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Accentuate
to emphasize
Adversary
someone who offers opposition
Anecdote
a brief story
Analogy
a similarity between unlike things
Auspicious
promising success, favourable
Boisterous
rough and noisy
Cower
to crouch in fear
Despondent
feeling complete hopelessness
Epiphany
a sudden insight or idea
Fallacy
a deceptive or false belief
Formidable
causing fear or dread
Guile
shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
Hubris
excessive pride, arrogance
Impertinent
not relevant, irrelevant
Jaunty
carefree manner
Laconic
using few words
Nuisance
annoyance
Muse
in Ancient Greek mythology, any of the 9 daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne; protector of art or science
Obscure
not clear
Omnipotent
Unlimited power
Patriarchal
involving men or a father figure
Quandary
uncertainty
Sanguine
cheerfully optimistic
Succinct
concise, expressed in few words
Subjugate
to bring under complete control
Tempestuous
attitude resembling a tempest; turbulent
Usurp
to use without authority; to seize power from someone else
Uncouth
awkward and clumsy
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