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Ambivalent:
- Uncertainty or fluctuation, especially when caused by inability to make a choice or by a simultaneous desire to say or do two opposite or conflicting things.
- coexistence within an individual of positive and negative feelings toward the same person, object or action, simultaneously drawing him in opposite direction.
Florid:
- excessively ornate; showy; florid writing.
Trammeled:
- a hindrance or impediment to free action; restraint.
Tantalize:
- to torment with, or as if with, the sight of something desired but out of reach.
- tease by arousing expectations that are repeatedly disappointed.
Ostensibly:
- outwardly appearing as such; professed; pretended.
- apparent, evident; conspicuous.
Unfurls:
- to spread or open (something)
Languid:
- lacking in spirit or interest; listless; indifferent.
- drooping or flagging from weakness or fatigue (faint).
Stampede:
- a sudden, frenzied rush or headlong flight or a herd of frightened animals.
- rush
Attrition:
- a wearing down or weakening of resistance.
- a gradual reduction in work force without firing as when workers resign or retire and are not replaced.
- friction
- a reduction of numbers, size and strength.
Fractal:
- a geometrical or physical structure having an irregular or fragmented shape at all scales of measurement between a greatest and smallest scale such that certain mathematical or physical properties of the structure, as the perimeter of a curve dimensions of the structure are greater than the spatial dimensions.
Elucidated:
- to make lucid or clear; throw light upon.
- to provide clarification
Parsimonious:
- tight, close, miserly, illiberal, mean.
Prolix:
- extended to great, unnecessary, tedious length, long and wordy.
Amicable:
- characterized by or showing goodwill; friendly; peaceable.
Austere:
- sever in manner or appearance; uncompromising; strict; forbidding.
- grave; serious; solemn.
- severely simple; without excess; luxury, simple.
- Uncertainty or fluctuation, especially when caused by inability to make a choice or by a simultaneous desire to say or do two opposite or conflicting things.
- coexistence within an individual of positive and negative feelings toward the same person, object or action, simultaneously drawing him in opposite direction.
Florid:
- excessively ornate; showy; florid writing.
Trammeled:
- a hindrance or impediment to free action; restraint.
Tantalize:
- to torment with, or as if with, the sight of something desired but out of reach.
- tease by arousing expectations that are repeatedly disappointed.
Ostensibly:
- outwardly appearing as such; professed; pretended.
- apparent, evident; conspicuous.
Unfurls:
- to spread or open (something)
Languid:
- lacking in spirit or interest; listless; indifferent.
- drooping or flagging from weakness or fatigue (faint).
Stampede:
- a sudden, frenzied rush or headlong flight or a herd of frightened animals.
- rush
Attrition:
- a wearing down or weakening of resistance.
- a gradual reduction in work force without firing as when workers resign or retire and are not replaced.
- friction
- a reduction of numbers, size and strength.
Fractal:
- a geometrical or physical structure having an irregular or fragmented shape at all scales of measurement between a greatest and smallest scale such that certain mathematical or physical properties of the structure, as the perimeter of a curve dimensions of the structure are greater than the spatial dimensions.
Elucidated:
- to make lucid or clear; throw light upon.
- to provide clarification
Parsimonious:
- tight, close, miserly, illiberal, mean.
Prolix:
- extended to great, unnecessary, tedious length, long and wordy.
Amicable:
- characterized by or showing goodwill; friendly; peaceable.
Austere:
- sever in manner or appearance; uncompromising; strict; forbidding.
- grave; serious; solemn.
- severely simple; without excess; luxury, simple.
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