| 8221417490 | behemoth | huge creature; anything very large and powerful | 0 | |
| 8221417491 | multifarious | having great variety; numerous and diverse | 1 | |
| 8221417492 | postulate | a statement that is accepted as true without proof | 2 | |
| 8221417493 | salubrious | promoting health | 3 | |
| 8221417494 | disinter | dig up; unearth | 4 | |
| 8221417495 | oxymoron | a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction | 5 | |
| 8221417496 | prevail | to triumph over; to be or become most common | 6 | |
| 8221417497 | succulent | full of juice; highly enjoyable | 7 | |
| 8221417498 | vicissitude | a change or variation; ups and downs | 8 | |
| 8221417499 | aggrieved | feeling or expressing a sense of injustice, injury, or offense | 9 | |
| 8221417500 | choleric | easily made angry, bad-tempered | 10 | |
| 8221417501 | maraud | to roam in search of plunder | 11 | |
| 8221417502 | penultimate | second to last | 12 | |
| 8221417503 | opulent | wealthy or luxurious | 13 | |
| 8221417504 | apocryphal | of questionable authority or authenticity | 14 | |
| 8221417505 | racounteur | a person skilled at telling stories | 15 | |
| 8221417506 | mortify | to humiliate or shame | 16 | |
| 8221417507 | notoriety | the state of being known for some unfavorable act or quality | 17 | |
| 8221417508 | inarticulate | Incomprehensible; unable to speak with clarity | 18 | |
| 8221417509 | contemptuous | lacking respect; scornful | 19 | |
| 8221417510 | asserted | to express or state positively; to defend or claim | 20 | |
| 8221417511 | elite | people of wealth and power | 21 | |
| 8221417512 | excerpt | a passage taken from a book, article, etc. | 22 | |
| 8221417513 | posthumous | after death | 23 | |
| 8221417514 | heresy | an opinion different from accepted belief; the denial of an idea that is generally held sacred | 24 | |
| 8221417515 | ethical | morally right | 25 | |
| 8221417516 | analogy | A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way | 26 | |
| 8221417517 | visages | facial expressions | 27 | |
| 8221417518 | amiable | friendly, good-natured | 28 | |
| 8221417519 | callous | emotionally hardened, unfeeling | 29 | |
| 8221417520 | indomitable | unconquerable, refusing to yield | 30 | |
| 8221417521 | malleable | easy to shape or bend | 31 | |
| 8221417522 | plausible | appearing true, reasonable, or fair | 32 | |
| 8221417523 | ecstatic | Extremely happy | 33 | |
| 8221417524 | unprecedented | never done or known before | 34 | |
| 8221417525 | proximity | nearness | 35 | |
| 8221417526 | invariably | always; without changing | 36 | |
| 8221417527 | lament | to express sorrow; to grieve | 37 | |
| 8221417528 | loathe | to hate | 38 | |
| 8221417529 | atrocious | horrifyingly wicked | 39 | |
| 8221417530 | insipid | lacking interest or flavor | 40 | |
| 8221417531 | ascertain | to find out, as through investigation or experimentation | 41 | |
| 8221417532 | attentuate | make thin; weaken | 42 | |
| 8221417533 | impinge | hinder; interfere with | 43 | |
| 8221417534 | plentitude | an abundance | 44 | |
| 8221417535 | putrefy | to rot; to decompose | 45 | |
| 8221417536 | tundra | An extremely cold, dry biome. | 46 | |
| 8300836752 | ethos | appeal to ethics | 47 | |
| 8300836753 | pathos | Appeal to emotion | 48 | |
| 8300836754 | logos | Appeal to logic | 49 | |
| 8300836755 | Anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | 50 | |
| 8300836756 | Epistrophe | the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences | 51 | |
| 8300836757 | Anadiplosis | repetition of the final words of a sentence or line at the beginning of the next | 52 | |
| 8300836758 | litotes | a type of understatement in which an idea is expressed by negating its opposite | 53 | |
| 8300836759 | Chiasmus | A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed | 54 | |
| 8300836760 | anastrophe | the reversal of the natural order of words in a sentence or line of poetry | 55 | |
| 8300836761 | Epanalepsis | repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning of the clause | 56 | |
| 8300836762 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 57 |
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