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1 beneficent adj

helping people, or resulting in something good:

the beneficent properties of natural remedies

2 bombastic adj

bombastic language contains long words that sound important but have no real meaning:

He is best known for three rather bombastic poems.

3 boorish adj

boor [countable] = a man who behaves in a very rude way

boorishly adv

4 burgeon

formal to grow or develop quickly:

the burgeoning market for digital cameras

5 burnish formal

1 to polish metal or another substance until it shines

2 to work hard in order to improve something:

He missed no opportunity to burnish his image.


burnished adj

6 buttress v

formal to support a system, idea, argument etc, especially by providing money:

The evidence seemed to buttress their argument.

buttress n.

a brick or stone structure built to support a wall


7 cacophonous adj

ca‧coph‧o‧ny [singular] a loud unpleasant mixture of sounds

cacophony of

a cacophony of car horns

8 capricious

1 likely to change your mind suddenly or behave in an unexpected way:

She was as capricious as her mother had been.

2 literary changing quickly and suddenly:

a capricious wind

capriciously adv

9 castigation n

cast‧i‧gate [transitive]

formal to criticize or punish someone severely
10 catalyst

1 technical a substance that makes a chemical reaction happen more quickly without being changed itself

2 something or someone that causes an important change or event to happen

catalyst for

They hope his election will act as a catalyst for reform.

catalytic adj