- misapprehension: a mistaken belief about or interpretation of something
- imperial: relating to an empire or superior
- affliction: a cause of persistent pain or distress.
- tacit: understood without being openly expressed; implied
- myriad: a countless or extremely great number of people or things.
- pernicious: highly injurious or destructive
- imbue: to spread through or influence deeply as if by dyeing
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propitiate: win or regain the favour of (a god, spirit, or person) by doing something that pleases them.
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concocted: Make a dish by combining various ingredients
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predilection: a preference or special liking for something; a bias in favour of something: my predilection for Asian food.
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heifers: a cow that has not borne a calf, or has borne only one calf
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certitude: absolute certainty or conviction that something is the case
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desecrate: treat (a sacred place or thing) with violent disrespect: more than 300 graves were desecrated.
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dower: give a dowry to: he was so short of money that he could not even dower his sister.
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sedge: a grasslike plant with triangular stems and inconspicuous flowers, growing typically in wet ground. Sedges are widely distributed throughout temperate and cold regions.
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haggard: looking exhausted and unwell, especially from fatigue, worry, or suffering: she was pale and haggard | Alex's haggard face.
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steed: a horse being ridden or available for riding.
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grot: something unpleasant, dirty, or of poor quality: they watch endless grot on telly.
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sojourn: a temporary stay: her sojourn in Rome.
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esoteric: intended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of people with a specialized knowledge or interest: esoteric philosophical debates.
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raison d'etre: purpose of life
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muzzle: the projecting part of the face, including the nose and mouth, of an animal such as a dog or horse: she patted the horse's velvety muzzle.
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hobo: homeless person
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hieress: woman heir
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grisly: causing horror or disgust: the town was shaken by a series of grisly crimes.
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denouement: the final part of a play, film, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved.
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debauchery: excessive indulgence in sex, alcohol, or drugs.
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profligate: recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources: profligate consumers of energy.
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soliloquy: speaking to yourself
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scudding: move fast in a straight line because or as if driven by the wind: we lie watching the clouds scudding across the sky | three small ships were scudding before a brisk breeze.
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desire paths: Desire paths typically emerge as convenient shortcuts where more deliberately constructed paths take a longer or more circuitous route
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Pithily: vigorously expressive
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Polemically: expressing or constituting a strongly critical attack on or controversial opinion about someone or something
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Barnacle: a marine crustacean with an external shell, which attaches itself permanently to a surface and feeds by filtering particles from the water using its modified feathery legs.
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Inchoate: just begun and so not fully formed or developed; rudimentary
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Veritable trove: used for emphasis, often to qualify a metaphor: the early 1970s witnessed a veritable price explosion.
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Ebullient: cheerful and full of energy: she sounded ebullient and happy.
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Enthralled:
Scuffles Tumultuous Resplendent Accoutrements Antinomian Foibles Querulous Milieu Stymies Quietude Flummoxed Beseech Obsequious Lucidity Fervor Deluge Acumen Nigh Squabble Lucidity Accretions Antinomian Retinue Parlance Unguent Carnal Beguile Foibles Lascivious Dacoit Trenchant Reticent Garrulous Peccadilloes Salubrious
Rapprochement Propitiation Comely Evinced Dalliance Nubile Scrimmage Amorous Cavort Grotto Jocular Satiety Befuddled Augur Cowed Propitiousness Insouciant Brunt Reticent Ablutions Whinge Macabre Commiserate Raison d'etre Mendicants Veritable Egregious Riveting Dereliction Snigger Disembowelled Epithey Ostensibly Leitmotif Anchorite Scuffles Malodorous Espying Firmament Vicissitudes Veracity Abnegates Inexplicable Numinous Leitmotif Morass Aniconic Sanguine Concomitant Megalomania Flaccidness Voyeuristic Chutzpah Suaveness Lassitude Resplendance
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ameliorate: make (something bad or unsatisfactory) better. "To ameliorate the risky time force a flux"
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apropos: ( preposition ) with reference to; concerning. "appropo provisioning i found out something slightly annoying"
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necromancy: the supposed practice of communicating with the dead, especially in order to predict the future: alchemy, necromancy, and other magic practices.
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nautical: of or concerning navigation, sailors, or the sea; maritime: nautical charts.
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samaritan: a charitable or helpful person "Ah, a good(reads) samaritan. Nice "
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globbing: Globbing is the process of using wildcard characters to request or evaluate sets of files with the same partial names or sets of characters.
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purview: the scope of the influence or concerns of something. "git shouldn't be doing this - it's not its purview"
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shoehorn: a curved instrument used for easing one's heel into. "yeah, and you have other tools you need to shoehorn into the image"
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acquiesce: accept something reluctantly but without protest
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undulation: the action of moving smoothly up and down
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combinatorics: combinatorics, also called combinatorial mathematics, the field of mathematics concerned with problems of selection, arrangement, and operation within a finite or discrete system. "devops cluster combinatorics"
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spoonerism: a verbal error in which a speaker accidentally transposes the initial sounds or letters of two or more words, often to humorous effect, as in the sentence you have hissed the mystery lectures.
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dawdle: waste time; be slow
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commiseration: Sympathy over misfortune. Sent my commiserations to Jon, know he will have a fun week or two as a result of this.
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macabre: disturbing because concerned with or causing a fear of death. Ex: i find these things fascinating - despite their macabre nature.
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pareidolia: the perception of apparently significant patterns or recognizable images, especially faces, in random or accidental arrangements of shapes and lines: there could be a mysterious stone coffin on Mars, or, more likely, it's just the latest example of pareidolia.
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bucolic: relating to the pleasant aspects of the countryside and country life.
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eponymous: (of a person) giving their name to something. "So we had two monorepi and a situation that could be visualized as suggested by the eponymous @monorepi"
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scrupulous (of a person or process) careful, thorough, and extremely attentive to details: the research has been carried out with scrupulous attention to detail.
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exacting: making great demands on one's skill, attention, or other resources: the exacting standards laid down by the organic food industry.
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Munificence: the quality or action of being extremely generous
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Beneficence: generous or doing good
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Pilference: gerund or present participle
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Relegate: assign an inferior rank or position to
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perdition: (in Christian theology) a state of eternal punishment and damnation into which a sinful and unrepentant person passes after death. "Dancing to perdition in waltz time"
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foreboding: a feeling that something bad will happen; fearful apprehension. "quite free from any forebodings"
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aft: at, near, or towards the stern of a ship or tail of an aircraft.
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pandemonium: wild and noisy disorder or confusion; uproar: "one of them persisted in scrubbing the deck throughout this pandemonium".
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deluged: a severe flood.
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buccaneers: a pirate, originally one operating in the Caribbean:
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dinky: (of an object or place) attractively small and neat: a dinky little restaurant.
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penchant: a strong or habitual liking for something or tendency to do something: he has a penchant for adopting stray dogs.
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depredation: an act of attacking or plundering
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rodomontades: boastful or inflated talk or behaviour
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ludicrous: foolish
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abject: (of something bad) experienced or present to the maximum degree:
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caulking: a waterproof filler and sealant, used in building work and repairs:
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bouillon: thin soup or stock made by stewing meat, fish, or vegetables in water.
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veritable: notable, used for emphasis, often to qualify a metaphor: the early 1970s witnessed a veritable price explosion.
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inundating: overwhelm (someone) with things or people to be dealt with
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lachrymose: tearful or given to weeping
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crescendos: the loudest point reached in a gradually increasing sound
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gamut: the complete range or scope of something
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paroxysms: a sudden attack or outburst of a particular emotion or activity
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blubbering: cry noisily and uncontrollably; sob
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prima donna: the chief female singer in an opera or opera company. ( also ) a very temperamental person with an inflated view of their own talent or importance
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encore: a repeated or additional performance of an item at the end of a concert, as called for by an audience
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forays: a sudden attack or incursion into enemy territory, especially to obtain something; a raid:
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gorge: a narrow valley between hills or mountains, typically with steep rocky walls and a stream running through it.
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oppusums: Opossums are members of the marsupial order Didelphimorphia endemic to the Americas
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lianas: A liana is a long-stemmed, woody vine that is rooted in the soil at ground level and uses trees, as well as other means of vertical support, to climb up to the canopy in search of direct sunlight.
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cogent: clear, logical, and convincing
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gesticulated: use gestures, especially dramatic ones, instead of speaking or to emphasize one's words
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conjugate: [with object] Grammar give the different forms of (a verb in an inflected language such as Latin) as they vary according to voice, mood, tense, number, and person: conjugating verbs forms part of language study.
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substantivize: to make (a word other than a noun) play the grammatical role of a noun in a sentence.
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genitivize: of, relating to, or being a grammatical case (see case entry 1 sense 3a) that typically marks a person or thing that possesses someone or something else or the source from which someone or something comes — compare possessive.
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accusativize: denoting a case of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives which expresses the object of an action or the goal of motion.
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dativize: To convert to a dative form
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pendant clauses
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maunder: talk in a rambling manner
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gabble: talk rapidly and unintelligibly
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prattle: talk at length in a foolish or inconsequential way
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confabulate: talk
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soliloquy: an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play
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drivel: nonsense
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blather: talk in a long-winded way without making very much sense
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tirade: a long, angry speech of criticism or accusation
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Seamen's yarns – derived from the tarred yarn or twine used on board – are sailor's stories about their real or supposed adventures.
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aspersions: an attack on the reputation or integrity of someone or something
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squabbling: a noisy quarrel about something trivial
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torpid: mentally or physically inactive; lethargic
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gristle: cartilage, especially when found as tough inedible tissue in meat.
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harpoon: a barbed missile resembling a spear that is attached to a long rope and thrown by hand or fired from a gun, used for catching whales and other large sea creatures.
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gourmet: a connoisseur of good food; a person with a discerning palate.
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serried: standing close together
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fronds: the leaf or leaflike part of a palm, fern, or similar plant
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puce: of a dark red or purple-brown colour
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iridescent: showing luminous colours that seem to change when seen from different angles
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excrescences: a distinct outgrowth on a body or plant, resulting from disease or abnormality
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delectable: delicious
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rivulets: a small stream of water or another liquid
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quagmires: a soft boggy area of land that gives way underfoot
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denizens: a person, animal, or plant that lives or is found in a particular place
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marzipan: a sweet yellow or white paste of ground almonds, sugar, and egg whites, used to coat cakes or to make confectionery.
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romp: play roughly and energetically: the noisy pack of children romped around the gardens.
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siesta: an afternoon rest or nap, especially one taken during the hottest hours of the day in a hot climate
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regaled: entertain or amuse (someone) with talk
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gullet: the passage by which food passes from the mouth to the stomach; the oesophagus.
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alacrity: brisk and cheerful readiness
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taciturn: reserved or uncommunicative in speech; saying little
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crag: a steep or rugged cliff or rock face.
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qui vive: on the alert or lookout: it's tiring to be always on the qui vive
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agglomerations: a mass or collection of things; an assemblag
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doldrums: a state or period of stagnation or depression
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glum: looking or feeling dejected; morose
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inveterate: having a particular habit, activity, or interest that is long-established and unlikely to change
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incorrigibles: (of a person or their behaviour) not able to be changed or reformed
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whelp: a puppy
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dormice: an agile mouse-like rodent with a hairy or bushy tail, found in Africa and Eurasia. Some kinds are noted for spending long periods in hibernation.
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pugnacious: eager or quick to argue, quarrel, or fight: his public statements became increasingly pugnacious.
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grille: a grating or screen of metal bars or wires, placed in front of something as protection or to allow ventilation or discreet observation:
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shingles: a painful acute inflammation of the nerve ganglia, with a skin eruption often forming a girdle around the middle of the body. It is caused by the same virus as chickenpox
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consignment: a batch of goods destined for or delivered to someone
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congenial: (of a person) pleasing or liked on account of having qualities or interests that are similar to one's own
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long-winded: continuing at tedious length.
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pullulated: multiply or spread prolifically or rapidly
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predilection: a preference or special liking for something; a bias in favour of something
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tremulous: shaking or quivering slightly
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contortion: a twisted or bent condition, state, or form
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innocous: not harmful or offensive
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conspicuous: clearly visible
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encaustic: (in painting and ceramics) decorated by burning in colours as an inlay, especially using coloured clays or pigments mixed with hot wax.
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flatulance: the accumulation of gas in the alimentary canal
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crude: constructed in a rudimentary or makeshift way
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flitting: move swiftly and lightly
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masticatory: chew (food): dentition affects how well food is masticated and absorbed
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saurian: of or like a lizard: a table with saurian legs.
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sabre: a heavy cavalry sword with a curved blade and a single cutting edge.
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lieu: instead
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adduced: cite as evidence
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surmised: suppose that something is true without having evidence to confirm it:
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vermicular: like a worm in form or movement
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corpulent: (of a person) fat
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tracery: ornamental stone openwork, typically in the upper part of a Gothic window
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accost: approach and address (someone) boldly or aggressively
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rendezvous: a meeting at an agreed time and place
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ablutions: an act of washing oneself
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craven: contemptibly lacking in courage; cowardly
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abhorrence: a feeling of revulsion; disgusted loathing
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cower: crouch down in fear:
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infamy: the state of being well known for some bad quality or deed 113: diabolical: characteristics of devil 114: burglarious: relating or involving burglary
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tympanic: relating to tympanum. Anatomy & Zoology the tympanic membrane or eardrum. • Entomology a membrane covering the hearing organ on the leg or body of some insects, sometimes adapted (as in cicadas) for producing sound.
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belabouring: belabouring
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Parapet: a low protective wall along the edge of a roof, bridge, or balcony
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Slinking: move smoothly and quietly with gliding steps, in a stealthy or sensuous manner
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Cudgel: a short, thick stick used as a weapon.
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Ganglions: a structure containing a number of nerve cell bodies, typically linked by synapses, and often forming a swelling on a nerve fibre
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Excrescences: a distinct outgrowth on a body or plant, resulting from disease or abnormality
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Cogiatate: think deeply about something; meditate or reflect.
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Colossus: a statue that is much bigger than life size
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Tobogganing: the activity or pastime of sliding downhill over snow on a toboggan
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Lurch: make an abrupt, unsteady, uncontrolled movement or series of movements; stagger
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Torpid: mentally or physically inactive; lethargic
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Crepiated: a crackling or rattling sound.
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Kitsch: art, objects, or design considered to be in poor taste because of excessive garishness or sentimentality, but sometimes appreciated in an ironic or knowing way.
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Scruples: a feeling that prevents you from doing something that you think is morally wrong or makes you uncertain about doing it
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Edifying: providing moral or intellectual instruction.
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Concocted: make (a dish or meal) by combining various ingredients.
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Scuttling: run hurriedly or furtively with short quick steps.
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Bereft: deprived of or lacking (something).
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Adrift: so as to float without being either moored or steered.
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belabouring: attack (someone) physically or verbally
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Parapet: a low protective wall along the edge of a roof, bridge, or balcony:
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Slinking: move smoothly and quietly with gliding steps, in a stealthy or sensuous manner
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Cudgel: a short, thick stick used as a weapon.
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Ganglions: a structure containing a number of nerve cell bodies, typically linked by synapses, and often forming a swelling on a nerve fibre.
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Excrescences: a distinct outgrowth on a body or plant, resulting from disease or abnormality, usually unattractive.
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Cogitative: think deeply about something; meditate or reflect.
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Colossus: a very large statue, or fig
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Tobogganing: the activity or pastime of sliding downhill over snow on a toboggan
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Lurch: make an abrupt, unsteady, uncontrolled movement or series of movements; stagger
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Torpid: mentally or physically inactive; lethargic
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Crepiated: make a crackling soun
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Kitsch: art, objects, or design considered to be in poor taste because of excessive garishness or sentimentality, but sometimes appreciated in an ironic or knowing way: the lava lamp is a bizarre example of sixties kitsch
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Scruples: feeling of doubt or hesitation with regard to the morality or propriety of a course of action
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Edifying: providing moral or intellectual instruction:
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Concocted: make (a dish or meal) by combining various ingredients: she began to concoct a dinner likely to appeal to him.
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Scuttling: run hurriedly or furtively with short quick steps
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Riposte: make a quick, clever reply to an insult or criticism
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Bereft: deprived of or lacking
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Adrift: so as to float without being either moored or steered
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Surreptitiously: in a way that attempts to avoid notice or attention; secretively:
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Augured: portend a good or bad outcome:
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Denouement: the final part of a play, film, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved
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Replete: filled or well-supplied with something
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Hirsute: hairy: their hirsute chests.
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Repertoire: a stock of plays, dances, or items that a company or a performer knows or is prepared to perform.
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Libretto: the text of an opera or other long vocal work.
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Nadir: the lowest or most unsuccessful point in a situation
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Stratagem: a plan or scheme, especially one used to outwit an opponent or achieve an end
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*Hackneyed: having been overused; unoriginal and trite
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Mendacious: not telling the truth; lying: