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1 tirade n
a long angry speech criticizing someone or something
tirade against
He launched into a tirade against the church.
tirade of
a tirade of abuse

2 torpor n
formal : a state of being not active because you are lazy or sleepy:
She tried to rouse him from the torpor into which he had sunk.

3 tortuous adj
1 a tortuous path, stream, road etc has a lot of bends in it and is therefore difficult to travel along:
a tortuous path over the mountains to Kandahar

2 complicated and long and therefore confusing:
The book begins with a long, tortuous introduction.
—tortuously adverb

4 tractable adj
easy to control or deal with [≠ intractable]:
The issues have proved to be less tractable than expected.
—tractability noun [uncountable]

5 transgression
transgress [intransitive and transitive] formal
to do something that is against the rules of social behaviour or against a moral principle:
Orton's plays transgress accepted social norms.
—transgressor noun [countable]
—transgression noun [uncountable and countable]

6 truculence adj
truculent : literary : bad-tempered and always willing to argue with people:
a truculent attitude
—truculently adverb
—truculence noun [uncountable]

7 vacillate v
to continue to change your opinions, decisions, ideas etc [= waver]
vacillate between
Her parents vacillated between different approaches to discipline.
—vacillation noun [uncountable and countable]

8 venerate v
to honour or respect someone or something because they are old, holy, or connected with the past:
a symbol of Arab courage, to be venerated for generations
venerate somebody as something
These children are venerated as holy beings.
—veneration noun [uncountable]
The sun was an object of veneration.

9 veracious
veracity [uncountable] formal
the fact of being true or correct [= truth]
veracity of
Has anyone checked the veracity of these allegations?

voracious
1eating or wanting large quantities of food:
Pigs are voracious feeders.
Kids can have voracious appetites.

10 verbose adj
using or containing too many words:
For once, his usually verbose wife was content to listen.
Legal writing is often unclear and verbose.
—verbosely adverb
—verbosity noun [uncountable]