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Exalt
To hold someone in high regard.
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Pathos
An element in experience or in artistic representation evoking pity or compassion.
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Calumny
Maliciously false statements, charges, or imputations.
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Succor
Assistance and support in times of hardship and distress.
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Proselyte
A person who has converted from one opinion, religion, or party to another.
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Blight
To have a damaging effect; also often used to describe plant disease.
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Incredulous
Unwilling to admit or accept what is true.
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Chattel
Property, like cattle, including any moveable property.
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Salutary
Producing a beneficial or healthy effect.
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Apostrophize
To address an exclamatory passage (to someone or something).
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Felicitous
Well-chosen or suited to the circumstances; apt.
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Diffidence
Modesty.
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Soliloquizing
Speaking even while nobody is around.
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Candor
Openness; honesty; frankness.
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Pernicious
Having a harmful effect, especially gradually or subtly.
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Veracity
Truthfulness.
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Specious
Superficially plausible, but wrong; misleading.
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Execrable
Terrible; awful.
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Impunity
Exemption from punishment or freedom from the injurious consequences of an action.
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Chastisement
The act of scolding or punishing someone; severe criticism.
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Manacled
Fettered (a person or a part of the body) with manacles.
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Untrodden
Not having been walked on.
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Abettor
Person who encourages or assists someone to do something wrong, particularly to commit a crime.