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Abashed
Embarrassed
Arbiter
Person able to judge or decide
Benison
Blessing
Bluff
fool

frank

steep cliff
Canker
Spreading sore

Evil Influence
Complaisant
Obliging
Crass
Coarsely stupid
Defame
Attack the reputation of
Ennui
Boredom
Funereal
Gloomy
Ideology
Set of beliefs
Inferno
Intense Heat

Hell
Mercenary
Concerned only with making money
Parsimonious
Miserly
Propaganda
Deliberately spreading ideas that will help one's own cause or injure an enemy's
Retrogress
Worsen
Surfeited
Given too much of something
Tureen
Dish
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Ablutions
Washings
Bauble
Trinket
Bestial
Brutal
Bombastic
Pompous
Chary
Cautious
Congenital
Present from birth
Cuisine
Cooking
Demote
Reduce in rank
Flux
Change

Flow

Substance used in joining metals
Garb
Clothes
Impeccable
Faultless
Invective
Abusive language
Ogle
Glance flirtatiously
Penury
Extreme poverty
Raillery
Lighthearted teasing
Scintillate
Sparkle
Survey
Measure

Look closely at

Detailed study
Verbatim
Word for word
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Anneal
Toughen by heating and then cooling
Becoming
Pleasingly suitable
Bizarre
Fantastic
Buoyant
Able to float

Cheerful
Chattel
On movable property
Cranium
Top of the skull
Culpable
Blameworthy
Endorse
Express support of

Sign the back of a check
Freebooter
Pirate
Hallmark
Stamp on gold or silver objects

Distinguishing characteristic
Incognito
With one's identity concealed
Irrevocable
unalterable
Pacific
Peaceful
Pernicious
Harmful
Retinue
Train of attendants
Scrip
Paper entitling the bearer to receive something
Symmetrical
Balanced
Verve
Enthusiasm
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Affirm
Assert
Avarice
Greed for money
Courser
Horse
Devotee
Ardent Supporter
Dossier
Collection of documents giving a detailed report
Exonerate
Declare Blameless
Franchise
Right granted by a government or company

Right to vote
Herald
Announce
Instantaneous
Immediate
Marathon
Prolonged

Foot race of about 26 miles
Mettle
Spirit
Predicament
Trying situation
Sanctimonious
Falsely pious
Stevedores
Dock workers
Throng
Crowd of people
Unremitting
Unending
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Annuity
Fixed yearly payment
Bedeviled
Tormented
Decorum
correctness and good taste
Divers
various
Elemental
Having to do with forces of nature
Extant
Still in existence
Germinate
Begin to develop
Heterogeneous
dissimilar
Melodrama
Unrealistic play in which good and evil are exaggerated
Ocular
Eye
Partiality
Liking
Recession
Moving backwards
Sojourn
Stay
Stickler
Person who makes strict demands
Travesty
Crude and mocking imitation
Vendetta
Feud
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Autonomous
Self-governing
Belligerent
Nations at war

Hostile
Default
Fail to make payments
Dogged
Determined
Emancipate
Free
Flora
Plants
Gourmets
Experts on fine foods
Hindmost
Farthest back
Mania
Excessive enthusiasm
Memoirs
Autobiography
Opulence
Wealth
Prate
Talk foolishly
Residue
Remainder
Sporadic
an irregular occurrence
Thermal
Having to do with heat
Umber
earth color used in artist's paints
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Adherent
Supporter
Amity
Friendship
Bloated
Swollen
Cataclysm
Sudden, violent change
Dessicate
remove the water from

drained of vitality
disheveled
Rumpled
Epaulet
tassel-like shoulder decoration
Hypochondriac
Person unduly worried about his or her health
In term
Intervening period
Luminous
Clear
Munitions
War supplies
Pedagogue
Schoolteacher
Prosaic
Dull
Regale
Entertain
supercilious
Haughty
Vitriolic
Vicious
Vitriol
Sulphuric acid
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Affluent
Wealthy
Assuage
Lessen
Butte
Isolated, steep-sided hill
Complacent
Self-satisfied
Desultory
Aimless
Dissertation
Formal essay
Exodus
Departure
Genteel
Polite and refined
Inebriated
drunken
Introspective
Given to examining one's own thoughts
Martinet
Strict disciplinarian
Oblivion
Lack of awareness
Pillory
Wooden frame with holes for confining the head and hands
Provocation
Cause for anger
Revoke
Withdraw
Tacit
Unspoken
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Alloy
Mixture of metals
Augury
Omen
Cadaver
Dead body
Decry
denounce
Devise
Work out
Entreat
Beg
Finite
Limited
Guillotine
Machine for beheading people
Inevitable
Unavoidable
Irrefutable
That cannot be disputed
Militant
Aggressively active
Obsolescent
Outdated but still usable
Prefatory
Introductory
Recluse
Hermit
Somnambulist
Sleep walker
Telepathy
Thought transference
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Amenable
Responsive
Automaton
Self-regulating machine
Cede
Surrender
Discredit
Throw doubt on
Disparage
Belittle
Extinct
No longer in existence
Fiasco
Ridiculous failure
Girded
Encircled

Fasten with a belt
Inception
Beginning
Limbo
Condition of oblivion
Pacify
Bring peace to
pejorative
That tend to give an unfavorable impression
Practicable
Capable of being put into use
Punitive
Punishing
Somatic
Bodily
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Apologist
Defender of a policy or action
Biannual
Twice a year
Chronometer
Extremely accurate timepiece
Definitive
Final
Discreet
Cautiously tactful
Enunciate
Speak clearly
Extremist
Person who holds immoderate views
Extrovert
Person whose thoughts are directed outwards
Florid
Red
Gist
Main point
Intimate
Deeply private
Lope
Move easily
Palpitate
Beat rapidly
Perpetrate
to be guilty of
Presentiment
Feeling of impending misfortune
Requite
Return
Stalactite
hanging, icicle-like formation
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Assonance
Similarity in vowel sounds
Buttress
Strengthen
Conception
General idea


Beginning of pregnancy
Diatribe
Bitterly abusive speech
Dismember
Cut up
Ethnic
Racial
Euphonious
Pleasant sounding
Fluster
confuse
Gruesome
Horrible
Invoke
Request help from

Call forth
Nutriment
Nourishing substance
Pecuniary
financial
Plebeian
commonplace
procrastinate
delay
roue
person who leads a dissipated life
torso
body minus arms and legs

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