- Something added to something else as helpful or useful but not essential - An assistant or helper - A valuable quality or characteristic
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Adjunct (adj.)
- Added or connected in a subordinate capacity - Attached to a faculty or staff in an auxiliary capacity
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Bellwether (n.)
- The male sheep that leads the flock to the slaughterhouse - A leader, as in a desperate or violent undertaking - An indicator of trends
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Caterwaul (v.)
- To howl or screech like a cat - To quarrel
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Caterwaul (n.)
- A harsh or noisy cry - A racket
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Chimerical (adj.)
- Absurd - Wildly fantastic - Impossible
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Effete (adj.)
- Lacking in wholesome vigor or energy - Worn out or exhausted - Sterile or unable to produce - Out of date
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Fait accompli (n.)
An accomplished or presumably irreversible deed, fact, or action
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Hidebound (adj.)
- Narrow-minded and rigid especially in opinions or prejudices - Stubbornly or unthinkable conservative
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Hierarchy (n.)
Any system of things or people arranged or graded one above another in order of rank, wealth, class, etc.
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Liturgy (n.)
- A religious service or right - The form of a ritual or other act of public worship
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Mirage (n.)
- Something illusory without substance or without a basis in reality - An illusion
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Morass (n.)
- A patch of low, soft, wet ground - A swamp - A confusing situation in which one is entrapped, as in quicksand
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Noisome (adj.)
- Offensive or disgusting - Foul smelling - Harmful or injurious
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Oblivious (adj.)
- Forgetful - Unaware
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Poltroon (n.)
A base coward
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Proselytizing (n.)
- A convert - A disciple
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Quasi (adj.)
Resembling but not actually being, seemingly but not actually or completely
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Raillery (n.)
Good humored ridicule, teasing
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Ribald (adj.)
Irreversibly mocking, coarse, vulgar, or indecent in language
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Supine (adj.)
- Lying flat on one's back - Listless or lethargic - Apathetic or passive
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Vignette (n.)
- A short description or sketch - A picture or illustration with edges that gradually shade off - A decorative design on the title page of a book or at the beginning or end of a chapter