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| connoisseur | a person who is especially competent to pass critical judgments in an art, particularly one of the fine arts, or in matters of taste |
| asunder | into separate parts; in or into pieces |
| raze | to tear down; demolish; level to the ground |
| blighted | to have a deleterious effect: ruin |
| aghast | struck with overwhelming shock or amazement; filled with sudden fright or horror |
| milieu | surroundings, esp. of a social or cultural nature |
| arduous | requiring great exertion; laborious; difficult |
| coterie | a group of people who associate closely |
| awry | with a turn or twist to one side; askew |
| table | to lay aside a proposal |
| harried | to harass, annoy, or prove a nuisance to by or as if by repeated attacks |
| irascible | easily provoked to anger; very irritable |
| congenial | agreeable, suitable, or pleasing in nature or character |
| boisterous | rough and noisy; noisily jolly or rowdy; clamorous; unrestrained |
| chimerical | unreal; imaginary; visionary |
| vertigo | a dizzying sensation of tilting within stable surroundings |
| fallacious | containing a fallacy; logically unsound |
| impasse | a position or situation from which there is no escape; deadlock |
| zeal | fervor for a person, cause, or object; eager desire or endeavor |
| berate | to scold; rebuke |
