important or over bearing

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Omniscient

• All knowing

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Opulence

• Great wealth

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Ostensible

• Apparent or professed

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Pallor

• paleness

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Paragon

• Model or ideal archetype or epitome

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Parsimonious

• Thrifty or frugal

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Patrimony

• Inheritance from ones father

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Pecuniary

• Financial or fiscal

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Perfidious

• Treacherous and deceitful

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Pervade

• Permeate or saturate or suffuse

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Pestilence

• Plague or virulent disease

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Phlegmatic

• Apathetic and indifferent undemonstrative and
  placid

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Poignant

• Sharply painful touching or emotional
  heartrending

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Precocious

• Advanced beyond ones years

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Precursor

• Forerunner or antecedent originator

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Predispose

• Be inclined having a bias

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Prerogative

• Privilege or right

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Prevaricate

• lie

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Primordial

• Primeval or prehistoric

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Proffer

• offer