wordlist 4
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- ambivalence
- lack of clarity, wavering, being undecided
- cantankerous
- bad-tempered, quarrelsome
- derogatory
- uncomplimentary
- exemplify
- to serve as a good example
- impecunious
- having no money
- lucid
- clear
- ornate
- highly decorated
- precipice
- steep slope
- salubrious
- health-giving
- truant
- shirker, someone absent without permission
- ambulatory
- able to walk around (used of hospital patients)
- capacious
- spacious
- desecrate
- to damage or pollute a holy place
- exhaustive
- complete and thorough
- impious
- wicked, profane
- ludicrous
- ridiculous, silly
- orthodox
- conventional
- precipitous
- done in a hurry
- salutary
- something which teaches you a lesson; beneficial
- truncate
- cut short
- ameliorate
- make better
- capitulate
- surrender, give in to
- desecration
- spoiling something holy
- exonerates
- acquits, absolves, removes blame
- impoverished
- destitute, poor
- lukewarm
- unenthusiastic; neither hot or cold
- ossify
- turn to bone, become fixed and rigid
- preclude
- prevent of make impossible
- sanctimonious
- hypocritically holy
- tumult
- uproar, noise
- amelioration
- improvement
- carping
- constant criticism
- desist
- stop, discontinue, cease
- exorcism
- getting free/ rid of , eliminating(especially demons)
- impromptu
- unrehearsed, spontaneous
- lummox
- clumsy person
- ostentatious
- showy
- precocious
- developing early
- sanction
- give approval to
- turpitude
- depravity
- amiable
- friendly
- cartographer
- person who makes maps
- despondent
- having no hope, miserable
- expatriate
- refugee, emigrant, someone living away from his won country
- inadvertent
- not intentional
- luscious
- juicy, moist, succulent
- oust
- push out of position
- predecessor
- one who came before
- sanguinary
- bloodthirsty, bloody
- tyro
- novice, beginner
- amity
- friendship
- castigate
- scold strongly
- destitution
- hardship, poverty, misery
- expedient
- comvenient, practical
- incantation
- chant, invocation, prayer
- lynch
- assassinate, kill illegal hanging
- overt
- obvious, not hidden
- predicament
- dilemma; difficult situation
- sanguine
- optimistic, cheerful
- ubiquitous
- found everywhere, omnipresent
- amorphous
- lacking in shape
- catharsis
- purging of pent-up emotions
- deter
- put off, prevent
- expedite
- make faster
- incarceration
- putting in prison
- machinations
- plots and plans
- overwrounght
- worked up, in an emotional state
- preeminent
- famous, outstanding
- sardonic
- mocking
- unalloyed
- undiluted, total
- analgesic
- medicine to combat pain
- caucus
- type of private political meeting
- deteriorate
- worsen, decline
- exposition
- clear explanation
- incessant
- without stopping
- maelstrom
- whirlpool, storm in the ocean
- palatable
- good to eat, agreeable
- prerogative
- right or privilege
- savant
- person with knowledge
- unctuous
- oily; using excessive flattery
- analogous
- comparable
- caustic
- burning
- detrimental
- harmful
- extol
- praise
- incipient
- just beginning
- magnanimous
- generous, big-hearted
- palisade
- fence made of posts
- prescient
- having fore-knowledge
- scale
- to climb
- undermined
- damaged, attacked
- anarchy
- chaos, lack of government
- cavalcade
- procession of vehicles
- devoured
- greedily eaten/ consumed
- extradite
- deport from one country back to the home country
- inclination
- tendency, a leaning toward
- magnate
- powerful businessman
- palliative
- a remedy that improves but doesn't cure
- presentiment
- a feeling that something might happen
- scapegoat
- person on whom blame is placed for faults of others
- underscore
- emphasize