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- rankle
- to persistently irritate or embitter or cause resentment
- abscond
- to depart secretly; to steal away and hide oneself, used especially of persons who withdraw to avoid arrest or prosecution
- bunbury
- an imaginary person whose name is used as an excuse to some purpose,especially to visit a place
- bravado
- a real or pretended show of courage or boldness
- perspicacious
- seeing or understanding clearly
- vaudeville
- a light often comic theatrical piece frequently combining pantomime, dialogue, dancing, and song
- vizier
- a high official
- inimical
- having the disposition or temper of an enemy; unfriendly; unfavorable; opposed in tendency, influence, or effects; antagonistic; adverse
- imbricate
- lying lapped over each other in regular order
- ostentatious
- showy, usually for the purpose of impressing others
- neophyte
- a new convert; novice; tyro, beginner
- placid
- satisfied, complacent; undisturbed by tumult or disorder, calm or quiet
- impecunious
- not having money; habitually without money; poor
- extant
- still existing; not destroyed, lost, or extinct
- stentorian
- extremely loud
- pasquinade
- a lampoon posted in a public place; satirical writing, satire
- nosism
- The use of 'we' in referring to oneself
- guerdon
- a reward or recompense; requital; to give a reward or recompense
- lucre
- money, profits, or riches, often suggesting ill-gotten gains
- enervate
- to weaken or make lose strength
- dewclaw
- a small claw not reaching the ground, on the foot of some animals
- jocund
- full of or expressing high-spirited merriment; light-hearted; mirthful
- beholden
- obliged; bound in gratitude; indebted
- fervid
- very hot, burning; marked by often extreme intensity of feeling
- innate
- inborn; part of something from it's beginning
- nonchalant
- having an air of easy unconcern or indifference
- argentiferous
- containing silver
- caruncle
- a fleshy growth, such as a rooster's comb
- quotidian
- occurring or returning daily; of an everyday character, ordinary, commonplace
- congeries
- a collection of things; miscellany; aggregation
- pittance
- a small or inadequate wage, allowance or remuneration; a very small amount of something
- recidivism
- a tendency to lapse into a previous condition or pattern of behavior; a falling back or relapse into prior criminal habits
- pinchbeck
- an alloy of zinc and copper, used as imitation gold in jewelry; counterfeit or spurious
- sagacious
- shows sound judgment; is wise
- augean
- extremely filthy from long neglect, filthy; requiring heroic efforts, especially corrective or unpleasant efforts, difficult
- unctuous
- made of grease or fat; also, insincere or exaggerated earnestness
- aghast
- struck with terror, amazement, or horror; shocked
- iconoclast
- someone who attacks or seeks to overthrow popular or traditional views or institutions
- sisyphean
- involving endless but futile labor
- lassitude
- listless, lacking energy to accomplish anything
- fugleman
- one who leads a group, company, or party
- jerkwater
- remote and unimportant; trivial
- inept
- generally incompetent and ineffectual
- scrutinize
- to examine minutely; to conduct a scrutiny
- remunerate
- to pay a suitable equivalent for goods provided or services rendered, or to compensate for inconvenience or losses incurred; recompense
- ossify
- to harden or become bonelike; to become set in your ways
- enmity
- positive, active, and typically mutual hatred or ill will
- hierarch
- a high-ranking person
- lexiphanes
- one who uses words pretentiously
- inexorable
- unyielding, cannot be persuaded even by pleading