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| conversation | colloquy |
| able to live; workable | viable |
| summary | synopsis |
| solid ground | terra firma |
| authorize | sanction |
| one who fears Russia | Russophobe |
| medical forecast | prognosis |
| many-colored | polychrome |
| love of humankind | philanthropy |
| insight | perspicacity |
| mob rule | mobocracy |
| government of the old | gerontocracy |
| pathological thief | kleptomaniac |
| joy of living | joie de vivre |
| in place of parents | in loco parentis |
| worldly | mundane |
| combination | synthesis |
| unambiguous; clear | unequivocal |
| belief in nothing | nihilism |
| stereo buff | audiophile |
| scientific study of insects | entomology |
| of all kinds | omnifarious |
| tending to cause ill will, animosity, or envy | invidious |
| reasoning down from principles | deduction |
| excessive use of verbal ornamentation; bombastic | magniloquence |