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| Ameliorate | (v.) To improve, make better, correct a flaw or shortcoming |
| Aplomb | (n.) Poise, assurance, great self-confidence; perpendicularity |
| Bombastic | (adj.) Pompous or overblown in language; full of high-sounding words intended to conceal a lack of ideas |
| Callow | (adj.) Without experience, immature, not fully developed; lacking sophistication and poise; without features |
| Drivel | (n.) Saliva or Mucus flowing from the mouth or nose; foolish, aimless talk or thinking; nonsense (v.) to let saliva flow from the mouth; to utter nonsense or childish twaddle; to waste or fritter away foolishly |
| Epitome | (n.) A summary, condensed account; an instance that represents a larger reality |
| Exhort | (v.) to urge strongly, advise earnestly |
| Ex Officio | (adj.,adv.) By virtue of holding a certain office |
| Infringe | (v.) To violate, trespass, go beyond recognized bounds |
| Ingratiate | (v.) To make oneself agreeable and thus gain favor or acceptance by others (sometimes used in a critical or derogatory sense) |
| Interloper | (n.) One who moves in where he or she is not wanted or has no right to be, an intruder |
| Intrinsic | (adj.) Belonging to someone or something by its very nature, essential, inherent; originating in a bodily organ or part |
| Inveigh | (v.) To make a violent attack in words, express strong disapproval |
| Lassitude | (n.) Weariness of body or mind, lack of energy |
| Millennium (pl., Millennia) | (n.) A period of one thousand; a period of great joy |
| Occult | (adj.) Mysterious, magical, supernatural; secret, hidden from view; not detectable by ordinary means; (v.) to hid, conceal; eclipse; (n.) matters involving the supernatural |
| Permeate | (v.) To spread through, penetrate, soak through |
| Precipitate | (v.) To fall as moisture; to cause or bring about suddenly; to hurl down from a great height; to give distinct from to; (adj.) characterized by excessive haste; (n.) moisture; the product of an action or process |
| Stringent | (adj.) Strict, severe; rigorously or urgently binding or compelling; sharp or bitter to the taste |
| Surmise | (v.) To think or believe without certain supporting evidence, to conjecture or guess; (n.) likely idea that lacks definite proof |
