East India Company Part 1 (Vocabulary)

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Thickset

A man having a body that is wide across the shoulders and chest.

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Laconic

Using very few words to say what you mean

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Happenchance

A coincidental event

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Diligent

Showing care and consciousness in once work and duties.

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Austere

Strict in manner/attitude/personality

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Acquit

Free someone from a criminal charge by a verdict of not guilty.

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Polemicist

A person who engages in controversial debates

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Duel

A contest, with deadly weapon, arranged between two people in order to settle a point of honor.

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Descent

An action of moving downward, dropping or falling

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Effete

Behaving in weight traditionally associated with women, and regarded as inappropriate for man

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Megalomaniac

A person who is obsessed with their own power

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Profligacy

Promiscuous and unprincipled in sexual matters.

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Licentious

Synonym for profligacy

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Extraction

The ethnic origin of someone’s family

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Overweening

Too proud or confident in oneself.

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Haughty

Unfriendly and seeming to consider yourself better than other people

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Courteous

Polite, respectful, and considerate in manner

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Urbane

Synonym of courteous

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Pubescent

A person at or approaching the age of puberty.

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Catamite

A pubescent boy, who was the intimate companion of an older man

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Limp

Walking with difficulty typically because of a damaged or stiff leg or foot

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Shrewd

Having or showing sharp powers of judgment

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Astute

Synonym of shrewd

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Unravel

The disintegration of the system

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Paramount

Supreme