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| 1 | foment | (verb) bathe with warm water or medicated lotions; "His legs should be fomented" (verb) try to stir up public opinion
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| 2 | dissonance | (noun) disagreeable sounds (noun) the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience; "modern music is just noise to me" (noun) a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters
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| 3 | renounce | (verb) cast off or disown; "She renounced her husband"; "The parents repudiated their son" (verb) turn away from; give up; "I am foreswearing women forever" (verb) leave (a job, post, post, or position) voluntarily; "She vacated the position when she got pregnant"; "The chairman resigned when he was found to have misappropriated funds" (verb) give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations; "The King abdicated when he married a divorcee"
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| 4 | empathy | (noun) understanding and entering into another's feelings
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| 5 | engrossing | (adjective satellite) capable of arousing and holding the attention; "a fascinating story"
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| 6 | discerning | (adjective) having or revealing keen insight and good judgment; "a discerning critic"; "a discerning reader" (adjective satellite) able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive; "discerning taste"; "a discerning eye for color" (adjective satellite) quick to understand; "a kind and apprehensive friend"- Nathaniel Hawthorne (adjective satellite) unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic; "a discerning editor"; "a discreet silence"
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| 7 | equilibrium | (noun) a sensory system located in structures of the inner ear that registers the orientation of the head (noun) a chemical reaction and its reverse proceed at equal rates (noun) equality of distribution (noun) a stable situation in which forces cancel one another
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| 8 | explicit | (adjective) precisely and clearly expressed or readily observable; leaving nothing to implication; "explicit instructions"; "she made her wishes explicit"; "explicit sexual scenes" (adjective satellite) in accordance with fact or the primary meaning of a term
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| 9 | flexibility | (noun) the quality of being adaptable or variable; "he enjoyed the flexibility of his working arrangement" (noun) the trait of being easily persuaded (noun) the property of being flexible
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| 10 | haughtiness | (noun) overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors
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| 11 | nurture | (noun) raising someone to be an accepted member of the community; "they debated whether nature or nurture was more important" (noun) the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child (verb) help develop, help grow; "nurture his talents" (verb) provide with nourishment; "We sustained ourselves on bread and water"; "This kind of food is not nourishing for young children" (verb) bring up; "raise a family"; "bring up children"
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| 12 | dexterous | (adjective satellite) skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands; "a deft waiter"; "deft fingers massaged her face"; "dexterous of hand and inventive of mind"
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| 13 | repast | (noun) the food served and eaten at one time
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| 14 | reproach | (noun) a mild rebuke or criticism; "words of reproach" (noun) disgrace or shame; "he brought reproach upon his family" (verb) express criticism towards; "The president reproached the general for his irresponsible behavior"
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| 15 | platonic | (adjective satellite) free from physical desire; "platonic love" (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of Plato or his philosophy; "Platonic dialogues"
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| 16 | erratic | (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) likely to perform unpredictably; "erratic winds are the bane of a sailor"; "a temperamental motor; sometimes it would start and sometimes it wouldn't"; "that beautiful but temperamental instrument the flute"- Osbert Lancaster (adjective satellite) having no fixed course; "an erratic comet"; "his life followed a wandering course"; "a planetary vagabond"
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| 17 | brevity | (noun) the attribute of being brief or fleeting (noun) the use of brief expressions
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| 18 | preclude | (verb) keep from happening or arising; have the effect of preventing; "My sense of tact forbids an honest answer" (verb) make impossible, especially beforehand
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| 19 | clairvoyant | (noun) someone who has the power of clairvoyance (adjective satellite) foreseeing the future (adjective satellite) perceiving things beyond the natural range of the senses
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| 20 | phenomenon | (noun) any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning (noun) a remarkable development
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| 21 | loquacious | (adjective satellite) full of trivial conversation; "kept from her housework by gabby neighbors"
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| 22 | notoriety | (noun) the state of being known for some unfavorable act or quality
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| 23 | ascendancy | (noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another; "her apparent dominance of her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her"
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| 24 | replete | (verb) fill to satisfaction; "I am sated"
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| 25 | stanch | (verb) stop the flow of a liquid; "staunch the blood flow"; "them the tide"
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| 26 | nomadic | (adjective satellite) (of groups of people) tending to travel and change settlements frequently; "a restless mobile society"; "the nomadic habits of the Bedouins"; "believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future"; "wandering tribes"
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| 27 | rapacious | (adjective satellite) devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves"; "voracious sharks" (adjective satellite) excessively greedy and grasping; "a rapacious divorcee on the prowl"; "ravening creditors"; "paying taxes to voracious governments" (adjective satellite) living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey; "a predatory bird"; "the rapacious wolf"; "raptorial birds"; "ravening wolves"; "a vulturine taste for offal"
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| 28 | emaciated | (adjective satellite) very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration"
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| 29 | eclectic | (noun) someone who selects according to the eclectic method (adjective satellite) selecting what seems best of various styles or ideas
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| 30 | redundant | (adjective satellite) repetition of same sense in different words; "`a true fact' and `a free gift' are pleonastic expressions"; "the phrase `a beginner who has just started' is tautological"; "at the risk of being redundant I return to my original proposition"- J.B.Conant (adjective satellite) use of more words than required to express an idea; "a wordy gossipy account of a simple incident"; "a redundant text crammed with amplifications of the obvious" (adjective satellite) more than is needed, desired, or required; "trying to lose excess weight"; "found some extra change lying on the dresser"; "yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant"; "skills made redundant by technological advance"; "sleeping in the spare
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| 31 | repercussion | (noun) a movement back from an impact (noun) a remote or indirect consequence of some action; "his declaration had unforeseen repercussions"; "reverberations of the market crash were felt years later"
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| 32 | stridency | (noun) having the timbre of a loud high-pitched sound
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| 33 | diminution | (noun) the act of decreasing or reducing something (noun) the statement of a theme in notes of lesser duration (usually half the length of the original) (noun) change toward something smaller or lower
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| 34 | ephemeral | (adjective satellite) enduring a very short time; "the ephemeral joys of childhood"; "a passing fancy"; "youth's transient beauty"; "love is transitory but at is eternal"; "fugacious blossoms"
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| 35 | verbatim | (adjective satellite) in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker; "a direct quotation"; "repeated their dialog verbatim" (adverb) using exactly the same words; "he repeated her remarks verbatim"
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| 36 | oscillation | (noun) a single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon; "a year constitutes a cycle of the seasons" (noun) (physics) a regular periodic variation in value about a mean (noun) the process of oscillating between states
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| 37 | mundane | (adjective satellite) belonging to this earth or world; not ideal or heavenly; "not a fairy palace; yet a mundane wonder of unimagined kind"; "so terrene a being as himself" (adjective satellite) found in the ordinary course of events; "a placid everyday scene"; "it was a routine day"; "there's nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute"- Anita Diamant (adjective satellite) concerned with the world or worldly matters; "mundane affairs"; "he developed an immense terrestrial practicality"
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| 38 | unbridled | (adjective satellite) not restrained or controlled; "unbridled rage"; "an unchecked temper"; "ungoverned rage"
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| 39 | reconciliation | (noun) getting two things to correspond; "the reconciliation of his checkbook and the bank statement" (noun) the reestablishing of cordial relations
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| 40 | conformist | (noun) someone who conforms to established standards of conduct (especially in religious matters) (adjective) marked by conformity or convention; not corresponding to current customs or rules or styles; "underneath the radical image teenagers are surprisingly conformist" (adjective satellite) adhering to established customs or doctrines (especially in religion)
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| 41 | polemic | (noun) a controversy (especially over a belief or dogma) (noun) a writer who argues in opposition to others (especially in theology) (adjective satellite) of or involving dispute or controversy
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| 42 | static | (noun) angry criticism; "they will probably give you a lot of static about your editorial" (noun) a crackling or hissing noise cause by electrical interference (adjective satellite) showing little if any change; "a static population" (adjective satellite) not active or moving; "a static village community and a completely undynamic type of agriculture"; "static feudal societies" (adjective satellite) not in physical motion; "the inertia of an object at rest" (adjective) concerned with or producing or caused by static electricity; "an electrostatic generator produces high-voltage static electricity"
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| 43 | endearing | (adjective satellite) lovable especially in a childlike or naive way
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| 44 | magnanimous | (adjective satellite) generous and understanding and tolerant; "a heart big enough to hold no grudges"; "that's very big of you to be so forgiving"; "a large and generous spirit"; "a large heart"; "magnanimous toward his enemies" (adjective satellite) noble and generous in spirit; "a greathearted general"; "a magnanimous conqueror"
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| 45 | flammable | (adjective satellite) possible to burn
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| 46 | skulk | (verb) move stealthily; "The lonely man skulks down the main street all day" (verb) avoid responsibilities and duties, e.g., by pretending to be ill (verb) lie in wait, lie in ambush, behave in a sneaky and secretive manner
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| 47 | pandemonium | (noun) a state of extreme confusion and disorder
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| 48 | pellucid | (adjective satellite) (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable; "writes in a limpid style"; "lucid directions"; "a luculent oration"- Robert Burton; "pellucid prose"; "a crystal clear explanation"; "a perspicuous argument" (adjective satellite) transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity; "the cold crystalline water of melted snow"; "crystal clear skies"; "could see the sand on the bottom of the limpid pool"; "lucid air"; "a pellucid brook"; "transparent cristal"
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| 49 | relinquish | (verb) relinquish to the power of another; yield to the control of another (verb) release, as from one's grip; "Let go of the door handle, please!"; "relinquish your grip on the rope--you won't fall" (verb) turn away from; give up; "I am foreswearing women forever" (verb) part with a possession or right; "I am relinquishing my bedroom to the long-term house guest"; "resign a claim to the throne" (verb) do without or cease to hold or adhere to; "We are dispensing with formalities"; "relinquish the old ideas"
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| 50 | opaque | (adjective) not clear; not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy; "opaque windows of the jail"; "opaque to X-rays" (adjective satellite) not clearly understood or expressed
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| 51 | 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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| 52 | dexterity | (noun) adroitness in using the hands
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| 53 | irresolute | (adjective satellite) lacking decisiveness of character; unable to act or decide quickly or firmly; "stood irresolute waiting for some inspiration" (adjective) uncertain how to act or proceed; "the committee was timid and mediocre and irresolute"
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| 54 | encapsulate | (verb) put in a short or concise form; reduce in volume; "capsulize the news" (verb) enclose in a capsule or other small container
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| 55 | debacle | (noun) a sudden and violent collapse (noun) a sound defeat (noun) flooding caused by a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river during the spring or summer
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| 56 | profound | (adjective satellite) situated at or extending to great depth; too deep to have been sounded or plumbed; "the profound depths of the sea"; "the dark unfathomed caves of ocean"-Thomas Gray; "unplumbed depths of the sea"; "remote and unsounded caverns" (adjective satellite) (of sleep) deep and complete; "a heavy sleep"; "fell into a profound sleep"; "a sound sleeper"; "deep wakeless sleep" (adjective satellite) coming from deep within one; "a profound sigh" (adjective satellite) of the greatest intensity; complete; "a profound silence"; "a state of profound shock" (adjective) showing intellectual penetration or emotional depths; from the depths of your being; "the differences are profound"; "a profound insight"; "a profound book"; "a profound mind"; "profound contempt"; "profound regret" (adjective satellite) far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something; "the fundamental revolution in human values that has occurred"; "the book underwent fundamental changes"; "committed the fundamental error of confusing spending with extravaga
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| 57 | eradicate | (verb) kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population" (verb) destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted"
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