PR Beyond HL
Terms
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- alloy
- to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior
- asseverate
- to aver, allege, assert
- augry
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omen, portent
- bellicose
- belligerent, pugnacious, warlike
- brook
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tolerate; endure; countenance
- captious
- disposed to point out trivial faults, calculated to confuse or entrap in an argument
- celerity
- speed, alacrity; think acclerate
- chauvinist
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a blindly devoted patriot
- chimera
- an illusion; originally; an imaginary she monster
- clauminate
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to slander, make a false accusation
calumny = aspersion
- consequential
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2)pompous, self-important
- contumacious
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insubordinate, rebellious
contumely = insult, scorn, aspersion
- debacle
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rout, fiasco, complete failure
- denouement
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an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot
- descry
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to discriminate or discern
- desuetude
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disuse: After years of desuetude, my French skills were finally put to use.
- desultory
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random, aimless, marked by lack of plan or purpose: Her desultory performance impressed no one.
- diaphenous
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transparent, gauzy
- diffident
- reserved, shy, unassuming, lacking self-confidence: Surprisingly, the company's CEO had been a diffident youth.
- encomium
- glowing and enthusiastic praise; panegyric, tribute, eulogy
- essay
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to test or try; experiment
- excoriate
- to censure scathingly, to upbraid
- execrate
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denounce, feel loathing for, curse, declare to be evil
- exegesis
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critical examination, explication
- expiate
- to atone or make amends for: Pia Zadora has expiated her movie career by good works and charity
- extirpate
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to destroy, exterminate, cut out, excind
- fatuous
- silly, inane, foolish: a fatuous comment
- fell
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inhumanely cruel
- ford
- to wade across a shallow part of a river or stream
- fractious
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quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory, irritable
- gainsay
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to deny; dispute, contradict, oppose
- guy
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a rope, cord or cable attatched to something as a brace or guide; to steady or reinforce using a guide
- heterodox
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unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic
- imbroglio
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difficult or embarrassing situation
- indefatigable
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not easily exhaustable; tireless, dogged
- ineluctable
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certain, inevitable
- inimitable
- one of a kind; peerless
- insouciant
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unconcerned, carefree, heedless
- inveterate
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deep rooted, ingrained, habitual
- jejune
- vapid, uninteresting, nugatory; childish, immature, puerile
- lubricious
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lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery
- meet
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fitting; proper
- mendicant
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a beggar, supplicant
- meretricious
- cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy; attracting false show
- minatory
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menacing, threatening (like a Minotaur)
- nice
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exacting, fastidious, extremely precise: He made a nice distinction b/w the 2 cases
- nonplussed
- baffled, bewildered, at a loss for what to do or think
- obstreperous
- noisily and stubbornly defiant, agressively boisterous
- occult
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hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension
- ossified
- tending to become rigid, conventional, sterile, and refractory with age; literally -turned to bone
- palliate
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to make something seem less serious, to gloss over, to make less severe or intense
- panegyric
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formal praise; eulogy; econium
panegyrical = expressing elaborate praise
- parsimonious
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cheap, miserly
- pedestrian
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commonplace, trite, unremarkable, quotidian
- pellucid
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transparent, easy to understand; limpid
- peroration
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the concluding part of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech
- plangent
- pounding, thundering, resounding
- prize
- to pry, press or force with a lever, something taken by force, spoils
- prolix
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long-winded; verbose
prolixity = verbosity
- propitiate
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to appease; to conciliate
propitious = auspicious, favorable
- puerile
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childish, immature, jejune, nugatory
- pusillanimous
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cowardly, craven
- qualify
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to limit: Let me qualify the statement
- remonstrate
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to protest, object
- rent
- tore
- sagacious
- having sound judgment; perceptive, wise, like a sage
- salacious
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lustful, lascivious, bawdy
- salutary
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remedial; wholesome; causing improvement
- sanguine
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cheerful, confident, optimistic
- saturine
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gloomy, dark, sullen, morose
- scurvy
- contemptible, despicable: He was a scurvy old reprobate.
- sententious
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aphoristic or moralistic, epigrammatic, tending to moralize excessively
- stand
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group of trees
- steep
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to saturate; completely soak
- stentorian
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extremely loud and powerful
- strut
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the supporting cross-section of a wing
- stygian
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gloomy, dark
- sycophant
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toady, servile, self-seeking flatterer; parasite
- table
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to remove
- tendentious
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biased; showing marked tendencies
- timorous
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timid, fearful, diffident
- tyro
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novice, greenhorne, rank amateur
- vitate
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to corrupt, debase, spoil, make ineffective
- voluble
- fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language
- wag
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wit, joker: Groucho Marx was was a well-known wag.