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- Parochial
- narrowminded, lack sophistication
- provincial
- lack sophistication, narrowminded
- tempest, tempestuous
- aggrivating, aggresive instigator
- belligerent
- aggressive, warlike, bellicose
- oblique
- not straightforward
- credulity
- gullibility
- stridency
- irritating to hear, dissodence
- consonance
- in agreement, harmony
- antithetical
- oppossed, opposite
- dogmatic
- based on certain beliefs, opinionated
- pragmatic
- practical, based on facts
- obscure
- unknown, uncertain
- evanescent
- vanishing, becoming imperceptable
- culpable
- blameworthy
- censure
- official reprimand, disproval
- cantankerous
- disagreeable, contentious, peevish
- beacon
- a warning signal, person who warns OR inspires
- orthodoxy
- established, coming from a certain beleif
- conventional
- accepted standards, normal
- transitory
- not lasting, temporary
- conciliatory
- to appease, to try to regain, to reconcile--conciliate
- polarize
- to divide
- protean
- versatile, changing charactyers or shape, diverse
- preeminent
- superior supreme
- adjudicator
- one who settles (disagreement)
- hasten
- hurry
- beset
- to surround or attack on all sides
- imminent
- will happen soon, usually bad
- potable
- to fit, suitable for drinking
- impede
- to hinder, to retard
- prodigy
- marvelous, extraordianry talent
- Placate
- to appease or pacify-get rid of anger
- contentious
- causing strife, quarrelsome, causing controversy
- precursor
- a person or thing that predecedes, predecessor
- approbation
- approval, commendation (official)
- condescension-condescend
- inferiority
- wanderlust
- strong desire to travel
- penurious
- miserly-like a miser, stingy
- parsimony
- miserly, frugality
- pugnacious
- belligeren, quarrelsome
- rash
- foolish, acting to hastily
- virtuosity
- an appretiation of skills or a virtuoso virtuoso-person who is skilled like in arts, or anything
- stygian
- dark, gloomy
- fortuitous
- happening by change, lucky
- cogent
- convincing by clear prenentation, to the point
- pyre
- heap of wood or combustable material
- augury
- the act of an augur)prophet or one who talks a lot), a token or dedication or sacrifice, prophet
- onerous
- burdensome, obligations that outweigh advantages
- reproach
- discredit, blame censure-to find fault, reproof
- jalopy
- old automobile, lemon
- audacious
- bold (fearless, recklessly)
- auspicious
- opportune, prosperous, propitious
- vantage
- a position or condition of advantage, an advantage or superiority
- odiom
- intense hatred, dislike
- mull
- to study, ruminate
- discern
- to distinguish
- proverbial
-
using proverbs, characteristic of
proverb-common saying, adage - pretentious
- characterized by assumtion of importance, dignity-ostentatious
- pithy
- succint, forecful and exact in expression (adjective)
- brevity
- terseness, brief (noun)
- terse
- short and concise, brusque
- precocious
- prematurely advanced, developed (a precocious child)
- kith
- group with common backgrounds, family, neighbors, acquitances (noun)
- brood
-
a group of young
young chickens, for breeding - vociferously
- noisily, clamorous
- repeal
- to withdraw ocfficially, annul, revocate, abrogate
- pathological
- dealing with diseases, a mental condition
- ebulliate
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to boil or bubble
debulliate-boil over - proliferate
- to grow rapidly
- fomidable
- adj causing fear, apprehension because of size, power, strength
- deplorable
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being subject of disapproval, reproach
casing grief or unhappiness
something very bad - antiquity
- (noun) ancient
- palpable
- obvious, plainly seen, touchable
- lascivious
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lewd, wanton, arousing sexual desire
that lascivious skirt is inappropriate in the office - wanton
- maliciously or unjustifiably done, or lewd, lawless (woman example)
- indemnify
- to guard or secure or compensate for damage or loss
- fevered
- ghly excited
- gavotte
- an old french dance
- impetuous
-
rash, not though out
or
forceful (impetuous wind - petrous
- hard, like rock
- blithe
- joyous, carefree
- insidious
- deceitful, intended to entrap
- ascribe
- to credit or assign as a cause or source; impute (exact same meaning)
- philistine
- lacking culture, very common
- consecrate
- to make sacred
- venerate
- to treat with reverence, respect
- concur
- agree
- twangy
- sharp tone or nasally voice
- mirth
- jollity, gaiety, amusement
- apropos
- befitting, appropriate
- bard
- poet (especially ancient greece)
- dowel
- lock, fastener, pin, rod, etc
- accede
- agree
- acquiesce
- agree
- assent
- agree
- crony, cronies
- friend, chum
- dichromacy, dichromat
- only sees two colors
- slipshod
- careless, seedy, untidy
- superlative
- super, extreme, exceeding
- progeny
- decendant, off-spring, deriving from something else
- exorbitant
- excessive, exceeding the bounds of custom
- proponent
- someone who proposes or is on the pro-side
- consortium, consortial
- a union, partnership or getting together to get capital resources
- procurement
- getting possession of something
- extol
- to priase highly, eulogize laud
- chicanery
- trickery through sophistication
- crescendo
- gradully increasing force or volume
- subterfuge
- an artifice or expedient used to evade a rule, escape a consequence, hide something, etc.
- surreptitiously
- obtained, done, made, etc., by stealth; secret or unauthorized; clandestine:
- aperture
- an opening like a gap or crack
- indelible
- marks that cannot be changed or something that cannot be forgotten, like war
- jostle
- to bump or shove, to content with
- cheeky
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insolent impudent saucy bold
the cheeky girl was the leader of teh rebellion - meager
- lacking in quality or quantity thin or lean
- affray
-
a public fight
a brawl or quarrel - bloke
- man fellow guy
- tamp
- to press down like tamping tobacco in a cigarette
- propensity
-
natural inclination or tendency
= penchant = proclivity - conflagrate
- to cause burning
- colloquy
- dialogue, conversation
- pillage
- rob or rape
- pastiche
- an artisctic syle that mimics previous work or a callaborative taken from other works
- surfeit
- overindulgence of food/drink noun and verb
- helm
- a place of control or to steer or direct
- indescretion
- lack of good judgement (injudicious); imprudence
- purported
- claimed; alleged
- aficionado
- fan, enthusiast
- apposite
- relevant, pertinent, suitable
- centrifugal
- directed outward from the center
- centripedal
- directed towrd the center
- bellicose
- agggresive belligerent pugnacious
- adulation
- to show excessive admiration or devotion
- celibate
- abstain from sex and/or marraige (for religous reasons)
- analogous
- having analogy; corresponding in some particular
- affable
- friendly, approachable
- beatific
- bestwong blass, happiness or the like
- vicissitude
- change in things like the ups and downs of life, the vicissitude of life
- feigned
- counterfeit sham
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anathema
anathematize - something loathed or disliked; cursed
- benison
- a blessing a benediction
- ardent ardency
- intense feeling fervent
- gregarious
- sociable, living in a flock, pertaining to a crowd
- castigate
- to criticize severely
- blanch
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to whiten to cooking or bleaching
to turn white by fear - categorical
- absolute without condition
- refutation
- act of disproving
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agility
agile -
move quickly, swiftly nimble
intelligent - altruism
- the practice of unselfish concern and to care for others
- proboscis
- related to the nose
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schadenfreude
(shad-n-foid-a) - satisfaction over someone else's misfortune
- hoosegow
- jail (slang)
- kvetching
- chronic whining complainer
- posit
-
to place, lay down or
to set as in establish (rules)--postulate - captious
- always finding fault or negligence
- antediluvian
- very old-fashioned/outdated
- prattle
- to babble or to talk foolishly
- amble
- slow
- churlish
- rude, boorish, peasant like manners (derogatory)
- chide
- scold
- antipathy
- a natural dislike or aversion
- capacious
- roomy, holding a lot of space
- mercurial
- flighty, unpredictable, erratic
- capricious
- frivilous, erratic, mercurial
- steadfast
- unwavering, firm in purpose of friendship, fixed, steadily directed
- antithesis
- opposite; contrast
- amalgamate
- to mix; merge combine
- conglomerate
- a clustered mass, a whole of very different mixed parts
- aphasia
- loss of speech
- volubility
- glib, lots of words, talkative
- socialism
- promoting the people ownership if the goods, wealth,vesting
- marxism
- to live in a classless society-where the rich capitalists
- capitalism
- where there is provate ownership of wealth
- carte blanche
- full authority without restriction
- baroque
- extravagent, ornamental
- ameliorate, meliorate
- to make better, improve
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emphatic
emphatical -
strong emphasis --ex "i DID say that" or clearly or boldly outlined
can be used many ways -
cadre
cad-ree -
a framework, outline or scheme
a skilled group that can structure an organization - canonise
- to glorify to make a canon
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ecclesiastical
i cle zee as ti cal - church like, related to clergy
- canon
- a general rule or standard--sanctify
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cognoscenti (plural)
te sing. - An expert of art, fashion ,etc--something specific
- sybaritic
- characterized by loving pleasure or loving luxury
- allayed
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1. to put (fear, doubt, suspicion, anger, etc.) to rest; calm; quiet.
2. to lessen or relieve; mitigate; alleviate: to allay pain. - paltry
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–adjective, -tri·er, -tri·est. 1. ridiculously or insultingly small: a paltry sum.
2. utterly worthless.
3. mean or contemptible: a paltry coward. - refectory
- a dining hall in a religious house, a college, or other institution.
- chafe
- to irritate, annoy, to wear away
- geodesic
- Also, ge·o·des·i·cal. pertaining to the geometry of curved surfaces, in which geodesic lines take the place of the straight lines of plane geometry.
- malady
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any disorder or disease of the body, esp. one that is chronic or deepseated.
2. any undesirable or disordered condition: social maladies; a malady of the spirit. - eunuchs
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A castrated man employed as a harem attendant or as a functionary in certain Asian courts.
A man or boy whose testes are nonfunctioning or have been removed.
Informal An ineffectual, powerless, or unmasculine man. - screed
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a long discourse or essay, esp. a diatribe.
2. an informal letter, account, or other piece of writing. - buttress
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to give encouragement, support
a support - deprave
- to make morally bad or evil; vitiate; corrupt.
- eviscerate
- to remove the most essential parts, or to disembowel
- penchant
- a strong inclination, taste for something noun
- zaftig
- pleasantly plump figure, full bodied adj
- chagrin
- to vex by disappointment of humiliation verb
- schlub
- clumsy--slang
- onus
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burden of prrof; blame; a difficult or disagreeable burden, task n
onuses pl - ephemeral
- very short lived; transitory
- incipient
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beginning to exist or appear adj
incipiently adv - callous
- hardened, insensitive
- expository
- the nature of exposition adj
- exposition
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n.
A setting forth of meaning or intent.
A statement or rhetorical discourse intended to give information about or an explanation of difficult material.
The art or technique of composing such discourses.
The first part of a composition in sonata form that introduces the themes.
The opening section of a fugue. - fugue
- A pathological amnesiac condition during which one is apparently conscious of one's actions but has no recollection of them after returning to a normal state. This condition, usually resulting from severe mental stress, may persist for as long as several months.
- synthesizing
- complex whole; made from different parts
- unprecedented
- unparalelled, uknown before or unexperienced
- tempered
- properly mixed, or made less intese/violent
- stark
- stiff or rigid, dark, utterly/completely
- resolute
- firm; unwavering, fixed (not necessarily good)
- jape
-
to joke, jest
verb, noun - proffered
- to offer for acceptance
- jilt
- to cast aside
- palatial
- a big home; magnificent-like a palace
- baubles
- small showy ornament (of little value)
- highfalutin
- pompous, pretentious
- suss/sussing
- to study, infer, figure out verb
- egregious
- extraordinary in some bad way; glaring, flagrant
- preconize
- to summon publicly
- acerbic
-
sour in taste (like leomn juice)
sever in expression - gleaned
- to collect bit by bit
- swoon
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to faint or lose consciousness
to enter a state of erotic fantasy, ecstacy - scrum
- british-a place of confusion and racket hubbub
- humdrum
- 11
- soliloquy
- 11
- triteness
- 11
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contempt
"breed contempt" - 11
- trivial
- 11
- banal
- 11
- trenchant
- 11
- milieu
- 11
- parlance
- 11
- impinges
- 11
- boilerplate
- 11
- anecdotes
- 11
- pejorative
- 11
- probity
- 11
- prerarication
- 11
- phossiphile
- tgtt
- importune
- tttt
- effrontery
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noun:
Insulting presumptuousness; shameless boldness; insolence - morass
- n-any confusing or troublesome situation, esp. one from which it is difficult to free oneself; entanglement.
- timorous
- adj-full of fear; fearful
- gilt-edged
- adj-of the highest or best quality, kind
- gimbal
- n a contrivance, consisting of a ring or base on an axis, that permits an object, as a ship's compass, mounted in or on it to tilt freely in any direction, in effect suspending the object so that it will remain horizontal even when its support is tipped (gimbals, gimbal ring)
- "hope springs eternal"
- hope is eternal