Vocab
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| 266168834 | overweening | conceited, presumptuous, excessive, immoderate | |
| 266168835 | Ignominy | shame and disgrace | |
| 266168836 | sophistry | reasoning that seems plausible but is actually unsound; a fallacy | |
| 266168837 | reputed | according to reputation or general belief; having wide spread acceptance and good reputation | |
| 266168838 | Delineate | describe in vivid detail | |
| 266168839 | ubiquitous | present or existing everywhere | |
| 266168840 | mundane | earthly, worldly, relating to practical and material affairs; concerned with what is ordinary | |
| 266168841 | sumptuous | costly, rich, magnificent | |
| 266168842 | hallow | to set apart as holy or sacred, sanctify, consecrate; to honor greatly, revere | |
| 266168843 | garner | to acquire as the result of effort; to gather and store away, as for future use | |
| 266168844 | figment | (n.) a fabrication of the mind; an arbitrary notion | |
| 266168845 | fiat | an arbitrary order or decree; a command or act of will or consciousness | |
| 266168846 | fecund | fruitful in offspring or vegetation; intellectually productive | |
| 266168847 | depraved | marked by evil and corruption, devoid of moral principles | |
| 266168848 | acuity | sharpness (of mind or senses of sight or hearing) | |
| 266168849 | nuance | a subtle or slight variation (as in color, meaning, quality), delicate gradation or shade of difference | |
| 266168850 | enervate | to weaken or lessen the mental, moral, or physical vigor of; enfeeble, hamstring | |
| 266168851 | penchant | a strong attraction or inclination | |
| 266168852 | idiosyncrasy | a peculiarity that serves to distinguish or identify | |
| 266168853 | esoteric | understood only by a small group or a select few | |
| 266168854 | exhume | to remove from a grave; to bring to light | |
| 266168855 | substantiate | establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts | |
| 266168856 | utopian | founded upon or involving a visionary view of an ideal world; impractical | |
| 266168857 | invidious | offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment | |
| 266168858 | eschew | to avoid, shun, keep away from | |
| 266168859 | talisman | an object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers, an amulet, fetish | |
| 266168860 | credence | belief, mental acceptance | |
| 266168861 | articulate | (v.) To pronounce distinctly; to express well in words; to fit together into a system; (adj.) able to use language effectively; expressed clearly and forcefully | |
| 266168862 | overt | open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized | |
| 266168863 | undulate | to move in waves or with a wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearance or form | |
| 266168865 | recumbent | (adj.) in a reclining position, lying down, in the posture of one sleeping or resting | |
| 266168866 | pusillanimous | contemptibly cowardly or mean-spirited | |
| 266168867 | jocular | humorous, jesting, jolly, joking | |
| 266168868 | nettle | (n.) a prickly or stinging plant; (v.) to arouse displeasure, impatience, or anger; to vex or irritate severely | |
| 266168869 | stratagem | a scheme to outwit or deceive an opponent or to gain an end | |
| 266168870 | arrogate | (v.) to claim or take without right | |
| 266168871 | sacrilege | (n.) improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred | |
| 266168872 | coherent | (adj.) holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful | |
| 266168873 | maelstrom | a whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction | |
| 266168874 | celerity | swiftness, rapidity of motion or action | |
| 266168875 | propinquity | nearness in place or time; kinship | |
| 266168876 | avid | desirous of something to the point of greed; intensely eager | |
| 266168877 | halcyon | (n.) a legendary bird identified with the kingfisher; (adj.) of or relating to the halcyon; calm, peaceful; happy, golden; prosperous, affluent | |
| 266168878 | animadversion | a comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval | |
| 266168879 | distraught | very much agitated or upset as a result of emotion or mental conflict | |
| 266168880 | carping | tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way; petty, nagging criticism | |
| 266168881 | histrionic | pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial; melodramatic | |
| 266168882 | incumbent | obligatory, required; one who holds a specific office at the time spoken of | |
| 266168883 | mordant | biting or caustic in thought, manner, or style; sharply or bitterly harsh | |
| 266168884 | germane | relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting | |
| 266168885 | verbiage | language that is too wordy or inflated in proportion to the sense or content, wordiness; a manner of expression | |
| 266168886 | viscous | (adj.) having a gelatinous or gluey quality, lacking in easy movement or fluidity | |
| 266168887 | suppliant | asking humbly and earnestly; one who makes a request humbly and earnestly, a petitioner, suitor | |
| 266168888 | nefarious | wicked, depraved, devoid of moral standards | |
| 266168889 | decry | to condemn, express strong disapproval; to officially depreciate | |
| 266168890 | tenable | capable of being held or defended | |
| 266168891 | incendiary | deliberately setting or causing fires; designed to start fires; tending to stir up strife or rebellion; one who deliberately sets fires, arsonist; one who causes strife | |
| 266168893 | incarcerate | to imprison, confine, jail | |
| 266168894 | banal | hackneyed, trite, commonplace | |
| 266168895 | gambit | in chess, an opening move that involves risk or sacrifice of a minor piece in order to gain a later advantage; any opening move of this type | |
| 266168896 | intransigent | refusing to compromise, irreconcilable | |
| 266168897 | brackish | having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink | |
| 266168898 | grouse | a type of game bird; a complaint; to complain, grumble | |
| 266168899 | disarray | disorder, confusion; to throw into disorder | |
| 266168900 | glean | to gather bit by bit; to gather small quantities of grain left in a field by the reapers | |
| 266168901 | piquant | (adj.) stimulating to the taste or mind; spicy, pungent; appealingly provocative | |
| 266168903 | atrophy | to waste away | |
| 266168904 | flotsam | (n.) floating debris; homeless, impoverished people | |
| 266168905 | concord | a state of agreement, harmony, unanimity; a treaty, pact, covenant | |
| 266168906 | unwonted | not usual or expected; not in character | |
| 266168907 | feckless | lacking in spirit and strength; ineffective, weak; irresponsible, unreliable | |
| 266168908 | eulogy | a formal statement of commendation; high praise | |
| 266168909 | exigency | urgency, pressure; urgent demand, pressing need; an emergency | |
| 266168910 | consumate | complete or perfect in the highest degree; to bring to a state of completion or perfection | |
| 266168911 | primordial | developed or created at the very beginning; going back to the most ancient times or earliest stage; fundamental, basic | |
| 266168912 | taciturn | habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little | |
| 266168913 | prejorative | (adj) tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory, deprecatory, belittling | |
| 266168914 | evince | to display clearly, to make evident, to provoke | |
| 266168915 | dissemble | to disguise or conceal, deliberately give a false impression | |
| 266168916 | murky | dark and gloomy, obscure; lacking in clarity and precision | |
| 266168917 | temporize | to stall or act evasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision; to compromise | |
| 266168918 | encomium | a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute | |
| 266168919 | reconnaissance | a survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination | |
| 266168920 | verdant | green in tint or color; immature in experience or judgment | |
| 266168921 | cavort | to romp or prance around exuberantly; to make merry | |
| 266168922 | emulate | to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model | |
| 266168923 | belabor | (v.) to work on excessively; to thrash soundly | |
| 266168924 | frentic | frenzied, hectic, frantic | |
| 266168925 | summarily | without delay or formality; briefly, concisely | |
| 266168926 | myopic | Nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation; lacking foresight or discernment | |
| 266168927 | accost | to approach and speak to first; to confront in a challenging or aggressive way | |
| 266168928 | insatiable | (adj.) so great or demanding as not to be satisfied | |
| 266168929 | congeal | (v.) to change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid | |
| 266168930 | acquisitive | able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property | |
| 266168931 | propriety | the state of being proper, appropriateness; standards of what is proper or socially acceptable | |
| 266168932 | devious | straying or wandering from a straight or direct course; done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way |