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- hiatus
- a gap, break
- atrophy
- decrease in size; decline
- reconcile
- to reestablish a close relationship between; fix up
- disseminate
- to scatter widely; advertise, announce
- orator
- skilled public speaker; boss
- domineering
- bossy, arrogant
- pedantic
- attention to details; bookish, academic
- conciliatory
- calm, civil
- treacherous
- betraying, disloyal
- didactic
- to instruct; academic, enlightening
- moralizing
- to think about or express moral judgments; teacherish
- dogmatic
- egotistical, formal
- meek
- showing patience; gentle, peaceful
- simplistic
- fundamental, introductory
- prosaic
- lacking in imagination and spirit; dull
- vacillation
- fear, hesitation
- solicitation
- to petition persistently; address, call, bid
- mutability
- change; flow; alteration
- astuteness
- showing shrewdness; discrimination
- coarseness
- of low, common quality; earthiness
- transcendence
- surpassing others; supreme
- malleability
- capable of being shaped or formed (a malleable metal)
- relapse
- to fall or slide back into a former state; recurrence
- erudite
- learned, brainy, educated
- Philistine
- barbaric, brutal
- infidels
- one who has no religious belief; graceless, evil
- obsolete
- no longer in use; dead
- straggly
- growing or spread out in a disorderly way; crummy
- aberrations
- departure, difference
- egotistical
- conceited person; arrogant
- blatant
- unpleasantly loud and noisy
- engimas
- one that is puzzling, ambiguous, or inexplicable
- modesty
- propriety in speech, dress, or behavior; bashfulness
- archaisms
- the use of an archaic expression; age, ancientness, elderliness
- emblematic
- symbolic, figurative, illustrative
- rejuvenation
- make young again; recovery, reawakening, regeneration
- admonishment
- blame, disapproval
- affluence
- wealth, fortune
- haughty
- scornfully and condescendingly proud; conceited
- pertinacity
- ability, allowance, bearing, capacity
- resilient
- ability to recover readily; elastic, bouncy
- relentless
- determined, ferocious, dogged
- stoutness
- having boldness, bravery, or determination; bulkiness
- craven
- characterized by fear; cowardly, chicken, fearful
- pontification
- the office of a pope
- circumlocution
- the use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language; indirectness
- brevity
- condensation, crispness, conciseness
- vestige
- a visible trace, evidence, or sign of something that once existed but exists no more; hint
- anomaly
- departure from the normal order, form, or rule; abnormality, departure
- quandary
- a state of uncertainty; box, clutch
- monologue
- a continuous series of jokes or comic stories delivered by one comedian; address
- anachronism
- the representation of someone as existing; postdate, misplacement
- interlocutor
- someone who takes part in a conversation, often formally or officially; agent, broker, distributor
- portmanteau
- a large leather suitcase that opens into two hinged compartments; blend, compound
- redundancy
- opportunity, option, other
- ambivalent
- characterized by a mixture of opposite feelings or attitudes; clashing, doubtful
- reverential
- feeling veneration; civil, courteous, considerate
- cynical
- skeptical of the motives of others; ironic, doubtful
- jocular
- characterized by joking; campy, amusing
- juxtaposition
- the state of being placed or situated side by side; bond, combination
- progency
- a result of creative effort; product, breed, family
- intricate
- elaborate, complex
- pathogen
- an agent that causes diseases; bacteria, bug
- encompass
- to form a circle or ring around; surround, circle
- euphoria
- a feeling of great happiness or well-being; bliss, dreamland
- genomics
- analysis, biology, diagnosis
- pharmaceutical
- relating to pharmacy; cure, essence
- refute
- to prove to be false; burn, argue against, break
- phenomenon
- an occurrence that is perceptible by the senses; appearance, actuality
- rigorously
- precise, accurate
- diligently
- marked by painstaking effort; animatedly
- tenor
- a continuous, unwavering course; aim, body, core
- regimen
- governmental rule or control; bag, care, channels, charge, control
- pessimists
- cynic, complainer
- cosmological
- the study of the physical universe considered as a totality of phenomena in time & space
- bulwark
- a wall raised as a defensive fortification; barrier, buffet, bastion
- conglomeration
- an accumulation of miscellaneous things; assortment
- prudence
- careful management; economy
- bastion
- a projecting part of a fortification; defense, bulwark
- conspiracy
- an agreement to perform together an illegal, wrongful act; counterplot
- evanescent
- vanishing, deceitful, ambiguous
- irate
- extremely angry; annoyed, bummed out
- insipid
- lacking flavor or zest; not tasty
- intervention
- to come, appear, or lie between two things; action, activity
- protracted
- to draw out or lengthen in time; confirmed, constant, continual
- contemporaneous
- happening during the same period of time; attending, collateral
- transient
- remaining in a place only a brief time; changeable
- surreptitious
- covert, hidden, furtive
- fickle
- changeable, cheat
- ephemeral
- lasting for a markedly brief time; evanescent
- egregious
- outrageously bad or offensive; extreme
- invoked
- to call on for assistance or support; beg
- repudiated
- abandon, be against, banish
- lionized
- to look on or treat (a person) as a celebrity; famed
- vilified
- to make vicious statements about; blamer, belittler, attacker
- beguiled
- bewitched, charmed, delighted
- abated
- to reduce in amount; lessen, decline, decrease
- attenulated
- to make small; blended, degraded, corrupt
- diminished
- to make smaller
- flourished
- to grow well
- endeavor
- an earnest attempt; aim, best shot
- capricious
- impulsive and unpredictable; carless, changeful
- pious
- born again, devoted, divine
- supercilious
- feeling or showing haughty disdain; bossy, cocky
- despotic
- a ruler with absolute power
- squandered
- to spend wastefully; consumed, destroyed
- amenable
- willing, agreeable
- bore
- bad news, bummer, creep
- ruthless
- having no pity; merciless
- epitomized
- to sum up; condensed, pocket
- succinctly
- concise and terse; compact, blunt
- monopolistic
- busy, absorbed, attentive
- ardor
- devotion, eagerness, feeling
- pedantry
- an act; arrangement
- abstruse
- difficult to understand; deep, complex
- enticements
- attraction, lure
- infallibly
- incapable of failing; certain
- attainment
- accomplishments, arrival, completion
- whence
- from where; beginning, cause
- brink
- the point at which something is likely to begin; border
- irksome
- causing annoyance; characterless
- anatomy
- the science of the shape and structure of organisms and their parts; analysis
- minutiae
- a small detail; evidence, emergency
- causation
- a cause
- obscure
- indistinct, complicated
- apprehension
- dread, fearful, alarm, concern, doubt
- diligence
- earnest; steady effort; activity, alertness
- circumscribed
- to draw a line around; enveloped, fenced
- promiscuous
- abandoned, cheap, bum
- phonetic
- articulate, lingual, narrated
- philosophically
- abstract, deep
- aristocrat
- a member of a ruling class; noblemen
- manifest
- obvious, bold, clear
- superfluous
- being beyond what is required; excess
- platonic
- ideal, spiritual, intellectual
- dialects
- accent, idiom, can
- homophones
- same pronounciation, different meanings
- drawl
- drag out, extend
- stratify
- to form, arrange, or deposit in layers; coat, foil
- vexing
- to annoy; bother
- trove
- a collection of valuable items discovered; addition
- whimsical
- amusing
- satirical
- abusive, bitter
- strident
- loud, harsh, boisterous, clashing