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| 1 : to cast off : discard 2 : to relinquish (as sovereign power) formally | Abdicate |
| removed or distant either physically or emotionally | Aloof |
| intrepidly daring : adventurous; recklessly bold | Audacious |
| a store of useful assets or advantages | Capital |
| to gain by turning something to advantage : profit | Capitalize |
| to surrender often after negotiation of terms | Capitulate |
| to cut off the head of : behead | Decapitate |
| having the power or quality of deciding: resolute, determined | Decisive |
| not permitted : unlawful | Illicit |
| occurring by chance OR fortunate, lucky | Fortuitous |
| to utter injuriously misleading or false reports about : speak evil of | Malign |
| arousing or deserving hatred or repugnance : hateful | Odious |
| a claim made or implied ; especially : one not supported by fact OR professed rather than real intention or purpose : pretext | Pretense |
| bitter deep-seated ill will | Rancor |
| to reject or criticize sharply : snub | Rebuff |
| to handle (as a tool) especially effectively OR to exert one's authority by means of | Wield |
| one that is cursed by ecclesiastical authority OR (more likely) someone or something intensely disliked or loathed | Anathema |
| pretentious inflated speech or writing | Bombast |
| a sudden, impulsive, and seemingly unmotivated notion or action b: a sudden usually unpredictable condition | Caprice |
| conspicuous; especially : conspicuously bad : flagrant | Egregious |
| an obscure speech or writing OR something hard to understand or explain | Enigma |
| to avoid habitually especially on moral or practical grounds : shun | Eschew |
| requiring immediate aid or action; urgent | Exigent |
| fruitful in offspring or vegetation : prolific | Fecund |
| constantly, regularly, or habitually active or occupied | Industrious |
| an indefinite feeling of debility or lack of health often indicative of or accompanying the onset of an illness | Malaise |
| a curse | Malediction |
| wanting harm to befall others | Malevolent |
| tending to produce death or deterioration | Malignant |
| shrewdness, perceptiveness | Perspicacity |
| the culminating or highest point : acme | Zenith |
| an error in chronology ; especially : a chronological misplacing of items | Anachronism |
| having a circular or winding course | Circuitous |
| secret, occult OR having or seeming to have a hidden or ambiguous meaning : mysterious | Cryptic |
| extensive knowledge acquired chiefly from books | Erudition |
| to restrict the movement of by bonds or obstacles : impede | Hamper |
| marked by extreme or excessive care in the consideration or treatment of details | Meticulous |
| to make obscure OR to be evasive, unclear, or confusing | Obfuscate |
| to be pleased or gratified by: enjoy | Relish |
| to refuse to have anything to do with : disown: to reject as untrue or unjust | Repudiate |
| arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination | Salacious |
| to form a notion of from scanty evidence | Surmise |
| passing especially quickly into and out of existence | Transient |
| existing or being everywhere at the same time: widespread | Ubiquitous |
| to make legally valid : ratify OR to support or corroborate on a sound or authoritative basis | Validate |
| to lower in estimation or importance | Vilify |
| to free from allegation or blame OR to provide justification or defense | Vindicate |