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Post words that you occasionally encounter, but you're never quite sure you know exactly what they mean, or you keep forgetting what they mean.

Here's a small sample of my words:

putative
prescient
opprobrium
ignominious
impertinent
inveterate
exigency
pantheon
obviate
impervious
endemic
assiduous
vituperative
restive
paladin
miasma
obdurate
chimera
evince
anodyne
desultory
inveigle
arbiter
depredation
syncretic
paroxysm
adipose
notional
jeremiad
diffident
inimical
pecuniary
vestigial
promulgate
invidious
apotheosis
obstreperous
prevaricate
mandarin
inculcate

>> No.7528678

>>7528676
Dialectical

Someone please explain what this actually means.

>> No.7528684

http://dictionary.reference.com/

>> No.7528686

vicissitudes

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7528821

Thoughts?

>> No.7528894
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7528894

Pusillanimous,
I was never quite sure what the word meant and I've decided to look it up.
*If you got the reference you are my favourite human being*

>> No.7528973

>>7528678
An argument/debate with the means of coming to some logical conclusion/exercise the faculty of reason.

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7529171

>>7528676
The
A
An
He
She
We
You
They

>> No.7529337

>>7528676
>impertitent
>impervious
>miasma
>arbiter
Do you even English m8?

>> No.7529405

>>7529171
To be fair, pronouns are more confusing than ever these days