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| amorphous | shapeless, formless, nebulous |
| aura | an atmosphere ambience, air, quality |
| infer | to gather, surmise, presume: guess, speculate |
| resilient | springy, elastic, buoyant, bouncy |
| sedulous | assiduous, tireless, indefatigable |
| erudite | profoundly learned, scholarly |
| equitable | fair, just, right reasonable |
| extricate | to disentangle, extract, disengage |
| precept | a rule of condurt, principle: maxim |
| salutary | salubrious, wholesome, beneficial |
| unwieldy | cumbersome, bulky, clumsy, impractical |
| soporific | sleep inducing a narcotic, anesthetic |
| cajole | to wheedle, inveigle, soft soap, sweet talk |
| insurgent | rebellious, mutinous, revolutinary |
| vicarious | surrogate, substitute: imagined, secondhand |
| castigate | to chastise, rebuke, censure, upbraid |
| transmute | to convert, translate, metamorphose |
| ennui | languor, world weariness, listlessness |
| crass | crude, vulgar, tasteless, oafish: obtuse |
| inconsequential | trivial, negligible, petty, trifling |
| infraction | a violation, transgression, breach, offense |
| pillage | to ravage, sack, loot: booty |
| punctilious | precise, scrupulous, exacting, fussy, flunicky |
| grandiose | magestic; bombastic, highfalutin |
| acrimonious | biting, caustic, rancorous, hostile, peevish |
| expurgate | to purge, censor, browdlerize |
| hypothtical | assumed, supposed, confectural, conditional |
| odium | abhorrence, opprobrium, shame, ignominy |
| perfidy | betrayal, disloyalty, treason, duplicty |
| intemperate | excessive, extreme, unrestrained, inordinate |
| adulation | adoration, idolizaton, hero-worship |
| astute | shrewd, acute; sagacious, judicious; wily |
| egregious | glaring, flagrant, blatant |
| torpid | sluggish, lethargic, otiose |
| pretentious | inflated, ostentatious, affected |
| procrastinate | to stall, temporize, delay, dillydally |
| imperious | domineering, overbearing, magisterial, urgent, imperative |
| gist | the substance, essence, core, nucleus |
| recondite | absturse, esoteric, arcane |
| efficacious | effective, effecrual; potent, powerful |
| deference | respect, consideration, courtesy |
| impromptu | spoutaneous, on the spur of the moment |
| brouhaha | a furor, uproar, hullabaloo |
| curtailed | to reduce; to abbreviate, abridge, contract |
| remit | to return, remand; to subside, abate |
| profligate | prodigal, improndent, spendthrift |
| presentiment | a foreboding, premonition, hunch |
| enigmatic | puzzling, baffling, mystifying, perplexing |
| mawkish | sentimentalized, maudlin, mushy; nauseating |
| adamant | yielding, flexible, pliable |
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