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Senior Year Vocabulary
Senior Year Vocabulary
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12th Grade
09/30/2010

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deciduous
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shedding leaves, not permanent; transitory
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soporific
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sleep inducing, sleepy
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castigate
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to scold or punish severely
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iniquitous
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showing lack of fairness; wicked; vicious
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debility
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weakness. infirmity
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couch
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to put into words, express, phrase
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debonair
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courteous, graceful
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evanescent
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vanishing, fading away
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dogmatic
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strongly opinionated, rigid, dictatorial
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craven
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cowardly, a coward, to make cowardly
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fawning
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gaining the favor of another by acting kind or by using flattery
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ebullient
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filled with a bubbly excitement, as if boiling over with excitement.
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stolid
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lacking emotion or not showing any emotion, stoical
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extol
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to praise highly, laud
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euphony
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pleasany sound, pleasing to the ear
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laconic
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using few words in speech
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titular
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in name and title only; so-called
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pithy
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brief and full of meaning and substance; concise
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subsidiary
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serving to assist or supplement; secondary, dependent
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quiescent
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quiet; still; inactive
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impunity
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freedom from punishment
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stint
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restriction; limit OR to be sparing in giving or using
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circumlocution
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speaking in circles; roundabout speech
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strident
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harsh-sounding; shrill; grating
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immutable
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unchangeable
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impalpable
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not perceptible to the touch; too subtle to be easily understood
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grandiloquent
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using big and fancy words when speaking for the purpose of impressing others
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ostentatious
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having to do with showing off; pretentious
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supercilious
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looking down on others; proud and scornful
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colloquial
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pertaining to common everyday speech; conversational
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superfluous
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beyond what is required; not necessary
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importune
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to request urgently and repeatedly
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impregnable
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unconquerable, unyielding
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surreptitious
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secret, stealthy
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banal
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dull or stale because of overuse; trite; hackneyed
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impute
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to attribute, charge with or give credit
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sycophant
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insincere flatterer
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derivative
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unoriginal; taken from something already existing
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vapid
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lacking freshness and zest; flat; stale
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ameliorate
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to make better; to lessen pain, difficulty, or tension
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efficacious
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effective, produces results
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mollify
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to pacify, soothe, or appease; to make less severe or violent
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eminent
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prominent, famous, well-known
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convival
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sociable, outgoing in a festive way, especially when pertaining to eating and drinking; fond of good company
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jocular
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liking to be with people, joke around with them and have fun
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palliate
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to ease, reduce, soften
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venal
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capable of being bought, corrupt
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perspicacity
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keen judgement, ability to see through
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iconoclast
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one who ignores tradition
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declivity
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a downward slope or sloping, as of a hill
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corpulent
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bulky, very fat, fleshy
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callow
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green, immature, unfledged
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misanthrope
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hater of mankind
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blight
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disease; a deteriorated condition
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reticent
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not talking much; reserved
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voluble
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talking with great ease; glib
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haughty
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having great pride in oneself and dislike for others
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platitude
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quality of being dull; an obvious remark uttered as if it were original
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allay
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to lessen fear; to calm; to relieve pain
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parsimonious
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overly thrifty or miserly
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cantankerous
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bad-tempered; quarrelsome
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dally
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to waste time; to loiter
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nefarious
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very mean and wicked
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amity
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friendship; peaceful harmony
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dastardly
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cowardly; sneaking
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infirm
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weak, impaired
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rancorous
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deeply hateful or spiteful; malicious
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carp
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to find fault; to be critical
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impugn
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to oppose or attack someone or somethign as false of refutable
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inimical
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unfriendly, hostile
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phlegmatic
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hard to get excited or emotional; calm; slow-moving
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polemical
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inclined to argue or debate; controversial
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innocuous
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inoffensive; harmless; without bad habit
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dearth
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scarcity, lack
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lassitude
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a tired feeling, usually resulting from depression or too much work
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odious
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loathsome, evil, revolting in a disgusting way
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exigency
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emergency, urgency
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deprecate
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to show mild disapproval
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excoriate
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to denounce or berate severely, flay verbally
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cupidity
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eager or excessive desire, especially to possess something, greed, avarice
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servile
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slave like, very humble and submissive
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avid
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showing enthusiasm, ardent
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inculcate
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to implant by repeated statement or admonition, teach persistently and earnestly
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hidebound
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strongly opinionated, narrow-mindedly stubborn
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amorphous
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lacking definite form, having no specific shape, formless
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vociferous
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loud and noisy regarding one's own voice, especially shouting; demandingly clamorous
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surfeit
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an oversupply
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abstemious
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holding back from eating or drinking too much
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peripatetic
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moving or walking about; itinerant
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antediluvian
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very, very old; antiquated
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vignette
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a brief descriptive passage in writing
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pathos
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the quality of a piece of writing that evokes pity, sympathy, or some other strong emotional response in the reader
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euphemism
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a more pleasant word or phrase that replaces another which is too direct, distasteful, or offensive.
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catharsis
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an emotional cleansing or release of emotional tensions, fears, or pity
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pedantic
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showy in one's learning, overly instructive
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defamation
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destroying a good reputation, slander
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schism
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division or separation
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sentient
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experiencing sensation and feeling
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indigent
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poor, needy
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contrite
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sorry for sin, penitent
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extraneous
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foreign, outside, not essential
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acclivity
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an upward slope, as of ground, an ascent
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fastidious
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delicate to a fault, dainty
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debunk
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to prove wrong or false
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vilify
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to slander or defame someone's name or reputation
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antithetical
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contrasting, exactly opposite
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fallow
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unused, uncultivated
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cajolery
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persuading by flattery, coaxing, entrapping
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upbraid
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to chide, to scold bitterly
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toady
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a flatterer, a sycophant
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effervescent
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lively; full of uplifted spirit; vivacious
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recalcitrant
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stubborn, disobedient, defiant
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din
Definition
ongoing loud sound, noise
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satiety
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state of being filled, excess of gratification
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amelioration
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improvement, change for the better
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decry
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to denounce or condemn openly, censure
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contiguous
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touching; in contact; adjacent in time
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indefatigable
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never tiring
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chromatic
Definition
of or pertaining to colors
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