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  1. aspire
    have an ambitious plan or a lofty goal
  2. bolster
    support and strengthen
  3. brandish
    move or swing back and forth
  4. cynical
    believing the worst of human nature and motives
  5. didactic
    instructive, especially excessively
  6. epiphany
    a usually sudden insight, perception, or understanding of something
  7. erudite
    having or showing profound knowledge
  8. evoke
    call forth, as an emotion, feeling, or response
  9. incongruous
    lacking in harmony or compatibility or appropriateness
  10. indignant
    angered at something unjust or wrong
  11. lyrical
    expressing deep emotion
  12. morose
    showing a brooding ill humor
  13. obsequious
    attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
  14. reverie
    an abstracted state of absorption
  15. rhetorical
    relating to using language effectively
  16. ribald
    humorously vulgar
  17. satiric
    exposing human folly to ridicule
  18. deter
    turn away from as by fear or persuasion
  19. disparage
    express a negative opinion of
  20. primp
    dress or groom with elaborate care
  21. travesty
    a composition that imitates or misrepresents a style
  22. wizened
    lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness
  23. incriminate
    suggest that someone is guilty
  24. forensic
    used in the investigation of facts or evidence in court
  25. dubious
    fraught with uncertainty or doubt
  26. subordinate
    an assistant subject to the authority or control of another
Created on Sat Jul 31 17:05:45 EDT 2010 (updated Mon Nov 15 07:14:56 EST 2010)

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