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● Accrue: (v.) (of sums of money or benefits) be received by someone in regular or increasing amounts
over time
● Acquiesce: (v.) to yield, to submit
● Adage: (n.) a saying or proverb about a common truth
● Adjure: (v.) to make an earnest appeal
● Affinity: (n.) a natural liking for and understanding of someone or something
● Affluent: (adj.) wealthy
● Altruistic: (adj.) displaying selflessness and concern for others more/rather than oneself, unselfish
● Analogous: (adj.) having similarities, comparable
● Animosity: (n.) strong hostility
● Antipathy: (n.) deep-seated feeling of strong dislike
● Approbate: (v.) approve formally
● Arbitrary: (adj.) based on random choice without reason or system
● Arduous: (adj.) requiring great effort and difficulty, tiring
● Ascension: (n.) action of rising to a higher position or level
● Ascribe: (v.) regard something as being due to a cause; regard a text, quotation, or work of art as
being produced by or belonging to
● Attest: (v.) show, prove, or state that something is true or real
● Avaricious: (adj.) greedy
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● Bemuse: (v.) puzzle, confuse, bewilder
● Biome: (n.) a division of the world’s vegetation that is required to live in a defined climate
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● Caustic: (adj.) able to burn or corrode organic tissue by chemical action
● Chasten: (v.) have a restraining or moderating effect on
● Cloisonne: (n.) enamel work in which the different colors are separated by strips of flattened wire
placed edgeways on a metal backing (type of design usually on pottery)
● Codify: (V.) to formalize; to make into a system or code
● Coercion: (n.) the practice of persuading someone to do something by using force or threats
● Commiseration: (n.) sympathy, sorrow, or pity for the misfortunes of others
● Conglomerate: (n.) group or corporation that has a number of companies dealing with different
businesses
● Contingency: (n.) a future event or circumstance which is possible but cannot be predicted with
certainty
● Copious: (adj.) abundant in supply or quantity
● Constitute: (v.) to be a part of a whole; give legal or constitutional form to (an institution); establish
by law

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● Dearth: (n.) a scarcity or lack of something
● Decorum: (n.) behavior in keeping with good taste and proprietary, having good etiquette
● Degenerate: (adj.) having lost the physical, mental, or moral qualities considered normal or
desirable; showing evidence of decline
● Desecration: (n.) an act of violation
● Definitive: (adj.) done or reached decisively with authority, conclusive/generally used, typical and
standard design, not special
 ● Destitution: (n.) poverty so extreme that one lacks the means to provide for oneself.
● Dilapidated: (adj.) in a state of disrepair or ruin as a result of age or neglect (of a building or object)
● Diminutive: (adj.) extremely small, tiny
● Discredit: (v.) harm the good reputation of; (n.) loss or lack of reputation or respect
● Disparate: (adj.) not able to be compared, different and contrasting
● Divulgence: (n.) the action of revealing sensitive or private information
● Duress: (n.) threats, violence, constraints, or other action used to coerce someone into doing
something against their will or better judgement
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● Effectual: (adj.) (for inanimate and abstract subjects) successful in producing a desired result,
effective
● Effrontery: (n.) insolent or impertinent behaviour
● Egregious: (adj.) outstandingly bad
● Elicit: (v.) to cause/evoke (a reaction, response from someone/something to something/someone)
● Equanimity: (n.) mental or emotional stability or composure, particularly under stress
● Evanesce: (v.) to disappear gradually; vanish; fade away from existence
● Exhort: (v.) strongly urge or encourage
● Extemporaneous: (adj.) spoken or done without preparing
● Extirpate: (v.) to remove or destroy completely, to exterminate
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● Flux: (n.) a state of change
● Fricative: (adj.) denoting a type of consonant made by the friction of breath in a narrow opening,
producing a unsettled air flow
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● Genocidal: (adj.) relating to or involving the deliberate killing of a large group of people of a
particular nation or ethnic group
● Grotesque: (adj.) comically or repulsively ugly or distorted; incongruous or inappropriate to a
shocking degree
● Guise: (n.) an external form, appearance, or manner of presentation, typically concealing the true
nature of something
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● Heinous: (adj.) despicable; atrocious
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● Imperative: (adj.) of vital importance; crucial; giving an authoritative command
● Impertinence: (n.) lack of respect; rudeness
● Impervious: (adj.) not allowing fluid to pass through; unable to be affected by
● Impetuous: (adj.) acting or done quickly and without thought or care; moving forcefully or rapidly
● Impoverishment: (n.) the process of becoming poor, losing wealth
● Improvident: (adj.) lacking care or thought, wasteful
● Incarcerate: (v.) to imprison or confine
● Incongruous: (adj.) no in harmony or keeping with the surroundings or other aspects of something
J-
● Judicious: (adj.) having, displaying or done with judgement, sense and thought
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● Keen: (adj.) having or showing eagerness or enthusiasm, highly developed
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● Largesse: (n.) generosity; the giving of generous amounts of money or gifts
 ● Leonine: (adj.) resembling a lion and having lion like qualities
● Lucrative: (adj.) profitable, producing lots of profit
● Luminary: (n.) a person who is well known, inspirational, or notable due to his or her achievements in
a particular area
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● Macabre: (adj.) disturbing because concerned with or causing a fear of death
● Magnate: (adj.) very wealthy and influential business person
● Malfeasance: (n.) a wrongdoing, especially by a public official
● Malevolent: (adj.) having or showing a wish to do evil to others
● Monstrous: (adj.) having the ugly or frightening appearance of a monster; inhumanly or
outrageously evil or wrong
● Multifarious: (adj.) diverse; many and various
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● Nebulous: (adj.) in the form of a cloud or haze, hazy; vague or ill-defined
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● Opulent: (adj.) extremely costly and luxurious
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● Pectoral: (adj.) relating to the chest/breast area, worn on the chest
● Penury: (n.) extreme poverty; destitution
● Peremptory: (adj.) insisting immediate attention usually in an imperious manner
● Preclude: (v.) prevent from happening; make impossible, (of a situation or condition) prevent someone
from doing something
● Preemptive: (adj.) intending to forestall something mostly to prevent further attack or damage of
some force by disabling
● Poignant: (adj.) evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret, sharp or pungent in taste or smell
● Preposterous: (adj.) contrary to reason or common sense; utterly absurd or ridiculous
● Precedent: (n.) an earlier event or action that is regarded as an example or guide to be considered in
subsequent similar circumstances; (adj.) preceding in time, order, or importance
● Proliferation: (n.) rapid increase in numbers
● Proactive: (adj.) (of person or action) using time efficiently and responding or creating situations
before it actually happens
● Proscriptive: (adj.) (on law or rule) forbidding or restricting something, denouncing/condemning
something
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● Recrimination: (n.) an accusation in response to one from someone else
● Repudiate: (v.) refuse to accept; reject, deny the truth or validity of
● Rive: (v.) split or tear apart violently
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● Sanction: (n.) a threatened penalty for disobeying a law or rule, official permission or approval for
an action, (v.) give official permission or approval for (an action), impose a sanction or penalty on
● Sanguine: (adj.) optimistic
● Subjugate: (v.) bring under domination or control, especially by conquest
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● Torrential: (adj.) (of rain) falling rapidly and in copious quantities
● Tracery: (n.) ornamental stone openwork, typically in the upper part of a Gothic window
● Transmogrify: (v.) transform in a surprising and magical way
 ● Turbulent: (adj.) lined with conflict, disorder, confusion; unstable, not calm
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● Ubiquitous: (adj.) present, appearing, found everywhere
● Unostentatious: (adj.) not characterized by vulgar or pretentious display; modest
V-
● Vindictive: (adj.) having strong and unreasoning desire for revenge
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