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Words 08
- amanuensis:
one employed to take dictation or to copy manuscripts.
- garrulous:
talkative; also, wordy.
- recherche:
exotic; rare; also, affected, pretentious.
- probity:
complete and confirmed integrity.
- busker:
a street musician or performer.
- rara
avis: a rare or unique person or thing.
- cabal:
a group that seeks power usually through intrigue.
- kismet:
destiny; fate.
- gewgaw:
a trinket; a bauble.
- inchoate:
partly but not fully in existence or operation.
- assuage:
to soften; to ease, or lessen.
- diffident:
bashful or unassertive.
- rodomontade:
pretentious, bragging speech.
- bedizen:
to dress or adorn in gaudy manner.
- sojourn:
to dwell for a time; also, a temporary stay.
- chagrin:
acute vexation or embarrassment.
- indolent:
lazy; inactive.
- nefarious:
wicked in the extreme.
- transmute:
to change from one nature, form, substance, or state into another.
- acerbic:
sharp, biting, or acid in temper, expression, or tone.
- myriad:
consisting of a very great but indefinite number; also,
a very great many.
- remunerate:
to pay an equivalent to for any service, loss, or expense.
- anathema:
a curse; a person or thing cursed, or intensely disliked.
- plethora:
excess.
- repine:
to feel or express discontent.
- misnomer:
a misnaming.
- acrid:
sharp and harsh; bitter.
- hullabaloo:
a confused noise; uproar.
- excrescence:
something growing out from something else; also,
a disfiguring or unwanted part.
- obsequious:
servilely attentive; fawning.
- xenophobia:
fear or hatred of what is strange or foreign