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- Question
- Answer
- aberrant
- deviating from the norm
- alacrity
- eager and enthusiastic willingness
- anomaly
- deviation from the normal order or rule; abnormality
- approbation
- an expression of approval or praise
- assuage
- to ease or lessen; to appease or pacify
- audacious
- daring and fearless
- capricious
- changing one's mind impusively
- censure
- to criticize severely
- chicanery
- trickery
- connoiser
- expert
- discordant
- conflicting; dissonant or harsh sound
- disparate
- fundamentally distinct or dissimilar
- eloquent
- well spoken; expressive; articulate
- enervate
- weaken; reduce in vitality
- ennui
- dissatisfaction and restlessness resulting from boredom or apathy
- equivocate
- to use ambigous language with deceptive intent
- exculpate
- exonerate; to clear of blame
- exigent
- urgent
- filibuster
- "intentional obstruction
- ingenuous
- artless; lacking in sophistication
- inured
- accustomed to accepting something undesirable
- irascible
- easily angered
- laud
- to praise highly
- magnanimity
- being noble in mind and heart
- martial
- associated with war
- mundane
- of the world; typical of or concerned with the ordinary
- nascent
- in early developmental stages
- nebulous
- vague
- neologism
- a new word or expression
- noxious
- harmful
- obtuse
- lacking sharpness of intellect
- obviate
- to anticipate and make unnecessary
- onerous
- troubling
- parody
- a humorous imitation
- perrenial
- happening repeatedly
- perfunctory
- done without care or interest
- prattle
- to babble meaninglessly
- prescience
- foreknowledge of events
- prevaricate
- to mislead
- refute
- to disprove
- relegate
- to forcibly assign
- solicitous
- eager
- sporadic
- occuring only occasionally
- static
- at rest
- stupefy
- to stun or amaze
- tortuous
- excessively complicated
- truculent
- fierce and cruel
- voracious
- ravenous
- waver
- to sway
- abscond
- to steal off and hide
- ameliorate
- to make better
- arduous
- strenuous
- ascetic
- one who practices rigid self- denial
- austere
- severely simple
- axiom
- a universally recognized principle
- axiomatic
- posessing self-evident truth
- bucolic
- characteristic of rural areas
- canonical
- following or in agreement with traditional standards
- contentious
- argumentative
- convulted
- complicated
- culpable
- deserving blame
- disabuse
- to undeceive
- eclectic
- composed of elements drawn from various sources
- effrontery
- extreme boldness
- ephemeral
- brief
- erudite
- scholarly
- eulogy
- speech honoring dead
- extemporaneous
- done without preparation
- facetious
- homorous
- fulminate
- to loudly attack or denounce
- hyperbole
- an exaggerated statement
- lucid
- easily understood
- oscillation
- swinging back and forth with steady rhythm
- paean
- a song of praise
- penurious
- penny-pinching
- perfidy
- treachery
- pernicious
- extremely harmful
- perspicacious
- acutely perceptive
- pious
- showing strong religious devotion
- precipitate(a)
- acting with excessive impulse
- precipitate(v)
- to cause or happen before anticipated
- precursor
- one that precedes or announces another
- predilection
- preference
- prolific
- productive
- qualms
- causes for hesitancy
- quiescence
- stillness
- recant
- to retract
- redoubtable
- worthy of honor
- reticent
- reserved
- satire
- a literary work that ridicules
- sordid
- characterized by filth or grime
- squalid
- sordid
- squander
- to waste by spending or using irresponsibly
- stoic
- unaffected by please or pain
- stymie
- to block
- supplant
- to take the place of
- synthesis
- the combination of parts to make a whole
- torpid
- lethargic; sluggish
- toque
- a force that causes rotation
- ubiquitous
- existing everywhere
- veracity
- honesty
- vilify
- to defame
- virulent
- extremely harmful or poisonous