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profligacy
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the act of spending money or using something in a way that wastes it and is not wise:
Years of fiscal profligacy have left the country deeply in debt.
Muster up
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If you muster up a feeling of courage or energy, you try hard to find that quality in yourself because you need it in order to do something:
She finally mustered up the courage to ask him for more money.
propitious
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likely to result in success, or showing signs of success:
With the economy in recession, it was not a propitious time to start a company.
expostulate
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to express disagreement or complaint:
alter expostulated with the waiter about the size of the bill.
condominium
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an apartment building in which each apartment is owned separately by the people living in it, but also containing shared areas
The harbor is the site for a new luxury condominium development.
harrowed
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looking as if you have suffered:
His face was harrowed.
be predicated on something
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If an idea or argument is predicated on something, it depends on the existence or truth of this thing:
The sales forecast is predicated on the assumption that the economy will grow by four percent.
to pigeonhole
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to have an often unfair idea of what type someone or something is:
He is a film producer who can't be conveniently pigeonholed.
to make a mint
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to make a lot of money
blench
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o move back or away suddenly or react physically because something frightens, disgusts (= shocks), or upsets you:
At the sight of the dead animal, Diana blenched.
weather (verb)
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to deal successfully with a difficult situation or a problem:
As a small new company they did well to weather the recession.
vitriol
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violent hate and anger expressed through severe criticism:
He is a writer who has often been criticized by the press but never before with such vitriol.
denigrate
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to say that someone or something is not good or important:
You shouldn't denigrate people just because they have different beliefs from you.
in cahoots (with)
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acting together with others for an illegal or dishonest purpose:
A banker and a government minister were in cahoots over a property deal.
whimscal
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unusual and strange in a way that might be funny or annoying:
Despite his kindly, sometimes whimsical air, he was a shrewd observer of people.
vagabond
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a person who has no home and usually no job, and who travels from place to place
They live a vagabond life/existence, travelling around in a caravan.
discernible
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able to be seen or understood:
The influence of Rodin is discernible in the younger artist.
sewer
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a large pipe, usually underground, that is used for carrying waste water and human waste away from buildings to a place where they can be safely got rid of:
A complicated system of sewers runs under the city.

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