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mitigate (verb)

    To reduce, lessen, or decrease.
    To downplay.

slob (noun)

    A lazy and slovenly person.
    A lazy, obese person.

connotation (noun)

    A meaning of a word or phrase that is suggested or implied, as opposed to a denotation, or literal meaning. A characteristic of words or phrases, or of the contexts that words and phrases are used in.
        e.g.: The connotations of the phrase "you are a dog" are that you are physically unattractive or morally reprehensible, not that you are a canine.
    A technical term in logic used by J. S. Mill and later logicians to refer to the attribute or aggregate of attributes connoted by a term, and contrasted with denotation.
        e.g.: The two expressions "the morning star" and "the evening star" have different connotations but the same denotation (i.e. the planet Venus).

ecstatic (adjective)

    Feeling or characterized by ecstasy.
    Extremely happy.
    Relating to, or caused by, ecstasy or excessive emotion.
        e.g.: ecstatic gaze; ecstatic trance

inclination (noun)

    A physical tilt or bend
    A slant or slope
    ​A mental tendency  

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anecdote (noun)

    A short account of an incident, often humorous.
    An account which supports an argument, but which is not supported by scientific or statistical analysis.
    A previously untold secret account of an incident.

concede (verb)

    To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant; as, to concede the point in question.
        e.g.: He conceded the race once it was clear he could not win.     
    To grant, as a right or privilege; to make concession of.
    To admit to be true; to acknowledge.
    To yield or make concession.

dilettante (noun)

    An amateur, someone who dabbles in a field out of casual interest rather than as a profession or serious interest.
    A person with a general but superficial interest in any art or a branch of knowledge.

trickle (noun)

    A very thin river.
        e.g.: The brook had shrunk to a mere trickle.
    A very thin flow; the act of trickling.
        e.g.: The tap of the washbasin in my bedroom is leaking and the trickle drives me mad at night.

tickler (noun)

    A person who or thing which amuses, tickles, excites.
    A reminder.
        e.g.: Put it in the tickler file for next week.
    A latex condom that has additional protrusions, for enhancing the sexual pleasure of the user.

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defer (verb)

    To delay or postpone; especially to postpone induction into military service.
    to delay, to wait

elaborate (adjective)

    Highly complex, detailed, or sophisticated
        e.g.: After reading a long, elaborate description, I was impressed but no wiser.
    intricate, fancy, flashy, or showy
        e.g.: I stared for hours at the elaborate pattern in the rug.

sophisticate (verb)

    To make less natural or innocent.
    To practice sophistry; change the meaning of, or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive.
        e.g.: To sophisticate the understanding. — Southey.      
    To alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive.
        e.g.: To sophisticate wine. — Howell.
    To make more complex or refined.

endow (verb)

    To furnish with money or its equivalent, as a permanent fund for support; to make pecuniary provision for; to settle an income upon; especially, to furnish with dower; as, to endow a wife; to endow a public institution.
    To enrich or furnish with anything of the nature of a gift (as a quality or faculty); -- followed by with, rarely by of; as, man is endowed by his Maker with reason; to endow with privileges or benefits.
    To bestow freely.
    To be furnished with something naturally.
        e.g.: She was endowed with a beautiful voice.

bestow (verb)

    To lay up in store; deposit for safe keeping; stow; place.
    To lodge, or find quarters for; provide with accommodation.
    To dispose of.
    To give; confer; impart gratuitously; present something to someone as a gift or honour.
        e.g.: Medals were bestowed on the winning team.
    To give in marriage.
    To apply; make use of; use; employ.
    To behave or deport.

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erroneous (adjective)

    Containing an error; inaccurate.
    Derived from an error.
    Mistaken.

ordeal (noun)

    A painful or trying experience.
    A trial in which the accused was subjected to a dangerous test (such as ducking in water), divine authority deciding the guilt of the accused.

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reckless (adjective)

    Careless or heedless; headstrong or rash.
    Indifferent to danger or the consequences.

wretch (noun)

    An unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person.
    An unpleasant, annoying person.

estrange (noun)
    To cause to feel less close or friendly; alienate. To cease contact with (particularly of a family member or spouse, especially in form estranged).
    To remove from an accustomed place or set of associations.

incumbent (adjective)

    Imposed on someone as an obligation, especially due to one's office.
        e.g.: Proper behavior is incumbent on all holders of positions of trust.
    Lying; resting; reclining; recumbent.

divulge (verb)

    To make public; to several or communicate to the public; to tell (a secret) so that it may become generally known; to disclose; -- said of that which had been confided as a secret, or had been before unknown; as, to divulge a secret.
    To indicate publicly; to proclaim.