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| 108390200 | Nihilism | an extreme form of skepticism; the denial of all real existence or the possibility of an objective basis for truth | |
| 108390201 | Nondescript | undistinguished or uninteresting; lacking distinctive qualities | |
| 108390202 | Nonplussed | surprised, confused, and uncertain what to do or say | |
| 108390205 | Oblique | indirect: not straightforward or direct; neither perpendicular nor parallel to another line or plane | |
| 108390207 | Onerous | burdensome, oppressive, or troublesome; causing hardship | |
| 108390208 | Opprobrium | scorn, contempt, or severe criticism | |
| 108390209 | Ostensible | seeming to be true or genuine, but open to doubt | |
| 108390210 | Panacea | supposed cure-all; named after the Greek goddess of healing | |
| 108390211 | Partisan | biased supporter; resistance fighter | |
| 108390212 | Pathos | touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, esp., that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like | |
| 108390213 | Pedagogic | teaching; the science or profession of teaching | |
| 108390214 | Pedantic | overly bookish; characterized by a narrow, often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules. | |
| 108390215 | Perfidious | deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful | |
| 108390216 | Petulant | Unreasonably irritable or ill-tempered; sulky, "a petulant child" | |
| 108390217 | Plaudits | expression of praise or approval | |
| 108390218 | Pontificate | speak pompously; to speak about something in a knowing and self-important way | |
| 108390219 | Pragmatist | One who thinks primarily about results; a straightforward practical way of thinking about things | |
| 108390220 | Precept | a commandment, instruction, or order intended as an authoritative rule of action. | |
| 108390221 | Precipitate | make something happen quickly | |
| 108390222 | Prescience | knowledge of things before they exist or happen; foreknowledge; foresight | |
| 108390223 | Probity | integrity and uprightness; honesty | |
| 108390224 | Profligate | extravagant or wasteful; with low morals | |
| 108390225 | Proliferate | increase greatly; to increase in number | |
| 108390226 | Promulgate | to make something widely known | |
| 108390227 | Prose | language that is not poetry; ordinary style of expression; writing or speech that is ordinary or matter-of-fact, without embellishment | |
| 108390228 | Prototype | an original type, form, or instance of something serving as a typical example, basis, or standard for other things of the same category | |
| 108390229 | Prowess | exceptional ability or skill; valor or skill in combat | |
| 108390230 | Pundit | somebody who expresses opinions; a critic or authority on a subject, especially in the media | |
| 108390231 | Qualm | an uneasy feeling or pang of conscience as to conduct | |
| 108390232 | Quibble | make trivial objections; to argue over unimportant things and make petty objections | |
| 108390233 | Quixotic | extravagantly chivalrous or romantic, visionary, and impractical | |
| 108390234 | Refractory | hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient | |
| 108390235 | Relegate | to assign to an obscure place, position, or condition | |
| 108390236 | Reprehensible | deserving rebuke or censure; blameworthy | |
| 108390237 | Rescind | cancel something; to remove the validity or authority of something | |
| 108390238 | Retrograde | moving or tending backward | |
| 108390239 | Sanctimonious | holier-than-thou; making an exaggerated show of holiness or moral superiority | |
| 108390241 | Scrupulous | having scruples; having or showing a strict regard for what one considers right; principled. | |
| 108390242 | Serendipity | an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident; good fortune; luck | |
| 108390243 | Sophistry | a subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning; a false argument | |
| 108390244 | Spate | a sudden flood, rush, or outpouring | |
| 108390245 | Specious | apparently true but actually false; appearing to be true but really false | |
| 108390246 | Steadfastness | fixed or unchanging; steady | |
| 108390247 | Stupefy | to dull the senses or capacity to think thereby reducing responsiveness; to dazzle | |
| 108390248 | Subterfuge | a deceptive stratagem or device | |
| 108390249 | Supplant | to take the place of another, as through force | |
| 108390250 | Surfeit | excess; an excessive amount; overindulgence, in something, especially food or drink | |
| 108390251 | Sybarite | a person devoted to luxury and pleasure; derived from Sybaris, an ancient Greek city noted for the luxurious, pleasure-seeking habits of many of its inhabitants. | |
| 108390252 | Synergism | the interaction of elements that when combined produce a total effect that is greater than the sum of the individual elements; the doctrine that individual salvation is achieved through a combination of human will and divine grace | |
| 108390253 | Table (v.) | in the United States, to suspend or postpone consideration of a pending motion; in the United Kingdom and the rest of the English-speaking world, to begin consideration of a proposal. | |
| 108390254 | Tawdry | gaudy and of poor quality; cheap in appearance; of inferior quality | |
| 108390255 | Temerity | boldness; reckless confidence that might be offensive | |
| 108390256 | Temper (v.) | to bring to the proper texture, consistency, hardness, etc. by mixing with something or treating in some way; to temper paints with oil, to temper steel by heating and sudden cooling | |
| 108390257 | Threadbare | worn away to reveal threads; having been used so often as to be no longer convincing | |
| 108390259 | Truculent | aggressively defiant; sullenly refusing to accept something or do what is asked | |
| 108390260 | Turgid | pompous and overcomplicated; boring; overflowing: swollen and overflowing | |
| 108390261 | Unctuous | affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness, | |
| 108390262 | Unheralded | not previously announced, notified, or expected | |
| 108390263 | Untenable | indefensible; incapable of being defended, as an argument or thesis | |
| 108390264 | Upstart | a person who has risen suddenly from a humble position to wealth, power, or a position of consequence; a presumptuous and objectionable person who has so risen | |
| 108390265 | Utopian | ideal; belonging to or characteristic of an ideal perfect state or place; admirable but impracticable | |
| 108390266 | Vaunt | to speak boastfully of; brag about | |
| 108390267 | Venial | easily excused or forgiven; pardonable | |
| 108390268 | Verdant | with lush green growth; green with vegetation or foliage; naive: lacking experience or sophistication | |
| 108390269 | Verisimilitude | appearance of being true or real | |
| 108390270 | Vestigial | trace; remaining after nearly all the rest has disappeared or dwindled; no longer functional: having become degenerate or functionless in the course of time | |
| 108390271 | Victuals | food or other provisions | |
| 108390272 | Vignette | a brief scene from a movie or play | |
| 108390273 | Virile | masculine; relating to or having the characteristics of an adult male; forceful: showing energy, power, and forcefulness | |
| 108390274 | Visceral | instinctual: proceeding from instinct rather than from reasoned thinking; emotional: characterized by or showing basic emotions; of internal organs: relating to or affecting one or more internal organs of the body | |
| 108390275 | Vitiate | to make imperfect, faulty, or impure; spoil; corrupt; to weaken morally; debase; pervert | |
| 108390276 | Vitriolic | expressing bitter hatred: filled with or expressing extreme bitterness | |
| 108390277 | Vocation | a strong impulse or inclination to follow a particular activity or career. | |
| 108390278 | Watershed | turning point: an important period, time, event, or factor that marks a change or division | |
| 108390279 | Waylay | to stop or accost somebody | |
| 108390280 | Wheedle | to coax or try to persuade somebody to do something using flattery, guile, or other indirect means | |
| 108390281 | Wily | crafty: skilled at using clever tricks to deceive people | |
| 108390282 | Windfall | something good that is received unexpectedly, especially a sum of money | |
| 108390283 | Winsome | charming; inspiring trust and approval, especially if in an innocent manner. | |
| 108390284 | Witticism | a witty or clever remark | |
| 108390285 | Xenophobic | fear of foreigners: an intense fear or dislike of foreign people, their customs and culture, or foreign things | |
| 108390286 | Zephyr | The west wind. A gentle breeze |
