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- flout
- to mock, treat with contempt
- caveat
- a warning or caution to prevent misunderstanding or discourage behavior
- blazon
- to adorn or embellish; to display conspicuously; to publish or proclaim widely
- filch
- to steal, especially in a sneaky way and in petty amounts
- fractious
- tending to be troublesome;unruly, quarrelsome, contrary; unpredictable
- equitable
- fair, just, embodying principles of justice
- autonomy
- self-government, political control
- addendum
- an addition or supplement designed to increase correctness, completeness, or currency
- amnesty
- a general pardon for offense against a government; in general, and act of forgiveness
- axiomatic
- self-evident, expressing a universally accepted principle or rule
- extricate
- to free from entanglements or difficulties; remove with effort
- soporific
- tending to cause sleep, relating to sleepiness or lethargy
- unwieldy
- not easily carried, handled, or managed because of size or complexity
- vapid
- dull, uninteresting, tiresome; lacking in sharpness, flavor, liveliness, or force
- prognosticate
- to predict, especially on the basis of presentindecations or signs, foretoken
- supulchral
- funereal, typical of the tomb; extremely gloomy or dismal
- salutary
- beneficial, helpful; healthy, wholesome
- straitlaced
- extremely strict in regard to moral standards and conduct; prudish, puritanical
- scourge
- to whip, punish severely
- precept
- a rule of conduct or action
- transcient
- lasting only a short time, fleeting
- vouchsafe
- to give or furnish condescendingly; to grant
- megalomania
- a delusion marked by a feeling of power, wealth, talent, etc., far in excess of reality
- surreptitious
- stealthy, secret, intended to escape observation; made or accomplished by fraud
- transmute
- to change from one nature, substance, or form to another; to transform
- immutable
- not subject to change, constant
- transgress
- to go beyond a limit or boundary; to sin, violate a law
- heinous
- very wicked, offensive, hateful
- insurgent
- one who rebels or rises against authority rising in revolt, refusing to accept authority; surging or rushing in or on
- fetter
- a chain or shackle placed on the feet; anything that confines or restrains to chain or shackle; to render helpless or impotent
- sinecure
- a position requiring little or no work; an easy job
- vicarious
- performed, suffered, or otherwise experienced by one person in place of another
- brusque
- abrupt, blunt, with no formalities
- demagogue
- a leader who exploits popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power
- cajole
- to coax, persuade through flattery or artifice; to deceive with soothing thoughts or false promises
- ennui
- weariness and discontent from lack of occupation or interest, boredom
- anomalous
- abnormal, irregular, departing from the usual
- contrive
- to plan with ingenuity, invent; to bring about as the result of a scheme or plan
- disabuse
- to free from deception or error, set right in ideas or thinking
- arbiter
- one having power to decide a matter at issue; a judge, umpire
- bizarre
- extremely strange, unusual, atypical
- castigate
- to punish severely; criticize severely
- aspersion
- a damaging or derogatory statement; the act of slandering or defaming
- contraband
- illegal traffic, smuggled goods illegal, prohibited
- sleazy
- thin or flimsy in texture; cheap; shoddy, or inferior in quality or character; ethically low, mean, or disreputable
- irrevocable
- incapable of being changed or called back
- sedulous
- persistent, showing industry and determination
- remonstrate
- to argue or plead with someone against something, to protest against, object to
- retrench
- to cut down, reduce in scope and cost
- resilient
- able to return to an original shape or form; able to recover quickly
- reverberate
- to re-echo, resound; to reflect or be reflected repeatedly
- querulous
- peevish, complaining, fretful
- repudiate
- to disown, reject, or deny the validity of
- propensity
- a natural inclination or bent toward
- scurrilous
- coarsely abusive, vulgar or low, foul-mouthed
- aggrandize
- to increase in greatness, power, or wealth; to build up or intensify; to make appear greater
- inscrutable
- impossible to see through physically; incapable of being understood
- archetype
- an original model after which similar things are patterned; a perfect or typical example
- erudite
- scholarly, learned; boorish, pedantic
- infer
- to find out by reasoning; to arrive at a conclusion on the basis of though; to hint, suggest, imply
- affable
- courteous and pleasant, sociable, easy to speak to
- amorphous
- shapeless, without definite form; of no particular type or character; without organization, unity, or cohesion
- gossamer
- thin, light, delicate, insubstantial a very thin, light cloth
- aura
- that which surrounds; a distinctive air or personal quality
- insular
- relating to, characteristic of, or situated on an island; narrow or isolated in outlook or experience