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  1. Liability (n) - something that’s a hindrance or a disadvantage
  2. Perpetual (adj) - continuing or enduring forever; everlasting. Lasting an indefinitely long time; continuing or continued without intermission or interruption
3. Dismissive (Adj) – indicating rejection; indicating lack of interest or approbation; scornful; disdainful.
4. Oblige (v) – to make necessary; to place under a debt of gratitude for some benefit, favor, or service; to put (one) in a debt of gratitude, as by a favor or accommodation.
5. Tactless (adj) tending to offend or upset people: not showing or having tact (a keen sense of what is appropriate, tasteful, or aesthetically pleasing)
6. Reputable- (adj)   held in good standing; honorable; respectable. 
7. Integrity (n) - adherence to moral and ethical principles; soundness of moral character; honesty
8. Haphazardly (adv) - lacking any obvious principle of organization; at random
9. Malady  (n)- a disease or ailment
10. Frenzied (adj)- wildly excited or uncontrolled.        
              [Frenzy (n) – state of wild passion]





1. Affluent (adj) - having an abundance of wealth, property, or other material goods; prosperous; rich
2.    Intricate (adj) - having many interrelated parts or facets; entangled or involved: an intricate maze. complex; complicated; hard to understand, work, or make
3.     Reverie (n) - a daydream; getting lost in a fantastic, visionary or impractical idea. 
4.    Imminent (adj) - likely to occur at any moment; impending; going to happen
5.    Vehemently (adv) - strongly emotional; intense or passionate: marked by great energy or exertion
6.    Nemesis (n) - something that a person cannot conquer, achieve, etc.
7.   Trepidation (n) – anxiety or apprehension, especially trembling from fear.
8. Relic (n)- an object surviving from an earlier time, esp. one of historical or sentimental interest. 
9. Squalid (adj) - filthy or degraded as a result of neglect or the lack of money. 
10. Unadulterated (adj) not mixed with impurities; complete and absolute.
11. Thoroughfare (n) - a road or path forming a route between two places.
12. Viable (adj) practicable; workable. 
1.    Presumptuous (Adj) – showing readiness to presume in conduct or thought, as by saying or doing something without right or permission.
2.    Dismissive (Adj) – indicating rejection; indicating lack of interest or approbation; scornful; disdainful.
3.    Oblige (v) – to make necessary; to place under a debt of gratitude for some benefit, favor, or service; to put (one) in a debt of gratitude, as by a favor or accommodation.
4. Tactless (adj) tending to offend or upset people: not showing or having tact (a keen sense of what is appropriate, tasteful, or aesthetically pleasing)
5. Reputable- (adj)   held in good standing; honorable; respectable. 
6. Reticence (n) – the state of being reserved, not revealing one’s thoughts or feelings readily 
7. Integrity (N) - adherence to moral and ethical principles; soundness of moral character; honesty
8. Haphazardly (adv) - lacking any obvious principle of organization; at random
9. Malady  (n)- a disease or ailment
10. Frenzied (adj)- wildly excited or uncontrolled.        
              [Frenzy (n) – state of wild passion]
11. Don (v) - to put on (an item of clothing).
12. Vigil (n) period of sleeplessness or the act or period of observing; surveillance 
         [Vigilant (adj) cautious, alert, attentive)





1. Affluent (adj)- having an abundance of wealth, property, or other material goods; prosperous; rich
2.    Intricate (adj) -having many interrelated parts or facets; entangled or involved: an intricate maze. complex; complicated; hard to understand, work, or make
3.    Notorious (adj) - publicly or generally known, as for a particular trait
4.    Oscillate (v)-to swing backward and forward like a pendulum; to waver or fluctuate
5.    Reverie (n) a daydream; getting lost in a fantastic, visionary or impractical idea. 
6.    Trepidation (n) – anxiety or apprehension, especially trembling from fear.
7.    Vehemently (adv)- strongly emotional; intense or passionate: marked by great energy or exertion
8.    Nemesis (n)- something that a person cannot conquer, achieve, etc.
9. Imminent (Adj) - likely to occur at any moment; impending; going to happen
10. Catharsis (n) the purifying of the emotions or relieving of emotional tensions
11. Relic (n)- an object surviving from an earlier time, esp. one of historical or sentimental interest. 
12. Squalid (adj) - filthy or degraded as a result of neglect or the lack of money. 
13. Unadulterated (adj) not mixed with impurities; complete and absolute.
14. Thoroughfare (n) - a road or path forming a route between two places.
15. Viable (adj) practicable; workable. 
16.  Liability (n) - something that’s a hindrance or a disadvantage
17.  Perpetual (adj) - continuing or enduring forever; everlasting. Lasting an indefinitely long time; continuing or continued without intermission or interruption; ceaseless…
18.    Render – (v) to cause to be or become; make: to render someone helpless.



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