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1. To utter - or express with - a snorting - exultant laugh or chuckle
Ken
Chortle
Metaphor
Acerbic
2. Avoiding labor and exertion; lazy
Indolent
E.g.
NB
Vilify
3. Logic: a form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise - a minor premise - and a conclusion
Egalitarian
Syllogism
Acrimony
Eclectic
4. To divide into two parts or branches
Bifurcate
Pecuniary
Sojourn
Plenary
5. Seize the moment
Carpe diem
Inchoate
Ephemeral
Pusillanimous
6. To depart from or evade the truth
Arcane
Pejorative
Limited liability companies
Prevaricate
7. Wicked in the extreme
Nefarious
Disingenuous
Arcane
Pedantic
8. A core or nucleus of trained or otherwise qualified personnel around which an organization is formed
Didactic
Adumbrate
Cadre
Pedantic
9. Displaing a lack of maturity
Puerile
Obviate
Specious
Vociferous
10. Having only one side
Caveat
Hyperbole
Renege
Unilateral
11. Noticeable; also - projecting; also - leaping
Salient
Demagogue
Adumbrate
Hyperbole
12. Honesty - uprightness
Probity
Finite
E.g.
Halcyon
13. To prevent by interception
Requisite
Obviate
Succinct
Indolent
14. Inclined to keep quiet
Didactic
Reticent
Acumen
Logomachy
15. The thing speaks for itself
Simile
Indolent
Proclivity
Res Ipsa Loquitur
16. Bitterly sarcastic
Dilatory
Sardonic
Pedantic
Acerbic
17. A leader who tries to stir up people by appeals to emotion - prejudice - etc. - in order to achieve power
Euphemism
Nefarious
Demagogue
Levity
18. To cancel - destroy - revoke - or void
Abrogate
Pejorative
Acumen
Vilify
19. The use of trickery to deceive
Indolent
Chicanery
Ubiquitous
Logomachy
20. Necessary; indispensable
Acumen
Puerile
Verve
Requisite
21. Being everywhere
Egalitarian
Aphorism
Ubiquitous
Abrogate
22. To make or grow better
Ameliorate
Capricious
Chortle
Binary
23. An accomplished and presumably irreversible deed or fact
Fait accompli
Pecuniary
Sine qua non
Facetious
24. Conveying instruction; teaching some moral lesson
Apocryphal
Didactic
Acumen
Chicanery
25. (LLC) combine the liability protection of a coorporation with the tax benefits and simplicity of a partnership
Ubiquitous
Salient
Limited liability companies
Levity
26. A person of refined upbringing - manners and taste
Banal
Sojourn
Patrician
Syllogism
27. Patience; good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence
Adumbrate
Equivocate
Dilatory
Forbearance
28. Omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences with a mark or series of marks (... or for example)
Ellipsis
Cadre
Vociferous
Proclivity
29. Happening by chance
Fortuitous
Verve
Renege
Loquacious
30. A warning or caution
Proclivity
Facetious
Chortle
Caveat
31. Without contents - empty; void of sense or intelligence; purposeless; pointless; useless
Reticent
Inane
Ellipsis
Cadre
32. A natural inclination; predisposition
Proclivity
Pejorative
Indolent
Lexicon
33. Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy
Egalitarian
Tautological
Pedantic
Halcyon
34. Apparently right; superficiallly fair - just - or correct - but not so in reality; appearing well at first view; plausible
Specious
Obviate
Lexicon
Avarice
35. Of doubtful authority or authenticity
Apocryphal
NB
Pedantic
Allegory
36. Environment; setting
Consanguineous
Milieu
Bi-polar
Pejorative
37. An excessive desire of gain; greediness
Equivocate
Avarice
Patrician
Iconoclast
38. Argument over the definition of words
Forbearance
Logomachy
Vitiate
Levity
39. One who attacks and seeks to overthrow traditional or popular ideas of institutions
Pecuniary
Pusillanimous
Iconoclast
Banal
40. Course - base - instinctive
Visceral
Inane
Consanguineous
Syntax
41. To be deliberately ambiguous or unclear
Patrician
Equivocate
Bifurcate
Erudite
42. Partially but not fully in existence or operation
Inchoate
Metaphor
Forbearance
Simile
43. Full; entire; complete
Sine qua non
Forbearance
Plenary
Sardonic
44. Related by blood - descended from the same ancestor
Exiguous
Consanguineous
Proclivity
Ken
45. The study of the rules whereby words or other elements of sentence structure are combined to form grammatical sentences
Syntax
E.g.
Vitiate
Acumen
46. A minute amount; an iota or trace
Salient
Iconoclast
Logomachy
Scintilla
47. Extremely scanty (bare)
Aphorism
Ethereal
Exiguous
Apocryphal
48. Nota bene (Latin meaning note well); used to direct attention to something particularly important
NB
i.e.
Erudite
Salient
49. Short lived
Ubiquitous
Bifurcate
Ephemeral
Sojourn
50. A mild or vague word or phrase replacing one considered harsh or offensively direct
Carpe diem
Euphemism
NB
Concatenation
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