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::: defame - harm someone's reputation; malign; speak evil of; slander; N. defamation; ADJ. defamatory
::: effervescence - inner excitement or exuberance; showing high spirits; emitting bubbles forming inside; bubbling from fermentation or carbonation; ADJ. effervescent; V. effervesce
::: outrage - act of extreme violence or viciousness; resentful anger; V: commit an outrage on; produce anger in; ADJ. outrageous: offensive
::: motto - brief statement used to express a principle
::: ecstasy - rapture; very strong feeling of joy and happiness; any overpowering emotion; ADJ. ecstatic: causing or experiencing ecstasy
::: correlation - mutual relationship
::: abominable - detestable; extremely unpleasant
::: caucus - private meeting of a group of people in a political party to select officers or determine policy; CF. the Caucus club of Boston
::: tawdry - cheap and gaudy; Ex. tawdry jewelry
::: begrudge - envy; give or allow unwillingly; grudge; Ex. We shouldn't begrudge him his success.