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- Accrue
- to grow or accumulate over time; to happen as a natural result
- annotation
- a critical or explanatory note or comment, especially for a literary work
- bedlam
- a state or scene of uproar and confusion
- covert
- hidden, disguised, purposefully kept secret; sheltered, secluded; a sheltered place, a hiding place
- debonair
- pleasant, courteous, lighthearted; smoot and polished in manner and appearance
- dun
- to demand insistently, especially in payment of a debt; a creditor; dark, dull, drab, dingy
- effacious
- effective, producing results
- equanimity
- calmness, composure, refusal to panic
- fortuitous
- accidental, occuring by a happy chance
- gist
- the essential part main point, or essence
- gratuitous
- freely give, not called for by circumstances, unwarranted
- imperious
- overbearing, arrogant; seeking to dominate; pressing, compelling
- invective
- a strong denunciation or condemnation; abusive language; abusive, vituperative
- motley
- showing great variety; composed of different elements or many colors; a jesters costume; a jester
- munificent
- extremely generous, lavish
- procrestinate
- to delay, put off until later
- provacative
- tending to produce a strong feeling or response; arousing desire or appetite; irritating, annoying
- recondite
- exceeding ordinary knowledge and understanding
- reprobate
- a depraved, vicious, or unprincipled person, scoundral; wicked currupt, or unprincipled; to disprove of, condemn
- sedentary
- characterized by or calling for continued sitting; remaingin in one place
- abstemious
- moderate, sparing characterized by abstinence and self- discipline
- censurable
- deserving of blame or correction
- contingent
- likely but not certain to happen, possible; dependent on uncertain events or conditions; happening by chance; a representative group forming part of a larger body
- corroborate
- to confirm, make more certain, bolster substantiate, verify
- denizen
- an inhabitant, resident; one who frequents a place
- discursive
- passing aimlessly from one place or subject to another, rambling, roving, nomadic
- disseminate
- to scatter or spread widely
- dowdy
- poorly dressed, shabby; lacking smartness and good taste
- florid
- highly colored, reddish; excessivly ornate, showy
- foist
- to impose by fraud; to pass off as worthy or genuine; to bring about by stealth, dishonesty or coercion
- gauche
- awkward, lacking in social graces, tactless, clumsy
- hersy
- an opinion different from accepted belief; the denial of an idea that is generally held sacred
- inculcate
- to impress on the mind by repetition, teach persistently and earnestly
- palpable
- cabable of being touched or felt; easily seen, heard, or recognized
- perceptive
- having sympathetic insight or understanding, cabable of keen appreciaition
- pernicious
- extremely harmful; deadly, fatal
- salient
- leaping, jumping or springing forth; prominent, standing out, conspicious, a projection or bulge
- satiate
- to satisfy completely; to fill to excess; full satisfied
- sear
- to make or become dry and withered; to char or scorch the surface of; to harden or make unfeelking; to parch, dessicate, singe
- absolve
- to clear from blame, responsibility, or guilt
- caricature
- a representation in which the subjects characteristics featured are deliberatly exxagerated; to present someone or something in a deliberatly distorted way