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• obstinate: stubborn or inflexible; difficult to control
• penultimate: next to last
• relegate: to banish; to assign to insignificance; to devalue
• stringent: severe, strict; rigidly controlled
• sylvan: woody; related to the forest or the woods
• tumultuous: full of commotion and noise
• blithe: cheerful, lighthearted; glad
• calumny: slander; malicious falsehood; hurtful rumor
• abstruse: difficult to understand
• acrimonious: angry; sharp in words or attitude
• prognosticate: to predict; to forecast
• regress: to go backward; to return to an earlier state or condition
• obsequious: extremely willing to serve the will or wishes of another
• penury: extreme poverty or absence of resources
• metamorphosis: a striking change in structure, form, or appearance
• oblivious: forgotten or ignored; not aware
• pernicious: deadly; highly destructive or harmful; wicked; villainous
• sacrilege: words or actions that insult or spoil something considered sacred
• flaccid: flabby; weak and ineffective; lacking energy or force
• gesticulate: to gesture; to indicate or express, using hand or body movement
• credence: belief/acceptance as true, reliable
• avarice: greed, excessive desire to accumulate materials things or money
• languish: to grow weak or waste/fade away
• marauder: one who raids or plunders, steals
• circumlocution: the use of many words when a few will do
• miscreant: villain or rogue
• immolate: to sacrifice oneself for a cause; to kill or destroy
• fortitude: courage, guts, backbone
• hackneyed: commonplace, worn out, overused word or idea
• expunge: erase, remove evidence of
• deprecate: to disapprove or frown upon
• doleful: sorrowful or full of grief
• entourage: a group of followers or associates
• cogitate: to think over, ponder
• culpable: deserving of blame, guilty
• anathema: a person or thing that is intensely disliked or loathed
• aversion: desire to avoid or turn away from
• sinuous: winding, like a path or road; wavy or bent
• tantamount: the same as; equivalent in value, meaning or significance
• virulent: deadly, extremely harmful, poisonous