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07/13/2004

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fatuous
Definition
assinine, inane, mindless
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lassitude
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lack of vitality or energy
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mettle
Definition
heart, nerve, spunk, courage to carry on
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perfidy
Definition
treachery, betrayal, treason
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antipathy
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the object of a feeling of intense aversion, something to be avoided
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palaver
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loud and confused and empty talk
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pap
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worthless or oversimplified ideas
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deleterious
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hurtful, injurous, noxious
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craven
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an abject coward
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obdurate
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stony, showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings
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avuncular
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friendly toward a younger, less experienced person
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lugubrious
Definition
excessively mournful
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unctuous
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buttery, fulsome, oily; unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech
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alembic
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an obsolete distilling apparatus
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perspicacious
Definition
acutely insightful and wise
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excrescence
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a distinct outgrowth on a body, especially as the result of disease or abnormality
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sagacious
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acutely insightful
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polemical
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invovling dispute or controversy
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ubiquitous
Definition
omnipresent, existing everywhere at once
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peripatetic
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person who walks from place to place
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vituperative
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vilify, revile, spread negative information about
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vicissitudes
Definition
mutability in life or nature, a variation in circumstances or fortune
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dilettante
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one who cultivates an area of interest without real knowledge
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incipient
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an initial stage
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ascetic
Definition
severe self-discipline and abstention from self indulgence
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adumbrate
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insinuate, intimate
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insensate
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devoid of feelings and consciousness
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panegyric
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laudatory discourse
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ineffable
Definition
too great for description in words
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antipathy
Definition
deep aversion or dislike
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febrile
Definition
having a great deal of nervous energy
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dilatory
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slow to act
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equivocation
Definition
use ambiguous language to conceal the truth or to avoid committing oneself
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redolent
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strongly reminiscent or suggestive
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vagary
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caprice, impulse, whim
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aegis
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auspices, protection
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pedantry
Definition
display of learning
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rife
Definition
excessively abundant
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dialectic
Definition
enquiry into metaphysical contradictions and their solutions
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vitiate
Definition
render ineffective
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umbrage
Definition
feeling of anger caused by an offense
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penury
Definition
indigence, need, pauperism
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apothoeosis
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model of excellence or perfection
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bilious
Definition
sickly
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exigency
Definition
sudden, unforeseen crisis
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nexus
Definition
connection or series of connections between two things
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hegemony
Definition
domination of one state over its allies
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didactic
Definition
excessively instructive
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trope
Definition
figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression
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agonistic
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combative, polemical
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instantiate
Definition
represent as or by an instance
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elegiac
Definition
having a mournful quality
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alterity
Definition
the state of being different
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