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::: dyslexia - word blindness; learning disorder marked by impairment of the ability to read
::: palliate - ease pain (without curing); make less severe or offensive (a crime or illness)
::: facetious - joking (often inappropriately); unserious; humorous
::: edify - instruct; correct morally
::: irresolute - uncertain how to act; weak; lacking in resolution; indecisive; N. irresolution
::: existential - pertaining to existence; pertaining to the philosophy of existentialism
::: distinction - honor; excellence; difference; contrast; discrimination; Ex. graduated with distinction; Ex. a writer of real distinction
::: chicanery - trickery; deception
::: scapegoat - someone who bears the blame for others; whipping boy; CF. escape+goat
::: credulity - belief on slight evidence; gullibility; naivet\'e; ADJ. credulous