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PULCHRITUDE VOLUPTUARY VICISSITUDE VICISSITUDES NEONATE QUID PRO QUO SPECTRAL SEER QUAGMIRE IMBROGLIO VITRIOL IMPERTINENT PROTRACT INEXTRICABLE INTERPOSE DISCLOSE PROLETARIAN EPIGRAM NON SEQUITUR SACROSANCT SPECIOUS INDUBITABLE INSURMOUNTABLE NOVELTY PROPRIETY CONSUMMATE GRATULATION SUBDUE MODULATE PERIPATETIC IMBUE DISTILL VAGARY AMBIANCE SONOROUS INCENDIARY SMARMY ERSATZ HERALD LOATH LAPSE PROSCRIBE OBFUSCATE PITHY PETULANT VOCIFEROUS ELOCUTION CONCOMITANT ANTHOLOGY VIGNETTE FARCE UNFLAGGING EXCORIATE RECIPROCAL GRANDILOQUENT MOTLEY SCINTILATING PEJORATIVE EXCISE APLOMB INURE SUMPTUOUS MAGISTERIAL INVECTIVE

beauty; comeliness a person devoted to luxury or sensual pleasure a change or variation ups and downs a newborn child (or one in its first 28 days) a mutually beneficial exchange ghostly a future teller a bog; a predicament, quandary a misunderstanding, complication, entanglement caustic criticism insolent, rude, brash; irrelevant to extend, draw out impossible to disentangle; hopelessly intricate to place between; to put a barrier to make known, reveal pertaining to the working class a pithy saying or remark tersely expressed a statement that does not follow the premises; illogical conclusion extremely sacred superficially plausible but actually wrong unquestionable incapable of being overcome; insuperable the quality of being new or different the quality of being proper; appropriateness to bring to perfection or completion a feeling of joy to conquer, overpower to regulate, adjust, adapt walking or traveling about; itinerant to impregnate, inspire; to saturate to purify; to extract, refine a caprice the mood, character, or quality; environment loud, deep, resonant sound inflammatory excessively or unctuously flattering, ingratiating serving as a substitute; artificial to give news; to indicate or signal the coming of unwilling, reluctant a slip or error to denounce something as dangerous; to outlaw to confuse brief, forceful, and meaningful in expression peevish, irritable loud, clamorous oral delivery concurrent, accompanying a collection of poems and stories a small decorative illustration a humorous show; comedy tireless to denounce or berate severely given, felt, or done in return lofty or pompous in language (intended to impress); grandiose, magniloquent very different, heterogeneous sparkling, dazzling, brilliant belittling to remove objectionable parts; expurgate poise, confidence, self-assurance to accustom to hardship; to take effect splendid learned and authoritative abuse, insult, vituperation

TENET PALPABLE RESCIND COMMISERATE EXTIRPATE QUIESCENT BELEAGUER BELIE BELABOR REPRESS REMINISCENT REHASH RETRENCH BYZANTINE UPSTANDING INDIGNANT PROSPECTUS CONTRIVANCE CIRCUITOUS ACQUISTIVE DISINGENUOUS INGENUITY ENERVATE VITIATE INCAPACITATE ANDROGYNOUS STARK RAPT INSULAR SUBVERSIVE APPARITION STAUNCH APOSTASY RECTITUDE FRACTIOUS INVETERATE SAULATRY NIHILISM PHLEGMATIC MAUDLIN PERIPHERY DESOLATION TRAJECTORY PROVIDENT RECRIMINATE COSSET FALLIBLE SYMPOSIUM TACTLESS TACIT TACITURN PUNITIVE BIFURCATE PEREMPTORY ANOMALY ENTREATY EXORABLE INEXORABLE EXCREABLE PORTENT PORTEND

any opinion, doctrine, or belief readily perceived, obvious; tangible to revoke, nullify, abrogate to sympathize to destroy completely; uproot inactive, very quiet to surround with military forces; to beset by troubles to contradict; to misrepresent to dwell on; to assail persistently to keep under control awakening memories to work up old material into a new form (without much change) to cut down, reduce, or diminish complex or intricate honest, honorable, straightforward; upright angry (especially over something unjust) outline of an event; brochure with main features a device, invention; a plan or scheme roundabout, indirect eager to obtain insincere cleverness to weaken, debilitate to impair the quality of; to debase, corrupt to deprive of; to disable hermaphrodite, epicene utter, downright; harsh, grim view or place; very simple or severe deeply engrossed or absorbed; enraptured isolated; narrow-minded rebellious, destructive ghost resolute, steadfast a total desertion of ones religion or values; defection righteousness; moral virtue refractory, unruly, irritable habitual, firmly established healthful, salubrious, wholesome a total rejection of established laws and institutions apathetic, sluggish, calm foolishly sentimental the external boundary dreariness, barrenness a path, curve having or showing foresight; providing carefully for the future to counterattack to pamper, coddle prone to err a meeting or conference unthinking, blunt implied; silent; unvoiced reserved, uncommunicative concerning punishment to divide into two branches imperious, dictatorial; decisive, final abnormality, incongruity earnest request or plea; supplication susceptible of being persuaded or moved by entreaty inflexible, unyielding; cruel, pitiless abominable, abhorrent, odious an indication or omen; harbinger, presage to foreshadow, indicate

VITRIOLIC ASSUAGE CURT STALWART

very caustic; scathing to relieve, lessen blunt, brusque sturdy and robust; valiant; steadfast, uncompromising ITINERANT traveling from place to place; peripatetic NEOPHYTE a novice, greenhorn CHARLATAN a fraud, imposter, quack SYCOPHANT a self-seeking flatterer PALTRY small or meager; petty, trifling ANEMIC lacking in energy, vitality, and vigor PRECIPITOUS extremely steep TRAVESTY a false, debased imitation INNUNENDO an indirect, disparaging intimation about a person or thing INTIMATE to imply, hint TREPIDATION great fear LIVID enraged UNCTUOUS excessively or ingratiatingly flattering MANIFESTO a public declaration of policy and aims DOVISH favoring peace CELESTIAL astral, heavenly CONGLOMERATION a heterogeneous combination HERMETIC made airtight; isolated SANCTIMONIOUS hypocritically religious GARNISH TOUT COMPLACENT PALATABLE DIGRESSION MACHINATION SPARSE BAROQUE PRESCRIPTIVE SLOVENLY CONNOISSEUR BENEFICIARY REVIVALIST PLATITUDE COMMEMORATE EXPLICIT ENGENDER COMPUNCTION ABSOLUTION CATHARTIC ESCONCE TRENCHANT CIRCUMSPECT NEBULOUS PROSAIC CLOYING AVERSION RETICENT MYOPIC SOLICITOUS PUERILE PICAYUNE INDELIBLE IMPERVIOUS INSCRUTABLE INVEIGH ABERRANT AGGREGATE RACONTEUR VITUPERATIVE REFRACTORY DEMUR FULMINATE to decorate, embellish to solicit support; to promote unconcerned, self-satisfied pleasant, tasteful turning aside from the main point of a discussion or argument scheme intended to do harm thinly dispersed; austere, meager characterized by complexity or flamboyance serving to dictate; laying down rules untidy an expert who understands art one who benefits from something one who restores something a dull, trite remark to serve as a memorial of fully and clearly expressed to cause anxiety, distress; contrition, remorse forgiveness, pardon, release producing spiritual or psychological cleansing to settle snugly; to hide securely incisive; vigorous; effective; energetic cautious, prudent; well-considered hazy, vague, or confused dull, commonplace sickeningly sweet antipathy reserved; reluctant or restrained having a narrow view anxious, concerned, or eager childish, silly small, trifling; petty, carping, or prejudiced unable to be erased; lasting, unforgettable impenetrable; incapable of being affected not easily understood to rail, vituperate abnormal, anomalous a total a skillful story teller abusive stubbornly disobedient to object to detonate; denounce

ICONOCLAST PERSPICACIOUS OBVIATE GAINSAY ODIOUS FACETIOUS EXTEMPORANEOUS APPROBATION COLLUSION VERNACULAR SEDULOUS QUIXOTIC RECALCITRANT HISTRIONIC FOMENT INADVERTENT OPPROBRIUM INVEIGLE OFFICIOUS INIMICAL DESULTORY REPROBATE INDISCRIMINATE STEEPED ABOUND AUTOMATON ANNALS TEMPER HEDONISM BADGER IMPLORE DRUDGERY INTERMINABLE INTREPID ACCOST FURTIVE PRETEXT GESTICULATE WREST DUPE JOSTLE OMINOUS TREMULOUS REPUDIATE BRISTLE PONTIFICATE STIPULATE ALACRITY DISDAIN PROMULGATE BRASH LACERATE SORDID SOLACE DREGS SCURRILOUS DURESS DEFERENCE EGREGIOUS ACRIMONIOUS CONSTRUE IMPUNITY CONSTERNATION PRECOCIOUS PERFUNCTORY

one who rails against sacred institutions sharp, perceptive to render unnecessary to deny, dispute, or contradict; to oppose detestable, repugnant frivolous, humorous impromptu approval conspiracy using a common or native speech diligent, assiduous impractical disobedient, refractory overly dramatic to instigate or foster unintentional; heedless, inattentive disgrace, infamy, ignominy to lure, entice meddlesome, obtrusive, intrusive unfavorable, harmful; unfriendly, hostile without direction; unconnected a depraved, unprincipled, or wicked person; miscreant lacking in care; haphazard, thoughtless; jumbled soaked, drenched, saturated to exist in great numbers a robot; a mindless follower historical records to soften, moderate self-indulgence, devotion to pleasure to pester, nag, or annoy persistently to plead urgently unpleasant, dull, or hard work unending; incessant brave, resolutely fearless to approach and speak to secret, stealthy, surreptitious, clandestine an excuse to make or use gestures to take by force a gullible person to shove hard menacing, threatening timorous; quivering to reject, decline to stiffen with fear or anger to speak pompously or dogmatically to specify a condition liveliness, briskness contempt to make known officially impertinent; impudent; tactless; impetuous to tear roughly; to wound deeply dirty, base, vile easing of grief most worthless part; a small remnant grossly or obscenely abusive compulsion, force respect remarkably bad bitter, caustic to infer exemption from punishment dismay, confusion reaching maturity early done without care; hasty, superficial; indifferent or apathetic

PERVERSE MASTICATE ESCHEW ABJURE QUELL VOLUBLE OSOLETE DUBIOUS PAROXYSM SKIRMISH MONOLITHIC STYMIE FRAY EFFIGY FLOUT TURBULETNT FORTHWITH OUST PRIVATION CONCILIATORY HARBINGER IMPRESARIO EXTORTION ADVERSE BIGOT VIRULENT SPEW SOLICIT NEFARIOUS VEXATIOUS MALADY PERUSE DESIST MASTIFF WAN HISTRIONICS ELUSIVE INTERJECT SALIENT INERT SQUEAMISH GARBLED SANGUINE PREROGATIVE CORROBORATE JUGGERNAUT COMPREHENSIVE LAX PALLIATE LURID QUIP FORTUITOUS ILK REMUNERATION NOMINAL EXPUNGE ANATHEMA SCHISM TIMOROUS TRUCATED JAUNTY PRESENTIMENT IMPRECATE AMITY SARDONIC ASCETIC DEMAGOGUE

contrary, persisting in error; wayward to chew up to avoid, shun, abjure to renounce, repudiate, retract, recant to put an end to talkative, fluent, glib no longer in use, outdated, antiquated doubtful a fit, sudden outburst a small fight, encounter massively solid to hinder, impede a fight a likeness (usually of a hated person) to show contempt, scoff unruly, agitated, disturbed immediately to drive out, eject, expel a lack of necessities placid, yielding a forerunner; sign, indication a manger or organizer of public entertainment getting money by threats unfavorable, harmful a narrow-minded, intolerant, or prejudiced person bitterly hostile to vomit; to gush (disgust or anger) to beg, seek earnestly villainous, vicious, iniquitous annoying a disease to read carefully to cease a large dog sickly pale a display of emotions; dramatic presentation hard to grasp; evasive to insert, interrupt outstanding, prominent without power to move easily shocked, prudish; fastidious or dainty confused, mixed up cheerful, optimistic an exclusive right or privilege to confirm or support a huge, powerful, and overwhelming force thorough, exhaustive careless, negligent to relieve without curing gruesome, sensational a witty or sarcastic remark accidental; fortunate family, class, kind, or sort reward, pay in name only, so-called, putative to erase, obliterate, efface, extirpate a person or thing detested division into mutually opposed parties fearful cut short sprightly, gay foreboding to invoke or call down (evil or curses) friendship; peaceful harmony snide, sneering, scornful derision one who leads a life of self-denial a political leader who appeals to the emotions of the people

PAINSTAKING ENTHRALL EVOKE PRESUMPTUOUS BOON BANE AUSTERE AUSTERITY UPBRAID PROPITIOUS IMPASSE VERDANT UNSCRUPULOUS ANACHRONISM TYRO IMPECUNIOUS ANTITHETICAL ALOOF HACKNEYED ENIGMATIC INDIGENOUS FORTITUDE MINUTIAE EXHORT MAGNATE PENCHANT MERCURIAL BOORISH CELERITY UNFETTER VERACIOUS VORACIOUS MALEDICTION BUCOLIC UNFLAPPABLE PANACHE VIABLE INTEMPERATE TEMPERATE SUPERFICIAL EXTOL VOLUPTUOUS BEGUILE CONVICTION PARADIGM PARAGON RHETORICIAN MALINGER DILETTANTE POLYMATH

extremely careful; very exacting to fascinate to call up or produce overbearing; impertinently bold a timely benefit; blessing a source of harm and ruin strict; ascetic; serious; simple trait of great self-denial; economy to censure, reproach, castigate very favorable, auspicious a deadlock; stalemate lush, green dishonest, unprincipled not in the proper time period a novice, beginner penniless, poor directly opposite; antipode distant, apart, reserved overused, insipid perplexing, mysterious native strength trifling details to urge, admonish a powerful, influential person in a field

inclination, predilection changeable, volatile, erratic vulgar, unrefined; uncouth, crass swiftness, speed to liberate truthful insatiable, ravenous a curse, imprecation charmingly rural; rustic, pastoral calm, imperturbable verve, style, flair feasible self-indulgent, unrestrained moderate shallow, lacking in depth to laud, acclaim sensual to mislead, delude; to charm firm belief an example, model a perfect example; quintessence a master of rhetoric to shirk by pretending illness an amateur or dabbler a person of great and varied learning; polyhistor ACOLYTE a devoted follower OUTLANDISH bizarre, outrageous CHARY wary; timid; fastidious BUNGLER a clumsy or inept person PUNDIT an expert commentator ZEALOT a fanatic ANTEDILUVIAN antiquated, primitive SUPPLANT to replace DISSEMBLER a liar, deceiver, prevaricator RENEGADE a traitor, apostate INDOLENT lazy DRACONIAN characterized by very strict laws and punishments SOPHISTRY a plausible but deliberately misleading argument OSTRACIZE to exclude from a group ANTHROPOCENTRIC regarding man as the center of ones philosophy

DIRGE UTILITARIAN MARTINET BOWDLERIZE GALVANIZE MAVERICK MASOCHIST ECONOMICAL EXTRICATE ENUMERATE DEBUNK SOMNAMBULIST PATRIONIZE CIRCUMVENT CIRCUMSCRIBE MELLIFLOUS MALODOROUS VARIEGATE SOOTHSAYER ENAMOR CONSCRIPTION ARCHETYPE PROPAGATE CONCOURSE APPROPRIATE CLEMENCY CONCOCT FALLACIOUS PRESAGE RANCID CONVOLUTION PROTEAN DISTRAUGHT FORAGE TANDEM INGRATE SQUALID VENERATE DISPARITY STOIC DIURNAL IGNOMINIOUS IMPORTUNE MILIEU EVENTUATE SUBTERRANENAN PEDANTIC INCHOATE NETTLE OVERT RELEGATE SUPINE REPULSE RAZE PROLIX PRECIPITATE STENTORIAN SINECURE LIQUIDATION RECANT CULPABLE EQUIVOCAL PRECLUDE EXTRINSIC FETTER ASSIDUOUS

a funeral hymn useful a strict disciplinarian to expurgate to stimulate a nonconformist a person gratified by pain thrifty to free from entanglement to mention one by one to expose or excoriate as being false sleepwalker to treat condescendingly to go around; to avoid to encircle; to define smooth and sweet foul smelling to diversify a fortune teller to inflame with love; to charm a draft prototype to reproduce; to disseminate a gathering to authorize for use; to seize; to steal mercy to prepare (food); to make up logically unsound; deceptive a foresight, omen rank, unpleasant, stale a rolled up or coiled condition changeable distracted, deeply agitated; crazed fodder one following or behind the other an ungrateful person foul, repulsive; sordid to respect inequality apathetic active in daytime shameful, disgraceful to ask or beg urgently surroundings to result underground overly concerned with details in teaching rudimentary; incipient to irritate, provoke open to assign to an inferior position lying on the back to drive back to destroy long and wordy to hasten; hurl down loud and powerful an easy but profitable job discharging liabilities; converting securities into cash to withdraw or disavow; to retract blameworthy ambiguous; dubious to prevent extraneous; outward or external to hamper constant, unremitting; persevering, industrious, attentive

APOTHEOSIS ASPERITY EPITHET COALESCE INTERLOPER BULWARK SEDENTARY CACHE COTERIE CUPIDITY VIRTUOSO TEMERITY PERPETRATE COMPULSION MANIFOLD FRAUGHT ATTEST DEPLOY VERISMILITUDE ABORTIVE VENEER MYRIAD BUFF ROMP TORTUOUS PERSPICUOUS PEREGRINATION CONJUGAL MEGALOMANIA PROFLIGATE STRIFE LEGION COUP AMNESTY EXPATRIATEA EXONERATE FIAT MENDACIOUS UNDERWRITE BALK RIFE REVILE PESKY REDOLENT REPOSE DISPARATE EXTANT LAMPOON EDIFICE SULTRY PUISSANT DISCREET DISCRETE DEMARCATE SCION INDOCTRINATE OBSEQUIOUS FULSOME MORASS DECADENCE BONA FIDE PLIGHT LEVITY LUGUBRIOUS APPELLATION RECONDITE PERTURB GAMUT MUNIFICENT

epitome acrimony; hardship a description to a name to come together a meddlesome intruder protection largely inactive; accustomed to sitting a secret hiding place a clique greed, avarice one with great skill reckless boldness; rashness to commit; to present or execute poorly constraint, coercion complex, many filled to certify; to manifest to position forces according to plan the appearance of being true unsuccessful; rudimentary thin covering innumerable a devotee to move lively winding lucid travel (especially on foot); journey relating to marriage; connubial abnormal desire for wealth and power wasteful, prodigal discord, disagreement a large number revolution a general pardon AN EXILE to free from guilt an official order; decree dishonest, untruthful to assume financial responsibility for to refuse to move prevalent; current in speech; plentiful to assail, scold annoying fragrant rest, respite different still existing to criticize and ridicule a building extremely hot and moist; torrid powerful, mighty, potent prudent, circumspect separate, distinct to delimit a descendant to teach certain principles seeking favor, fawning excessive, insincere; repulsive a bog; entanglement decay, deterioration good faith; authentic, genuine predicament lightness; frivolity mournful, dismal, gloomy a name, title, or designation abstruse; esoteric to agitate; derange the entire scale or range very generous

BURGEON PENURIOUS QUERLUOUS FOIL NEPOTISM INTERNECINE VANGUARD FACTITIOUS ENCOMIUM OBLOQUY PEDAGOGUE INORDINATE TABOO AGGRANDIZE IMMUTABLE INVIOLABLE OBLITERATE DEPLORABLE CONFLAGRATION RUE AEGIS IMBIBE

to grow and expand parsimonious; destitute complaining; peevish; carping to prevent the success of; frustrate; balk favoritism toward relatives mutually destructive the forefront in any movement artificial, contrived high praise; eulogy disgrace, shame, dishonor a teacher immoderate; excessive to prohibit to enlarge; to inflate ones self-importance unchangeable prohibiting violation; incorruptible to erase, wipe out lamentable; wretched a great fire to regret shield, protection; sponsorship to drink; to absorb knowledge