Princeton 4 words
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- apotheosis
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APOTHEOSIS =
a model of perfection or deification (paragon) - asseverate
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ASSEVERATE =
to assert, aver or challenge - augury
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AUGURY =
an omen, a portent - celerity
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CELERITY
speed or alacrity
*think accelerate=speed - contumacious
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CONTUMACIOUS =
insubordinate, rebellious
*contumely=insult, scorn, aspersion - credulous
- CREDULOUS = gullible
- desuetude
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DESUETUDE =
disuse, not in use - dilletante
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DILETANTE =
one with an amateur or superficial interest in the arts or a branch of knowledge - discretion
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DISCRETION =
ability to make good decisions
or cautious reserve in speech - evanescent
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EVANESCENT =
vanishing or tending to disappear like vapor - exegesis
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EXEGESIS =
critical examination or explication - extemporaneous
- EXTEMPORANEOUS = improvised
- extirpate
- EXTIRPATE = to exterminate, destroy or to excsind
- fulminate
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FULMINATE =
to denounce or loudly attack - furtive
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FURTIVE =
stealthy, covert, surreptitious - heretical
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HERETICAL =
violating accepted dogma or convention - heterodox
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HETERODOX =
unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic - infelicitious
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INFELICITIOUS =
unfortunate, inappropriate - intrepid
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INTREPID =
steadfast and courageous - inveigle
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INVEIGLE =
to obtain by deception or flattery - lubricious
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LUBRICIOUS =
slippery, lewd, wanton, greasy - meretricious
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MERETIRICOUS =
showy, cheap, flashy, gawdy, tawdry - noxious
- NOXIOUS = harmful
- ossified
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OSSIFIED =
becoming rigid with age
*literally turned into bone - parsimony
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PARSIMONY =
stinginess, frugality - peroration
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PERORATION =
the ending of a speech or flowery, rhetorical speech - prattle
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PRATTLE =
to babble meaninglessly - prodigious
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PRODIGIOUS =
extraordinary or abundant in size, force, extent - prolix
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PROLIX =
verbose, long-winded - puissance
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PUISSANCE =
power, strength
*puissant=powerful, strong - quotidian
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QUOTIDIAN =
daily, commonplace, trite, hackneyed - redoubtable
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REDOUBTABLE =
awe-inspiring, worhty of honor - rhetoric
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RHETORIC =
the art of effective use of language for communication and persuasion - sanguine
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SANGUINE =
cheery, optimistic - stand
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STAND =
a group of trees - sycophant
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SYCOPHANT =
one who flatters for self gain - stygian
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STYGIAN =
dark, gloomy, saturnine - trenchant
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TRENCHANT =
effective, articulate, clear cut - tyro
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TYRO =
novice, greenhorn - urbane
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URBANE =
sophisticated, refined - vilify
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VILIFY =
to defame or lower in importance
*vilification=opprobrium - virulent
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VIRULENT =
very harmful or poisonous, bitterly hostile or antagonistic