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    This document contains a list of words in no particular order that range from descriptive terms like "ephemeral" and "tenacious" to actions like "implode" and "culminate" to concepts such as "serendipity" and "disillusionment". Many of the words have negative connotations and deal with topics of vulgarity, danger, impropriety, and harm. The word list touches on a wide variety of tones and topics without any clear overall theme or connection between the terms.

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    This document contains a list of words in no particular order that range from descriptive terms like "ephemeral" and "tenacious" to actions like "implode" and "culminate" to concepts such as "serendipity" and "disillusionment". Many of the words have negative connotations and deal with topics of vulgarity, danger, impropriety, and harm. The word list touches on a wide variety of tones and topics without any clear overall theme or connection between the terms.

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    185 views14 pages

    Active Vocabulary List

    Uploaded by

    Charlie Li
    This document contains a list of words in no particular order that range from descriptive terms like "ephemeral" and "tenacious" to actions like "implode" and "culminate" to concepts such as "serendipity" and "disillusionment". Many of the words have negative connotations and deal with topics of vulgarity, danger, impropriety, and harm. The word list touches on a wide variety of tones and topics without any clear overall theme or connection between the terms.

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    myriad

    ephemeral

    ostensible

    tenacious
    tentative

    implode

    truncated

    precarious

    culminate
    vigilant

    serendipity

    nadir

    stagnant

    stoop
    wryly

    unyielding

    catharsis

    uncouth
    debauchery

    permeate

    paramount

    poignant
    mawkish

    effusive

    gushing

    snowball

    innuendo
    intimation

    make a spectacle of oneself

    malapropism

    escapade

    involutions
    crass

    disillusionment

    involution

    inauspicious

    conflate

    inadvertent

    save
    stark

    surmount

    deleterious

    extemporaneous
    haughty

    disdain

    surreptitious

    entail
    accost

    -“Accost, Sir Andrew, accost.” – In Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night”, Sir Toby Belch tells his equally vulgar friend, Sir Andrew
    Aguecheek, to approach Maria, Olivia’s lady-in-waiting, boldly.
    embroidery

    beguile

    peril
    supercilious

    abound

    propriety

    malignance
    malign

    distemper

    extort

    mercurial
    indignation

    blasphemy

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