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| abandon: | lacking restraint or control; feeling of extreme emotional intensity; unbounded enthusiasm |
| abash: | embarrass; make ashamed or uneasy; disconcert |
| abdicate: | give up, renounce, abandon, lay down, or withdraw from, as a right or claim |
| abet: | aid, usually in doing something wrong; encourage |
| academic: | related to school; not practical or directly useful; relating to scholarly organization; based on formal education |
| banter: | good-humored, playful conversation |
| biased: | favoring one person or side over another; prejudiced |
| blemish: | mark with deformity; injure or impair, as anything which is excellent; make defective, either the body or mind |
| candid: | straightforward; frank; free from prejudice; impartial |
| chronic: | lasting for long period; marked by frequent recurrence, as certain diseases |
| collusion: | secret agreement for an illegal purpose; conspiracy |
| compatible: | harmonious; having similar disposition and tastes |
| construction: | act of constructing or building something |
| copious: | plentiful; containing plenty; affording ample supply |
| curt: | having been shortened; effectively cut short; rudely brief or abrupt, as in speech or manner |
| delete: | erase; strike out; remove or make invisible |
| deluge: | great flood; heavy downpour; any overflowing of water |
| denounce: | condemn openly; criticize; make known in formal manner |
| devastation: | an event that results in total destruction; the state of being decayed or destroyed |
| disconsolate: | sad; cheerless; gloomy; hopeless or not expecting |
| diverse: | differing in some characteristics; various |
| edict: | decree ,especially issued by a sovereign; official command |
| elicit: | draw out; bring forth or to light; generate or provoke as response or answer |
| erudite: | learned; scholarly, with emphasis on knowledge gained from books |
| exodus: | departure of a large number of people |
| feasible: | capable of being accomplished or brought about |
| fiasco: | complete failure; sudden and violent collapse |
| fluctuate: | rise and fall in or as if in waves; shift; vary irregularly |
| genesis: | coming into being of something; origin |
| gregarious: | sociable; seeking and enjoying the company of others |
| hail: | call for; salute; greet; praise vociferously |
| heinous: | grossly wicked; abominable; hateful; infamous |
| hovel: | shack; small, wretched house |
| immune: | resistant to; free or exempt from; not subject to |
| import: | bring in from another country |
| incarcerate: | imprison; put into jail; shut up or inclose |
| inordinate: | exceeding reasonable limits; excessive; not regulated; disorderly |
| jargon: | language used by a special group; technical terminology; nonsensical or meaningless talk |
| labyrinth: | maze; complex structure of interconnecting passages |
| lavish: | liberal; wasteful; excessive spending |
| lucid: | easily understood; clear; intelligible |
| masquerade: | assembly of persons wearing masks, and amusing themselves with dancing, conversation, or other diversions; dramatic performance by actors in masks |
| mediocre: | moderate to inferior in quality; ordinary; commonplace |
| meticulous: | excessively careful; marked by extreme care in treatment of details |
| mimic: | copy or imitate closely, especially in speech, expression |
| mundane: | belonging to this earth or world; not ideal or heavenly; concerned with commonplaces; ordinary |
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