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| Abut (v) | To join at one end or next to; to support, prop up |
| Attire (n) | Clothes, apparel |
| Attire (v) | To dress or adorn |
| Avail (n) | Use, benefit, or value |
| Avail (v) | To be of use or benefit to; to make use of |
| Crony (n) | A very close friend, pal, chum |
| Cryptic (adj) | Puzzling or mystifying |
| Divergent (adj) | Going in different directions; differing from each other; departing from convention, deviant |
| Enmity (n) | Hatred, ill-will |
| Fervent (adj) | Very earnest, emotional, passionate; extremely hot |
| Gaunt (adj) | Thin and bony, starved looking; bare, barren |
| Infiltrate (v) | To pass through or gain entrance to gradually or stealthily |
| Nullify (v) | To make of no value or consequence; to cancel or wipe out. |
| Perceptible (adj) | Capable of being grasped by the senses or mind. |
| Plummet (n) | A weight fastened to a line |
| Plummet (v) | To plunge straight down |
| Proclaim (v) | To declare publicly or officially |
| Proxy (n) | An agent or substitute; a written permission allowing one person to act in another's place |
| Rankle (v) | To cause anger, irritation, or bitterness with the suggestion that the pain goes worse with time |
| Scavenger (n) | A person who collects or removes useable items from waste materials; an animal that feeds on refuse or dead bodies. |
| Stint (n) | A limit or restriction; a fixed share of worth or duty; a period of activity |
| Stint (v) | To limit or be sparing |
| Stoical (adj) | Self Controlled; not showing feeling in response to pleasure or pain. |
| Unflagging (adj) | Tireless or continuing with vigor. |
| Apt (adj) | suitable or fitting; likely; quick to learn |
| Awry (adj, adv) | In a turned or twisted position or direction; wrong; out of the right or hoped for course. |
| Capitulate (v) | To end resistance; to give up or surrender |
| Bludgeon (n) | A short club used as a weapon |
| Bludgeon (v) | To strike with a heavy club; to use force or strong arguments to gain some point |
| Chafe (n) | A sore or injury caused by rubbing |
| Chafe (v) | To warm by rubbing; to wear sore by rubbing; to feel annoyance or dissatisfaction; to annoy or irk; to strain or press against |
| Defile (n) | A narrow passage |
| Defile (v) | To make unclean or dirty; to destroy the purity of. |
| Dire (adj) | Dreadful; causing fear or suffering; warning of trouble to come; demanding immediate action to avoid disaster. |
| Disarming (adj) | Charming; tending to get rid of unfriendliness or suspicion. |
| Disgruntled (adj) | In bad humor; discontented; annoyed. |
| Encroach (v) | To trespass or to advance beyond the usual or proper limits. |
| Endow (v) | To furnish, equip, or provide with funds or some other desirable thing or quality |
| Fend (v) | To ward off or to resist; to get along or manage |
| Impunity (n) | Freedom from punishment |
| Penal (adj) | Having to do with punishment |
| Pertinent (adj) | Related to the matter at hand; to the point |
| Predominate (adj) | The greatest in strength or power; most common |
| Prodigy (n) | Something wonderful or marvelous; something monstrous or abnormal; an unusual feat; a child or young person with extraordinary ability or talent |
| Recluse (n) | A person who leads a life shut up or withdrawn from the world |
| Renown (n) | Fame or glory |
| Mien (n) | Air or manner; appearance; expression |
| Accord (noun) | Agreement or harmony |
| Accord (verb) | To agree; to be in harmony or to bring into harmony; to grant |
| Barter (noun) | An exchange in trade |
| Barter (verb) | To exchange goods |
| Devise (verb) | To think out; to plan; to figure out; to invent or create |
| Dexterous (adj) | Skillful in the use of hands; clever |
| Engross (verb) | To occupy the complete attention; to absorb fully |
| Entail (verb) | To put a burden on; to impose; to require or involve; to restrict the ownership of property by limiting inheritance |
| Entail (noun) | Such a restriction; a restriction placed on inheritance |
| Ferret (noun) | A kind of weasel |
| Ferret (verb) | To search or hunt out; to torment or badger |
| Habituate (verb) | To become used to; to cause to become used to |
| Impending (adj) | About to happen; hanging in a menacing way |
| Personable (adj) | Pleasing in appearance or personality; attractive |
| Rue (n) | A feeling of regret |
| Rue (v) | To regret of be sorry for |
| Scoff (v) | To make fun of or to show contempt for |
| Transition (n) | A change from one state or condition to another |
| Trepidation (n) | Fear, fright, or trembling |
| Upbraid (v) | To blame, scold, or find fault with |
| Veritable (adj) | Actual, true, or real |
| Vex (v) | To annoy, anger, or exasperate; to confuse or baffle |
| Vitality (n) | Strength, energy, or liveliness; to capacity to live and develop; the power to endure or survive |
| Whimsical (adj) | Subject to odd ideas, notions, or fancies |
| Appease (v) | to soothe or make calm; to relieve or satisfy; to yield or give in to |
| Belated (adj) | late or tardy |
| Calamitous (adj) | causing great misfortune |
| Cite (v) | to quote, to mention, to summon to appear in court to commend, to recommend |
| Conventional (adj) | in line with accepted ideas or standards |
| Decoy (n) | a person or thing used to lure and to attract |
| Decoy (v) | to lure into a trap |
| Delve (v) | to dig, to search deeply and thoroughly in |
| Ensue (v) | to follow in order, to come immediately after as a result |
| Gallantry (n) | heroic courage, respect and courtesy, an apt or statement marked by a high level of courtesy |
| Impart (v) | To make known or tell; to give or pass something on |
| Judicious (adj) | Using or showing good judgment, wise, sensible |
| Mediate (v) | To bring about an agreement between persons or groups, act as a go-between. |
| Mediate (adj) | occupying a middle position; indirect, acting through an intermediary |
| Milieu (n) | the setting, surrounding, environment |
| Outlandish (adj) | strange, freakish, odd, foreign-looking; geographically remote; exceeding reasonable limits |
| Overbearing (adj) | domineering, haughty, bullying, overpowering, predominate |
| Pert (adj) | high spirited; lively; bold, saucy; jaunty |
| Quirk (n) | a peculiar way of acting; a sudden twist or turn |
| Regale (v) | To feast, entertain agreeably |
| Shiftless (adj) | Lazy, lacking in ambition and energy; inefficient |
| Taint (n) | A stain or spot; a mark of corruption or dishonor |
| Taint (v) | To stain or contaminate |
| Abdicate (v) | to resign, formally give up an office or a duty; to disown, discard |
| Bestow (v) | to give as a gift; to provide with lodgings |
| Capacious (adj) | able to hold much, roomy |
| Caustic (adj) | able to burn or eat away by chemical action; biting, sarcastic |
| Crusade (n) | A strong movement to advance a cause or idea |
| Crusade (v) | to campaign, work vigorously |
| Deface (v) | To injure or destroy the surface or appearance of; to damage the value, influence, or effect of; to face down, outshine |
| Embargo (n) | An order forbidding the trade in or movement of commercial goods; any restraint or hindrance |
| Embargo (v) | To forbid to enter or leave port; to forbid trade with |
| Fallacy (n) | A false notion or belief; an error in thinking |
| Levity (n) | A lack of seriousness or earnestness, especially about things that should be treated with respect; buoyancy, lightness in weight |
| Mendicant (n) | A beggar |
| Mendicant (adj) | Depending on begging for a living |
| Nauseate (v) | To make sick to the stomach; to fill with disgust |
| Negate (v) | To nullify, deny, bring to nothing |
| Pivotal (adj) | vitally important, essential |
| Recipient (n) | one who receives |
| Recipient (adj) | receiving; able or willing to receive |
| Ruse (n) | An action designed to confuse or mislead, a trick won by a clever |
| Teem (v) | To become filled to overflowing; to be present in large quantities |
| Tenet (n) | an opinion, belief, or principle held to be true |
| Tractable (adj) | easily managed, easy to deal with; easily wrought, malleable |
| Ungainly (adj) | clumsy, awkward; unwieldy |
| Voracious (adj) | having a huge appetite, greedy, ravenous; excessively eager |
| Adapt (v) | To adjust or change to suit conditions |
| Attest (v) | To bear witness, affirm to be true or genuine |
| Dovetail (v) | To fit together exactly; to connect so as to form a whole |
| Dovetail (n) | A carpentry figure resembling a dove's tail |
| Enormity (n) | The quality of exceeding all moral bounds; an exceedingly evil act; huge size, immensity |
| Falter (v) | To hesitate, stumble, lose courage; to speak hesitatingly; to lose drive, weaken, decline |
| Foreboding (n) | A warning or feeling that something bad will happen |
| Foreboding (adj) | Marked by fear, ominous |
| Forlorn (adj) | Totally abandoned and helpless; sad and lonely; wretched or pitiful; almost hopeless |
| Haughty (adj) | Chillingly proud and scornful |
| Impediment (n) | A physical defect; a hindrance, obstacle |
| Imperative (adj) | Necessary, urgent |
| Imperative (n) | A form of a verb expressing a command; that which is necessary or required |
| Loiter (v) | To linger in an aimless way, hang around |
| Malinger (v) | To pretend to avoid duty or work |
| Pithy (adj) | Short but full of meaning and point |
| Plunder (v) | To rob by force, especially during wartime; to seize wrongfully |
| Plunder (n) | Property stolen by force, booty |
| Simper (v) | To smile or speak in a silly, forced way |
| Simper (n) | A silly, forced smile |
| Steadfast (adj) | Firmly fixed; constant, not moving or changing |
| Vaunted (adj) | Much boasted about in a vain or swaggering way |
| Vilify (v) | To abuse or belittle unjustly or maliciously |
| Waif (n) | A person (usually a child) without a home or friend; a stray person or animal; something that comes along by chance, a stray bit |
| Wry (adj) | Twisted, turned to one side; cleverly and often grimly humorous |
| Amplify (v) | To make stronger, larger, greater, louder, or the like |
| Armistice (n) | A temporary peace, halt in fighting |
| Arrogant (adj) | Haughty, too convinced of one's own importance |
| Bland (adj) | Gentle, soothing, mild; lacking interest or taste |
| Disclaim (v) | To deny interest in or connection with; to give up all claim to |
| Epoch (n) | A distinct period of time, era, age |
| Estrange (v) | To drift apart or become unfriendly; to cause such a separation; to remove or keep at a distance |
| Gratify (v) | To please, satisfy; to indulge or humor |
| Infinite (adj) | Exceedingly great, inexhaustible, without limit, endless |
| The Infinite (n) | An incalculable number, the concept of infinity; (cap. I) a name for G-d |
| Irascible (adj) | easily made angry, hot-tempered |
| Kindred (n) | A person's relatives; a family relationship |
| Kindred (adj) | Related by blood; like, similar |
| Naive (adj) | Innocent, unsophisticated, showing lack of worldly knowledge and experience |
| Niche (n) | A decorative recess in a wall; a suitable place or position for a person or thing |
| Obliterate (v) | To Blot out completely, destroy utterly |
| Ramshackle (adj) | Appearing ready to collapse, loose and shaky |
| Ransack (v) | To search or examine thoroughly; to rob, plunder |
| Rote (n) | Unthinking routine, a fixed or mechanical way of doing something |
| Rote (adj) | Based on a mechanical routine |
| Solvent (adj) | Able to meet one's financial obligations; having the power to dissolve other substances |
| Solvent (n) | A liquid used to dissolve other substances; something that solves, explains, eliminates, or softens |
| Tedious (adj) | Long and tiresome |
| Vendor (n) | A person who sells something |
| Abyss (n) | A deep or bottomless pit |
| Befall (v) | To happen, occur; to happen to |
| Crucial (adj) | Of supreme importance, decisive, critical |
| Dregs (pl. n) | The last remaining part; the part of least worth |
| Embody (v) | To give form to; to incorporate, include; to personify |
| Exasperate (v) | To irritate, annoy, or anger |
| Fiasco (n) | The complete collapse or failure of a project |
| Garnish (v) | To adorn or decorate, especially food |
| Garnish (n) | An ornament or decoration, especially for food |
| Heritage (n) | An inheritance; a birthright |
| Inert (adj) | Lifeless, unable to move or act; slow, inactive |
| Mercenary (adj) | Acting or working for self-gain only |
| Mercenary (n) | A hired soldier |
| Negligent (adj) | Marked by carelessness or indifference; failing to do what should be done |
| Oblivion (n) | Forgetfulness, disregard; a state of being forgotten; an amnesty, general pardon |
| Opus (n) | An impressive piece of work (especially a musical composition or other work of art) |
| Pallid (adj) | Pale, lacking color; weak and lifeless |
| Parable (n) | A short narrative designed to teach a moral lesson |
| Rational (adj) | Based on reasoning; able to make use of reason; sensible, reasonable |
| Reciprocal (adj) | Shared; involving give-and-take between two persons or things; working in both directions; (math) a number that, when multiplied by another number, gives 1 |
| Stricture (n) | A limitation or restriction; a criticism; (medicine) a narrow of a passage in the body |
| Veneer (n) | A thin outer layer; the surface appearance or decoration |
| Veneer (v) | To cover with a thin layer |
