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::: dilettante - aimless follower of an art or a field of knowledge (not taking it seriously); amateur; dabbler; CF. delight
::: craft - skill (esp. with one's hands); skill in deceiving people; guile; ADJ. crafty: cleverly deceitful; cunning
::: grandeur - impressiveness; stateliness; majesty
::: fecundity - fertility; fruitfulness; ADJ. fecund: very productive of crops or young
::: bland - soothing or mild (food); agreeable; causing no trouble or offence
::: cremate - incinerate (a corpse); N. crematory, crematorium
::: malingerer - one who feigns illness to escape duty; V. malinger: feign illness to avoid work
::: parity - equality; close resemblance; CF. disparate
::: holocaust - destruction by fire; CF. burnt whole; CF. Holocaust
::: rousing - lively; inducing excitement; stirring; V. rouse: waken; arouse from sleep or depression; excite; stir up