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solipsistic
believing that oneself is all that exists (self-centered)
lucubration (elucubrate is the verb)
laborious study or thought, especially at night; the result of such work
"beyond reproach"
perfect (not called for any criticism)
dispel
to eliminate (to make disappear)
dispense (with)
to do without or to get rid of
underlie
to be at the basis of (aka to form the foundation of)
anhedonia
inability to experience pleasure in normally pleasurable acts
amortization
~payment
pertinacious
determined/persistent
remit
to cancel/stop (since unremitting is nonstop/relentless/incessant)
confounding is also a noun
the act of treating or viewing different things as if they were the same (think Trump = Bernie)
euphuism (euphuistic, euphuize) (bxld)
artificial elegance of language (pompousness)
divagation
diversion/digression/deviation (aka a tangent) (to diverge)
irrevocable
unalterable/irreversible (aka unable to revoke)
disportment
hobby
cultivate
to further/encourage, refine, court (to seek the society of), pursue, or to foster the growth or development of
portray
to depict, to describe, or to enact (aka to act out aka to play the role of)
(also associate with characterize [~express] and represent)
convey
to express/communicate
comity
courtesy and considerate behavior toward others
formative
serving to form something, especially having a profound and lasting influence on a person's development.
unflagging
persistent, tireless
needling (verb)
to provoke/annoy/torment (~bothering)
temperamental
liable to extreme changes of mood
vassal
more positive spin on servant (compared to minion or serf)
entropy
CHAOS, disorder, DISORGANIZATION, RANDOMNESS
cerebrate/cerebration (cerebral)
think/thinking(thought)
$ ecumenical v indispensable v dispensation (2 meanings) (bxld)
unifying/universal/catholic v essential/necessary v to dispense/deal out/administer or exception/exemption (permission)
recidivist
a habitual/repeated criminal
intuit
to know, sense, or understand by intuition (~to figure out)
codify
to systematize/classify/arrange (especially into law)
officiate
to perform/carry out
claque
a group of sycophants (~cult)
habiliments
clothes
fortitude
mental strength and courage
vocation (2 meanings) (as opposed to avocation)
occupation or calling
freewheeling
free/loose/footloose
frisson
a thrill/rush (also think shudder/shiver)
mar
to spoil/ruin
maven
expert
fabulist
liar
culling (2 meanings)
to choose / pick/single out or technical term for killing people to avoid overpopulation
doggerel
irregular, trivial, inferior
repartee (2 very similar meanings)
quick witty comeback (like retort) or general adroitness and cleverness in reply (aka the general skill)
kinship, rapport, and accord
similar to affinity
heady (focus most on the first definition) (bxld)
rash/violent, exhilarated (~eager/enthusiastic), or clever/intelligent
pleonasm (bxld)
redundancy in language
clangor
loud noise
vagrant
wanderer
proselyte
recent convert
awl
hole-punching tool
associate crotchet with crotchety
eccentricity
traipse
to walk in a roundabout, directionless way
circumambulate
to walk around in circles
downtrodden (bxld)
suffering oppression (aka oppressed)
effulgent
brilliant, dazzling, resplendent, refulgent
epaulet
something that ornaments or protects the shoulder
imperil/imperilment
to endanger/endangerment
heteromorphic
a plurality of forms
$ fungible (2 similar meanings)
replaceable/interchangeable or flexible
animadversions (verb is animadvert)
strong criticisms
flagitious
flagrant, conspicuously bad, villiainous
costive (especially first definition)
related to constipation (similarly slow/reluctant/unforthcoming aka slow in action/expression aka not at ease to talk to others) … or stingy
georgic
dealing with agriculture or rural life
natty
stylish/sharp
pilfer/pilferer
to steal/one who steals
embezzle
to steal when something has been entrusted to you (for example, campaign funds)
knavish
dishonest
waggish
humorous/arch/teasing (mischievous; playful) … same root as “wag” (joker)
catharsis
purging of built-up emotions
emend
amending, in particular, a text
(amend means to improve/enhance/correct/rectify/remedy)
toothsome (2 meanings) (bxld)
delicious or agreeable/attractive
distant
faraway
proximate (2 similar meanings)
imminent/close (similar to coterminous)
remote (2 meanings)
divergent (“statements remote from the truth”) or out-of-the-way/secluded
prolepsis/proleptic
anticipation/anticipatory
protract
to prolong
warrant can be used like license
okay
impose
to force/foist
obtrude (2 meanings)
to intrude (aka to thrust/force in) or to extrude (aka to thrust out)
apprehend (2 meanings)
to arrest or to comprehend
pertain
to concern/involve (pertaining = concerning)
incredulous
skeptical (disbelieving)
deprecate (bxld)
to belittle, disparage, express disapproval
abet
like foment/instigate (to assist and encourage)
expunge
to destroy/eliminate
envisage
envision
accentuate
to emphasize/amplify
bemoan (2 similar meanings)
to lament/bewail/deplore/mourn (these words, except for mourn, can be used to express sorrow/regret OR to complain)
subsist
to survive/persist (~remain)
bewail
to express grief/complaint
deplore (2 meanings)
to express grief/complaint or to abhor (to consider deserving of deprecation aka deplorable)
interlocutor
one who takes part in a dialogue/conversation
propulsive
having the quality of driving or pushing forward (aka propelling)
precipice (2 meanings) (bxld)
steep cliff or a hazardous situation (aka brink/verge/edge)
concatenation/catena/consecution vs to catenate
series/sequence vs to link (aka to connect in a series)
messianic
fervent/passionate/zealous
emblazon (2 meanings) (bxld)
to adorn/decorate/display or to celebrate/extol
upheaval
radical change
scapegoat (2 similar meanings)
one that bears the blame for others or one that is the object of irrational hostility
forsake/forsook
to renounce/abandon (just like forswear)
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