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trite: (Adjective) Worn out; hackneyed; used so many times that it is no longer interesting or effective (often in reference to a word or phrase). (Noun) A denomination of coinage in ancient Greece equivalent to one third of a stater; a genus of spiders, found

euphemism: (Noun) The use of a word or phrase to replace another with one that is considered less offensive or less vulgar than the word or phrase it replaces; [rhetoric] a word or phrase that is used to replace another in this way.

profundity: (Noun) The state of being profound or abstruse; a great depth.

adulation: (Noun) Flattery; fulsome praise.

solipsism: (Noun) The theory that the self is the only thing that can be known and verified; the theory or view that the self is the only reality.

expurgate: (Verb) To edit out rude, incorrect, offensive, useless, or otherwise undesirable information from a book, CD or other publication; to cleanse; to purge.

burgeon: (Noun) Bud, sprout, shoot. (Verb) To grow or expand; to swell to the point of bursting.

deprecate: (Verb) To express disapproval of; to recommend against use of.

flexuous: (Adjective) Winding from side to side; sinuous.

laudatory: (Adjective) Of or pertaining to praise, or the expression of praise.

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