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| 279490486 | abortive | failing to accomplish an intended aim or purpose; only partially or imperfectly developed | |
| 279490487 | bruit | to spread news, reports, or unsubstantiated rumors | |
| 279490488 | contumelious | insolent or rude in speech or behavior; insultingly abusive; humiliating | |
| 279490489 | dictum | a short saying; an authoritative statement | |
| 279490490 | ensconce | to settle comfortably and firmly in position; to put or hide in a safe place | |
| 279490491 | iconoclastic | attacking or seeking to overthrow popular or traditional beliefs, ideas, or institutions | |
| 279490492 | in medias res | in or into the middle of a plot; into the middle of things | |
| 279490493 | internecine | mutually destructive; characterized by great slaughter and bloodshed | |
| 279490494 | maladroit | lacking skill or dexterity; lacking tact, perception, or judgment | |
| 279490495 | maudlin | excessively or effusively sentimental | |
| 279490496 | modulate | to change or vary the intensity or pitch; to temper or soften; to regulate, adjust | |
| 279490497 | portentous | foreshadowing an event to come; causing wonder or awe; self-consciously weighty, pompous | |
| 279490498 | prescience | knowledge of events or actions before they happen; foresight | |
| 279490499 | quid pro quo | something given in exchange or return for something else | |
| 279490500 | salubrious | conducive to health or well-being, wholesome | |
| 279490501 | saturnalian | characterized by riotous or unrestrained revelry or licentiousness | |
| 279490502 | touchstone | a means of testing worth or genuineness | |
| 279490503 | traumatic | so shocking to the emotions as to cause lasting and substantial psychological damage | |
| 279490504 | vitiate | to weaken, debase, or corrupt; to impair the quality or value of | |
| 279490505 | waggish | fond of making jokes; characteristic of a joker; playfully humorous or droll |
