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gambit - correct answer✔✔a device, action, or opening remark,
typically one entailing a degree of risk, that is calculated to gain
an advantage
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Resources bellicosity - correct answer✔✔demonstrating aggression and
willingness to fight
boorish - correct answer✔✔rude, unmannerly
artifice - correct answer✔✔clever or cunning devices or
expedients, esp. as used to trick or deceive others
elephantine - correct answer✔✔resembling an elephant; large,
clumsy, or awkward
foible - correct answer✔✔minor weakness or eccentricity in
someone's character
prosaic - correct answer✔✔having the style of prose; lacking
poetic beauty
sycophant - correct answer✔✔a person who acts obsequiously
toward someone in order to gain advantage; a servile flatterer
obesquios - correct answer✔✔obedient or attentive to an
excessive or servile degree
pejorative - correct answer✔✔expressing contempt or
disapproval
recalcitrant - correct answer✔✔having an obstinately
uncooperative attitude toward authority or discipline
castigate - correct answer✔✔to reprimand severely
clemency - correct answer✔✔mercy; lenience
aberration - correct answer✔✔a departure from what is normal,
usual, or expected, typically one that is unwelcome
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