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nuance
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(n) a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude; "without understanding the finer nuances you can't enjoy the humor"; "don't argue about shades of meaning"

gawk
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(n) an awkward stupid person

(v) look with amazement; look stupidly

refectory
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(n) a communal dining-hall (usually in a monastery)

palatial
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(s) suitable for or like a palace; "palatial furnishings"; "a palatial yacht"

(a) relating to or being a palace; "the palatial residence"

mincing
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(s) affectedly dainty or refined

trenchant
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(s) clearly or sharply defined to the mind; "clear-cut evidence of tampering"; "Claudius was the first to invade Britain with distinct...intentions of conquest"; "trenchant distinctions between right and wrong"

(s) characterized by or full of force and vigor; "a hard-hitting expose"; "a trenchant argument"

(s) having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought, expression, or intellect; "searching insights"; "trenchant criticism"

emboss
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(v) raise in a relief; "embossed stationary"

proletarian
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(n) a member of the working class (not necessarily employed); "workers of the world--unite!"

(s) belonging to or characteristic of the proletariat

(a) the lowest class of citizens of ancient Rome who had no property

careen
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(n) pitching dangerously to one side

(v) move sideways or in an unsteady way; "The ship careened out of control"

(v) walk as if unable to control one's movements; "The drunken man staggered into the room"

debacle
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(n) a sudden and violent collapse

(n) a sound defeat

(n) flooding caused by a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river during the spring or summer

sycophant
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(n) a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage

crabbed
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(s) perversely irritable

archetype
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(n) an original model on which something is patterned

cryptic
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(s) having a puzzling terseness; "a cryptic note"

(s) having a secret or hidden meaning; "cabalistic symbols engraved in stone"; "cryptic writings"; "thoroughly sibylline in most of his pronouncements"- John Gunther

(s) of an obscure nature; "the new insurance policy is written without cryptic or mysterious terms"; "a deep dark secret"; "the inscrutible workings of Providence"; "in its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life"- Rachel Carson; "rituals t

penchant
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(n) a strong liking; "my own preference is for good literature"; "the Irish have a penchant for blarney"

bauble
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(n) cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing

(n) a mock scepter carried by a court jester

mountebank
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(n) a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes

fawning
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(s) attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery

hummock
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(n) a small natural hill

apotheosis
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(n) the elevation of a person (as to the status of a god)

(n) model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal

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