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Thrive

To flourish to bloom to do well

Profligate

Wasteful of money dissipated wildly immoral dissolute

Acclaim

To praise

Witticism

Witty saying wisecrack clever joking remark

Confluence

A meeting of two or more things

Despondent

Without hope and courage depressed gloomy

Falter

Hesitate weaken in purpose or action walk or move unsteadily through weakness

Jocular

Humorous likely to make jokes

Copious

In large amounts

Obliterate

Destroy completely wipe out

Dupe

To trick to fool

Haughtiness

Pride arrogance

Antipathy

Hatred

Condone

Overlook forgive give tacit approval excuse

Vaporize

Turn into vapor steam gas fog etc

Coalesce

To blend together to consolidate

Munificent

Generous magnanimous

Nefarious

Infamous

Terrestrial

Relating to land

Scrupulous

Extremely careful principled meticulous

Nonchalance

Casual seemingly cool or confident

Conflagration

Big fire

Eschew

To deliberately avoid or abstain from

Static

Same unchanging

Nurture

To foster or support

Orator

Public speaker

Aversion

Firm dislike

Arduous

Hard and difficult

Colloquial

Vernacular casual street language

Invariable

Unchanging

Ponderous

Having great weight unwieldy lacking lightness dull

Explicit

Totally clear definite outspoken

Swagger

Walk or behave with an overconfident manner

Hyperbole

Exaggerated statements not meant to be taken literally

Concise

Brief and to the point

Emblematic

Representing a particular person group or idea symbolic occasionally iconic

Perturbation

To bother to disturb

Heterogeneity

Mixed not all the same opposite of homogeneous

Unfounded

Without basis without good evidence

Oscillating

Moving back and forth in a regular rhythm

Imperative

Absolutely necessary command

Abatement

To become less intense or widespread

Unnerve

To upset or frighten someone so they lose confidence or strength

Notional

Based on suggestion estimate or theory not existing in reality

Misanthropic

Dislikes other people prefers to be alone

Sincerity

Heartfeltness honesty

Imitate

To copy to follow as an example sometimes simulate

Regard

To consider or think of in a way to look at

Monetize

To find a way to make money from

Cornerstone

An important quality or feature something depends on

Visualize

To form a mental image imagine or make visible

Exactitude

The quality of being precise or accurate

Precariousness

The state of being dangerously likely to fall or collapse

Imitator

A person who copies another

Outsize

Exceptionally large

Conflate

To mix up to mix together

Timeworn

Old overused or cliché

Municipal

Relating to a municipality or local government

Indulgently

In a manner of excessive leniency or generosity

Obviate

To do away with make unnecessary

Ineluctable

Inescapable unavoidable

Components

Parts

Attest

To provide evidence testify

Provoke

To cause a reaction or fight

Partition

Divide into parts

Invoke

To call upon for support or justification

Attrition

Gradual reduction through sustained pressure

Begrudge

To resent someone’s enjoyment

Unfailingly

Always reliable or consistent

Epitome

A perfect example

Quintessential

The most perfect or typical example

Circumspection

Wariness prudence

Indices

Signs indications

Imperceptible

Unable to be noticed

Manifest

Obvious highly noticeable

Proclivity

A tendency or inclination

Credulous

Too ready to believe gullible

Anomalous

Odd not fitting the pattern

Impending

About to happen approaching

Underscored

Emphasized

Ambivalent

Undecided hesitant

Infer

To deduce conclude

Cynical

Negative pessimistic

Eloquent

Well spoken

Iconoclast

Person who goes against accepted authority

Inquisitive

Curious asks many questions

Plausible

Seeming reasonable or probable

Precocious

Advanced in development

Reconcile

To make peace become friendly again

Resilient

Able to recover quickly

Speculate

To wonder think about

Tenacious

Stubborn persistent

Pervade

To spread throughout

Forsake

To abandon desert renounce

Implicate

Incriminate

Sagacity

Wisdom (especially from old age and experience)

Caricature

Parody

Calculating

Scheming

Prescient

Having knowledge of events before they take place