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| vituperative | adj. bitter and abusive | |
| jejune | adj. naive, simplistic, superficial; dry and uninteresting | |
| enmity | n. the state of being or feeling being actively opposed or hostile to someone or something | |
| promulgate | v. promote or make widely known (an idea or cause) | |
| recompense | v. make amends to (someone) for loss or harm suffered; compensate | |
| obloquy | n. strong public criticism or verbal abuse | |
| bouy | v. to keep someone or something afloat; often to become cheerful, cause a price to rise or remain high | |
| insouciance | n. casual lack of concern; indifference | |
| predilection | n. a preference or something liking for something; a bias for something | |
| tepid | adj. luke warm; also showing little enthusiasm | |
| puissant | adj. having great power or influence | |
| allegory | n. a story, poem or picture that can be intrepreted to reveal a hidden meaning | |
| panegyric | n. a public speech or published text in praise of someone or something | |
| tentative | adj. not certain or fixed; provisional; also done without confidence, hesitant | |
| impugn | v. dispute the truth, validity or honesty of (a statement or motive); call into question | |
| perfidy | n. deceitfulness; untrusthworthiness | |
| emphatically | adv. in a forceful way | |
| propitiate | v. to win or gain the favor of (a god, spirit or person) by doing something that pleases them | |
| prognosticate | v. foretell or prophesy (an event in the future) | |
| malign | adj. evil in nature or effect; malevolent - also v. speak about (someone) in a spitefully critical manner | |
| anathematize | v. curse, condemn | |
| amity | n. a friendly relationship | |
| commensurate | adj. corresponding in size or degree | |
| sagacious | adj. having or shown keen mental discernment and good judgement | |
| cajole | v. persuade someone to do something by sustained coaxing or flattery | |
| restitution | n. the restoration of something lost or stolen to its proper owner; restoration of something its original state; recompensation for injury or lose | |
| reprisal | n. an act of retaliation | |
| provident | adj. making or indicative of timely preparation for the future | |
| excoriate | v. censure or criticize severly; also damage or remove part of the surface of (the skin) | |
| expurgate | v. remove matter thought to be objectionable or unsuitable from (a book or account) | |
| flay | v. (1) peel the skin off (corpse or carcass), whip or beat (someone) so harshly as to remove skin; (2) criticize severely or brutally; (3) extort or exact money or belongings from (someone) | |
| dilvuial | adj. of or relating to a flood or floods | |
| antedate | v. precede in time; come before (something) in a date; also indicate that (a document or event) should be assigned to an earlier date | |
| recidivist | adj. denoting a convicted criminal who reoffends, esp. repeatedly | |
| exactitude | n. (of v. exact) | |
| temerity | n. excessive confidence or boldness; audacity | |
| vitiate | v. spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of; destroy or impair the legal validity of | |
| charlatan | n. a person falsely claiming to have a special knowledge or skill; a fraud | |
| saturnine | adj. (of a person or their manner or appearace) slow and gloomy; glum | |
| ebullient | adj. cheerful and full of energy |
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