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allocate | to map or assign to |
junta | a council or committee for political or governmental purposes |
calumny | a misrepresentation intended to harm another's reputation
slander |
lackadaisical | lacking spirit, liveliness, or interest; languid |
tirade | a long angry or violent speech, usually of a censorious or denunciatory nature |
garrote | to execute by strangling or what is used to execute by strangling |
cant | to talk or beg in a whining or singsong manner |
ebullient | joyously unrestrained
showing enthusiasm or exhilaration of feeling |
deference | a courteous expression (by word or deed) of esteem or regard
"in deference to your wishes" |
denunciation | an act of denouncing; especially a public condemnation
the act of declaring an action or person worthy or reprobation or punishment |
came | a slender grooved lead rod used to hold together panes of glass especially in a stained-glass window |
candid | without subtlety or evasion
straight forward; blunt |
iconoclast | one who attacks and seeks to overthrow traditional or popular ideas or institutions
one who destroys sacred religious images |
precipitately | headlong, hastily, rashly, swiftly |
abdicate | to give up a position with no possibility of resuming it (royal power, responsibility, etc) |
abjure | a firm and final rejecting or abandoning often made under oath |
ignominious | marked with or characterized by disgrace or shame
disgraceful |
deciduous | falling off or shed seasonally or at a certain stage of development in the life cycle |
decamp | to break up a camp
to leave suddenly or unexpectedly |
callow | lacking adult sophistication
without experience of the world |
gamut | series or range (usually pertaining to color or music) |
banal | lacking originality, freshness, or novelty
commonplace |
darkling | uncanninly or threateningly dark or obscure
"secret operatives and darkling conspiracies"
occurring in the night |
ignoble | completely lacking nobility in character or quality or purpose
"something cowardly and ignoble in his attitude" |
prudent | wise in handling practical matters
exercising good judgment or common sense |
rapture | a state or experience of being carried away by overwhelming emotion |
cadenza | a solo passage, either written by the composer or improvised by the performer |
gambol | to skip about in play; frolic |
gait | a manner of walking or moving on foot
how one carries oneself when he moves
"he has a leisurely gait" |
economize | to spend sparingly |
edify | to build up; strengthen
to instruct and improve especially in moral and religious knowledge |
reprove | to scold or correct usually gently or with kindly intent |
canon | a secular law, rule, or code of law |
abet | assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing |
repugnant | exciting distaste or aversion
repulsive |
harbinger | One that indicates or foreshadows what is to come; a forerunner |
educe | the bringing out of something potential or latent
to draw out |
cabalism | superstitious devotion to one's religion |