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| 15040487072 | abortive | (adj.) failing to accomplish an intended aim or purpose; only partially or imperfectly developed syn: miscarried, fruitless ant: realized, consummated stress: bor | 0 | |
| 15040487073 | bruit | (v.) to spread news, reports, or unsubstantiated rumors syn: noise abroad, blazon ant: cover up, hush up | 1 | |
| 15040487074 | contumelious | (adj.) insolent or rude in speech or behavior; insultingly abusive; humiliating syn: vituperative, excoriating ant: laudatory, commendatory, deferential stress: me | 2 | |
| 15040487075 | dictum | (n.) a short saying; an authoritative statement syn: maxim, precept, aphorism, axiom stress: dic | 3 | |
| 15040487076 | ensconce | (v.) to settle comfortably and firmly in position; to put or hide in a safe place syn: lodge, entrench ant: unseat, oust stress: sconce | 4 | |
| 15040487077 | iconoclastic | (adj.) attacking or seeking to overthrow popular or traditional beliefs, ideas, or institutions syn: image-breaking, irreverent, heretical ant: conservative, reverent, orthodox | 5 | |
| 15040487078 | in media res | (adv.) in or into the middle of a plot; into the middle of things stress: med | 6 | |
| 15040487079 | internecine | (adj.) mutually destructive; characterized by great slaughter and bloodshed syn: murderous, savage, ruinous ant: peaceful, harmonious, constructive stress: nes | 7 | |
| 15040487080 | maladroit | (adj.) lacking skill or dexterity; lacking tact, perception, or judgement syn: inept, awkward, gauche ant: dexterous, deft, tactful stress: droit | 8 | |
| 15040487081 | maudlin | (adj.) excessively or effusively sentimental syn: mushy, mawkish stress: mod | 9 | |
| 15040487082 | modulate | (v.) to change or vary the intensity or pitch; to temper or soften; to regulate, adjust syn: adapt, moderate stress: mod | 10 | |
| 15040487083 | portentous | (adj.) foreshadowing an event to come; causing wonder or awe; self-consciously weighty, pompous syn: foreboding, ominous, pretentious ant: auspicious, encouraging, propitious stress: ten | 11 | |
| 15040487084 | prescience | (n.) knowledge of events or actions before they happen; foresight syn: foreknowledge ant: hindsight stress: pres | 12 | |
| 15040487085 | quid pro quo | (n.) something given in exchange or return for something else syn: swap, trade stress: kwid, kwo | 13 | |
| 15040487086 | salubrious | (adj.) conductive to health or well-being; wholesome syn: healthy, invigorating ant: harmful, unhealthy, deleterious, noxious stress: lu | 14 | |
| 15040487087 | saturnalian | (adj.) characterized by riotous or unrestrained revelry or licentiousness syn: dissipated, debauched, orgiastic ant: prim, decorous, sedate, seemly | 15 | |
| 15040487088 | touchstone | (n.) a means of testing worth or genuineness syn: criterion, benchmark, yardstick stress: touch | 16 | |
| 15040487089 | traumatic | (adj.) so shocking to the emotions as to cause lasting and substantial psychological damage syn: jolting ant: soothing, comforting, pleasant, agreeable | 17 | |
| 15040487090 | vitiate | (v.) to weaken, debase, or corrupt; to impair the quality or value of syn: degrade ant: purify, fortify, strengthen, enhance stress: vish | 18 | |
| 15040487091 | waggish | (adj.) fond of making jokes, characteristic of a joker; playfully humorous or droll syn: whimsical ant: serious, grave, grim, humorless stress: wag | 19 |
