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Name:	Englisch - SAT
Erstellt von:	Jörg-Michael Grassau
Erstellt am:	11.06.2002
Copyright:	wichtiger Copyright-Hinweis zu den Wortschätzen auf vokabeln.de
Inhalt:	Anspruchsvolle englische Begriffe mit anspruchsvollen englischen Erklärungen, ursprünglich für (muttersprachliche) US-amerikanische College-Bewerber zur Vorbereitung des Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT).
Kommentar:	Die Reihenfolge der Vokabeln ist zufällig.
Kategorie:	Wortart (3 Einträge)

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impunity	Freedom from punishment.
alteration	Change or modification.
intuition	Instinctive knowledge or feeling.
hideous adj	Appalling.
tantamount adj	Having equal or equivalent value, effect, or import.
to conspire	To plot.
resonance adj	Able to reinforce sound by sympathetic vibrations.
unbearable adj	Unendurable.
diligence	Careful and persevering effort to accomplish what is undertaken.
truthful adj	Veracious.
expanse	A continuous area or stretch.
treachery	Violation of allegiance, confidence, or plighted faith.
destitute adj	Poverty-stricken.
covey	A flock of quails or partridges.
controller	One who or that which regulates or directs.
hysteria	A nervous affection occurring typically in paroxysms of laughing and crying.
homage	Reverential regard or worship.
felonious adj	Showing criminal or evil purpose.
cameo	Any small engraved or carved work in relief.
submersible adj	Capable of being put underwater.

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successful adj	Having reached a high degree of worldly prosperity.
diverse adj	Capable of various forms.
indelible adj	That can not be blotted out, effaced, destroyed, or removed.
omnivorous adj	Eating or living upon food of all kinds indiscriminately.
derrick	An apparatus for hoisting and swinging great weights.
caricature	a picture or description in which natural characteristics are exaggerated or distorted.
conjugate adj	Joined together in pairs.
precursor	A forerunner or herald.
ligature	Anything that constricts, or serves for binding or tying.
zephyr	Any soft, gentle wind.
non-resident adj	Not residing within a given jurisdiction.
monstrosity	Anything unnaturally huge or distorted.
hospitality	The practice of receiving and entertaining strangers and guests with kindness.
to emblazon	To set forth publicly or in glowing terms.
precision	Accuracy of limitation, definition, or adjustment.
to donate	To bestow as a gift, especially for a worthy cause.
plural adj	Containing or consisting of more than one.
juvenile adj	Characteristic of youth.
finally adv	At last.
to resuscitate	To restore from apparent death.

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octagon	A figure with eight sides and eight angles.
needlework	Embroidery.
profession	Any calling or occupation involving special mental or other special disciplines.
menace	A threat.
to condescend	To come down voluntarily to equal terms with inferiors.
to elicit	To educe or extract gradually or without violence.
to participate	To receive or have a part or share of.
committal	The act, fact, or result of committing, or the state of being
efficient adj	Having and exercising the power to produce effects or results.
progeny	Offspring.
propeller	One who or that which propels.
pathos	The quality in any form of representation that rouses emotion or sympathy.
flora	The aggregate of plants growing without cultivation in a district.
hazard	Risk.
prehension	The act of laying hold of or grasping.
criterion	A standard by which to determine the correctness of a judgment or conclusion.
reproof	An expression of disapproval or blame personally addressed to one censured.
dissuasion	The act of changing the purpose of or altering the plans of through persuasion, or pleading.
sacrilegious adj	Impious.
decency	Moral fitness.

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lingo	Language.
solecism	Any violation of established rules or customs.
retrospective adj	Looking back on the past.
handwriting	Penmanship.
medicine	A substance possessing or reputed to possess curative or remedial properties.
supine adj	Lying on the back.
toilsome adj	Laborious.
burgess	In colonial times, a member of the lower house of the legislature of Maryland or Virginia.
atrocious adj	Outrageously or wantonly wicked, criminal, vile, or cruel.
motto	An expressive word or pithy sentence enunciating some guiding rule of life, or faith.
saline adj	Constituting or consisting of salt.
invective	An utterance intended to cast censure, or reproach.
pillory	A wooden framework in which an offender is fastened to boards and is exposed to public scorn.
to prophesy	To predict or foretell, especially under divine inspiration and guidance.
indulgence	The yielding to inclination, passion, desire, or propensity in oneself or another.
systematic adj	Methodical.
evidential adj	Indicative.
to exorcise	To cast or drive out by religious or magical means.
assassin	One who kills, or tries to kill, treacherously or secretly.
to grapple	To take hold of.

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specimen	One of a class of persons or things regarded as representative of the class.
to misunderstand	To Take in a wrong sense.
scintilla	The faintest ray.
shrinkage	A contraction of any material into less bulk or dimension.
diplomatist	One remarkable for tact and shrewd management.
plenteous adj	Abundant.
sequent adj	Following in the order of time.
atrocity	Great cruelty or reckless wickedness.
lifelike adj	Realistic.
ordinal	That form of the numeral that shows the order of anything in a series, as first, second, third.
non-existent	That which does not exist.
decoy	Anything that allures, or is intended to allures into danger or temptation.
reducible adj	That may be reduced.
conjecture	A guess.
abstinence	Self denial.
kingship	Royal state.
clangor	Clanking or a ringing, as of arms, chains, or bells; clamor.
conversion	Change from one state or position to another, or from one form to another.
lordling	A little lord.
expressive adj	Full of meaning.

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eligible adj	Qualified for selection.
to connote	To mean; signify.
to atone	To make amends for.
levity	Frivolity.
covenant	An agreement entered into by two or more persons or parties.
athwart adv	From side to side.
physique	The physical structure or organization of a person.
to query	To make inquiry.
nominal adj	Trivial.
judicature	Distribution and administration of justice by trial and judgment.
beneficial adj	Helpful.
to discipline	To train to obedience.
compulsion	Coercion.
foresail	A square sail.
exorbitance	Extravagance or enormity.
therefor adv	For that or this.
verbiage	Use of many words without necessity.
veracious adj	Habitually disposed to speak the truth.
perspicacious adj	Astute.
inexperience	Lack of or deficiency in experience.

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shiftless adj	Wanting in resource, energy, or executive ability.
definite adj	Having an exact signification or positive meaning.
to rejoin	To reunite after separation.
rationalism	The formation of opinions by relying upon reason alone, independently of authority.
to irritate	To excite ill temper or impatience in.
frigid adj	Lacking warmth.
cursive adj	Writing in which the letters are joined together.
prescription	An authoritative direction.
palpable	perceptible by feeling or touch.
curio	A piece of bric-a-brac.
to placate	To bring from a state of angry or hostile feeling to one of patience or friendliness.
treacherous adj	Perfidious.
pastoral adj	Having the spirit or sentiment of rural life.
overtone	A harmonic.
to excavate	To remove by digging or scooping out.
fretful adj	Disposed to peevishness.
unicellular adj	Consisting of a single cell.
collector	One who makes a collection, as of objects of art, books, or the like.
odious adj	Hateful.
remiss adj	Negligent.

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submarine adj	Existing, done, or operating beneath the surface of the sea.
impure adj	Tainted.
overproduction	Excessive production.
hexapod adj	Having six feet.
expeditious adj	Speedy.
ridicule	Looks or acts expressing amused contempt.
to bemoan	To lament
ichthyology	The branch of zoology that treats of fishes.
pendulous adj	Hanging, especially so as to swing by an attached end or part.
negligee	A loose gown worn by women.
mobocracy	Lawless control of public affairs by the mob or populace.
impassible adj	Not moved or affected by feeling.
submergence	The act of submerging.
moderator	The presiding officer of a meeting.
imbroglio	A misunderstanding attended by ill feeling, perplexity, or strife.
requisite adj	Necessary.
luminescence	Showing increase.
credible adj	Believable.
inedible adj	Not good for food.
course	Line of motion or direction.

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abomination	A very detestable act or practice.
narration	The act of recounting the particulars of an event in the order of time or occurrence.
indistinct adj	Vague.
paramount adj	Supreme in authority.
prudery	An undue display of modesty or delicacy.
to compliment	To address or gratify with expressions of delicate praise.
semiconscious adj	Partially conscious.
subconscious adj	Being or occurring in the mind, but without attendant consciousness or conscious perception.
abstemious adj	Characterized by self denial or abstinence, as in the use of drink, food.
unanimous adj	Sharing the same views or sentiments.
discord	Absence of harmoniousness.
finesse	Subtle contrivance used to gain a point.
omniscience	Unlimited or infinite knowledge.
subsistence	Sustenance.
conscious adj	Aware that one lives, feels, and thinks.
to vociferate	To utter with a loud and vehement voice.
odoriferous adj	Having or diffusing an odor or scent, especially an agreeable one.
caption	A heading, as of a chapter, section, document, etc.
emergence	A coming into view.
lexicography	The making of dictionaries.

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repellent adj	Having power to force back in a manner, physically or mentally.
euphony	Agreeableness of sound.
to overreach	To stretch out too far.
cornucopia	The horn of plenty, symbolizing peace and prosperity.
privity	Knowledge shared with another or others regarding a private matter.
sluggard	A person habitually lazy or idle.
summary	An abstract.
philanthropist	One who endeavors to help his fellow men.
tilth	Cultivation.
malefactor	One who injures another.
dissent	Disagreement.
miser	A person given to saving and hoarding unduly.
indefensible adj	Untenable.
satyr	A very lascivious person.
diversity	Dissimilitude.
pillage	Open robbery, as in war.
factious adj	Turbulent.
to depopulate	To remove the inhabitants from.
improvident adj	Lacking foresight or thrift.
fungous adj	Spongy.

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reservoir	A receptacle where a quantity of some material, especially of a liquid or gas, may be kept.
trident	The three-pronged fork that was the emblem of Neptune.
facetious adj	Amusing.
armful	As much as can be held in the arm or arms.
to minimize	To reduce to the smallest possible amount or degree.
demeanor	Deportment.
variance	Change.
reverent adj	Humble.
acetic adj	Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of vinegar.
incessant adj	Unceasing.
to transfigure	To give an exalted meaning or glorified appearance to.
to bequeath	To give by will.
authentic adj	Of undisputed origin.
retroactive adj	Operative on, affecting, or having reference to past events, transactions, responsibilities.
dissimilar adj	Different.
continuous adj	Connected, extended, or prolonged without separation or interruption of sequence.
to liberate	To set free or release from bondage.
prodigy	A person or thing of very remarkable gifts or qualities.
to preempt	To secure the right of preference in the purchase of public land.
duteous adj	Showing submission to natural superiors.

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dead-heat	A race in which two or more competitors come out even, and there is no winner.
aghast adj	Struck with terror and amazement.
scythe	A long curved blade for mowing, reaping, etc.
hawthorn	A thorny shrub much used in England for hedges.
crustacean adj	Pertaining to a division of arthropods, containing lobsters, crabs, crawfish, etc.
decameter	A length of ten meters.
Neolithic adj	Pertaining to the later stone age.
to garrote	To execute by strangling.
judiciary	That department of government which administers the law relating to civil and criminal justice.
divertible adj	Able to be turned from the accustomed course or a line of action already established.
to devise	To invent.
sapience	Deep wisdom or knowledge.
archbishop	The chief of the bishops of an ecclesiastical province in the Greek, Roman, and Anglican church.
wiry adj	Thin, but tough and sinewy.
infinite adj	Measureless.
exclusion	Non-admission.
bromine	A dark reddish-brown, non-metallic liquid element with a suffocating odor.
choleric adj	Easily provoked to anger.
pantomime	Sign-language.
to emaciate	To waste away in flesh.

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modish adj	Fashionable.
to boycott	To place the products or merchandise of under a ban.
acid	A sour substance.
to transfuse	To pour or cause to pass, as a fluid, from one vessel to another.
advocate	One who pleads the cause of another, as in a legal or ecclesiastical court.
noisy adj	Clamorous.
lithe adj	Supple.
intramural adj	Situated within the walls of a city.
tableau	An arrangement of inanimate figures representing a scene from real life.
inmost adj	Deepest within.
potion	A dose of liquid medicine.
hard-hearted adj	Lacking pity or sympathy.
to perambulate	To walk about.
to relent	To yield.
myriad	A vast indefinite number.
epidemic	Wide-spread occurrence of a disease in a certain region.
hilarious adj	Boisterously merry.
corrigible adj	Capable of reformation.
inconceivable adj	Incomprehensible.
whereupon adv	After which.

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pendulum	A weight hung on a rod, serving by its oscillation to regulate the rate of a clock.
subordinate adj	Belonging to an inferior order in a classification.
trivial adj	Of little importance or value.
apostasy	A total departure from one's faith or religion.
explosive adj	Pertaining to a sudden and violent outbreak.
to extinguish	To render extinct.
academician	A member of an academy of literature, art, or science.
unaccountable adj	Inexplicable.
precession	The act of going forward.
to overstride	To step beyond.
siren	A sea-nymph, described by Homer as dwelling between the island of Circe and Scylla.
irruption	Sudden invasion.
diversion	Pastime.
mirage	An optical effect looking like a sheet of water in the desert.
discomfort	The state of being positively uncomfortable.
conceit	Self-flattering opinion.
transference	The act of conveying from one person or place to another.
to involve	To draw into entanglement, literally or figuratively.
corpulent adj	Obese.
bitterness	Acridity, as to the taste.

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to vegetate	To live in a monotonous, passive way without exercise of the mental faculties.
insipid adj	Tasteless.
transparent adj	Easy to see through or understand.
to squabble	To quarrel.
to recoil	To start back as in dismay, loathing, or dread.
gourmand	A connoisseur in the delicacies of the table.
sensuous adj	Having a warm appreciation of the beautiful or of the refinements of luxury.
to intimidate	To cause to become frightened.
piccolo	A small flute.
to discover	To get first sight or knowledge of, as something previously unknown or unperceived.
to abjure	To recant, renounce, repudiate under oath.
sardonic adj	Scornfully or bitterly sarcastic.
pyx	A vessel or casket, usually of precious metal, in which the host is preserved.
skiff	Usually, a small light boat propelled by oars.
to acknowledge	To recognize; to admit the genuineness or validity of.
to console	To comfort.
improper adj	Not appropriate, suitable, or becoming.
physiology	The science of organic functions.
wizen-faced adj	Having a shriveled face.
socialist adj	One who advocates reconstruction of society by collective ownership of land and capital.

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to liquefy	To convert into a liquid or into liquid form.
introductory adj	Preliminary.
regimen	A systematized order or course of living with reference to food, clothing and personal habits.
ascension	The act of rising.
philately	The study and collection of stamps.
isle	An island.
to captivate	To fascinate, as by excellence. eloquence, or beauty.
to propel	To drive or urge forward.
sapient adj	Possessing wisdom.
dearth	Scarcity, as of something customary, essential ,or desirable.
to preclude	To prevent.
to recapitulate	To repeat again the principal points of.
insignificant adj	Without importance, force, or influence.
canto	One of the divisions of an extended poem.
to annihilate	To destroy absolutely.
tutelar adj	Protective.
assessor	An officer whose duty it is to assess taxes.
deference	Respectful submission or yielding, as to another's opinion, wishes, or judgment.
foreman	The head man.
quarterly adj	Occurring or made at intervals of three months.

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laxative adj	Having power to open or loosen the bowels.
linguist	One who is acquainted with several languages.
vegetal adj	Of or pertaining to plants.
antemundane adj	Pertaining to time before the world's creation.
licentious adj	Wanton.
artless adj	Ingenuous.
sensual adj	Pertaining to the body or the physical senses.
close-hauled adj	Having the sails set for sailing as close to the wind as possible.
demulcent	Any application soothing to an irritable surface
gravity	Seriousness.
domesticity	Life in or fondness for one's home and family.
stationary adj	Not moving.
finality	The state or quality of being final or complete.
notorious adj	Unfavorably known to the general public.
nimble adj	Light and quick in motion or action.
intercessor	A mediator.
respondent adj	Answering.
Christ	A title of Jesus
inarticulate adj	Speechless.
eulogy	A spoken or written laudation of a person's life or character.

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vista	A view or prospect.
pantoscope	A very wide-angled photographic lens.
specious adj	Plausible.
monopoly	The control of a thing, as a commodity, to enable a person to raise its price.
introspection	The act of observing and analyzing one's own thoughts and feelings.
piece	A loose or separated part, as distinguished from the whole or the mass.
torpor	Apathy.
epicycloid	A curve traced by a point on the circumference of a circle which rolls upon another circle.
to deride	To ridicule.
antistrophe	The inversion of terms in successive classes, as in "the home of joy and the joy of home".
infirmity	A physical, mental, or moral weakness or flaw.
to contaminate	To pollute.
to designate	To select or appoint, as by authority.
contradiction	The assertion of the opposite of that which has been said.
emblem	A symbol.
to enervate	To render ineffective or inoperative.
digraph	A union of two characters representing a single sound.
indigence	Poverty.
captious adj	Hypercritical.
syllabus	Outline of a subject, course, lecture, or treatise.

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punctual adj	Observant and exact in points of time.
to mutilate	To disfigure.
oral adj	Uttered through the mouth.
intrepid adj	Fearless and bold.
prejudice	A judgment or opinion formed without due examination of the facts.
chronology	The science that treats of computation of time or of investigation and arrangement of events.
indignant adj	Having such anger and scorn as is aroused by meanness or wickedness.
pertinacious adj	Persistent or unyielding.
to reprimand	To chide or rebuke for a fault.
facial adj	Pertaining to the face.
to gnash	To grind or strike the teeth together, as from rage.
declamation	A speech recited or intended for recitation from memory in public.
to infest	To be present in such numbers as to be a source of annoyance, trouble, or danger.
pecuniary adj	Consisting of money.
cardiac adj	Pertaining to the heart.
icily adv	Frigidly.
to beck	To give a signal to, by nod or gesture.
expectancy	The act or state of looking forward to as certain or probable.
to outdo	To surpass.
obdurate adj	Impassive to feelings of humanity or pity.

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man-eater	An animal that devours human beings.
forthright adv	With directness.
devious adj	Out of the common or regular track.
cadenza	An embellishment or flourish, prepared or improvised, for a solo voice or instrument.
duplex adj	Having two parts.
abnormal adj	Not conformed to the ordinary rule or standard.
agile adj	Able to move or act quickly, physically, or mentally.
abstruse adj	Dealing with matters difficult to be understood.
meddlesome adj	Interfering.
blockade	The shutting up of a town, a frontier, or a line of coast by hostile forces.
secant adj	Cutting, especially into two parts.
to intermit	To cause to cease temporarily.
aerostat	A balloon or other apparatus floating in or sustained by the air.
incompressible adj	Resisting all attempts to reduce volume by pressure.
irksome adj	Wearisome.
inane adj	Silly.
squalid adj	Having a dirty, mean, poverty-stricken appearance.
to obtrude	To be pushed or to push oneself into undue prominence.
verification	The act of proving to be true, exact, or accurate.
appellate adj	Capable of being appealed to.

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centimeter	A length of one hundredth of a meter.
refractory adj	Not amenable to control.
advocacy	The act of pleading a cause.
treble adj	Multiplied by three.
fresco	The art of painting on a surface of plaster, particularly on walls and ceilings.
to liquidate	To deliver the amount or value of.
out-of-the-way adj	Remotely situated.
ominous adj	Portentous.
option	The right, power, or liberty of choosing.
privy adj	Participating with another or others in the knowledge of a secret transaction.
to exemplify	To show by example.
anterior adj	Prior.
to proffer	To offer to another for acceptance.
populace	The common people.
seance	A meeting of spirituals for consulting spirits.
outskirt	A border region.
imaginable adj	That can be imagined or conceived in the mind.
deficient adj	Not having an adequate or proper supply or amount.
maternal adj	Pertaining or peculiar to a mother or to motherhood.
to concur	To agree.

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pentathlon	The contest of five associated exercises in the great games and the same contestants.
to perturb	To disturb greatly.
peccable adj	Capable of sinning.
microcosm	The world or universe on a small scale.
sleight	A trick or feat so deftly done that the manner of performance escapes observation.
oblique adj	Slanting; said of lines.
prehensible adj	Capable of being grasped.
gallant adj	Possessing a brave or chivalrous spirit.
to bereave	To make desolate with loneliness and grief.
deponent adj	Laying down.
haggard adj	Worn and gaunt in appearance.
to undercharge	To make an inadequate charge for.
allegory	The setting forth of a subject under the guise of another subject of aptly suggestive likeness.
iridescence	A many-colored appearance.
benefit	Helpful result.
left-handed adj	Using the left hand or arm more dexterously than the right.
instance	A single occurrence or happening of a given kind.
separable adj	Capable of being disjoined or divided.
heptarchy	A group of seven governments.
septennial adj	Recurring every seven years.

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lapse	A slight deviation from what is right, proper, or just.
faun	One of a class of deities of the woods and herds represented as half human, with goats feet.
referrer	One who refers.
to alienate	To cause to turn away.
reciprocity	Equal mutual rights and benefits granted and enjoyed.
pervert	One who has forsaken a doctrine regarded as true for one esteemed false.
reaction	Tendency towards a former, or opposite state of things, as after reform, revolution, or inflation.
chromatic adj	Belonging, relating to, or abounding in color.
to accomplish	To bring to pass.
principle	A general truth or proposition.
divination	The pretended forecast of future events or discovery of what is lost or hidden.
melodious adj	Characterized by a sweet succession of sounds.
imprudent adj	Heedless.
clan	A tribe.
overture	An instrumental prelude to an opera, oratorio, or ballet.
isothermal adj	Having or marking equality of temperature.
to impugn	To assail with arguments, insinuations, or accusations.
locative adj	Indicating place, or the place where or wherein an action occurs.
to assuage	To cause to be less harsh, violent, or severe, as excitement, appetite, pain, or disease.
parity	Equality, as of condition or rank.

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sentinel	Any guard or watch stationed for protection.
egoist	One who advocates or practices egoism.
to misrepresent	To give a wrong impression.
opulence	Affluence.
concord	Harmony.
alternate	One chosen to act in place of another, in case of the absence or incapacity of that other.
coincident adj	Taking place at the same time.
gamut	The whole range or sequence.
overhang	A portion of a structure which projects or hangs over.
suasion	The act of persuading.
fez	A brimless felt cap in the shape of a truncated cone, usually red with a black tassel.
zodiac	An imaginary belt encircling the heavens within which are the larger planets.
inexorable adj	Unrelenting.
misanthropic adj	Hating mankind.
counterpart	Something taken with another for the completion of either.
default	The neglect or omission of a legal requirement.
humane adj	Compassionate.
intention	That upon which the mind is set.
deportment	Demeanor.
potential	Anything that may be possible.

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to ante	In the game of poker, to put up a stake before the cards are dealt.
voracious adj	Eating with greediness or in very large quantities.
inexpressible adj	Unutterable.
radix	That from or on which something is developed.
obsolescent adj	Passing out of use, as a word.
octavo	A book, or collection of paper in which the sheets are so folded as to make eight leaves.
transcript	A copy made directly from an original.
automaton	Any living being whose actions are or appear to be involuntary or mechanical.
casualty	A fatal or serious accident or disaster.
accusatory adj	Of, pertaining to, or involving an accusation.
esquire	A title of dignity, office, or courtesy.
folio	A sheet of paper folded once, or of a size adapted to folding once.
to idealize	To make to conform to some mental or imaginary standard.
resemblance	Similarity in quality or form.
to interrogate	To examine formally by questioning.
to desist	To cease from action.
propitious adj	Kindly disposed.
termination	The act of ending or concluding.
radical	One who holds extreme views or advocates extreme measures.
to satirize	To treat with sarcasm or derisive wit.

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abusive adj	Employing harsh words or ill treatment.
thrall	One controlled by an appetite or a passion.
unbridled adj	Being without restraint.
Sol	The sun.
derivation	That process by which a word is traced from its original root or primitive form and meaning.
inroad	Forcible encroachment or trespass.
monarchy	Government by a single, sovereign ruler.
to depress	To press down.
defamation	Malicious and groundless injury done to the reputation or good name of another.
pollen	The fine dust-like grains or powder formed within the anther of a flowering plant.
excellency	A title of honor bestowed upon various high officials.
to retrench	To cut down or reduce in extent or quantity.
dialect	Forms of speech collectively that are peculiar to the people of a particular district.
purgatory	An intermediate state where souls are made fit for paradise or heaven by expiatory suffering.
to forejudge	To judge of before hearing evidence.
indivisible adj	Not separable into parts.
irrefrangible adj	That can not be broken or violated.
to acidify	To change into acid.
to commingle	To blend.
monotony	A lack of variety.

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cosmos	The world or universe considered as a system, perfect in order and arrangement.
symphonic adj	Characterized by a harmonious or agreeable mingling of sounds.
to retouch	To modify the details of.
odium	A feeling of extreme repugnance, or of dislike and disgust.
infamy	Total loss or destitution of honor or reputation.
spinster	A woman who has never been married.
miscreant	A villain.
unction	The art of anointing as with oil.
presentiment	Foreboding.
glacier	A field or stream of ice.
insurgent	One who takes part in forcible opposition to the constituted authorities of a place.
to nauseate	To cause to loathe.
opinion	A conclusion or judgment held with confidence, but falling short of positive knowledge.
kinsfolk	pl. Relatives.
to repress	To keep under restraint or control.
recessive adj	Having a tendency to go back.
effrontery	Unblushing impudence.
monograph	A treatise discussing a single subject or branch of a subject.
to contuse	To bruise by a blow, either with or without the breaking of the skin.
sonnet	A poem of fourteen decasyllabic or octosyllabiclines expressing two successive phrases.

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gentile adj	Belonging to a people not Jewish.
tenet	Any opinion, principle, dogma, or doctrine that a person believes or maintains as true.
to wizen	To become or cause to become withered or dry.
reprehensible adj	Censurable.
to loathe	To abominate.
auspice	favoring, protecting, or propitious influence or guidance.
militant adj	Of a warlike or combative disposition or tendency.
luxuriant adj	Abundant or superabundant in growth.
ambiguous adj	Having a double meaning.
gusto	Keen enjoyment.
confluent	A stream that unites with another.
Stoicism	The principles or the practice of the Stoics-being very even tempered in success and failure.
mercantile adj	Conducted or acting on business principles; commercial.
raillery	Good-humored satire.
ampere	The practical unit of electric-current strength.
to decapitate	To behead.
exemplary adj	Fitted to serve as a model or example worthy of imitation.
pledgeor	One who gives a pledge.
cursory adj	Rapid and superficial.
to exclude	To shut out purposely or forcibly.

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to countercharge	To accuse in return.
landlord	A man who owns and lets a tenement or tenements.
inadequate adj	Insufficient.
iconoclast	An image-breaker.
proscription	Any act of condemnation and rejection from favor and privilege.
to ruminate	To chew over again, as food previously swallowed and regurgitated.
to reinstate	To restore to a former state, station, or authority.
to unyoke	To separate.
corpse	A dead body.
fealty	Loyalty.
to delude	To mislead the mind or judgment of.
despicable adj	Contemptible.
unspeakable adj	Abominable.
tack	A small sharp-pointed nail.
incomprehensible adj	Not understandable.
repulse	The act of beating or driving back, as an attacking or advancing enemy.
askance adv	With a side or indirect glance or meaning.
deceitful adj	Fraudulent.
consistency	A state of permanence.
cadence	Rhythmical or measured flow or movement, as in poetry or the time and pace of marching troops.

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prosody	The science of poetical forms.
unsophisticated adj	Showing inexperience.
cosmopolitanism	A cosmopolitan character.
to accustom	To make familiar by use.
tacit adj	Understood.
inference	The derivation of a judgment from any given material of knowledge on the ground of law.
dissentious adj	Contentious.
quandary	A puzzling predicament.
pungent adj	Affecting the sense of smell.
analogy	Reasoning in which from certain and known relations or resemblance others are formed.
puissant adj	Possessing strength.
nevertheless conj	Notwithstanding.
omission	Exclusion.
plebeian adj	Common.
to bawl	To proclaim by outcry.
ambidextrous adj	Having the ability of using both hands with equal skill or ease.
breaker	One who trains horses, dogs, etc.
mountaineer	One who travels among or climbs mountains for pleasure or exercise.
optometry	Measurement of the powers of vision.
adulterant	An adulterating substance.

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propulsion	A driving onward or forward.
ire	Wrath.
to emigrate	To go from one country, state, or region for the purpose of settling or residing in another.
Baconian adj	Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon or his system of philosophy.
to arraign	To call into court, as a person indicted for crime, and demand whether he pleads guilty or not.
hussar	A light-horse trooper armed with saber and carbine.
nuptial adj	Of or pertaining to marriage, especially to the marriage ceremony.
stanza	A group of rimed lines, usually forming one of a series of similar divisions in a poem.
to appall	To fill with dismay or horror.
contemptible adj	Worthy of scorn or disdain.
corrosive	That which causes gradual decay by crumbling or surface disintegration.
man-trap	A place or structure dangerous to human life.
limitation	A restriction.
cession	Surrender, as of possessions or rights.
cataclysm	Any overwhelming flood of water.
hibernal adj	Pertaining to winter.
verdant adj	Green with vegetation.
rejuvenescence	A renewal of youth.
typical adj	Characteristic.
halcyon adj	Calm.

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proviso	A clause in a contract, will, etc., by which its operation is rendered conditional.
conducive adj	Contributing to an end.
to congregate	To bring together into a crowd.
habitual adj	According to usual practice.
to dehydrate	To deprive of water.
undersized adj	Of less than the customary size.
erudition	Extensive knowledge of literature, history, language, etc.
coincidence	A circumstance so agreeing with another: often implying accident.
anxious adj	Distressed in mind respecting some uncertain matter.
perversion	Diversion from the true meaning or proper purpose.
courtesy	Politeness originating in kindness and exercised habitually.
fervid adj	Intense.
affluence	A profuse or abundant supply of riches.
to venerate	To cherish reverentially.
fracture	A break.
reminiscence	The calling to mind of incidents within the range of personal knowledge or experience.
tranquility	Calmness.
gaseous adj	Light and unsubstantial.
opposite adj	Radically different or contrary in action or movement.
lassie	A little lass.

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infusion	The act of imbuing, or pouring in.
mischievous adj	Fond of tricks.
to whine	To utter with complaining tone.
to cull	To pick or sort out from the rest.
continuity	Uninterrupted connection in space, time, operation, or development.
anagram	The letters of a word or phrase so transposed as to make a different word or phrase.
penitence	Sorrow for sin with desire to amend and to atone.
to accelerate	To move faster.
fishmonger	One who sells fish.
naphtha	A light, colorless, volatile, inflammable oil used as a solvent, as in manufacture of paints.
globular adj	Spherical.
subjection	The act of bringing into a state of submission.
effective adj	Fit for a destined purpose.
to encroach	To invade partially or insidiously and appropriate the possessions of another.
genealogy	A list, in the order of succession, of ancestors and their descendants.
ebullient adj	Showing enthusiasm or exhilaration of feeling.
enthusiastic adj	Full of zeal and fervor.
divisible adj	Capable of being separated into parts.
buoyancy	Power or tendency to float on or in a liquid or gas.
globose adj	Spherical.

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hospitable adj	Disposed to treat strangers or guests with generous kindness.
outrigger	A part built or arranged to project beyond a natural outline for support.
lackadaisical adj	Listless.
inversion	Change of order so that the first shall become last and the last first.
to enjoin	To command.
conjunction	The state of being joined together, or the things so joined.
peccant adj	Guilty.
grandiose adj	Having an imposing style or effect.
impermissible adj	Not permissible.
errant adj	Roving or wandering, as in search of adventure or opportunity for gallant deeds.
imitator	One who makes in imitation.
importation	The act or practice of bringing from one country into another.
persecution	Harsh or malignant oppression.
electrolysis	The process of decomposing a chemical compound by the passage of an electric current.
to parse	To describe, as a sentence, by separating it into its elements and describing each word.
providential adj	Effected by divine guidance.
truculent adj	Having the character or the spirit of a savage.
fixture	One who or that which is expected to remain permanently in its position.
personnel	The force of persons collectively employed in some service.
to modulate	To vary in tone, inflection, pitch or other quality of sound.

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execration	An accursed thing.
nocturnal adj	Of or pertaining to the night.
inadvisable adj	Unadvisable.
to adumbrate	To represent beforehand in outline or by emblem.
metaphysics	The principles of philosophy as applied to explain the methods of any particular science.
collusion	A secret agreement for a wrongful purpose.
emphasis	Any special impressiveness added to an utterance or act, or stress laid upon some word.
to abnegate	To renounce (a right or privilege).
day-man	A day-laborer.
valedictory	A parting address.
to sequestrate	To confiscate.
gosling	A young goose.
meretricious adj	Alluring by false or gaudy show.
momentous adj	Very significant.
contradictory adj	Inconsistent with itself.
interposition	A coming between.
convalescence	The state of progressive restoration to health and strength after the cessation of disease.
to contrive	To manage or carry through by some device or scheme.
to deviate	To take a different course.
to disallow	To withhold permission or sanction.

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to exonerate	To relieve or vindicate from accusation, imputation, or blame.
affable adj	Easy to approach.
to qualify	To endow or furnish with requisite ability, character, knowledge, skill, or possessions.
protomartyr	The earliest victim in any cause.
to transmit	To send trough or across.
conciliatory adj	Tending to reconcile.
salvo	A salute given by firing all the guns, as at the funeral of an officer.
to encourage	To inspire with courage, hope, or strength of mind.
amenable adj	Willing and ready to submit.
came	A leaden sash-bar or grooved strip for fastening panes in stained-glass windows.
suggestive adj	Stimulating to thought or reflection.
logic	The science of correct thinking.
to overleap	To leap beyond.
to loot	To plunder.
exotic adj	Foreign.
cranium	The skull of an animal, especially that part enclosing the brain.
to aspire	To have an earnest desire, wish, or longing, as for something high and good, not yet attained.
insight	Intellectual discernment.
flection	The act of bending.
trepidation	Nervous uncertainty of feeling.

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collision	Violent contact.
manumission	Emancipation.
necessity	That which is indispensably requisite to an end desired.
fulcrum	The support on or against which a lever rests, or the point about which it turns.
diatomic adj	Containing only two atoms.
ghastly adj	Hideous.
vindicative adj	Revengeful.
machinist	One who makes or repairs machines, or uses metal-working tools.
pudgy adj	Small and fat.
to mitigate	To make milder or more endurable.
pitiless adj	Hard-hearted.
penury	Indigence.
nihilist	An advocate of the doctrine that nothing either exists or can be known.
amalgam	An alloy or union of mercury with another metal.
tutorship	The office of a guardian.
accordion	A portable free-reed musical instrument.
contiguity	Proximity.
leisure	Spare time.
intricate adj	Difficult to follow or understand.
hexangular adj	Having six angles.

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second-rate adj	Second in quality, size, rank, importance, etc.
epicure	One who cultivates a delicate taste for eating and drinking.
prohibition	A decree or an order forbidding something.
to incinerate	To reduce to ashes.
legitimate adj	Having the sanction of law or established custom.
stolid adj	Expressing no power of feeling or perceiving.
to intromit	To insert.
insuppressible adj	Incapable of being concealed.
hypnotism	An artificially induced somnambulistic state in which the mind readily acts on suggestion.
Titanic adj	Of vast size or strength.
magnificent adj	Grand or majestic in appearance, quality, or action.
loath adj	Averse.
transverse adj	Lying or being across or in a crosswise direction.
typographical adj	Pertaining to typography or printing.
treasonable adj	Of the nature of betrayal, treachery, or breech of allegiance.
to reign	To hold and exercise sovereign power.
salutary adj	Beneficial.
to comport	To conduct or behave (oneself).
invincible adj	Not to be conquered, subdued, or overcome.
fraternal adj	Brotherly.

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to repeal	To render of no further effect.
illiberal adj	Stingy.
to resonate	To have or produce resonance.
to foreordain	To predetermine.
passive adj	Unresponsive.
service	Any work done for the benefit of another.
alien	One who owes allegiance to a foreign government.
to bombard	To assail with any missile or with abusive speech.
irradiance	Luster.
torturous adj	Marked by extreme suffering.
melodrama	A drama with a romantic story or plot and sensational situation and incidents.
to consecrate	To set apart as sacred.
junction	The condition of being joined.
to recruit	To enlist men for military or naval service.
to eradicate	To destroy thoroughly.
to convulse	To cause spasms in.
meditation	The turning or revolving of a subject in the mind.
debonair adj	Having gentle or courteous bearing or manner.
excusable adj	Justifiable.
dilemma	A situation in which a choice between opposing modes of conduct is necessary.

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attorney-general	The chief law-officer of a government.
perhaps adv	Possibly.
glimpse	A momentary look.
stallion	An uncastrated male horse, commonly one kept for breeding.
enigma	A riddle.
cornice	An ornamental molding running round the walls of a room close to the ceiling.
aristocracy	A hereditary nobility
animalcule	An animal of microscopic smallness.
metal	An element that forms a base by combining with oxygen, is usually hard, heavy, and lustrous.
abhorrent adj	Very repugnant; hateful.
pedestal	A base or support as for a column, statue, or vase.
to rehabilitate	To restore to a former status, capacity, right rank, or privilege.
to expedite	To hasten the movement or progress of.
cardinal adj	Of prime or special importance.
specie	A coin or coins of gold, silver, copper, or other metal.
autobiography	The story of one's life written by himself.
stingy adj	Cheap, unwilling to spend money.
operetta	A humorous play in dialogue and music, of more than one act.
aspiration	An earnest wish for that which is above one's present reach.
carnivorous adj	Eating or living on flesh.

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prodigious adj	Immense.
to mediate	To effect by negotiating as an agent between parties.
exhaustive adj	Thorough and complete in execution.
to replenish	To fill again, as something that has been emptied.
brazier	An open pan or basin for holding live coals.
ruminant adj	Chewing the cud.
to nominate	To designate as a candidate for any office.
antilogy	Inconsistency or contradiction in terms or ideas.
to demobilize	To disband, as troops.
Newtonian adj	Of or pertaining to Sir Isaac Newton, the English philosopher.
perseverance	A persistence in purpose and effort.
to cohere	To stick together.
antemeridian adj	Before noon.
thermomelectric adj	Denoting electricity produced by heat.
abed adv	In bed; on a bed.
univalence	Monovalency.
aqueduct	A water-conduit, particularly one for supplying a community from a distance.
symphonious adj	Marked by a harmonious or agreeable mingling of sounds.
preamble	A statement introductory to and explanatory of what follows.
to educe	To draw out.

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catholicity	Universal prevalence or acceptance.
adjunct	Something joined to or connected with another thing, but holding a subordinate place.
to abrogate	To abolish, repeal.
incisor	A front or cutting tooth.
bray	A loud harsh sound, as the cry of an ass or the blast of a horn.
ductile adj	Capable of being drawn out, as into wire or a thread.
statics	The branch of mechanics that treats of the relations that subsist among forces in order.
to dissipate	To disperse or disappear.
to dissolve	To liquefy or soften, as by heat or moisture.
dissolution	A breaking up of a union of persons.
impulsion	Impetus.
speculator	One who makes an investment that involves a risk of loss, but also a chance of profit.
competitive adj	characterized by rivalry.
avocation	Diversion.
disunion	Separation of relations or interests.
to domineer	To rule with insolence or unnecessary annoyance.
severance	Separation.
incoherent adj	Not logically coordinated, as to parts, elements, or details.
lea	A field.
qualification	A requisite for an employment, position, right, or privilege.

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novellette	A short novel.
frontier	The part of a nation's territory that abuts upon another country.
dolesome adj	Melancholy.
superintendence	Direction and management.
probate adj	Relating to making proof, as of a will.
equity	Fairness or impartiality.
numeration	The act or art of reading or naming numbers.
to knead	To mix and work into a homogeneous mass, especially with the hands.
apposition	The act of placing side by side, together, or in contact.
chastity	Sexual or moral purity.
emergent adj	Coming into view.
bullock	An ox.
superlative	That which is of the highest possible excellence or eminence.
winsome adj	Attractive.
inviolable adj	Incapable of being injured or disturbed.
assonance	Resemblance or correspondence in sound.
evanescent adj	Fleeting.
foreigner	A citizen of a foreign country.
to hypnotize	To produce a somnambulistic state in which the mind readily acts on suggestions.
profuse adj	Produced or displayed in overabundance.

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to surfeit	To feed to fullness or to satiety.
hereditary adj	Passing naturally from parent to child.
to denude	To strip the covering from.
to accompany	To go with, or be associated with, as a companion.
to succeed	To accomplish what is attempted or intended.
recluse	One who lives in retirement or seclusion.
sinus	An opening or cavity.
usury	The demanding for the use of money as a loan, a rate of interest beyond what is allowed by law.
volition	An act or exercise of will.
rookery	A place where crows congregate to breed.
rudimentary adj	Being in an initial, early, or incomplete stage of development.
peccadillo	A small breach of propriety or principle.
travail	Hard or agonizing labor.
assay	The chemical analysis or testing of an alloy ore.
logician	An expert reasoner.
collective adj	Consisting of a number of persons or objects considered as gathered into a mass, or sum.
instant	A very brief portion of time.
petulance	The character or condition of being impatient, capricious or petulant.
nutriment	That which nourishes.
eventual adj	Ultimate.

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likelihood	A probability.
cantata	A choral composition.
approbation	Sanction.
casual adj	Accidental, by chance.
secretary	One who attends to correspondence, keeps records. or does other writing for others.
stipend	A definite amount paid at stated periods in compensation for services or as an allowance.
to complicate	To make complex, difficult, or hard to deal with.
morality	Virtue.
to theorize	To speculate.
tact	Fine or ready mental discernment shown in saying or doing the proper thing.
convex adj	Curving like the segment of the globe or of the surface of a circle.
financier	One skilled in or occupied with financial affairs or operations.
shrewd adj	Characterized by skill at understanding and profiting by circumstances.
monomania	The unreasonable pursuit of one idea.
nomination	The act or ceremony of naming a man or woman for office.
luminary	One of the heavenly bodies as a source of light.
forecourt	A court opening directly from the street.
lawgiver	A legislator.
ecstasy	Rapturous excitement or exaltation.
literal adj	Following the exact words.

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alderman	A member of a municipal legislative body, who usually exercises also certain judicial functions.
to deteriorate	To grow worse.
to legalize	To give the authority of law to.
nurture	The process of fostering or promoting growth.
harangue	A tirade.
derision	Ridicule.
Gordian knot	Any difficulty the only issue out of which is by bold or unusual manners.
to check	To hold back.
gradation	A step, degree, rank, or relative position in an order or series.
to instigate	To provoke.
expedient adj	Contributing to personal advantage.
complacent adj	Pleased or satisfied with oneself.
topography	The art of representing on a map the physical features of any locality or region with accuracy.
presumptuous adj	Assuming too much.
to transgress	To break a law.
aborigines	The original of earliest known inhabitants of a country.
devilry	Malicious mischief.
mettle	Courage.
genesis	Creation.
pagan	A worshiper of false gods.

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meager adj	scanty.
volitive adj	Exercising the will.
armada	A fleet of war-vessels.
by-law	A rule or law adopted by an association, a corporation, or the like.
indigestion	Difficulty or failure in the alimentary canal in changing food into absorptive nutriment.
scholastic adj	Pertaining to education or schools.
to butt	To strike with or as with the head, or horns.
ichthyic adj	Fish-like.
kingling	A petty king.
Pan-American adj	Including or pertaining to the whole of America, both North and South.
quackery	Charlatanry
to prevaricate	To use ambiguous or evasive language for the purpose of deceiving or diverting attention.
barcarole	A boat-song of Venetian gondoliers.
ripplet	A small ripple, as of water.
rampart	A bulwark or construction to oppose assault or hostile entry.
navigable adj	Capable of commercial navigation.
physiocracy	The doctrine that land and its products are the only true wealth.
premonition	Foreboding.
humbug	Anything intended or calculated to deceive or mislead.
flatulence	Accumulation of gas in the stomach and bowels.

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monogram	A character consisting of two or more letters interwoven into one, usually initials of a name.
heredity	Transmission of physical or mental qualities, diseases, etc., from parent to offspring.
to disapprove	To regard with blame.
crematory adj	A place for cremating dead bodies.
prevalence	Frequency.
imperceptible adj	Indiscernible.
to cauterize	To burn or sear as with a heated iron.
ambitious adj	Eagerly desirous and aspiring.
righteousness	Rectitude.
cathode	The negative pole or electrode of a galvanic battery.
to nettle	To excite sensations of uneasiness or displeasure in.
to disappoint	To fail to fulfill the expectation, hope, wish, or desire of.
anticyclone	An atmospheric condition of high central pressure, with currents flowing outward.
to assonate	To accord in sound, especially vowel sound.
submittal	The act of submitting.
sidereal adj	Pertaining to stars or constellations.
technicality	Something peculiar to a particular art, trade, or the like.
proctor	An agent acting for another.
to fluctuate	To pass backward and forward irregularly from one state or degree to another.
light-hearted adj	Free from care.

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immoral adj	Habitually engaged in licentious or lewd practices.
wampum	Beads strung on threads, formerly used among the American Indians as currency.
to understate	To fail to put strongly enough, as a case.
defensive adj	Carried on in resistance to aggression.
rampant adj	Growing, climbing, or running without check or restraint.
dyne	The force which, applied to a mass of one gram for 1 second, would give it a velocity of 1 cm/s.
successor	One who or that which takes the place of a predecessor or preceding thing.
to detrude	To push down forcibly.
to sanction	To approve authoritatively.
doublet	One of a pair of like things.
conspicuous adj	Clearly visible.
jugular adj	Pertaining to the throat.
to debase	To lower in character or virtue.
to ration	To provide with a fixed allowance or portion, especially of food.
papyrus	The writing-paper of the ancient Egyptians, and later of the Romans.
sidelong adj	Inclining or tending to one side.
happy-go-lucky adj	Improvident.
apparent adj	Easily understood.
sentence	A related group of words containing a subject and a predicate and expressing a complete thought.
bravo interj	Well done.

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to accommodate	To furnish something as a kindness or favor.
clarion	A small shrill trumpet or bugle.
sociable adj	Inclined to seek company.
posterior	The hinder part.
stringency	Strictness.
protuberant adj	Bulging.
to repel	To force or keep back in a manner, physically or mentally.
crass adj	Coarse or thick in nature or structure, as opposed to thin or fine.
to remunerate	To pay or pay for.
conformance	The act or state or conforming.
monition	Friendly counsel given by way of warning and implying caution or reproof.
invariable adj	Unchangeable.
paradox	A statement or doctrine seemingly in contradiction to the received belief.
docket	The registry of judgments of a court.
culprit	A guilty person.
to telescope	To drive together so that one slides into the another like the sections of a spy-glass.
aloof adv	Not in sympathy with or desiring to associate with others.
guise	The external appearance as produced by garb or costume.
tricolor adj	Of three colors.
inseparable adj	That can not be separated.

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laggard adj	Falling behind.
version	A description or report of something as modified by one's character or opinion.
to aggrieve	To give grief or sorrow to.
observance	A traditional form or customary act.
brethren	pl. Members of a brotherhood, gild, profession, association, or the like.
infallible adj	Exempt from error of judgment, as in opinion or statement.
to inscribe	To enter in a book, or on a list, roll, or document, by writing.
manlike adj	Like a man.
azure	The color of the sky.
to remonstrate	To present a verbal or written protest to those who have power to right or prevent a wrong.
insufficiency	Inadequacy.
prelacy	A system of church government.
battalion	A body of infantry composed of two or more companies, forming a part of a regiment.
vegetative adj	Pertaining to the process of plant-life.
heinous adj	Odiously sinful.
forth adv	Into notice or view.
mongrel	The progeny resulting from the crossing of different breeds or varieties.
succinct adj	Concise.
betrothal	Engagement to marry.
velvety adj	Marked by lightness and softness.

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despotism	Any severe and strict rule in which the judgment of the governed has little or no part.
conduit	A means for conducting something, particularly a tube, pipe, or passageway for a fluid.
repartee	A ready, witty, or apt reply.
affront	An open insult or indignity.
brooch	An article of jewelry fastened by a hinged pin and hook on the underside.
earnest adj	Ardent in spirit and speech.
illuminant	That which may be used to produce light.
observant adj	Quick to notice.
hypocrite	One who makes false professions of his views or beliefs.
invulnerable adj	That can not be wounded or hurt.
to reestablish	To restore.
subjacent adj	Situated directly underneath.
diatribe	A bitter or malicious criticism.
fief	A landed estate held under feudal tenure.
proverb	A brief, pithy saying, condensing in witty or striking form the wisdom of experience.
mettlesome adj	Having courage or spirit.
tendency	Direction or inclination, as toward some objector end.
to distend	To stretch out or expand in every direction.
Augustinian adj	Pertaining to St. Augustine, his doctrines, or the religious orders called after him.
absent-minded adj	Lacking in attention to immediate surroundings or business.

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obsolescence	The condition or process of gradually falling into disuse.
philogynist	One who is fond of women.
efficacious adj	Effective.
reliant adj	Having confidence.
wantonness	Recklessness.
voluble adj	Having great fluency in speaking.
disciple	One who believes the teaching of another, or who adopts and follows some doctrine.
niggardly adj	Stingy. (no longer acceptable to use)
liquor	Any alcoholic or intoxicating liquid.
illusion	An unreal image presented to the senses.
to revise	To examine for the correction of errors, or for the purpose of making changes.
to disengage	To become detached.
aggregate	The entire number, sum, mass, or quantity of something.
anemic adj	Affected with anemia.
laudation	High praise.
continuation	Prolongation.
countryman	A rustic.
redound	Rebound.
epic	A poem celebrating in formal verse the mythical achievements of great personages, heroes, etc.
steppe	One of the extensive plains in Russia and Siberia.

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exhaustible adj	Causing or tending to cause exhaustion.
evolution	Development or growth.
inopportune adj	Unsuitable or inconvenient, especially as to time.
to antecede	To precede.
irritancy	The quality of producing vexation.
facility	Ease.
advisory adj	Not mandatory.
knavery	Deceitfulness in dealing.
datum	A premise, starting-point, or given fact.
anathema	Anything forbidden, as by social usage.
durance	Confinement.
pestilential adj	having the nature of or breeding pestilence.
mentality	Intellectuality.
impecunious adj	Having no money.
to pamphleteer	To compose or issue pamphlets, especially controversial ones.
parlor	A room for reception of callers or entertainment of guests.
to classify	To arrange in a class or classes on the basis of observed resemblance's and differences.
decimal adj	Founded on the number 10.
salience	The condition of standing out distinctly.
to conceive	To form an idea, mental image or thought of.

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to decorate	To embellish.
commodity	Something that is bought and sold.
pact	A covenant.
paucity	Fewness.
seditious adj	Promotive of conduct directed against public order and the tranquillity of the state.
unanimity	The state or quality of being of one mind.
personage	A man or woman as an individual, especially one of rank or high station.
incidentally adv	Without intention.
diplomacy	Tact, shrewdness, or skill in conducting any kind of negotiations or in social matters.
hypodermic adj	Pertaining to the area under the skin.
to aver	To assert as a fact.
sinecure	Any position having emoluments with few or no duties.
vicissitude	A change, especially a complete change, of condition or circumstances, as of fortune.
solicitude	Uneasiness of mind occasioned by desire, anxiety, or fear.
veto	The constitutional right in a chief executive of refusing to approve an enactment.
abrupt adj	Beginning, ending, or changing suddenly or with a break.
to protuberate	To swell or bulge beyond the surrounding surface.
packet	A bundle, as of letters.
dermatology	The branch of medical science which relates to the skin and its diseases.
legging	A covering for the leg.

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stagnation	The condition of not flowing or not changing.
to malign	To speak evil of, especially to do so falsely and severely.
alchemy	Chemistry of the middle ages, characterized by the pursuit of changing base metals to gold.
pretension	A bold or presumptuous assertion.
sergeant	A non-commissioned military officer ranking next above a corporal.
turgid adj	Swollen.
physiography	Description of nature.
principal adj	Most important.
skirmish	Desultory fighting between advanced detachments of two armies.
testament	A will.
refringency	Power to refract.
uncommon adj	Rare.
distensible adj	Capable of being stretched out or expanded in every direction.
to conscript	To force into military service.
legislator	A lawgiver.
centiliter	A hundredth of a liter.
injunction	Mandate.
convoy	A protecting force accompanying property in course of transportation.
lunacy	Mental unsoundness.
to engender	To produce.

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sophism	A false argument understood to be such by the reasoner himself and intentionally used to deceive
delirious adj	Raving.
repulsive adj	Grossly offensive.
abscission	The act of cutting off, as in a surgical operation.
rendition	Interpretation.
to relapse	To suffer a return of a disease after partial recovery.
gratification	Satisfaction.
supplicant	One who asks humbly and earnestly.
grandiloquent adj	Speaking in or characterized by a pompous or bombastic style.
to satiate	To satisfy fully the appetite or desire of.
non-combatant	One attached to the army or navy, but having duties other than that of fighting.
bulrush	Any one of various tall rush-like plants growing in damp ground or water.
to cant	To talk in a singsong, preaching tone with affected solemnity.
regent	One who is lawfully deputized to administer the government for the time being in the name of the ruler.
obstruction	Hindrance.
Hibernian adj	Pertaining to Ireland, or its people.
to empower	To delegate authority to.
regicide	The killing of a king or sovereign.
to supplant	To take the place of.
bric-a-brac	Objects of curiosity or for decoration.

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incomparable adj	Matchless.
perceptible adj	Cognizable.
contender	One who exerts oneself in opposition or rivalry.
valediction	A bidding farewell.
caprice	A whim.
sediment	Matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid.
resistive adj	Having or exercising the power of resistance.
possessor	One who owns, enjoys, or controls anything, as property.
to dismount	To throw down, push off, or otherwise remove from a horse or the like.
to regale	To give unusual pleasure.
authenticity	The state or quality of being genuine, or of the origin and authorship claimed.
incongruous adj	Unsuitable for the time, place, or occasion.
missal	The book containing the service for the celebration of mass.
to upbraid	To reproach as deserving blame.
spasmodic adj	Convulsive.
florist	A dealer in flowers.
to conquer	To overcome by force.
magisterial adj	Having an air of authority.
extensible adj	Capable of being thrust out.
culpable adj	Guilty.

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to extradite	To surrender the custody of.
flamboyant adj	Characterized by extravagance and in general by want of good taste.
to exhale	To breathe forth.
debatable adj	Subject to contention or dispute.
sterling adj	Genuine.
prophecy	Any prediction or foretelling.
diaphanous adj	Transparent.
intrusion	The act of entering without warrant or invitation; encroachment.
obstetrics	The branch of medical science concerned with the treatment and care of women during pregnancy.
caitiff adj	Cowardly.
disciplinary adj	Having the nature of systematic training or subjection to authority.
supramundane adj	Supernatural.
fickle adj	Unduly changeable in feeling, judgment, or purpose.
precipitant adj	Moving onward quickly and heedlessly.
confidence	The state or feeling of trust in or reliance upon another.
obsequies	Funeral rites.
partition	That which separates anything into distinct parts.
to negotiable	To bargain with others for an agreement, as for a treaty or transfer of property.
illimitable adj	Boundless.
noticeable adj	Perceptible.

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brittle adj	Fragile.
drought	Dry weather, especially when so long continued as to cause vegetation to wither.
nutritive adj	Having nutritious properties.
resplendent adj	Very bright.
to itinerate	To wander from place to place.
rustic adj	Characteristic of dwelling in the country.
homophone	A word agreeing in sound with but different in meaning from another.
spectrum	An image formed by rays of light or other radiant energy.
irrational adj	Not possessed of reasoning powers or understanding.
utilitarianism	The ethical doctrine that actions are right because they are useful or of beneficial tendency.
to addle	To make inefficient or worthless; muddle.
deplorable adj	Contemptible.
mockery	Ridicule.
senile adj	Peculiar to or proceeding from the weakness or infirmity of old age.
prospector	One who makes exploration, search, or examination, especially for minerals.
soliloquy	A monologue.
longevity	Unusually prolonged life.
compliant adj	Yielding.
outrage	A gross infringement of morality or decency.
scabbard	The sheath of a sword or similar bladed weapon.

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forecastle	That part of the upper deck of a ship forward of the after fore-shrouds.
correlative adj	Mutually involving or implying one another.
stupor	Profound lethargy.
principality	The territory of a reigning prince.
resurrection	A return from death to life
sanguineous adj	Consisting of blood.
hoarse adj	Having the voice harsh or rough, as from a cold or fatigue.
bigamy	The crime of marrying any other person while having a legal spouse living.
paragon	A model of excellence.
to readjust	To put in order after disarrangement.
remission	Temporary diminution of a disease.
implausible adj	Not plausible.
preexistence	Existence antecedent to something.
to impel	To drive or urge forward.
to bolster	To support, as something wrong.
working-man	One who earns his bread by manual labor.
entirety	A complete thing.
flimsy adj	Thin and weak.
to browbeat	To overwhelm, or attempt to do so, by stern, haughty, or rude address or manner.
synod	An ecclesiastical council.

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covert adj	Concealed, especially for an evil purpose.
sedition	Conduct directed against public order and the tranquillity of the state.
maize	Indian corn: usually in the United States called simply corn.
to exhaust	To empty by draining off the contents.
perception	Knowledge through the senses of the existence and properties of matter or the external world.
bigamist	One who has two spouses at the same time.
egregious adj	Extreme.
galvanism	Current electricity, especially that arising from chemical action.
indiscriminate adj	Promiscuous.
to divest	To strip, specifically of clothes, ornaments, or accouterments or disinvestment.
to dissemble	To hide by pretending something different.
sylph	A slender, graceful young woman or girl.
justification	Vindication.
to distort	To twist into an unnatural or irregular form.
epithet	Word used adjectivally to describe some quality or attribute of is objects, as in "Father Aeneas".
neural adj	Pertaining to the nerves or nervous system.
to antiquate	To make old or out of date.
to upheave	To raise or lift with effort.
tempter	An allurer or enticer to evil.
patrician adj	Of senatorial or noble rank.

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to emancipate	To release from bondage.
to undermine	To subvert in an underhand way.
constituency	The inhabitants or voters in a district represented in a legislative body.
to contort	To twist into a misshapen form.
to abominate	To hate violently.
impropriety	The state or quality of being unfit, unseemly, or inappropriate.
rancor	Malice.
interrogatory	A question or inquiry.
to overeat	To eat to excess.
chasm	A yawning hollow, as in the earth's surface.
to deforest	To clear of forests.
to becalm	To make quiet.
amour	A love-affair, especially one of an illicit nature.
superabundance	An excessive amount.
messieurs	pl. Gentlemen.
batter	A thick liquid mixture of two or more materials beaten together, to be used in cookery.
propellant adj	Propelling.
counting-house	A house or office used for transacting business, bookkeeping, correspondence, etc.
curtsy	A downward movement of the body by bending the knees.
to effuse	To pour forth.

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untoward adj	Causing annoyance or hindrance.
to distill	To extract or produce by vaporization and condensation.
frivolous adj	Trivial.
to patronize	To exercise an arrogant condescension toward.
autonomous adj	Self-governing.
causal adj	Indicating or expressing a cause.
vinery	A greenhouse for grapes.
to divulge	To tell or make known, as something previously private or secret.
mendicant	A beggar.
amorous adj	Having a propensity for falling in love.
concordance	Harmony.
to delineate	To represent by sketch or diagram.
antispasmodic adj	Tending to prevent or relieve non-inflammatory spasmodic affections.
atonement	Amends, reparation, or expiation made from wrong or injury.
discursive adj	Passing from one subject to another.
to exhume	To dig out of the earth (what has been buried).
hydrous adj	Watery.
poignant adj	Severely painful or acute to the spirit.
to posit	To present in an orderly manner.
tenor	A settled course or manner of progress.

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nit	The egg of a louse or some other insect.
potency	Power.
inlet	A small body of water leading into a larger.
to deprecate	To express disapproval or regret for, with hope for the opposite.
hesitation	Vacillation.
venison	The flesh of deer.
remonstrant adj	Having the character of a reproof.
imperious adj	Insisting on obedience.
proxy	A person who is empowered by another to represent him or her in a given matter.
locomotion	The act or power of moving from one place to another.
to superannuate	To become deteriorated or incapacitated by long service.
to bide	To await.
to dispel	To drive away by or as by scattering in different directions.
subversion	An overthrow, as from the foundation.
apotheosis	Deification.
sumptuous adj	Rich and costly.
to promulgate	To proclaim.
Spartan adj	Exceptionally brave; rigorously severe.
bodily adj	Corporeal.
wearisome adj	Fatiguing.

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genteel adj	Well-bred or refined.
intensive adj	Adding emphasis or force.
auxiliary	One who or that which aids or helps, especially when regarded as subsidiary or accessory.
makeup	The arrangements or combination of the parts of which anything is composed.
species	A classificatory group of animals or plants subordinate to a genus.
revisal	Revision.
to vie	To contend.
illegible adj	Undecipherable.
to embellish	To make beautiful or elegant by adding attractive or ornamental features.
to deplore	To regard with grief or sorrow.
angelic adj	Saintly.
to alleviate	To make less burdensome or less hard to bear.
hexagon	A figure with six angles.
vacuous adj	Empty.
siege	A beleaguerment.
declamatory adj	A full and formal style of utterance.
benefice	A church office endowed with funds or property for the maintenance of divine service.
streamlet	Rivulet.
to overpass	To pass across or over, as a river.
extradition	The surrender by a government of a person accused of crime to the justice of another government.

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overlord	One who holds supremacy over another.
counter-claim	A cross-demand alleged by a defendant in his favor against the plaintiff.
incompetence	General lack of capacity or fitness.
to imbibe	To drink or take in.
ingenuity	Cleverness in contriving, combining, or originating.
audible adj	Loud enough to be heard.
to peter	To fail or lose power, efficiency, or value.
ill-natured adj	Surly.
junta	A council or assembly that deliberates in secret upon the affairs of government.
quarantine	The enforced isolation of any person or place infected with contagious disease.
diurnal adj	Daily.
cholera	An acute epidemic disease.
inchoative	That which begins, or expresses beginning.
to amputate	To remove by cutting, as a limb or some portion of the body.
vagabond	A wanderer.
mystification	The act of artfully perplexing.
colloquy	Conversation.
regretful adj	Feeling, expressive of, or full of regret.
endemic adj	Peculiar to some specified country or people.
atheism	The denial of the existence of God.

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to maneuver	To make adroit or artful moves: manage affairs by strategy.
psychic adj	Pertaining to the mind or soul.
obligatory adj	Binding in law or conscience.
commissariat	The department of an army charged with the provision of its food and water and daily needs.
contagious adj	Transmitting disease.
necrosis	the death of part of the body.
to eject	To expel.
faction	A number of persons combined for a common purpose.
conformity	Correspondence in form, manner, or use.
to subsist	To be maintained or sustained.
inexpensive adj	Low-priced.
bellicose adj	Warlike.
to reciprocate	To give and take mutually.
to instill	To infuse.
ineligible adj	Not suitable to be selected or chosen.
lateral adj	Directed toward the side.
ado	unnecessary activity or ceremony.
crockery	Earthenware made from baked clay.
to disinherit	To deprive of an inheritance.
dejection	Melancholy.

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unlimited adj	Unconstrained.
conformation	General structure, form, or outline.
retort	A retaliatory speech.
inanimate adj	Destitute of animal life.
earthenware	Anything made of clay and baked in a kiln or dried in the sun.
levee	An embankment beside a river or stream or an arm of the sea, to prevent overflow.
precocious adj	Having the mental faculties prematurely developed.
propriety	Accordance with recognized usage, custom, or principles.
munificence	A giving characterized by generous motives and extraordinary liberality.
rapt adj	Enraptured.
compressible adj	Capable of being pressed into smaller compass.
galvanic adj	Pertaining or relating to electricity produced by chemical action.
anonymous adj	Of unknown authorship.
inconsequential adj	Valueless.
positive adj	Free from doubt or hesitation.
accessible adj	Approachable.
cryptogram	Anything written in characters that are secret or so arranged as to have hidden meaning.
to humanize	To make gentle or refined.
metonymy	A figure of speech that consists in the naming of a thing by one of its attributes.
precarious adj	Perilous.

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malady	Any physical disease or disorder, especially a chronic or deep-seated one.
redolent adj	Smelling sweet and agreeable.
to repine	To indulge in fretfulness and faultfinding.
reflector	A mirror, as of metal, for reflecting light, heat, or sound in a particular direction.
to capitulate	To surrender or stipulate terms.
to negate	To deny.
redoubtable adj	Formidable.
to singe	To burn slightly or superficially.
facile adj	Not difficult to do.
to sacrifice	To make an offering of to deity, especially by presenting on an altar.
fissure	A crack or crack-like depression.
solvent adj	Having sufficient funds to pay all debts.
to nestle	To adjust cozily in snug quarters.
adjutant adj	Auxiliary.
to disquiet	To deprive of peace or tranquillity. disregard (v.)
demonstrator	One who proves in a convincing and conclusive manner.
enormous adj	Gigantic.
minority	The smaller in number of two portions into which a number or a group is divided.
reprisal	Any infliction or act by way of retaliation on an enemy.
resistance	The exertion of opposite effort or effect.

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forepeak	The extreme forward part of a ship's hold, under the lowest deck.
expansion	Increase of amount, size, scope, or the like.
to encompass	To encircle.
secondly adv	In the second place in order or succession.
concurrence	Agreement.
maharaja	A great Hindu prince.
agrarian adj	Pertaining to land, especially agricultural land.
suave adj	Smooth and pleasant in manner.
planisphere	A polar projection of the heavens on a chart.
epigram	A pithy phrasing of a shrewd observation.
lodgment	The act of furnishing with temporary quarters.
loch	A lake.
to redress	To set right, as a wrong by compensation or the punishment of the wrong-doer.
periodicity	The habit or characteristic of recurrence at regular intervals.
irreparable adj	That can not be rectified or made amends for.
mawkish adj	Sickening or insipid.
lithograph	A print made by printing from stone.
to gyrate	To revolve.
angular adj	Sharp-cornered.
to augur	To predict.

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sapiential adj	Possessing wisdom.
to rectify	To correct.
irrigant adj	Serving to water lands by artificial means.
arbor	A tree.
to incapacitate	To deprive of power, capacity, competency, or qualification.
literacy	The state or condition of knowing how to read and write.
iniquity	Gross wrong or injustice.
capillary	A minute vessel having walls composed of a single layer of cells.
obstreperous adj	Boisterous.
comparison	Examination of two or more objects with reference to their likeness or unlikeness.
irresistible adj	That can not be successfully withstood or opposed.
alienable adj	Capable of being aliened or alienated, as lands.
difference	Dissimilarity in any respect.
acerbity	Sourness, with bitterness and astringency. acetate (n.)
lough	A lake or loch.
octave	A note at this interval above or below any other, considered in relation to that other.
courser	A fleet and spirited horse.
buttress	Any support or prop.
ponderous adj	Unusually weighty or forcible.
foreground	That part of a landscape or picture situated or represented as nearest the spectator.

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influence	Ability to sway the will of another.
dauntless adj	Fearless.
loam	A non-coherent mixture of sand and clay.
self-respect	Rational self-esteem.
cognizant adj	Taking notice.
comprehension	Ability to know.
conversant adj	Thoroughly informed.
preface	A brief explanation or address to the reader, at the beginning of a book.
to impend	To be imminent.
polar adj	Pertaining to the poles of a sphere, especially of the earth.
vindicatory adj	Punitive.
stealth	A concealed manner of acting.
luminous adj	Giving or radiating light.
to ravage	To lay waste by pillage, rapine, devouring, or other destructive methods.
caste	The division of society on artificial grounds.
to fumigate	To subject to the action of smoke or fumes, especially for disinfection.
matricide	The killing, especially the murdering, of one's mother.
to forecast	To predict.
to supplicate	To beg.
mantle	A cloak.

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to evolve	To unfold or expand.
mutation	The act or process of change.
diphthong	The sound produced by combining two vowels in to a single syllable or running together the sounds.
to disrobe	To unclothe.
ordnance	A general name for all kinds of weapons and their appliances used in war.
debut	A first appearance in society or on the stage.
mastery	The attainment of superior skill.
to contravene	To prevent or obstruct the operation of.
isochronous adj	Relating to or denoting equal intervals of time.
promoter	A furtherer, forwarder, or encourager.
inert adj	Inanimate.
to belie	To misrepresent.
paramour	One who is unlawfully and immorally a lover or a mistress.
to vitiate	To contaminate.
pervious adj	Admitting the entrance or passage of another substance.
to refer	To direct or send for information or other purpose.
to jeopardize	To imperil.
hypothesis	A proposition taken for granted as a premise from which to reach a conclusion.
feint	Any sham, pretense, or deceptive movement.
nucleus	A central point or part about which matter is aggregated.

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feudal adj	Pertaining to the relation of lord and vassal.
to pacify	To bring into a peaceful state.
maintenance	That which supports or sustains.
catastrophe	Any great and sudden misfortune or calamity.
discussion	Debate.
tentative adj	Done as an experiment.
aperture	Hole.
bursar	A treasurer.
anesthetic adj	Pertaining to or producing loss of sensation.
mileage	A distance in miles.
microscopy	The art of examing objects with the microscope.
ribald adj	Indulging in or manifesting coarse indecency or obscenity.
subaquatic adj	Being, formed, or operating under water.
choral adj	Pertaining to, intended for, or performed by a chorus or choir.
to converge	To cause to incline and approach nearer together.
to demonstrate	To prove indubitably.
hesitant adj	Vacillating.
insurgence	Uprising.
ordeal	Anything that severely tests courage, strength, patience, conscience, etc.
riddance	The act or ridding or delivering from something undesirable.

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predecessor	An incumbent of a given office previous to another.
verily adv	In truth.
medial adj	Of or pertaining to the middle.
effeminacy	Womanishness.
viola	A musical instrument somewhat larger than a violin.
sacrificial adj	Offering or offered as an atonement for sin.
to adduce	To bring forward or name for consideration.
prescient adj	Foreknowing.
unbiased adj	Impartial, as judgment.
sanguinary adj	Bloody.
claimant	One who makes a claim or demand, as of right.
tolerance	Forbearance in judging of the acts or opinions of others.
drudgery	Hard and constant work in any menial or dull occupation.
octogenarian adj	A person of between eighty and ninety years.
frantic adj	Frenzied.
to evanesce	To vanish gradually.
memorable adj	Noteworthy.
habitude	Customary relation or association.
secession	Voluntary withdrawal from fellowship, especially from political or religious bodies.
virtu	Rare, curious, or beautiful quality.

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palatial adj	Magnificent.
dowry	The property which a wife brings to her husband in marriage.
luminosity	The quality of giving or radiating light.
to presage	To foretell.
epizootic adj	Prevailing among animals.
to outlive	To continue to exist after.
offhand adv	Without preparation.
privilege	A right or immunity not enjoyed by all, or that may be enjoyed only under special conditions.
to cower	To crouch down tremblingly, as through fear or shame.
to ramify	To divide or subdivide into branches or subdivisions.
to desert	To abandon without regard to the welfare of the abandoned
Antarctic adj	Pertaining to the south pole or the regions near it.
optics	The science that treats of light and vision, and all that is connected with sight.
advent	The coming or arrival, as of any important change, event, state, or personage.
contributor	One who gives or furnishes, in common with others, for a common purpose.
to cite	To refer to specifically.
lifelong adj	Lasting or continuous through life.
tyranny	Absolute power arbitrarily or unjustly administrated.
interdict	Authoritative act of prohibition.
conservative adj	Adhering to the existing order of things.

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to mollify	To soothe.
trajectory	The path described by a projectile moving under given forces.
to complement	To make complete.
wittingly adv	With knowledge and by design.
auditory adj	Of or pertaining to hearing or the organs or sense of hearing.
travesty	A grotesque imitation.
henchman	A servile assistant and subordinate.
multiplicity	the condition of being manifold or very various.
semicivilized adj	Half-civilized.
eureka Greek	I have found it.
to simulate	Imitate.
needy adj	Being in need, want, or poverty.
to rescind	To make void, as an act, by the enacting authority or a superior authority.
retinue	The body of persons who attend a person of importance in travel or public appearance.
philologist	An expert in linguistics.
vernacular	The language of one's country.
aurora	A luminous phenomenon in the upper regions of the atmosphere.
munificent adj	Extraordinarily generous.
tirade	Harangue.
outbreak	A sudden and violent breaking forth, as of something that has been pent up or restrained.

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differential adj	Distinctive.
doleful adj	Melancholy.
phonic adj	Pertaining to the nature of sound.
ground	A pavement or floor or any supporting surface on which one may walk.
creamy adj	Resembling or containing cream.
studious adj	Having or showing devotion to the acquisition of knowledge.
percipient	One who or that which perceives.
rebellious adj	Insubordinate.
apogee	The climax.
fundamental adj	Basal.
to affect	To act upon
patriarch	The chief of a tribe or race who rules by paternal right.
to belate	To delay past the proper hour. belay (v.)
poetic adj	Pertaining to poetry.
to implicate	To show or prove to be involved in or concerned
to transcribe	To write over again (something already written)
to bestrew	To sprinkle or cover with things strewn.
constable	An officer whose duty is to maintain the peace.
outcast	One rejected and despised, especially socially.
origin	The beginning of that which becomes or is made to be.

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to pique	To excite a slight degree of anger in.
ludicrous adj	Laughable.
to ameliorate	To relieve, as from pain or hardship
inquisition	A court or tribunal for examination and punishment of heretics.
barometer	An instrument for indicating the atmospheric pressure per unit of surface.
invaluable adj	Exceedingly precious.
to inhume	To place in the earth, as a dead body.
perspicacity	Acuteness or discernment.
occurrence	A happening.
benediction	a solemn invocation of the divine blessing.
moccasin	A foot-covering made of soft leather or buckskin.
dishonest adj	Untrustworthy.
nationality	A connection with a particular nation.
to pommel	To beat with something thick or bulky.
demented adj	Insane.
divagation	Digression.
descendant	One who is descended lineally from another, as a child, grandchild, etc.
contumacious adj	Rebellious.
to corrode	To ruin or destroy little by little.
transmission	The act of sending through or across.

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to misplace	To put into a wrong place.
condolence	Expression of sympathy with a person in pain, sorrow, or misfortune.
to expand	To increase in range or scope.
tyro	One slightly skilled in or acquainted with any trade or profession.
to fuse	To unite or blend as by melting together.
mane	The long hair growing upon and about the neck of certain animals, as the horse and the lion.
postgraduate adj	Pertaining to studies that are pursued after receiving a degree.
compunction	Remorseful feeling.
to perspire	To excrete through the pores of the skin.
fervent adj	Ardent in feeling.
to transfer	To convey, remove, or cause to pass from one person or place to another.
ascendant adj	Dominant.
to wrangle	To maintain by noisy argument or dispute.
vogue	The prevalent way or fashion.
ultramontane adj	Beyond the mountains, especially beyond the Alps (that is, on their Italian side).
to depreciate	To lessen the worth of.
to absolve	To free from sin or its penalties.
symphony	A harmonious or agreeable mingling of sounds.
discreet adj	Judicious.
to tranquilize	To soothe.

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judicial adj	Pertaining to the administration of justice.
rein	A step attached to the bit for controlling a horse or other draft-animal.
transient	One who or that which is only of temporary existence.
to vaccinate	To inoculate with vaccine virus or virus of cowpox.
toleration	A spirit of charitable leniency.
to antedate	To assign or affix a date to earlier than the actual one.
sustenance	Food.
to interpose	To come between other things or persons.
adherent adj	Clinging or sticking fast.
abdomen	In mammals, the visceral cavity between the diaphragm and the pelvic floor; the belly.
anthology	A collection of extracts from the writings of various authors.
phonogram	A graphic character symbolizing an articulate sound.
to reconsider	To review with care, especially with a view to a reversal of previous action.
boatswain	A subordinate officer of a vessel, who has general charge of the rigging, anchors, etc.
pseudonymity	The state or character of using a fictitious name.
sycophant	A servile flatterer, especially of those in authority or influence.
invalid	One who is disabled by illness or injury.
excellence	Possession of eminently or unusually good qualities.
to sympathize	To share the sentiments or mental states of another.
external	Anything relating or belonging to the outside.

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to muffle	To deaden the sound of, as by wraps.
tercentenary adj	Pertaining to a period of 300 years.
sisterhood	A body of sisters united by some bond of sympathy or by a religious vow.
to philander	To play at courtship with a woman.
to precede	To happen first.
endurance	The ability to suffer pain, distress, hardship, or stress of any kind without succumbing.
proclamation	Any announcement made in a public manner.
demonstrable adj	Capable of positive proof.
sufficiency	An ample or adequate supply.
to incarcerate	To imprison.
waistcoat	A vest.
intoxicant	Anything that unduly exhilarates or excites.
to superheat	To heat to excess.
abrasion	That which is rubbed off.
cabal	A number of persons secretly united for effecting by intrigue some private purpose.
separatist	A seceder.
geology	The department of natural science that treats of the constitution and structure of the earth.
inextensible adj	Of unchangeable length or area.
infrequence	Rareness.
pectoral adj	Pertaining to the breast or thorax.

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illusive adj	Deceptive.
eccentric adj	Peculiar.
desperate adj	Resorted to in a last extremity, or as if prompted by utter despair.
monosyllable	A word of one syllable.
officious adj	Intermeddling with what is not one's concern.
personal adj	Not general or public.
protective adj	Sheltering.
foppery	Dandyism.
sequence	The order in which a number or persons, things, or events follow one another in space or time.
huckster	One who retails small wares.
perfunctory adj	Half-hearted.
to coincide	To correspond.
truism	A statement so plainly true as hardly to require statement or proof.
vulnerable adj	Capable of receiving injuries.
prototype	A work, original in character, afterward imitated in form or spirit.
hiatus	A break or vacancy where something necessary to supply the connection is wanting.
taxation	A levy, by government, of a fixed contribution.
derisible adj	Open to ridicule.
to denounce	To point out or publicly accuse as deserving of punishment, censure, or odium.
to maintain	To hold or preserve in any particular state or condition.

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proscenium	That part of the stage between the curtain and the orchestra.
momentum	An impetus.
missive	A message in writing.
incentive	That which moves the mind or inflames the passions.
listless adj	Inattentive.
mania	Insanity.
liable adj	Justly or legally responsible.
impervious adj	Impenetrable.
comparable adj	Fit to be compared.
proportionate adj	Being in proportion.
to seethe	To be violently excited or agitated.
to intercede	To mediate between persons.
solder	A fusible alloy used for joining metallic surfaces or margins.
wherever adv	In or at whatever place.
to disarm	To deprive of weapons.
fraudulent adj	Counterfeit.
liturgy	A ritual.
reproduction	The process by which an animal or plant gives rise to another of its kind.
to parallel	To cause to correspond or lie in the same direction and equidistant in all parts.
to disrupt	To burst or break asunder.

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deterrent adj	Hindering from action through fear.
photometry	The art of measuring the intensity of light.
animosity	Hatred.
to sibilate	To give a hissing sound to, as in pronouncing the letter s.
pharmacopoeia	A book containing the formulas and methods of preparation of medicines for the use of druggists.
scarcity	Insufficiency of supply for needs or ordinary demands.
monetary adj	Financial.
subterranean adj	Situated or occurring below the surface of the earth.
aroma	An agreeable odor.
trite adj	Made commonplace by frequent repetition.
serviceable adj	Durable.
abdominal	Of, pertaining to, or situated on the abdomen.
to broach	To mention, for the first time.
emigrant	One who moves from one place to settle in another.
to permeate	To pervade.
forefather	An ancestor.
eccentricity	Idiosyncrasy.
to condense	To abridge.
atomizer	An apparatus for reducing a liquid to a fine spray, as for disinfection, inhalation, etc.
perjury	A solemn assertion of a falsity.

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eminent adj	High in station, merit, or esteem.
Pariah	A member of a degraded class; a social outcast.
heifer	A young cow.
terminus	The final point or goal.
constellation	An arbitrary assemblage or group of stars.
to dissatisfy	To displease.
to rejuvenate	To restore to youth.
valid adj	Founded on truth.
pyrotechnic adj	Pertaining to fireworks or their manufacture.
indispensable adj	Necessary or requisite for the purpose.
magician	A sorcerer.
nunnery	A convent for nuns.
boisterous adj	Unchecked merriment or animal spirits.
neo-Latin	Modernized (Latin.)
arbiter	One chosen or appointed, by mutual consent of parties in dispute, to decide matters.
inconsiderable adj	Small in quantity or importance.
vivisection	The dissection of a living animal.
comestible adj	Fit to be eaten.
to superintend	To have the charge and direction of, especially of some work or movement.
lactic adj	Pertaining to milk.

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pedant	A scholar who makes needless and inopportune display of his learning.
to outweigh	To surpass in importance or excellence.
to reimburse	To pay back as an equivalent of what has been expended.
to bestride	To get or sit upon astride, as a horse.
indulgent adj	Yielding to the desires or humor of oneself or those under one's care.
bight	A slightly receding bay between headlands, formed by a long curve of a coast-line.
to muddle	To confuse or becloud, especially with or as with drink.
deity	A god, goddess, or divine person.
arrival	A coming to stopping-place or destination.
procedure	A manner or method of acting.
sophistry	Reasoning sound in appearance only, especially when designedly deceptive.
irreverence	The quality showing or expressing a deficiency of veneration, especially for sacred things.
theorist	One given to speculating.
stringent adj	Rigid.
to aggress	To make the first attack.
tricycle	A three-wheeled vehicle.
miniature adj	Much smaller than reality or that the normal size.
leaflet	A little leaf or a booklet.
inefficient adj	Not accomplishing an intended purpose.
inept adj	Not fit or suitable.

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blithesome adj	Cheerful.
bombast	Inflated or extravagant language, especially on unimportant subjects.
theologian	A professor of divinity.
incompetent adj	Not having the abilities desired or necessary for any purpose.
to forebode	To be an omen or warning sign of, especially of evil.
to deflect	To cause to turn aside or downward.
to invalidate	To render of no force or effect.
Quixotic adj	Chivalrous or romantic to a ridiculous or extravagant degree.
suspicious adj	Inclined to doubt or mistrust.
misogamy	Hatred of marriage.
heritage	Birthright.
futurist	A person of expectant temperament.
stripling	A mere youth.
antitoxin	A substance which neutralizes the poisonous products of micro-organisms.
statecraft	The art of conducting state affairs.
nostrum	Any scheme or recipe of a charlatan character.
aviary	A spacious cage or enclosure in which live birds are kept.
anachronism	Anything occurring or existing out of its proper time.
biennial	A plant that produces leaves and roots the first year and flowers and fruit the second.
sedentary adj	Involving or requiring much sitting.

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pellucid adj	Translucent.
sanguine adj	Having the color of blood.
observatory	A building designed for systematic astronomical observations.
solar adj	Pertaining to the sun.
parricide	The murder of a parent.
phlegmatic adj	Not easily roused to feeling or action.
discontinuance	Interruption or intermission.
overweight	Preponderance.
donator	One who makes a donation or present.
disservice	An ill turn.
preference	An object of favor or choice.
promissory adj	Expressing an engagement to pay.
to hoard	To gather and store away for the sake of accumulation.
monogamy	The habit of pairing, or having but one mate.
potent adj	Physically powerful.
profligacy	Shameless viciousness.
opprobrium	The state of being scornfully reproached or accused of evil.
frivolity	A trifling act, thought, saying, or practice.
telephony	The art or process of communicating by telephone.
unutterable adj	Inexpressible.

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to obvert	To turn the front or principal side of (a thing) toward any person or object.
sensation	A condition of mind resulting from spiritual or inherent feeling.
to variegate	To mark with different shades or colors.
lyre	One of the most ancient of stringed instruments of the harp class.
emphatic adj	Spoken with any special impressiveness laid upon an act, word, or set of words.
reconcilable adj	Capable of being adjusted or harmonized.
indigestible adj	Not digestible, or difficult to digest.
to deify	To regard or worship as a god.
aqueous adj	Of, pertaining to, or containing water.
reflection	The throwing off or back of light, heat, sound, or any form of energy that travels in waves.
affectation	A studied or ostentatious pretense or attempt.
generic adj	Noting a genus or kind; opposed to specific.
to waive	To relinquish, especially temporarily, as a right or claim.
to terrify	To fill with extreme fear.
repugnance	Thorough dislike.
asperity	Harshness or roughness of temper.
dismissal	Displacement by authority from an office or an employment.
afterthought	A thought that comes later than its appropriate or expected time.
nautical adj	Pertaining to ships, seamen, or navigation.
hydrodynamics	The branch of mechanics that treats of the dynamics of fluids.

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antiseptic	Anything that destroys or restrains the growth of putrefactive micro-organisms.
to retaliate	To repay evil with a similar evil.
perspective	The relative importance of facts or matters from any special point of view.
to coagulate	To change into a clot or a jelly, as by heat, by chemical action, or by a ferment.
prelude	An introductory or opening performance.
diffident adj	Affected or possessed with self-distrust.
refusal	Denial of what is asked.
dimly adv	Obscurely.
moratorium	An emergency legislation authorizing a government suspend some action temporarily.
recrudescent adj	Becoming raw or sore again.
to irrigate	To water, as land, by ditches or other artificial means.
intermission	A recess.
to disfigure	To impair or injure the beauty, symmetry, or appearance of.
misdeed	A wrong or improper act.
itinerary	A detailed account or diary of a journey.
exempt adj	Free, clear, or released, as from some liability, or restriction affecting others.
abyss	Bottomless gulf.
to succumb	To cease to resist.
auricular adj	Of or pertaining to the ear, its auricle, or the sense of hearing.
poesy	Poetry.

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to wreak	To inflict, as a revenge or punishment.
decisive adj	Conclusive.
to prate	To talk about vainly or foolishly.
reparation	The act of making amends, as for an injury, loss, or wrong.
noisome adj	Very offensive, particularly to the sense of smell.
to annex	To add or affix at the end.
perquisite	Any profit from service beyond the amount fixed as salary or wages.
artifice	Trickery.
secondary adj	Less important or effective than that which is primary.
to advert	To refer incidentally.
negligible adj	Transferable by assignment, endorsement, or delivery.
reckless adj	Foolishly headless of danger.
vociferous adj	Making a loud outcry.
donee	A person to whom a donation is made.
supposition	Conjecture.
scholarly adj	Characteristic of an erudite person.
distillation	Separation of the more volatile parts of a substance from those less volatile.
Darwinism	The doctrine that natural selection has been the prime cause of evolution of higher forms.
garrulous adj	Given to constant trivial talking.
homogeneity	Congruity of the members or elements or parts.

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calculus	A concretion formed in various parts of the body resembling a pebble in hardness.
Elizabethan adj	Relating to Elizabeth, queen of England, or to her era.
impudence	Insolent disrespect.
decent adj	Characterized by propriety of conduct, speech, manners, or dress.
transferrer	One who or that which conveys from one person or place to another.
domicile	The place where one lives.
masquerade	A social party composed of persons masked and costumed so as to be disguised.
legislative adj	That makes or enacts laws.
soothsayer	One who claims to have supernatural insight or foresight.
retrogression	A going or moving backward or in a reverse direction.
to quadruple	To multiply by four.
reluctance	Unwillingness.
impersonal adj	Not relating to a particular person or thing.
to commemorate	To serve as a remembrance of.
to degrade	To take away honors or position from.
success	A favorable or prosperous course or termination of anything attempted.
balsam	A medical preparation, aromatic and oily, used for healing.
callosity	The state of being hard and insensible.
discernible adj	Perceivable.
obstinacy	Stubborn adherence to opinion, arising from conceit or the desire to have one's own way.

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metric adj	Relating to measurement.
decapod adj	Ten-footed or ten-armed.
to admonish	To warn of a fault.
to retrieve	To recover something by searching.
fraudulence	Deceitfulness.
to inebriate	To intoxicate.
mandatory adj	Expressive of positive command, as distinguished from merely directory.
up-keep	Maintenance.
vignette	A picture having a background or that is shaded off gradually.
to enkindle	To set on fire.
ampersand	The character &; and.
confectionery	The candy collectively that a confectioner makes or sells, as candy.
maidenhood	Virginity.
credulous adj	Easily deceived.
extortion	The practice of obtaining by violence or compulsion.
metaphor	A figure of speech in which one object is likened to another, by speaking as if the other.
comical adj	Funny.
impeccable adj	Blameless.
aspirant	One who seeks earnestly, as for advancement, honors, place.
bountiful adj	Showing abundance.

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solace	Comfort in grief, trouble, or calamity.
upheaval	Overthrow or violent disturbance of established order or condition.
excerpt	An extract or selection from written or printed matter.
pious adj	Religious.
to enfranchise	To endow with a privilege, especially with the right to vote.
to peddle	To go about with a small stock of goods to sell.
to marvel	To be astonished and perplexed because of (something).
antiphony	An anthem or other composition sung responsively.
to oscillate	To swing back and forth.
repertory	A place where things are stored or gathered together.
receivable adj	Capable of being or fit to be received - often money.
guess	Surmise.
illogical adj	Contrary to the rules of sound thought.
to recreate	To refresh after labor.
urban adj	Of, or pertaining to, or like a city.
navel	The depression on the abdomen where the umbilical cord of the fetus was attached.
precaution	A provision made in advance for some possible emergency or danger.
benign adj	Good and kind of heart.
quarrelsome adj	Irascible.
intelligence	Capacity to know or understand.

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to predict	To foretell.
barring prep	Apart from.
opponent	One who supports the opposite side in a debate, discussion, struggle, or sport.
to decamp	To leave suddenly or unexpectedly.
magnet	A body possessing that peculiar form of polarity found in nature in the lodestone.
to extol	To praise in the highest terms.
bibliography	A list of the words of an author, or the literature bearing on a particular subject.
severely adv	Extremely.
to disown	To refuse to acknowledge as one's own or as connected with oneself.
impassable adj	That can not be passed through or over.
oratorio	A composition for solo voices, chorus, and orchestra, generally taken from the Scriptures.
maniac	a person raving with madness.
insentient adj	Lacking the power of feeling or perceiving.
conservatism	Tendency to adhere to the existing order of things.
butte	A conspicuous hill, low mountain, or natural turret, generally isolated.
inquisitor	One who makes an investigation.
polyglot adj	Speaking several tongues.
to patter	To mumble something over and over.
cudgel	A short thick stick used as a club.
illegitimate adj	Unlawfully begotten.

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effusion	an outpouring.
to lacerate	To tear rudely or raggedly.
allusion	An indirect and incidental reference to something without definite mention of it.
concurrent adj	Occurring or acting together.
to elucidate	To bring out more clearly the facts concerning.
to constrict	To bind.
foppish adj	Characteristic of one who is unduly devoted to dress and the niceties of manners.
material	That of which anything is composed or may be constructed.
to bethink	To remind oneself.
mien	The external appearance or manner of a person.
capacious adj	Roomy.
cosmography	The science that describes the universe, including astronomy, geography, and geology.
imitation	That which is made as a likeness or copy.
sensorium	The sensory apparatus.
seer	A prophet.
apathy	Insensibility to emotion or passionate feeling.
later adv	At a subsequent time.
subtle adj	Discriminating.
corollary	A proposition following so obviously from another that it requires little demonstration.
circumference	The boundary-line of a circle.

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to forfeit	To lose possession of through failure to fulfill some obligation.
irreverent adj	Showing or expressing a deficiency of veneration, especially for sacred things.
alacrity	Cheerful willingness.
brusque adj	Somewhat rough or rude in manner or speech.
proficient adj	Possessing ample and ready knowledge or of skill in any art, science, or industry.
to correlate	To put in some relation of connection or correspondence.
ogre	A demon or monster that was supposed to devour human beings.
paly adj	Lacking color or brilliancy.
lethargy	Prolonged sluggishness of body or mind.
avarice	Passion for getting and keeping riches.
pincers	An instrument having two lever-handles and two jaws working on a pivot.
to enrapture	To delight extravagantly or intensely.
hypnosis	An artificial trance-sleep.
inkling	A hint.
transposition	The act of reversing the order or changing the place of.
bale	A large package prepared for transportation or storage.
conscience	The faculty in man by which he distinguishes between right and wrong in character and conduct.
to disburse	To pay out or expend, as money from a fund. discard (v.)
usurious adj	Taking unlawful or exorbitant interest on money loaned.
recitation	The act of reciting or repeating, especially in public and from memory.

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manifesto	A public declaration, making announcement, explanation or defense of intentions, or motives.
lacteal adj	Milky.
nonchalance	A state of mind indicating lack of interest.
to overrun	To infest or ravage.
albino	A person with milky white skin and hair, and eyes with bright red pupil and usually pink iris.
conflagration	A great fire, as of many buildings, a forest, or the like.
to undeceive	To free from deception, as by apprising of the real state of affairs.
liberalism	Opposition to conservatism.
to evade	To avoid by artifice.
trait	A distinguishing feature or quality.
incoherence	Want of connection, or agreement, as of parts or ideas in thought, speech, etc.
to obligate	To hold to the fulfillment of duty.
insecure adj	Not assured of safety.
jocular adj	Inclined to joke.
consignor	One who entrusts.
biology	The science of life or living organisms.
semicircle	A half-circle.
fungus	A plant destitute of chlorophyll, as a mushroom.
to forfend	To ward off.
canon	Any rule or law.

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oblivion	The state of having passed out of the memory or of being utterly forgotten.
merciless adj	Cruel.
monologue	A story or drama told or performed by one person.
skeptic	One who doubts any statements.
lieu	Stead.
rivulet	A small stream or brook.
head first adv	Precipitately, as in diving.
glorious adj	Of excellence and splendor.
latency	The state of being dormant.
to underrate	To undervalue.
hydraulic adj	Involving the moving of water, of the force exerted by water in motion.
perfectible adj	Capable of being made perfect.
diabolic adj	Characteristic of the devil.
verbose adj	Wordy.
masonry	The art or work of constructing, as buildings, walls, etc., with regularly arranged stones.
manliness	The qualities characteristic of a true man, as bravery, resolution, etc.
to usurp	To take possession of by force.
to dramatize	To relate or represent in a dramatic or theatrical manner.
despondent adj	Disheartened.
to upturn	To throw into confusion.

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to cipher	To calculate arithmetically.
auricle	One of the two chambers of the heart which receives the blood from the veins.
anticlimax	A gradual or sudden decrease in the importance or impressiveness of what is said.
abscess	A Collection of pus in a cavity formed within some tissue of the body.
untimely adj	Unseasonable.
profiteer	One who profits.
panic	A sudden, unreasonable, overpowering fear.
coercion	Forcible constraint or restraint, moral or physical.
abidance	An abiding.
to annotate	To make explanatory or critical notes on or upon.
ingenuous adj	Candid, frank, or open in character or quality.
revelation	A disclosing, discovering, or making known of what was before secret, private, or unknown.
indiscernible adj	Not perceptible.
to appertain	To belong, as by right, fitness, association, classification, possession, or natural relation.
epicycle	A circle that rolls upon the external or internal circumference of another circle.
crevasse	A deep crack or fissure in the ice of a glacier.
necessary adj	Indispensably requisite or absolutely needed to accomplish a desired result.
braggart	A vain boaster.
edible adj	Suitable to be eaten.
opulent adj	Wealthy.

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grievance	That which oppresses, injures, or causes grief and at the same time a sense of wrong.
virulent adj	Exceedingly noxious or deleterious.
plenipotentiary	A person fully empowered to transact any business.
sepulcher	A burial-place.
corpuscle	A minute particle of matter.
negligent adj	Apt to omit what ought to be done.
frigidarium	A room kept at a low temperature for preserving fruits, meat, etc.
divulgence	A divulging.
denizen	Inhabitant.
egotism	Self-conceit.
operative adj	Active.
anatomy	That branch of morphology which treats of the structure of organisms.
protocol	A declaration or memorandum of agreement less solemn and formal than a treaty.
inscrutable adj	Impenetrably mysterious or profound.
intricacy	Perplexity.
lattice	Openwork of metal or wood, formed by crossing or interlacing strips or bars.
chivalry	The knightly system of feudal times with its code, usages and practices.
lyric adj	Fitted for expression in song.
abduction	A carrying away of a person against his will, or illegally.
antipodes	A place or region on the opposite side of the earth.

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depreciation	A lowering in value or an underrating in worth.
brigadier	General officer who commands a brigade, ranking between a colonel and a major-general.
death's-head	A human skull as a symbol of death.
thesis	An essay or treatise on a particular subject.
psychiatry	The branch of medicine that relates to mental disease.
to enshrine	To keep sacred.
to betroth	To engage to marry.
kiloliter	One thousand liters.
antenatal adj	Occurring or existing before birth.
to meliorate	To make better or improve, as in quality or social or physical condition.
remonstrance	Reproof.
overdose	An excessive dose, usually so large a dose of a medicine that its effect is toxic.
malevolent adj	Wishing evil to others.
to animadvert	To pass criticism or censure.
polycracy	The rule of many.
litigious adj	Quarrelsome.
exit	A way or passage out.
impertinence	Rudeness.
foible	A personal weakness or failing.
nugatory adj	Having no power or force.

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antiphon	A response or alteration of responses, generally musical.
morphology	the science of organic forms.
misanthropy	Hatred of mankind.
grief	Sorrow.
creed	A formal summary of fundamental points of religious belief.
Omnipotent adj	Possessed of unlimited and universal power.
aye adv	An expression of assent.
inaudible adj	That can not be heard.
diplomatic adj	Characterized by special tact in negotiations.
intimacy	Close or confidential friendship.
to separate	To take apart.
pedigree	One's line of ancestors.
unwise adj	Foolish.
rhetoric	The art of discourse.
exorbitant adj	Going beyond usual and proper limits.
bronchitis	Inflammation of the bronchial tubes.
to teem	To be full to overflowing.
anthropology	The science of man in general.
inexpedient adj	Unadvisable.
egoism	The theory that places man's chief good in the completeness of self.

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furlough	A temporary absence of a soldier or sailor by permission of the commanding officer.
possible adj	Being not beyond the reach of power natural, moral, or supernatural.
to sear	To burn on the surface.
massive adj	Of considerable bulk and weight.
narrator	One who narrates anything.
maxim	A principle accepted as true and acted on as a rule or guide.
evasion	Escape.
wholly adv	Completely.
to maltreat	To treat ill, unkindly, roughly, or abusively.
pusilanimous adj	Without spirit or bravery.
to relinquish	To give up using or having.
to abrade	To wear away the surface or some part of by friction.
hillock	A small hill or mound.
baton	An official staff borne either as a weapon or as an emblem of authority or privilege.
aboveboard adj / adv	Without concealment, fraud, or trickery.
to elude	To evade the search or pursuit of by dexterity or artifice.
immersion	The act of plunging or dipping entirely under water or another fluid.
bureau	A chest of drawers for clothing, etc.
codicil	A supplement adding to, revoking, or explaining in the body of a will.
quietus	A silencing, suppressing, or ending.

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to undulate	To move like a wave or in waves.
jocose adj	Done or made in jest.
Artesian well	A very deep bored well. water rises due to underground pressure
contingent adj	Not predictable.
pertinent adj	Relevant.
consonance	The state or quality of being in accord with.
amateur adj	Practicing an art or occupation for the love of it, but not as a profession.
tactics	Any maneuvering or adroit management for effecting an object.
pneumatic adj	Pertaining to or consisting of air or gas.
to ascribe	To assign as a quality or attribute.
to efface	To obliterate.
to manumit	To set free from bondage.
reprehension	Expression of blame.
disinterested adj	Impartial.
bomb	A hollow projectile containing an explosive material.
to accept	To take when offered.
to confide	To reveal in trust or confidence.
raptorial adj	Seizing and devouring living prey.
to reproduce	To make a copy of.
priggish adj	Conceited.

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transitory adj	Existing for a short time only.
to decipher	To find out the true words or meaning of, as something hardly legible.
epitaph	An inscription on a tomb or monument in honor or in memory of the dead.
restitution	Restoration of anything to the one to whom it properly belongs.
thermoelectricity	Electricity generated by differences of temperature,
gastric adj	Of, pertaining to, or near the stomach.
opaque adj	Impervious to light.
tutelage	The act of training or the state of being under instruction.
psychotherapy	The treatment of mental disease.
to narrate	To tell a story.
parsimonious adj	Unduly sparing in the use or expenditure of money.
jurisprudence	The science of rights in accordance with positive law.
disfavor	Disregard.
purport	Intent.
epilogue	The close of a narrative or dramatic poem.
commitment	The act or process of entrusting or consigning for safe-keeping.
virulence	Extreme poisonousness.
to disagree	To be opposite in opinion.
avalanche	The fall or sliding of a mass of snow or ice down a mountain-slope, often bearing with it rock.
anthropomorphous adj	Having or resembling human form.

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canary adj	Of a bright but delicate yellow.
to improvise	To do anything extemporaneously or offhand.
finery	That which is used to decorate the person or dress.
coronation	The act or ceremony of crowning a monarch.
preeminence	Special eminence.
integrity	Uprightness of character and soundness of moral principle.
consanguineous adj	Descended from the same parent or ancestor.
to gamble	To risk money or other possession on an event, chance, or contingency.
jargon	Confused, unintelligible speech or highly technical speech.
expulsion	Forcible ejection.
to alter	To make change in.
heedless adj	Thoughtless.
suffrage	The right or privilege of voting.
immeasurable adj	Indefinitely extensive.
orthopedic adj	Relating to the correcting or preventing of deformity
medallion	A large medal.
desperado	One without regard for law or life.
assignee	One who is appointed to act for another in the management of certain property and interests.
apology	A disclaimer of intentional error or offense.
ligneous adj	Having the texture of appearance of wood.

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ministry	A service.
disinfectant	A substance used to destroy the germs of infectious diseases.
pallid adj	Of a pale or wan appearance.
pervasive adj	Thoroughly penetrating or permeating.
aeronautics	the art or practice of flying aircraft
urgency	The pressure of necessity.
witchcraft	Sorcery.
lune	The moon.
to frizzle	To cause to crinkle or curl, as the hair.
to defalcate	To cut off or take away, as a part of something.
ceremonial adj	Characterized by outward form or ceremony.
triennial adj	Taking place every third year.
commentary	A series of illustrative or explanatory notes on any important work.
peevish adj	Petulant.
dolorous adj	Expressing or causing sorrow or pain.
perusal	The act of reading carefully or thoughtfully.
extemporaneous adj	Done or made without much or any preparation.
arboreal adj	Of or pertaining to a tree or trees.
beatitude	Any state of great happiness.
noxious adj	Hurtful.

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abhorrence	The act of detesting extremely.
to ache	To be in pain or distress.
forethought	Premeditation.
to recure	To cure again.
homologous adj	Identical in nature, make-up, or relation.
gambol	Playful leaping or frisking.
to absorb	To drink in or suck up, as a sponge absorbs water.
thermal adj	Of or pertaining to heat.
upcast	A throwing upward.
to seclude	To place, keep, or withdraw from the companionship of others.
coercive adj	Serving or tending to force.
apprehensible adj	Capable of being conceived.
Sybarite	A luxurious person.
investigator	One who investigates.
to specialize	To assume an individual or specific character, or adopt a singular or special course.
extempore adv	Without studied or special preparation.
quibble	An utterly trivial distinction or objection.
contemporary adj	Living or existing at the same time.
to disenfranchise	To deprive of any right privilege or power
pluperfect adj	Expressing past time or action prior to some other past time or action.

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dominance	Ascendancy.
visual adj	Perceptible by sight.
polemics	The art of controversy or disputation.
knighthood	Chivalry.
variation	Modification.
to stimulate	To rouse to activity or to quickened action.
unavoidable adj	Inevitable.
felony	One of the highest class of offenses, and punishable with death or imprisonment.
to foresee	To discern beforehand.
conjugation	The state or condition of being joined together.
sarcasm	Cutting and reproachful language.
tremendous adj	Awe-inspiring.
archetype	A prototype.
composure	Calmness.
accomplice	An associate in wrong-doing.
mythology	The whole body of legends cherished by a race concerning gods and heroes.
predatory adj	Prone to pillaging.
to confer	To bestow.
freshness	The state, quality, or degree of being fresh.
intestate adj	Not having made a valid will.

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stigma	A mark of infamy or token of disgrace attaching to a person as the result of evil-doing.
to necessitate	To render indispensable.
administrator	One who manages affairs of any kind.
spontaneous adj	Arising from inherent qualities or tendencies without external efficient cause.
utmost	The greatest possible extent.
to engrave	To cut or carve in or upon some surface.
archaeology	The branch of anthropology concerned with the systematic investigation of the relics of man.
to defray	To make payment for.
cartridge	A charge for a firearm, or for blasting.
grotesque adj	Incongruously composed or ill-proportioned.
rotary adj	Turning around its axis, like a wheel, or so constructed as to turn thus.
accompanist	One who or that which accompanies.
staid adj	Of a steady and sober character.
to enthrall	To bring or hold under any overmastering influence.
manor	The landed estate of a lord or nobleman.
submission	A yielding to the power or authority of another.
to abridge	To make shorter in words, keeping the essential features, leaning out minor particles.
deciduous adj	Falling off at maturity as petals after flowering, fruit when ripe, etc.
distrainor	One who subjects a person to distress.
to perform	To accomplish.

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beau	An escort or lover.
stanchion	A vertical bar, or a pair of bars, used to confine cattle in a stall.
benefactor	A doer of kindly and charitable acts.
to derive	To deduce, as from a premise.
prediction	A prophecy.
corps	A number or body of persons in some way associated or acting together.
piecemeal adv	Gradually.
to digress	To turn aside from the main subject and for a time dwell on some incidental matter.
network	Anything that presents a system of cross- lines.
disputation	Verbal controversy.
gossamer adj	Flimsy.
resistless adj	Powerless.
annual adj	Occurring every year.
delusion	Mistaken conviction, especially when more or less enduring.
prescriptible adj	Derived from authoritative direction.
rapid adj	Having great speed.
pugnacious adj	Quarrelsome.
to embroil	To involve in dissension or strife.
olfactory adj	of or pertaining to the sense of smell.
to disclaim	To disavow any claim to, connection with, or responsibility to.

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to procrastinate	To put off till tomorrow or till a future time.
forbearance	Patient endurance or toleration of offenses.
to repudiate	To refuse to have anything to do with.
baize	A single-colored napped woolen fabric used for table-covers, curtains, etc.
sonorous adj	Resonant.
vulgarity	Lack of refinement in conduct or speech.
account	A record or statement of receipts and expenditures, or of business transactions.
tyrannical adj	Despotic.
unconscionable adj	Ridiculously or unjustly excessive.
to acquire	To get as one's own.
sanctity	Holiness.
cosmology	The general science of the universe.
benevolence	Any act of kindness or well-doing.
legible adj	That may be read with ease.
to inject	To introduce, as a fluid, by injection.
boorish adj	Rude.
Canaanite	A member of one of the three tribes that dwelt in the land of Canaan, or western Palestine.
inhuman adj	Savage.
to superadd	To add in addition to what has been added.
dishabille	Undress or negligent attire.

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dastard	A base coward.
ineffable adj	Unutterable.
inflammation	A morbid process in some part of the body characterized by heat, swelling, and pain.
fluctuation	Frequent irregular change back and forth from one state or degree to another.
apothecary	One who keeps drugs for sale and puts up prescriptions.
to introspect	To look into.
credence	Belief.
lowly adv	Rudely.
eloquent adj	Having the ability to express emotion or feeling in lofty and impassioned speech.
regnant adj	Exercising royal authority in one's own right.
exigency	A critical period or condition.
exemplar	A model, pattern, or original to be copied or imitated.
nausea	An affection of the stomach producing dizziness and usually an impulse to vomit
flippant adj	Having a light, pert, trifling disposition.
divinity	The quality or character of being godlike.
metropolitan adj	Pertaining to a chief city.
territorial adj	Pertaining to the domain over which a sovereign state exercises jurisdiction.
linguistics	The science of languages, or of the origin, history, and significance of words.
impetus	Any impulse or incentive.
opportunity	Favorable or advantageous chance or opening.

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cosmogony	A doctrine of creation or of the origin of the universe.
testimonial	A formal token of regard, often presented in public.
resumption	The act of taking back, or taking again.
luminescent adj	Showing increase of light.
philology	The study of language in connection with history and literature.
sentience	Capacity for sensation or sense-perception.
expense	The laying out or expending or money or other resources, as time or strength.
to savor	To perceive by taste or smell.
broadcast adj	Disseminated far and wide.
immovable adj	Steadfast.
to tarnish	To lessen or destroy the luster of in any way.
to wean	To transfer (the young) from dependence on mother's milk to another form of nourishment.
to confront	To encounter, as difficulties or obstacles.
laudable adj	Praiseworthy.
audacious adj	Fearless.
spurious adj	Not genuine.
desultory adj	Not connected with what precedes.
to assent	To express agreement with a statement or matter of opinion.
juridical adj	Assumed by law to exist.
misty adj	Lacking clearness

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Calvinism	The system of doctrine taught by John Calvin.
conveyance	That by which anything is transported.
to endue	To endow with some quality, gift, or grace, usually spiritual.
dogmatic adj	Making statements without argument or evidence.
profligate adj	Abandoned to vice.
to attest	To certify as accurate, genuine, or true.
cynicism	Contempt for the opinions of others and of what others value.
altruist	One who advocates or practices altruism.
to misbehave	To behave ill.
appellation	The name or title by which a particular person, class, or thing is called.
inchmeal adv	Piecemeal.
biped	An animal having two feet.
myth	A fictitious narrative presented as historical, but without any basis of fact.
to suppress	To prevent from being disclosed or punished.
to preexist	To exist at a period or in a state earlier than something else.
afoot adv	In progress.
incompatible adj	Discordant.
to meander	To wind and turn while proceeding in a course.
monolith	Any structure or sculpture in stone formed of a single piece.
modification	A change.

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mentor	A wise and faithful teacher, guide, and friend.
efflorescence	The state of being flowery, or a flowery appearance.
papacy	The official head of the Roman Catholic Church.
to isolate	To separate from others of its kind.
protagonist	A leader in any enterprise or contest.
termagant adj	Violently abusive and quarrelsome.
nebula	A gaseous body of unorganized stellar substance.
to whet	To make more keen or eager.
vortex	A mass of rotating or whirling fluid, especially when sucked spirally toward the center.
Americanism	A peculiar sense in which an English word or phrase is used in the United States.
orthopedist	One who practices the correcting or preventing of deformity
benison	Blessing.
acquittal	A discharge from accusation by judicial action.
loiterer	One who consumes time idly.
actionable adj	Affording cause for instituting an action, as trespass, slanderous words.
hemorrhoids	pl. Tumors composed of enlarged and thickened blood-vessels, at the lower end of the rectum.
grimace	A distortion of the features, occasioned by some feeling of pain, disgust, etc.
mealy-mouthed adj	Afraid to express facts or opinions plainly.
mendacious adj	Untrue.
racy adj	Exciting or exhilarating to the mind.

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tremulous adj	Characterized by quivering or unsteadiness.
precise adj	Exact.
irrepressible adj	That can not be restrained or kept down.
prolific adj	Producing offspring or fruit.
to protrude	To push out or thrust forth.
deposition	Testimony legally taken on interrogatories and reduced to writing, for use as evidence in court.
turpitude	Depravity.
tenure	The term during which a thing is held.
effluvium	A noxious or ill-smelling exhalation from decaying or putrefying matter.
to beatify	To make supremely happy.
to portend	To indicate as being about to happen, especially by previous signs.
fluent adj	Having a ready or easy flow of words or ideas.
synopsis	A syllabus or summary.
to perpetuate	To preserve from extinction or oblivion.
incombustible adj	That can not be burned.
brigade	A body of troops consisting of two or more regiments.
sirocco	hot winds from Africa.
conscientious adj	Governed by moral standard.
deformity	A disfigurement.
to underwrite	To issue or be party to the issue of a policy of insurance.

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forcible adj	Violent.
repugnant adj	Offensive to taste and feeling.
discrepant adj	Opposite.
to allay	To calm the violence or reduce the intensity of; mitigate.
scoundrel	A man without principle.
mediocre adj	Ordinary.
theism	Belief in God.
fanatic	A religious zealot.
truculence	Ferocity.
plummet	A piece of lead for making soundings, adjusting walls to the vertical.
naval adj	Pertaining to ships.
pleasurable adj	Affording gratification.
to baffle	To foil or frustrate.
pomposity	The quality of being marked by an assumed stateliness and impressiveness of manner.
to fondle	To handle tenderly and lovingly.
querulous adj	Habitually complaining.
decagram	A weight of 10 grams.
bibliophile	One who loves books.
sequacious adj	Ready to be led.
unlawful adj	Illegal.

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generosity	A disposition to give liberally or to bestow favors heartily.
inverse adj	Contrary in tendency or direction.
to agitate	To move or excite (the feelings or thoughts).
terse adj	Pithy.
bulbous adj	Of, or pertaining to, or like a bulb.
probation	Any proceeding designed to ascertain or test character, qualification, or the like.
indiscreet adj	Lacking wise judgment.
impregnable adj	That can not be taken by assault.
to undervalue	To underestimate.
insufficient adj	Inadequate for some need, purpose, or use.
inherence	The state of being permanently existing in something.
colleague	An associate in professional employment.
drachma	A modern and an ancient Greek coin.
to blaspheme	To indulge in profane oaths.
gynecology	The science that treats of the functions and diseases peculiar to women.
peerage	The nobility.
to orate	To deliver an elaborate or formal public speech.
suppression	A forcible putting or keeping down.
repressible adj	Able to be kept under restraint or control.
reversion	A return to or toward some former state or condition.

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to overshadow	To cast into the shade or render insignificant by comparison.
energetic adj	Working vigorously.
redemption	The recovery of what is mortgaged or pledged, by paying the debt.
fiducial adj	Indicative of faith or trust.
rendezvous	A prearranged place of meeting.
to deliquesce	To dissolve gradually and become liquid by absorption of moisture from the air.
metronome	An instrument for indicating and marking exact time in music.
to altercate	To contend angrily or zealously in words.
congenial adj	Having kindred character or tastes.
fallacious adj	Illogical.
to curtail	To cut off or cut short.
amatory adj	Designed to excite love.
to discolor	To stain.
fernery	A place in which ferns are grown.
vainglory	Excessive, pretentious, and demonstrative vanity.
herbarium	A collection of dried plants scientifically arranged for study.
tractable adj	Easily led or controlled.
to harass	To trouble with importunities, cares, or annoyances.
juror	One who serves on a jury or is sworn in for jury duty in a court of justice.
dominant adj	Conspicuously prominent.

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mordant adj	Biting.
to percolate	To filter.
to prefix	To attach at the beginning.
nasal adj	Pertaining to the nose.
to immigrate	To come into a country or region from a former habitat.
altitude	Vertical distance or elevation above any point or base-level, as the sea.
prim adj	Stiffly proper.
evangelist	A preacher who goes from place to place holding services.
lingua	The tongue.
scruple	Doubt or uncertainty regarding a question of moral right or duty.
diffidence	Self-distrust.
to badger	To pester.
to repute	To hold in general opinion.
to conciliate	To obtain the friendship of.
beneficiary	One who is lawfully entitled to the profits and proceeds of an estate or property.
to revert	To return, or turn or look back, as toward a former position or the like.
knight errant	One of the wandering knights who in the middle ages went forth in search of adventure.
to exceed	To go beyond, as in measure, quality, value, action, power, skill, etc.
cereal adj	Pertaining to edible grain or farinaceous seeds.
predominance	Ascendancy or preponderance.

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virtuoso	A master in the technique of some particular fine art.
liege adj	Sovereign.
regality	Royalty.
malediction	The calling down of a curse or curses.
grantee	The person to whom property is transferred by deed.
nominee	One who receives a nomination.
dramatist	One who writes plays.
austere adj	Severely simple; unadorned.
to surmise	To conjecture.
similitude	Similarity.
belle	A woman who is a center of attraction because of her beauty, accomplishments, etc.
inimical adj	Adverse.
to begrudge	To envy one of the possession of.
rapacious adj	Disposed to seize by violence or by unlawful or greedy methods.
excitation	Intensified emotion or action.
morale	A state of mind with reference to confidence, courage, zeal, and the like.
nowhere adv	In no place or state.
demagogue	An unprincipled politician.
venom	The poisonous fluid that certain animals secrete.
to preponderate	To exceed in influence or power.

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corporeal adj	Of a material nature; physical.
to fortify	To provide with defensive works.
impatience	Unwillingness to brook delays or wait the natural course of things.
stagy adj	Having a theatrical manner.
cygnet	A young swan.
academy	Any institution where the higher branches of learning are taught.
sparse adj	Thinly diffused.
pyromania	An insane propensity to set things on fire.
satire	The employment of sarcasm, irony, or keenness of wit in ridiculing vices.
fallow	Land broken up and left to become mellow or to rest.
lien	A legal claim or hold on property, as security for a debt or charge.
perigee	The point in the orbit of the moon when it is nearest the earth.
hosiery	A stocking.
to entangle	To involve in difficulties, confusion, or complications.
ingenious adj	Evincing skill, originality, or cleverness, as in contrivance or arrangement.
ascent	A rising, soaring, or climbing.
banal adj	Commonplace.
antique adj	Pertaining to ancient times.
workmanlike adj	Like or befitting a skilled workman.
sophistical adj	Fallacious.

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disbeliever	One who refuses to believe.
fetus	The young in the womb or in the egg.
translator	An interpreter.
proficiency	An advanced state of acquirement, as in some knowledge, art, or science.
complaisant adj	Agreeable.
technology	The knowledge relating to industries and manufactures.
guileless adj	Frank.
kerchief	A square of linen, silk, or other material, used as a covering for the head or neck.
timorous adj	Lacking courage.
extensive adj	Extended widely in space, time, or scope.
triplicate adj	Composed of or pertaining to three related things or parts.
instigator	One who incites to evil.
vestige	A visible trace, mark, or impression, of something absent, lost, or gone.
to dwindle	To diminish or become less.
to beset	To attack on all sides.
modernity	The state or character of being modern.
corrosion	Gradual decay by crumbling or surface disintegration.
panacea	A remedy or medicine proposed for or professing to cure all diseases.
vitality	The state or quality of being necessary to existence or continuance.
sebaceous adj	Pertaining to or appearing like fat.

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virile adj	Masculine.
sphericity	The state or condition of being a sphere.
Catholicism	The system, doctrine, and practice of the Roman Catholic Church.
carcass	The dead body of an animal.
metamorphosis	A passing from one form or shape into another.
midsummer	The middle of the summer.
scurrilous adj	Grossly indecent or vulgar.
propaganda	Any institution or systematic scheme for propagating a doctrine or system.
corroboration	Confirmation.
visage	The face, countenence, or look of a person.
inchoate adj	Incipient.
repentance	Sorrow for something done or left undone, with desire to make things right by undoing the wrong.
pungency	The quality of affecting the sense of smell.
dissertation	Thesis.
superfluity	That part of anything that is in excess of what is needed.
diagnosis	Determination of the distinctive nature of a disease.
latish adj	Rather late.
to enamor	To inspire with ardent love.
to ought	To be under moral obligation to be or do.
airy adj	Delicate, ethereal.

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witticism	A witty, brilliant, or original saying or sentiment.
maleficent adj	Mischievous.
insensible adj	Imperceptible.
to imbrue	To wet or moisten.
undulous adj	Resembling waves.
disrepute	A bad name or character.
drastic adj	Acting vigorously.
to sophisticate	To deprive of simplicity of mind or manner.
fusible adj	Capable of being melted by heat.
acrimonious adj	Full of bitterness.
mausoleum	A tomb of more than ordinary size or architectural pretensions.
philanthropic adj	Benevolent.
herbivorous adj	Feeding on herbs or other vegetable matter, as animals.
bacterium	A microbe.
penchant	A bias in favor of something.
supplementary adj	Being an addition to.
flag-officer	The captain of a flag-ship.
insular adj	Pertaining to an island.
indomitable adj	Unconquerable.
patrimony	An inheritance from an ancestor, especially from one's father.

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simile	A comparison which directs the mind to the representative object itself.
malevolence	Ill will.
aphorism	Proverb.
vendition	The act of selling.
refragable adj	Capable of being refuted.
trinity	A threefold personality existing in the one divine being or substance.
convulsion	A violent and abnormal muscular contraction of the body.
to aggravate	To make heavier, worse, or more burdensome.
to carouse	To drink deeply and in boisterous or jovial manner.
subservience	The quality, character, or condition of being servilely following another's behests.
component	A constituent element or part.
imminent adj	Dangerous and close at hand.
insuperable adj	Invincible.
petulant adj	Displaying impatience.
mutiny	Rebellion against lawful or constituted authority.
to clarify	To render intelligible.
to recur	To happen again or repeatedly, especially at regular intervals.
actuality	Any reality.
cogent adj	Appealing strongly to the reason or conscience.
employer	One who uses or engages the services of other persons for pay.

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to magnetize	To make a magnet of, permanently, or temporarily.
lingual adj	Pertaining to the use of the tongue in utterance.
medley	A composition of different songs or parts of songs arranged to run as a continuous whole.
to operate	To put in action and supervise the working of.
flux	A state of constant movement, change, or renewal.
delicacy	That which is agreeable to a fine taste.
brigand	One who lives by robbery and plunder.
to dun	To make a demand or repeated demands on for payment.
implicit adj	Implied.
contrivance	The act planning, devising, inventing, or adapting something to or for a special purpose.
prominence	The quality of being noticeable or distinguished.
unique adj	Being the only one of its kind.
dissolute adj	Lewd.
anteroom	A room situated before and opening into another, usually larger.
loneliness	Solitude.
kind-hearted adj	Having a kind and sympathetic nature.
polygon	A figure having many angles.
to preordain	To foreordain.
heretic	One who holds opinions contrary to the recognized standards or tenets of any philosophy.
wretchedness	Extreme misery or unhappiness.

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irreversible adj	Irrevocable.
irrelevant adj	Inapplicable.
peerless adj	Of unequaled excellence or worth.
equestrian adj	Pertaining to horses or horsemanship.
hydroelectric adj	Pertaining to electricity developed water or steam.
addendum	Something added, or to be added.
havoc	Devastation.
compulsory adj	Forced.
to bustle	To hurry.
accursed adj	Doomed to evil, misery, or misfortune.
devout adj	Religious.
intracellular adj	Occurring or situated within a cell.
epode	A species of lyric poems.
alcohol	A volatile, inflammable, colorless liquid of a penetrating odor and burning taste.
lax adj	Not stringent or energetic.
ichthyosaurs	A fossil reptile.
to requite	To repay either good or evil to, as to a person.
to preestablish	To settle or arrange beforehand.
contusion	A bruise.
salutation	Any form of greeting, hailing, or welcome, whether by word or act.

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calumny	Slander.
frightful adj	Apt to induce terror or alarm.
to foist	To palm off.
occasion	An important event or celebration.
indignity	Unmerited contemptuous conduct or treatment.
descendent adj	Proceeding downward.
impetuosity	Rashness.
stimulus	Incentive.
dissection	The act or operation of cutting in pieces, specifically of a plant or an animal.
powerless adj	Impotent.
enormity	Immensity.
alienation	Estrangement.
matrimony	The union of a man and a woman in marriage.
volatile adj	Changeable.
impotent adj	Destitute of or lacking in power, physical, moral, or intellectual.
denomination	A body of Christians united by a common faith and form of worship and discipline.
copious adj	Plenteous.
to wield	To use, control, or manage, as a weapon, or instrument, especially with full command.
orthodox adj	Holding the commonly accepted faith.
prolix adj	Verbose.

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picayune adj	Of small value.
to bedeck	To cover with ornament.
Scriptural adj	Pertaining to, contained in, or warranted by the Holy Scriptures.
to bedaub	To smear over, as with something oily or sticky.
voluptuous adj	having fullness of beautiful form, as a woman, with or without sensuous or sensual quality.
buoyant adj	Having the power or tendency to float or keep afloat.
campaign	A complete series of connected military operations.
charlatan	A quack.
epoch	A interval of time, memorable for extraordinary events.
irrefragable adj	That can not be refuted or disproved.
acrid adj	Harshly pungent or bitter.
lexicon	A dictionary.
sapid adj	Affecting the sense of taste.
vernal adj	Belonging to or suggestive of the spring.
consternation	Panic.
ambush	The act or state of lying concealed for the purpose of surprising or attacking the enemy.
somniferous adj	Tending to produce sleep.
convenience	Fitness, as of time or place.
foot-note	A note of explanation or comment at the foot of a page or column.
professor	A public teacher of the highest grade in a university or college.

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to hackney	To make stale or trite by repetition.
to evict	To dispossess pursuant to judicial decree.
gait	Carriage of the body in going.
misadventure	An unlucky accident.
to scintillate	To emit or send forth sparks or little flashes of light.
harbinger	One who or that which foreruns and announces the coming of any person or thing.
to temporize	To pursue a policy of delay.
to prattle	To utter in simple or childish talk.
louse	A small insect parasitic on and sucking the blood of mammals.
to expect	To look forward to as certain or probable.
hydrometer	An instrument for determining the density of solids and liquids by flotation.
moralist	A writer on ethics.
effectual adj	Efficient.
distemper	A disease or malady.
minutia	A small or unimportant particular or detail.
superintendent	One who has the charge and direction of, especially of some work or movement.
to oversee	To superintend.
to immortalize	To cause to last or to be known or remembered throughout a great or indefinite length of time.
polysyllable adj	Having several syllables, especially more than three syllables.
to migrate	To remove or pass from one country, region, or habitat to another.

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inexplicable adj	Such as can not be made plain.
sextet	A band of six singers or players.
velocity	Rapid motion.
vertigo	Dizziness.
explicit adj	Definite.
annals	A record of events in their chronological order, year by year.
prefatory adj	Pertaining to a brief explanation to the reader at the beginning of a book.
donor	One who makes a donation or present.
encyclical adj	Intended for general circulation.
eatable adj	Edible.
foolery	Folly.
antislavery adj	Opposed to human slavery.
collapsible adj	That may or can collapse.
to botanize	To study plant-life.
antechamber	A waiting room for those who seek audience.
immaterial adj	Of no essential consequence.
writing	The act or art of tracing or inscribing on a surface letters or ideographs.
cat-o-nine-tails	An instrument consisting of nine pieces of cord, formerly used for flogging in the army and navy.
latent adj	Dormant.
forby adv	Besides.

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to ingraft	To set or implant deeply and firmly.
preposterous adj	Utterly ridiculous or absurd.
to agglomerate	To pile or heap together.
absolution	Forgiveness, or passing over of offenses.
quarto	An eight-page newspaper of any size.
lunatic	An insane person.
bilingual adj	Speaking two languages.
impolitic adj	Inexpedient.
influential adj	Having the power to sway the will of another.
protection	Preservation from harm, danger, annoyance, or any other evil.
remembrance	Recollection.
consonant adj	Being in agreement or harmony with.
detriment	Something that causes damage, depreciation, or loss.
to overpower	To gain supremacy or victory over by superior power.
venereal adj	Pertaining to or proceeding from sexual intercourse.
to vacate	To leave.
microphone	An apparatus for magnifying faint sounds.
indolent adj	Habitually inactive or idle.
raucous adj	Harsh.
duration	The period of time during which anything lasts.

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furtive adj	Stealthy or sly, like the actions of a thief.
troublesome adj	Burdensome.
timbre	The quality of a tone, as distinguished from intensity and pitch.
to congest	To collect into a mass.
perversity	Wickedness.
to militate	To have weight or influence (in determining a question).
confluence	The place where streams meet.
indefinitely adv	In a vague or uncertain way.
to insinuate	To imply.
sympathetic adj	Having a fellow-feeling for or like feelings with another or others.
ligament	That which binds objects together.
radiance	Brilliant or sparkling luster.
to brandish	To wave, shake, or flourish triumphantly or defiantly, as a sword or spear.
pervasion	The state of spreading through every part.
invidious adj	Showing or feeling envy.
exegesis	Biblical exposition or interpretation.
memento	A souvenir.
suppressible adj	Capable of being suppressed.
to enrage	To infuriate.
to abet	To aid, promote, or encourage the commission of (an offense).

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legionary	A member of an ancient Roman legion or of the modern French Legion of Honor.
moonbeam	A ray of moonlight.
theocracy	A government administered by ecclesiastics.
reminiscent adj	Pertaining to the recollection of matters of personal interest.
marine adj	Of or pertaining to the sea or matters connected with the sea.
distrust	Lack of confidence in the power, wisdom, or good intent of any person.
syllabic adj	Consisting of that which is uttered in a single vocal impulse.
prudence	Caution.
to subvert	To bring to ruin.
pompous adj	Marked by an assumed stateliness and impressiveness of manner.
impersuadable adj	Unyielding.
supernatural adj	Caused miraculously or by the immediate exercise of divine power.
mannerism	Constant or excessive adherence to one manner, style, or peculiarity, as of action or conduct.
depository	A place where anything is kept in safety.
assets	pl. Property in general, regarded as applicable to the payment of debts.
corruptible adj	Open to bribery.
feasible adj	That may be done, performed, or effected; practicable.
reticence	The quality of habitually keeping silent or being reserved in utterance.
primeval adj	Belonging to the first ages.
puerile adj	Childish.

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luscious adj	Rich, sweet, and delicious.
to collide	To meet and strike violently.
to contemplate	To consider thoughtfully.
pedestrian	One who journeys on foot.
cycloid adj	Like a circle.
heterodox adj	At variance with any commonly accepted doctrine or opinion.
antic	A grotesque, ludicrous, or fantastic action.
coniferous adj	Cone-bearing trees.
to overthrow	To vanquish an established ruler or government.
zealot	One who espouses a cause or pursues an object in an immoderately partisan manner.
to deport	To take or send away forcibly, as to a penal colony.
unnatural adj	Artificial.
disobedient adj	Neglecting or refusing to obey.
to reorganize	To change to a more satisfactory form of organization.
neuter adj	Neither masculine nor feminine.
spinous adj	Having spines.
original adj	Not copied nor produced by imitation.
to miscount	To make a mistake in counting.
chattel	Any article of personal property.
inceptive adj	Beginning.

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despite prep	In spite of.
subterfuge	Evasion.
profile	An outline or contour.
partible adj	Separable.
yearling	A young animal past its first year and not yet two years old.
anthracite	Hard coal.
abominable adj	Very hateful.
hypnotic adj	Tending to produce sleep.
to infuse	To instill, introduce, or inculcate, as principles or qualities.
lustrous adj	Shining.
opportunist	One who takes advantage of circumstances to gain his ends.
sedulous adj	Persevering in effort or endeavor.
to eulogize	To speak or write a laudation of a person's life or character.
expediency	Fitness to meet the requirements of a particular case.
advertiser	One who advertises, especially in newspapers.
migrant adj	Wandering.
dentifrice	Any preparation used for cleaning the teeth.
occupant	A tenant in possession of property, as distinguished from the actual owner.
prodigal	One wasteful or extravagant, especially in the use of money or property.
aeronaut	One who navigates the air, a balloonist.

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tense adj	Strained to stiffness.
adhesion	The state of being attached or joined.
monastery	A dwelling-place occupied in common by persons under religious vows of seclusion.
gendarme	In continental Europe, particularly in France, a uniformed and armed police officer.
inventive adj	Quick at contrivance.
defendant	A person against whom a suit is brought.
anarchy	Absence or utter disregard of government.
distiller	One occupied in the business of distilling alcoholic liquors.
impious adj	Characterized by irreverence or irreligion.
to fray	To fret at the edge so as to loosen or break the threads.
to wrest	To pull or force away by or as by violent twisting or wringing.
to descry	To discern.
playwright	A maker of plays for the stage.
defiant adj	Characterized by bold or insolent opposition.
machinery	The parts of a machine or engine, taken collectively.
semiannual adj	Recurring at intervals of six months.
microscope	An instrument for assisting the eye in the vision of minute objects or features of objects.
pentahedron	A solid bounded by five plane faces.
chameleon adj	Changeable in appearance.
unguent	Any ointment or lubricant for local application.

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gradient adj	Moving or advancing by steps.
reprobate	One abandoned to depravity and sin.
reluctant adj	Unwilling.
aide-de-camp	An officer who receives and transmits the orders of the general.
formation	Relative disposition of parts.
allotment	Portion.
biography	A written account of one's life, actions, and character.
to embark	To make a beginning in some occupation or scheme.
to rotate	To cause to turn on or as on its axis, as a wheel.
to reprieve	To grant a respite from punishment to.
erroneous adj	Incorrect.
to christen	To name in baptism.
festive adj	Merry.
to expostulate	To discuss.
transalpine adj	Situated on the other side of the Alps.
cartilage	An elastic animal tissue of firm consistence.
clement adj	Compassionate.
provincial adj	Uncultured in thought and manner.
to overpay	To pay or reward in excess.
contagion	The communication of disease from person to person.

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rondo	A musical composition during which the first part or subject is repeated several times.
imperfectible adj	That can not be perfected.
genitive adj	Indicating source, origin, possession, or the like.
effect	A consequence.
consumptive adj	Designed for gradual destruction.
optic	Pertaining to the eye or vision.
distinction	A note or designation of honor, officially recognizing superiority or success in studies.
to granulate	To form into grains or small particles.
to navigate	To traverse by ship.
renunciation	An explicit disclaimer of a right or privilege.
to braze	To make of or ornament with brass.
consul	An officer appointed to reside in a foreign city, chiefly to represent his country.
posse	A force of men.
habitant	Dweller.
appropriate adj	Suitable for the purpose and circumstances.
impetuous adj	Impulsive.
determination	The act of deciding.
pioneer	One among the first to explore a country.
foliage	Any growth of leaves.
tolerable adj	Moderately good.

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inflammable adj	Easily set on fire or excited.
immaculate adj	Without spot or blemish.
contraband	Trade forbidden by law or treaty.
rigmarole	Nonsense.
to accost	To speak to.
tortuous adj	Abounding in irregular bends or turns.
miter	The junction of two bodies at an equally divided angle.
to retract	To recall or take back (something that one has said).
tortious adj	Wrongful.
malleable adj	Pliant.
absence	The fact of not being present or available.
to occlude	To absorb, as a gas by a metal.
ablution	A washing or cleansing, especially of the body.
ode	The form of lyric poetry anciently intended to be sung.
deviltry	Wanton and malicious mischief.
to endear	To cause to be loved.
infinity	Boundless or immeasurable extension or duration.
archaic adj	Antiquated
caustic adj	Sarcastic and severe.
to materialize	To take perceptible or substantial form.

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endurable adj	Tolerable.
calculable adj	That may be estimated by reckoning.
hydra	The seven- or nine-headed water-serpent slain by Hercules.
playful adj	Frolicsome.
nameless adj	Having no fame or reputation.
permutation	Reciprocal change, different ordering of same items.
ashen adj	Pale.
confederate	One who is united with others in a league, compact, or agreement.
ulterior adj	Not so pertinent as something else to the matter spoken of.
affirmative adj	Answering yes; to a question at issue.
cajolery	Delusive speech.
harmonious adj	Concordant in sound.
lying	Untruthfulness.
mishap	Misfortune.
crevice	A small fissure, as between two contiguous surfaces.
to transcend	To surpass.
to compensate	To remunerate.
accuracy	Exactness.
to dispossess	To deprive of actual occupancy, especially of real estate.
accessory	A person or thing that aids the principal agent.

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to dogmatize	To make positive assertions without supporting them by argument or evidence.
abundant adj	Plentiful.
collegian	A college student.
postscript	Something added to a letter after the writer's signature.
existence	Possession or continuance of being.
to extrude	To drive out or away.
generally adv	Ordinarily.
to deign	To deem worthy of notice or account.
to accede	To agree.
tremor	An involuntary trembling or shivering.
fete	A festival or feast.
amity	Friendship.
alder	Any shrub or small tree of the genus Alumnus, of the oak family.
to postdate	To make the date of any writing later than the real date.
decaliter	A liquid and dry measure of 10 liters.
to abase	To lower in position, estimation, or the like; degrade.
to precipitate	To force forward prematurely.
irritable adj	Showing impatience or ill temper on little provocation.
to encamp	To pitch tents for a resting-place.
irate adj	Moved to anger.

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caucus	A private meeting of members of a political party to select candidates.
to cede	To pass title to.
natal adj	Pertaining to one's birth.
to distrain	To subject a person to distress.
chateau	A castle or manor-house.
patriotism	Love and devotion to one's country.
paralysis	Loss of the power of contractility in the voluntary or involuntary muscles.
menagerie	A collection of wild animals, especially when kept for exhibition.
trammel	An impediment.
prehensile adj	Adapted for grasping or holding.
Madonna	A painted or sculptured representation of the Virgin, usually with the infant Jesus.
intestacy	The condition resulting from one's dying not having made a valid will.
ultimate adj	Beyond which there is nothing else.
inquisitive adj	Given to questioning, especially out of curiosity.
oblong adj	Longer than broad: applied most commonly to rectangular objects considerably elongated
parlance	Mode of speech.
subservient adj	Servilely following another's behests.
waif	A homeless, neglected wanderer.
to macadamize	To cover or pave, as a path or roadway, with small broken stone.
prominent adj	Conspicuous in position, character, or importance.

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idiosyncrasy	A mental quality or habit peculiar to an individual.
penetrable adj	That may be pierced by physical, moral, or intellectual force.
liquefacient adj	Possessing a liquefying nature or power.
mundane adj	Worldly, as opposed to spiritual or celestial.
telepathy	Thought-transference.
narrative	An orderly continuous account of the successive particulars of an event.
practicable adj	Feasible.
aliment	That which nourishes.
doe	The female of the deer.
poetaster	An inferior poet.
distraught adj	Bewildered.
repository	A place in which goods are stored.
conformable adj	Harmonious.
to convolve	To move with a circling or winding motion.
to foretell	To predict.
degeneracy	A becoming worse.
to preoccupy	To fill the mind of a person to the exclusion of other subjects.
outright adv	Entirely.
to avert	To turn away or aside.
sprightly adj	Vivacious.

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votary adj	Consecrated by a vow or promise.
to misinterpret	To misunderstand.
pinnacle	A high or topmost point, as a mountain-peak.
to levy	To impose and collect by force or threat of force.
feminine adj	Characteristic of woman or womankind.
rapine	The act of seizing and carrying off property by superior force, as in war.
innocuous adj	Harmless.
leeward	That side or direction toward which the wind blows.
languid adj	Relaxed.
confidant	One to whom secrets are entrusted.
hypocrisy	Extreme insincerity.
to purloin	To steal.
venous adj	Of, pertaining to, or contained or carried in a vein or veins.
objector	One who objects, as to a proposition, measure, or ruling.
robust adj	Characterized by great strength or power of endurance.
furtherance	Advancement.
illiterate adj	Having little or no book-learning.
to excel	To be superior or distinguished.
to accredit	To give credit or authority to.
to unify	To cause to be one.

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ignoble adj	Low in character or purpose.
ballad	Any popular narrative poem, often with epic subject and usually in lyric form.
pamphlet	A brief treatise or essay, usually on a subject of current interest.
insistence	Urgency.
referable adj	Ascribable.
comparative adj	Relative.
extraordinary adj	Unusual.
glimmer	A faint, wavering, unsteady light.
metaphysical adj	Philosophical.
underworld	Hades.
mallet	A wooden hammer.
decasyllable	A line of ten syllables.
paroxysm	A sudden outburst of any kind of activity.
well-to-do adj	In prosperous circumstances.
landmark	A familiar object in the landscape serving as a guide to an area otherwise easily lost track of.
to blazon	To make widely or generally known.
physiognomy	The external appearance merely.
apposite adj	Appropriate.
tranquil adj	Calm.
continuance	Permanence.

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obsequious adj	Showing a servile readiness to fall in with the wishes or will of another.
to recede	To move back or away.
fragile adj	Easily broken.
incontrovertible adj	Indisputable.
malaria	A fever characterized by alternating chills, fever, and sweating.
tolerant adj	Indulgent.
domination	Control by the exercise of power or constituted authority.
paronymous adj	Derived from the same root or primitive word.
nestling adj	Recently hatched.
to vacillate	To waver.
judgment	The faculty by the exercise of which a deliberate conclusion is reached.
tannery	A place where leather is tanned.
complaisance	Politeness.
soprano	A woman's or boy's voice of high range.
salvage	Any act of saving property.
to Calvinize	To teach or imbue with the doctrines of Calvinism.
bravado	An aggressive display of boldness.
missile	Any object, especially a weapon, thrown or intended to be thrown.
versatile adj	Having an aptitude for applying oneself to new and varied tasks or to various subjects.
labyrinth	A maze.

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lifetime	The time that life continues.
to intersect	To cut through or into so as to divide.
dignitary	One who holds high rank.
to ponder	To meditate or reflect upon.
incitement	That which moves to action, or serves as an incentive or stimulus.
numerical adj	Of or pertaining to number.
misogyny	Hatred of women.
persistence	A fixed adherence to a resolve, course of conduct, or the like.
acknowledgment	Recognition.
intellectual adj	Characterized by intelligence.
syllable	That which is uttered in a single vocal impulse.
irreverential adj	Showing or expressing a deficiency of veneration, especially for sacred things.
confinement	Restriction within limits or boundaries.
interpreter	A person who makes intelligible the speech of a foreigner by oral translation.
citadel	Any strong fortress.
inundation	Flood.
terminal adj	Pertaining to or creative of a boundary, limit.
essence	That which makes a thing to be what it is.
transfusion	The act of pouring from one vessel to another.
to actuate	To move or incite to action.

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immiscible adj	Separating, as oil and water.
intrinsic adj	Inherent.
pedal	A lever for the foot usually applied only to musical instruments, cycles, and other machines.
to tantalize	To tease.
somber adj	Gloomy.
to regress	To return to a former place or condition.
masterpiece	A superior production.
to equivocate	To use words of double meaning.
lovable adj	Amiable.
abject adj	Sunk to a low condition.
magnanimous adj	Generous in treating or judging others.
priory	A monastic house.
to enact	To make into law, as by legislative act.
sagacious adj	Able to discern and distinguish with wise perception.
interminable adj	Having no limit or end.
pharmacy	The art or business of compounding and dispensing medicines.
grindstone	A flat circular stone, used for sharpening tools.
jovial adj	Merry.
to possess	To own.
alkali	Anything that will neutralize an acid, as lime, magnesia, etc.

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sonata	An instrumental composition.
amusement	Diversion.
premise	A judgment as a conclusion.
tinge	A faint trace of color.
dedication	The voluntary consecration or relinquishment of something to an end or cause.
subliminal adj	Being beneath the threshold of consciousness.
manufacturer	A person engaged in manufacturing as a business.
vivacity	Liveliness.
sociology	The philosophical study of society.
adoration	Profound devotion.
aforesaid adj	Said in a preceding part or before.
to vitalize	To endow with life or energy.
to infringe	To trespass upon.
akin adj	Of similar nature or qualities.
to commission	To empower.
virtual adj	Being in essence or effect, but not in form or appearance.
batten	A narrow strip of wood.
ecstatic adj	Enraptured.
preservation	Conservation.
dilapidated pa	Fallen into decay or partial ruin.

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pseudonym	A fictitious name, especially when assumed by a writer.
transferable adj	Capable of being conveyed from one person or place to another.
faulty adj	Imperfect.
prohibitory adj	Involving or equivalent to prohibition, especially of the sale of alcoholic beverages.
protege	One specially cared for and favored by another usually older person.
accompaniment	A subordinate part or parts, enriching or supporting the leading part.
prevention	Thwarting.
torrid adj	Excessively hot.
to fulminate	To cause to explode.
impulsive adj	Unpremeditated.
inglorious adj	Shameful.
arrogant adj	Unduly or excessively proud, as of wealth, station, learning, etc.
floral adj	Pertaining to flowers.
to exasperate	To excite great anger in.
cosmopolitan adj	Common to all the world.
hybrid adj	Cross-bred.
malcontent	One who is dissatisfied with the existing state of affairs.
quiescent adj	Being in a state of repose or inaction.
logical adj	Capable of or characterized by clear reasoning.
able-bodied adj	Competent for physical service.

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percussion	The sharp striking of one body against another.
entree	The act of entering.
mnemonics	A system of principles and formulas designed to assist the recollection in certain instances.
to deface	To mar or disfigure the face or external surface of.
to importune	To harass with persistent demands or entreaties.
precedential adj	Of the nature of an instance that may serve as a guide or basis for a rule.
to accouter	To dress.
grisly adj	Fear-inspiring.
secretive adj	Having a tendency to conceal.
illegal adj	Not according to law.
illusory adj	Deceiving or tending to deceive, as by false appearance.
militarism	A policy of maintaining great standing armies.
to expend	To spend.
actuary	An officer, as of an insurance company, who calculates and states the risks and premiums.
alabaster	A white or delicately tinted fine-grained gypsum.
irony	Censure or ridicule under cover of praise or compliment.
duet	A composition for two voices or instruments.
plutocracy	A wealthy class in a political community who control the government by means of their money.
creak	A sharp, harsh, squeaking sound.
to exhilarate	To fill with high or cheerful spirits.

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to forego	To deny oneself the pleasure or profit of.
arcade	A vaulted passageway or street; a roofed passageway having shops, etc., opening from it.
contemptuous adj	Disdainful.
parallelism	Essential likeness.
infernal adj	Akin to or befitting hell or its occupants.
functionary	An official.
qualm	A fit of nausea.
to generate	To produce or cause to be.
to innovate	To introduce or strive to introduce new things.
docile adj	Easy to manage.
vigilant adj	Being on the alert to discover and ward off danger or insure safety.
equitable adj	Characterized by fairness.
to incite	To rouse to a particular action.
heterogeneity	Unlikeness of constituent parts.
savage	A wild and uncivilized human being.
provident adj	Anticipating and making ready for future wants or emergencies.
to entwine	To interweave.
vocable	a word, especially one regarded in relation merely to its qualities of sound.
assassination	Murderer, as by secret assault or treachery.
to visualize	To give pictorial vividness to a mental representation.

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intermediate adj	Being in a middle place or degree or between extremes.
to stifle	To smother.
nil	Nothing
nefarious adj	Wicked in the extreme.
cadaverous adj	Resembling a corpse.
pedagogy	The science and art of teaching
apostle	Any messenger commissioned by or as by divine authority.
decalogue	The ten commandments.
prelate	One of a higher order of clergy having direct authority over other clergy.
loquacious adj	Talkative.
to denote	To designate by word or mark.
whimsical adj	Capricious.
promontory	A high point of land extending outward from the coastline into the sea.
convolution	A winding motion.
rife adj	Abundant.
centurion	A captain of a company of one hundred infantry in the ancient Roman army.
to affix	To fasten.
employee	One who works for wages or a salary.
bureaucracy	Government by departments of men transacting particular branches of public business.
bronchus	Either of the two subdivisions of the trachea conveying air into the lungs.

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underling	A subordinate.
calorie	Amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water 1 degree centigrade.
nuance	A slight degree of difference in anything perceptible to the sense of the mind.
elocution	The art of correct intonation, inflection, and gesture in public speaking or reading.
to disparage	To regard or speak of slightingly.
awry adj / adv	Out of the proper form, direction, or position.
to arbitrate	To act or give judgment as umpire.
hernia	Protrusion of any internal organ in whole or in part from its normal position.
bibulous adj	Fond of drinking.
to betide	To happen to or befall.
foresight	Provision against harm or need.
to tolerate	To passively permit or put up with.
payee	A person to whom money has been or is to be paid.
effervescent adj	Giving off bubbles of gas.
to outstretch	To extend.
predicament	A difficult, trying situation or plight.
inflexible adj	That can not be altered or varied.
bristle	One of the coarse, stiff hairs of swine: used in brush-making, etc.
antidote	Anything that will counteract or remove the effects of poison, disease, or the like.
permanence	A continuance in the same state, or without any change that destroys the essential form or nature.

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blemish	A mark that mars beauty.
analyst	One who analyzes or makes use of the analytical method.
to deform	To disfigure.
entrails	pl. The internal parts of an animal.
olive-branch	A branch of the olive-tree, as an emblem of peace.
ostentation	A display dictated by vanity and intended to invite applause or flattery.
cacophony	A disagreeable, harsh, or discordant sound or combination of sounds or tones.
omnipotence	Unlimited and universal power.
rightful adj	Conformed to a just claim according to established laws or usage.
parish	The ecclesiastical district in charge of a pastor.
to accumulate	To become greater in quantity or number.
indescribable adj	That can not be described.
rote	Repetition of words or sounds as a means of learning them, with slight attention.
to enumerate	To name one by one.
misdemeanor	Evil conduct, small crime.
sextuple adj	Multiplied by six.
rebuff	A peremptory or unexpected rejection of advances or approaches.
redundant adj	Constituting an excess.
minion	A servile favorite.
out-and-out adv	Genuinely.

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gesture	A movement or action of the hands or face, expressive of some idea or emotion.
betimes adv	In good season or time.
Decameron	A volume consisting of ten parts or books.
statuette	A figurine.
to castigate	To punish.
benignity	Kindness of feeling, disposition, or manner.
anemometer	An instrument for measuring the force or velocity of wind.
to irk	To afflict with pain, vexation, or fatigue.
immature adj	Not full-grown.
prudential adj	Proceeding or marked by caution.
aversion	A mental condition of fixed opposition to or dislike of some particular thing.
magistracy	The office or dignity of a magistrate.
subtrahend	That which is to be subtracted.
rigor	Inflexibility.
to discountenance	To look upon with disfavor.
temporary adj	Lasting for a short time only.
Occident	The countries lying west of Asia and the Turkish dominions.
nondescript adj	Indescribable.
syndicate	An association of individuals united for the prosecution of some enterprise.
to originate	To cause or constitute the beginning or first stage of the existence of.

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edict	That which is uttered or proclaimed by authority as a rule of action.
respite	Interval of rest.
to underlie	To be the ground or support of.
to parley	To converse in.
to emerge	To come into view or into existence.
to enfeeble	To debilitate.
circumlocution	Indirect or roundabout expression.
genital adj	Of or pertaining to the animal reproductive organs.
to safeguard	To protect.
laureate adj	Crowned with laurel, as a mark of distinction.
free trade	Commerce unrestricted by tariff or customs.
aura	Pervasive psychic influence supposed to emanate from persons
to pare	To cut, shave, or remove (the outside) from anything.
bailiff	An officer of court having custody of prisoners under arraignment.
to inquire	To ask information about.
significance	Importance.
laborious adj	Toilsome.
normalcy	The state of being normal.
to predominate	To be chief in importance, quantity, or degree.
to abdicate	To give up (royal power or the like).

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contiguous adj	Touching or joining at the edge or boundary.
minute adj	Exceedingly small in extent or quantity.
to intercept	To interrupt the course of.
pupilage	The state or period of being a student.
to subside	To relapse into a state of repose and tranquillity.
denouement	That part of a play or story in which the mystery is cleared up.
to revoke	To rescind.
to counteract	To act in opposition to.
premier adj	First in rank or position.
extrajudicial adj	Happening out of court.
patronymic adj	Formed after one's father's name.
to disinfect	To remove or destroy the poison of infectious or contagious diseases.
protuberance	Something that swells out from a surrounding surface.
palate	The roof of the mouth.
dendroid adj	Like a tree.
Arthurian adj	Pertaining to King Arthur, the real or legendary hero of British poetic story.
rectitude	The quality of being upright in principles and conduct.
position	The manner in which a thing is placed.
to gesticulate	To make gestures or motions, as in speaking, or in place of speech.
noiseless adj	Silent.

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militia	Those citizens, collectively, who are enrolled and drilled in temporary military organizations.
thoroughfare	A public street or road.
grievous adj	Creating affliction.
afire adj / adv	On fire, literally or figuratively.
inwardly adv	With no outward manifestation.
to bore	To weary by tediousness or dullness.
episode	An incident or story in a literary work, separable from yet growing out of it.
culinary adj	Of or pertaining to cooking or the kitchen.
incapacity	Want of power to apprehend, understand, and manage.
grotto	A small cavern.
exhaustion	Deprivation of strength or energy.
to inure	To harden or toughen by use, exercise, or exposure.
temerity	Recklessness.
incident	A happening in general, especially one of little importance.
metaphysician	One skilled in metaphysics.
pyre	A heap of combustibles arranged for burning a dead body.
aerial adj	Of, pertaining to, or like the air.
quintet	Musical composition arranged for five voices or instruments.
to renovate	To restore after deterioration, as a building.
to enlist	To enter voluntarily the military service by formal enrollment.

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procrastination	Delay.
hydrostatics	The branch of science that treats of the pressure and equilibrium of fluids.
to refute	To prove to be wrong.
quartet	A composition for four voices or four instruments.
laundress	Washerwoman.
crusade	Any concerted movement, vigorously prosecuted, in behalf of an idea or principle.
gourd	A melon, pumpkin, squash, or some similar fruit having a hard rind.
to tempt	To offer to (somebody) an inducement to do wrong.
frequency	The comparative number of any kind of occurrences within a given time or space.
to facilitate	To make more easy.
quiescence	Quiet.
erratic adj	Irregular.
attache	A subordinate member of a diplomatic embassy.
portent	Anything that indicates what is to happen.
undue adj	More than sufficient.
excursion	A journey.
to obliterate	To cause to disappear.
reform	Change for the better.
irreducible adj	That can not be lessened.
malignant adj	Evil in nature or tending to do great harm or mischief.

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to deter	To frighten away.
darkling adv	Blindly.
doubly adv	In twofold degree or extent.
lode	A somewhat continuous unstratified metal- bearing vein.
oddity	An eccentricity.
to invigorate	To animate.
to recover	To regain.
reticent adj	Habitually keeping silent or being reserved in utterance.
brevity	Shortness of duration.
mordacious adj	Biting or giving to biting.
presumption	That which may be logically assumed to be true until disproved.
bolero	A Spanish dance, illustrative of the passion of love, accompanied by caste nets and singing.
corporate adj	Belonging to a corporation.
sordid adj	Of degraded character or nature.
to discomfit	To put to confusion.
expository adj	Pertaining to a formal presentation.
coalition	Combination in a body or mass.
inactive adj	Inert.
surreptitious adj	Clandestine.
peremptory adj	Precluding question or appeal.

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carnage	Massacre.
chancery	A court of equity, as distinguished from a common-law court.
receptive adj	Having the capacity, quality, or ability of receiving, as truths or impressions.
ocular adj	Of or pertaining to the eye.
benignant adj	Benevolent in feeling, character, or aspect.
to emphasize	To articulate or enunciate with special impressiveness upon a word, or a group of words.
to amalgamate	To mix or blend together in a homogeneous body.
forte	A strong point.
imperturbable adj	Calm.
somnolent adj	Sleepy.
ally	A person or thing connected with another, usually in some relation of helpfulness.
imaginary adj	Fancied.
to disarrange	To throw out of order.
repetition	The act of repeating.
benevolent adj	Loving others and actively desirous of their well-being.
nowadays adv	In the present time or age.
formidable adj	Difficult to accomplish.
imminence	Impending evil or danger.
pennant	A small flag.
to dilute	To make more fluid or less concentrated by admixture with something.

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votive adj	Dedicated by a vow.
barograph	An instrument that registers graphically and continuously the atmospheric pressure.
outlaw	A habitual lawbreaker.
symmetrical adj	Well-balanced.
decrepit adj	Enfeebled, as by old age or some chronic infirmity.
clamorous adj	Urgent in complaint or demand.
parliament	A legislative body.
uppermost adj	First in order of precedence.
cabinet	The body of men constituting the official advisors of the executive head of a nation.
colloquial adj	Pertaining or peculiar to common speech as distinguished from literary.
supernumerary adj	Superfluous.
to reprehand	To find fault with.
to prickle	To puncture slightly with fine, sharp points.
neglectful adj	Exhibiting or indicating omission.
botany	The science that treats of plants.
to convene	To summon or cause to assemble.
to assimilate	To adapt.
coquette	A flirt.
to outride	To ride faster than.
auburn adj	Reddish-brown, said usually of the hair.

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sufferance	Toleration.
exterior	That which is outside.
preparation	An act or proceeding designed to bring about some event.
invalid adj	Having no force, weight, or cogency.
livid adj	Black-and-blue, as contused flesh.
to acquaint	To make familiar or conversant.
quite adv	Fully.
to belittle	To disparage.
asexual adj	Having no distinct sexual organs.
unaffected adj	Sincere.
persuadable adj	capable of influencing to action by entreaty, statement, or anything that moves the feelings.
gauge	An instrument for measuring.
to stultify	To give an appearance of foolishness to.
lucid adj	Mentally sound.
intension	The act of stringing or stretching, or state of being strained.
presentment	Semblance.
archipelago	Any large body of water studded with islands, or the islands collectively themselves.
amicable adj	Done in a friendly spirit.
ordination	A consecration to the ministry.
litigant	A party to a lawsuit.

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to evoke	To call or summon forth.
refringent adj	Having the power to refract.
to awaken	To arouse, as emotion, interest, or the like.
resonance	The quality of being able to reinforce sound by sympathetic vibrations.
inborn adj	Implanted by nature.
alliance	Any combination or union for some common purpose.
undergarment	A garment to be worn under the ordinary outer garments.
Epicurean adj	Indulging, ministering, or pertaining to daintiness of appetite.
dilettante	A superficial amateur.
to baste	To cover with melted fat, gravy, while cooking.
penalty	The consequences that follow the transgression of natural or divine law.
dogma	A statement of religious faith or duty formulated by a body claiming authority.
ready adj	In a state of preparedness for any given purpose or occasion.
perfidy	Treachery.
hygiene	The branch of medical science that relates to improving health.
polyarchy	Government by several or many persons of what- ever class.
palette	A thin tablet, with a hole for the thumb, upon which artists lay their colors for painting.
pantheism	The worship of nature for itself or its beauty.
to befog	To confuse.
laddie	A lad.

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exposure	An open situation or position in relation to the sun, elements, or points of the compass.
to guzzle	To swallow greedily or hastily; gulp.
ornate adj	Ornamented to a marked degree.
impartial adj	Unbiased.
ubiquitous adj	Being present everywhere.
almanac	A series of tables giving the days of the week together with certain astronomical information.
keepsake	Anything kept or given to be kept for the sake of the giver.
liking	Fondness.
tactician	One who directs affairs with skill and shrewdness.
to wane	To diminish in size and brilliancy.
grenadier	A member of a regiment composed of men of great stature.
consignee	A person to whom goods or other property has been entrusted.
pandemic adj	Affecting a whole people or all classes, as a disease.
to transact	To do business.
to bask	To make warm by genial heat.
municipality	A district enjoying municipal government.
dragnet	A net to be drawn along the bottom of the water.
sedate adj	Even-tempered.
to extenuate	To diminish the gravity or importance of.
trimness	Neatness.

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retention	The keeping of a thing within one's power or possession.
instructive adj	Conveying knowledge.
gastritis	Inflammation of the stomach.
fledgling	A young bird.
to perjure	To swear falsely to.
to reconstruct	To rebuild.
glutinous adj	Sticky.
freemason	A member of an ancient secret fraternity originally confined to skilled artisans.
statistician	One who is skilled in collecting and tabulating numerical facts.
to dislocate	To put out of proper place or order.
judicious adj	Prudent.
humanitarian	A philanthropist.
cognate adj	Akin.
foreknowledge	Prescience.
to effervesce	To bubble up.
to deplete	To reduce or lessen, as by use, exhaustion, or waste.
secrecy	Concealment.
to espy	To keep close watch.
lurid adj	Ghastly and sensational.
protoplasm	The substance that forms the principal portion of an animal or vegetable cell.

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competence	Adequate qualification or capacity.
taciturn adj	Disinclined to conversation.
to proscribe	To reject, as a teaching or a practice, with condemnation or denunciation.
philanthropy	Active humanitarianism.
wee adj	Very small.
affiliate	Some auxiliary person or thing.
cosmic adj	Pertaining to the universe.
futile adj	Of no avail or effect.
dexterity	Readiness, precision, efficiency, and ease in any physical activity or in any mechanical work.
pension	A periodical allowance to an individual on account of past service done by him/her.
diminution	Reduction.
to gladden	To make joyous.
eclipse	The obstruction of a heavenly body by its entering into the shadow of another body.
percipience	The act of perceiving.
surrogate	One who or that which is substituted for or appointed to act in place of another.
to characterize	To describe by distinctive marks or peculiarities.
foreshore	That part of a shore uncovered at low tide.
heresy	An opinion or doctrine subversive of settled beliefs or accepted principles.
monotonous adj	Unchanging and tedious.
coronet	Inferior crown denoting, according to its form, various degrees of noble rank less than sovereign.

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aldermanship	The dignity, condition, office, or term of office of an alderman.
exigent adj	Urgent.
consecutive adj	Following in uninterrupted succession.
necrology	A list of persons who have died in a certain place or time.
to displace	To put out of the proper or accustomed place.
prescript adj	Prescribed as a rule or model.
anode	The point where or path by which a voltaic current enters an electrolyte or the like.
putrescent adj	Undergoing decomposition of animal or vegetable matter accompanied by fetid odors.
perpendicular adj	Straight up and down.
ardor	Intensity of passion or affection.
intelligible adj	Comprehensible.
mandate	A command.
symmetry	Relative proportion and harmony.
autonomy	Self-government.
pinchers	An instrument having two jaws working on a pivot.
inspector	An official appointed to examine or oversee any matter of public interest or importance.
involuntary adj	Unwilling.
remuneration	Compensation.
caret	A sign (^) placed below a line, indicating where omitted words, etc., should be inserted.
commotion	A disturbance or violent agitation.

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acute adj	Having fine and penetrating discernment.
prosaic adj	Unimaginative.
granular adj	Composed of small grains or particles.
antiquary	One who collects and examines old things, as coins, books, medals, weapons, etc.
migratory adj	Wandering.
borough	An incorporated village or town.
insolence	Pride or haughtiness exhibited in contemptuous and overbearing treatment of others.
insidious adj	Working ill by slow and stealthy means.
to allot	To assign a definite thing or part to a certain person.
to felicitate	To wish joy or happiness to, especially in view of a coming event.
philharmonic adj	Fond of music.
formula	Fixed rule or set form.
violator	One who transgresses.
violation	Infringement.
possession	The having, holding, or detention of property in one's power or command.
specter	Apparition.
determinate adj	Definitely limited or fixed.
phosphorescence	The property of emitting light.
Martian adj	Pertaining to Mars, either the Roman god of war or the planet.
metropolis	A chief city, either the capital or the largest or most important city of a state.

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to ingratiate	To win confidence or good graces for oneself.
to conjoin	To unite.
penetration	Discernment.
suggestible adj	That can be suggested.
dubious adj	Doubtful.
to litigate	To cause to become the subject-matter of a suit at law.
vehement adj	Very eager or urgent.
sensitive adj	Easily affected by outside operations or influences.
Achillean adj	Invulnerable.
specialty	An employment limited to one particular line of work.
to rearrange	To arrange again or in a different order.
reliance	Dependence.
callow adj	Without experience of the world.
extravagant adj	Needlessly free or lavish in expenditure.
pestilent adj	Having a malign influence or effect.
sarcophagus	A stone coffin or a chest-like tomb.
element	A component or essential part.
corporal adj	Belonging or relating to the body as opposed to the mind.
autopsy	The examination of a dead body by dissection to ascertain the cause of death.
Anglo-Saxon	The entire English race wherever found, as in Europe, the United States, or India.

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to chasten	To purify by affliction.
to befriend	To be a friend to, especially when in need.
to preengage	To preoccupy.
to abscond	To depart suddenly and secretly, as for the purpose of escaping arrest.
immense adj	Very great in degree, extent, size, or quantity.
tangent adj	Touching.
to uproot	To eradicate.
to abstain	To keep oneself back (from doing or using something).
belligerent adj	Manifesting a warlike spirit.
tangency	The state of touching.
ardent adj	Burning with passion.
to comprise	To consist of.
continence	Self-restraint with respect to desires, appetites, and passion.
prescience	Knowledge of events before they take place.
to transpire	To come to pass.
to lave	To wash or bathe.
meticulous adj	Over-cautious.
tincture	A solution, usually alcoholic, of some principle used in medicine.
dormant adj	Being in a state of or resembling sleep.
fragile adj	Capable of being broken.

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to fabricate	To invent fancifully or falsely.
botanical adj	Connected with the study or cultivation of plants.
juicy adj	Succulent.
to illumine	To make bright or clear.
vituperable adj	Deserving of censure.
technography	The scientific description or study of human arts and industries in their historic development.
panegyric	A formal and elaborate eulogy, written or spoken, of a person or of an act.
kernel	A grain or seed.
cynosure	That to which general interest or attention is directed.
reflexible adj	Capable of being reflected.
vassal	A slave or bondman.
epitome	A simplified representation.
encomium	A formal or discriminating expression of praise.
to simplify	To make less complex or difficult.
to outstrip	To go beyond.
to terminate	To put an end or stop to.
genealogist	A tracer of pedigrees.
curable adj	Capable of being remedied or corrected.
facet	One of the small triangular plane surfaces of a diamond or other gem.
preparatory adj	Having to do with what is preliminary.

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vapid adj	Having lost sparkling quality and flavor.
consensus	A collective unanimous opinion of a number of persons.
inefficiency	That which does not accomplish an intended purpose.
to petrify	To convert into a substance of stony hardness and character.
frailty	Liability to be broken or destroyed.
to palliate	To cause to appear less guilty.
to molt	To cast off, as hair, feathers, etc.
encore	The call for a repetition, as of some part of a play or performance.
convergent adj	Tending to one point.
juncture	An articulation, joint, or seam.
fungible adj	That may be measured, counted, or weighed.
burgher	An inhabitant, citizen or freeman of a borough burgh, or corporate town.
incomplete adj	Lacking some element, part, or adjunct necessary or required.
Nemesis	A goddess; divinity of chastisement and vengeance.
to explode	To cause to burst in pieces by force from within.
electrotype	A metallic copy of any surface, as a coin.
relevant adj	Bearing upon the matter in hand.
garrison	The military force stationed in a fort, town, or other place for its defense.
bowler	In cricket, the player who delivers the ball.
resistant adj	Offering or tending to produce resistance.

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comely adj	Handsome.
appreciable adj	Capable of being discerned by the senses or intellect.
insolent adj	Impudent.
anemia	Deficiency of blood or red corpuscles.
intercession	Entreaty in behalf of others.
temporal adj	Pertaining to or concerned with the affairs of the present life.
blaze	A vivid glowing flame.
squatter	One who settles on land without permission or right.
inception	The beginning.
to discriminate	To draw a distinction.
prepossession	A preconceived liking.
gregarious adj	Not habitually solitary or living alone.
to append	To add or attach, as something accessory, subordinate, or supplementary.
to promenade	To walk for amusement or exercise.
ingredient	Component.
brogue	Any dialectic pronunciation of English, especially that of the Irish people.
subacid adj	Somewhat sharp or biting.
delectable adj	Delightful to the taste or to the senses.
to expatriate	To drive from one's own country.
predominant adj	Superior in power, influence, effectiveness, number, or degree.

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to radiate	To extend in all directions, as from a source or focus.
bilateral adj	Two-sided.
provocation	An action or mode of conduct that excites resentment.
to impute	To attribute.
dissonance	Discord.
prerogative adj	Having superior rank or precedence.
to compress	To press together or into smaller space.
bulwark	Anything that gives security or defense.
ferocity	Savageness.
paternity	Fatherhood.
convertible adj	Interchangeable.
pontiff	The Pope.
pentad	The number five.
bumper	A cup or glass filled to the brim, especially one to be drunk as a toast or health.
workmanship	The art or skill of a workman.
neocracy	Government administered by new or untried persons.
to denominate	To give a name or epithet to.
to inveigh	To utter vehement censure or invective.
monotone	The sameness or monotony of utterance.
to bungle	To execute clumsily.

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to immerse	To plunge or dip entirely under water or other fluid.
animadversion	The utterance of criticism or censure.
efficiency	The state of possessing adequate skill or knowledge for the performance of a duty.
permanent adj	Durable.
eugenic adj	Relating to the development and improvement of race.
to trisect	To divide into three parts, especially into three equal parts.
bleak adj	Desolate.
shriek	A sharp, shrill outcry or scream, caused by agony or terror.
to despond	To lose spirit, courage, or hope.
prospectus	A paper or pamphlet containing information of a proposed undertaking.
financial adj	Monetary.
landholder	Landowner.
pendant	Anything that hangs from something else, either for ornament or for use.
pentavalent adj	Quinqeuvalent.
abeyance	A state of suspension or temporary inaction.
conservatory	An institution for instruction and training in music and declamation.
nauseous adj	Loathsome.
birthright	A privilege or possession into which one is born.
vincible adj	Conquerable.
elegy	A lyric poem lamenting the dead.

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to gibe	To utter taunts or reproaches.
Anglophobia	Hatred or dread of England or of what is English.
fluential adj	Pertaining to streams.
abbess	The lady superior of a nunnery.
convivial adj	Devoted to feasting, or to good-fellowship in eating or drinking.
heterogeneous adj	Consisting of dissimilar elements or ingredients of different kinds.
to impede	To be an obstacle or to place obstacles in the way of.
to elapse	To quietly terminate: said of time.
to relegate	To send off or consign, as to an obscure position or remote destination.
oakum	Hemp-fiber obtained by untwisting and picking out loosely the yarns of old hemp rope.
apparition	Ghost.
involution	Complication.
to allege	To assert to be true, especially in a formal manner, as in court.
felicity	A state of well-founded happiness.
preferential adj	Possessing, giving, or constituting preference or priority.
irritant	A mechanical, chemical, or pathological agent of inflammation, pain, or tension.
transition	Passage from one place, condition, or action to another.
autumnal adj	Of or pertaining to autumn.
disconsolate adj	Grief-stricken.
to hustle	To move with haste and promptness.

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to secede	To withdraw from union or association, especially from a political or religious body.
statuesque adj	Having the grace, pose, or quietude of a statue.
guinea	An English monetary unit.
soluble adj	Capable of being dissolved, as in a fluid.
to control	To exercise a directing, restraining, or governing influence over.
languor	Lassitude of body or depression.
bodice	A women's ornamental corset-shaped laced waist.
breach	The violation of official duty, lawful right, or a legal obligation.
to revere	To regard with worshipful veneration.
to emit	To send or give out.
surveyor	A land-measurer.
to accuse	To charge with wrong doing, misconduct, or error.
to galvanize	To imbue with life or animation.
to evince	To make manifest or evident.
indigenous adj	Native.
dictum	A positive utterance.
colossus	Any strikingly great person or object.
recourse	Resort to or application for help in exigency or trouble.
to edify	To build up, or strengthen, especially in morals or religion.
to avow	To declare openly.

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Narcissus	The son of the Athenian river-god Cephisus, fabled to have fallen in love with his reflection.
academic adj	Of or pertaining to an academy, college, or university.
archaism	Obsolescence.
to confiscate	To appropriate (private property) as forfeited to the public use or treasury.
paleontology	The branch of biology that treats of ancient life and fossil organisms.
urbanity	Refined or elegant courtesy.
seclusion	Solitude.
intemperance	Immoderate action or indulgence, as of the appetites.
to apprehend	To make a prisoner of (a person) in the name of the law.
fanciless adj	Unimaginative.
emeritus adj	Retired from active service but retained to an honorary position.
decorous adj	Suitable for the occasion or circumstances.
to hinder	To obstruct.
curator	A person having charge as of a library or museum.
to interrupt	To stop while in progress.
somnolence	Oppressive drowsiness.
to adulterate	To make impure by the admixture of other or baser ingredients.
Protestant	A Christian who denies the authority of the Pope and holds the right of special judgment.
to juxtapose	To place close together.
quiet adj	Making no noise.

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critique	A criticism or critical review.
cynical adj	Exhibiting moral skepticism.
adroit adj	Having skill in the use of the bodily or mental powers.
execrable adj	Abominable.
pleasant adj	Agreeable.
seignoir	A title of honor or respectful address, equivalent to sir.
taut adj	Stretched tight.
clairvoyance	Intuitive sagacity or perception.
chaos	Any condition of which the elements or parts are in utter disorder and confusion.
to scuttle	To sink (a ship) by making holes in the bottom.
to vindicate	To prove true, right, or real.
hirsute adj	Having a hairy covering.
bestial adj	Animal.
knickknack	A small article, more for ornament that use.
brae	Hillside.
Milky Way	The galaxy.
poetics	The rules and principles of poetry.
nuisance	That which annoys, vexes, or irritates.
diffusion	Dispersion.
licit adj	Lawful.

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fastidious adj	Hard to please.
hypercritical adj	Faultfinding.
indivertible adj	That can not be turned aside.
differentia	Any essential characteristic of a species by reason of which it differs from other species.
elasticity	That property of matter by which a body tends to return to a former shape after being changed.
autocrat	Any one who claims or wields unrestricted or undisputed authority or influence.
equanimity	Evenness of mind or temper.
municipal adj	Of or pertaining to a town or city, or to its corporate or local government.
galore adj	Abundant.
diplomat	A representative of one sovereign state at the capital or court of another.
alto	The lowest or deepest female voice or part.
pernicious adj	Tending to kill or hurt.
pentagram	A figure having five points or lobes.
interrogative adj	Having the nature or form of a question.
to protract	To prolong.
exuberant adj	Marked by great plentifulness.
to retrograde	To cause to deteriorate or to move backward.
to garnish	In cookery, to surround with additions for embellishment.
satiric adj	Resembling poetry, in which vice, incapacity ,or corruption is held up to ridicule.
gluttonous adj	Given to excess in eating.

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grandeur	The quality of being grand or admirably great.
penitential adj	Pertaining to sorrow for sin with desire to amend and to atone.
to believe	To accept as true on the testimony or authority of others.
to adhere	To stick fast or together.
morose adj	Gloomy.
counterfeit adj	Made to resemble something else.
paternal adj	Fatherly.
pittance	Any small portion or meager allowance.
to appease	To soothe by quieting anger or indignation.
perspiration	Sweat.
onslaught	A violent onset.
opportune adj	Especially fit as occurring, said, or done at the right moment.
lucrative adj	Highly profitable.
to adjudge	To award or bestow by formal decision.
outpost	A detachment of troops stationed at a distance from the main body to guard against surprise.
deficiency	Lack or insufficiency.
heptagon	A figure having seven sides and seven angles.
prowess	Strength, skill, and intrepidity in battle.
significant adj	Important, especially as pointing something out.
hindrance	An obstacle.

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et cetera Latin	And so forth.
amorphous adj	Without determinate shape.
lascivious adj	Lustful.
conductible adj	Capable of being conducted or transmitted.
didactic adj	Pertaining to teaching.
to revile	To heap approach or abuse upon.
inbred adj	Innate.
leonine adj	Like a lion.
susceptible adj	Easily under a specified power or influence.
distention	Expansion.
denominator	Part of a fraction which expresses the number of equal parts into which the unit is divided.
bevel	Any inclination of two surfaces other than 90 degrees.
arrear	Something overdue and unpaid.
reciprocal adj	Mutually interchangeable or convertible.
to acquit	To free or clear, as from accusation.
surety	Security for payment or performance.
estuary	A wide lower part of a tidal river.
pulmonary adj	Pertaining to the lungs.
vermin	A noxious or troublesome animal.
venial adj	That may be pardoned or forgiven, a forgivable sin.

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zeitgeist	The intellectual and moral tendencies that characterize any age or epoch.
typography	The arrangement of composed type, or the appearance of printed matter.
laudatory adj	Pertaining to, expressing, or containing praise.
analogous adj	Corresponding (to some other) in certain respects, as in form, proportion, relations.
insatiable adj	That desires or craves immoderately or unappeasably.
acquisition	Anything gained, or made one's own, usually by effort or labor.
fugacious adj	Fleeting.
euphemism	A figure of speech by which a phrase less offensive is substituted.
derivative adj	Coming or acquired from some origin.
tribune	Any champion of the rights and liberties of the people: often used as the name for a newspaper.
bier	A horizontal framework with two handles at each end for carrying a corpse to the grave.
impiety	Irreverence toward God.
egotist	One given to self-mention or who is constantly telling of his own views and experiences.
sinuosity	The quality of curving in and out.
to endanger	To expose to peril.
to seize	To catch or take hold of suddenly and forcibly.
to enlighten	To cause to see clearly.
perverse adj	Unreasonable.
innuendo	Insinuation.
hale adj	Of sound and vigorous health.

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altar	Any raised place or structure on which sacrifices may be offered or incense burned.
stratagem	Any clever trick or device for obtaining an advantage.
dissonant adj	Harsh or disagreeable in sound.
admissible adj	Having the right or privilege of entry.
plagiarism	The stealing of passages from the writings of another and publishing them as one's own.
legacy	A bequest.
plenitude	Abundance.
glacial adj	Icy, or icily cold.
depth	Deepness.
depositor	One who makes a deposit, or has an amount deposited.
to parody	To render ludicrous by imitating the language of.
to osculate	To kiss.
to recuperate	To recover.
convalescent adj	Recovering health after sickness.
to decimate	To destroy a measurable or large proportion of.
to beseech	To implore.
stellar adj	Pertaining to the stars.
amply adv	Sufficiently.
passible adj	Capable of feeling of suffering.
alluvion	Flood.

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variable adj	Having a tendency to change.
to embezzle	To misappropriate secretly.
percolator	A filter.
stupendous adj	Of prodigious size, bulk, or degree.
pediatrics	The department of medical science that relates to the treatment of diseases of childhood.
filibuster	One who attempts to obstruct legislation.
inaccurate adj	Not exactly according to the facts.
to congeal	To coagulate.
to deject	To dishearten.
despot	An absolute and irresponsible monarch.
duckling	A young duck.
contribution	The act of giving for a common purpose.
fortitude	Patient courage.
alcoholism	A condition resulting from the inordinate or persistent use of alcoholic beverages.
dialogue	A formal conversation in which two or more take part.
archdeacon	A high official administrator of the affairs of a diocese.
matrix	That which contains and gives shape or form to anything.
to initiate	To perform the first act or rite.
delectation	Delight.
millet	A grass cultivated for forage and cereal.

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mouthful	As much as can be or is usually put into the or exercise.
fiscal adj	Pertaining to the treasury or public finances of a government.
baleful adj	Malignant.
to disseminate	To sow or scatter abroad, as seed is sown.
pauper	One without means of support.
parentage	The relation of parent to child, of the producer to the produced, or of cause to effect.
weak-kneed adj	Without resolute purpose or energy.
amphibious adj	Living both on land and in water.
to imperil	To endanger.
primer	An elementary reading-book for children.
to besmear	To smear over, as with any oily or sticky substance.
to circumnavigate	To sail quite around.
ultramundane adj	Pertaining to supernatural things or to another life.
inestimable adj	Above price.
dutiful adj	Obedient.
to mislay	To misplace.
syneresis	The coalescence of two vowels or syllables, as e'er for ever.
confident adj	Assured.
triad	A group of three persons of things.
supercilious adj	Exhibiting haughty and careless contempt.

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to recline	To cause to assume a leaning or recumbent attitude or position.
to retch	To make an effort to vomit.
homonym	A word agreeing in sound with but different in meaning from another.
panoply	A full set of armor.
cupidity	Avarice.
to compute	To ascertain by mathematical calculation.
fallacy	Any unsound or delusive mode of reasoning, or anything based on such reasoning.
wile	An act or a means of cunning deception.
iridescent adj	Exhibiting changing rainbow-colors due to the interference of the light.
divisor	That by which a number or quantity is divided.
to defraud	To deprive of something dishonestly.
technic adj	Technical.
vale	Level or low land between hills.
connubial adj	Pertaining to marriage or matrimony.
pageant	A dramatic representation, especially a spectacular one.
indigent adj	Poor.
requiem	A solemn mass sung for the repose of the souls of the dead.
adjuration	A vehement appeal.
to imply	To signify.
martyrdom	Submission to death or persecution for the sake of faith or principle.

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to refract	To bend or turn from a direct course.
pledgee	The person to whom anything is pledged.
demurrage	the detention of a vessel beyond the specified time of sailing.
lexicographer	One who makes dictionaries.
to legislate	To make or enact a law or laws.
head foremost adv	Precipitately, as in diving.
circumspect adj	Showing watchfulness, caution, or careful consideration.
baritone adj	Having a register higher than bass and lower than tenor.
to regenerate	To reproduce.
admittance	Entrance, or the right or permission to enter.
nectarine	A variety of the peach.
heathenish adj	Irreligious.
nude adj	Naked.
sergeant-major	The highest non-commissioned officer in a regiment.
to differentiate	To acquire a distinct and separate character.
kilometer	A length of 1,000 meters.
nectar	Any especially sweet and delicious drink.
contrite adj	Broken in spirit because of a sense of sin.
trestle	An open braced framework for supporting the horizontal stringers of a railway-bridge.
excitable adj	Nervously high-strung.

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complication	An intermingling or combination of things or parts, especially in a perplexing manner.
courageous adj	Brave.
translucence	The property or state of allowing the passage of light.
extremity	The utmost point, side, or border, or that farthest removed from a mean position.
souvenir	A token of remembrance.
quarter	One of four equal parts into which anything is or may be divided.
inland adj	Remote from the sea.
aural adj	Of or pertaining to the ear.
coagulant adj	Producing coagulation.
necromancer	One who practices the art of foretelling the future by means of communication with the dead.
deleterious adj	Hurtful, morally or physically.
vociferance	The quality of making a clamor.
glazier	One who cuts and fits panes of glass, as for windows.
habitable adj	Fit to be dwelt in.
partisan adj	Characterized by or exhibiting undue or unreasoning devotion to a party.
to reassure	To give new confidence.
disobedience	Neglect or refusal to comply with an authoritative injunction.
constituent	One who has the right to vote at an election.
deist	One who believes in God, but denies supernatural revelation.
nomad adj	Having no fixed abode.

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comprehensive adj	Large in scope or content.
curt adj	Concise, compressed, and abrupt in act or expression.
maudlin adj	Foolishly and tearfully affectionate.
access	A way of approach or entrance; passage.
occult adj	Existing but not immediately perceptible.
necropolis	A city of the dead.
oaken adj	Made of or from oak.
prostrate adj	Lying prone, or with the head to the ground.
maze	A labyrinth.
eminence	An elevated position with respect to rank, place, character, condition, etc.
to mistrust	To regard with suspicion or jealousy.
to arrogate	To take, demand, or claim, especially presumptuously or without reasons or grounds.
ceremonious adj	Observant of ritual.
blase adj	Sated with pleasure.
muleteer	A mule-driver.
Antichrist	Any opponent or enemy of Christ, whether a person or a power.
mite	A very small amount, portion, or particle.
physicist	A specialist in the science that treats of the phenomena associated with matter and energy.
treatise	An elaborate literary composition presenting a subject in all its parts.
venal adj	Mercenary, corrupt.

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drainage	The means of draining collectively, as a system of conduits, trenches, pipes, etc.
to retrace	To follow backward or toward the place of beginning, as a track or marking.
progression	A moving forward or proceeding in course.
horde	A gathered multitude of human beings.
theocrasy	The mixed worship of polytheism.
degradation	Diminution, as of strength or magnitude.
thoroughbred adj	Bred from the best or purest blood or stock.
to convalesce	To recover after a sickness.
fidelity	Loyalty.
estimable adj	Worthy of respect.
granule	A small grain or particle.
skepticism	The entertainment of doubt concerning something.
to acclaim	To utter with a shout.
to introvert	To turn within.
to assess	To determine the amount of (a tax or other sum to be paid).
to impoverish	To make indigent or poor.
disavowal	Denial.
obstetrician	A practitioner of midwifery.
graceless adj	Ungracious.
Calvary	The place where Christ was crucified.

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egress	Any place of exit.
to acquiesce	To comply; submit.
to enthrone	To invest with sovereign power.
transcontinental adj	Extending or passing across a continent.
chronometer	A portable timekeeper of the highest attainable precision.
tipsy adj	Befuddled with drinks.
unconscious adj	Not cognizant of objects, actions, etc.
offshoot	Something that branches off from the parent stock.
itinerant adj	Wandering.
collier	One who works in a coal-mine.
tenant	An occupant.
to underman	To equip with less than the full complement of men.
to extricate	Disentangle.
well-doer	A performer of moral and social duties.
wherewith	The necessary means or resources.
to dilate	To enlarge in all directions.
to bewilder	To confuse the perceptions or judgment of.
palsy	Paralysis.
exclamation	An abrupt or emphatic expression of thought or of feeling.
jaundice	A morbid condition, due to obstructed excretion of bile or characterized by yellowing of the skin.

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facsimile	An exact copy or reproduction.
efflorescent adj	Opening in flower.
competitor	A rival.
desiccant	Any remedy which, when applied externally, dries up or absorbs moisture, as that of wounds.
to ossify	to convert into bone.
incipient adj	Initial.
bass adj	Low in tone or compass.
alley	A narrow street, garden path, walk, or the like.
plurality	A majority.
rotund adj	Round from fullness or plumpness.
to mimic	To imitate the speech or actions of.
to juggle	To play tricks of sleight of hand.
to vivify	To endue with life.
Unitarian adj	Pertaining to a religious body that rejects the doctrine of the Trinity.
to resent	To be indignant at, as an injury or insult.
candor	The quality of frankness or outspokenness.
to misuse	To maltreat.
obtrusive adj	Tending to be pushed or to push oneself into undue prominence.
optician	One who makes or deals in optical instruments or eye-glasses.
solstice	The time of year when the sun is at its greatest declination.

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gaiety	Festivity.
gratuitous adj	Voluntarily.
neopaganism	A new or revived paganism.
verity	Truth.
to probe	To search through and through.
transience	Something that is of short duration.
precipice	A high and very steep or approximately vertical cliff.
depression	A falling of the spirits.
ridiculous adj	Laughable and contemptible.
polygamy	the fact or condition of having more than one wife or husband at once.
to outlast	To last longer than.
to degenerate	To become worse or inferior.
uproarious adj	Noisy.
blatant adj	Noisily or offensively loud or clamorous.
insistent adj	Urgent.
cabalism	Superstitious devotion to one's religion.
to consolidate	To combine into one body or system.
plumb	A weight suspended by a line to test the verticality of something.
adherence	Attachment.
pandemonium	A fiendish or riotous uproar.

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phonetic adj	Representing articulate sounds or speech.
to collapse	To cause to shrink, fall in, or fail.
to stagnate	To become dull or inert.
outburst	A violent issue, especially of passion in an individual.
hardihood	Foolish daring.
venerable adj	Meriting or commanding high esteem.
to moralize	To render virtuous.
azalea	A flowering shrub.
sibilance	A hissing sound.
corruption	Loss of purity or integrity.
breech	The buttocks.
evangelical adj	Seeking the conversion of sinners.
lawmaker	A legislator.
albeit conj	Even though.
alcove	A covered recess connected with or at the side of a larger room.
embolism	An obstruction or plugging up of an artery or other blood-vessel.
to penetrate	To enter or force a way into the interior parts of.
indicator	One who or that which points out.
poignancy	Severity or acuteness, especially of pain or grief.
Briticism	A word, idiom, or phrase characteristic of Great Britain or the British.

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promiscuous adj	Brought together without order, distinction, or design (for sex).
gumption	Common sense.
to forerun	To go before as introducing or ushering in.
mechanics	The branch of physics that treats the phenomena caused by the action of forces.
gratuity	That which is given without demand or claim. Tip.
immigrant	A foreigner who enters a country to settle there.
extinct adj	Being no longer in existence.
utility	Fitness for some desirable practical purpose.
peripatetic adj	Walking about.
wintry adj	Lacking warmth of manner.
to reclaim	To demand or to obtain the return or restoration of.
craving	A vehement desire.
gestation	Pregnancy.
ingratitude	Insensibility to kindness.
extension	A reaching or stretching out, as in space, time or scope.
germane adj	Relevant.
extant adj	Still existing and known.
populous adj	Containing many inhabitants, especially in proportion to the territory.
encyclopedia	A work containing information on subjects, or exhaustive of one subject.
linear adj	Of the nature of a line.

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requital	Adequate return for good or ill.
unison	A condition of perfect agreement and accord.
anecdote	A brief account of some interesting event or incident.
semblance	Outward appearance.
readily adv	Without objection or reluctance.
mountainous adj	Full of or abounding in mountains.
narrow-minded adj	Characterized by illiberal views or sentiments.
ministration	Any religious ceremonial.
Renaissance	The revival of letters, and then of art, which marks the transition from medieval to modern time.
ruth	Sorrow for another's misery.
dolor	Lamentation.
ignominious adj	Shameful.
exodus	A going forth or departure from a place or country, especially of many people.
to extort	To obtain by violence, threats, compulsion, or the subjection of another to some necessity.
muster	An assemblage or review of troops for parade or inspection, or for numbering off.
accurate adj	Conforming exactly to truth or to a standard.
pedagogics	The science and art of teaching.
concussion	A violent shock to some organ by a fall or a sudden blow.
duplicity	Double-dealing.
wry adj	Deviating from that which is proper or right.

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census	An official numbering of the people of a country or district.
to deduce	To derive or draw as a conclusion by reasoning from given premises or principles.
to connive	To be in collusion.
to prolong	To extend in time or duration.
intermittent adj	A temporary discontinuance.
to emanate	To flow forth or proceed, as from some source.
oration	An elaborate or formal public speech.
quantity	Magnitude.
to reck	To have a care or thought for.
infrequent adj	Uncommon.
gaily adv	Merrily.
dispensation	That which is bestowed on or appointed to one from a higher power.
effulgence	Splendor.
incipience	Beginning.
contingency	Possibility of happening.
derelict adj	Neglectful of obligation.
literature	The written or printed productions of the human mind collectively.
generality	The principal portion.
artful adj	Characterized by craft or cunning.
ailment	Slight sickness.

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peaceable adj	Tranquil.
to disillusion	To disenchant.
to cajole	To impose on or dupe by flattering speech.
inexhaustible adj	So large or furnishing so great a supply as not to be emptied, wasted, or spent.
odorous adj	Having an odor, especially a fragrant one.
onrush	Onset.
indolence	Laziness.
monitory	Admonition or warning.
umbrage	A sense of injury.
fawn	A young deer.
incoercible adj	Incapable of being forced, constrained, or compelled.
physics	The science that treats of the phenomena associated with matter and energy.
characteristic	A distinctive feature.
ruffian adj	A lawless or recklessly brutal fellow.
hypotenuse	The side of a right-angled triangle opposite the right angle.
to impair	To cause to become less or worse.
perennial adj	Continuing though the year or through many years.
metempsychosis	Transition of the soul of a human being at death into another body, whether human or beast.
virago	A bold, impudent, turbulent woman.
seismograph	An instrument for recording the phenomena of earthquakes.

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flexible adj	Pliable.
incandescent adj	White or glowing with heat.
pauperism	Dependence on charity.
to discredit	To injure the reputation of.
liniment	A liquid preparation for rubbing on the skin in cases of bruises, inflammation, etc.
well-bred adj	Of good ancestry.
editorial	An article in a periodical written by the editor and published as an official argument.
to estrange	To alienate.
to reconnoiter	To make a preliminary examination of for military, surveying, or geological purposes.
flagrant adj	Openly scandalous.
to detract	To take away in such manner as to lessen value or estimation.
to generalize	To draw general inferences.
autocracy	Absolute government.
to misapprehend	To misunderstand.
consumption	Gradual destruction, as by burning, eating, etc., or by using up, wearing out, etc.
sequel	That which follows in consequence of what has previously happened.
homogeneous adj	Made up of similar parts or elements.
penance	Punishment to which one voluntarily submits or subjects himself as an expression of penitence.
dragoon	In the British army, a cavalryman.
to defer	To delay or put off to some other time.

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cohesion	Consistency.
metallurgy	The art or science of extracting a metal from ores, as by smelting.
triple adj	Threefold.
to luxuriate	To live sumptuously.
to beget	To produce by sexual generation.
stimulant	Anything that rouses to activity or to quickened action.
to dissuade	To change the purpose or alter the plans of by persuasion, counsel, or pleading.
shuffle	A mixing or changing the order of things.
perpetrator	The doer of a wrong or a criminal act.
syllabication	Division of words into that which is uttered in a single vocal impulse.
averse adj	Reluctant.
kiln	An oven or furnace for baking, burning, or drying industrial products.
to embody	To express, formulate, or exemplify in a concrete, compact or visible form.
to transmute	To change in nature, substance, or form.
scope	A range of action or view.
exuberance	Rich supply.
liner	A vessel belonging to a steamship-line.
intrigue	A plot or scheme, usually complicated and intended to accomplish something by secret ways.
to frizz	To give a crinkled, fluffy appearance to.
florid adj	Flushed with red.

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salacious adj	Having strong sexual desires.
brine	Water saturated with salt.
obituary adj	A published notice of a death.
arid adj	Very dry.
risible adj	capable of exciting laughter.
lithesome adj	Nimble.
inconsistent adj	Contradictory.
explosion	A sudden and violent outbreak.
unctuous adj	Oily.
forgery	Counterfeiting.
extremist	One who supports extreme measures or holds extreme views.
to eliminate	To separate and cast aside.
joggle	A sudden irregular shake or a push causing such a shake.
bosom	The breast or the upper front of the thorax of a human being, especially of a woman.
penultimate adj	A syllable or member of a series that is last but one.
frowzy adj	Slovenly in appearance.
optimism	The view that everything in nature and the history of mankind is ordered for the best.
aboriginal adj	Primitive; unsophisticated.
acquiescence	Passive consent.
extensor	A muscle that causes extension.

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to circulate	To disseminate.
proselyte	One who has been won over from one religious belief to another.
audition	The act or sensation of hearing.
theoretical adj	Directed toward knowledge for its own sake without respect to applications.
motley adj	Composed of heterogeneous or inharmonious elements.
to idolize	To regard with inordinate love or admiration.
hostility	Enmity.
to rebut	To oppose by argument or a sufficient answer.
to ennoble	To dignify.
resurgent adj	Surging back or again.
brogan	A coarse, heavy shoe.
to chastise	To subject to punitive measures.
arboretum	A botanical garden or place devoted to the cultivation of trees or shrubs.
unisonant adj	Being in a condition of perfect agreement and accord.
thereabout adv	Near that number, quantity, degree, place, or time, approximately.
vacuum	A space entirely devoid of matter.
ancestry	One's ancestors collectively.
heartrending adj	Very depressing.
script	Writing or handwriting of the ordinary cursive form.
extravagance	Undue expenditure of money.

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martial adj	Pertaining to war or military operations.
vertex	Apex.
probity	Virtue or integrity tested and confirmed.
irreligious adj	Indifferent or opposed to religion.
viscount	In England, a title of nobility, ranking fourth in the order of British peerage.
macrocosm	The whole of any sphere or department of nature or knowledge to which man is related.
to appraise	To estimate the money value of.
to deluge	To overwhelm with a flood of water.
carnal adj	Sensual.
superb adj	Sumptuously elegant.
crucible	A trying and purifying test or agency.
bridle	The head-harness of a horse consisting of a head-stall, a bit, and the reins.
to circumscribe	To confine within bounds.
bombardier	An artillery man who has charge of mortars, bombs, and shells.
precedent	An instance that may serve as a guide or basis for a rule.
to collaborate	To labor or cooperate with another or others, especially in literary or scientific pursuits.
privateer	A vessel owned and officered by private persons, but carrying on maritime war.
festal adj	Joyous.
ramose adj	Branch-like.
intestine	That part of the digestive tube below or behind the stomach, extending to the anus.

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redundance	Excess.
dissentient	One who disagrees.
merciful adj	Disposed to pity and forgive.
legitimacy	Accordance with law.
surcharge	An additional amount charged.
proximately adv	Immediately.
proletarian	A person of the lowest or poorest class.
solicitor	One who represents a client in court of justice; an attorney.
deceit	Falsehood.
to laud	To praise in words or song.
to leaven	To make light by fermentation, as dough.
midwife	A woman who makes a business of assisting at childbirth.
norm	A model.
album	A book whose leaves are so made to form paper frames for holding photographs or the like.
acme	The highest point, or summit.
lithotype	In engraving, an etched stone surface for printing.
granary	A storehouse for grain after it is thrashed or husked.
to intrude	To come in without leave or license.
magnificence	The exhibition of greatness of action, character, intellect, wealth, or power.
to deceive	To mislead by or as by falsehood.

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to verify	To prove to be true, exact, or accurate.
anhydrous adj	Withered.
lever	That which exerts, or through which one may exert great power.
alternative	Something that may or must exist, be taken or chosen, or done instead of something else.
to defame	To slander.
to rebuild	To build again or anew.
scribe	One who writes or is skilled in writing.
giver	One who gives, in any sense.
gullible adj	Credulous.
to impregnate	To make pregnant.
unbelief	Doubt.
to pall	To make dull by satiety.
outlandish adj	Of barbarous, uncouth, and unfamiliar aspect or action.
to disappear	To cease to exist, either actually or for the time being.
to subjugate	To conquer.
lunar adj	Pertaining to the moon.
cantonment	The part of the town or district in which the troops are quartered.
massacre	The unnecessary and indiscriminate killing of human beings.
iciness	The state of being icy.
competent adj	Qualified.

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infidelity	Disloyalty.
substantive adj	Solid.
mantel	The facing, sometimes richly ornamented, about a fireplace, including the usual shelf above it.
inapt adj	Awkward or slow.
sensibility	Power to perceive or feel.
theological adj	Based on or growing out of divine revelation.
gastronomy	The art of preparing and serving appetizing food.
ravine	A deep gorge or hollow, especially one worn by a stream or flow of water.
morbid adj	Caused by or denoting a diseased or unsound condition of body or mind.
censor	An official examiner of manuscripts empowered to prohibit their publication.
to quadrate	To divide into quarters.
feudalism	The feudal system.
piteous adj	Compassionate.
to impersonate	To appear or act in the character of.
to rue	To regret extremely.
vocative adj	Of or pertaining to the act of calling.
to recant	To withdraw formally one's belief (in something previously believed or maintained).
slight adj	Of a small importance or significance.
urchin	A roguish, mischievous boy.
verbatim adv	Word for word.

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immutable adj	Unchangeable.
pristine adj	Primitive.
Parisian adj	Of or pertaining to the city of Paris.
erudite adj	Very-learned.
susceptibility	A specific capability of feeling or emotion.
hydromechanics	The mechanics of fluids.
phenomenal adj	Extraordinary or marvelous.
introgression	Entrance.
stiletto	A small dagger.
inconvenient adj	Interfering with comfort or progress.
apostate adj	False.
scribble	Hasty, careless writing.
matinee	An entertainment (especially theatrical) held in the daytime.
floe	A collection of tabular masses of floating polar ice.
felon	A criminal or depraved person.
punctilious adj	Strictly observant of the rules or forms prescribed by law or custom.
absurd adj	Inconsistent with reason or common sense.
to misrule	To misgovern.
instantaneous adj	Done without perceptible lapse of time.
to perceive	To have knowledge of, or receive impressions concerning, through the medium of the body senses.

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to pollute	To contaminate.
cataract	Opacity of the lens of the eye resulting in complete or partial blindness.
veneer	Outside show or elegance.
to translate	To give the sense or equivalent of in another language or dialect.
excellent adj	Possessing distinguished merit.
libel	Defamation.
phenomenon	Any unusual occurrence.
to prefer	To hold in higher estimation.
peninsular adj	Pertaining to a piece of land almost surrounded by water.
preferment	Preference.
clearance	A certificate from the proper authorities that a vessel has complied with the law and may sail.
ungainly adj	Clumsy.
candid adj	Straightforward.
rabid adj	Affected with rabies or hydrophobia.
vertical adj	Lying or directed perpendicularly to the horizon.
contemporaneous adj	Living, occurring, or existing at the same time.
to perforate	To make a hole or holes through.
to evert	To turn inside out.
incandescence	The state of being white or glowing with heat.
simultaneous adj	Occurring, done, or existing at the same time.

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infirmary	A place for the reception or treatment of the sick.
witless adj	Foolish, indiscreet, or silly.
personality	The attributes, taken collectively, that make up the character and nature of an individual.
heteromorphic adj	Deviating from the normal form or standard type.
outcry	A vehement or loud cry or clamor.
momentary adj	Lasting but a short time.
multiform adj	Having many shapes, or appearances.
productive adj	Yielding in abundance.
embargo	Authoritative stoppage of foreign commerce or of any special trade.
foursome adj	Consisting of four.
sublingual adj	Situated beneath the tongue.
placid adj	Serene.
conspirator	One who agrees with others to cooperate in accomplishing some unlawful purpose.
synonym	A word having the same or almost the same meaning as some other.
inadmissible adj	Not to be approved, considered, or allowed, as testimony.
to mete	To apportion.
prevalent adj	Of wide extent or frequent occurrence.
valedictorian	Student who delivers an address at graduating exercises of an educational institution.
infirm adj	Lacking in bodily or mental strength.
livelihood	Means of subsistence.

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to inhibit	To hold back or in.
photometer	Any instrument for measuring the intensity of light or comparing the intensity of two lights.
gyroscope	An instrument for illustrating the laws of rotation.
abbey	The group of buildings which collectively form the dwelling-place of a society of monks or nuns.
regiment	A body of soldiers.
Jingo	One of a party in Great Britain in favor of spirited and demonstrative foreign policy.
to encumber	To impede with obstacles.
presentient adj	Perceiving or feeling beforehand.
to Bowdlerize	To expurgate in editing (a literary composition) by omitting words or passages.
to pervade	To pass or spread through every part.
to recollect	To recall the knowledge of.
chagrin	Keen vexation, annoyance, or mortification, as at one's failures or errors.
clumsy adj	Awkward of movement.
lewd adj	Characterized by lust or lasciviousness.
to gratify	To please, as by satisfying a physical or mental desire or need.
mulatto	The offspring of a white person and a black person.
acrimony	Sharpness or bitterness of speech or temper.
to exert	To make an effort.
perspicuous adj	Lucid.
prohibitionist	One who favors the prohibition by law of the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages.

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nonpareil	One who or that which is of unequaled excellence.
synchronism	Simultaneousness.
to furbish	To restore brightness or beauty to.
neophyte adj	Having the character of a beginner.
pentagon	A figure, especially, with five angles and five sides.
spectator	One who beholds or looks on.
frugal adj	Economical.
to shrivel	To draw or be drawn into wrinkles.
acreage	Quantity or extent of land, especially of cultivated land.
to assassinate	To kill, as by surprise or secret assault, especially the killing of some eminent person.
suspense	Uncertainty.
sinuous adj	Curving in and out.
amphitheater	An edifice of elliptical shape, constructed about a central open space or arena.
veracity	Truthfulness.
to submerge	To place or plunge under water.
to seduce	To entice to surrender chastity.
overseer	A supervisor.
dutiable adj	Subject to a duty, especially a customs duty.
impliable adj	Capable of being inferred.
fulsome adj	Offensive from excess of praise or commendation.

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acumen	Quickness of intellectual insight, or discernment; keenness of discrimination.
medieval adj	Belonging or relating to or descriptive of the middle ages.
punitive adj	Pertaining to punishment.
epiphany	Any appearance or bodily manifestation of a deity.
salutatory	The opening oration at the commencement in American colleges.
leniency	Forbearance.
vicarious adj	Suffered or done in place of or for the sake of another.
arbitrary adj	Fixed or done capriciously.
to expiate	To make satisfaction or amends for.
refinery	A place where some crude material, as sugar or petroleum, is purified.
to recapture	To capture again.
confederacy	A number of states or persons in compact or league with each other, as for mutual aid.
fitful adj	Spasmodic.
sibilant adj	Made with a hissing sound.
pentameter	In prosody, a line of verse containing five units or feet.
to ostracize	To exclude from public or private favor.
aggression	An unprovoked attack.
adieu inter	Good-by; farewell.
likely adj	Plausible.
effeminate adj	Having womanish traits or qualities.

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to economize	To spend sparingly.
to enhance	To intensify.
impracticable adj	Not feasible.
liqueur	An alcoholic cordial sweetened and flavored with aromatic substances.
insurrection	The state of being in active resistance to authority.
interim	Time between acts or periods.
onus	A burden or responsibility.
fatuous adj	Idiotic
finite adj	Limited.
auriferous adj	Containing gold.
preferable adj	More desirable than others.
slothful adj	Lazy.
resource	That which is restored to, relied upon, or made available for aid or support.
vagrant	An idle wanderer.
to typify	To serve as a characteristic example of.
to proceed	To renew motion or action, as after rest or interruption.
crag	A rugged, rocky projection on a cliff or ledge.
isobar	A line joining points at which the barometric pressure is the same at a specified moment.
ambulance	A vehicle fitted for conveying the sick and wounded.
to dominate	To influence controllingly.

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to forswear	To renounce upon oath.
effete adj	Exhausted, as having performed its functions.
permissible adj	That may be allowed.
outrageous adj	Shocking in conduct.
pavilion	An open structure for temporary shelter.
to eschew	To keep clear of.
aggravation	The fact of being made heavier or more heinous, as a crime , offense, misfortune, etc.
warlike adj	Belligerent.
persiflage	Banter.
poise	Equilibrium.
to disburden	To disencumber.
reflectible adj	Capable of being turned back.
polytheism	The doctrine or belief that there are more gods than one.
cosmetic adj	Pertaining to the art of beautifying, especially the complexion.
absorption	The act or process of absorbing.
micrometer	An instrument for measuring very small angles or dimensions.
clothier	One who makes or sells cloth or clothing.
illicit adj	Unlawful.
innumerable adj	Countless.
cohesive adj	Having the property of consistency.

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to allude	To refer incidentally, or by suggestion.
hesitancy	A pausing to consider.
foreign adj	Belonging to, situated in, or derived from another country.
plea	An argument to obtain some desired action.
islet	A little island.
moribund adj	On the point of dying.
to philosophize	To seek ultimate causes and principles.
stratum	A natural or artificial layer, bed, or thickness of any substance or material.
neo-Darwinsim	Darwinism as modified and extended by more recent students.
to oust	To eject.
plasticity	The property of some substances through which the form of the mass can readily be changed.
ferocious adj	Of a wild, fierce, and savage nature.
to embolden	To give courage to.
to federate	To league together.
importunate adj	Urgent in character, request, or demand.
frankincense	A gum or resin which on burning yields aromatic fumes.
denunciation	The act of declaring an action or person worthy of reprobation or punishment.
furrier	A dealer in or maker of fur goods.
defensible adj	Capable of being maintained or justified.
accusation	A charge of crime, misdemeanor, or error.

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arrant adj	Notoriously bad.
onset	An assault, especially of troops, upon an enemy or fortification.
pretentious adj	Marked by pretense, conceit, or display.
precedence	Priority in place, time, or rank.
interlocutor	One who takes part in a conversation or oral discussion.
transcendent adj	Surpassing.
queue	A file of persons waiting in order of their arrival, as for admittance.
prologue	A prefatory statement or explanation to a poem, discourse, or performance.
coxswain	One who steers a rowboat, or one who has charge of a ship's boat and its crew under an officer.
to induct	To bring in.
contumacy	Contemptuous disregard of the requirements of rightful authority.
antonym	A word directly opposed to another in meaning.
neology	The coining or using of new words or new meanings of words.
to burnish	To make brilliant or shining.
retrospect	A view or contemplation of something past.
signification	The meaning conveyed by language, actions, or signs.
orgies	Wild or wanton revelry.
ascetic adj	Given to severe self-denial and practicing excessive abstinence and devotion.
polytechnic adj	Pertaining to, embracing, or practicing many arts.
palinode	A retraction.

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Norman adj	Of or peculiar to Normandy, in northern France.
insignificance	Lack of import or of importance.
to speculate	To pursue inquiries and form conjectures.
quay	A wharf or artificial landing-place on the shore of a harbor or projecting into it.
pretext	A fictitious reason or motive.
reactionary adj	Pertaining to, of the nature of, causing, or favoring reaction.
enmity	Hatred.
wavelet	A ripple.
perfumery	The preparation of perfumes.
intolerable adj	Insufferable.
panel	A rectangular piece set in or as in a frame.
fallible adj	Capable of erring.
conclusive adj	Sufficient to convince or decide.
usage	Treatment.
vegetarian	One who believes in the theory that man's food should be exclusively vegetable.
protector	A defender.
to overdo	To overtax the strength of.
abbot	The superior of a community of monks.
participant	One having a share or part.
to transplant	To remove and plant in another place.

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valorous adj	Courageous.
centenary adj	Pertaining to a hundred years or a period of a hundred years.
intellect	The faculty of perception or thought.
inevitable adj	Unavoidable.
brimstone	Sulfur.
to propagate	To spread abroad or from person to person.
excrescence	Any unnatural addition, outgrowth, or development.
dissipation	The state of being dispersed or scattered.
violoncello	A stringed instrument held between the player's knees.
trickery	Artifice.
fruition	Fulfillment.
nonentity	A person or thing of little or no account.
prurient adj	Inclined to lascivious thoughts and desires.
variant	A thing that differs from another in form only, being the same in essence or substance.
moderation	Temperance.
to equalize	To render uniform.
to irradiate	To render clear and intelligible.
novice	A beginner in any business or occupation.
fiasco	A complete or humiliating failure.
selective adj	Having the power of choice.

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athirst adj	Wanting water.
arrangement	The act of putting in proper order, or the state of being put in order.
comprehensible adj	Intelligible.
sinister adj	Evil.
entomology	The branch of zoology that treats of insects.
to purl	To cause to whirl, as in an eddy.
guile	Duplicity.
vegetation	Plant-life in the aggregate.
to indict	To find and declare chargeable with crime.
concession	Anything granted or yielded, or admitted in response to a demand, petition, or claim.
philosophy	The general principles, laws, or causes that furnish the rational explanation of anything.
to commute	To put something, especially something less severe, in place of.
to deprave	To render bad, especially morally bad.
pitiful adj	Wretched.
static adj	Pertaining to or designating bodies at rest or forces in equilibrium.
antagonism	Mutual opposition or resistance of counteracting forces, principles, or persons.
to embarrass	To render flustered or agitated.
assailant	One who attacks.
complex adj	Complicated.
pedagogue	A schoolmaster.

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to recognize	To recall the identity of (a person or thing).
disjunctive adj	Helping or serving to disconnect or separate.
transmissible adj	That may e sent through or across.
hanger-on	A parasite.
conjugal adj	Pertaining to marriage, marital rights, or married persons.
ambrosial adj	Divinely sweet, fragrant, or delicious.
to dissever	To divide.
cessation	Discontinuance, as of action or motion.
negligence	Omission of that which ought to be done.
littoral adj	Of, pertaining to, or living on a shore.
vendor	A seller.
fancier	One having a taste for or interest in special objects.
equilibrium	A state of balance.
to rupture	To separate the parts of by violence.
mead	A meadow.
to antipathize	To show or feel a feeling of antagonism, aversion, or dislike.
carrion	Dead and putrefying flesh.
concerto	A musical composition.
seminary	A special school, as of theology or pedagogics.
coalescence	The act or process of coming together so as to form one body, combination, or product.

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euphonious adj	Characterized by agreeableness of sound.
weal	Well-being.
to persist	To continue steadfast against opposition.
adjacency	The state of being adjacent.
reslience	The power of springing back to a former position
arboriculture	The cultivation of trees or shrubs.
sense	The signification conveyed by some word, phrase, or action.
quintessence	The most essential part of anything.
zenith	The culminating-point of prosperity, influence, or greatness.
impalpable adj	Imperceptible to the touch.
to outreach	To reach or go beyond.
culvert	Any artificial covered channel for the passage of water through a bank or under a road, canal.
disyllable	A word of two syllables.
elusion	Evasion.
iota	A small or insignificant mark or part.
vendible adj	Marketable.
Britannia	The United Kingdom of Great Britain.
accession	Induction or elevation, as to dignity, office, or government.
to mismanage	To manage badly, improperly, or unskillfully.
to officiate	To act as an officer or leader.

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whereabouts	The place in or near which a person or thing is.
pestilence	A raging epidemic.
to invoke	To call on for assistance or protection.
viol	A stringed instrument of the violin class.
admonition	Gentle reproof.
opalescence	The property of combined refraction and reflection of light, resulting in smoky tints.
recidivist	A confirmed criminal.
impromptu	Anything done or said on the impulse of the moment.
swarthy adj	Having a dark hue, especially a dark or sunburned complexion.
to modify	To make somewhat different.
leviathan	Any large animal, as a whale.
fervor	Ardor or intensity of feeling.
emporium	A bazaar or shop.
to intoxicate	To make drunk.
gamester	A gambler.
photoelectric adj	Pertaining to the combined action of light and electricity.
objective adj	Grasping and representing facts as they are.
viceroy	A ruler acting with royal authority in place of the sovereign in a colony or province.
regalia	pl. The emblems of royalty.
theology	The branch of theological science that treats of God.

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paraphernalia	Miscellaneous articles of equipment or adornment.
plenary adj	Entire.
mystic	One who professes direct divine illumination, or relies upon meditation to acquire truth.
to modernize	To make characteristic of the present or of recent times.
trenchant adj	Cutting deeply and quickly.
contraposition	A placing opposite.
domain	A sphere or field of action or interest.
obnoxious adj	Detestable.
to emulate	To imitate with intent to equal or surpass.
preemption	The right or act of purchasing before others.
operator	One who works with or controls some machine or scientific apparatus.
to foreclose	To bar by judicial proceedings the equitable right of a mortgagor to redeem property.
pertinacity	Unyielding adherence.
neutral adj	Belonging to or under control of neither of two contestants.
succulent adj	Juicy.
preternatural adj	Extraordinary.
trio	Three things grouped or associated together.
to consign	To entrust.
censorious adj	Judging severely or harshly.
thearchy	Government by a supreme deity.

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to famish	To suffer extremity of hunger or thirst.
spherometer	An instrument for measuring curvature or radii of spherical surfaces.
saponaceous adj	Having the nature or quality of soap.
primitive adj	Pertaining to the beginning or early times.
obelisk	A square shaft with pyramidal top, usually monumental or commemorative.
to germinate	To begin to develop into an embryo or higher form.
sanctimonious adj	Making an ostentatious display or hypocritical pretense of holiness or piety.
to entrench	To fortify or protect, as with a trench or ditch and wall.
archangel	An angel of high rank.
annunciation	Proclamation.
to illuminate	To supply with light.
preoccupation	The state of having the mind, attention, or inclination preoccupied.
adversity	Misfortune.
to engross	To occupy completely.
to forgo	To deny oneself.
to sequester	To cause to withdraw or retire, as from society or public life.
astute adj	Keen in discernment.
Iliad	A Greek epic poem describing scenes from the siege of Troy.
fabulous adj	Incredible.
tireless adj	Untiring.

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unfavorable adj	Adverse.
technique	Manner of performance.
to journalize	To keep a diary.
recognizance	An acknowledgment entered into before a court with condition to do some particular act.
monocracy	Government by a single person.
misnomer	A name wrongly or mistakenly applied.
perturbation	Mental excitement or confusion.
to paraphrase	Translate freely.
negation	The act of denying or of asserting the falsity of a proposition.
underexposed adj	Insufficiently exposed for proper or full development, as negatives in photography.
incendiary	Chemical or person who starts a fire-literally or figuratively.
epidermis	The outer skin.
to disqualify	To debar.
moat	A ditch on the outside of a fortress wall.
lenient adj	Not harsh.
tiresome adj	Wearisome.
penurious adj	Excessively sparing in the use of money.
orthogonal adj	Having or determined by right angles.
astringent adj	Harsh in disposition or character.
psychopathic adj	Morally irresponsible.

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demerit	A mark for failure or bad conduct.
underhanded adj	Clandestinely carried on.
to coerce	To force.
to insulate	To place in a detached state or situation.
to diagnose	To distinguish, as a disease, by its characteristic phenomena.
submersion	The act of submerging.
hemorrhage	Discharge of blood from a ruptured or wounded blood-vessel.
platitude	A written or spoken statement that is flat, dull, or commonplace.
irresponsible adj	Careless of or unable to meet responsibilities.
to ambulate	To walk about
to aggrandize	To cause to appear greatly.
mellifluous adj	Sweetly or smoothly flowing.
off adj	Farther or more distant.
recrudescence	The state of becoming raw or sore again.
amplitude	Largeness.
to henpeck	To worry or harass by ill temper and petty annoyances.
stagnant adj	Not flowing: said of water, as in a pool.
recurrent adj	Returning from time to time, especially at regular or stated intervals.
inapprehensible adj	Not to be understood.
dendrology	The natural history of trees.

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to persevere	To continue striving in spite of discouragements.
potentate	One possessed of great power or sway.
to divert	To turn from the accustomed course or a line of action already established.
introversion	The act of turning or directing inward, physically or mentally.
diffusible adj	Spreading rapidly through the system and acting quickly.
fictitious adj	Created or formed by the imagination.
to corroborate	To strengthen, as proof or conviction.
bibliomania	The passion for collecting books.
desistance	Cessation.
foreordination	Predestination.
purveyor	one who supplies
declarative adj	Containing a formal, positive, or explicit statement or affirmation.
parable	A brief narrative founded on real scenes or events usually with a moral.
to hoodwink	To deceive.
boll	A round pod or seed-capsule, as a flax or cotton.
to surmount	To overcome by force of will.
nomic adj	Usual or customary.
redolence	Smelling sweet and agreeable.
to undersell	To sell at a lower price than.
icon	An image or likeness.

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folk-lore	The traditions, beliefs, and customs of the common people.
disreputable adj	Dishonorable or disgraceful.
frolicsome adj	Prankish.
herbaceous adj	Having the character of a herb.
misbehavior	Ill or improper behavior.
superficial adj	Knowing and understanding only the ordinary and the obvious.
to crystallize	To bring together or give fixed shape to.
foggy adj	Obscure.
to predicate	To state as belonging to something.
acoustic adj	Pertaining to the act or sense of hearing.
intervale	A low tract of land between hills, especially along a river.
obese adj	Exceedingly fat.
to joust	To engage in a tilt with lances on horseback.
microscopic adj	Adapted to or characterized by minute observation.
bauble	A trinket.
scrupulous adj	Cautious in action for fear of doing wrong.
to explicate	To clear from involvement.
to reiterate	To say or do again and again.
matter of fact	Something that has actual and undeniable existence or reality.
clemency	Mercy.

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ravenous adj	Furiously voracious or hungry.
esthetic adj	Pertaining to beauty, taste, or the fine arts.
intolerance	Inability or unwillingness to bear or endure.
adverse adj	Opposing or opposed.
landscape	A rural view, especially one of picturesque effect, as seen from a distance or an elevation.
apex	The highest point, as of a mountain.
reclusory	A hermitage.
to coddle	To treat as a baby or an invalid.
gigantic adj	Tremendous.
diacritical adj	Marking a difference.
achromatic adj	Colorless,
portfolio	A portable case for holding writing-materials, drawings, etc.
referee	An umpire.
oculist	One versed or skilled in treating diseases of the eye.
excretion	The getting rid of waste matter.
antecedent	One who or that which precedes or goes before, as in time, place, rank, order, or causality.
tapestry	A fabric to which a pattern is applied with a needle, designed for ornamental hangings.
intolerant adj	Bigoted.
pitiable adj	Contemptible.
irascible adj	Prone to anger.

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similar adj	Bearing resemblance to one another or to something else.
avidity	Greediness.
revocation	Repeal.
neurology	The science of the nervous system.
altruism	Benevolence to others on subordination to self-interest.
panorama	A series of large pictures representing a continuous scene.
unnecessary adj	Not essential under the circumstances.
magnitude	Importance.
grantor	The maker of a deed.
Christendom	That part of the world where Christianity is generally professed.
rhetorician	A showy writer or speaker.
aristocrat	A hereditary noble or one nearly connected with nobility.
prima adj	First.
to consummate	To bring to completion.
to countervail	To offset.
complicity	Participation or partnership, as in wrong-doing or with a wrong-doer.
berth	A bunk or bed in a vessel, sleeping-car, etc.
jubilation	Exultation.
entreaty	An earnest request.
freethinker	One who rejects authority or inspiration in religion.

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plausible adj	Seeming likely to be true, though open to doubt.
inveterate adj	Habitual.
crustaceous adj	Having a crust-like shell.
spheroid	A body having nearly the form of a sphere.
salient adj	Standing out prominently.
to remodel	Reconstruct.
finale	Concluding performance.
blithe adj	Joyous.
unbecoming adj	Unsuited to the wearer, place, or surroundings.
unwieldy adj	Moved or managed with difficulty, as from great size or awkward shape.
triplicity	The state of being triple or threefold.
indicant adj	That which points out.
inaccessible adj	Difficult of approach.
condensation	The act or process of making dense or denser.
pseudapostle	A pretended or false apostle.
brotherhood	Spiritual or social fellowship or solidarity.
to persuade	To win the mind of by argument, eloquence, evidence, or reflection.
obsolete adj	No longer practiced or accepted.
to excruciate	To inflict severe pain or agony upon.
to disconnect	To undo or dissolve the connection or association of.

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confessor	A spiritual advisor.
dilatory adj	Tending to cause delay.
to exaggerate	To overstate.
ultimatum	A final statement or proposal, as concerning terms or conditions.
to enthuse	To yield to or display intense and rapturous feeling.
infidel	One who denies the existence of God.
peddler	One who travels from house to house with an assortment of goods for retail.
infamous adj	Publicly branded or notorious, as for vice, or crime.
inconstant adj	Changeable.
intangible adj	Not perceptible to the touch.
sacrilege	The act of violating or profaning anything sacred.
to demagnetize	To deprive (a magnet) of magnetism.
exposition	Formal presentation.
to expectorate	To cough up and spit forth.
twinge	A darting momentary local pain.
realism	The principle and practice of depicting persons and scenes as they are believed really to exist.
reparable adj	Capable of repair.
vestment	Clothing or covering.
to dissect	To cut apart or to pieces.
to ensnare	To entrap.

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creamery	A butter-making establishment.
possessive adj	Pertaining to the having, holding, or detention of property in one's power or command.
mercenary adj	Greedy
to supersede	To displace.
jugglery	The art or practice of sleight of hand.
guy	Stay-rope.
gynecocracy	Female supremacy.
to surround	To encircle.
beneficent adj	Characterized by charity and kindness.
superfluous adj	Being more than is needed.
bedlam	Madhouse.
Pantheon	A circular temple at Rome with a fine Corinthian portico and a great domed roof.
to conduce	To bring about.
daring adj	Brave.
demise	Death.
kimono	A loose robe, fastening with a sash, the principal outer garment in Japan.
taxidermy	The art or process of preserving dead animals or parts of them.
to subtend	To extend opposite to.
to inundate	To fill with an overflowing abundance.
servitude	Slavery.

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inadvertent adj	Accidental.
interpolation	Verbal interference.
to paralyze	To deprive of the power to act.
insomnia	Sleeplessness.
strait	A narrow passage of water connecting two larger bodies of water.
annalist	Historian.
dialectician	A logician.
drowsy adj	Heavy with sleepiness.
fathom	A measure of length, 6 feet.
idiom	A use of words peculiar to a particular language.
arborescent adj	Having the nature of a tree.
onerous adj	Burdensome or oppressive.
to reseat	To place in position of office again.
to mesmerize	To hypnotize.
vaudeville	A variety show.
assiduous adj	Diligent.
ladle	A cup-shaped vessel with a long handle, intended for dipping up and pouring liquids.
telltale adj	That gives warning or information.
statute	Any authoritatively declared rule, ordinance, decree, or law.
imperative adj	Obligatory.

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divergent adj	Tending in different directions.
naturally adv	According to the usual order of things.
sergeant-at-arms	An executive officer in legislative bodies who enforces the orders of the presiding officer.
to reunite	To unite or join again, as after separation.
to abut	To touch at the end or boundary line.
hindmost adj	Farthest from the front.
protrusion	The act of protruding.
giddy adj	Affected with a whirling or swimming sensation in the head.
rigorous adj	Uncompromising.
ointment	A fatty preparation with a butter-like consistency in which a medicinal substance exists.
residue	A remainder or surplus after a part has been separated or otherwise treated.
maritime adj	Situated on or near the sea.
to interact	To act reciprocally.
inexcusable adj	Not to be justified.
adjacent	That which is near or bordering upon.
inoffensive adj	Causing nothing displeasing or disturbing.
sentient adj	Possessing the power of sense or sense-perception.
to writhe	To twist the body, face, or limbs or as in pain or distress.
further adj	More distant or advanced.
clandestine adj	Surreptitious.

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to augment	To make bigger.
efficacy	The power to produce an intended effect as shown in the production of it.
omniscient adj	Characterized by unlimited or infinite knowledge.
brokerage	The business of making sales and purchases for a commission; a broker.
sorcery	Witchcraft.
to entail	To involve; necessitate.
soldier	A person engaged in military service.
complacence	Satisfaction with one's acts or surroundings.
canine adj	Characteristic of a dog.
to intervene	To interfere for some end.
to obviate	To clear away or provide for, as an objection or difficulty.
dissension	Angry or violent difference of opinion.
assonant adj	Having resemblance of sound.
reliquary	A casket, coffer, or repository in which relics are kept.
ostracism	Exclusion from intercourse or favor, as in society or politics.
vaporizer	An atomizer.
to invert	To turn inside out, upside down, or in opposite direction.
vigilance	Alert and intent mental watchfulness in guarding against danger.
forehead	The upper part of the face, between the eyes and the hair.
to arrange	To put in definite or proper order.

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acquaintance	Release or discharge from indebtedness, obligation, or responsibility.
trebly adv	Triply.
low-spirited adj	Despondent.
witling	A person who has little understanding.
socialism	A theory of civil polity that aims to secure the reconstruction of society.
aberration	Deviation from a right, customary, or prescribed course.
geniality	Warmth and kindliness of disposition.
demonstrative adj	Inclined to strong exhibition or expression of feeling or thoughts.
premature adj	Coming too soon.
to demolish	To annihilate.
influx	Infusion.
resilient adj	Having the quality of springing back to a former position.
honorarium	A token fee or payment to a professional man for services.
kilowatt	One thousand watts.
to rankle	To produce irritation or festering.
anew adv	Once more.
antediluvian adj	Of or pertaining to the times, things, events before the great flood in the days of Noah.
bumptious adj	Full of offensive and aggressive self-conceit.
invasion	Encroachment, as by an act of intrusion or trespass.
to animate	To make alive.

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buffoon	A clown.
conferee	A person with whom another confers.
consulate	The place in which a consul transacts official business.
flue	A smoke-duct in a chimney.
testator	The maker of a will.
incidence	Casual occurrence.
rhapsody	Rapt or rapturous utterance.
monsieur	A French title of respect, equivalent to Mr. and sir.
furlong	A measure, one-eighth of a mile.
biograph	A bibliographical sketch or notice.
suspension	A hanging from a support.
replica	A duplicate executed by the artist himself, and regarded, equally with the first, as an original.
luxuriance	Excessive or superfluous growth or quantity.
disparity	Inequality.
connoisseur	A critical judge of art, especially one with thorough knowledge and sound judgment of art.
aerostatics	The branch of pneumatics that treats of the equilibrium, pressure, and mechanical properties.
to obstruct	To fill with impediments so as to prevent passage, either wholly or in part.
polyhedron	A solid bounded by plane faces, especially by more than four.
to detest	To dislike or hate with intensity.
investor	One who invests money.

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tenacious adj	Unyielding.
indestructible adj	That can not be destroyed.
reformer	One who carries out a reform.
declension	The change of endings in nouns and (adj.)
excess	That which passes the ordinary, proper, or required limit, measure, or experience.
consort	A companion or associate.
supple adj	Easily bent.
projection	A prominence.
impassive adj	Unmoved by or not exhibiting feeling.
subsequent adj	Following in time.
preponderant adj	Prevalent.
triumvir	One of three men united coordinately in public office or authority.
regime	Particular conduct or administration of affairs.
despair	Utter hopelessness and despondency.
volant adj	Flying or able to fly.
to relish	To like the taste or savor of.
replete adj	Full to the uttermost.
to disavow	To disclaim responsibility for.
plaudit	An expression of applause.
peaceful adj	Tranquil.

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to unsettle	To put into confusion.
armory	An arsenal.
oratory	The art of public speaking.
afresh adv	Once more, after rest or interval.
apiary	A place where bees are kept.
to maroon	To put ashore and abandon (a person) on a desolate coast or island.
bole	The trunk or body of a tree.
lactation	The secretion of milk.
to concede	To surrender.
tripod	A three-legged stand, usually hinged near the top, for supporting some instrument.
compression	Constraint, as by force or authority.
jurisdiction	Lawful power or right to exercise official authority.
sheer adj	Absolute.
buffoonery	Low drollery, coarse jokes, etc.
orator	One who delivers an elaborate or formal speech.
immune adj	Exempt, as from disease.
tangible adj	Perceptible by touch.
to suffuse	To cover or fill the surface of.
equivocal adj	Ambiguous.
phonology	The science of human vocal sounds.

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to madden	To inflame with passion.
to exacerbate	To make more sharp, severe, or virulent.
executor	A person nominated by the will of another to execute the will.
equivalent adj	Equal in value, force, meaning, or the like.
obesity	Excessive fatness.
magnate	A person of rank or importance.
colloquialism	Form of speech used only or chiefly in conversation.
interlude	An action or event considered as coming between others of greater length.
extraneous adj	Having no essential relation to a subject.
transferee	The person to whom a transfer is made.
to analyze	To examine minutely or critically.
to counterbalance	To oppose with an equal force.
stature	The natural height of an animal body.
descent	The act of moving or going downward.
inherent adj	Intrinsic.
decagon	A figure with ten sides and ten angles.
transfusible adj	Capable of being poured from one vessel to another.
transatlantic adj	Situated beyond or on the other side of the Atlantic.
orthodoxy	Acceptance of the common faith.
seminar	Any assemblage of pupils for real research in some specific study under a teacher.

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