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- expostulate
- to attempt to dissuade someone from some course or decision by earnest reasoning
- decadence
- decline, decay, or deterioration; a condition or period of decline or decay
- aplomb
- poise, assurance, great self-confidence, perpendicularity
- petulant
- peevish, annoyed by trifles, easily irritated
- intrinsic
- belonding to someone or something by its very nature, essential, inherent, originating in a bodily organ or part
- epitome
- a summary, a condensed account
- innuendo
- a hint, indirect suggestion, or reference
- ascribe
- to assign or refer to, attribute
- noncommittal
- not decisive or definite
- interloper
- trespasser, one who moves in where he or she is not wanted
- hackneyed
- used so often as to lack freshness or originality
- transcend
- to rise above or beyong, exceed
- millenium
- a period of one hundred years
- surmise
- to think or believe without certain supporting evidence, to conjecture or guess
- ameliorate
- to improve, make better, correct a flaw or shortcoming
- lurid
- causing shock, horror, or revulsion; sensational; pale or sallow in color
- peculate
- to steal something that has been given into one
- occult
- mysterious, magical, supernatural, secret
- infringe
- to violate, trespass, go beyond recognized bounds
- precipitate
- to fall as moisture, to cause or bring about suddenly, to hurl down from a great height
- meritorious
- worthy, deserving recognition or praise
- enjoin
- to direct or oder, to prescribe a course of action in an authoritative way
- callow
- without experience, immature, not fully developed
- inveigh
- to make a violent attack in words, express strong dissaproval
- prerogative
- a special right or privilege, a special quality showing excellence
- nominal
- existing in name only, not real, to small to be considered
- ingratiate
- to make oneself agreeable and thus gain favor or acceptance
- inadvertant
- resulting from or marked by lack of attention, unintentional, accidental
- abominate
- to have an intense dislike or hatred for
- stringent
- strict, severe, rigorously or urgently binding or compelling
- lassitude
- weariness of body or mind, lack of energy
- assuage
- to make easier or milder, relieve, to quiet, calm, to put a end to, appease, satisfy, quench
- jaded
- wearied, worn-out, dulled
- elicit
- to draw forth, bring out from some source
- intercede
- to plead of behalf of someone else; to serve as a third party or go-between in a disagreement
- permeate
- to spread through, penetrate, soak through
- adventitious
- resulting from chance rather than from an inherent cause or character
- expiate
- make amends, make up for, to avert
- commiserate
- to sympathize with, have pity or sorrow for
- ferment
- a state of great excitement, agitation, or turbulence, to produce alcohol by chemical action
- umbrage
- shade cast by trees, an overshadowing influence or power, offense, resentment, a vague suspision
- unctuous
- excessively smooth or smug; trying too hard to give an impression of earnestness, sincerity, or piety, fatty, oily
- exhort
- to urge strongly, advice earnestly
- simulate
- to make a pretense of, imitate, to show the out signs of
- bombastic
- pompous or over-blown in language, full of high-sounding words intended to conceal a lack of ideas
- provincial
- pertaining to an outlying area, local, narrow in mind or outlook, sense of being limited and backwar, of simple, plan design that originated in the country side
- approbation
- the expression of approval or favorable opinion, praise; offical approval
- hiatus
- a gap, break, opening
- acculturation
- the modification of the social patterns, traits, or structures of one group or society by contact with those of another
- expedite
- to make easy, cause to progress faster
- circuitous
- roundabout, not direct
- coalition
- a combination, union, or merger for some specific purpose