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sententious
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(s) concise and full of meaning; "welcomed her pithy comments"; "the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams"- Hervey Allen

(s) abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing; "too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation"- Kathleen Barnes

cabal
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(n) a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act (especially a political plot)

(n) a clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through intrigue

(v) engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together; "They conspired to overthrow the government"

paraphernalia
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(n) equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc.

vitiate
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(v) take away the legal force of or render ineffective; "invalidate as a contract"

(v) make imperfect; "nothing marred her beauty"

(v) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals"

adulation
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(n) servile flattery; exaggerated and hypocritical praise

quaff
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(n) a hearty draft

(v) to swallow hurriedly or greedily or in one draught; "The men gulped down their beers"

unassuming
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(s) not arrogant or presuming; "unassuming to a fault, skeptical about the value of his work"; "a shy retiring girl"

libertine
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(n) a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained

(s) unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women"

maul
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(n) a heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges

(v) injure badly by beating

(v) split (wood) with a maul and wedges

adage
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(n) a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people

expostulation
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(n) an exclamation of protest or remonstrance or reproof

(n) the act of expressing earnest opposition or protest

tawdry
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(s) cheap and shoddy; "cheapjack moviemaking...that feeds on the low taste of the mob"- Judith Crist

(s) tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"

trite
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(s) repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'"

hireling
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(n) a person who works only for money

ensconce
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(v) fix firmly; "He ensconced himself in the chair"

egregious
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(s) conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; "a crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude"; "gross injustice"; "rank treachery"

cogent
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(s) powerfully persuasive; "a cogent argument"; "a telling presentation"; "a weighty argument"

(s) having the power to influence or convince; "a cogent analysis of the problem"; "potent arguments"

incisive
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(s) suitable for cutting or piercing; "incisive teeth"; "the piercing needle"

(s) very penetrating and clear and sharp in operation; "an incisive mind"; "a keen intelligence"; "of sharp and active intellect"

(s) having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions; "an acute observer of politics and politicians"; "incisive comments"; "icy knifelike reasoning"; "as sharp and incisive as the stroke of a fang"; "penetrating insight"; "frequent pene

errant
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(s) uncontrolled motion that is irregular or unpredictable; "an errant breeze"

(s) straying from the right course or from accepted standards; "errant youngsters"

sedulous
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(s) marked by care and persistent effort; "her assiduous attempts to learn French"; "assiduous research"; "sedulous pursuit of legal and moral principles"

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