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| dilettante | (noun) a person who takes up an art, activity, or subject merely for amusement, esp. in a desultory or superficial way; dabbler |
| erudite | (adj) charactierized by great knowledge; learned or scholarly; an erudite progessor; an erudite commentary |
| foible | (noun)a minor weakness or failing of character; slight flaw or defect; an all-too-human foible |
| histrionic | (ad) deliberately affected or self-consciously emotional; overly dramatic, in behavior or speech |
| ineffable | (adj) incapable of being expressed or described in words; inexpressible; ineffable joy. |
| abstemious | (adj) sparing or moderate in eating and drinking;terperate in diet: The hermit lead an abstemious way of life |
| anomaly | (noun) a deviation from the common rule, type, arrangement, or form: With his quiet nature, he was an anomaly in his exuberant family |
| bellicose | (adj) inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious: Arnold was, in fact, a bellicose vein |
| Clandestine | (adj) characterized by, done in, or executed with secrecy or concealment, esp. for purposes of sebversion or deception; private or surreptitious. Their clandestine meetings went undiscovered for years. |
| craven | (adj) cowardly; contemptibly timid; pusillainousL: The poor craven bridegroom said never a word |
