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| abortive | (adj.) failing to accomplish an intended aim or purpose; only partially or iimperfectly developed. SYN: miscarried, fruitless, premature. ANT: successful, realized, consummated |
| bruit | (v.) to spread news, reports, or unsubstantiated rumors. SYN: noise abroad, broadcast, blazon. ANT: cover up, conceal, hush up |
| contumelious | (adj.) insolen or rude in speech or behavior; insultingly abusive; humiliiating. SYN: vituperative, scurrilous, excoriating. ANT: laudatory, commendatory, deferential |
| dictum | (n.) a short saying; an authoritative statement. SYN: maxim, precept, aphorism, axiom |
| ensconce | (v.) to settle comfortably and firmly in position; to put or hide in a safe place. SYN: nestle, lodge, entrench. ANT: unseat, displace, oust |
| iconoclastic | (adj.) attacking or seeking to overthrow popular or traditional beliefs, ideas, or institutions. SYN: image-breaking, irreverent, heretical. ANT: orthodox, conservative, reverent |
| in medias res | (adv.) in or into the middle of a plot; into the middle of things. |
| internecine | (adj.) mutually destructive; characterized by great slaughter and bloodshed. SYN: murderous, savage, ruinous. ANT: peaceful, harmonious, constructive |
| maladroit | (adj.) lacking skill or dexterity; lacking tact, perception, or judgement. SYN: inept, awkward, clumsy, gauche. ANT: skillful, dexterous, deft, tactful |
| maudlin | (adj.) excessively or effusively sentimental. SYN: mushy, mawkish |
| modulate | (v.) to change or vary the intensity or pitch; to temper or soften; to regulate, adjust. SYN: adapt, moderate |
| portentous | (adj.) foreshadowing an event to come; causing wonder or awe; self-consciously weighty, pompous. SYN: foreboding, ominous, pretentious. ANT: auspicious, propitious, encouraging |
| prescience | (n.) knowledge of events or actions before they happen; foresight. SYN: foreknowledge. ANT: hindsight |
| quid pro quo | (n.) something given in exchange or return for something else. SYN: swap, trade |
| salubrious | (adj.) conducive to health or well being; wholesome. SYN: beneficial, healthy, invigorating. ANT: harmful, unhealthy, deleterious, noxious |
| saturnalian | (adj.) characterized by riotous or unrestrained revelry or licentiousness. SYN: dissipated, debauched, orgiastic. ANT: sedate, prim, decorous, seemly |
| touchstone | (n.) a means of testing worth or genuineness. SYN: criterion, yardstick, benchmark |
| traumatic | (adj.) so shocking to the emotions as to cause lasting and substantial psychological damage. SYN: jolting. ANT: soothing, comforting, agreeable, pleasant |
| vitiate | (v.) to weaken, debase, or corrupt; to impair the quality or value of. SYN: degrade, undermine. ANT: purify, fortify, strengthen, enhance |
| waggish | (adj.) fond of making jokes; characteristic of a joker; playfully humorous or droll. SYN: whimsical, jocular. ANT: serious, grave, grim, dour, humorless |
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