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- viscous
- sticky,gluey
- stolid
- dull; impassive
- strut
- pompous walk
- truculence
- aggressiveness; ferocity
- satiate
- satisfy fully
- substantiate
- establish by evidence; verify; support
- verbose
- wordy
- striated
- marked with parallel bands; grooved
- stint v.
- be thrifty; set limits
- reverent
- respectful; worshipful
- veracious
- truthful
- tacit
- understood; not put into words
- whimsical
- capricious;fanciful
- supposition
- hypothesis; surmise
- subside
- settle down; descend; grow quiet
- torpor
- lethargy; sluggishness; dormancy
- vacillate
- waver; fluctuate
- savor
- enjoy; have a distinctive flavor, smell, or quality
- saturate
- soak thoroughly
- welter
- turmoil;bewildering jumble
- tortuous
- winding; full of curves
- vituperative adj.
- abusive; scolding
- venerate
- revere, to regard with respect
- warranted
- justified; authorized
- subpoena
- writ summoning a witness to appear
- sanction
- approve;ratify
- zealot
- fanatic; person who shows excessive zeal
- stipulate
- make express conditions; specify
- tirade
- extended scolding; denunciation; harangue
- supersede
- cause to be set aside; replace; make obsolete
- shard
- fragment, generally of pottery
- solicitous
- worried; concerned
- reticent
- reserved; uncommunicative; inclined to silence
- secrete
- hide away or cache; produce and release a substance into an organism
- sporadic
- occurring irregularly
- wary
- very cautious
- viable
- practical or workable
- tenuous
- thin; rare; slim
- skeptic
- doubter; person who suspends judgment until having examined evidence supporting a point of view
- specious
- seemingly reasonable but incorrect; misleading (often intentionally)
- volatile
- changeable; explosive; evaporation rapidly
- spectrum
- colored band produced when a beam of light passes through a prism
- soporific
- sleep-causing; marked by sleepiness
- transgression
- violation of a law; sin
- stigma
- token of disgrace; brand
- sage
- person celebrated for wisdom
- salubrious
- healthful
- tractable
- docile; easily managed
- tangential
- peripheral; only slightly connected; digressing