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| 1 | wrangle | (noun) an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining) (noun) an angry dispute; "they had a quarrel"; "they had words" (verb) to quarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively; "The bar keeper threw them out, but they continued to wrangle on down the street" (verb) herd and care for; "wrangle horses"
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| 2 | philology | (noun) the humanistic study of language and literature
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| 3 | archetype | (noun) an original model on which something is patterned
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| 4 | coronation | (noun) the ceremony of installing a new monarch
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| 5 | conciliate | (verb) make compatible with; "The scientists had to accommodate the new results with the existing theories" (verb) come to terms; "After some discussion we finally made up" (verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of; "She managed to mollify the angry customer"
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| 6 | raillery | (noun) light teasing repartee
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| 7 | conscious | (adjective) knowing and perceiving; having awareness of surroundings and sensations and thoughts; "remained conscious during the operation"; "conscious of his faults"; "became conscious that he was being followed" (adjective satellite) intentionally conceived; "a conscious effort to speak more slowly"; "a conscious policy"
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| 8 | mastery | (noun) the act of mastering or subordinating someone (noun) great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity; "a good command of French" (noun) power to dominate or defeat; "mastery of the seas"
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| 9 | maharaja | (noun) a great raja; a Hindu prince or king in India ranking above a raja
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| 10 | sphericity | (noun) the roundness of a 3-dimensional object
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| 11 | illegitimate | (noun) the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents (adjective satellite) contrary to or forbidden by law; "an illegitimate seizure of power"; "illicit trade"; "an outlaw strike"; "unlawful measures" (adjective) of marriages and offspring; not recognized as lawful
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| 12 | weak-kneed | (adjective satellite) lacking will power or resolution; "the role of the dissenter is not for the weak-kneed"
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| 13 | penetrable | (adjective) admitting of penetration or passage into or through; "a penetrable wall"; "penetrable defenses" (adjective satellite) capable of being penetrated; "penetrable defenses"
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| 14 | impecunious | (adjective satellite) not having enough money to pay for necessities
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| 15 | pungent | (adjective) sharp biting or acrid especially in taste or smell; "tasting the pungent wood sorrel"; "pungent curry"; "a pungent smell of burning sulfur" (adjective satellite) capable of wounding; "a barbed compliment"; "a biting aphorism"; "pungent satire"
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| 16 | blithesome | (adjective satellite) carefree and happy and lighthearted; "was loved for her blithe spirit"; "a merry blithesome nature"; "her lighthearted nature"; "trilling songs with a lightsome heart"
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| 17 | liking | (noun) a feeling of pleasure and enjoyment; "I've always had a liking for reading"; "she developed a liking for gin"
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| 18 | extinguish | (verb) kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population" (verb) put an end to; kill; "The Nazis snuffed out the life of many Jewish children" (verb) extinguish by crushing; "stub out your cigar" (verb) put out, as of fires, flames, or lights; "Too big to be extinguished at once, the forest fires at best could be contained"; "quench the flames"; "snuff out the candles"
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| 19 | abduction | (noun) (physiology) moving of a body part away from the central axis of the body (noun) the criminal act of capturing and carrying away by force a family member; if a man's wife is abducted it is a crime against the family relationship and against the wife
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| 20 | finesse | (noun) subtly skillful handling of a situation
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| 21 | insolent | (adjective satellite) unrestrained by convention or propriety; "an audacious trick to pull"; "a barefaced hypocrite"; "the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim"- Los Angeles Times; "bold-faced lies"; "brazen arrogance"; "the modern world with its quick materi (adjective satellite) marked by casual disrespect; "a flip answer to serious question"; "the student was kept in for impudent behavior"
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| 22 | privilege | (noun) a special advantage or immunity or benefit not enjoyed by all (noun) a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right); "suffrage was the prerogative of white adult males" (noun) (law) the right to refuse to divulge information obtained in a confidential relationship (verb) bestow a privilege upon
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| 23 | skepticism | (noun) doubt about the truth of something (noun) the disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge
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| 24 | ingenuity | (noun) the property of being ingenious; "a plot of great ingenuity"; "the cleverness of its design" (noun) the power of creative imagination
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| 25 | prospectus | (noun) a catalog listing the courses offered by a college or university (noun) a formal written offer to sell securities (filed with the SEC) that sets forth a plan for a (proposed) business enterprise; "a prospectus should contain the facts that an investor needs to make an informed decision"
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| 26 | excrescence | (noun) (pathology) an abnormal outgrowth or enlargement of some part of the body (noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form
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| 27 | fickle | (adjective satellite) liable to sudden unpredictable change; "erratic behavior"; "fickle weather"; "mercurial twists of temperament"; "a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next" (adjective satellite) marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments; "fickle friends"; "a flirt's volatile affections"
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| 28 | immaterial | (adjective) not consisting of matter; "immaterial apparitions"; "ghosts and other immaterial entities" (adjective) without material form or substance; "an incorporeal spirit" (adjective satellite) (often followed by `to') lacking importance; not mattering one way or the other; "whether you choose to do it or not is a matter that is quite immaterial (or indifferent)"; "what others think is altogether indifferent to him" (adjective) of no importance or relevance especially to a law case; "an objection that is immaterial after the fact" (adjective satellite) not pertinent to the matter under consideration; "an issue extraneous to the debate"; "the price was immaterial"; "mentioned several impertinent facts before finally coming to the point"
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| 29 | ghastly | (adjective satellite) shockingly repellent; inspiring horror; "ghastly wounds"; "the grim aftermath of the bombing"; "the grim task of burying the victims"; "a grisly murder"; "gruesome evidence of human sacrifice"; "macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages"; "macabr (adjective satellite) gruesomely indicative of death or the dead; "a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones"; "ghastly shrieks"; "the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs"
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| 30 | acid | (noun) street name for lysergic acid diethylamide (noun) any of various water-soluble compounds having a sour taste and capable of turning litmus red and reacting with a base to form a salt (adjective satellite) containing acid; "an acid taste" (adjective satellite) harsh or corrosive in tone; "an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose"; "a barrage of acid comments"; "her acrid remarks make her many enemies"; "bitter words"; "blistering criticism"; "caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts
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| 31 | grievous | (adjective satellite) causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm; "a dangerous operation"; "a grave situation"; "a grave illness"; "grievous bodily harm"; "a serious wound"; "a serious turn of events"; "a severe case of pneumonia"; "a life-threatening disease" (adjective satellite) shockingly brutal or cruel; "murder is an atrocious crime"; "a grievous offense against morality"; "a grievous crime"; "no excess was too monstrous for them to commit" (adjective satellite) of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought; "grave responsibilities"; "faced a grave decision in a time of crisis"; "a grievous fault"; "heavy matters of state"; "the weighty matters to be discussed at the peace conference" (adjective satellite) causing or marked by grief or anguish; "a grievous loss"; "a grievous cry"; "her sigh was heartbreaking"; "the heartrending words of Rabin's granddaughter"
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| 32 | convex | (adjective) curving or bulging outward
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| 33 | nonentity | (noun) a nonexistent thing (noun) a person of no influence (noun) the state of not existing
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| 34 | conservative | (noun) a person who has conservative ideas or opinions (adjective satellite) conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class; "a bourgeois mentality" (adjective) resistant to change (adjective satellite) unimaginatively conventional; "a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-gray world of business"- Newsweek (adjective satellite) avoiding excess; "a conservative estimate" (adjective satellite) opposed to liberal reforms
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| 35 | adherence | (noun) faithful support for a religion or cause or political party (noun) the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition
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| 36 | inexorable | (adjective satellite) not capable of being swayed or diverted from a course; unsusceptible to persuasion; "he is adamant in his refusal to change his mind"; "Cynthia was inexorable; she would have none of him"- W.Churchill; "an intransigent conservative opposed to every libera (adjective satellite) not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty; "grim determination"; "grim necessity"; "Russia's final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty"; "relentless persecution"; "the stern demands of parenthood"
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| 37 | suasion | (noun) the act of persuading (or attempting to persuade); communication intended to induce belief or action
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| 38 | erudition | (noun) profound scholarly knowledge
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| 39 | epilogue | (noun) a short passage added at the end of a literary work; "the epilogue told what eventually happened to the main characters" (noun) a short speech (often in verse) addressed directly to the audience by an actor at the end of a play
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| 40 | orthopedist | (noun) a specialist in correcting deformities of the skeletal system (especially in children)
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| 41 | belie | (verb) represent falsely; "This statement misrepresents my intentions" (verb) be in contradiction with
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| 42 | slothful | (adjective satellite) disinclined to work or exertion; "faineant kings under whose rule the country languished"; "an indolent hanger-on"; "too lazy to wash the dishes"; "shiftless idle youth"; "slothful employees"; "the unemployed are not necessarily work-shy"
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| 43 | degradation | (noun) changing to a lower state (a less respected state) (noun) a low or downcast state; "each confession brought her into an attitude of abasement"- H.L.Menchken
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| 44 | grindstone | (noun) a revolving stone shaped like a disk; used to grind or sharpen or polish edge tools
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| 45 | platitude | (noun) a trite or obvious remark
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| 46 | anachronism | (noun) an artifact that belongs to another time (noun) a person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age (noun) something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred
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| 47 | bewilder | (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me" (verb) cause to be confused emotionally
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| 48 | savor | (noun) the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth (verb) derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in; "She relished her fame and basked in her glory" (verb) taste appreciatively; "savor the soup" (verb) give taste to (verb) have flavor; taste of something
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| 49 | venereal | (adjective) of or relating to the external sex organs; "genital herpes"; "venereal disease"
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| 50 | variegate | (verb) make something more diverse and varied; "Vary the menu" (verb) change the appearance of, especially by marking with different colors
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| 51 | imbrue | (verb) permeate or impregnate; "The war drenched the country in blood"
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| 52 | stealth | (noun) avoiding detection by moving carefully
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| 53 | perform | (verb) carry out or perform an action; "John did the painting, the weeding, and he cleaned out the gutters"; "the skater executed a triple pirouette"; "she did a little dance" (verb) give a performance (of something); "Horowitz is performing at Carnegie Hall tonight"; "We performed a popular Gilbert and Sullivan opera" (verb) perform a function; "Who will perform the wedding?" (verb) get (something) done; "I did my job"
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