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adulerate:
To reduce in purity by combining with inferior ingridients
e.g. don't adulterate my weed by mixing with actual grass

aver: FROM the french s'averer, and latin Veritas (truth)
To reveal the truth about something, to state a fact

It avered that he is actually gay

dissemble
To disguise conceal or mislead
Dissemble my path by deleting my browsing history

grandiloquence,
What a pompous speach he gave, a perfect example of grandiloquence

hackneyed
Music is a universal language, what a hackneyed phrase, better to say Music transcends language

iconoclast,
Madonna is a true iconoclast, ever rebelling against gender roles and hegemonic ideas of sexuality.

impassive:
revealing no emotion, he is sooo impassive

Inchoate=incipient=initial not fully formed=embryonic

Infelicitous
How unfortunate, the hapless boy, so infelicitous

Loquacious
Oh that girl is soo talkative so loquacious

insipid
This lacks flavour, it is so insipid

penury (penurious is the adj)
The health facilities are in a state of penury, no money!

Pith (of a fruit)
the essential or central part, that is the gist (pith) of it.
Pithy:
What a pithy saying "All women become like the mothers, that is their destiny, no man does, that is his"

Prodigal : The prodigal son squandered his inheritence

Querrolous: likes to argue

recalcitrant:
He defies the police and courts, he is recalcitrant,
I don't know what to do this employee, he just does not respect my authority, so recalcitrant

Repudiate
I will repudiate you (like disown you) if you dare tell that I raped you.

Rescind:
Rescind your PDF please!

Reverent:
It is like to revere something, His approach towards the Pope was most reverent

Specious:
That seems to be true, but it is actually false, that is specious

Spurious:
Ufology is a spurious subject, it is an illusion - Henry Thomas

Subpoena: Go to court!

surfeit: excess

Tirade=diatribe
Harsh speach that is a denunciation