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| epicurean | devoted to the pursuit of pleasure; fond of good food, comfort, and ease; with discriminating tastes (syn) hedonistic, sybaritic; discriminating (ant) ascetic, self denying, abstemious |
| obeisance | a deep bow or other body movement indicating respect or submission; deference or homage (syn)respect, honor (ant) disrespect, irreverence, disregard |
| presage | to foreshadow or point to a future event; to predict; a warning or indication of the future (syn) to augur, portend, foretell |
| progeny | children, offspring, descendants, followers, disciples (syn) issue, posterity (ant) ancestors, forecears, antecedents |
| promulgate | to proclaim or issue officially, to make known far and wide (syn) announce (ant) withdraw, retract, abrogate, nullify |
| subsist | to have existence; to remain alive, manage to make a living or maintain life; to persist or continue (syn) to last, survive, sustain |
| pittance | a woefully meager allowance, or portion (syn) a modicum, trifle (ant) fortune |
| improvident | not thrifty; failing to plan ahead (syn) prodigal, spendthrift, extravagant (ant) thrifty, frugal, economical, cautious |
| seraphic | angelic, heavenly, celestial (syn) cherubic (ant) devilish, impish |
| dissidence | a difference of opinion; discontent (syn) disagreement, dissent, disaffection (ant) agreement, harmony, concord |
| nascent | just beginning to exist or develop; having just come into existence (syn) budding, incipient, embryonic (ant) dying, moribind, senescent |
| aperture | an opening, gap, orifice, hole (ant) closure, blockage, occlusion |
| restive | restless, hard to manage, balky (syn) uneasy, fidgety; recalcitrant (ant) serene, unfuffled, docile |
| panegyric | formal or elaborate praise, a tribute (syn) encomium, testimonial, tribute (ant) diatribe, tirade, philippic |
| rectitude | uprightness, righteousness; correctness (syn) probity, integrity (ant) iniquity, heinousness |
| iniquity | wickedness, sin; grossly immoral act (syn) evil; a crime (ant) probity, rectitude, uprightness |
| pillory | a device for publicly punishing offenders; to expose to public abuse or ridicule (ant) praise, extol, laud, acclaim |
| mutable | open to or capable of change, fickle (syn) changeable, variable (ant) changeless, steadfast, constant |
| amenity | that ehich is pleasant or agreeable; attractive features, customs, etc. (ant) unpleasantness, disagreeableness |
| inviolable | sacred; of such a character that it must not be broken, injured, or profaned (syn) sacrosanct, unassailable (ant) vulnerable, assailable |
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