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- acolyte
- a person who assists in some religious services by carrying out minor duties; one who attends or assists, a follower
- bibulous
- given to the consumption of alcoholic drinks; highly absorbent
- coalesce
- to grow together; to unite to form a whole
- covert
- not openly acknowledged; secret
- declaim
- to recite something in the style of a public speech; to speak in a loud, theatrical way
- delineate
- to describe vividly and in detail; to draw an outline of; to represent a drawing
- demagogue
- a leader who seeks power by appealing to people's emotions and prejudices by making false claims and promises
- encomium
- an expression of warm and enthusiastic praise; a tribute
- obdurate
- resistant to persuasion; inflexible; persistent in wrongdoing
- prescience
- foresight; knowledge beforehand of events
- protagonist
- a chief character in a drama or story
- sedulous
- completed with careful perseverance; diligent
- trenchant
- expressed with vigor and penetrating insight; keenly perceptive
- utopia
- a place or state of perfect social and political conditions
- valedictory
- a farewell address, especially one given at a graduation ceremony; of or relating to such a farewell address
- absolve
- to clear from guilt, or to free from a promise or a responsibility
- adumbrate
- to foreshadow in an indirect way; to outline in a sketchy way; to partially disclose
- apothegm
- a short, instructive saying
- aspersion
- a defamatory expression; slander
- coadjutor
- one who works with another, usually in a subordinate position; an assistant
- congenital
- existing at or dating from birth; being an essential characteristic
- elan
- a lively spirit with a distinctive style
- germane
- pertinent and fitting
- hiatus
- an interruption or gap in space, continuity, or time
- immure
- to confine within or as if within walls; to imprison
- ineluctable
- not to be avoided or changed; inevitable
- internecine
- marked by slaughter; mutually destructive; relating to conflict within a group
- invoke
- to appeal to earnestly; to cite in justification
- prototype
- a person or thing that serves as an example of its kind; an original
- quadrennial
- occurring every four years; lasting four years
- amalgam
- an alloy of mercury and other metals; a mixture of different elements
- antediluvian
- very old or old fashioned
- apothecary
- one who prepares and sells ointments, drugs, and similar items for medicinal purposes
- ascetic
- refraining from self indulgence; a person who practices self denial
- beneficent
- doing or producing good
- charlatan
- one who falsely claims knowledge or ability
- denizen
- an inhabitant, resident, or frequenter of a place
- doyen
- a senior memberof a group, especially one who is highly respected; the oldest example of a category
- flora
- plants considered as a group in a particular area or era
- imbibe
- to consume by drinking; to absorb or take in mentally
- nostrum
- a medicine or remedy whose effectiveness has not been proven
- obviate
- to prevent or make unnecessary; to get rid of
- perennial
- lasting indefinitely or recurring; a plant that lives three or more years
- putative
- commonly accepted or supposed; assumed to exist
- savant
- a person with detailed knowledge in a specialized field