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| 6266808641 | clandestine | carried out in a secretive manner | 0 | |
| 6266808642 | doggerel | crudely or loosely styled writing for comic effect | 1 | |
| 6266808643 | enjambment | running one sentence from one line of poetry to the next line | 2 | |
| 6266808644 | epoch | a distinct period of history marked by memorable events | 3 | |
| 6266808645 | farcical | ridiculously or absurdly comedic | 4 | |
| 6266808646 | fecund | fertile (literally) or intellectually productive (figuratively) | 5 | |
| 6266808647 | loquacious | very talkative | 6 | |
| 6266808648 | lugubrious | extremely sad or gloomy | 7 | |
| 6266808649 | pedantic | overly focused on or knowledgeable about narrow and trivial matters | 8 | |
| 6266808650 | peremptory | cutting off debate; admitting of no contradiction | 9 | |
| 6266808651 | paramount | of greatest importance | 10 | |
| 6266808652 | pallid | pale; sickly | 11 | |
| 6266808653 | puissant | powerful; strong | 12 | |
| 6266808654 | anachronism | something that is represented in as existing in a period of history in which it didn't actually exist; out of place in time; outdated | 13 | |
| 6266808655 | garish | overly decorated or showy; very gaudy | 14 | |
| 6266808656 | virtuoso | a person with great skill in one of the fine arts, especially music | 15 | |
| 6266808657 | dirge | a slow, sad song or poem that expresses grief, especially for the dead; a funeral hymn | 16 | |
| 6266808658 | superfluous | unnecessary or excessive | 17 | |
| 6266808659 | extenuate | to attempt to lessen the seriousness of an offense by giving an excuse | 18 | |
| 6266808660 | pernicious | causing great injury, destruction, or ruin | 19 | |
| 6266808661 | sagacious | wise | 20 | |
| 6266808662 | requiem | a funeral Mass in the Catholic church or any hymn or dirge composed for the dead (often used metaphorically) | 21 | |
| 6266808663 | vivify | to bring to life, sharpen, quicken | 22 | |
| 6266808664 | nihilism | 1. the total rejection of laws or established institutions, 2. self-destructiveness 3. the philosophical denial of any real existence or the possibility of any objective truth | 23 | |
| 6266808665 | deign | to view some action as fitting or in accordance with one's dignity; to condescend | 24 | |
| 6266808666 | confabulate | psychological definition - to fill gaps in one's memory with made up information; can also mean to chat | 25 | |
| 6266808667 | auspicious | promising success; favorable; a good omen | 26 | |
| 6266808668 | guile | crafty or artful deceitfulness; trickery | 27 | |
| 6266808669 | insidious | seemingly harmless, but actually dangerous; intended to entrap or beguile | 28 | |
| 6266808670 | cloistered | secluded from the world; sheltered, closed in | 29 | |
| 6266808671 | cacophony | harsh, jarring sound; dissonance | 30 | |
| 6266808672 | chiasmus | the inversion of the second of two parallel phrases, clauses, etc. ("I sailed to Greenland, and then to Europe I flew.") | 31 | |
| 6266808673 | dolorous | very sorrowful or sad; mournful; [Archaic] painful | 32 | |
| 6266808674 | indefatigable | cannot be tired out; not yielding to fatigue; untiring | 33 | |
| 6266808675 | laconic | brief or terse in speech; using few words | 34 | |
| 6266808676 | languid | drooping or weak; without interest, indifferent; sluggish, slow | 35 | |
| 6266808677 | laureate | a person on whom honor or distinction is conferred | 36 | |
| 6266808678 | mitigate | to make less severe or less painful; to moderate | 37 | |
| 6266808679 | obstinate | very stubborn; unreasonably determined to have one's own way; not yielding to reason | 38 | |
| 6266808680 | ravish | to seize and carry away forcibly; to rape; [figuratively] to transport with joy or delight; enrapture | 39 | |
| 6266808681 | ardent | zealous, passionate; intensely devoted (or even fiercely devoted) | 40 | |
| 6266808682 | apotheosis | the elevation of a person to the status of a god (usually used figuratively); OR an exalted example or ideal, a quintessential example of something | 41 | |
| 6266808683 | attrition | a reduction or decrease in number or size (often gradual); a wearing down or weakening of resistance due to pressure or harassment | 42 | |
| 6266808684 | diffident | lacking confidence in oneself; timid, shy, reserved | 43 | |
| 6266808685 | epithet | (positive) a word or phrase added to a person's name to describe some attribute of that person ("Ivan the terrible," "Catherine the Great"); (negative) a term of abuse, contempt, or hostility (e.g. racial slurs) | 44 | |
| 6266808686 | iconoclast | (literally) a person who destroys objects of worship (icons); most often used now to describe someone who attacks or seeks to overthrow cherished traditions, popular beliefs, or traditional institutions | 45 | |
| 6266808687 | lassitude | weariness of body or mind due to stress; listlessness, languor, lack of energy | 46 | |
| 6266808688 | panegyric | a lofty oration or writing in praise of a person or thing; also called a eulogy or encomium | 47 | |
| 6266808689 | zenith | the highest point or state of something; the culmination; (scientific) the highest visible point in the sky directly above the observer | 48 | |
| 6266808690 | convalescence | the period of recovery after an illness | 49 | |
| 6266808691 | ardor | enthusiasm or passion | 50 | |
| 6266808692 | coy | shy, modest; sometimes can have the connotation of also being flirtatious (i.e. "playing hard to get") | 51 | |
| 6266808693 | capricious | characterized by sudden, inexplicable changes without evident reason; whimsical, arbitrary | 52 | |
| 6266808694 | admonition | a cautionary warning or advice; a gentle reproof intended to prevent future mistakes | 53 | |
| 6266808695 | discursive | 1. passing aimlessly from one subject to another; wordy and prone to digression 2. proceeding through reasoning rather than through intuition | 54 | |
| 6266808696 | discriminating | able to detect subtle differences; having refined tastes; (negative) inappropriately or unfairly treating two people differently | 55 | |
| 6266808697 | hackneyed | cliche, commonplace, banal, overused (more literally "threadbare" or "worn") | 56 | |
| 6266808698 | despondency | a feeling of depression and hopelessness | 57 | |
| 6266808699 | supercilious | arrogant, condescending, patronizing | 58 | |
| 6266808700 | denigrate | to belittle, demean, or insult | 59 |
