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Disquisition

A formal discourse or systematic examination.

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Perspicacious

Having keen insight or understanding.

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Obsequious

Excessively submissive or servile.

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Effervescent

Bubbling with high spirits or enthusiasm.

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Alabaster

Creamy white, or flawless skin

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Bespoke

Custom-made or tailored to individual specifications.

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Deleterious

Causing harm or damage.

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Quiescence

State of inactivity or dormancy.

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Anti-focus

A lack of concentration or attention.

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Crapulous

Relating to excessive indulgence

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Mercurial

Subject to sudden changes of mood or mind.

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Amiable

Having a friendly and pleasant manner.

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Ubiquitous

Present everywhere at the same time.

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Brobdingnagian

Gigantic or enormous in size.

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Ethereal

Extremely delicate and light

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Circuitous

Long and indirect

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Koalaifications

Qualifications that are trivial or irrelevant.

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Chameleonic

Able to change or adapt easily.

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Subterfuge

Deceit used to achieve a goal.

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Dyspeptic

Having indigestion or a bad temper.

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Antipathy

A deep-seated feeling of aversion.

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Palliative

Relieving pain without curing the underlying cause.

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Affable

Friendly

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Incorrigible

Not able to be corrected or reformed.

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Pusillanimous

Showing a lack of courage or determination.

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Simulacrum

An image or representation of someone or something.

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Auspicious

Conducive to success, favorable.

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Imputable

Attributable to a specific cause.

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Deliquescence

The process of becoming liquid by absorbing moisture.

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Cogent

Clear

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Sordid

Involving ignoble actions and motives, dirty.

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Inviolable

Never to be broken or infringed.

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Bellicose

Demonstrating aggression and willingness to fight.

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Sequelae

Conditions that are the consequence of a previous disease.

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Dysplasia

Abnormal growth or development of tissues.

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Tawdry

Showy but cheap and of poor quality.

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Abdicate

To renounce one's throne or responsibility.

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Salacious

Having or conveying undue interest in sexual matters.

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Ersatz

Made or used as a substitute

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Inexorable

Impossible to stop or prevent.

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Sagacious

Having or showing keen mental discernment.

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Chicanery

The use of trickery to achieve a political

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Pariah

An outcast or someone rejected by society.

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Onerous

Involving a great deal of effort and difficulty.

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Ignominious

Deserving or causing public disgrace or shame.

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Ultimate

Being or happening at the end of a process.

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Penultimate

Second to last in a series.

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Antepenultimate

Third from last in a series.

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Tenement

A room or a set of rooms forming a separate residence.

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Myopic

Lacking foresight or intellectual insight.

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Lackadaisical

Lacking enthusiasm and determination.

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Virile

Having strength

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Quixotic

Exceedingly idealistic, unrealistic and impractical.

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Gauche

Lacking social grace or sensitivity.

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Evanescent

Quickly fading or disappearing.

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Recalcitrant

Having an obstinately uncooperative attitude.

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Pyrrhic

Achieved at too great a cost.

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Bloviate

To speak or write at length in a pompous manner.

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Saccharine

Excessively sweet or sentimental.

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Haberdashery

A shop selling men's clothing and accessories.

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Debonair

Charming

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Panache

Flamboyant confidence of style or manner.

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Urbane

Suave

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Nouveau riche

People who have recently acquired wealth.

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Flibbertigibbet

A frivolous or flighty person.

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Anathema

Something or someone that one vehemently dislikes.

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Faux pas

A social blunder or indiscretion.

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Schadenfreude

Pleasure derived from another's misfortune.

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Histrionic

Overly theatrical or melodramatic.

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Externality

A side effect or consequence of an activity.

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Facsimile

An exact copy or reproduction.

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Bourgeois

Characteristic of the middle class.

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Shi Shi foo foo

Pretentious or overly fancy.

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Serendipitous

Occurring by chance in a happy way.

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Rapacious

Aggressively greedy or grasping.

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Surreptitious

Kept secret

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Rejoinder

A reply

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Idyllic

Like an idyll, extremely happy and peaceful.

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Sans

Without, lacking

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Esurient

Hungry or greedy.

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Irascible

Easily provoked to anger.

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Vivacious

Attractively lively and animated.

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Phlegmatic

Having an unemotional and stolidly calm disposition.

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Taciturn

Reserved or uncommunicative in speech.

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Mordant

Having a sharp or critical quality.

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Impius

Not showing respect or reverence.

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Revocation

The official cancellation of a decree.

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Suffused

Gradually spread through or over.

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Obstreperous

Noisy and difficult to control.

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Impasse

A situation in which no progress is possible.

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Ameliorate

To make something better or improve.

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Lascivious

Feeling or revealing an overt sexual interest.

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Indolent

Wanting to avoid activity lazy.

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Nomenklatura

A system of names or titles.

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Nomenclature

A system of names used in a particular field.

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Antidisestablishmentarianism

Opposition to the disestablishment of a state church (the church of england).

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Interdict

An authoritative prohibition.

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Avarice

Extreme greed for wealth or material gain.

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Apoplectic

Overcome with anger, extremely indignant.

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Salient

Most noticeable or important.