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| 42467067 | abortive | adj) failing to accomplish an intended aim or purpose; imperfectly developed; premature [successful] | |
| 42467068 | bruit | v) to spread news or unsubstantial rumors; broadcast, blazon [conceal] | |
| 42467069 | constumelious | adj) insolent or rude; insultingly abusive; scurrilous, vituperative [commendatory] | |
| 42467070 | dictum | n) a short saying; an authoritative statement; maxim, aphorism, axiom | |
| 42467071 | ensconce | v) to settle comfortably or firmly in position; put/hide in safe place; nestle, lodge [displace] | |
| 42467072 | iconoclastic | adj) attacking/seeking to overthrow popular beliefs; irreverent, heretical [orthodox] | |
| 42467073 | in medias res | adv) into the middle of things | |
| 42467074 | internecine | adj) mutually destructive; characterized by great slaughter/bloodshed; murderous, savage [peaceful] | |
| 42467075 | maladroit | adj) lacking in skill, dexterity, tact, perception, or judgement; inept, awkward, clumsy [dexterous] | |
| 42467076 | maudlin | adj) excessively or effusively sentimental; mushy, mawkish | |
| 42467077 | modulate | v) to change or vary in intensity/pitch; to regulate or adjust; adapt, moderate | |
| 42467078 | portentous | adj) foreshadowing an event to come; self-consciously weighty, pompous; foreboding, ominous, pretentious [propitious, encouraging] | |
| 42467079 | prescience | knowledge of events or actions before they happen; foresight, foreknowledge [hindsight] | |
| 42467080 | quid pro quo | n) something given in exchange or return for something else; swap, trade | |
| 42467081 | salubrious | adj) conducive to health or well-being; wholesome; beneficial [harmful] | |
| 42467082 | saturnalian | adj) characterized by rioutous or unrestrained revelry or licentiousness; dissipated, debauched, orgiastic [sedate, decorous] | |
| 42467083 | touchstone | n) a means of testing worth or genuineness; criterion, benchmark | |
| 42467084 | traumatic | adj) so shocking to the emotions as to cause lasting and substantial psychological damage; jolting [soothing] | |
| 42467085 | vitiate | v) to weaken, debase, or corrupt; impair the quality of; degrade, undermine [fortify] | |
| 42467086 | waggish | adj) fond of making jokes, characteristic of a joker; whimsical, jocular [dour] |
