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::: bombast - grandiloquent, pompous speech
::: phlegmatic - calm and unexcitable; not easily disturbed; CF. phlegm: sticky mucus produced in the respiratory tract
::: ancestry - family descent; ADJ. ancestral
::: flotsam - drifting wreckage
::: effigy - dummy; likeness of a person made of wood, paper, or stone; Ex. burn an effigy of the President
::: arcane - esoteric; secret; mysterious; known only to the initiated; Ex. arcane ritual; Ex. arcane process closed to the uninitiated listener
::: unaccountable - unexplicable; impossible to account for; unreasonable or mysterious
::: coincidence - the chance occurrence, at the same time, of two or more seemingly connected events; V. coincide: happen at the same time; be in agreement; CF. coincident; CF. coincidental
::: outgoing - sociable; eager to mix socially with others
::: dross - waste matter; worthless impurities