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Verbal Advantage – Charles Harrington Elster

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abase, abate, abdicate, abject, abjure, ablution, abnegation, abrade, abscond, absolve, abstemious, abstruse, accede, accrue, acerbic, acetous, acquiesce, acrid, acrimonious, actuarially, administer, admonish, adorn, adversity, affable, affinity, affray, affronted, ficionado, aggrieved, alacrity, altercation, ambience, ameliorate, amenable, amity, ancillary, animosity, anomaly, anthology, antipathy, antithetic, apathy, aplomb, apogee, apprise, archaic, archetype, ardent, ascetic, ascribe, aspect, aspire, assent, assiduous, assimilate, assuage, atoll, atone, audacious, augment, auspicious, austere, autocratic, aversion, banal, belie, bellicose, benign, blasé, blithe, bludgeon, bolster, bucolic, buffet, burgeon, calumny, canard, capacious, caper, capitulate, caprice, cardinal, cataclysm, cataract, cavil, cede, celerity, censure, charlatan, cherubic, chicanery, choleric, churlish, circumspect, cleft, clemency, coalesce, cogent, cogitate, commandeer, commiserate, comport, conducive, confound, conjecture, contentious, contravene, contrite, contrition, copious, corpulent, corroborate, counterpart, craven, credence, credulous, cryptic, culpable, cursory, cynical, daunt, dauntless, debase, debilitate, debonair, defile, deleterious, deluge, demise, denizen, derisive, derogate, desiccate, detriment, detritus, devout, diabolical, diadem, diaphanous, dichotomy, didactic, dilate, dire, discern, discharge, disconcert, disconsolate, discreet, disparate, dissident, distend, divulge, dolorous, drivel, droll, dulcet, ebullience, effects, effectual, effrontery, egress, elucidate, emaciated, embellish, émigré, emphatic, encumber, enigma, ennui, ensue, envoy, equanimity, equity, erudite, erudition, eschew, espouse, evince, exacerbate, exculpate, exodus, exonerate, expiate, exploit, extant, extricate, facile, faction, farcical, fastidious, fatuous, federation, felicity, feral, fester, fetid, figment, firmament, fissure, flaccid, flagrant, florid, foment, forbearance, forum, fretful, furtive, garrulity, genial, germane, gibe, gingerly, glower, gourmand, guile, habitude, halcyon, hapless, harbinger, harmony, haughty, henchman, hew, hiatus, hinterland, hirsute, hodgepodge, hovel, ignominious, illustrious, imbibe, imbroglio, imminent, impart, impecunious, imperturbable, impetuous, impetus, implacable, implement, impudent, inaugurate, incantation, inception, incipient, inclement, incommode, incredulous, inculcate, incumbent, indigenous, indigent, indisposed, indolent, infinitesimal, infuse, inimitable, iniquitous, injunction, innocuous, inordinate, insolvent, integrate, interloper, intimation, intractable, intrepid, intrinsic, invective, inviolate, itinerate, jocose, jostle, kiosk, kowtow, laggard, lassitude, latent, laudable, legacy, lugubrious, luminary, lurch, magnanimity, maladroit, malediction, malign, manifest, artial, mastic, matron, melancholy, mellifluous, mendicant, menial, mesmerize, milieu, miscreant, mitigate, modicum, morbid, morose, muse, naughty, nebulous, nefarious, negligible, nonplussed, noxious, obdurate, obfuscate, oblivious, obsequious, obstreperous, odious, onerous, opulent, ordeal, ossify, ostracize, outspoken, overt, palatable, pallid, palpable, palpitate, panache, paradigm, paragon, parity, parochial, paroxysm, parry, parsimonious, patently, paucity, pecuniary, peevish, penchant, perfidy, perpetrate, perverse, petulant, picayune, pious, pithy, plaintive, plebian, plethora, plunder, ponderous, portend, portent, potable, potion, predilection, predisposed, prelusory, prepossessing, presence, prevaricate, proclivity, prodigious, prodigy, progeny, prognosis, prolific, prone, propinquity, propitious, propriety, rotract, proviso, pseudonym, puerile, pugnacious, punitive, purloined, quaff, querulous, quibbling, rancor, random, rapacious, rarified, recapitulate, rectitude, refute, regale, remiss, remunerate, renounce, repast, replete, reproach, reprove, respite, restive, reticent, revel, reverie, revile, ribald, righteousness, risible, rococo, roister, rotund, ruminate, sagacious, salubrious, salutary, sanctity, sang-froid, scant, scathing, scintillating, scornful, scrupulous, sequester, settee, shiftless, sinuous, solicit, sordid, spasmodic, spurn, squalid, squalor, statute, stead, stigma, stodgy, sublime, subterfuge, subvert, succor, suffuse, sumptuous, supercilious, superficial, supplant, surely, surmise, surreptitious, sustenance, swagger, sycophant, synonymous, tacit, tantamount, tenable, tenet, tentative, terse, throttle, timorous, torpor, torrid, tractable, transcend, transgress, travail, travesty, trenchant, tribulation, trifling, trite,truncate, tumid, widdle, ubiquitous, umbrage, unctuous, unwieldy, upbraid, vacillate, vacuous, vagary, vagrant, vapid, veracity, vertigo, vex, vigil, vigilant, vilify, virile, virulent, vista, vociferous, voluble, voracious, wan, wane, wanton, welt, wiles, wrought

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