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09/12/2011

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Variegated
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Multicolored; characterized by different patches of different colors
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Vituperate
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To use harsh, condemnatory language; berate
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Abjure
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To renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid
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Adumbrate
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Foreshadow vaguely; to suggest or outline sketchily; to obscure or over shadow
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Anathema
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Solemn or ecclesiastical curse, thoroughly loathed person or thing
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Anodyne
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Soothing, something that assuages or allays pain or comforts
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Apogee
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Zenith
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Apostate
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One who abandons long held religious or political convictions
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Jejune
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Vapid, childish, immature, puerile
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Lubricious
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Lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery
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Cavil
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To find fault w/o reason
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Contumacious
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Rebellious, insubordinate
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Descry
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To discriminate or discern
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Precipitate
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Acting w/ excessive haste or impulse
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Prevaricate
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To deliberately avoid the truth, to mislead
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Mendacity
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Dishonesty; being untruthful
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Obsequious
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Exhibiting a fawning attentiveness
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Effrontery
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Extreme boldness; presumptuousness
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Enervate
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To weaken; to reduce in vitality
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Equivocate
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To use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent
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Exigent
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Urgent, pressing; requiring immediate action or attention
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Captious
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To disposed to point out trivial faults, calculated to confuse
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Virulent
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Extremely harmful or poisonous; bitterly hostile or antagonistic
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Axiomatic
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Taken as a given; possessing self-evident truth
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Apotheosis
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Deification, glorification to godliness, an exalted example, a model of excellence or perfection
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Asperity
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Severity, rigor, roughness, acrimony
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Asseverate
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To aver, allege, assert
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Truculent
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Fierce and cruel; eager to fight
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Desultory
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Random, aimless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose
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Diaphanous
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Transparent; gauzy
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Diffident
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Reserved, shy, unassuming; lacking in self-confidence
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