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discretionary
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(s) having or using the ability to act or decide according to your own discretion or judgment; "The commission has discretionary power to award extra funds"

(s) (especially of funds) not earmarked; available for use as needed; "discretionary funds"; "discretionary income"

pithy
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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

(r) in a pithy sententious manner; "she expressed herself pithily"

comport
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(v) behave in a certain manner; "She carried herself well"; "he bore himself with dignity"; "They conducted themselves well during these difficult times"

(v) behave well or properly; "The children must learn to behave"

checkered
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(s) marked by changeable fortune; "a checkered business career"

(s) patterned with alternating squares of color

ambrosia
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(n) (classical mythology) the food and drink of the gods; mortals who ate it became immortal

(n) fruit dessert made of oranges and bananas with shredded coconut

(n) any of numerous chiefly North American weedy plants constituting the genus Ambrosia that produce highly allergenic pollen responsible for much hay fever and asthma

(n) a mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae

factious
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(s) dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion)

disgorge
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(v) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night"

(v) cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over; "spill the beans all over the table"

filch
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(v) make off with belongings of others

wraith
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(n) a mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past"

demonstrable
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(s) necessarily or demonstrably true; "demonstrable truths"

(s) capable of being demonstrated or proved; "obvious lies"; "a demonstrable lack of concern for the general welfare"; "practical truth provable to all men"- Walter Bagehot

pertinacious
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(s) stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion"

emend
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(v) make improvements or corrections to; "the text was emended in the second edition"

laggard
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(n) someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind

(s) wasting time

(s) inclined to waste time and lag behind

waffle
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(n) pancake batter baked in a waffle iron

(v) pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness; "Authorities hesitate to quote exact figures"

loquacious
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(s) full of trivial conversation; "kept from her housework by gabby neighbors"

venial
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(s) easily excused or forgiven; "a venial error"

(s) warranting only temporal punishment; "venial sin"

peon
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(n) a laborer who is obliged to do menial work

effulgence
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(n) the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light

lode
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(n) a deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks

fanfare
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(n) (music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments; "he entered to a flourish of trumpets"; "her arrival was greeted with a rousing fanfare"

(n) a showy outward display

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