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  • acerbic: sharp and forthright.
  • ameliorate: make something bad or unsatisfactory better.
  • atavism: a tendency to revert to something ancient or ancestral. ♡
  • castigate: reprimand someone severely.
  • cognoscenti: people who are considered to be especially well informed about a particular subject. (from italian, lit. "people who know") ♡
  • cordwainer: a shoemaker who makes new shoes from new leather.
  • corollary: a proposition that follows from one already proved.
  • discursive: moving from topic to topic without order.
  • elucidate: to make clear.
  • expiate: atone for (guilt or sin).
  • genuflect: to touch the knee to the ground, especially in worship; or (metaphorically) to show deference or servility. ♡
  • husky: (of a person) muscular and heavily built.
  • improvident: not having or showing foresight.
  • intelligentsia: status class composed of the university-educated people of a society who engage in mental labours by which they critique, shape, and lead in the politics, policies, and culture of their society.
  • intifuda: "shaking off" in arabic; a rebellion or uprising.
  • lambent: softly radiant. ♡ see also: lambent wit: the ability to use words in a clever and humorous way without being unkind.
  • lascivious: revealing an overt and often offensive sexual desire.
  • maudlin: self-pityingly or tearfully sentimental, often through drunkenness. ♡
  • nascent: just coming into existence and beginning to display signs of future potential. ♡
  • obsequious: obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree.
  • proselytize: convert or attempt to convert from one religion, belief, or opinion to another. ♡
  • ragamuffin: a person, typically a child, in ragged, dirty clothes. (also a breed of domestic cat)
  • rankle: to continue to be painful; fester.
  • recrimination: an accusation in response to one from someone else. ♡
  • riven: violently divided. ♡
  • sacrosanct: regarded as too important or valuable to be interfered with. ♡
  • self-abnegation: the denial or abasement of oneself.
  • sinecure: a position requiring little or no work but giving the holder status or financial benefit.
  • slipshod: characterized by a lack of care, thought, or organization.
  • steelmanning: (as opposed to strawmanning) a rhetorical technique in which you present the strongest possible version of an opponent's argument, even if it's not the one they explicitly stated.
  • vaunted: praised or boasted about, especially in an excessive way. ♡
  • venal: showing or motivated by susceptibility to bribery. ♡
  • vesper: an evening prayer, service, or hymn; an archaic word for evening.
  • waspish: irritable and inclined to bite.
  • wildcatter: a prospector who sinks exploratory oil wells.
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