trenchant

• vigorous or incisive in expression or style:

• spending money or resources freely and recklessly; wastefully extravagant:

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deteriorate

• very difficult to change or overcome:

• 1. become progressively worse:

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prodigal

• very difficult to change or overcome:

• to become or remain stagnant

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digress

• to strike out, obliterate, or mark for deletion

• to turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument

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sovereign

• a supreme ruler, especially a monarch:

• one who excels in the technique of an art

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orator

• a person who is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure

• one distinguished for skill and power as a public speaker

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desiccate

• the point of the celestial sphere that is directly opposite the nadir and vertically above the observer

• to preserve (a food) by drying

  or

  to dry up

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obstinate

• stubbornly adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion

• habitually complaining

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nullify

• having no legal or binding force

• an erratic, unpredictable, or extravagant manifestation, action, or notion

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indigent

• an erratic, unpredictable, or extravagant manifestation, action, or notion

• suffering from extreme poverty

  or

  impoverished

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