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| accolade (noun) | An award, a great compliment, high praise. |
| accolade (verb) | To honor, praise |
| accordingly | Suitably, correspondingly, in accordance. 2. Consequently, as a result of, so. |
| amateur (noun) | A person who participates in an activity as a pastime rather than a profession, a person who performs with limited skill; a layperson. |
| amateur (adj) | Of an amateur, nonprofessional, unskillful. |
| annihilate | To destroy, kill completely, make nonexistent, defeat totally, vanquish. |
| antithesis | The exact opposite, a contrast |
| antithetical | oppositional |
| assure | To make a person certain, give a person confidence that, cause a person to feel secure. |
| bested | To beat, do better than, surpass, defeat, outwit. |
| border (noun) | An outer edge of something or a line that separates political or geographic regions, a boundary. |
| border (verb) | To lie along or next to something. |
| border (verb) | To be on the verge of something or to be similar to something. |
| complex (noun) | Something made of many interrelated parts such as a structure. |
| complex (adj) | Intricate or complicated, made of many interrelated parts. |
| context | A circumstance, setting, surrounding details. |
| contextual | Involving setting. |
| credit | Recognition, acknowledgement. |
| decipher | To read, decode, interpret, or grasp the meaning of especially difficult or unclear material; to figure out. |
| distraction | 1. a disturbance, diversion, interruption amusement, pastime, entertainment 2. mental distress |
| distract | to divert attention, to unsettle emotions. |
| epitome | a representative or perfect example of a quality, class, or type: something exhibiting the essence or best of a person or thing: an archetype. |
| esoteric | intended for or understood to a small particular group, mysterious to laypersons, private, arcane. |
| expertise | know-how skill, proficiency |
| expert | a person who is knowledgeable (on topic or skill) |
| fathom | to comprehend, understand, grasp the meaning |
| frequency | 1. the rate of occurrence 2. the number of repetitions of a wave form (such as sound, motion, light, and radio waves) in a specific amount of time (especially per second) |
| frequently | often repeatedly, habitually |
| inconsequential | unimportant or trivial |
| intricate | complex, complicated |
| labyrinthine | maze-like, roundabout, circuitous; resembling a labyrinth or maze; intricate, complicated |
| lesser | smaller in amount, value, or importance; not as great an another |
| merit | credit, value, worth, excellence, quality of worth or excellence, a thing that entitles one to reward or praise. |
| momentous | important, significant, considerable, eventful, historic, fateful; of great portent or consequence |
| neophyte | A beginner, novice |
| paradigm | A model, example, or standard; a set of concepts, values, or standards that comprise a way of thinking. |
| perplex | To puzzle, confuse, baffle, bewilder, confound with doubt or difficulty. |
| procure | To obtain or acquire (especially with effort of difficulty). |
| pugilist | A boxer, a fist fighter. |
| pugilistic | Quarrelsome, belligerent, related to boxing or fighting. |
| punitive | inflicting punishment or penalty, retaliatory or corrective |
| pusillanimous | cowardly, fainthearted, timid. |
| pusillanimity | cowardice |
| refraction | the change in direction or bending of a light or sound wave as id passes from one material into another |
| refract | to change, deflect (a wave, usually a light wave) from a straight path |
| revere | to honor, admire, worship, regard with awe, look up to, show difference. |
| significant | important, noteworthy, meaningful, consequential |
| vantage (1) | a perspective or position that provides a broad, overall, view of a situation; a vantage point |
| vantage (2) | an advantage, superiority; a preferred position or condition in a competition, conflict, or struggle |
| vertigo | dizziness, lightheadedness, unsteadiness, confused state of mind |
| virtuoso | an expert, master, genius, prodigy |
| virtuosity | the technical skill or style of an expert or work |
