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39. opprobrium: a state of extreme dishonor
40. platitude: a trite or obvious remark
41. prevaricate: (v.) to lie, tell an untruth; to mislead on purpose
42. probity: uprightness; honesty; incorruptibility
43. propitiate: to soothe or satisfy; to appease
44. qualified: limited or restricted
45. recalcitrant: marked by stubborn resistance to authority
46. recant: formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usuallyunder pressure
47. recondite: difficult to understand; profound
48. refractory: stubbornly resistant to authority or control
49. reprobate: a person without moral scruples, scoundrel
50. repudiate: refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid
51. secrete: hide away or cache; produce and release a substanceinto an organism
52. specious: seemingly reasonable but incorrect; misleading (oftenintentionally)
53. stint: be thrifty; set limits
54. striated: marked with parallel bands; grooved
55. torpor: laziness; inactivity; dullness
56. tortuous: marked by repeated turns and bends
1. ameliorate: to improve
2. appropriate: acquire; take possession of for one's own use
3. attenuate: make thin; weaken
4. austere: severe or stern in manner; without adornment or luxury,simple, plain; harsh or sour in flavor
5. burgeon: grow and flourish
6. buttress: (v.) to support, prop up, strengthen; (n.) a supportingstructure
7. coda: concluding section of a musical or literary composition
8. cogent: convincing
9. complaisant: trying to please; obliging; willing to please others
10. condone: overlook; forgive; give tacit approval; excuse
11. contrite: extremely apologetic, remorseful, repentant
12. craven: cowardly; a coward
13. deference: courteous regard for people's feelings
14. desiccate: dry up
15. desultory: aimless; haphazard; digressing at random
16. diffuse: to spread or scatter freely or widely; wordy, long-winded, or unfocused; scattered or widely spread
17. dirge: a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as amemorial to a dead person
18. disabuse: correct a false impression; undeceive; free from awrong belief
19. disinterested: unprejudiced; free from bias and self-interest;objective
20. dissemble: make believe with the intent to deceive
21. distend: expand; swell out
22. divest: strip; deprive
23. dogmatic: opinionated; holding stubbornly to one's opinion;arbitrary; doctrinal
24. eclectic: selecting what seems best of various styles or ideas
25. effrontery: shameless boldness, impudence
26. elegy: a mournful poem, esp. one lamenting the dead
27. engender: to cause, to produce, to create
28. facetious: joking (often inappropriately); humorous
29. fatuous: foolish; inane
30. felicitous: appropriate, apt, well chosen; marked by well-beingor good fortune, happy
31. forestall: prevent by taking action in advance
32. goad: to drive or urge on
33. gouge: overcharge
34. inchoate: in an initial stage; not fully formed
35. inured: made tough by habitual exposure
36. levity: feeling an inappropriate lack of seriousness
37. morose: showing a brooding ill humor
38. obdurate: showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings
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