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Abjure
 Definition
to repudiate or refrain
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Abnegate
 Definition
to relinquish or renounce
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Abrogate
 Definition
to abolish
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Accede/Accession
 Definition
to acquire or consent
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Adduce
 Definition
to cite as an example or proof
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Adumbrate
 Definition
to vaguely foreshadow or suggest; to overshadow or obscure
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Adventitious
 Definition
extrinsic or associated with something by chance
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Animadversion
 Definition
adverse criticism
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Aplomb
 Definition
composure or poise
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Arrant
 Definition
total or unmitigated
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Asseverate
 Definition
to assert or allege
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Assonance
 Definition
resemblance of sound or cose juxtaposition of similar sounds
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Baleful
 Definition
pernicious or deadly; foreboding or threatening
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Bedraggled
 Definition
wet, soiled, or dilapidated
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Bemusing
 Definition
to bewilder or make confused; to distract or occupy attention of
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Benighted
 Definition
unenlightend or overtaken by darkness
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Bilious
 Definition
disagreeable or ill-natured
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Blithe/Blithely
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lighthearted or cheerful
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Bluster
 Definition
to talk boisterously or threateningly
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Bromide
 Definition
commonplace or hackneyed
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Byzantine
 Definition
secretive and devious; labyrinthine or intricatedly involved
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Cabal
 Definition
a group engaged in a secretive plot
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Cachet
 Definition
seal of approval
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Calorific
 Definition
related to heat production
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Canny
 Definition
clever or shrewd
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Careen
 Definition
to lurch or sway from side to side
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Carom
 Definition
combination shot in pool; to rebound at an angle
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Carouse/Carousal
 Definition
drunken revelry
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Cavil
 Definition
to raise a frivolous objection
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Clement
 Definition
lenient or mild
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Cloying
 Definition
disgusting by reason of excess
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Colloquy
 Definition
conversation or dialogue
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Concatenate
 Definition
to link together
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Consonance
 Definition
concord or harmony
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Consonant
 Definition
harmonious
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Contretemps
 Definition
a mishap or embarrassing occurence
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Contumacious
 Definition
stubbornly disobedient
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Demure
 Definition
reserved or modest
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Derelict
 Definition
abandoned or neglected
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Descant
 Definition
discourse or comment
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Descry
 Definition
to discover or catch sight of
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Din
 Definition
a loud noise
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Disconsolate
 Definition
sad or dejected
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Discursive
 Definition
rambling discourse
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Dissipated
 Definition
dissolute or degenerate
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Distaff
 Definition
woman's work or domain
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Dither
 Definition
to shiver or tremble; to act nervously or indecisively
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Dolor/Dolorous
 Definition
sadness or grief
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Doltish
 Definition
stupid
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Dotage
 Definition
senility
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Doughty
 Definition
valient or fearless resolution
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Dour
 Definition
stern or harsh; sullen or gloomy
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Droll
 Definition
humorous or whimsical
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Dudgeon
 Definition
state of indignation
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Dulcet
 Definition
melodious or harmonious
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Edacious
 Definition
voracious or greedy
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Effloresce
 Definition
to bloom or blossom
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Elegiac
 Definition
sadness for something past
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Elocution
 Definition
related to public speaking
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Endogamous
 Definition
marriage within a specific group as required by custom
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Enormity
 Definition
extreme wickedness
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Epigram
 Definition
a concise or wise saying
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Epitaph
 Definition
inscription at a tomb to commemorate something past
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Epithet
 Definition
a disparaging word or phrase
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Ersatz
 Definition
artificial or inferior substitute
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Esurient
 Definition
hungry or greedy
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Expatiate
 Definition
to wander; to speak or write at length
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Facile
 Definition
fluent or easy or skillful in a superficial way
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Farcical
 Definition
amusing or absurd
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Fealty
 Definition
intense loyalty or fidelity
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Feckless
 Definition
weak or ineffective; worthless or irresponsible
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Fell
 Definition
skin or hide or thin membrane
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Fetid
 Definition
unpleasant smell
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Fey
 Definition
doomed or marked by foreboding; visionary, crazy, or unconventional
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Flintily
 Definition
stern or unyielding
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Foist
 Definition
to introduce surreptitiously or pass of as genuine
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Forfend
 Definition
to protect or prevent
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Gambit
 Definition
scheme or ploy
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Gibe
 Definition
to taunt or mock
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Gratis
 Definition
free of charge
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Gyrate
 Definition
convoluted or coiled
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Harry
 Definition
to assault or move along by harassing
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Hidebound
 Definition
inflexible or ultraconservative or orthodox
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Immure
 Definition
to enclose or imprison
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Importune
 Definition
to urge with annoying persistence
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Improvident
 Definition
myopic or not foreseeing or providing for the future
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Incipient
 Definition
beginning or early
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Ineffable
 Definition
unspeakable or indescribable; taboo
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Inscrutable
 Definition
mysterious or not readily interpreted or investigated
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Insidious
 Definition
treacherous or seductive; subtle or having a gradual and cumulative effect
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Insouciant
 Definition
carefree or lighthearted
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Interdiction
 Definition
to prohibit or forbid; to intercept or destroy
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Involute
 Definition
intricate or curved
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Japery
 Definition
to mock or joke
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Jejune
 Definition
juvenile; dull or lacking nutrients
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Kismet
 Definition
fate or destiny
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Lachrymose
 Definition
tearful or causing tears
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Ligneous
 Definition
woodlike
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List
 Definition
to tilt or lean to one side
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Lithesome
 Definition
stretching or flexible
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Lubricious
 Definition
slippery or greasy; lewd or lascivious
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Luculent
 Definition
lucid or clear in thought or expression
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Lugubrious
 Definition
affedtedly mournful
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Lurid
 Definition
gruesome or shocking; ghastly in appearance; red glow of fire
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Manumission
 Definition
emancipation from slavery
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Martinet
 Definition
strict disciplinarian
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Maudlin
 Definition
tearfully sentimental
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Mellifluous
 Definition
sweetly flowing
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Moot
 Definition
deliberative assembly
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Mordant/Mordacious
 Definition
incisive or caustic
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Moribund
 Definition
approaching death; inactive or obsolete
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Munificent
 Definition
generous
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Nescience
 Definition
ignorance
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Nettlesome
 Definition
irritating
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Nonplus
 Definition
state of bafflement or perplexity
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Novitiate
 Definition
novice
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Objurgate
 Definition
harsh rebuke
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Obloquy
 Definition
abusive language; discredited
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Obsequy/Obsequies
 Definition
funeral or burial rite
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Obstreperous
 Definition
clamorous or unruly
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Odium/Odious
 Definition
hateful or repugnant
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Orotund
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sonorous or loud; pompous or bombastic
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Otiose
 Definition
lazy or futile
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Palaver
 Definition
conference or discussion; idle or misleading speech
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Patina
 Definition
surface discoloration
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Penitential
 Definition
sorrow for sins
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Percipient
 Definition
perceptive
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Peremptory
 Definition
urgent or putting an end to something; haughty or imperious
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Peripatetic
 Definition
itinerant or wandering
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Periphrais/Periphrastic
 Definition
wordiness or use of a longer phrase
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Perorate
 Definition
long oration
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Perspicuous
 Definition
clear or easily understood
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Pertinacious
 Definition
stubborn or persistent
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Pettish
 Definition
peevish or choleric
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Pillory
 Definition
means for exposing someone to public scorn
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Plangent
 Definition
loud or mournful sound
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Plaudit
 Definition
round of applause or enthusiastic approval
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Plebiscite
 Definition
referendum or popular vote
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Plod
 Definition
to drudge or work monotonously; to trudge or walk sluggishly
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Prepossession
 Definition
prejudiced or preoccupied
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Prize
 Definition
to pry open
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Propinquity
 Definition
proximity
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Protean
 Definition
versatile
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Provender
 Definition
vituals or food
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Prurient
 Definition
immoderate sexuality
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Pulchritude
 Definition
physical beauty
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Purgation
 Definition
to clear of guilt
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Quaff
 Definition
to drink deeply
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Quay
 Definition
landing or wharf or pier on edge of water
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Rail/Raillery
 Definition
banter or good-natured ridicule
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Rake/Rakish
 Definition
dissolute or degenerate
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Rebarbative
 Definition
repellant or irritating
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Recreant
 Definition
cowardly or unfaithful to duty
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Redolent
 Definition
fragrant; suggestive or reminiscent
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Redress
 Definition
to remedy or compensate
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Renitent
 Definition
recalcitrant or resistant
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Riposte
 Definition
retort or retaliatory maneuver
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Roil
 Definition
to disturb or make turbid
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Scabrous
 Definition
difficult problem; indecent theme
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Scion
 Definition
detached portion of plant; descendent or heir
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Senescent
 Definition
state of being old
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Sententious
 Definition
ditactic or given to aphorisms or excessive moralizing
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Sibilant
 Definition
producing a snakelike hiss
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Sidle
 Definition
to subtly move or turn sideways
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Simper
 Definition
to smile in a silly manner
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Skein
 Definition
tangled or twisted
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Slake
 Definition
to crumble with water; to satisfy or quench
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Sobriquet
 Definition
nickname
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Sordid
 Definition
dirty or vile; covetous
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Squalor/Squalid
 Definition
sordid or dirty from neglect
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Staid
 Definition
sober or grave
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Stolid
 Definition
stoic or unemotional
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Stygian
 Definition
gloomy or dark
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Sully
 Definition
to make dirty or defile
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Superannuated
 Definition
outmoded; disqualified by advanced age
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Supercilious
 Definition
arrogant or patronizing
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Supererogatory
 Definition
superfluous or excessive
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Sybarite
 Definition
hedonist or decadent
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Temerity
 Definition
recklessness or foolhardy
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Tendentious
 Definition
biased
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Tepid
 Definition
lukewarm
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Thrall
 Definition
state of servitude
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Threnody
 Definition
elegy or song of lamentation
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Timorous
 Definition
fearful or shy
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Trammeled
 Definition
to confine or catch
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Transmogrify
 Definition
to change with grotesque or humorous effect
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Umbrage
 Definition
feeling of resentment; to hint or suspect
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Unctuous
 Definition
affected or pious
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Untoward
 Definition
unruly; unlucky; improper
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Venal
 Definition
purchaseable with bribery; capable of being corrupted
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Victual
 Definition
food or provisions
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Vilipended
 Definition
to disparage
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Vitiate
 Definition
to impair or debase
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Voluble
 Definition
rotating; glib or fluent
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Voluptuary
 Definition
hedonist or decadent
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Wag
 Definition
a joker
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Wanton
 Definition
bawdy or lewd; merciless; extravagant
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Waspish
 Definition
petulant or rude
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Wizened
 Definition
shriveled or withered
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