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Mundane

Boring, Normal

Superfluous

Extra, beside the point

Innocuous

Not harmful or offensive

Precipitated

To cause an event (negative) to happen quickly and suddenly

Predicated On

To depend on the truth/existence of something

Engender

To foster, support

Insuperable

Insurmountable, Impossible to overcome

Belied

Contradictory, To disguise, to give a false impression of something

Harbinger

A sign of something to come (usually negative)

Spurious

Questionable, to be false, Not what it looks like

Temerity

Excessive confidence or boldness

Excacerbate

To make bigger/worse

Placate, Mitigate, Ameliorate

Make better/less severe

Malcontent, Misanthrope

A person who is dissatisfied rebellious, hates everyone

Repudiate

To reject, to recant, to take back a statement

Verisimilitude

Seemingly truthful

Desultory

Lacking a plan, purpose or enthusiasm

Specious

Plausible, but actually wrong

Tenacity

Stubborn/Unyielding, to have grit

Paucity

Scarcity

Analogous

Comparable in certain respects

Amorphous

Lacking a shape

Ambivalent

To have strong mixed feelings

Anomalous

Unique, Unexpected

Equivocal

Ambiguous, open to interpretation, unclear

Ubiquitous, Pervasive

Appearing everywhere, widespread amongst people

Luminary

One who influences or inspires others

Inviolate

Free or safe from injury or violation

Avant-garde

New, unusual, experimental ideas, especially in the arts, ahead of its time

Undifferentiated

Not different, not differentiated

Forsaken

Abandoned or deserted

Recalcitrant

Having an uncooperative attitude towards power or authority

Myriad

A great number of __, a large amount

Preclude

To prevent from happening, to make impossible

Hinges

To rely on something, to necessarily rest on something

Proponent

Supporter

Profusion

Abundant

Provensity to

Likely to

Detractors

Critics, someone who criticizes something

Galvanized

To shock something into happening, to add fuel to the fire

Synthesize

To combine, join

Catalyst

The cause of something

Roused

To awaken

Incongruous

Not in harmony with surroundings or other parts

Lampooning

To publicly criticize

Supplant

To take out and replace something

Austerity

Severity of manner/attitude

Copious

Great amounts

Pretentious

Care about appearances, superficial

Autonomous

Working by itself

Magnanimous

Generous

Cogent

Clear logical, convincing

Denigrate

Criticize/Bash (unfairly)

Deprecate

To criticize

Depreciate

To lose value

Disparities

Inequalities

Delineate

Describe, portray precisely

Derivative

To deviate

Proliferation

Rapidly increase in numbers

Scant

Lacking in size or quantity

Spate

Large number of similar things happening in quick succession

Inherent

Natural, essential

Innate

Inborn, Natural

Incorrigible

Uncorrectable

Dogmatic

Stubborn beliefs

Fluid

Free flowing, changing

Deletrious

Causing harm or damage

Incredulous

Disbelieving

Nebulous

Unclear, Hazy