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QUINTESSENTIAL: representing the most perfect typical example

charisma: Personal charm or magnetism ,attractive.

propensity: A tendency, preference, or attraction.

impostor: Someone who attempts to deceive by using an assumed name or identity.

forfeit: To suffer the loss of something by wrongdoing or non-compliance

aggrieve: To give pain or sorrow to; to afflict; hence, to oppress or injure in one's rights; to bear heavily upon;—now commonly used in the passive, to be aggrieved.;To grieve; to lament.

obliterate: To remove completely, leaving no trace; to wipe out; to destroy.

disparage: To dishonor by a comparison with what is inferior; to lower in rank or estimation by actions or words; to speak slightingly of; to depreciate; to undervalue.

exult: to rejoice, be very happy

castigate: To punish severely; to criticize severely; to reprimand severely.

sedition: The organized incitement of rebellion or civil disorder against authority or the state.

denigrate: To criticise so as to besmirch; traduce, disparage or defame.

besmirch: To tarnish, especially someone's reputation; to debase.

abscess: A cavity caused by tissue destruction, usually because of infection, filled with pus and surrounded by inflamed tissue.

pervasive: Manifested throughout; pervading, permeating, penetrating or affecting everything.

inextricable: impossible to untie or disentangle

proliferate: To increase in number or spread rapidly.

premonition: A strong intuition that something is about to happen.;A clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future.

desecrate: To profane or violate the sacredness or sanctity of something.

exhume: To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter.

flunk: (transitive or intransitive) Of a student, to fail a class; to not pass.;(transitive) Of a teacher, to deny a student a passing grade

prelude: an introductory or preliminary performance or event; a preface

preclude: Remove the possibility of; rule out; prevent or exclude

iniquity: Deviation from right, wickedness, gross injustice.;A wrongful act.

insouciant: carefree; nonchalant; indifferent; casually unconcerned.

Achilles heel: A vulnerability in an otherwise strong situation.;weakness

incontinent: Unable to contain or retain.;Lacking the ability to restrain natural discharges or evacuations of urination or defecation.

lacerate: To tear, rip or wound.

resuscitate: To restore consciousness, vigor, or life to.

alibi: The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove that he was in another place when the alleged act was committed; as, to set up an alibi; to prove an alibi. The Criminal Law Deskbook (1988; ISBN 0820512176)

cipher: A method of transforming a text in order to conceal its meaning.

maniac: An insane person, especially one who suffers from a mania.

relinquish: To give up, abandon or retire from something.

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