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  1. seditious
    inciting action or rebellion
  2. reprehensible
    bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure
  3. deplorable
    of very poor quality or condition
  4. cataclysmic
    severely destructive
  5. adjudicate
    hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of
  6. peremptory
    putting an end to all debate or action
  7. accentuate
    stress or single out as important
  8. underscore
    give extra weight to
  9. unprecedented
    novel; having no earlier occurrence
  10. ostentatiously
    in a manner intended to attract notice and impress others
  11. augury
    an event indicating important things to come
  12. effulgent
    radiating or as if radiating light
  13. saturnine
    bitter or scornful
  14. irreverent
    showing lack of due respect or veneration
  15. indelible
    not able to be forgotten, removed, or erased
  16. redolent
    having a strong pleasant odor
  17. purport
    have the often misleading appearance of being or intending
  18. travail
    use of physical or mental energy; hard work
  19. sedentary
    requiring sitting or little activity
  20. consensus
    agreement in the judgment reached by a group as a whole
  21. conglomerate
    collect or gather
  22. vestige
    an indication that something has been present
  23. disparity
    inequality or difference in some respect
  24. conciliate
    gain the good will of or cause to be more favorably inclined
  25. concurrently
    overlapping in duration
  26. congregate
    come together, usually for a purpose
  27. protracted
    relatively long in duration
  28. abate
    become less in amount or intensity
  29. mettle
    the courage to carry on
  30. dissemble
    behave unnaturally or affectedly
  31. bathetic
    very sentimental or emotional
  32. pernicious
    exceedingly harmful
  33. recrimination
    mutual accusations
  34. abysmal
    exceptionally bad or displeasing
  35. intrepid
    invulnerable to fear or intimidation
  36. candour
    the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech
  37. specious
    plausible but false
  38. deviance
    a state or condition markedly different from the norm
  39. reprobate
    a person without moral scruples
  40. reprobation
    severe disapproval
  41. penury
    a state of extreme poverty or destitution
  42. destitution
    a state without money or prospects
  43. abeyance
    temporary cessation or suspension
  44. retrograde
    moving or directed or tending in a backward direction
  45. insular
    relating to or characteristic of or situated on an island
  46. confidant
    someone to whom private matters are told
  47. furtive
    secret and sly
  48. indolent
    disinclined to work or exertion
  49. aberration
    a state or condition markedly different from the norm
  50. arcane
    requiring secret or mysterious knowledge
  51. piecemeal
    one thing at a time
  52. exuberant
    joyously unrestrained
  53. circumspect
    careful to consider potential consequences and avoid risk
  54. deride
    treat or speak of with contempt
  55. brazen
    not held back by conventional ideas of behavior
  56. alacrity
    liveliness and eagerness
  57. demure
    shy or modest, often in a playful or provocative way
  58. deferential
    showing courteous regard for people's feelings
  59. portentous
    of momentous or ominous significance
  60. elicit
    call forth, as an emotion, feeling, or response
  61. educe
    construe a meaning or elicit a principle
  62. circumstantial
    suggesting that something is true without proving it
  63. egregious
    conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
  64. provident
    giving something useful for the future
  65. recompense
    make payment to
  66. inclination
    the act of bending forward
  67. propensity
    a natural inclination
  68. obsequious
    attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
  69. adulate
    flatter in an obsequious manner
  70. supercilious
    having or showing arrogant superiority
  71. incremental
    increasing gradually by regular degrees or additions
  72. hitherto
    up to this point; until the present time
  73. requisite
    necessary for relief or supply
  74. verbose
    using or containing too many words
  75. inexorably
    in a manner impervious to change or persuasion
  76. impervious
    not admitting of passage or capable of being affected
  77. axiomatic
    evident without proof or argument
  78. corollary
    an inference following from the proof of another proposition
  79. inference
    a conclusion you can draw based on known evidence
  80. disavow
    refuse to acknowledge
  81. nonsensical
    having no intelligible meaning
  82. ameliorate
    make better
  83. exasperate
    make furious
  84. mendicant
    a pauper who lives by begging
  85. misconstrue
    interpret in the wrong way
  86. integrated
    formed or united into a whole
  87. wearisome
    so lacking in interest as to cause mental fatigue
  88. exclamatory
    expressed suddenly and with force
  89. accentuate
    stress or single out as important
  90. debilitate
    make weak
  91. seditious
    inciting action or rebellion
Created on Thu Oct 25 21:34:13 EDT 2012

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