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Peculation
theft of public money or goods for personal use (Joshua4Congress/Santos)
kleptomania vs kleptocracy (bxld)
insane impulse to steal vs government by those who seek chiefly status and personal gain at the expense of the governed (basically, government of corrupt thieves)
nymphomania vs satyromania
when a woman is horny af vs when a man is horny af
megalomania
hunger for power
equinox/equinoctial vs solstice
either of the two times each year (as about March 21 and September 23) when the sun crosses the equator and day and night are everywhere on earth of approximately equal length … aka sun closest to equator
(in contrast, a solstice is either of the two moments in the year when the sun's apparent path is farthest north or south from the equator aka longest/shortest day … aka sun furthest from equator)
nescience
ignorance
convalescent
recovering/recuperating
dipsomaniac
alcoholic
uxorious
adoring one's wife
patrimony vs patronym(ic)
heritage (aka anything derived from one's father or ancestors such as culture/tradition. patrimony and heritage do NOT mean “ancestry”, which only means bloodline/lineage) vs a name derived from that of the father or a paternal ancestor usually by the addition of an affix (such as Peterson from Peter)
diagnosis vs prognosis (think prognostication)
identification vs forecast/projection/prognostication
subjugate (1st meaning)
to conquer/vanquish/subdue/defeat
sojourn
a quick/temporary stay
quarry
prey
propinquity (2 meanings)
proximity/closeness (time or space) or kinship
progeny
posterity
perpetrate
to initiate/commit (usually negative connotation)
paroxysm (2 similar meanings) (bxld)
spasm or (out)burst
parable
fable/allegory
matron
a well-to-do mature woman
manifold
many
lucrative
profitable (good for business)
liquidate
to "get rid of" (can include kill)
jostle
to push or to elbow (think of a massive crowd)
gesticulate
Bernie
garbled
unclear/distorted (and 1 meaning of muddy)
gamut
spectrum
fray
fight/struggle/conflict/clash/battle
edifice
building
dregs (ok)
“the most undesirable part”
domicile
home
debacle/fiasco (bxld)
catastrophe/disaster/failure
commodious/capacious
roomy
bona fide
genuine/authentic
advent
arrival
abortive
unsuccessful/futile
repast (noun/verb)
(to) feast
cache (noun meaning)
stash
(en)shroud (v/n)
to cover/envelop or cover
efface/self-effacing (2 meanings)
erase or shyly hide/modest
peddle
to travel and sell/spread
outstrip
to surpass/exceed
ostensible/ostensive & putative (bxld)
apparent/seeming/supposed (alleged/purported/reputed)
apocryphal/spurious/specious
untrue/fabricated, unsubstantiated/illegitimate, doubtful/false (claims)
factitious
artificial/ersatz or not genuine
ersatz
artificial
dubious (1 meaning)
doubtful
simulacrum
imitation (not the real thing)
$ pretext vs pretense (2 meanings) vs pretension (3 meanings) (10) (ok)
excuse vs appearance/act or false excuse (like pretext) [thus, associate with artificial] vs pretentiousness/affectation (aka overly trying to impress), excuse/doubtful allegation (like pretext aka suggesting subterfuge), or goal/aspiration (that likely won’t be achieved)
guise/semblance
appearance (everything is not what it seems)
milieu
environment/atmosphere
zeitgeist
the spirit of the times
makeshift
crude substitute (inferior expedient adopted because of urgent need or allowed through indifference)
lurid (3) vs garish (1) and gaudy (2)
overly vivid and sensationalized/melodramatic (also associate with gruesome; horrible; revolting, shocking … also associate grisly with this!) vs overly vivid/tacky (ostentatious) (and gaudy can also be used like outlandish [similar to sensationalized] a la gaudy lies/claims)
lucid (3 meanings)
cogent/clear or bright/luminous or translucent
histrionic/melodrama
the state of being melodramatic - sensationalization/overexaggeration
lissome/limber/supple/lithe
agile, graceful
levy (noun/verb) (2 meanings) vs foist
tax/to impose vs to force/impose/thrust
larceny
theft
jettison (one meaning more figurative than the other)
to discard [including to throw or drop (something) from an aircraft or ship] or to omit/forgo
forgo
to omit/do without/renounce
inter
to bury
inquest/inquisition
inquiry/investigation
inordinate
excessive
incarnadine/vermillion
bloodred
hew/hewn (2 meanings)
to cut/chop or to conform/adhere (to) (status quo/tradition) (often said “hew/hewn to the line”)
glower
glare/scowl
gestate
to birth/develop
hark/harkens vs "harkens back" (also spelled hearkens)
listen vs recalls/reminiscent (reminds of)
frenetic
frantic/frenzied
ford
to cross a narrow body of water
epicure
gourmand aka food connoisseur
doff
the opposite of don
distaff
of or concerning women
declaim
to speak passionately (~preach)
dogmatic
fixed/inflexible conceptually (like doctrinaire) [not practical]
pompous (2 meanings)
over-the-top (aka bombastic) AND arrogant
tumid/turgid (2 meanings)
pompous/bombastic or distended
bombastic
pompous/over-the-top
counterpoint
opposite/antithesis (for contrasting purposes) ... also think dichotomy/juxtaposition
acclivity vs declivity
upward slope vs downward slope
physiognomy
face/facial expression/appearance
disposition vs demeanor/mien
temperament/mood vs outward behavior/appearance
coterie
exclusive clique (group of comrades)
cadre
group
cabal
elite coterie/faction/clique
convoke/convene
to call/get together
to clamber
to scramble (like a crab)
brandish (2 usages) (ok)
to wave around (such as a weapon) or, extremely similarly, to ostentatiously exhibit (aka not literally wave around) such as one’s intellect
thus, one literal meaning and one figurative meaning
bonhomie (noun)
friendliness/amiability/friendship
bevy
a large group, like legion
baying
howling/shouting
august
revered/eminent
aseptic (2 definitions)
"lacking vitality or emotion or warmth" and free of germs
arbiter/arbitrator
judge
amortize
to pay off
aerie
a nest/dwelling located high up in the hills
accede/assent
to agree/agreement
conversant (to be conversant with) & au courant (to be au courant with)
to be up-to-date with
abreast (2 definitions) (keep abreast of)
to keep up-to-date on and also alongside
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