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Connivance

Noun
Meaning

• The act of conniving.
• Tacit encouragement or assent (without participation) to wrongdoing by another.

Compendium

Noun
Meaning

• A brief treatment or account of a subject, especially an extensive subject; concise treatise.
• A summary, epitome, or abridgment.
• A full list or inventory.

Canonize

Verb
Meaning

• To glorify.
• To make canonical; place or include within a canon, especially of scriptural work
• To consider or treat as sacrosanct or holy.

Dearth

Noun
Meaning

• an inadequate supply; scarcity, lack.
• scarcity and dearness of food, famine.

Sapid

Adjective
Meaning

• Having taste or flavor.
• Agreeable to the taste; palatable.
• Agreeable, as to the mind; to one's liking.

Profligate

Adjective
Meaning

• Utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute
• Recklessly prodigal or extravagant.