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| indigenous | native |
| gregarious | sociable |
| habitat | natural environment |
| cursory | hasty, not thorough |
| iterloper | an uauthorized person |
| prolific | producing abundantly |
| bulwark | protection |
| sedentary | largely inactive |
| frugal | thrifty |
| antithesis | exact opposite |
| altruistic | unselfish |
| embellish | touch up |
| cache | secre hiding place |
| coterie | small group having to something in common |
| cupidity | greed |
| virtuosity | great technical skill |
| temerit | foolish boldness |
| amorous | full of love |
| proeny | descendants |
| saturate | soak, fill up completely |
| perpetrate | commit |
| consummate | complete, of the highest degree |
| subterfuge | trick |
| concoct | devise |
| fallcious | misleading |
| manifold | complex, many |
| assiduous | devoted, attentive |
| impeccable | faultless |
| fraught | filled |
| resourceful | able to meet any situation |
| murky | dark, obscure |
| component | element |
| hoax | deception |
| labyrinth | arrangement of windng passages |
| evaluate | appraise, find value of |
| exult | rejoice greatly |
| attest | to certify |
| gullible | easily cheated or fooled |
| deploy | to position forces according to a plan |
| enigma | riddle |
| abortive | fruitless,useles, failing |
| modify | to change |
| accommodate | to make fit, adjst to |
| spontaneous | without preparation, unrehearsed |
| innate | natural |
| veneer | thin covering |
| myriad | countless number |
| urbane | polished, witty |
| crave | to desire |
| irrelevant | not related to the subject |
| deem | believe, to judge |
| inherent | inborn |
| buff | a fan, follower |
| romp | to move ina lively manner |
| latent | lying hidden |
| tortuous | winding |
| itinerant | wandering |
| peregrination | travel |
| conjugal | relating to marriage |
| barometer | istrument for measuring change |
| megalomania | abnormal desire for wealth and power |
| profligate | wasteful |
| strife | discord,disagreement |
| legion | a large number |
| coup | revolution |
| amnesty | a general pardon |
| expatriate | an exile |
| exonerate | to free from guilt |
| fiat | an official order, a decree |
| mendacious | lying, untrue |
| parsimonious | miserly |
| pecunary | financial |
| dismantle | to strip of covering, take apart |
| sumptuous | lavish |
| underwrite | agree to finance |
| restrictive | harsh, confining |
| balk | to efuse to move |
| blunt | plain spoken |
| nostalgia | yearning for the past |
| rife | widespread |
| reviled | scolded |
| derogatory | belittling, disparaging |
| indict | accuse |
| nebulous | unclear,vague |
| pesky | annoying |
| redolent | fragrant |
| repose | state of rest |
| omnivorous | eating any kind of food |
| disparate | diferent |
| abstemious | moderate in eating or drinking |
| extant | still existing |
| vicissitudes | difficulties |
| edifice | a building |
| sultry | extremely hot an moist |
| trenchant | keen, incisive |
| puissant | powerful |
| unabaed | without subsiding |
| maudlin | sentimental |
| levity | lightness of disposition |
| lugubrious | very sad |
| scion | child, descendant |
| indoctrinate | to teach certain principles |
| opulence | wealth, riches |
| obsequious | seeking favor |
| fulsome | excessive, insincere |
| lush | luxurious,elaborate |
| destitution | extreme poverty |
| ponder | to consider carefully |
| supplication | earnest pay |
| decadence | decay |
| penance | atonement for sin |
| ascetic | one who practces self-denial and devotion |
| desultoy | occuring by chance, disconnected |
| disciple | follower |
| metamrphosis | change |
| bona fide | genuine |
| salvation | deliverance from ruin |
| materialism | attention to worldly things and neglect of spiritual needs |
| nurture | to nourish, support |
| nirvana | freedom from care and pain, Buddhist heaven |
| juxtapose | to place side by side |
| plight | predicament |
| cover | secret, hidden |
| cope | to e a match for |
| icompatibility | quality of being mismated, lack of harmony |
| icapacitated | disabled |
| fabricate | to lie |
| connubial | related to marriage |
| demur | to object |
| apellation | a name |
| escalation | an increase |
| indifference | lack of concern |
| potential | possible |
| cumulative | accumulated |
| recondite | secret, hidden |
| palliate | alleviate |
| delude | to fool |
| prelude | introduction |
| chimerical | visionary |
| acknowledge | admit |
| heterogeneous | dissimilar |
| gamut | range |
| perspicacious | acutely perceptive, shrewd |
| analgous | comparable, shrewd |
| maladjusted | poorly adjusted, disturbed |
| phenmenon | unusual occurrence |
| mortality | death |
| decade | ten years |
| susceptible | easily affected |
| neurotic | suffering from nervous disorder |
| pedagogue | teacher |
| enunciate | to utter, proclain |
| inordinate | excessive |
| irascible | irritable |
| introspective | looking into one's own feelings |
| perpetuate | to cause to continue |
| mandate | an authoritative order |
| compensatory | serving to pay back |
| neutralize | to counteract |
| catastrophic | disastrous |
| anthropologist | expert in the study of the races, beliefs, customs, etc. of mankind |
| artifact | object made by hand, rather than a thing as it occus in nature |
| bizarre | odd, peculiar, strange, weird |
| fetish | object that is thought to have magic powers |
| inanimate | lifeless |
| imprative | urgent |
| imprudent | unwise |
| prohibition | act of forbidding certain behavior |
| taboo | forbidden by custom or religious practice |
| taint | contamination |
| abhor | to detest |
| absurd | ridiculous |
| bigot | perso who is intolerant of other people or ideas |
| contemptuous | expressing a feeling that something is worthless |
| universal | present everywhere |
| vulnerable | capable of being injured |
| entreaty | appeal, plea |
| tradition | custom that has been handed down |
| originate | begin, arise |
| inviolable | safe |
| awesome | inspiring terror, weird |
| debris | ruins, fragments |
| dispersed | scattered |
| eruption | bursting out |
| puny | weak |
| obliterate | erase, wipe out |
| deplorable | sad, pitiable |
| initiate | start, set going |
| conflagration | great fire |
| rue | regret |
| congenial | sympathetic |
| hoard | hide, store |
| sage | wise man |
| aegis | shield |
| detriment | injury |
| longevity | long duration of life |
| imbibe | drink |
| virile | masterful |
| senile | infirm, weak from old age |
| doddering | trembling |
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