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Definition of dilettante (noun)
admirer of the fine arts; dabbler; amateur; nonprofessional

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Though she played the piano occasionally, she was more of a dilettante.

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Definition of denunciation (noun)
denouncement; condemnation

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The internal politics of Surrealism were complicated by rivalries and ideological disputes; in the case of Andre Breton's association with Dali, his earlier support gave way to a denunciation of the artist, who was expelled from the group.

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Definition of obdurate (adjective)
stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing; stiff-necked

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The obdurate child refused to go to school.
The obdurate youngster refused to eat the Brussels sprouts.

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Definition of animus (noun)
feeling of hatred; resentment; animosity; hostility

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Because the nation is seen as only partially liberated, and particularly by the membership of the largest party Fianna Fail, the animus of the national-popular consciousness is focused on this issue, to the detriment of class-based politics.
From a different position, independently arrived at and much less troubling, the animus was to be shared lifelong by Robert Graves.

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Definition of ephemeral (adjective)
very short-lived; lasting only a short time; transitory

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Living alone gave him an ephemeral happiness, soon to be replaced with utter loneliness.

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Definition of jargon (noun)
incoherent speech; specialized vocabulary in certain fields

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The conversation was nothing but jargon, but then the speakers were nothing but cartoon characters who specialize in an oddly bracing form of gibberish.
The engineers' jargon is indecipherable to a lay person.

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Definition of invective (noun)
insult; curse; affront; offense

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Take one opposition spokesman, simmer for an hour in a heavy sauce of sarcasm, season with scornful adjectives, throw in liberal amounts of contempt, add several pinches of disdain, and spice with invective.

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Definition of divulge (verb)
to make public; to reveal; to tell; to disclose

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Our manager replied that it was not company policy to divulge personal details of employees and that if she wanted to take it further, she should write in.

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Definition of nostalgia (noun)
homesickness; sentimentality

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By the time the studio came to make The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953), about a village's attempt to preserve their branch line against nasty entrepreneurs who have set up a bus service, gentle anarchy has given way to nostalgia for Olde England.

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Definition of ostracize (verb)
to banish; to exclude

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The students tend to ostracize the children they dislike from their games.

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