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martinet = a rigid military disciplinarian
martinet = one who demands absolute adherence to forms and rules

tome = One of the books in a work of several volumes
tome = A book, especially a large or scholarly one.

decimation = To destroy or kill a large part of (a group)
= To inflict great destruction or damage on: The fawns decimated my rose bushes.

A and B the C of D = Above and Beyond the Call of Duty

trenchant = Forceful, effective, and vigorous: a trenchant argument.
= Caustic; cutting: trenchant criticism.
= Distinct; clear-cut.

gentility = breeding: elegance by virtue of fineness
of manner and expression

corollary = a statement which follows immediately or very simply from a theorem. A proposition A is a corollary of a proposition or theorem B if A can be deduced quickly and easily from B
corollary = a practical consequence that follows naturally; “blind jealousy is a frequent corollary of passionate love”
# (logic) an inference that follows directly from the proof of another proposition

concatenation = stringing words together to process

nomenclature = system of naming

ostentation = lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
ostentation = pretentious or showy or vulgar
display

gentility = breeding: elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression

disparate = fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind; “such disparate attractions as grand opera and game fishing”; “disparate ideas”
disparate = dissimilar

incapacity = # lack of intellectual power
# lack of physical or natural qualifications

riotous = # exuberant: produced or growing in extreme abundance; “their riotous blooming”
# disruptive: characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination; “effects of the struggle will be violent and disruptive”; “riotous times”; “these troubled areas”; “the tumultuous years of his administration”; “a turbulent and unruly childhood”
# debauched: unrestrained by convention or morality; “Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society”; “deplorably dissipated and degraded”; “riotous living”; “fast women”

polymath = being well-learned in various fields, having interests in a wide number of fields

polemic = # polemicist: a writer who argues in opposition to others (especially in theology)
# a controversy (especially over a belief or dogma)
# of or involving dispute or controversy
# Polemic is the art or practice of disputation or controversy, as in religious, philosophical, or political matters. As such a polemic text on a topic is written specifically to dispute or refute that topic.

erudite = having or showing profound knowledge; “a learned jurist”; “an erudite professor”

irreproachable = blameless: free of guilt; not subject to blame; “has lived a blameless life”; “of irreproachable character”; “an unimpeachable reputation”
(Great Triumvirate on wikipedia)
antebellum = Antebellum is a Latin word meaning “before the war”. In United States history and historiography “Antebellum” is sometimes used instead of the term “pre-Civil War,” especially in the South. Antebellum applies to the period of increasing sectionalism leading to the opening shots of the American Civil War of the American Victorian Era. It can begin with the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, or be set as early as 1812.

filibuster = a tactic used to defeat bills and motions by prolonging debate indefinitely. A filibuster may entail long speeches, dilatory motions, and an extensive series of proposed amendments

closure = sometimes a guillotine, is a motion or process aimed at bringing debate (particularly filibusters) to a quick end.

malicious = deleterious, nocent, pernicious, nocuous, ruinous

disastrous = calamitous, blighting, cataclysmic, dire, woeful

punish = abuse, attend to, batter, beat, beat up, birch, blacklist, castigate, chasten, chastise, correct, cuff, debar, defrock, discipline, dismiss, do in, execute, exile, expel, fine, flog, harm, hurt, immure, incarcerate, injure, knock about, lash, lecture, maltreat, manhandle, misuse, oppress, paddle, reprove, rough up, scourge, sentence, slap wrist, spank, switch, train, whip

forgive = exonerate, pardon

profligacy = # extravagance: the trait of spending extravagantly
profligacy = dissolute indulgence in sensual

clientalism = Personal relationships that link patrons and clients together in a system in which jobs, favors, and protection are exchanged for labor, support, and loyalty.pleasure

encumbrance = burden: an onerous or difficult concern; “the burden of responsibility”; “that’s a load off my mind”
encumbrance = a charge against property (as a lien or mortgage)
encumbrance = hindrance: any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome

envisage = imagine: form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case; “Can you conceive of him as the president?”

ebullient = joyously unrestrained

vociferous= blatant: conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry; “blatant radios”; “a clamorous uproar”; “strident demands”; “a vociferous mob”

parsing = A linguistic term for breaking up a sentence in a natural language into its syntactical components, such as noun and verb phrases; today a lively subject of computer research.

penury = indigence: a state of extreme poverty or destitution; “their indigence appalled him”; “a general state of need exists among the homeless”

affliction = a state of great suffering and distress due to adversity

intransigent = adamant: impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason; “he is adamant in his refusal to change his mind”; “Cynthia was inexorable; she would have none of him”- W.Churchill; “an intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendency”

eschew = avoid and stay away from delibrately, stay clear of

genuflection = the act of bending the knees in worship or reverence

antediluvian = of or relating to the period before the biblical flood; “antediluvian man”
antediluvian = any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian deluge
antediluvian = ancient: a very old person
antediluvian = so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period; “a ramshackle antediluvian tenement”; “antediluvian ideas”; “archaic laws”

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