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Words
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Meanings
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| penchant | a strong leaning in favor |
| furtive | sly |
| recondite | obscure, hidden |
| supine | lying on the back |
| aspire | to strive for |
| terse | compact, brief, concise |
| amicable | friendly |
| fraught | filled |
| "an ax to grind" | having a selfish motive in the backround |
| fatuous | inane, foolish, silly |
| virulent | harmful |
| intrinsic | inherent, within itself |
| prodigy | phenomenon, marvel |
| "under the wire" | just in time |
| deem | believe, to judge |
| lugubrious | very sad |
| "a cat's paw" | a person used as a tool or dupe |
| impromptu | offhand, spur of the moment |
| pernicious | damaging, harmful |
| harass | to torment |