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abjure: ABJURE =
to reject or renounce
acumen: ACUMEN =
keen judgment
adumbrate: ADUMBRATE =
to foreshadow or sketch out vaguely
alchemy: ALCHEMY =
medieval science
bellicose: BELLICOSE = belligerent
calumniate: CALUMNIATE =
to slander
(i remember by "she slandered me in her column")
canon: CANON =
an established set of principles
canonical: CANONICAL =
following accepted standards
dearth: DEARTH =
scarcity, lack
demur: DEMUR =
to question
eccentric: ECCENTRIC =
departing from norms
emollient: EMOLLIENT =
soothing or lubricating
expiate: EXPIATE =
to atone for
fell: FELL =
inhumanely cruel
hackneyed: HACKNEYED =
unoriginal or trite, quotidian, commonplace
imbroglio: IMBROGLIO =
difficult or embarassing situation
impecunious: IMPECUNIOUS = poor
inveterate: INVETERATE =
stubbornly established by habit
jejune: JEJUNE =
dull, immature
malevolent: MALEVOLENT =
having spite
nadir: NADIR =
the lowest point of something (nadir=to swim in spanish, remember "bottom of the ocean")
nascent: NASCENT =
in the process of being born
obfuscate: OBFUSCATE =
to confuse
paean: PAEAN =
a song of praise
pedagogy: PEDAGOGY =
principles of teaching
perusal: PERUSAL =
a careful review
pirate: PIRATE =
to illegally use
polemic: POLEMIC =
controversy
puerile: PUERILE =
juvenile or immature
quaff: QUAFF =
to drink deeply
quixotic: QUIXOTIC =
idealistic or impractical
rail: RAIL =
to bitterly complain about
remonstrate: REMONSTRATE =
to protest
saturnine: SATURNINE =
dark, gloomy, stygian
sedulous: SEDULOUS =
diligent, persistent, hard working, assiduous
squalid: SQUALID =
sordid or wretched and dirty
stentorian: STENTORIAN =
extremely loud and powerful
surfeit: SURFEIT =
an excess
tendentious: TENDENTIOUS =
biased (root: tendency)
timorous: TIMOROUS = timid
ubiquitous: UBIQUITOUS =
widespread or existing everywhere
variegated: VARIEGATED =
diversified
or distinctly marked
vexation: VEXATION = irritation

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