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ascendancy

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(n.) Controlling influence; domination "Leaders of religious cults maintain ascendancy over their followers by methods that can verge on brainwashing."

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merriment

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high-spirited fun and enjoyment "I thought it was meet to arouse Maud; but this time I shouted in merriment as I danced about the beach, bareheaded, in mock despair."

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churlish

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(adj.) lacking politeness or good manners; lacking sensitivity; difficult to work with or deal with; rude

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desultory

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jumping from one thing to another; disconnected Athena had a desultory academic record; she had changed majors 12 times in 3 years. Synonyms: aimless; disconnected; erratic; haphazard; indiscriminate; object less; purposeless; random; stray; unconsidered; unplanned

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scourge

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to whip, punish severely poor slaves had to endure scourging

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obsequious

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obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree "The waiters at the club were all white-jacketed middle-aged black men who could not be called obsequious but belonged culturally to another generation, one that knew how to be selectively deaf and to pretend that the clientele they served held them in high regard."

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gregarious

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outgoing; sociable "But during the last two years of the Bush administration, Bolton's successor, Afghan-born Zalmay Khalilzad, became known as a gregarious and affable diplomat who improved relations somewhat."

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curmudgeon

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cranky person, usually old

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Prose

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Any writing that is not poetry "She says the last thing she's fallen back on is line breaks, that poetry has line breaks, and therefore she refuses to use the term prose poetry, because it finally shatters the last bit of taxonomy she has"

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carousing

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drunken merrymaking "Napoa had not had a peaceful night's sleep at the camp, confessing that she knew from her dreams that she was still "roaming everywhere," a euphemism for carousing with her coven."

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revel

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noisy festivity; merrymaking

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wanton

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undisciplined; unrestrained; reckless

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brusque

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(adj.) abrupt, blunt, with no formalities "Britain - another would recall brusque, high-handed rudeness."

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pedant

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SOMEONE WHO SHOWS OFF LEARNING The graduate instructor's tedious and excessive commentary on the subject soon gained her a reputation as a pedant. Synonyms: doctrinaire; nit-picker; pedagogue; scholar; schoolmaster; sophist

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prolific

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(adj.) abundantly productive; abundant, profuse: fertile

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contempt

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the feeling that a person or a thing is beneath consideration, worthless, or deserving scorn. "You seem to find it easy to badmouth religion and tradition. your contempt is almost funny if you did not take it so serious. your posts are bullshit and you are bullshit."

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garrulous

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talkative Imagine Shewhat on the phone for hours catching up with her friends.

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debar

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exclude or prohibit (someone) officially from doing something - think of a crazy drunk being kicked out the club/bar

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equivocal

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open to more than one interpretation; ambiguous "Suppose those terms equivocal, and to be taken in one sense by him, and by them in another, and nothing can be rightly concluded from what is spoken of them."

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exigency

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An emergency that needs an immediate exit

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conjecture

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an opinion or conclusion formed on the basis of incomplete information "Walter Alvarez would not have used the distribution of foraminifera in limestone as the basis for a conjecture"

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fortuitous

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(adj.) accidental, occurring by a happy chance "Hence there grew up the belief that events which we describe as fortuitous or random or subject to chance are no different from any other happenings, except that we do not know why they happen."

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bereft

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deprived of something "Vrigina Wolf sits alone, lost in thought, her expression bereft, a tissue in her hand."

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exaltation

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a feeling or state of extreme happiness; the state of being raised or elevated, as in rank or character (n) "The freedom at once from 'living's cares, that is cares of bread,' the pride of being one's own mistress and own protector, all that lifts me into a certain exaltation, 'regardless of expense.'"

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solemn

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serious, somber

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