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Aesthetic
Pertaining to beauty; sensitive or responsive to beauty.
Asperity
Roughness, severity, bitterness or tartness
Cautious
Excessively ready to find fault: given to petty criticism; intended to trap, confuse, or show up.
Delectable
An appealing or appetizing food or dish
Ebullient
Repugnant, repulsive, distasteful.
Espouse
To take up and support; to become attached to, adopt, to marry
Hapless
Marked by persistent absence of good luck
Impecunious
Having little or no money
Inexorable
Inflexible, beyond influence, relentless, unyielding
Interpolate
To insert between other parts or things; to present as an addition or correction.
Languish
To become weak, Febe, or dull; to droop; to be depressed or dispirited; to suffer neglect
Machination
Crafty, scheming, or underhanded action designed to accomplish some (usually evil) end
Moratorium
A suspension of activity; an official waiting period; an authorized period of delay.
Obsequious
Marked by slavish attentiveness; excessively submissive, often for purely self interested reasons.
Opprobrium
Disgrace arising from shameful conduct; contempt; reproach
Pariah
One who is rejected by a social group or organization.
Pittance
A woefully meager allowance, wage or portion
Plaintive
Expressive of sorrow or woe, melancholy
Rebuff
To snub; to repel, drive away; a curt rejection, a check
Requite
To make suitable repayment, as for kindness, service, or favor; to make retaliation, as for an injury or wrong; to reciprocate.
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