HP 3
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- acumen
- n keen, accurate judgement or insight
- adulterate
- v to reduce purity by combining with inferior elements
- amalgamate
- v to combine several elements into a whole
- archaic
- a outdated, associated with an earlier, perhaps primitive time
- aver
- v to state as a fact, to declare or assert
- bolster
- v to provide support or reinforcement
- bombastic
- a pompous, grandiloquent
- diatribe
- n a harsh denounciation
- dissemble
- v to disguise or conceal, to mislead
- eccentric
- a departing from norms or convention
- endemic
- a characteristic of or often found in a particular region, locality, or people
- evanescent
- a tending to disappear like vapor, vanishing
- exacerbate
- v to make worse or more severe
- fervent
- a greatly emotional or zealous
- fortuitous
- a happening by accident or chance
- germane
- a relevant to the subject at hand, appropriate in subject matter
- grandiloquence
- n pompous speech or expression
- hackneyed
- a rendered trite or commonplace by frequent usage
- halycon
- a calm and peaceful
- hedonism
- n devotion to pleasurable pursuits, esp. to the pleasures of the senses
- hegemony
- n the consistent dominance of one state or ideology over others
- iconoclast
- n one who attacks or undermines traditional conventions or institutions
- idolatrous
- a given to intense or excessive devotion to something
- impassive
- a revealing no emotion
- imperturbable
- a marked by extreme calm, impassivity and steadiness
- implacable
- a not capable of being appeased or significantly changed
- impunity
- n immunity from punishment or penalty
- inchoate
- a in an initial stage, not fully formed
- infelicitous
- a unfortunate, innappropriate
- insipid
- a without taste or flavor, lacking in spirit, bland
- loquacious
- a extremely talkative
- luminous
- a characterized by brightness and the emission of light
- malevolent
- a having or showing often vicious ill will, spite or hatred
- malleable
- a capable of being shaped or formed, tractable, pliable
- mendacity
- n the condition of being untruthful, disthonesty
- meticulous
- a characterized by extreme care and precision, attentive to detail
- misanthrope
- n one who hates all other humans
- mitigate
- v to make or become less severe or intense, to moderate
- obdurate
- a unyielding, hardhearted, intractable
- obsequious
- a exhibiting a fawning attentiveness
- occlude
- v to obstruct or block
- opprobrium
- n disgrace, contempt, scorn
- pedagogy
- n the profession or principles of teaching, or instructing
- pendantic
- a overly concerned with the trivial details of learning or education, show-offish about one's knowledge
- penury
- n poverty, destitution
- pervasive
- a having the tendancy to permeate or spread throughout
- pine
- v to yearn intensely, to languish, to lose vigor
- pirate
- v to illegally use or reproduce
- pith
- n the essential or central part
- pithy
- a precise and brief
- placate
- v to appease, to calm by making concessions
- platitude
- n a superficial remark, esp. one offered as meaningful
- plummet
- v to plunge or drop straight down
- polemical
- a controversial, argumentative
- prodigal
- a recklessly wasteful, extravagant, profuse, lavish
- proliferate
- v to grow or increase swiftly and abundantly
- queries
- n questions, inquiries, doubts in the mind, reservations
- querulous
- a prone to complaining or grumbling, peevish
- rancorous
- a characterized by bitter, long-lasting resentment
- recalcitrant
- a obstinately defiant of authority, difficult to manage
- repudiate
- v to refuse to have anything to do with, disown
- rescind
- v to invalidate, to repeal, to retract
- reverent
- a marked by, feeling, or expressing a feeling of profound awe and respect
- rhetoric
- n the art or study of effective use of language for communication and persuasion
- salubrious
- a promoting health or well-being
- solvent
- a able to meet financial obligations, able to dissolve another substance
- specious
- a seeming true, but actually being fallacious, misleadingly attractive, plausible but false
- spurious
- a lacking authenticity or validity, false, counterfeit
- subpoena
- n a court order requiring appearance and or testimony
- succinct
- a brief, concise
- superfluous
- a exceeding what is sufficient or necessary
- surfeit
- n/v an overbundant supply, excess, to feed or supply to excess
- tenacity
- n the quality of adherance or persistence to something valued, persistent determination
- tenuous
- a having little substance or strength, flimsy, weak
- tirade
- n a long and extremely critical speech, a harsh denunciation
- transient
- a fleeting, passing quickly, brief
- zealous
- a fervent, ardent, imassioned, devoted to a cause