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DR. EVILS VOCAB LIST
DEATH
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English
12th Grade
10/09/2008

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To want
Definition
archaic sense of lacking something essential to life
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Augment
Definition
To increase, to make bigger
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Glean
Definition
To pick out little by little
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Panache
Definition
Great style, flair and flamboyance
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Vex, nettlesome, peeve, rankle, exasperate
Definition
annoying, bother
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Compucntion
Definition
a sense of guilt of remorse, a feeling sorry for wrong doing
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Orient/Oriental
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Asian culture and nations, asian
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occident/occidental
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the west, western (as in civilzation)
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Mitigate
Definition
To soften or reduce the harsh effects of something
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Exonerate
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To free or clear form blame or guilt
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Culpable
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Guilty
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Tanglible/palpable
Impalpable/intangible
Definition
so intense as to seem physically touchable/
not able to be physically touched.
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poignant
Definition
deeply emotionally moving,bittersweet
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Nuance
Definition
a shade or light, subtle variation of meaning,color, feeling
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Clarion
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clear in sound or meaning as a trumpet call
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Stentorian
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at times rather pompously yet grandly and powerfully loud
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Vitriolic
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viciously caustic, scathing
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Burgeon/proliferate
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to expand and spread rapidly
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Behooves
Definition
it is in ones best interest
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Angst
Definition
on-going anxiety and worry
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Lament
Definition
somthing-to express sadness, to complain sadlly
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Woe,dolor, melancholy
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sad,sorrowful,despair
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Dirge
Definition
solemn, dignified, slow funeral march
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Antecedent
Definition
that which comes before
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armistice
Definition
a formal cease fire
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Belligeret, pugacious,truculent
Definition
hostile, aggressively willing to fight
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bellicose
Definition
waging or preparing to wage war
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clandestine/cover
Definition
hidden,secret, undercover
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overt
Definition
in the open
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panoply
Definition
full suit of armor, full ceremonial attire or equipment, a wide-ranging, imipressive display
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Panacea
Definition
a cure all, a fix for everything, the "silver bullet"
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Anathema
Definition
A curse, something accursed adn loathsome and hated
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Plethor/Myriad
Definition
a great number, a vast amount
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Annihilate/obliterate
Definition
to utter destroy
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Appease
Definition
to pacify, to placate, to calm down
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Cede
Definition
To yield, to give away to, to acknowledge
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Decimate
Definition
to destroy a large percentage/(10%)
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Embargo
Definition
blockade, a prohibition, an obstacle formally preventing something from happeneing
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Hegemony
Definition
political and ideological power of a stronger nation over another
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Nullify
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to cancel or void
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Protectorate
Definition
a weaker nation dominated adn "protected" by a stronger nation
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Quid pro Quo
Definition
equal exchange
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Blithe
Definition
happy, mirthful, merry, almost giddily glad
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Paradigm
Definition
Model or structure of truth accepted without question
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orthodox
Definition
utterly convetional, non-radical
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Heterodox/unorthodox
Definition
heretical, differing ffrom prevailing beliefs or standards
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Hauberk/ corselet
Definition
amrmor, esp tunic of chain mail/ armor covering trunk of body
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Mead
Definition
alcoholic drink made from honey
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sanguinary
Definition
bloody
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sanguine
Definition
cheerful, optimistic, hopeful
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enigma/conundrum/insrutalbe
Definition
deep mystery, or puzzle
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eviserate
Definition
to disembowel, rip the guts from
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visceral
Definition
instinctive, having a gut reaction
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cerebral
Definition
intellectual, appealing to reason
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ethereal
Definition
light, airy, delicate, heavenly, anglic
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heinous
Definition
really, totally horribly bad
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Meretricioius
Definition
cheaply showy, flashy and trashy
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Daunted
Definition
intimiated
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Disdain
Definition
scorn, to treat with contempt
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trifle
Definition
something of little significance
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Deign to do
Definition
willing to lower ones self to someone elses level
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Condescend
Definition
to lower ones self to someone elses level
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Germane
Definition
relevant, pertinent, related to
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Manifestation
Definition
A shoing forth, a reavealing
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Impetus
Definition
A driving force, an inspiration
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Impetuous
Definition
Heedless, rash, impulsive
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Genre
Definition
a type or classification, esp. of literature, film, art
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Parody
Definition
an imitation whose goal is to mock and make fun of the ting imitated, a form of satir
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Elegy
Definition
serious poem about death
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Foil
Definition
contrasting charcter in literature
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Rhetoric
Definition
the use of words to create a specific effect
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Paradox
Definition
A seeming condraction that expresses a higher truth
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Hyperbole
Definition
An axaggeration to creat a specif effect
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Allusion
Definition
a reference --often indirct--to literature, art, film history, ect.
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Epiphany
Definition
A sudden intense momen tor flash of profound understanding
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Hubris
Definition
Excessive pride or arrogance that will offend the gods or other powers.
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Languid
Definition
lacking engergy or motiviation
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Pecuniary
Definition
having to do with money, fiscal, financial
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Charnel
Definition
having to do with dead bodies
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Visage
Definition
face or the expression on the face
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contenance
Definition
face or facial expression
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hierarchy
Definition
ranking system
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lascivious/libidinou/licentious
Definition
having loose, indulgent sexual feelings
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apathy
Definition
total indifference
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ostentation/ostentatous/pretentious
Definition
displaying in a shower matter, flaunting
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sully/to taint/to besmirch
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to mar, to make dirty
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sublim
Definition
noble, lofty, mjestic
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contend
Definition
to argue, to struggle, to compete
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to feign
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to fake
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fain
Definition
wishfully--but is wished cannever occur
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in a trice
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in a moment, in an instant
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pale/beyond the pale
Definition
beyond what is normal
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equivocate
Definition
to sit on the fence, to NOT take a clear stand
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piety
Definition
deep religious devotion
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impiety
Definition
sacrilege, blasphemy,profanity
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vanquish
Definition
to conquer completely
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fallible
Definition
capable of making mistakes
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Posterity
Definition
generations to come or to follow
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verity/veracity
Definition
truth
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verisimilitude
Definition
very similar to reality
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obsequinous/servile/fawning
Definition
sucking up, brown nosing, slavishly submissive
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cerubim
Definition
angle once scary, now cutsey
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seraphim
Definition
6 winged angle
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supercilious
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haughty, disdainful of others, exceedingly proud and arrogant
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millinery
Definition
ladies' fine hats
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ambivalent
Definition
having mixed feelings
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ambiguous
Definition
unclear, hard to ascertain
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cogitat/ ruminate
Definition
ponder deeply
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niggardly/miserly/parsimonious/miser
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cheap, stingy, opposit of generous
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posthumous
Definition
after death
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ubiquitous
Definition
found everywhere, commonly found
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portentous
Definition
full for portents, full of omens, signs of things to come
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Ominous
Definition
thratenting
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Woo
Definition
to court, to seek the favor of the idea of joining together
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Whim/whimsical
Definition
a spontaneous, imagainative action
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caprice
Definition
sudden unpredictable action of change
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periphery
Definition
outer boudaires, margins
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nadir
Definition
lowest point
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zenith, apex, apogee, pinnacle
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highest point
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perdition
Definition
state of eamnation, hell, state of being damned
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dire, egregious
Definition
really, really bad; heinous
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knell
Definition
sounding or tollin of a bell
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transitory, ephemeral
Definition
fleeting, short-liveed, transient
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soporific
Definition
sleep=inducing, making one sleepy or drowsy
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malign
Definition
to bad moth, to say nasty things about
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malfeasance
Definition
wrong doing
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malice
Definition
nasty, evil inentions
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malevolent
Definition
evil wishing, intent on doing harm
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benevolent
Definition
well wishing, kindly deposed, good and kind
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benign
Definition
kindly desposed, good not harmful
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vulverable
Definition
capable of being hurt, at risk
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inexortable
Definition
merciless, ruthless, unstoppalbe, implacale and relentless
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pall
Definition
a cloth draped over a coffin; something that darkens in a gloomy way to cast a pall over
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shroud
Definition
a cloth to wrap a courpse in, a covering that obscures
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resolute
Definition
firm of prurpose, determined and unswayed
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laud
Definition
to praise
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avarice/rapacity/voracity
Definition
great all consuming greed
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loquacious/garrulous
Definition
chatty, talkative, running off aththe mouth
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incendiary
Definition
inflaming, causing fir literally or metaphorically, inflammatory
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verbose
Definition
excessively wordy eiter ini print or in oral use of words
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taciturn/ laconic
Definition
using few words, not inclined to speak
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tacit
Definition
upskoken, not put into words, implicit
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pernicious
Definition
harmful, injuirous to the point of death, runious, fatal
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occult
Definition
hving to do with the dark side of the supernatural
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morbid
Definition
characterized by a sick interes in death, diseas or dying
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moribund
Definition
in a state of dying or wasting away
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derelict
Definition
an aboundoned ruin or wreck
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penury
Definition
adject poverty, utter lack of resources
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misanthrope/misogynist
Definition
hater of humanity/ woman hater
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stark/ spartan
Definition
bare bone, no frills, having just hte bar minumum
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austere
Definition
stark, or severe and stern in manner
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denizen
Definition
a citizen, an inhabitant
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leviathan
Definition
a whale, a monster of vast size
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strumpet
Definition
a doxy, whore, prostitute, trollop
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cuckold
Definition
a man whose wife cheats on him with the implication that he cannot satifsy her physcially
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nuptial
Definition
havin to do with marragie or weddings
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discern
Definition
to see at a distance, to perceive something far away
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descry
Definition
to see at a distance, to perceive something far away
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sagacious, sage
Definition
wise, full of knowledge adn wisdom
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pasillanimous
Definition
cowardly, not brave but totally chicken
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consternation
Definition
serious concer or dismay
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tremulous
Definition
shaking, quivering, trembling (often form fear)
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vagaries
Definition
unpredictable, whimsical acts or happeining of instances
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obfuscated
Definition
to make unclear, to make obscure ad hard to understand, to render mruky and confusing
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deride
Definition
to mock, to make fun of in a nasty way
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denigrate
Definition
to bad mouth, to blacken by saying bad things about, to defame by criticizing in derogatory way
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deery
Definition
to publicly denounce or criticize
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diaphanous
Definition
stransparrent, see-through
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epitaph
Definition
final word, inscription on a tombstone
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epitaph
Definition
final word, inscription on a tombstone
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epithet
Definition
a characterieding or stereotyping phrase, often, but not always, derogatory
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epigram
Definition
short witty expression
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