Tyrannosaurusprep Words

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Abeyance
Suspension of activity
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Abrograte
To formally revoke an agreement or arrangement
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Abscond
To leave secretly
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Abstruse
Difficult to understand; obscure
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Accrete
To grow together
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Adulate
To praise too greatly
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Apocryphal
Of questionable authenticity
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Augur
To indicate by signs; to predict from an omen
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Beget
To make children; to cause
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Bestial
Showing a lack of human sensibility; like an animal
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Canard
A false rumor
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Capitulate
To surrender, to give up or give in
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Captious
Overly critical and complaining
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Cavil
To raise trivial objections; to bicker
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Charlatan
One who feigns knowledge or ability; an imposter
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Chary
Extremely cautious or hesitant
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Compunction
Feelings of shame or regret
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Consanguinity
A relationship by blood
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Consumate
to bring to a state of completion or perfection
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Conture
fashion designs; fashionable clothing
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Contusion
A bruise; an injury where the skin is not broken
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Coterie
A group of people with a common interest
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Cynosure
The center of attention; something that serves to guide or direct
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Defenestrate
To throw out of a window
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Descant
To talk or write at length
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Dilettante
An amateur
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Disputatious
Likely to or causing heated arguments
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Diurnal
Active during the daytime
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Dudgeon
A fit of anger
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Effervescent
Bubbling, excited
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Elegy
A sorrowful poem or speech
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Emollient
Soothing; a soothing substance
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Encomium
A formal expression of praise, a eulogy
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Enfranchise
To grant privileges of citizenship, especially the right to vote
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Epigram
A witty saying
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Espouse
To support or adopt
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Excoriate
To criticize severly
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Exigent
Critical, requiring immediate action
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Expropriate
To take arbitrarily by force
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Fatuous
stupid or foolish in a self-satisfied way
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Furtive
Done secretly
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Gamin
A child who roams the streets
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Hapless
Having persistent bad luck
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Hermetic
Sealed tightly; protected from outside influence
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Immure
To imprision; to incarcerate
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Imprecate
To pray for evil; to invoke a curse
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Inculcate
To teach by frequent repetition
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Ineffable
Impossible to describe in words
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Inexorable
Impossible to stop
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Litany
A long list
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Malinger
To pretend to be ill to a avoid a responsibility
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Meretricious
Attractive in a superficial manner but without real value
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Neologism
A newly invented word or phrase
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Nostrum
A hypothetical cure-all that may have no true efficacy
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Overweening
Arrogant; excessive
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Paroxysm
A sudden uncontrollable spasm
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Paucity
Scarcity
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Penitent
Regretful for one's sins
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Perfidious
Intending to betray
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Perspicacious
Keen in observation and understanding
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Philippic
A violent verbal attack
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Plaintive
Expressive of sorrow or woe
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Potentate
A powerful ruler; an important person
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Prodigious
Enormous; exceptional
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Progenitor
An ancestor in the direct line
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Proscribe
To outlaw
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Psychophant
A person who serves and flatters someone for personal gain
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Pusillanimous
Contemptibly cowardly
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Raiment
Clothing, garments
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Rampart
A fortification
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Rebarbative
Serving or tending to repel
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Remuneration
A payment; the act of paying
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Repine
To express discontent
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Riposte
A quick and witty reply
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Sacrilege
Improper or disrespectful treatment of something sacred
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Salacious
Characterized by lust
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Saturnine
Melancholy, gloomy, morose
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Scion
A young descendant or heir
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Sedantary
Characterized by sitting
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Sequester
To separate or segregate
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Seraphic
Like an angel
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Sophistry
A flawed argument
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Suppliant
To make a request humbly and earnestly
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Tableau
A picturesque display
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Temporize
To stall or act evasively in order to gain time
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Toady
A person who tries to please others to gain a personal advantage
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Verdant
Green with vegetation; green; inexperienced
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