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- abortive
- fruitless; useless failing
- modify
- to change
- accommodate
- to make fit; adjust
- spontaneous
- without preparation; unrehearsed
- innate
- natural
- veneer
- thin covering
- myriad
- countless number
- urbane
- polished; witty
- crave
- to desire
- irrelevant
- not related to the subject
- deem
- believe; to judge
- inherent
- inborn
- buff (n)
- a fan; follower
- romp
- to move in a lively manner
- latent
- lying hidden
- tortuous
- winding
- itinerant
- wandering
- peregrination
- travel
- conjugal
- relating to marriage
- barometer
- instrument for measuring change
- megalomania
- abnormal desire for wealth and power
- profligate
- wasteful
- strife
- discord; disagreement
- legion
- a large number
- coup
- revolution
- amnesty
- a general pardon
- expatriate
- an exile
- exonerate
- to free from guilt
- fiat
- an official order; a decree
- mendacious
- lying; untrue
- parsimonious
- miserly
- pecuniary
- financial
- dismantle
- to strip of covering; take apart
- sumptuous
- lavish; magnificent and very expensive
- underwrite
- agree to finance
- restrictive
- harsh; confining
- balk (v)
- to refuse to move
- blunt
- plain spoken
- nostalgia
- yearning for the past
- rife
- widespread
- reviled
- scolded
- derogatory
- belittling; disparaging
- indict
- accuse
- nebulous
- unclear; vague
- pesky
- annoying
- redolent
- fragrant
- repose (n)
- state of rest
- omnivorous
- eating any kind of food
- abstemious
- moderate in eating or drinking
- extant
- still existing
- vicissitudes
- difficulties
- edifice
- a building
- sultry
- extremely hot and moist; torrid
- trenchant
- keen; incisive
- puissant
- powerful
- unabated
- without subsiding
- maudlin
- very sad
- levity
- lightness of disposition
- lugubrious
- sentimental
- scion
- child; descendant
- indoctrinate
- to teach certain principles
- opulence
- wealth; riches
- obsequious
- seeking favor; fawning
- fulsome
- excessive; insincere
- lush
- luxuriousl; elaborate
- destitution
- extreme poverty
- ponder
- to consider carefully
- supplication
- earnest prayer
- decadence
- decay
- penance
- atonement for sin
- ascetic (n)
- one who practices self-denial and devotion
- desultory
- occuring by chance; disconnected
- disciple
- follower
- metamorphosis
- change
- bona fide
- genuine
- salvation
- deliverance from ruin
- materialism
- attention to worldly things and neglect of spiritual needs
- nurture
- to nourish; support
- nirvana
- freedom from care and pain; Buddhist heaven
- assidious
- attentive
- attest
- give testimony
- component
- element
- concoct
- To devise, using skill and intelligence
- consummate
- complete; highest degree
- deploy
- To put into use or action
- enigma
- something or someone that is mysterious or puzzling
- evaluate
- to find or judge the quality or value of something
- exult
- to be joyful or jubilant
- fallacious
- Tending to mislead; deceptive
- fraught
- filled
- gullible
- easily tricked
- hoax
- An act intended to deceive or trick
- impeccable
- faultless
- labyrinth
- a mazelike network of tunnels or paths, either natural or man-made
- manifold
- many; complex
- murky
- gloomy or dark
- perpetrate
- to perform or be responsible for (a deception or crime)
- resourceful
- capable and full of initiative
- subterfuge
- ruse; trick
- disparate
- different