Advanced Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle

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  • tantamount : equivalent in effect, significance, or value
  • fortuitous : occurring by chance; lucky, serendipitous
  • veracity : truthfulness
  • salient : jutting upward; projecting beyond a line, surface, or level; standing out conspicuously; an outwardly projecting part of a fortification, trench system, or line of defense
  • lethargic : lazy and unenergetic; sluggish
  • untenable : indefensible as a matter of argument
  • ebullient : lively and enthusiastic
  • paragon : a model or example of excellence
  • rancor : bitter, deep-seated hatred or ill will
  • flotsam : floating wreckage of a ship or its cargo; floating debris
  • jettison : to get rid of as superfluous or encumbering : omit or forgo as part of a plan or as the result of some other decision;; to drop (cargo) to lighten a ship's load in time of distress; to drop from an aircraft
  • grandiloquent : pompous or lofty in speech
  • obdurate : stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing; hardened in feelings, resistant to persuasion
  • hubris : excessive pride; downfall of the ancient greeks
  • aberration : someone or something (esp. a statistic or event) deemed atypical and thus permissible to ignore or to discount
  • maudlin : weakly and effusively sentimental
  • zealot : a fanatic believer or partisan (from rebel group in first-century judea)
  • jetsam : the part of a ship, its equipment, or its cargo that is cast overboard to lighten the load in time of distress and that sinks or is washed ashore
  • wane : to decrease gradually; a decrease in size, extent, or degree; to dim
  • mendacity : being given to, or characterized by, deception, falsehood, or divergence from absolute truth
  • insidious : having a gradual and cumulative (usu. harmful) effect; treacherous, harmful yet enticing