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| austere | severe or stern in manner, without adornment or luxury, simple, plain, harsh or sour in flavor; forbidding, rigorous, puritanical, ascetic, unadorned, subdued |
| beneficent | performing acts of kindness or charity, conferring benefits, doing good; humanitarian, magnanimous, charitable |
| cadaverous | pale, gaunt, resembling a corpse; wasted, haggard, emaciated, ghastly |
| concoct | to prepare by combining ingredients, make up (as a dish), to devise, invent, fabricate; to create, fashion, to rustle up |
| crass | coarse, unfeeling, stupid; crude, vulgar, tasteless, oafish, obtuse |
| debase | to lower in character, quality, value, to degrade, adulterate, to cause to deteriorate; to cheapen, corrupt, demean, depreciate |
| desecrate | to commit sacrilege, treat irreverently, to contaminate, pollute; to profane, defile, violate |
| desist | to cease doing something, forbear; to stop, discontinue, refrain, suspend |
| disconcert | to confuse, to disturb the composure of; to upset, rattle, ruffle, faze, perturb |
| grandiose | grand in an impressive or stately way, marked by pompous affection or grandeur, absurbly exaggerated; majestic, bombastic, highfalutin |
| inconsequential | trifling, unimportant; trivial, negligible, petty |
| infraction | a breaking of law or obligation; a violation, transgression, breach, offense |
| mitigate | to make milder of softer, to moderate in force or intensity; to lessen, relieve, alleviate, diminish |
| pillage | to rob of gods by open force (as in war), plunder, the act of looting, booty; to ravage or sack |
| prate | to talk a great deal in a foolish or aimless fashion; to chatter, prattle, babble, palaver |
| punctilious | very careful and exact, attentive to fine points of etiquette or propriety; precise, scrupulous, exacting, fussy, finicky |
| redoubtable | inspiring fear or awe, illustrious, eminent; formidable, fearsome, august |
| reprove | to find fault with, scold, rebuke; to chide, chastise, upbraid, reproach |
| restitution | the act of restoring somone/something to the rightful owner or to a former state or position, making good for loss; compensation, reimbursement, redress |
| stalwart | strong and sturdy, brave, resolute, a brave, strong person, a strong supporter, one who takes an uncompromising position; stout, intrepid, valiant, mainstay |
| stipend | a fixed sum of money paid periodically for services or to defray expenses; a salary, wage, allowance, emolument |
| vulnerable | open to attack, capable of being wounded or damaged, unprotected; defenseless, exposed, unguarded |
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