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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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Active Vocabulary List

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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