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| callow | adj - young and inexperiences; immature |
| contemporary | n - a person living in the same period as another |
| contemporary | adj - existing or occuring at the same time |
| cynical | adj - doubtful of the sincerity of others' motives; skeptical |
| cynic | n - someone who doubts the sincerity of others |
| despot | n - a ruler with absolute power or tyrranical control over a group of people |
| despotic | adj - tyrranical in control over others |
| enunciate | v - to pronounce clearly |
| enunciate | v - to state; to announce |
| impediment | n - anything that gets in the way; an obstacle |
| impoverish | v - to make poor |
| impoverish | v - to take away |
| impoverished | adj - poor |
| indolent | adj - indulging in ease; avoiding assertion; lazy |
| indolence | n - laziness |
| sagacious | adj - showing sound judgement; wise |
| sagacity | sound judgement |
| secular | adj - wordly; not connected to a church or religion |
| speculate | v - to think about or make guesses |
| speculate | v - to engage in a risky business venture |
| strife | n - conflict or struggle |
| venerate | v - to show great respect for |
| voracious | adj - ravenous; desiring and eating a large amount of food |
| voracious | adj - greatly eager |
| wane | v - to get smaller, dimmer, or weaker; to near an end |
| apropos | adj - fitting the occasion; suitable or apt |
| ascendancy | n - controlling influence; dominance |
| assess | v - to analyze the nature, value, or impportance of |
| assessment | n - analysis of nature, value, or importance |
| aver | v - to declare positively; to state as the true |
| concede | v - to admit to be true, often reluctantly |
| concede | v - to grant or let have |
| deficient | adj - lacking |
| deficiency | n - lacking |
| dogma | n - an unproven principle or belief held to be true |
| dogmatic | adj - overly positive and assertive about something that cannot be proved |
| embody | v - to put an idea into a form that can be seen |
| embody | v - to make part of a system; incorporate |
| impart | v - to make known; disclose |
| impart | v - to bestow |
| oratory | n - the art of public speaking |
| orator | n - a public speaker |
| oratorical | adj - having to do with speaking |
| propagate | v - to reproduce |
| propagate | v - to cause to reproduce |
| propagate | v - to foster the spread of |
| propagation | v - spreading or reproducing |
| proponant | n - someone who proposes or supports an idea; an advocate |
| rudimentary | adj - not yet fully developed |
| rudimentary | adj - elementary |
| sojourn | n - a visit or temporary stay |
| sojourn | v - to stay for a while |
| vociferous | adj - making one's feelings known in a loud way |
| amorous | adj - expressing love or the state of being in love |
| belittle | v - to present or speak of as unimportant or of little value |
| censure | v - to blame or find fault with |
| censure | n - a severe criticism or harsh judgement |
| deem | v - to consider; to believe |
| divulge | v - to make known something secret; to reveal |
| exorbitant | adj - exceeding normal bounds; greater or more than seems reasonable |
| expostulate | v - to argue earnestly in an attempt to dissuade or show strong disapproval |
| fateful | adj - having great or significant consequences |
| ingrate | n - an ungrateful person |
| injunction | n - an order or command |
| injunction | n - a court order prohibiting someone from doing something |
| moribund | adj - close to death; in a dying state |
| motif | n - a theme or idea in a work of art or literature that is developed or repeated |
| motif | n - a figure or design repeated in the decoration of something, such as a building or textile |
| subsidize | v - to support by giving financial aid |
| subsidy | n - a grant of money, often provided by a government to a group or individual |
| sumptuous | adj - extravagantly splendid or costly; luxuriously |
| voluble | adj - characterized by a ready flow of words; talkative |
| adroit | adj - clever at dealing with difficult situations; adept; skillful |
| affront | v - to insult or to offend deliberately |
| affront | n - a deliberate insult or offensive act |
| avocation | n - an activity pursued for pleasure; hobby |
| crusade | n - a prolonged, impassioned struggle for what is believed to be a just cause |
| crusade | v - to engage in such a struggle (a crusade) |
| definitive | adj - supplying a final answer; conclusive |
| demeanor | n - behavior; bearing |
| erudite | adj - having or demonstrating extensive knowledge; learned |
| erudition | n - extensive knowledge |
| induct | v - to install in office, sometimes with a formal ceremony |
| induct | v - to admit to a society or to military service |
| induction | n - formal installation into office or a society |
| lapse | v - to fall or slip from a certain level of conduct or accomplishment |
| lapse | v - to come to an end; to expire |
| lapse | n - a minor escape; a slip |
| lapse | n - a pause or interval |
| militant | adj - ready to fight, especially for a cause |
| militant | n - one who is ready to fight for a cause |
| pariah | n - social outcast |
| prodigy | n - a person who shows remarkable talent at an early age |
| prodigy | n - an amazing or extraordinary thing or event |
| protégé | n - one whose training or career is helped along by another |
| raucous | adj - rough and unpleasant to the ear |
| raucous | adj - boisterous and disorderly |
| tacit | adj - expressed without words; implied |
