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| auspices | a. Protection or support; patronage. b. A portent, omen, or augury, especially when based on the action of birds. |
| auspicious | Attended by favorable circumstances. |
| circumspect | Heedful of circumstances or consequences; prudent |
| despicable | Deserving of scorn or contempt; vile. |
| introspective | Self-examining; thinking about ones own thoughts and feelings |
| perspicuity | a. The quality of being clearly expressed or easily understood b. The ability to perceive or understand keenly |
| prospective | a. Likely to become or be: a prospective client. b. Likely to happen; expected. |
| specious | Having the ring of truth but actually false: a specious statement |
| specter | a. A phantom; apparation b. A threatening or haunting possiblity: the terrible specter of nuclear war. |
| spectrum | a. A broad sequence or range of related qualities, ideas, or activities: the whole spectrum of twentieth- century thought. b. A range of values of a set of a quantity or set of related quantities. |
| acuity | Acuteness of perception; keenness |
| consummate | a. Supremely accomplished or skilled: a consummate entertainer. b. Complete or perfect in every respect : a consummate happiness c. Complete; utter: a consummate bore |
| cunning | (noun)a. Skill in performance b. Skill in deception (adjective) a. shrewd in deception b. Executed with or exhibiting ingenuity. |
| deft | Skillful; adroit |
| endowment | a. A natural gift or quality. b. Funds or property donated to an institution, individual, or group as a source of income. |
| facile | a. Done or acheived with little effort or difficulty; easy b. Working, acting, or speaking effortlessly; fluent: a facile speaker. c. Arrived at without due care, effort , or examination; superficial |
| incompetent | a. Not capable; not properly or well qualified. b. Not adequate for the purpose; not sufficient: an incompetent performance (noun) A person who is not capable or qualified for a particular task. |
| inept | a. Awkward or clumsy. b. Not suitable to the circumstances or occasion; inappropriate c. Lacking in judgement, sense, or reason; foolish |
| proficient | Performing in any given art, skill, or branch of learning ith expert correctness and facility; adept |
| propensity | An innate inclination; tendency |
| beseech | a. To address an earnest or urgent request to; implore. b. To request earnestly; beg for |
| blandishment | The act of coaxing by flattery or wheedling |
| cajole | To coax gently and persistently; wheedle. |
| elicit | a. To bring out; evoke b. To call forth. |
| enjoin | a. To direct with authority and emphasis; command. b. To prohibit or forbid. |
| exigent | a. Requiring immediate attention or remedy; urgent b. Requiring or demanding a great deal. |
| imperious | Arrogantly domineering or overbearing |
| injunction | a. A command, directive, or order. b. A court order enjoining or prohibiting a party from a specific course of action. |
| mendicant | (noun) A beggar. (adjective) Depending upon alms for living; practicing begging. |
| query | (noun)a. A question; inquiry b. A doubt in the mind. (trans. verb) a. To express doubt or uncertainty about; question b. To put a question to. |
