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08/22/2011

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Absolution: noun:
Definition
Formal release from guilt, obligation, or punishment
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Alacrity: Noun:
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Brisk and cheerful readiness
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Antagonism: noun:
Definition
Active hostility or opposition.
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Antecedent: Noun:
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A thing or event that existed before or logically precedes another.
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Antithesis:
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A person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else
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Arbiter: noun
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A person who settles a dispute or has ultimate authority in a matter
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Archetypal: Adj.:
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Very typical of a certain kind of person or thing
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Cacophony: noun:
Definition
mixture of things.
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Capitulate: Verb
Definition
Cease to resist an opponent or an unwelcome demand; surrender.
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Clairvoyant: Noun:
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A person who claims to have a supernatural ability to perceive events in the future or beyond normal sensory contact.
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Collusion: noun:
Definition
Secret or illegal cooperation or conspiracy
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Collusion: noun:
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Secret or illegal cooperation or conspiracy
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Confluence: Noun:
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An act or process of merging
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Convergence: noun:
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The process or state of converging.
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Credulity: Noun:
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A tendency to be too ready to believe that something is real or true.
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Dissonance: noun:
Definition
Lack of harmony among musical notes. Or A tension or clash resulting from the combination of two disharmonious or unsuitable elements.
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Equivocal: Adj.:
Definition
Open to more than one interpretation.
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Etymology:
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The study of the origin of words and the way in which their meanings have changed throughout history.
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Exculpate:
Definition
Show or declare that someone is not guilty of wrongdoing.
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Expurgate: Verb:
Definition
Remove matter thought to be objectionable or unsuitable.
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Hapless: adj
Definition
Unfortunate
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Ignominious: adj
Definition
Deserving or causing public disgrace or shame.
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Incarnate:
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Invested with bodily nature and form
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Indigenous: Adj.:
Definition
Originating or occurring naturally in a particular place native
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Interlocutor: Noun:
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A person who takes part in a dialogue or conversation.
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Intransigent: Adj
Definition
Unwilling or refusing to change one's views or to agree about something.
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vInviolable: adj.
Definition
never to be broken or dishonored
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Mitigate: verb:
Definition
Make less severe, serious, or painful
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Obdurate: adj.:
Definition
Stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion or course of action
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Obsequious: adj.:
Definition
Obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree.
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Orator: Noun
Definition
A public speaker who is skilled.
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Perfidious: adj.:
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Deceitful and untrustworthy
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Plausible: adj
Definition
Seeming reasonable or probable.
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Preclude: verb:
Definition
Prevent from happening; make impossible
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Proclivity: Noun
Definition
A tendency to choose or do something regularly.
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Rectitude: Noun
Definition
Morally correct behavior or thinking righteousness
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Reverence: Noun:
Definition
Deep respect for.
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Subjugate: verb
Definition
Bring under domination or control.
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Superfluous: adj.:
Definition
Unnecessary through being more than enough.
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Transgress:
Definition
to take over or to go beyond
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Veracity: noun
Definition
Habitual truthfulness.
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Wistful: adj.:
Definition
Having or showing a feeling of vague or regretful longing
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