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9197755364Accoladeany award, honor, or laudatory notice0
9197760612Acerbicsour or astringent in taste1
9197763680Apogeethe highest or most distant point2
9197767721Aproposfitting; at the right time; to the purpose3
9197776233Attritiona reduction or decrease in number, size, or strength4
9197784162Bickerto engage in petulant or peevish argument; wrangle5
9197790201Bromideplatitude or tired saying; someone who is boring6
9197800285Chauvinista person who is aggressive and blindly patriotic or believes that one gender is superior7
9197807934Clairvoyanthaving or claiming to have the power of seeing objects beyond natural vision8
9197814419Coalesceto grow together or into one body9
9197822576Contretempsan inopportune occurrence; an embarrassing mischance10
9197829262Convolutionto be rolled up or coiled11
9197832835Cullto choose; select; pick12
9197838307Disparatedistinct in kind; essentially different13
9197843645Dogmaticasserting opinions in an arrogant manner14
9197850587Edifyto instruct or benefit; especially morally or spiritually15
9197855607Empathythe psychological identification with or vicarious experiencing of the feelings, thoughts, or attitudes of another16
9197865115Factionalismself-interested; partisan:17
9197875703Immaculatefree from spot or stain; spotlessly clean; free from fault or flaw; free from errors:18
9197884350Imprecationa curse; malediction.19
9197893995Ineluctableincapable of being evaded; inescapable:20
9197905889Licentioussexually unrestrained; lascivious; libertine; lewd; unrestrained by law or general morality; lawless; immoral21
9197918015Mercurialchangeable; volatile; fickle; flighty; erratic:22
9197923387Meteto distribute or apportion by measure; allot; dole23
9197934517Noxiousharmful or injurious to health or physical well-being:24
9197946550Palliateto relieve or lessen without curing; mitigate; alleviate.25
9197953782Polemica controversial argument, as one against some opinion, doctrine,26
9197959348Populousfull of residents or inhabitants, as a region; heavily populated.27
9197965164Probityintegrity and uprightness; honesty.28
9197970695Proscribeto denounce or condemn (a thing) as dangerous or harmful; prohibit. to put outside the protection of the law; outlaw.29
9197980203Protocolthe customs and regulations dealing with diplomatic formality, precedence, and etiquette.30
9198001519Raparteea quick, witty reply.31
9198012131Resplendentshining brilliantly; gleaming; splendid:32
9198025502Strigmatizeto set some mark of disgrace or infamy upon:33
9198065533Sub Rosaconfidentially; secretly; privately34
9198067517Superveneto take place or occur as something additional or extraneous35
9198076670Unconscionablenot guided by conscience; unscrupulous; not in accordance with what is just or reasonable:36
9198083356Vaingloryexcessive elation or pride over one's own achievements, abilities, etc.; boastful vanity.37
9198086262Vestigea mark, trace, or visible evidence of something that is no longer present or in existence; a surviving evidence or remainder of some condition, practice.38
9198094393Volitionthe act of willing, choosing, or resolving; exercise of willing; a choice or decision made by the will39

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