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  1. credence
    the mental attitude that something is believable
  2. insofar
    to the degree or extent that
  3. hypothesis
    a tentative insight that is not yet verified or tested
  4. inevitable
    incapable of being avoided or prevented
  5. inadmissible
    not deserving to be accepted or allowed
  6. discredited
    being unjustly brought into disrepute
  7. ubiquitous
    being present everywhere at once
  8. appellate
    relating to challenges to a legal decision
  9. placebo
    an innocuous or inert medication
  10. clamor
    utter or proclaim insistently and noisily
  11. purport
    have the often misleading appearance of being or intending
  12. disingenuous
    not straightforward or candid
  13. memoir
    an account of the author's personal experiences
  14. contention
    the act of competing as for profit or a prize
  15. dearth
    an insufficient quantity or number
  16. entice
    provoke someone to do something through persuasion
  17. scarce
    deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand
  18. cadet
    a military trainee (as at a military academy)
  19. garb
    clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion
  20. connote
    express or state indirectly
  21. gravitate
    move toward
  22. paucity
    an insufficient quantity or number
  23. latent
    potentially existing but not presently evident or realized
  24. overt
    open and observable; not secret or hidden
  25. menace
    something that is a source of danger
  26. defy
    resist or confront with resistance
  27. segregation
    the act of keeping apart
  28. norm
    a standard or model or pattern regarded as typical
  29. xenophobia
    a fear of foreigners or strangers
  30. snide
    expressive of contempt
  31. dysfunctional
    impaired in function; especially of a bodily system or organ
  32. perpetuity
    the property of being seemingly ceaseless
  33. tormentor
    someone who causes others to suffer
  34. relegate
    assign to a lower position
  35. reminisce
    recall the past
  36. paltry
    contemptibly small in amount or size
  37. bemoan
    regret strongly
  38. reprimand
    an act or expression of criticism and censure
  39. patronize
    provide support for
  40. spendthrift
    someone who spends money freely or wastefully
  41. atrocity
    an act of shocking cruelty
  42. derelict
    a person without a home, job, or property
  43. clichéd
  44. hypocrisy
    pretending to have qualities or beliefs that you do not have
Created on Fri Jun 03 08:57:35 EDT 2011 (updated Fri Jun 03 08:57:48 EDT 2011)

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