Advocate | support |
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Ambiguous | vague |
Animosity | hostility; hatred |
Boorishness | rudeness; ill-mannered behavior |
Censure | blame; criticize |
Concord | agreement |
Conflagration | big fire |
Consecrated | dedicated; made holy |
Consummate | supremely good |
Contagious | passed on through touch; infectious |
Cursory | superficial |
Dalliance | non-serious involvement; toying or playing with something |
Deleterious | harmful |
Disparaging | critical |
Dubious | doubtful |
Equitable | fair and equal |
Eulogy | praise |
Fastidious | very fussy; excessively concerned (esp. about cleanliness) |
Fidelity | faithfulness; loyalty |
Formidable | inspiring awe |
Futile | useless; waste of time and effort |
Futility | uselessness |
Holistic | whole; entire (Holistic viewpoint = seeing things as a whole) |
Idiosyncratic | quirky; eccentric; unique to an individual |
Ineffable | can’t be expressed in words |
Infelicity | unsuitability; inappropriateness |
Integrity | honor; honesty |
Intermittent | on and off; not continuous |
Judicious | fair; wise |
Legitimate | to make legal; give approval to |
Mercenary | seeking money above all else |
Meticulous | thorough; taking care of details |
Petulant | sulky |
Polarized | divided into two extremes |
Pragmatism | practicality |
Presumptive | presumed |
Propensity | tendency; leaning’ predilection |
Prosaic | ordinary |
Quelled | suppressed |
Regressive | moving backwards (literal or metaphoric) |
Remiss | neglectful |
Rhetoric | persuasive language |
Sedulous | thorough; eager |
Sermonized | gave moral lecture |
Shroud | 1. a cover for dead body, 2. to cover |
Steadfastness | loyalty; firmness of purpose |
Temporize | put off; procrastinate |
Treacly | too sweet; over sentimental |
Vacillated | wavered; hesitated |
Vindication | proving right |
Vindictive | seeking revenge |
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