3rd set
Terms
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- aggrandize
- to increase in intensity, power or prestige
- alchemy
- a medieval science aimed at the transmutation of metals, esp. base metals into gold
- anachronism
- something or someone out of place in terms of historical or chronological context
- astringent
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having a tightening effect on living tissue
harsh
severe - contiguous
-
sharing a border
touching
adjacent - convention
- a generally agreed upon practice or attitude
- cynicism
- an attitude or quality of belief that all people are motivated by selfishness
- decorum
- polite or appropriate conduct or behavior
- derision
- scorn, ridicule, contemptuous treatment
- desiccate
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to dry out or dehydrate
to make dry or dull - dilettante
- one with an amateurish or superficial interest in the arts or a branch of knowledge
- disparage
- to slight or belittle
- divulge
- to disclose something secret
- immutable
- not capable of change
- inimical
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damaging
harmful
injurious - intractable
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not easily managed or directed
stubborn
obstinate - neophyte
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a recent convert
a beginner
novice - presumptuous
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overstepping due bounds(courtesy manners)
taking liberties - pristine
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pure
uncorrupted
clean - probity
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adherence to highest principles
uprightness - proclivity
- a natrual disposition or inclination
- profligate
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excessively wasteful
recklessly extravagent - propensity
-
a natural inclination or tendency
penchant - prosaic
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dull
unimaginative - pungent
- characterized by a strong, sharo smell or taste
- quixotic
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foolishly impractical
marked by lofty romantic ideals - quotidian
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occuring or recurring daily
comonplace - rarefy
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to make or become thin, less dense
to refine - recondite
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hidden
concealed
difficult to understand
obscure - refulgent
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radiant
shiny
brilliant - renege
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to fail to honor a committment
to go back on a promise - shard
- a piece of broken pottery or glass
- sparse
-
thin
not dense
arranged at widely spaced intervals - spendthrift
- one who spends money wastefully
- subtle
-
not obvious
elusive
difficult to discern - tacit
-
implied
not explicilty stated - terse
- brief and concise in wording
- tout
- to publicly praise or promote
- trenchant
-
sharply perceptive
keen
penetrating - unfeigned
-
genuine
not false or hypocritical - untenable
-
indefensible
not viable
uninhabitable - vacillate
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to wavwer indecisively between one course of action or opinion and another
waver - variegated
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multicolored
characterized by a variety of patches of differant color - vexation
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annoyance
irritation - vigilant
- alertly watchful
- vituperate
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to use harsh condemnatory language
to abuse or censure severely or abusively
berate - volatile
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readily changing to a vapor
changeable
fickle
explosive - acumen
- quick, keen, or accuarate knowledge or insight
- adulterate
- to reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients
- archaic
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outdated
associated with an earlier, perhaps more primitive time - aver
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to state as a fact
to confirm or support - dissemble
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to disguise or conceal
to mislead - eccentric
- departing from norms or conventions
- endemic
- characteristic of or foten found in particular locality, region, or people
- evanescent
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tending to disappaer like vapor
vanishing - exacerbate
- to make worse or more severe
- grandiloquence
- pompous speech or expression
- hackneyed
- rendered trite or commonplace by frequent usage
- hedonism
- devotion to pleasurable pursuits esp to the pleasure of the senses
- hegemony
- the consistent dominace of one state or idealogy over others
- iconoclast
- one who attacks or undemrines traditional conventions or institutions
- impassive
- revealing no emotion
- impunity
- immunity from punishment or penalty
- inchoate
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in an initial stage
not fully formed - infelicitous
-
unfortunate
inappropriate - insipid
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without taste or flavor
lacking in spriit
bland - loquacious
- extremely talkative
- luminous
- characterized by brightness and the mission of light
- malevolent
- having or showing often vicious ill-will, spite, or hatred
- misanthrope
- one who hates all other humans
- mitigate
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to make or ebcome elss severe
to moderate - occlude
- to obstruct or block
- pedagogy
- the art or profession of training, teaching or instructing
- penury
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poverty
destitution - pine
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to yearn intensely
to languish
to lose vigour - pith
- the essential or central part
- pithy
- precise and brief
- placate
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to appease
to calm by making concessions - platitude
- a superficial remark eso one offered as meaningful
- plummet
- to plunge or drop straight down
- prodigal
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recklessly wasteful
extravangant
profuse
lavish - profuse
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given to or coming forth abundantly
extravagent - proliferate
- to grow or increase swiftly and abundantly
- queries
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questions
inquiries
doubts inthe mind
reservations - querulous
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prone to complaing or grumbling
quarrelsome - recalctrant
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obstintely defiant of authority
dificult to manage - repudiate
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to refuse to have anything to do with
disown - rescind
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to invalidate
to repeal
to retract - reverent
- marked by, feeling, or expressing a feeling of profound awe and respect
- specious
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seemign true, but actually being fallacious
misleadingly attractive - spurious
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lacking authenticity or validity
false
coutnfeit - subpoena
- a court order requiring appearance and/or testimony
- succinct
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brief
concise - superfluous
- exceeding what is sufficient or necessary
- surfeit
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excess
overindulgence - tenacity
- the quality of adherence or persistence to soemthing valued
- tenuous
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having little substnce or strength
flimsy weak - tirade
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a long and extremely critical speech
a harsh denunciation - transient
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fleeting
passing quickly
brief - zealous
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fervent
ardent
impassioned