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| abdicate | (verb) to cast off : discard, to relinquish (as sovereign power) formally |
| burgeon | (verb) to send forth new growth (as buds or branches) : sprout, bloom, to grow and expand rapidly : flourish |
| coherent | (adjective) logically or aesthetically ordered or integrated : consistent, having clarity or intelligibility : understandable, having the quality of holding together or cohering, relating to or composed of waves having a constant difference in phase, : producing coherent light |
| condescending | (adjective) showing or characterized by a patronizing or superior attitude toward others |
| dale | (noun) valley, vale |
| deign | (verb) to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved, stoop |
| disjointed | (adjective) being thrown out of orderly function, lacking coherence or orderly sequence , separated at or as if at the joint |
| forgo | (verb) to give up the enjoyment or advantage of : do without, |
| harridan | (noun) shrew a scolding, vicious woman; hag; shrew |
| imbroglio | (noun) a confused mass , an intricate or complicated situation (as in a drama or novel), an acutely painful or embarrassing misunderstanding , a violently confused or bitterly complicated altercation : embroilment , scandal |
| ingratiate | (verb to gain favor or favorable acceptance for by deliberate effort |
| inveigh | (verb) to protest or complain bitterly or vehemently : rail |
| lobby-1 | (noun) a corridor or hall connected with a larger room or series of rooms and used as a passageway or waiting room, an anteroom of a legislative chamber; especially : one of two anterooms of a British parliamentary chamber to which members go to vote during a division, a large hall serving as a foyer (as of a hotel or theater), a group of persons engaged in lobbying especially as representatives of a particular interest group |
| lobby-2 | (verb) to promote (as a project) or secure the passage of (as legislation) by influencing public officials, to attempt to influence or sway (as a public official) toward a desired action |
| privation | (noun) an act or instance of depriving : deprivation, the state of being deprived; especially : lack of what is needed for existence |
| rapacious | (adjective) excessively grasping or covetous, living on prey, ravenous |
| rife | (adjective) prevalent especially to an increasing degree, abundant, common , copiously supplied : abounding |
| shortfall | (noun) a failure to come up to expectation or need , the amount of such failure |
| spate | freshet, flood, a large number or amount, a spate of books on gardening, a sudden or strong outburst : rush |
| supplicant | (noun) one who supplicates, entreating humbly |
| supplicate | (verb) to make a humble entreaty, to ask humbly and earnestly of, to ask for earnestly and humbly |
| sychohant | noun) a servile self-seeking flatterer |
| unctuous | (adjective)fatty, oily , smooth and greasy in texture or appearance, plastic, full of unction; especially : revealing or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality |
| uphold | (verb) to give support to , to support against an opponent, to keep elevated, to lift up |
| vitriol | (noun) a sulfate of any of various metals (as copper, iron, or zinc), something felt to resemble vitriol especially in caustic quality; especially : virulence of feeling or of speech, cruel and bitter criticism |
| wayward | (adjective)following one's own capricious, wanton, or depraved inclinations : ungovernable, following no clear principle or law : unpredictable, opposite to what is desired or expected : untoward |
