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- emend
- to edit or change
- impede
- to retard in movement or progress by means of obstacles or hindrances; obstruct; hinder
- arcane
- known or understood by very few; mysterious; secret; obscure; esoteric
- copious
- large in quantity or number; abundant; plentiful
- fecund
- producing or capable of producing offspring, fruit, vegetation, etc., in abundance; prolific; fruitful
- parable
- a short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson
- raucous
- harsh; strident; grating;rowdy; disorderly
- grandiose
- affectedly grand or important; pompous
- decorum
- dignified propriety of behavior, speech, dress
- somnambulist
- sleepwalker
- aggregate
- formed by the conjunction or collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; total; combined
- prodigy
- a child or young person, having extraordinary talent or ability
- vivacious
- lively; animated
- congenial
- agreeable, suitable, or pleasing in nature or character
- chasten
- to inflict suffering upon for purposes of moral improvement; chastise
- indigence
- seriously impoverished condition; poverty.
- ambulatory
- of, pertaining to, or capable of walking
- primordial
- onstituting a beginning; giving origin to something derived or developed; original; elementary
- sonnet
- Prosody. a poem, properly expressive of a single, complete thought, idea, or sentiment, of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter, with rhymes arranged according to one of certain definite schemes, being in the strict or Italian form divided into a major group of 8 lines (the octave) followed by a minor group of 6 lines (the sestet), and in a common English form into 3 quatrains followed by a couplet.
- garner
- to gather or deposit in or as if in a granary or other storage place
- misnomer
- a misapplied or inappropriate name or designation
- recapitulation
- the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated
- zealot
- a person who shows zeal
- castigate
- to criticize or reprimand severely
- philanthropist
- The effort or inclination to increase the well-being of humankind, as by charitable aid or donations
- prevalent
- widespread; of wide extent or occurrence; in general use or acceptance
- consolidate
- to bring together (separate parts) into a single or unified whole; unite; combine
- prevarication
- to speak falsely or misleadingly; deliberately misstate or create an incorrect impression; lie
- panacea
- a remedy for all disease or ills
- enunciated
- to utter or pronounce (words, sentences, etc.), esp. in an articulate or a particular manner
- engrossed
- To occupy exclusively; absorb
- satiric
- of, pertaining to, containing, or characterized by satire
- recalcitrant
- resisting authority or control; not obedient or compliant; refractory
- foreboding
- a prediction; portent
- nonchalance
- the state or quality of being nonchalant; cool indifference or lack of concern; casualness