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- Ebullience
- Boiling over, overflow, exhilaration
- Bemuse
- To confuse, muddle, or stupefy (someone)
- Gambit
- A maneuver to gain a advantage
- Declaim
- To speak or write for effect only
- Nemesis
- An act of retribution, a rival one cannot best
- Copacetic
- Slang, completely satisfactory
- Ontology
- Branch of metaphysics that studies the nature of existence or being
- Discursive
- Passing aimlessly from one subject to another
- Insouciant
- Free from concern, without anxiety, carefree
- Infrastructure
- The basic underlying framework or features of a system
- Parsimonious
- Sparing or frugal esp. to excess
- Verbose
- Expressed in or characterized by the use of many or too many words, wordy
- Portentous
- Ominously significant or indicative, over inflated, pompous
- Privy
- Participating in private or secret knowledge, private
- Marginal
- Situated on the border, almost insufficient
- Symbology
- The study or use of symbols
- Tabula rasa
- A mind not yet affected by experiences impressions, etc.
- Enervate
- To deprive of nerve, force or strength, to weaken or destroy the vigor of
- Queue
- A braid of hair worn hanging down behind, a waiting line
- Concupiscent
- Lustful or sensual, eagerly desirous
- Pillage
- To strip of money or goods by open violence as in war, to take booty
- Gormless
- (British) witless, senseless, stupid
- Vivify
- To animate, quicken, enliven, brighten
- Placebo
- A substance having no pharmacological effect administered as medicine
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