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| 80926002 | abeyance | n. a temporary suspension of acitivity | |
| 80926003 | abstinence | n. voluntarily refraining from eating certain foods or drink, or from doing something pleasant but not good for you | |
| 80926004 | abstruse | adj. hard to understand or grasp | |
| 80926005 | adumbrate | v. to suggest partly, to give a hint of things to come, to foreshadow vaguely | |
| 80926006 | alacrity | adj. cheerful readiness, liveliness, or eagerness | |
| 80926007 | ambulatory | adj. able to walk or move about | |
| 80926008 | apocryphal | adj. false, spurious, of doubtful origin | |
| 80926009 | arbiter | n. a judge, one who decides | |
| 80926010 | ascetic | adj. hermitlike, self-denial, austere | |
| 80926011 | assiduous | adj. hardworking, busy, diligent | |
| 80926012 | belie | v. to run counter to, to show something as false | |
| 80926013 | brook | v. to tolerate, to put up with something | |
| 80926014 | capricious | adj. whimsical, fanciful, impulsive | |
| 80926015 | castigate | v. to punish, chastise, criticize severely | |
| 80926016 | chary | adj. careful, caustious, wary | |
| 80926017 | chicanery | n. deception or trickery | |
| 80926018 | chimerical | adj. wildly fanciful, absurd | |
| 80926019 | circumlocution | n. wordy language; an indirect, roundabout expression | |
| 80926020 | contentious | adj. argumentative over a point, quarrelsome | |
| 80926021 | debacle | n. a disaster or violent breakdown | |
| 80926022 | deleterious | adj. harmful | |
| 80926023 | descry | v. to discern, to see something, to catch sight of | |
| 80926024 | desiccate | v. to dry out | |
| 80926025 | discomfit | v. to confuse, deceive | |
| 80926026 | doff | v. to take off, usually clothing, as a sign of greeting | |
| 80926027 | doggerel | n. comic, sometimes crude, informal verse | |
| 80926028 | dossier | n. a file of documents, letters and records | |
| 80926029 | dulcet | adj. having a nice, agreeable, melodious sound | |
| 80926030 | encomium | n. a eulogy or expression of high praise | |
| 80926031 | endemic | adj. native, belonging to a specific region | |
| 80926032 | espy | v. to glimpse, to descry, to catch sight of | |
| 80926033 | evanescent | adj. vanishing, happening for the briefest moment | |
| 80926034 | exemplar | n. an excellent model, a typical example | |
| 80926035 | exigent | adj. urgent, demands prompt action | |
| 80926036 | extirpate | v. to rip up by the roots, to abolish, to annihilate | |
| 80926037 | facetious | adj. humorous, joking in a somewhat inappropriate or clumsy manner | |
| 80926038 | fecund | adj. fertile, productive, fruitful | |
| 80926039 | fusillade | n. a rapid outburst, spray of gunfire | |
| 80926040 | gainsay | v. to deny, to speak or act against | |
| 80926041 | garrulous | adj. talkative | |
| 80926042 | halitosis | n. bad breath | |
| 80926043 | irascible | adj. hot-tempered, cranky | |
| 80926044 | leitmotif | n. a dominant or recurring theme | |
| 80926045 | levee | n. an embankment designed to prevent a river from flooding | |
| 80926046 | lope | v. to run at a steady, easy pace | |
| 80926047 | macerate | v. to soften by soaking, to cause to waste away | |
| 80926048 | malapropism | n. the humorous misuse of a word that sounds very much like the word intended | |
| 80926049 | matriculate | v. to enroll, most particularly in college | |
| 80926050 | maudlin | adj. overly sentimental | |
| 80926051 | mellifluous | adj. sweetly flowing | |
| 80926052 | mordant | adj. bitingly sarcastic, incisive, caustic in manner | |
| 80926053 | moribund | adj. being in a dying or decaying condition | |
| 80926054 | munificent | adj. generous | |
| 80926055 | neophyte | n. a beginner, a novice | |
| 80926056 | officious | adj. unnecessarily helpful, meddlesome, interfering | |
| 80926057 | omnivorous | adj. eating or absorbing everything, feeding on both animal and vegetable substances | |
| 80926058 | oscillate | v. to swing back and forth | |
| 80926059 | ossify | v. to become rigid, to be come set in one's ways | |
| 80926060 | palliate | v. to hide the seriousness of something with excuses or apologies, to east without curing | |
| 80926061 | pallid | adj. lacking color, wan | |
| 80926062 | panegyric | n. lofty praise, eulogistic writing | |
| 80926063 | parsimonious | adj. stingy | |
| 80926064 | penury | n. extreme poverty | |
| 80926065 | perfidious | adj. faithless, untrustworthy | |
| 80926066 | perfunctory | adj. careless, unenthusiastic, done merely as duty | |
| 80926067 | perorate | v. to make a long, formal speech; to sum up a speech | |
| 80926068 | perspicacious | adj. shrewd, astute, showing strong powers of discernment | |
| 80926069 | petulant | adj. cranky, ill-tempered, irritable, peevish | |
| 80926070 | piquant | adj. pungent, charmingly provocative | |
| 80926071 | prescient | adj. having foresight | |
| 80926072 | prevaricate | v. to deviate from the truth | |
| 80926073 | profligate | adj. corrupt, degenerate, wildly extravagant | |
| 80926074 | propinquity | adj. nearness in place or time, kinship | |
| 80926075 | protean | adj. readily assuming different shapes or characters | |
| 80926076 | putrefy | v. to rot | |
| 80926077 | recalcitrant | adj. stubbornly defiant and restraint of authority | |
| 80926078 | recondite | adj. hard to understand, abstruse, over one's head | |
| 80926079 | reprobate | n. a morally unprincipled person, a scoundrel | |
| 80926080 | reticent | adj. restrained, reluctant, uncommunicative | |
| 80926081 | ribald | adj. vulgar or indecent language | |
| 80926082 | sagacious | adj. wise, shrewd | |
| 80926083 | salubrious | adj. favorable to health | |
| 80926084 | scotch | v. to put an end to | |
| 80926085 | sinuous | adj. winding, having many curves | |
| 80926086 | striated | adj. marked with thin lines or grooves | |
| 80926087 | supercilious | adj. arrogant, overbearing, condescending | |
| 80926088 | surreptitious | adj. sneaky, secret | |
| 80926089 | sycophant | n. a flatterer, a self serving yes-man | |
| 80926090 | temerity | adj. boldness, rashness, audacity | |
| 80926091 | truculent | adj. hostile, aggressive, savage | |
| 80926092 | vacuous | adj. empty, lacking intelligence | |
| 80926093 | viscosity | adj. a thick or sticky consistency of a liquid |
