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- vapid
- dull; flat and uninteristing
- insular
- narrow minded
- contravene
- to conflict with, argue
- stringent
- strict; harsh; severe
- paradox
- statement which seems to contradict, but contains truth
- libertine
- a person who lives an immortal life
- strife
- struggle; voilent conflict
- PLATITUDE
- a trite remark
- licentious
- lacking moral restrain
- hearten
- to encourage
- profusion
- great abundance
- Herald
- to announce
- augur
- to foretell or make a prophesy
- sectarian
- member of a particular sect; narrow minded
- surfeit
- to fill to excess
- indecorous
- unbecoming; unseemly
- ribald
- crude and offensive; irreverent; coarse
- probity
- honesty, integrity
- philistine
- person lacking in taste andjudgment
- parochial
- narrow minded; limited in experience
- ascetic
- one wholives without luxury and practices self denial
- kindle
- to start a fire; to arouse; to stir up
- aver
- to declare to be true
- plethora
- overabundance
- replete
- full
- exhort
- to urge strongly
- sated
- overly full
- quotidian
- daily; trivial; commonplace
- prosaic
- dull; tedious; ordinary
- whet
- to excite or stimulate
- deluge
- a great flood; in a heavy rush
- crass
- gross
- spate
- abundance
- eclectic
- composed of varied elements
- scrupulous
- having moral integrity
- pastiche
- made up of differing elements
- veracity
- truth
- inspirit
- to hearten; to raise someone's spirit
- abstemious
- spare or moderate in eating or drinking
- harbinger
- something that foreshadows future events
- engender
- to cause to exist; to produce
- PEDESTRIAN
- COMMON; ORDINARY
- presage
- having knowledge of the future
- precipitate
- to cause to happen before expected
- impel
- to force someone to do something
- foment
- to promote the growth of; to stir up
- motley
- consisting of many colors or elements
- variegated
- varied inappearance or color
- glut
- to fill to excess