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::: piquant - pleasantly tart-tasting; spicy; pleasantly stimulating; Ex. piquant situation when my old enemy asked for my help
::: fiend - evil spirit; devil
::: admonish - warn or speak to with gentle disapproval; reprove
::: confide - tell in confidence (to a person one trusts); be confident about
::: monumental - massive; impressively large; built as a monument
::: metallurgical - pertaining to the art of removing metals from ores; N. metallurgy: science that deals with extracting metals from ores
::: brittle - hard but easily broken; difficult; unstable; Ex. brittle situation
::: prohibitive - so high as to prohibit purchase or use; tending to prevent the purchase or use of something; prohibiting; inclined to prevent or forbid; Ex. prohibitive tax
::: wallow - roll in mud; indulge in; (of a ship) roll in a rough sea; become helpless; Ex. wallow in the mud/luxury
::: monotony - sameness leading to boredom; monotonousness; ADJ. monotonous; CF. monotone