Pedantry - noun; slavish attention to rules, details, etc
Odious - adjective; deserving or causing hatred; hateful; detestable
Luxuriant - adjective; richly abundant, profuse, or superabundant
Dictum - noun; an authoritative pronouncement; judicial assertion
Cacophony - noun; a harsh, discordant mixture of sound
Proclivity - noun; a tendency to choose or do something regularly
Proboscis - noun; the nose of a mammal
Stratum - noun; a level or class to which people are assigned according to their social status, education, or income
Mausoleum - noun; a building; a large and stately one, housing a tomb or tombs
Marionette - noun; a puppet worked from above by strings attached to its limbs.
Phoenix - noun; a mythical creature; a unique bird that lived for five or six centuries in the Arabian desert, after this time burning itself on a funeral pyre and rising from the ashes with renewed youth to live through another cycle
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