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- propitiatory
- conciliatory, appeasing, mitigating
- abrogate
- revoke formally
- chauvinist
- a blindly devoted patriot
- hull
- dry outer covering of a fruit or seed or nut; remove the hulls from
- effulgent
- radiating or as if radiating light
- calumny
- slander, aspersion
- lambaste
- censure severely or angrily
- fell (adj)
- inhumanly cruel
- meet (adj)
- fitting, proper
- turpitude
- a corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice
- invigoration
- giving vitality and vigor to something
- skinflint
- a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend
- aver
- to assert as fact
- sedulous
- marked by care and persistent effort; diligent
- dynamo
- generator that causes a current to flow
- provident
- providing carefully for the future; careful in regard to your own interests
- calumniate
- to slander, make a false accusation
- chary
- characterized by great caution and wariness
- stand
- a group of trees
- minatory
- menacing, threatening
- apotheosis
- deification, glorification to godliness; an exalted example; a model of excellence or perfection
- augury (noun)
- omen, portent
- asperity
- severity; rigor; roughness, harshness; acrimony, irritability
- odium
- hate coupled with disgust; extreme repugnance
- peccadillo
- a petty misdeed; a minor offense
- adumbrate
- to foreshadow vaguely or intimate; to suggest or outline sketchily; to obscure or overshadow
- fell (verb)
- to cause to fall by striking
- consequential
- pompous, self-important
- coterminous
- of equal extent or duration
- asseverate
- to aver, allege, assert
- anathema (noun)
- a solemn or religious curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing
- emaciation
- extreme leanness
- assiduous
- diligent, hard-working, sedulous
- viscid
- having the properties of glue; adhesive