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| keen, accurate judgment or insight |
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| to reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients |
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Amalgamate (verb)
noun form: amalgamation |
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| to combine several elements into a whole |
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outdated;
associated with an earlier, perhaps more primitive, time |
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to state as a fact;
to declare or assert |
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| to provide support or reinforcement |
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Bombastic (adj) >:/
noun form: bombast |
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to disguise or conceal;
to mislead |
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| departing from norms or conventions |
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| characteristic of or often found in a particular locality, religion, or people |
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tending to disappear like vapor;
vanishing |
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| to make worse or more severe |
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Fervent (adj)
noun form: fervor |
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| greatly emotional or zealous |
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| happening by accident or chance |
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relevant to the subject at hand;
appropriate in subject matter |
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Grandiloquence (noun) >:/
adj form: grandiloquent |
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| pompous speech or expression |
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rendered trite or commonplace by frequent usage;
cliche |
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| devotion to pleasurable pursuits esp. to the pleasures of the senses |
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| the consistent dominance of one state or ideology over others |
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| one who attacks or undermines traditional conventions or institutions |
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Idolatrous (adj)
noun form: idolatry |
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| given to intense or excessive devotion to something |
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| marked by extreme calm, impassivity, and steadiness |
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| not capable of being appeased or significantly changed |
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| immunity from punishment or penalty |
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in an initial stage;
not fully formed |
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unfortunate;
inappropriate |
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without taste or flavor;
lacking in spirit;
bland |
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Loquacious (adj)
noun form: loquacity |
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| characterized by brightness and the emission of late |
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Malevolent (adj) >:(
noun form: malevolence |
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| having or showing often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred |
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capable of being shaped or formed;
tractable;
pliable |
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Mendacity (noun) >:(
adj form: mendacious |
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the condition of being untruthful;
dishonesty |
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Meticulous (adj)
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characterized by extreme care and precision;
attentive to detail |
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Misanthrope (noun) >:(
adj form: misanthropic |
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one who hates all other humans;
Warren |
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to make or become less severe or intense;
to moderate |
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| exhibiting a fawning attentiveness |
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| the profession or principles of teaching or instructing |
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overly concerned with the trivial details of learning or education;
show-offish about one's knowledge |
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| having the tendency to permeate or spread throughout |
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to yearn intensely;
to weaken;
to lose vigor |
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Pirate (verb) P)
onomatopoeia: yarr! |
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| to illegally use or reproduce |
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| the essential or central part |
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to appease;
to calm by making a compromise |
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a superficial remark, esp. one offered as meaningful;
a cliche |
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| to plunge or drop straight down |
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controversial;
argumentative |
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recklessly wasteful;
extravagant;
profuse;
lavish |
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| given or coming forth abundantly; extravagant |
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| to grow or increase swiftly and abundantly |
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questions;
doubts in the mind;
reservations |
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| prone to complaining or grumbling |
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Rancorous (adj)
noun form: rancor |
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| characterized by bitter, long-lasting resentment |
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defiant of authority;
difficult to manage |
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to refuse to have anything to do with;
to disown |
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to invalidate;
to repeal;
to retract |
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Reverent (adj) :)
noun form: reverence |
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| marked by, feeling, or expressing a feeling of profound awe and respect |
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| the art or study of effective use of language for communication and persuasion ;) |
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| promoting health or well-being |
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able to meet financial obligations;
able to dissolve another substance |
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seeming true, but actually being fallacious;
misleadingly attractive;
plausible but false |
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lacking authenticity or validity;
false, counterfeit |
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| a court order requiring appearance and/or testimony |
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| exceeding what is sufficient or necessary |
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an overabundant supply;
excess;
to feed or supply to excess |
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Tenacity (noun) :)
adj form: tenacious |
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the quality of adherence or persistence to something valued;
persistent determination |
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having little substance or strength;
flimsy, weak |
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a long and extremely critical speech;
a harsh denunciation |
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fleeing;
passing quickly;
brief |
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Zealous (adj)
a person can be a zealot |
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fervent;
ardent;
devoted to a cause |
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