Princeton 2 words
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- alloy
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ALLOY =
to make impure - amenable
- AMENABLE = agreeable
- anathema
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ANATHEMA =
religious curse or something loathed - apogee
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APOGEE =
zenith or culmination - apostate
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APOSTATE =
one who abandons long-held religious or political beliefs - captious
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CAPTIOUS =
pointing out trivial faults - censure
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CENSURE =
to severely criticize - chary
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CHARY =
wary or cautious - culpable
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CULPABLE =
deserving blame - denouement
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DENOUEMENT =
an outcome or unraveling of plot - descry
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DESCRY =
to discriminate or discern - diaphanous
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DIAPHANOUS =
light, airy, transparent - encomium
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ENCOMIUM =
glowing praise, panegyric, tribute, elegy - ennui
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ENNUI =
boredom, weariness - eschew
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ESCHEW =
to shun or avoid - filibuster
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FILIBUSTER =
intentional obstruction, esp. prolonged speechmaking to delay political action - fortuitous
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FORTUITOUS =
happening by accident or chance - germane
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GERMANE =
relevant to the subject at hand - halcyon
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HALCYON =
calm and peaceful - hegemony
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HEGEMONY =
domination over others - impunity
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IMPUNITY =
immunity from punishment - incipient
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INCIPIENT =
beginning to be or to become apparent - inimical
- INIMICAL = hostile
- inimitable
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INIMITABLE =
one of a kind - martial
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MARTIAL =
associated with war or the armed forces - meet
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MEET =
fitting or proper - nebulous
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NEBULOUS =
cloudy or vaguely defined - neologism
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NEOLOGISM =
a new word or expression - obstreperous
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OBSTREPEROUS =
noisy or unruly - palliate
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PALLIATE =
to reduce in severity - pedestrian
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PEDESTRIAN =
commonplace, trite, quotidian - perspicacity
- PERSPICACITY = shrewdness
- pith
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PITH =
the essential or central part - pithy
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PITHY =
concisely meaningful - predilection
- PREDILECTION = preference
- profligate
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PROFLIGATE =
extravagant or dissolute - querulous
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QUERELOUS =
complaining, whiny - rancor
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RANCOR =
bitter resentment - sententious
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SENTENTIOUS =
moralistic or aphorisitc, epigrammatic, tending to moralize excessively - solvent
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SOLVENT =
to meet financial obligations or able to dissolve another substance - tortuous
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TORTUOUS =
windy or excessively complicated - salacious
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SALACIOUS =
lustful or lascivious