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- quiddity
- an essential quality
- quagmire
- a swamp; a difficult or inextricable situation
- rationalize
- to make an excuse for
- opulent
- rich, luxurious; wealthy
- raiment
- clothing; garments
- patent
- evident or obvious
- salutary
- healthful, wholesome
- sentient
- conscious; capable of feeling or perception
- redundant
- repititious; using more words than needed
- quasi-
- resembling; seeming; half
- peruse
- to read carefullu; scrutinize
- recoil
- to retreat; to draw back
- recreant
- a coward, a traitor
- saturnine
- gloomy; sluggish
- pandantic
- tending to show off one's learning
- recondite
- difficult to understand; profound
- sapient
- wise; full of knowledge
- sibilant
- a hissing sound
- palliate
- to ease, to lessn, to soothe
- scurrilous
- coarsely abusive; vulgar
- rectify
- to correct; to make right
- offal
- garbage; waste parts
- quandry
- a puzzling situation; a dilemma
- ratiocinate
- to reason; to think
- recapitulate
- to summarize; to repeat briefly
- parochial
- local; narrow; limited
- onus
- a burden, responsibility, obligation
- Non sequitur
- something that does not logically follow (logical falacy)
- sagacious
- wise; having keen perception and sound judgement
- Nirvana
- a condition of great peace or happiness
- shard
- a fragment
- Nonentity
- a person or thing of little importance
- orthography
- correct spelling
- pejorative
- having a negative effect; insulting
- paroxysm
- a suden outburst; a fit
- perdition
- damnation; ruin; hell
- sang-froid
- calmness; compsosure or cool self-possesion
- sadistic
- deriving pleasure from inflicting pain on others
- querolous
- complaining; grumbling
- panegyric
- an expression of praise
- regale
- to delight wiht something pleasing or amusing
- pecuniary
- pertaining to money; finnancial
- obviate
- to prevent; to get around
- paradigm
- a model, an example
- sacrosanct
- extremly holy
- sedulous
- hard working; dilligent
- rakish
- carefree; dashing; jaunty
- shibboleth
- a slogan; a password
- panache
- self-confidence; a showy manner
- obfuscate
- to confuse; to bewilder
- onerous
- burdensome; heavy; hard to endure
- sanguine
- cheerful; optimistic
- redolent
- having a pleasant odor; suggestive or evocative
- perfunctory
- done wihtout care; in a routine fashion
- regress
- to move in a backward direction
- orifice
- mouth; opening
- pedestrian
- a person or thing said to be ordinary or dull
- Nubile
- a female suitable for marriage in regard to age and physical development
- optimum
- the best, the most favorable, the ideal
- savant
- a person of extensive learning; and eminent scholar
- rebuke
- to scold; to blame
- salient
- significant; conspicuous; standing out from the rest
- parody
- a work which imitates another in a ridiculous manner
- obloquy
- strong disapprobal; a bad reputation resulting form public criticism
- sedition
- rebellion or resistance against the government
- scintillate
- to sparkle; to twinkle; to sparkle intellectually
- olfactory
- pertaining to smell
- paleontology
- a science dealin with prehistoric life through study
- recant
- to withdraw or disavow a statement or opinion
- peccadillo
- a minor offense, a misdeed
- salacious
- obscene; lusty
- obdurate
- stubborn, hardheaded
- obsequoius
- excessively submissive or overly attentive
- perspicacity
- keeness of judgment
- pandemic
- general; widespread