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- Vitiate
- To corrupt
- Sanguine
- 1) optimistic 2) having to do with blood
- Improvident
- having little foresight
- Pelf
- money esp. gained in a dishonest fashion
- Impecunious
- Poor
- Effusive
- sentimental; expressing gratitude, pleasure or approval in an unrestrained manner
- Spate
- a large number of similar things
- Fastidious
- very concerned with accuracy and detail
- Succor – assistance in hardship
- assistance in hardship
- Vouchsafe
- To condescend to grant; to concede; to bestow.
- Peripatetic
- itinerant, or moving
- Desiccant
- a drying agent
- Importune
- beg, plead for or ask insistently or with urgency
- Impolitic
- unwise
- Retrench
- reduce costs
- Slough
- Shed or throw off
- MANACLE
- A shackle or restraint usually attached to the wrists or ankles.
- Compunction
- feeling guilt
- Celerity
- swiftness
- Imperious
- assuming power without justification
- Edulcorate
- make something more palatable
- Abjure
- solemnly renounce a belief
- quotidian
- daily, mundane