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| abstruse | difficult to understand |
| affable | friendly |
| audacity | gall, rashness |
| contrite | remorseful, repentant |
| credulous | gullible |
| depravity | moral corruption |
| deprecate | to express mild disapproval |
| didactic | instructive, designed to teach |
| dormant | inactive, sleeping |
| enigmatic | mysterious |
| erudite | scholarly |
| exotic | foreign, unfamiliar |
| fuse | to mix or to join by melting |
| immutable | unchanging |
| incorrigible | incapable of being reformed or improved |
| loathe | to detest |
| mitigate | to make less severe |
| nullify | to negate |
| pacifistic | opposed to war or use of force |
| pretentious | self-important |
| prologue | introduction |
| recant | to withdraw a statement or belief |
| servile | overly submissive |
| trepidation | fear, trembling |
| vilify | to utter abusive statements against |
| aesthetic | relatinf to sense of beuty or art |
| aloof | apart, indifferent |
| archaic | old, out of use |
| assuage | to ease, to mitigate |
| belie | to contradict |
| contentious | stirring controversy |
| daunt | to intimidate, to dismay |
| debilitate | to weaken |
| discord | tension, strife |
| dissemination | the act of spreading widely |
| dogmatic | strongly opinionated in an unwarranted manner |
| duplicity | hypocrisy |
| egocentric | self-centered, selfish |
| euphemism | substitution of an inoffensive term for one that is offensive |
| gluttonous | greedy for food and drink |
| mundane | ordinary, commonplace |
| ominous | threatening |
| petulance | unreasonable touchiness or irritability |
| pompous | pretentious |
| precocious | exceptionally early in development or occurence |
| slothful | lazy, indolent |
| trivia | insignificant matters |
| verbose | wordy, very taklative |
| virulent | extremely poisonous; hateful |
| volatile | quickly changeable |
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