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anodyne: ANODYNE = soothing
asperity: ASPERITY =
harshness or severity
astringent: ASTRINGENT =
harsh or severe
avarice: AVARICE = greed
axiom: AXIOM =
universally recognized principle
axiomatic: AXIOMATIC =
having self-evident truth or taken as a given
bucolic: BUCOLIC =
rustic or pastoral
cavil: CAVIL =
to find fault without reason
chimera: CHIMERA =
an illusion (originally a fire breathing she monster)
contiguous: CONTIGUOUS =
adjacent or bordering
derision: DERISION =
ridicule or scorn
didactic: DIDACTIC =
intended to teach
excoriate: EXCORIATE =
to censure scathingly, severly criticize or to UPBRAID
execrate: EXECRATE =
to curse, feel loathing for, declare as evil
fractious: FRACTIOUS =
troublesome, irritable
hedonist: HEDONIST =
one who believes in pleasure as humans' primary pursuit
hubris: HUBRIS = arrogance
ineluctable: INELUCTABLE =
inevitable or certain
insouciant: INSOUCIANT =
carefree, unconcerned, heedless
mendicant: MENDICANT =
a beggar or supplicant
minatory: MINATORY = menacing
nonplussed: NONPLUSSED = baffled
odious: ODIOUS = instilling hatred
panegyric: PANEGYRIC =
formal praise, eulogy, encomium
pellucid: PELLLUCID =
clear, easily intelligible
pernicious: PERNICIOUS =
extremely harmful or destructive
plangent: PLANGENT =
pounding, thundering, resounding
preen: PREEN =
to dress up or to primp
prescient: PRESCIENT =
to have foreknowledge of events
prosaic: PROSAIC =
plain, lacking liveliness
quail: QUAIL =
to lose courage
refulgent: REFULGENT =
shiny, radiant, brilliant
renege: RENEGE =
to go back on a promise
salutary: SALUTARY =
remedial, wholesome, causing improvement
spurious: SPURIOUS =
false, counterfeit
static: STATIC =
not active, at rest, dormant
stymie: STYMIE =
to block, thwart
synthesis: SYNTHESIS =
the combination of parts to make a whole
torque: TORQUE =
a force that causes rotation
untenable: UNTENABLE =
not viable, uninhabitable or indefensible
vitiate: VITIATE =
to spoil, corrupt or debase
voluble: VOLUBLE = fluent, verbal
wag: WAG =
a joker or a "wit" aka sethi

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