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| adversary | definition: (noun) a person, group, or force that opposes or attacks; opponent; enemy; foe |
| buffet | definition: (noun) a blow, as with the hand or fist; a violent shock or concussion (verb) to strike, as with the hand or fist; to strike against or push repeatedly |
| credulity | definition: (adj) willingness to believe or trust too readily, especially without proper or adequate evidence; gullibility |
| eminent | definition: (adj) high in station, rank, or repute; prominent; distinguished: conspicuous, signal, or noteworthy; lofty; high; prominent; projecting; protruding |
| implicit | definition: (adj) implied, rather than expressly stated: unquestioning or unreserved; absolute |
| mollify | definition: (verb) to soften in feeling or temper, as a person; pacify; appease; to mitigate or reduce; soften |
| passive | definition: (adj) not reacting visibly to something that might be expected to produce manifestations of an emotion or feeling: not participating readily or actively; inactive |
| plethora | definition: (noun) overabundance; excess |
| propagate | definition: (verb) to reproduce (itself, its kind, etc.), as an organism does; to transmit (hereditary features or elements) to, or through, offspring; to spread (a report, doctrine, practice, etc.) from person to person; disseminate; to cause to increase in number or amount. |
| suppress | definition: (verb) to put an end to the activities of; to do away with by or as by authority; abolish; stop; to keep in or repress; to withhold from disclosure or publication; to stop or arrest; to vanquish or subdue |
| tangential | definition: (adj) pertaining to or of the nature of a tangent; being or moving in the direction of a tangent; merely touching; slightly connected; divergent or digressive, as from a subject under consideration; tending to digress or to reply to questions obliquely |
| taut | definition: (adj) tightly drawn; tense; not slack; emotionally or mentally strained or tense; in good order or condition; tidy; neat |
| toxin | definition: (noun) any poison produced by an organism, characterized by antigenicity in certain animals and high molecular weight, and including the bacterial toxins that are the causative agents of tetanus, diphtheria, etc., and such plant and animal toxins as ricin and snake venom. |
| typical | definition: (adj) of the nature of or serving as a type or representative specimen; conforming to a particular type |
| upbraid | definition: (verb) to find fault with or reproach severely; censure; (of things) to bring reproach on; serve as a reproach to |
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