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  1. cliche
    a trite or obvious remark
  2. debacle
    a sudden and complete disaster
  3. effrontery
    audacious behavior that you have no right to
  4. epitome
    a standard or typical example
  5. equanimity
    steadiness of mind under stress
  6. genre
    a kind of literary or artistic work
  7. mien
    a person's appearance, manner, or demeanor
  8. nonentity
    a person of no influence
  9. stupor
    a state of being half-awake
  10. whimsy
    an odd or fanciful or capricious idea
  11. degradation
    a change to a lower state
  12. candor
    the quality of being honest and straightforward
  13. sanctimony
    the quality of being hypocritically pious or devout
  14. animated
    having life or vigor or spirit
  15. aqueduct
    a conduit that carries water over a valley
  16. archangel
    a spiritual at the highest rank in the celestial hierarchy
  17. benefactor
    a person who helps people or institutions
  18. beneficiary
    the recipient of funds or other advantages
  19. decathlon
    an athletic contest consisting of ten different events
  20. dismissal
    the sending away of someone
  21. homophone
    a word pronounced the same with another meaning or spelling
  22. mortal
    subject to death
  23. mortality
    the quality or state of being subject to death
  24. nominee
    a politician who is running for public office
  25. octet
    eight performers or singers who perform together
  26. philanthropist
    someone who makes charitable donations
  27. polygraph
    a medical instrument that records several physiological processes simultaneously (e.g., pulse rate and blood pressure and respiration and perspiration)
  28. postmortem
    occurring or done after death
  29. tenet
    a basic principle or belief that is accepted as true
  30. travelogue
    a film or illustrated lecture on traveling
  31. volition
    the act of making a choice
  32. antithesis
    exact opposite
  33. constituent
    one of the individual parts making up a composite entity
  34. contention
    the act of competing as for profit or a prize
  35. culmination
    a concluding action
  36. disparity
    inequality or difference in some respect
  37. hierarchy
    a series of ordered groupings within a system
  38. insinuation
    an indirect (and usually malicious) implication
  39. interrogation
    an instance of questioning
  40. pinnacle
    a slender upright spire at the top of a buttress or a tower
  41. platitude
    a trite or obvious remark
  42. prognosis
    a prediction of the course of a disease
  43. retribution
    a justly deserved penalty
  44. spontaneity
    the quality of coming from feelings without constraint
  45. stigma
    a symbol of disgrace or infamy
  46. tumult
    a state of commotion and noise and confusion
  47. acronym
    a word formed from the initial letters of several words
  48. allegory
    a short moral story
  49. anecdote
    short account of an incident
  50. bandwagon
    a large ornate wagon for carrying a musical band
  51. bias
    a partiality preventing objective consideration of an issue
  52. chronology
    an arrangement of events in time
  53. credibility
    the quality of being believable or trustworthy
  54. connotation
    an idea that is implied or suggested
  55. denotation
    the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression
  56. dialect
    the usage or vocabulary characteristic of a group of people
  57. dialogue
    a conversation between two persons
  58. endeavor
    attempt by employing effort
  59. idiom
    expression whose meaning cannot be inferred from its words
  60. monologue
    a dramatic speech by a single actor
  61. propaganda
    information that is spread to promote some cause
  62. rubric
    category name
  63. scope
    the state of the environment in which a situation exists
  64. testimonial
    praise of a person or thing as worthy or desirable
  65. thesis
    an unproved statement advanced as a premise in an argument
  66. validity
    the quality of being legitimate and rigorous
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