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| 1 | disparity | (noun) inequality or difference in some respect
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| 2 | equable | (adjective satellite) not easily irritated; "an equable temper"; "not everyone shared his placid temperament"; "remained placid despite the repeated delays" (adjective satellite) not varying; "an equable climate"
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| 3 | debonair | (adjective satellite) having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air; "looking chipper, like a man...diverted by his own wit"- Frances G. Patton; "life that is gay, brisk, and debonair"- H.M.Reynolds; "walked with a jaunty step"; "a jaunty optimist" (adjective satellite) having a sophisticated charm; "a debonair gentleman"
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| 4 | augment | (verb) enlarge or increase; "The recent speech of the PLO chairman augmented tensions in the Near East" (verb) grow or intensify; "The pressure augmented"
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| 5 | hedonist | (noun) someone motivated by desires for sensual pleasures
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| 6 | adulation | (noun) servile flattery; exaggerated and hypocritical praise
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| 7 | penurious | (adjective satellite) excessively unwilling to spend; "parsimonious thrift relieved by few generous impulses"; "lived in a most penurious manner--denying himself every indulgence" (adjective satellite) not having enough money to pay for necessities
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| 8 | suppress | (verb) to put down by force or authority; "suppress a nascent uprising"; "stamp down on littering"; "conquer one's desires" (verb) put out of one's consciousness (verb) keep under control; keep in check; "suppress a smile"; "Keep your temper"; "keep your cool" (verb) control and refrain from showing; of emotions (verb) come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority; "The government oppresses political activists"
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| 9 | seethe | (verb) boil vigorously; "The liquid was seething"; "The water rolled" (verb) foam as if boiling; "a seething liquid" (verb) be in an agitated emotional state; "The customer was seething with anger" (verb) be noisy with activity; "This office is buzzing with activity"
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| 10 | hypothetical | (adjective satellite) based on hypothesis; "a hypothetical situation"; "the site of a hypothetical colony"
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| 11 | congregation | (noun) the act of congregating (noun) an assemblage of people or animals or things collected together; "a congregation of children pleaded for his autograph"; "a great congregation of birds flew over" (noun) a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church
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| 12 | incessant | (adjective satellite) occurring so frequently as to seem ceaseless or uninterrupted; "a child's incessant questions"; "your perpetual (or continual) complaints" (adjective satellite) uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing; "the ceaseless thunder of surf"; "in constant pain"; "night and day we live with the incessant noise of the city"; "the never-ending search for happiness"; "the perpetual struggle to maintain standar
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| 13 | homogeneous | (adjective) all of the same or similar kind or nature; "a close-knit homogeneous group"
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| 14 | deplore | (verb) express strong disapproval of; "We deplore the government's treatment of political prisoners" (verb) regret strongly; "I deplore this hostile action"; "we lamented the loss of benefits"
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| 15 | predilection | (noun) a predisposition in favor of something; "a predilection for expensive cars"; "his sexual preferences"; "showed a Marxist orientation" (noun) a strong liking; "my own preference is for good literature"; "the Irish have a penchant for blarney"
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| 16 | delineate | (verb) describe in vivid detail (verb) make a mark or lines on a surface; "draw a line"; "trace the outline of a figure in the sand" (verb) trace the shape of (verb) determine the essential quality of (verb) delineate the form or outline of; "The tree was clearly defined by the light"; "The camera could define the smallest object" (adjective) represented accurately or precisely
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| 17 | discourse | (noun) extended verbal expression in speech or writing (noun) an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic; "the book contains an excellent discussion of modal logic"; "his treatment of the race question is badly biased" (noun) an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service) (verb) talk or hold forth formally about a topic; "The speaker dissertated about the social politics in 18th century England" (verb) carry on a conversation (verb) to consider or examine in speech or writing; "The article covered all the different aspects of this question"; "The class discussed Dante's `Inferno'"
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| 18 | reciprocal | (noun) hybridization involving a pair of crosses that reverse the sexes associated with each genotype (noun) (mathematics) one of a pair of numbers whose product is 1: the reciprocal of 2/3 is 3/2; the multiplicative inverse of 7 is 1/7 (noun) something (a term or expression or concept) that has a reciprocal relation to something else; "risk is the reciprocal of safety" (adjective satellite) of or relating to the multiplicative inverse of a quantity or function; "the reciprocal ratio of a:b is b:a" (adjective) concerning each of two or more persons or things; especially given or done in return; "reciprocal aid"; "reciprocal trade"; "mutual respect"; "reciprocal privileges at other clubs" (adjective satellite) of or relating to or suggestive of complementation; "interchangeable electric outlets"
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| 19 | skeptical | (adjective satellite) denying or questioning the tenets of especially a religion; "a skeptical approach to the nature of miracles" (adjective satellite) marked by or given to doubt; "a skeptical attitude"; "a skeptical listener"
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| 20 | arid | (adjective satellite) lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless; "a technically perfect but arid performance of the sonata"; "a desiccate romance"; "a prissy and emotionless creature...settles into a mold of desiccated snobbery"-C.J.Rolo (adjective satellite) lacking sufficient water or rainfall; "an arid climate"; "a waterless well"; "miles of waterless country to cross"
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| 21 | enormousness | (noun) unusual largeness in size or extent
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| 22 | dilatory | (adjective satellite) using cautious slow strategy to wear down opposition; avoiding direct confrontation; "a fabian policy" (adjective satellite) wasting time (adjective satellite) inclined to waste time and lag behind
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| 23 | deplete | (verb) use up (resources or materials); "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"
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| 24 | repudiate | (verb) refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid; "The woman repudiated the divorce settlement" (verb) cast off or disown; "She renounced her husband"; "The parents repudiated their son" (verb) reject as untrue, unfounded, or unjust; "She repudiated the accusations" (verb) refuse to recognize or pay; "repudiate a debt"
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| 25 | perquisite | (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) an incidental benefit awarded for certain types of employment (especially if it is regarded as a right); "a limousine is one of the fringe benefits of the job"
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| 26 | discountenance | (verb) show disapproval by discouraging; "any measure tending to fuse invalids into a class with special privileges should be discountenanced" (verb) look with disfavor on; "The republic soon discountenanced its few friends"
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| 27 | pragmatic | (adjective satellite) concerned with practical matters; "a matter-of-fact (or pragmatic) approach to the problem"; "a matter-of-fact account of the trip" (adjective satellite) guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory; "a hardheaded appraisal of our position"; "a hard-nosed labor leader"; "completely practical in his approach to business"; "not ideology but pragmatic politics" (adjective) of or concerning the theory of pragmatism
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| 28 | enmity | (noun) the feeling of a hostile person; "he could no longer contain his hostility" (noun) a state of deep-seated ill-will
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| 29 | undulation | (noun) (physics) a movement up and down or back and forth (noun) wave-like motion; a gentle rising and falling in the manner of waves (noun) an undulating curve
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| 30 | floridness | (noun) extravagant elaborateness
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| 31 | astute | (adjective satellite) marked by practical hardheaded intelligence; "a smart businessman"; "an astute tenant always reads the small print in a lease"; "he was too shrewd to go along with them on a road that could lead only to their overthrow"
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| 32 | desultory | (adjective satellite) marked by lack of definite plan or regularity or purpose; jumping from one thing to another; "desultory thoughts"; "the desultory conversation characteristic of cocktail parties"
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| 33 | resilience | (noun) the physical property of a material that can return to its original shape or position after deformation that does not exceed its elastic limit (noun) an occurrence of rebounding or springing back
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| 34 | erasure | (noun) deletion by an act of expunging or erasing (noun) a surface area where something has been erased; "another word had been written over the erasure" (noun) a correction made by erasing; "there were many erasures in the typescript"
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| 35 | venerate | (verb) regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of; "Fear God as your father"; "We venerate genius"
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| 36 | eulogy | (noun) a formal expression of praise
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| 37 | incorrigible | (adjective) impervious to correction by punishment
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| 38 | fidelity | (noun) accuracy with which an electronic system reproduces the sound or image of its input signal (noun) the quality of being faithful
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| 39 | foil | (noun) a light slender flexible sword tipped by a button (noun) a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal; "the photographic film was wrapped in foil" (noun) picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector (noun) a device consisting of a flat or curved piece (as a metal plate) so that its surface reacts to the water it is passing through; "the fins of a fish act as hydrofoils" (noun) anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities; "pretty girls like plain friends as foils" (verb) cover or back with foil; "foil mirrors" (verb) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent" (verb) enhance by contrast; "In this picture, the figures are foiled against the background"
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| 40 | amicable | (adjective) characterized by friendship and good will
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| 41 | exonerate | (verb) pronounce not guilty of criminal charges; "The suspect was cleared of the murder charges"
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| 42 | stupefy | (verb) make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow; "stun fish" (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) make dull or stupid or muddle with drunkenness or infatuation
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| 43 | diffidence | (noun) lack of self-confidence
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| 44 | flout | (verb) treat with contemptuous disregard; "flout the rules" (verb) laugh at with contempt and derision; "The crowd jeered at the speaker"
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| 45 | mercenary | (noun) a person hired to fight for another country than their own (adjective satellite) profit oriented; "a commercial book"; "preached a mercantile and militant patriotism"- John Buchan; "a mercenary enterprise"; "a moneymaking business" (adjective satellite) marked by materialism
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| 46 | realm | (noun) a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about; "it was a limited domain of discourse"; "here we enter the region of opinion"; "the realm of the occult" (noun) the domain ruled by a king or queen (noun) a domain in which something is dominant; "the untroubled kingdom of reason"; "a land of make-believe"; "the rise of the realm of cotton in the south"
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| 47 | sagacity | (noun) the trait of forming opinions by distinguishing and evaluating (noun) ability to make good judgments
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| 48 | subversive | (noun) a radical supporter of political or social revolution (adjective satellite) in opposition to a civil authority or government
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| 49 | recession | (noun) the act of becoming more distant (noun) the act of ceding back (noun) the withdrawal of the clergy and choir from the chancel to the vestry at the end of a church service (noun) a small concavity (noun) the state of the economy declines; a widespread decline in the GDP and employment and trade lasting from six months to a year
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| 50 | intuitive | (adjective satellite) obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation (adjective satellite) spontaneously derived from or prompted by a natural tendency; "an intuitive revulsion"
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| 51 | stamina | (noun) enduring strength and energy
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| 52 | censure | (noun) harsh criticism or disapproval (noun) the state of being excommunicated (verb) rebuke formally
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| 53 | aplomb | (noun) great coolness and composure under strain; "keep your cool"
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| 54 | exemplary | (adjective satellite) serving to warn; "shook a monitory finger at him"; "an exemplary jail sentence" (adjective satellite) being or serving as an illustration of a type; "the free discussion that is emblematic of democracy"; "an action exemplary of his conduct"; (adjective satellite) worthy of imitation; "exemplary behavior"; "model citizens"
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| 55 | plausible | (adjective satellite) appearing to merit belief or acceptance; "a credible witness"; "a plausible story" (adjective satellite) within the realm of credibility; "not a very likely excuse"; "a plausible story" (adjective) likely but not certain to be or become true or real; "a likely result"; "he foresaw a probable loss" (adjective) apparently reasonable and valid
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| 56 | sacrilege | (noun) blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character; "desecration of the Holy Sabbath"
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| 57 | finicky | (adjective satellite) exacting especially about details; "a finicky eater"; "fussy about clothes"; "very particular about how her food was prepared"
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