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KEMP final vocab quiz
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General Vocab
10th Grade
05/17/2009

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Term
ABASE
Definition
to degrade, humiliate, demean, humble
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MALIGN
Definition
to slander, defame
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OVERT
Definition
unconcealed, open, manifest
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DEBONAIR
Definition
suave, nonchalant, carefree, lighthearted
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INSOLVENT
Definition
bankrupt
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RESPITE
Definition
a pause, rest
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ROTUND
Definition
plump, rounded
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HOVEL
Definition
an open shed, a hut, a miserable dwelling
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INORDINATE
Definition
excessive, immoderate, exorbitant
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INTRACTABLE
Definition
stubborn, obstinate, unmanageable
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MANIFEST
Definition
evident, obvious, apparent
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VERTIGO
Definition
dizziness
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CONDUCIVE
Definition
favorable, helpful, promoting
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DISCONCERT
Definition
to confuse, perturb, upset
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INFUSE
Definition
to fill, instill, imbue
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PREDISPOSED
Definition
inclined, tending, susceptible
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REPROVE
Definition
to rebuke, scold, admonish, reprimand
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SUBTERFUGE
Definition
deception, artifice, stratagem
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ACQUIESCE
Definition
to agree, assent, go along
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ACRIMONIOUS
Definition
bitter, stinging, sharp, biting
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COPIOUS
Definition
plentiful, abundant, ample
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FURTIVE
Definition
secret, stealthy, sneaky
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HARBINGER
Definition
a forerunner, herald, precursor
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INCLEMENT
Definition
stormy, severe, harsh
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PORTENT
Definition
an omen, sign, augury
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ADVERSITY
Definition
misfortune, disaster, trouble, distress
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COGITATE
Definition
to ponder, meditate, think carefully
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CORPULENT
Definition
fat, stout, obese
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DERISIVE
Definition
mocking, ridiculing, scoffing
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DISCONSOLATE
Definition
heartbroken, dejected, depressed
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EXACERBATE
Definition
to aggrivate,embitter, irritate
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FELICITY
Definition
happiness, bliss, a pleasing manner
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OBLIVIOUS
Definition
forgetful, unaware, unmindful
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SQUALOR
Definition
filthiness, corruption,baseness
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AFFRAY
Definition
brawl, noisy quarrel
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ANTIPATHY
Definition
aversion, repugnance, distate, enmity
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ASPECT
Definition
a part or feature, trait, appearance
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CONTRITION
Definition
repentance, remorse, penitence
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IMPUDENT
Definition
shameless, disrespectful, impertinent, brazen
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INDOLENT
Definition
lazy, slothful
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INTERLOPER
Definition
an intruder, trespasser
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MILIEU
Definition
surroundings, enviroment, setting
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NEBULOUS
Definition
hazy, cloudy, indistinct, vague
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ODIOUS
Definition
hateful, abhorrent, offensive, detestable
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REPAST
Definition
a meal, food
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ASCRIBE
Definition
to attribute
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AUSPICIOUS
Definition
favorable, propitious, fortunate
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GLOWER
Definition
to scowl, frown
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GUILE
Definition
trickery, treachery, craftiness, duplicity
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OBDURATE
Definition
stubborn, inflexible, unyielding, intractable
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OBDURATE
Definition
stubborn, inflexible, unyielding, intractable
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PARITY
Definition
equality, equivalence, correspondence
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PAUCITY
Definition
scarcity, dearth, fewness,
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TRANSGRESS
Definition
to go beyond a limit, to violate, break
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TRAVAIL
Definition
toil, labor, suffering, anguish
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WAN
Definition
sickly, pale, pallid
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COMMISERATE
Definition
to sympathize, condole
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DISCERN
Definition
to notice, perceive, detect, distinguish
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PONDEROUS
Definition
heavy, massive, cumbersome, oppresive, dull
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SHIFTLESS
Definition
lazy, idle, lacking, ambition
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AMITY
Definition
friendship, peaceful relations
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GERMANE
Definition
relevant, pertinent, related
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GIBE
Definition
to jeer, taunt, mock, ridicule
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INIMITABLE
Definition
matchless, unique
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ITINERANT
Definition
journeying, traveling, nomadic, peripatetic
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MELLIFLUOUS
Definition
sweet-sounding, honeyed, smoothly flowing
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PUGNACIOUS
Definition
quarrelsome, belligerent, aggressive
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AFICIONADO
Definition
an ardent devotee, enthusiast, zealot
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CEDE
Definition
to give up, grant,relinquish
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DEBASE
Definition
to corrupt, degrade, adulterate, vitiate
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FOMENT
Definition
to stir up, instigate, incite
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FORBEARANCE
Definition
patience, restraint
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JOCOSE
Definition
humorous, playful, merry
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VEX
Definition
to irritate, annoy, bother

to puzzle, perplex, baffle
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BURGEON
Definition
to develop, flourish, sprout
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DISTEND
Definition
to swell, expand, bloat
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INTIMATION
Definition
suggestion, hint
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INVIOLATE
Definition
intact, undisturbed, unprofaned
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LUMINARY
Definition
celebrity, notable, leading light
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PANACHE
Definition
flair, verve, dash, swagger
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PARRY
Definition
to ward off, deflect, evade
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SURREPTITIOUS
Definition
secret, clandestine, stealty, covert
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UPBRAID
Definition
to scold, censure, reprove
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DISPARATE
Definition
unlike, dissimilar, different, diverse
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PECUNIARY
Definition
monetary, financial
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PROVISO
Definition
a stipulation, condition, reservation, provision
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REMISS
Definition
careless, inattentive, negligent
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STIGMA
Definition
a stain, brand, mark of disgrace
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TRUNCATE
Definition
to cut short, lop
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VAPID
Definition
lifeless, flat, uninteresting, insipid
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ABSTEMIOUS
Definition
sparing, abstinent
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FLACCID
Definition
flabby, limp
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DAUNT
Definition
to discourage, dismay, intimidate
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MESMERIZE
Definition
to hypnotize, spellbind, enthrall
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PEEVISH
Definition
irritable, cross, fretful, querulous
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PRODIGY
Definition
a marvel, woner

a person with exceptional talent
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TENET
Definition
a belief, dogma, doctrine
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DOLOROUS
Definition
mournful, sorrowful, melancholy, lugubrious
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FRETFUL
Definition
irritable, peevish, petulant
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PROGENY
Definition
descendants, offspring
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AMBIENCE
Definition
enviroment, milieu
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CATACLYSM
Definition
disaster, catastrophic, violent upheaval
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DEMISE
Definition
death
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HINTERLAND
Definition
backcountry, remote area, interior region
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IMBROGLIO
Definition
predicament, confused situation, entanglement
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MISCREANT
Definition
villain, scoundrel, evildoer

an infidel, heretic
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QUAFF
Definition
to drink deeply
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CHOLERIC
Definition
bad-tempered, irascible
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DULCET
Definition
sweet, melodious
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OBSEQUIOUS
Definition
fawning, servile
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REMUNERATE
Definition
to pay for, pay to
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TIMOROUS
Definition
fearful, timid, apprehensive
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CHURLISH
Definition
rude, boorish, loutish
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DILATE
Definition
to widen, expand
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HIATUS
Definition
a gap, interruption, break
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LASSITUDE
Definition
weariness, lethargy, languor, listlessness
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PETULANT
Definition
irritable, peevish, ill-tempered
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REVERIE
Definition
daydream, fanciful musing
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SAGACIOUS
Definition
shrewd, astute, judicious, wise
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DIRE
Definition
fearful, disastrous

extreme, urgent
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EBULLIENCE
Definition
enthusiasm, exuberance, high spirits
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HAPLESS
Definition
unlucky, unfortunate
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INCULATE
Definition
to instill, implant, teach earnestly
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INFINITESIMAL
Definition
tiny, minute, immeasureably small
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NOXIOUS
Definition
harmful, injurious, destructive
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PARSIMONIOUS
Definition
stingy
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POTABLE
Definition
drinkable, fit to drink
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VOCIFEROUS
Definition
clamorous, boisterous
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ABJECT
Definition
wretched, humiliating, contemptible, despicable
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BLITHE
Definition
joyful, glad, cheerful

carefree, casual, heedless
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CATARACT
Definition
waterfull, downpour, deluge
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OBFUSCATE
Definition
to darken, make indistinct

to confuse, bewilder, make obscure
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OBSTREPEROUS
Definition
noisy, tumultuous, unruly, boisterous
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OSSIFY
Definition
to change into bone, harden
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PORTEND
Definition
to forebode, foreshadow
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PROTRACT
Definition
to prolong, drag out
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ANCILLARY
Definition
auxiliary, secondary, subordinate, subsidary
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BELIE
Definition
to contradict, prove false
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INIQUITOUS
Definition
wicked, sinful, villainous
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PROPINQUITY
Definition
nearness, proximity
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TENABLE
Definition
defensible, reasonable
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ASSIDUOUS
Definition
diligent, devoted, constant, sedulous
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ESCHEW
Definition
to shun, abstain, avoid
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PERFIDY
Definition
treachery, faithlessness
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PRODIGIOUS
Definition
huge, enormous, tremendous, stupendous
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SINUOUS
Definition
curving, winding
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UBIQUITOUS
Definition
omnipresent, existing everywhere at once
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APPRISE
Definition
to inform, cause to know
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EXPIATION
Definition
atonement, ammends, reparation
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EXTANT
Definition
still existing, not lost or destroyed
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FATUOUS
Definition
foolish, inane, silly
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INCOMMODE
Definition
to disturb, inconvenience, trouble
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INCREDULOUS
Definition
skeptical, disinclined to believe
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INVECTIVE
Definition
abuse
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ONEROUS
Definition
burdensome, troublesome, oppresive
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PROPITIOUS
Definition
favorable, auspicious, encouraging

benelovent, kindly
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RUMINATE
Definition
to meditate, muse, ponder
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ADMONISH
Definition
to warn, reprove, rebuke
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HIRSUTE
Definition
hairy, shaggy
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IGNOMINIOUS
Definition
humiliating, disgraceful
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IMPLACABLE
Definition
relentless, inexorable, unappeasable
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VOLUBLE
Definition
talkative, wordy
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ANOMALY
Definition
deviation, irregularity, abnormality, inconsistency
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FERAL
Definition
wild, savage, brutal
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PAROXYSM
Definition
spasm, convulsion, sudden outburst
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TRIBULATION
Definition
suffering, affliction, hardship, trial
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STODGY
Definition
dull, pompous, stuffy
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SUFFUSE
Definition
to overspread, spread through
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CELERITY
Definition
swiftness, quickness
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ABLUTION
Definition
cleansing or washing of the body
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ABRADE
Definition
to wear away, erode, scrape
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ABSTRUSE
Definition
hard to understand, obscure, mysterious
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