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  1. abdicate
    give up power, duties, or obligations
  2. accede
    yield to another's wish or opinion
  3. acquiesce
    agree or express agreement
  4. acumen
    shrewdness shown by keen insight
  5. addled
    confused and vague; used especially of thinking
  6. adulation
    exaggerated flattery or praise
  7. aficionado
    a serious devotee of some activity, genre, or performer
  8. aground
    with the bottom lodged on land
  9. allay
    lessen the intensity of or calm
  10. ameliorate
    make better
  11. amiable
    diffusing warmth and friendliness
  12. amicable
    characterized by friendship and good will
  13. anomalous
    deviating from the general or common order or type
  14. approbation
    official acceptance or agreement
  15. arcane
    requiring secret or mysterious knowledge
  16. aromatic
    having a strong pleasant odor
  17. artful
    not straightforward or candid
  18. ascension
    a movement upward
  19. ashen
    pale from illness or emotion
  20. assiduously
    with care and persistence
  21. assuage
    provide physical relief, as from pain
  22. asymptotic
    relating to or of the nature of an asymptote
  23. audacious
    disposed to venture or take risks
  24. bailiwick
    one's particular area of interest or branch of knowledge
  25. bedrock
    solid unweathered stone beneath surface deposits of soil
  26. bemused
    perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements
  27. benevolent
    showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding
  28. bestow
    give as a gift
  29. bifurcate
    split or divide into two
  30. bombastic
    ostentatiously lofty in style
  31. burgeon
    grow and flourish
  32. cachet
    an indication of approved or superior status
  33. capitulate
    surrender under agreed conditions
  34. cathartic
    emotionally purging
  35. circuitous
    deviating from a straight course
  36. circumspect
    careful to consider potential consequences and avoid risk
  37. clandestine
    conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods
  38. cohesive
    combining well to form a unified whole
  39. colloquial
    characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation
  40. commensurate
    corresponding in size or degree or extent
  41. conducive
    tending to bring about; being partly responsible for
  42. dalliance
    the act of delaying and playing instead of working
  43. decadent
    relating to indulgence in something pleasurable
  44. deleterious
    harmful to living things
  45. demarcate
    set, mark, or draw the boundaries of something
  46. demure
    shy or modest, often in a playful or provocative way
  47. derivation
    the source or origin from which something comes
  48. dignify
    confer honor upon
  49. diminutive
    very small
  50. discerning
    having or revealing keen insight and good judgment
  51. discordant
    not in agreement or harmony
  52. distil
    undergo condensation
  53. dulcet
    pleasing to the ear
  54. duplicitous
    marked by deliberate deceptiveness
  55. effectuate
    bring about or cause to happen
  56. effusive
    uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm
  57. elemental
    of or being the essential or basic part
  58. elusive
    skillful at evading capture
  59. emanate
    give out, as breath or an odor
  60. ephemeral
    anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day
  61. epicenter
    a point on the Earth's surface directly above an earthquake
  62. epiphany
    a usually sudden insight, perception, or understanding of something
  63. epitome
    a standard or typical example
  64. equanimity
    steadiness of mind under stress
  65. eschew
    avoid and stay away from deliberately
  66. esthetically
    in a tasteful way
  67. exigent
    demanding immediate attention
  68. exquisite
    delicately beautiful
  69. extol
    praise, glorify, or honor
  70. formidable
    extremely impressive in strength or excellence
  71. fractious
    easily irritated or annoyed
  72. frenetic
    fast and energetic in an uncontrolled or wild way
  73. furtive
    secret and sly
  74. gentility
    elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression
  75. gestalt
    a whole that cannot be described as a sum of its parts
  76. gesticulate
    show, express, or direct through movement
  77. gratuitous
    unnecessary and unwarranted
  78. hedonistic
    devoted to pleasure
  79. heuristic
    a commonsense rule to help solve some problem
  80. hubris
    overbearing pride or presumption
  81. idyllic
    charmingly simple and serene
  82. illustrative
    clarifying by use of examples
  83. impeccable
    without error or flaw
  84. imperative
    requiring attention or action
  85. impervious
    not admitting of passage or capable of being affected
  86. implacable
    incapable of being appeased or pacified
  87. imprudent
    not sensible, responsible, or wise
  88. inception
    an event that is a beginning
  89. incessant
    uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing
  90. incipient
    only partly in existence; imperfectly formed
  91. incisive
    demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions
  92. indelible
    not able to be forgotten, removed, or erased
  93. indomitable
    impossible to subdue
  94. ineffable
    defying expression or description
  95. inexorable
    impossible to prevent, resist, or stop
  96. inexplicable
    incapable of being explained or accounted for
  97. inextricable
    incapable of being disentangled or untied
  98. infuse
    fill, as with a certain quality
  99. insatiable
    impossible to fulfill, appease, or gratify
  100. insinuation
    an indirect (and usually malicious) implication
  101. insouciant
    marked by unconcern
  102. inspirit
    infuse with spirit
  103. insular
    relating to or characteristic of or situated on an island
  104. interstitial
    of or relating to small spaces between things
  105. intractable
    difficult to manage or mold
  106. intransigence
    stubborn refusal to compromise or change
  107. intrepid
    invulnerable to fear or intimidation
  108. iteration
    the act or process of doing or saying again
  109. jettison
    throw away, of something encumbering
  110. jingoism
    fanatical patriotism
  111. jubilant
    full of high-spirited delight
  112. juxtaposition
    the act of positioning close together
  113. kismet
    fate or fortune
  114. lascivious
    driven by lust
  115. legitimize
    sanction or make legal
  116. lexicon
    a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words
  117. lithe
    moving and bending with ease
  118. loquacious
    full of trivial conversation
  119. lucidity
    freedom from obscurity of expression; comprehensibility
  120. macabre
    shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
  121. malign
    speak unfavorably about
  122. mercurial
    liable to sudden unpredictable change
  123. meticulous
    marked by precise accordance with details
  124. mettle
    the courage to carry on
  125. milieu
    the environmental condition
  126. ministerial
    of or relating to a government department
  127. modicum
    a small or moderate or token amount
  128. mollify
    cause to be more favorably inclined
  129. myopic
    unable to see distant objects clearly
  130. myriad
    a large indefinite number
  131. nefarious
    extremely wicked
  132. nostalgic
    unhappy about being away and longing for familiar things
  133. obfuscate
    make obscure or unclear
  134. obscurity
    the state of being indistinct due to lack of light
  135. obsequious
    attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
  136. obstreperous
    noisily and stubbornly defiant
  137. onerous
    burdensome or difficult to endure
  138. onomatopoeia
    using words that imitate the sound they denote
  139. palatial
    relating to or being a large and stately residence
  140. panacea
    hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases
  141. panoply
    a complete and impressive array
  142. parsimonious
    excessively unwilling to spend
  143. parsimony
    extreme stinginess
  144. pedantic
    marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning
  145. penchant
    a strong liking or preference
  146. penultimate
    next to the last
  147. perfunctory
    hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
  148. permeate
    spread or diffuse through
  149. piecemeal
    one thing at a time
  150. pithy
    concise and full of meaning
  151. placate
    cause to be more favorably inclined
  152. placid
    calm and free from disturbance
  153. platitude
    a trite or obvious remark
  154. plethora
    extreme excess
  155. poignant
    keenly distressing to the mind or feelings
  156. pollyannaish
    pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic
  157. Potemkin
    a Russian officer and politician who was a favorite of Catherine II and in 1762 helped her to seize power; when she visited the Crimea in 1787 he gave the order for sham villages to be built (1739-1791)
  158. precipitous
    extremely steep
  159. predilection
    a predisposition in favor of something
  160. prescient
    perceiving the significance of events before they occur
  161. proclivity
    a natural inclination
  162. prodigious
    great in size, force, extent, or degree
  163. prognosticate
    make a prediction about; tell in advance
  164. provincial
    associated with an administrative district of a nation
  165. purview
    the range of interest or activity that can be anticipated
  166. putative
    purported
  167. quaint
    attractively old-fashioned
  168. quintessential
    representing the perfect example of a class or quality
  169. quixotic
    not sensible about practical matters
  170. reminiscent
    serving to bring to mind
  171. render
    give or supply
  172. replete
    filled to satisfaction with food or drink
  173. resplendent
    having great beauty
  174. rudimentary
    being in the earliest stages of development
  175. ruminate
    reflect deeply on a subject
  176. salacious
    suggestive of or tending to moral looseness
  177. sardonic
    disdainfully or ironically humorous
  178. scintillating
    having brief brilliant points or flashes of light
  179. seismic
    subject to or caused by an earthquake or earth vibration
  180. seismograph
    an instrument for measuring movements of the ground
  181. semantic
    of or relating to meaning or the study of meaning
  182. seminal
    influential and providing a basis for later development
  183. serendipity
    good luck in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries
  184. soporific
    inducing sleep
  185. splendid
    characterized by grandeur
  186. stoicism
    an indifference to pleasure or pain
  187. sublime
    of high moral or intellectual value
  188. succinct
    briefly giving the gist of something
  189. surreal
    characterized by fantastic and incongruous imagery
  190. surreptitious
    marked by quiet and caution and secrecy
  191. taciturn
    habitually reserved and uncommunicative
  192. titillating
    pleasantly and superficially exciting
  193. tryst
    a secret rendezvous, especially a romantic one
  194. ubiquitous
    being present everywhere at once
  195. untenable
    incapable of being defended or justified
  196. urbane
    showing a high degree of refinement
  197. veracity
    unwillingness to tell lies
  198. vernacular
    the everyday speech of the people
  199. vitriol
    abusive or venomous language to express blame or censure
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