{
  "name": "Italian C2 Core Vocab",
  "front_language": "Italian",
  "back_language": "English",
  "cards": [
    {
      "front": "la carenza normativa",
      "back": "regulatory gap",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "law"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 1,
      "example_front": "Il caso evidenzia una carenza normativa.",
      "example_back": "The case highlights a regulatory gap."
    },
    {
      "front": "il lucro",
      "back": "profit / gain",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "business"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 2,
      "example_front": "È un'associazione senza fini di lucro.",
      "example_back": "It's a non-profit association."
    },
    {
      "front": "la mistica",
      "back": "mystique / mysticism",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "culture"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 3,
      "example_front": "Si è creata una mistica attorno al personaggio.",
      "example_back": "A mystique has grown around the figure."
    },
    {
      "front": "il retaggio",
      "back": "legacy / heritage",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "culture"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 4,
      "example_front": "È un retaggio del passato coloniale.",
      "example_back": "It's a legacy of the colonial past."
    },
    {
      "front": "l'apologia",
      "back": "defense / apologia",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "debate"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 5,
      "example_front": "Il libro è un'apologia della lentezza.",
      "example_back": "The book is a defense of slowness."
    },
    {
      "front": "l'interdizione",
      "back": "ban / disqualification",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "law"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 6,
      "example_front": "Ha ricevuto l'interdizione dai pubblici uffici.",
      "example_back": "He was banned from public office."
    },
    {
      "front": "il dissesto",
      "back": "collapse / financial ruin",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "business"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 7,
      "example_front": "Il comune è in dissesto finanziario.",
      "example_back": "The town is in financial collapse."
    },
    {
      "front": "il connubio",
      "back": "union / combination",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "arts"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 8,
      "example_front": "È un felice connubio di tradizione e innovazione.",
      "example_back": "It's a happy union of tradition and innovation."
    },
    {
      "front": "la gogna mediatica",
      "back": "media pillory / public shaming",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "media"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 9,
      "example_front": "È finito alla gogna mediatica.",
      "example_back": "He ended up pilloried by the media."
    },
    {
      "front": "la diatriba",
      "back": "diatribe / bitter dispute",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "debate"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 10,
      "example_front": "La diatriba sui social è durata settimane.",
      "example_back": "The bitter online dispute lasted weeks."
    },
    {
      "front": "il prosieguo",
      "back": "continuation / sequel",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "register"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 11,
      "example_front": "Ne discuteremo nel prosieguo.",
      "example_back": "We'll discuss it in what follows."
    },
    {
      "front": "il distinguo",
      "back": "fine distinction / caveat",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "debate"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 12,
      "example_front": "Bisogna fare qualche distinguo.",
      "example_back": "A few fine distinctions need to be made."
    },
    {
      "front": "la pochezza",
      "back": "meagerness / pettiness",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "abstract"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 13,
      "example_front": "Ha mostrato tutta la pochezza delle sue idee.",
      "example_back": "He showed how meager his ideas were."
    },
    {
      "front": "la smania",
      "back": "craving / restlessness",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "psychology"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 14,
      "example_front": "Ha la smania di apparire.",
      "example_back": "He craves the limelight."
    },
    {
      "front": "la flagranza",
      "back": "flagrante (caught in the act)",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "law"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 15,
      "example_front": "È stato arrestato in flagranza di reato.",
      "example_back": "He was caught in the act."
    },
    {
      "front": "la contumacia",
      "back": "absentia (law)",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "law"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 16,
      "example_front": "L'imputato è stato processato in contumacia.",
      "example_back": "The defendant was tried in absentia."
    },
    {
      "front": "il sottobosco",
      "back": "underworld / murky circles",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "politics"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 17,
      "example_front": "Indaga sul sottobosco della politica locale.",
      "example_back": "He investigates the murky circles of local politics."
    },
    {
      "front": "la sudditanza",
      "back": "subjection / subservience",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "politics"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 18,
      "example_front": "Denuncia la sudditanza culturale del paese.",
      "example_back": "He denounces the country's cultural subservience."
    },
    {
      "front": "lesivo/a",
      "back": "damaging / injurious",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "law"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 19,
      "example_front": "È una clausola lesiva dei diritti del lavoratore.",
      "example_back": "It's a clause damaging to the worker's rights."
    },
    {
      "front": "l'escamotage",
      "back": "ploy / workaround",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "business"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 20,
      "example_front": "Hanno trovato un escamotage per aggirare la regola.",
      "example_back": "They found a ploy to get around the rule."
    },
    {
      "front": "l'ossimoro",
      "back": "oxymoron",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "rhetoric"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 21,
      "example_front": "\"Silenzio assordante\" è un ossimoro.",
      "example_back": "\"Deafening silence\" is an oxymoron."
    },
    {
      "front": "la vulgata",
      "back": "received version / popular account",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "media"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 22,
      "example_front": "Secondo la vulgata, la crisi fu inevitabile.",
      "example_back": "According to the received version, the crisis was inevitable."
    },
    {
      "front": "il vademecum",
      "back": "handbook / guide",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "business"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 23,
      "example_front": "Hanno distribuito un vademecum per i nuovi assunti.",
      "example_back": "They handed out a guide for new hires."
    },
    {
      "front": "l'incuria",
      "back": "neglect",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "politics"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 24,
      "example_front": "Il monumento è in rovina per incuria.",
      "example_back": "The monument is in ruins through neglect."
    },
    {
      "front": "dirimere",
      "back": "to settle (a dispute)",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "law"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 25,
      "example_front": "Il tribunale dovrà dirimere la controversia.",
      "example_back": "The court will have to settle the dispute."
    },
    {
      "front": "l'ottemperanza",
      "back": "compliance",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "law"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 26,
      "example_front": "Si richiede l'ottemperanza alle norme.",
      "example_back": "Compliance with the rules is required."
    },
    {
      "front": "l'iperbole",
      "back": "hyperbole",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "rhetoric"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 27,
      "example_front": "Parlare di catastrofe è un'iperbole.",
      "example_back": "Calling it a catastrophe is hyperbole."
    },
    {
      "front": "l'esegesi",
      "back": "exegesis / interpretation",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "academic"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 28,
      "example_front": "Ha proposto una nuova esegesi del testo.",
      "example_back": "She proposed a new exegesis of the text."
    },
    {
      "front": "la pantomima",
      "back": "charade / pantomime",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "politics"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 29,
      "example_front": "Il dibattito è stato una pantomima.",
      "example_back": "The debate was a charade."
    },
    {
      "front": "perentorio/a",
      "back": "peremptory",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "law"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 30,
      "example_front": "Il termine per il ricorso è perentorio.",
      "example_back": "The deadline for the appeal is peremptory."
    },
    {
      "front": "la mistificazione",
      "back": "mystification / distortion",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "media"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 31,
      "example_front": "È una mistificazione dei fatti.",
      "example_back": "It's a distortion of the facts."
    },
    {
      "front": "insindacabile",
      "back": "unquestionable / final (decision)",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "law"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 32,
      "example_front": "La decisione della giuria è insindacabile.",
      "example_back": "The jury's decision is final."
    },
    {
      "front": "l'inettitudine",
      "back": "ineptitude",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 33,
      "example_front": "Svevo racconta l'inettitudine del protagonista.",
      "example_back": "Svevo portrays the protagonist's ineptitude."
    },
    {
      "front": "il qualunquismo",
      "back": "political apathy / cynicism",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "politics"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 34,
      "example_front": "Il qualunquismo cresce quando la politica delude.",
      "example_back": "Political cynicism grows when politics disappoints."
    },
    {
      "front": "la colluttazione",
      "back": "scuffle / struggle",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "law"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 35,
      "example_front": "C'è stata una colluttazione con gli agenti.",
      "example_back": "There was a scuffle with the officers."
    },
    {
      "front": "la querelle",
      "back": "dispute / controversy (intellectual)",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "debate"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 36,
      "example_front": "La querelle tra i due critici è durata anni.",
      "example_back": "The dispute between the two critics lasted years."
    },
    {
      "front": "il cavillo",
      "back": "quibble / legal loophole",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "law"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 37,
      "example_front": "L'avvocato ha trovato un cavillo.",
      "example_back": "The lawyer found a loophole."
    },
    {
      "front": "il malcostume",
      "back": "bad practice / corruption",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "politics"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 38,
      "example_front": "Il malcostume politico allontana i cittadini.",
      "example_back": "Political malpractice alienates citizens."
    },
    {
      "front": "arguto/a",
      "back": "witty / shrewd",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 39,
      "example_front": "È un osservatore arguto della società.",
      "example_back": "He's a witty observer of society."
    },
    {
      "front": "la parsimonia",
      "back": "thrift / economy",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "business"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 40,
      "example_front": "Usa le parole con parsimonia.",
      "example_back": "She uses words sparingly."
    },
    {
      "front": "la connivenza",
      "back": "connivance / complicity",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "law"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 41,
      "example_front": "È accusato di connivenza con i clan.",
      "example_back": "He's accused of complicity with the clans."
    },
    {
      "front": "l'anatema",
      "back": "anathema / curse",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "politics"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 42,
      "example_front": "Per il partito, ogni compromesso era un anatema.",
      "example_back": "For the party, any compromise was anathema."
    },
    {
      "front": "ermetico/a",
      "back": "hermetic / obscure",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "arts"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 43,
      "example_front": "La sua poesia è volutamente ermetica.",
      "example_back": "His poetry is deliberately obscure."
    },
    {
      "front": "nefasto/a",
      "back": "ill-fated / disastrous",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "politics"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 44,
      "example_front": "È stata una decisione nefasta.",
      "example_back": "It was a disastrous decision."
    },
    {
      "front": "irrisorio/a",
      "back": "derisory / negligible",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "business"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 45,
      "example_front": "Il compenso è irrisorio.",
      "example_back": "The fee is derisory."
    },
    {
      "front": "conclamato/a",
      "back": "full-blown / established",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "science"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 46,
      "example_front": "Si tratta di un caso conclamato di corruzione.",
      "example_back": "It's an established case of corruption."
    },
    {
      "front": "ineffabile",
      "back": "ineffable / indescribable",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 47,
      "example_front": "Provò una gioia ineffabile.",
      "example_back": "She felt an ineffable joy."
    },
    {
      "front": "lenire",
      "back": "to soothe / to alleviate",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "psychology"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 48,
      "example_front": "Nulla può lenire il suo dolore.",
      "example_back": "Nothing can soothe her grief."
    },
    {
      "front": "avulso/a",
      "back": "detached / divorced (from context)",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "academic"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 49,
      "example_front": "Quella citazione è avulsa dal contesto.",
      "example_back": "That quotation is taken out of context."
    },
    {
      "front": "rescindere",
      "back": "to rescind / to terminate (a contract)",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "law"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 50,
      "example_front": "Hanno deciso di rescindere il contratto.",
      "example_back": "They decided to terminate the contract."
    },
    {
      "front": "avallare",
      "back": "to endorse / to back",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "politics"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 51,
      "example_front": "Il governo ha avallato la proposta.",
      "example_back": "The government endorsed the proposal."
    },
    {
      "front": "il crogiolo",
      "back": "melting pot / crucible",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "culture"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 52,
      "example_front": "La città è un crogiolo di culture.",
      "example_back": "The city is a melting pot of cultures."
    },
    {
      "front": "la vacuità",
      "back": "emptiness / vacuity",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "abstract"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 53,
      "example_front": "Denuncia la vacuità retorica del discorso.",
      "example_back": "He exposes its rhetorical emptiness."
    },
    {
      "front": "il sincretismo",
      "back": "syncretism",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "culture"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 54,
      "example_front": "La festa è frutto di un sincretismo religioso.",
      "example_back": "The festival is the product of religious syncretism."
    },
    {
      "front": "l'intransigenza",
      "back": "intransigence",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "politics"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 55,
      "example_front": "L'intransigenza delle parti blocca l'accordo.",
      "example_back": "The parties' intransigence is blocking the deal."
    },
    {
      "front": "la contiguità",
      "back": "proximity / ties (suspicious)",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "law"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 56,
      "example_front": "Indagano sulla contiguità con la mafia.",
      "example_back": "They're investigating ties to the mafia."
    },
    {
      "front": "la mestizia",
      "back": "melancholy / sadness",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 57,
      "example_front": "Una sottile mestizia pervade il romanzo.",
      "example_back": "A subtle melancholy pervades the novel."
    },
    {
      "front": "la cesura",
      "back": "break / caesura",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "arts"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 58,
      "example_front": "Il 1968 segna una cesura nella storia del paese.",
      "example_back": "1968 marks a break in the country's history."
    },
    {
      "front": "la pedanteria",
      "back": "pedantry",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "academic"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 59,
      "example_front": "La sua pedanteria rende noiose le lezioni.",
      "example_back": "His pedantry makes the lessons tedious."
    },
    {
      "front": "il viatico",
      "back": "provisions / encouragement for a journey",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 60,
      "example_front": "Il premio è un ottimo viatico per la sua carriera.",
      "example_back": "The prize is a great send-off for her career."
    },
    {
      "front": "la solerzia",
      "back": "diligence / promptness",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "business"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 61,
      "example_front": "Ha risposto con solerzia.",
      "example_back": "He responded promptly."
    },
    {
      "front": "efferato/a",
      "back": "ferocious / heinous",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "law"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 62,
      "example_front": "È stato un delitto efferato.",
      "example_back": "It was a heinous crime."
    },
    {
      "front": "la caducità",
      "back": "transience / frailty",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 63,
      "example_front": "Il poeta canta la caducità della bellezza.",
      "example_back": "The poet sings of the transience of beauty."
    },
    {
      "front": "stigmatizzare",
      "back": "to condemn / to stigmatize",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "media"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 64,
      "example_front": "Il giornale ha stigmatizzato il suo comportamento.",
      "example_back": "The newspaper condemned his behavior."
    },
    {
      "front": "lo zibaldone",
      "back": "miscellany / commonplace book",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 65,
      "example_front": "Il suo diario è uno zibaldone di pensieri.",
      "example_back": "His diary is a miscellany of thoughts."
    },
    {
      "front": "il demiurgo",
      "back": "demiurge / mastermind",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "politics"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 66,
      "example_front": "Fu il demiurgo della riforma.",
      "example_back": "He was the mastermind of the reform."
    },
    {
      "front": "inficiare",
      "back": "to invalidate / to undermine",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "law"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 67,
      "example_front": "L'errore non inficia il risultato.",
      "example_back": "The error doesn't invalidate the result."
    },
    {
      "front": "equipollente",
      "back": "equivalent (legally / academically)",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "academic"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 68,
      "example_front": "Il titolo è equipollente alla laurea italiana.",
      "example_back": "The qualification is equivalent to an Italian degree."
    },
    {
      "front": "la ritrosia",
      "back": "reluctance / shyness",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "psychology"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 69,
      "example_front": "Superò la sua ritrosia e parlò.",
      "example_back": "She overcame her reluctance and spoke."
    },
    {
      "front": "fatuo/a",
      "back": "fatuous / vain",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 70,
      "example_front": "Conduce una vita fatua e mondana.",
      "example_back": "She leads a vain, worldly life."
    },
    {
      "front": "pacchiano/a",
      "back": "tacky / gaudy",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "arts"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 71,
      "example_front": "L'arredamento è un po' pacchiano.",
      "example_back": "The furnishings are a bit tacky."
    },
    {
      "front": "sommesso/a",
      "back": "subdued / hushed",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 72,
      "example_front": "Parlava a voce sommessa.",
      "example_back": "She spoke in a hushed voice."
    },
    {
      "front": "atavico/a",
      "back": "atavistic / age-old",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "culture"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 73,
      "example_front": "Ha una paura atavica del buio.",
      "example_back": "He has an atavistic fear of the dark."
    },
    {
      "front": "corroborare",
      "back": "to corroborate",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "law"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 74,
      "example_front": "Nuove prove corroborano la sua versione.",
      "example_back": "New evidence corroborates his version."
    },
    {
      "front": "la sagacia",
      "back": "sagacity / astuteness",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "psychology"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 75,
      "example_front": "Ha gestito la crisi con sagacia.",
      "example_back": "She handled the crisis with astuteness."
    },
    {
      "front": "inoppugnabile",
      "back": "incontrovertible",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "law"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 76,
      "example_front": "Le prove sono inoppugnabili.",
      "example_back": "The evidence is incontrovertible."
    },
    {
      "front": "l'irredentismo",
      "back": "irredentism",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "politics"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 77,
      "example_front": "L'irredentismo animò il primo Novecento.",
      "example_back": "Irredentism drove the early twentieth century."
    },
    {
      "front": "precipuo/a",
      "back": "chief / principal",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "academic"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 78,
      "example_front": "Lo scopo precipuo dello studio è descrittivo.",
      "example_back": "The chief aim of the study is descriptive."
    },
    {
      "front": "la perspicacia",
      "back": "perspicacity / insight",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "psychology"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 79,
      "example_front": "Ha analizzato il caso con grande perspicacia.",
      "example_back": "She analyzed the case with great insight."
    },
    {
      "front": "lo iato",
      "back": "gap / hiatus",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "abstract"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 80,
      "example_front": "C'è uno iato tra teoria e pratica.",
      "example_back": "There's a gap between theory and practice."
    },
    {
      "front": "la dissimulazione",
      "back": "dissimulation / concealment",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "psychology"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 81,
      "example_front": "La dissimulazione era la sua arte.",
      "example_back": "Dissimulation was his art."
    },
    {
      "front": "l'indolenza",
      "back": "indolence",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "psychology"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 82,
      "example_front": "La sua indolenza è proverbiale.",
      "example_back": "His indolence is legendary."
    },
    {
      "front": "rimarchevole",
      "back": "remarkable / noteworthy",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "register"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 83,
      "example_front": "Si tratta di un risultato rimarchevole.",
      "example_back": "It's a noteworthy result."
    },
    {
      "front": "sparuto/a",
      "back": "sparse / scanty",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "register"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 84,
      "example_front": "Uno sparuto gruppo di fan aspettava fuori.",
      "example_back": "A small handful of fans waited outside."
    },
    {
      "front": "astruso/a",
      "back": "abstruse",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "academic"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 85,
      "example_front": "Usa un linguaggio astruso.",
      "example_back": "He uses abstruse language."
    },
    {
      "front": "l'ignavia",
      "back": "sloth / moral cowardice",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "abstract"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 86,
      "example_front": "Dante condanna l'ignavia di chi non sceglie mai.",
      "example_back": "Dante condemns the cowardice of those who never choose."
    },
    {
      "front": "la tracotanza",
      "back": "arrogance / hubris",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 87,
      "example_front": "La tracotanza dell'eroe lo porta alla rovina.",
      "example_back": "The hero's hubris leads to his downfall."
    },
    {
      "front": "la frammentarietà",
      "back": "fragmentariness",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "academic"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 88,
      "example_front": "La frammentarietà delle fonti complica lo studio.",
      "example_back": "The fragmentary sources complicate the study."
    },
    {
      "front": "l'acquiescenza",
      "back": "acquiescence",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "psychology"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 89,
      "example_front": "La sua acquiescenza è stata interpretata come consenso.",
      "example_back": "His acquiescence was interpreted as consent."
    },
    {
      "front": "il ginepraio",
      "back": "tangle / mess",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "business"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 90,
      "example_front": "Si è cacciato in un ginepraio burocratico.",
      "example_back": "He got himself into a bureaucratic mess."
    },
    {
      "front": "l'afflato",
      "back": "inspiration / impulse (lofty)",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "arts"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 91,
      "example_front": "Nei suoi versi c'è un afflato mistico.",
      "example_back": "There's a mystical inspiration in his verses."
    },
    {
      "front": "abiurare",
      "back": "to recant / to abjure",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "abstract"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 92,
      "example_front": "Galileo fu costretto ad abiurare.",
      "example_back": "Galileo was forced to recant."
    },
    {
      "front": "la temperie",
      "back": "climate / atmosphere (of an era)",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "arts"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 93,
      "example_front": "Il romanzo nasce nella temperie culturale del dopoguerra.",
      "example_back": "The novel was born in the cultural climate of the postwar period."
    },
    {
      "front": "recondito/a",
      "back": "hidden / innermost",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 94,
      "example_front": "Esplora i desideri più reconditi.",
      "example_back": "It explores the most hidden desires."
    },
    {
      "front": "la temerarietà",
      "back": "recklessness / temerity",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "psychology"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 95,
      "example_front": "La sua temerarietà gli costò cara.",
      "example_back": "His recklessness cost him dearly."
    },
    {
      "front": "il manicheismo",
      "back": "black-and-white thinking",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "debate"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 96,
      "example_front": "Evitiamo il manicheismo: la realtà è complessa.",
      "example_back": "Let's avoid black-and-white thinking: reality is complex."
    },
    {
      "front": "il vulnus",
      "back": "wound / harm (to a principle)",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "law"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 97,
      "example_front": "È un vulnus allo Stato di diritto.",
      "example_back": "It's a blow to the rule of law."
    },
    {
      "front": "la cacofonia",
      "back": "cacophony",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "arts"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 98,
      "example_front": "Una cacofonia di clacson riempiva la strada.",
      "example_back": "A cacophony of horns filled the street."
    },
    {
      "front": "la sicumera",
      "back": "cockiness / overconfidence",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "psychology"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 99,
      "example_front": "Parla con troppa sicumera.",
      "example_back": "He speaks with too much cockiness."
    },
    {
      "front": "sviscerare",
      "back": "to examine thoroughly",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "academic"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 100,
      "example_front": "Abbiamo sviscerato il problema.",
      "example_back": "We examined the problem in depth."
    },
    {
      "front": "la prosopopea",
      "back": "pomposity / self-importance",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "register"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 101,
      "example_front": "Parla con una prosopopea insopportabile.",
      "example_back": "He speaks with unbearable pomposity."
    },
    {
      "front": "la iattura",
      "back": "misfortune / calamity",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "register"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 102,
      "example_front": "Quella decisione fu una vera iattura.",
      "example_back": "That decision was a real calamity."
    },
    {
      "front": "l'idiosincrasia",
      "back": "aversion / strong dislike",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "psychology"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 103,
      "example_front": "Ha un'idiosincrasia per le riunioni.",
      "example_back": "He has a strong aversion to meetings."
    },
    {
      "front": "sibillino/a",
      "back": "cryptic / enigmatic",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 104,
      "example_front": "Il ministro ha dato una risposta sibillina.",
      "example_back": "The minister gave a cryptic answer."
    },
    {
      "front": "asservire",
      "back": "to subjugate",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "politics"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 105,
      "example_front": "Non vogliono asservire la stampa al potere.",
      "example_back": "They don't want to subjugate the press to power."
    },
    {
      "front": "ammiccare",
      "back": "to wink / to allude slyly",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "media"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 106,
      "example_front": "Lo spot ammicca al pubblico giovane.",
      "example_back": "The ad slyly targets young viewers."
    },
    {
      "front": "indefesso/a",
      "back": "indefatigable",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 107,
      "example_front": "È un lavoratore indefesso.",
      "example_back": "He's an indefatigable worker."
    },
    {
      "front": "il florilegio",
      "back": "anthology / collection (of choice pieces)",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 108,
      "example_front": "Ha pubblicato un florilegio di poesie medievali.",
      "example_back": "She published an anthology of medieval poems."
    },
    {
      "front": "farraginoso/a",
      "back": "convoluted / cumbersome",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "register"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 109,
      "example_front": "La procedura è farraginosa e lenta.",
      "example_back": "The procedure is cumbersome and slow."
    },
    {
      "front": "pertinace",
      "back": "persistent / tenacious",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "psychology"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 110,
      "example_front": "È un avversario pertinace.",
      "example_back": "He's a tenacious opponent."
    },
    {
      "front": "lapalissiano/a",
      "back": "blindingly obvious",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "register"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 111,
      "example_front": "È una verità lapalissiana.",
      "example_back": "It's a blindingly obvious truth."
    },
    {
      "front": "il parossismo",
      "back": "paroxysm / extreme",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "abstract"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 112,
      "example_front": "La tensione arrivò al parossismo.",
      "example_back": "The tension reached its height."
    },
    {
      "front": "la metonimia",
      "back": "metonymy",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "rhetoric"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 113,
      "example_front": "\"Bere un bicchiere\" è una metonimia.",
      "example_back": "\"Drinking a glass\" is a metonymy."
    },
    {
      "front": "la baldanza",
      "back": "boldness / swagger",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "psychology"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 114,
      "example_front": "Entrò con baldanza nella sala.",
      "example_back": "He strode into the room with swagger."
    },
    {
      "front": "la reprimenda",
      "back": "reprimand / telling-off",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "business"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 115,
      "example_front": "Ha ricevuto una dura reprimenda dal capo.",
      "example_back": "He received a harsh reprimand from his boss."
    },
    {
      "front": "lo scorno",
      "back": "humiliation / shame",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 116,
      "example_front": "Subì lo scorno della sconfitta.",
      "example_back": "He suffered the humiliation of defeat."
    },
    {
      "front": "il prodromo",
      "back": "early sign / harbinger",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "science"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 117,
      "example_front": "Era un prodromo della crisi economica.",
      "example_back": "It was an early sign of the economic crisis."
    },
    {
      "front": "irretire",
      "back": "to ensnare / to entice",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "psychology"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 118,
      "example_front": "Si è lasciato irretire da false promesse.",
      "example_back": "He let himself be ensnared by false promises."
    },
    {
      "front": "lacunoso/a",
      "back": "incomplete / full of gaps",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "academic"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 119,
      "example_front": "La documentazione è lacunosa.",
      "example_back": "The documentation is full of gaps."
    },
    {
      "front": "ossequioso/a",
      "back": "obsequious",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "psychology"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 120,
      "example_front": "Il cameriere era fin troppo ossequioso.",
      "example_back": "The waiter was all too obsequious."
    },
    {
      "front": "pingue",
      "back": "fat / lucrative",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "register"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 121,
      "example_front": "Ha ottenuto un pingue compenso.",
      "example_back": "He received a lucrative fee."
    },
    {
      "front": "l'ineluttabilità",
      "back": "inevitability",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "abstract"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 122,
      "example_front": "L'autore riflette sull'ineluttabilità del destino.",
      "example_back": "The author reflects on the inevitability of fate."
    },
    {
      "front": "mellifluo/a",
      "back": "mellifluous / honeyed",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "psychology"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 123,
      "example_front": "Parlava con voce melliflua.",
      "example_back": "He spoke in a honeyed voice."
    },
    {
      "front": "la piaggeria",
      "back": "fawning / sycophancy",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "politics"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 124,
      "example_front": "La piaggeria verso il capo era imbarazzante.",
      "example_back": "The fawning over the boss was embarrassing."
    },
    {
      "front": "l'ubiquità",
      "back": "ubiquity",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "abstract"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 125,
      "example_front": "L'ubiquità degli smartphone ha cambiato tutto.",
      "example_back": "The ubiquity of smartphones has changed everything."
    },
    {
      "front": "millantare",
      "back": "to boast falsely / to brag",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "register"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 126,
      "example_front": "Millantava amicizie importanti.",
      "example_back": "He falsely boasted of important friends."
    },
    {
      "front": "esiziale",
      "back": "fatal / ruinous",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "politics"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 127,
      "example_front": "Quella scelta si rivelò esiziale per il partito.",
      "example_back": "That choice proved ruinous for the party."
    },
    {
      "front": "l'epigono",
      "back": "follower / imitator",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "arts"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 128,
      "example_front": "È un epigono del neorealismo.",
      "example_back": "He's a follower of neorealism."
    },
    {
      "front": "la trasversalità",
      "back": "cross-party nature / cross-cutting scope",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "politics"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 129,
      "example_front": "La proposta ha una trasversalità rara.",
      "example_back": "The proposal has rare cross-party appeal."
    },
    {
      "front": "pleonastico/a",
      "back": "redundant / pleonastic",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "academic"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 130,
      "example_front": "Questa frase è pleonastica: si può eliminare.",
      "example_back": "This sentence is redundant: it can be cut."
    },
    {
      "front": "vessatorio/a",
      "back": "oppressive / unfair (clause)",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "law"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 131,
      "example_front": "La clausola è stata dichiarata vessatoria.",
      "example_back": "The clause was declared unfair."
    },
    {
      "front": "glissare",
      "back": "to gloss over",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "register"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 132,
      "example_front": "Ha glissato sulla domanda più scomoda.",
      "example_back": "He glossed over the most awkward question."
    },
    {
      "front": "il pressappochismo",
      "back": "sloppiness / approximation",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "business"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 133,
      "example_front": "Il pressappochismo ha causato l'errore.",
      "example_back": "Sloppiness caused the error."
    },
    {
      "front": "la prolissità",
      "back": "verbosity / long-windedness",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "academic"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 134,
      "example_front": "La prolissità del testo stanca il lettore.",
      "example_back": "The text's verbosity tires the reader."
    },
    {
      "front": "esautorare",
      "back": "to strip of authority",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "politics"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 135,
      "example_front": "Il direttore è stato esautorato.",
      "example_back": "The director was stripped of his authority."
    },
    {
      "front": "ricusare",
      "back": "to reject / to challenge (a judge)",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "law"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 136,
      "example_front": "La difesa ha ricusato il giudice.",
      "example_back": "The defense challenged the judge."
    },
    {
      "front": "la palingenesi",
      "back": "rebirth / radical renewal",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "politics"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 137,
      "example_front": "Promettevano una palingenesi della società.",
      "example_back": "They promised a radical renewal of society."
    },
    {
      "front": "la renitenza",
      "back": "reluctance / resistance",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "psychology"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 138,
      "example_front": "Ha mostrato una certa renitenza.",
      "example_back": "He showed a certain reluctance."
    },
    {
      "front": "salace",
      "back": "racy / biting",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 139,
      "example_front": "Ha scritto un epigramma salace.",
      "example_back": "He wrote a biting epigram."
    },
    {
      "front": "la gerontocrazia",
      "back": "gerontocracy",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "politics"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 140,
      "example_front": "Il paese è accusato di essere una gerontocrazia.",
      "example_back": "The country is accused of being a gerontocracy."
    },
    {
      "front": "sopire",
      "back": "to quell / to dampen",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "politics"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 141,
      "example_front": "Hanno cercato di sopire le polemiche.",
      "example_back": "They tried to quell the controversy."
    },
    {
      "front": "il bailamme",
      "back": "uproar / commotion",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "register"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 142,
      "example_front": "Nel bailamme generale nessuno sentì l'annuncio.",
      "example_back": "In the general commotion no one heard the announcement."
    },
    {
      "front": "la logorrea",
      "back": "logorrhea / compulsive talking",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "register"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 143,
      "example_front": "La sua logorrea sfinisce gli ascoltatori.",
      "example_back": "His nonstop talking wears listeners out."
    },
    {
      "front": "inveterato/a",
      "back": "inveterate / ingrained",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "abstract"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 144,
      "example_front": "È un pregiudizio inveterato, difficile da sradicare.",
      "example_back": "It's an ingrained prejudice, hard to root out."
    },
    {
      "front": "la pervicacia",
      "back": "obstinacy / stubborn persistence",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "psychology"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 145,
      "example_front": "Ha difeso la sua tesi con pervicacia.",
      "example_back": "He defended his thesis with obstinacy."
    },
    {
      "front": "ponderoso/a",
      "back": "weighty / ponderous",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "academic"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 146,
      "example_front": "È un trattato ponderoso di mille pagine.",
      "example_back": "It's a weighty treatise of a thousand pages."
    },
    {
      "front": "sciorinare",
      "back": "to rattle off / to show off (knowledge)",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "register"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 147,
      "example_front": "Ha sciorinato una lunga serie di dati senza guardare gli appunti.",
      "example_back": "He rattled off a long list of figures without looking at his notes."
    },
    {
      "front": "il chiasmo",
      "back": "chiasmus",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "rhetoric"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 148,
      "example_front": "Il verso è costruito su un chiasmo.",
      "example_back": "The line is built on a chiasmus."
    },
    {
      "front": "irriguardoso/a",
      "back": "disrespectful",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "psychology"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 149,
      "example_front": "Il suo tono era irriguardoso.",
      "example_back": "His tone was disrespectful."
    },
    {
      "front": "cooptare",
      "back": "to co-opt",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "politics"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 150,
      "example_front": "Il consiglio ha cooptato due nuovi membri.",
      "example_back": "The board co-opted two new members."
    },
    {
      "front": "alacre",
      "back": "brisk / eager",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 151,
      "example_front": "Lavorava con passo alacre.",
      "example_back": "He worked at a brisk pace."
    },
    {
      "front": "l'abulia",
      "back": "apathy / lack of will",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "psychology"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 152,
      "example_front": "Dopo il lutto è caduto in uno stato di abulia.",
      "example_back": "After the loss he fell into a state of apathy."
    },
    {
      "front": "pedissequo/a",
      "back": "slavish / uncritical",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "academic"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 153,
      "example_front": "È una traduzione pedissequa dell'originale.",
      "example_back": "It's a slavish translation of the original."
    },
    {
      "front": "soverchio/a",
      "back": "excessive",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "register"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 154,
      "example_front": "Ha mostrato un soverchio zelo.",
      "example_back": "He showed excessive zeal."
    },
    {
      "front": "captatio benevolentiae",
      "back": "captatio benevolentiae (winning over the audience)",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "rhetoric"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 155,
      "example_front": "Ha aperto il discorso con una captatio benevolentiae.",
      "example_back": "He opened his speech by winning over the audience."
    },
    {
      "front": "dileggiare",
      "back": "to mock / to deride",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "psychology"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 156,
      "example_front": "Lo dileggiavano per il suo accento.",
      "example_back": "They mocked him for his accent."
    },
    {
      "front": "la fumosità",
      "back": "vagueness / woolliness",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "debate"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 157,
      "example_front": "La fumosità della proposta non convince.",
      "example_back": "The vagueness of the proposal isn't convincing."
    },
    {
      "front": "redarguire",
      "back": "to rebuke",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "business"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 158,
      "example_front": "Il capo lo ha redarguito davanti a tutti.",
      "example_back": "The boss rebuked him in front of everyone."
    },
    {
      "front": "sottendere",
      "back": "to underlie / to imply",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "academic"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 159,
      "example_front": "Quale visione sottende questa proposta?",
      "example_back": "What vision underlies this proposal?"
    },
    {
      "front": "l'acribia",
      "back": "meticulous precision (scholarly)",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "academic"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 160,
      "example_front": "Ha curato l'edizione con straordinaria acribia.",
      "example_back": "She edited the edition with extraordinary meticulousness."
    },
    {
      "front": "il revanscismo",
      "back": "revanchism",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "politics"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 161,
      "example_front": "Si teme un ritorno del revanscismo.",
      "example_back": "A return of revanchism is feared."
    },
    {
      "front": "il garbuglio",
      "back": "tangle / muddle",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "register"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 162,
      "example_front": "Questa legge è un garbuglio.",
      "example_back": "This law is a muddle."
    },
    {
      "front": "irredimibile",
      "back": "irredeemable",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 163,
      "example_front": "Si sente un peccatore irredimibile.",
      "example_back": "He feels like an irredeemable sinner."
    },
    {
      "front": "edulcorare",
      "back": "to sugarcoat / to tone down",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "media"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 164,
      "example_front": "Il rapporto edulcora la realtà dei fatti.",
      "example_back": "The report sugarcoats the facts."
    },
    {
      "front": "improcrastinabile",
      "back": "that cannot be postponed",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "politics"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 165,
      "example_front": "La riforma è ormai improcrastinabile.",
      "example_back": "The reform can no longer be postponed."
    },
    {
      "front": "la crestomazia",
      "back": "chrestomathy / anthology for study",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "academic"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 166,
      "example_front": "Ha curato una crestomazia di testi latini.",
      "example_back": "He edited an anthology of Latin texts."
    },
    {
      "front": "deprecare",
      "back": "to deplore",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "politics"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 167,
      "example_front": "Il presidente ha deprecato la violenza.",
      "example_back": "The president deplored the violence."
    },
    {
      "front": "il bizantinismo",
      "back": "hair-splitting / byzantine complexity",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "politics"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 168,
      "example_front": "Basta con i bizantinismi procedurali.",
      "example_back": "Enough procedural hair-splitting."
    },
    {
      "front": "l'egotismo",
      "back": "egotism",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "psychology"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 169,
      "example_front": "Il suo egotismo allontana tutti.",
      "example_back": "His egotism drives everyone away."
    },
    {
      "front": "inesausto/a",
      "back": "tireless / inexhaustible",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 170,
      "example_front": "È un ricercatore inesausto.",
      "example_back": "He's a tireless researcher."
    },
    {
      "front": "la sinecura",
      "back": "sinecure / cushy post",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "politics"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 171,
      "example_front": "Quel posto è una sinecura ben pagata.",
      "example_back": "That post is a well-paid sinecure."
    },
    {
      "front": "tetragono/a",
      "back": "unshakeable / steadfast",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 172,
      "example_front": "Resta tetragono di fronte alle critiche.",
      "example_back": "He remains unshakeable in the face of criticism."
    },
    {
      "front": "l'endiadi",
      "back": "hendiadys",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "academic"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 173,
      "example_front": "\"Pane e companatico\" è un esempio di endiadi.",
      "example_back": "\"Bread and accompaniment\" is an example of hendiadys."
    },
    {
      "front": "la desuetudine",
      "back": "disuse",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "law"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 174,
      "example_front": "La norma è caduta in desuetudine.",
      "example_back": "The rule has fallen into disuse."
    },
    {
      "front": "defatigante",
      "back": "exhausting",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "register"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 175,
      "example_front": "È stata una trattativa defatigante.",
      "example_back": "It was an exhausting negotiation."
    },
    {
      "front": "compendiare",
      "back": "to summarize",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "academic"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 176,
      "example_front": "Il capitolo compendia trent'anni di ricerca.",
      "example_back": "The chapter summarizes thirty years of research."
    },
    {
      "front": "pletorico/a",
      "back": "bloated / excessive",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "politics"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 177,
      "example_front": "L'amministrazione è pletorica.",
      "example_back": "The administration is bloated."
    },
    {
      "front": "improvvido/a",
      "back": "rash / imprudent",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "politics"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 178,
      "example_front": "È stata una dichiarazione improvvida.",
      "example_back": "It was a rash statement."
    },
    {
      "front": "sclerotizzato/a",
      "back": "ossified / rigid",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "politics"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 179,
      "example_front": "È un sistema politico sclerotizzato.",
      "example_back": "It's an ossified political system."
    },
    {
      "front": "paludato/a",
      "back": "pompous / stuffy",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "register"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 180,
      "example_front": "È un convegno paludato e noioso.",
      "example_back": "It's a stuffy, boring conference."
    },
    {
      "front": "il velleitarismo",
      "back": "wishful thinking / unrealistic ambition",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "politics"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 181,
      "example_front": "Il programma pecca di velleitarismo.",
      "example_back": "The program suffers from wishful thinking."
    },
    {
      "front": "diuturno/a",
      "back": "long-lasting (literary)",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 182,
      "example_front": "Fu il frutto di un diuturno lavoro.",
      "example_back": "It was the fruit of long, steady labor."
    },
    {
      "front": "ostracizzare",
      "back": "to ostracize",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "psychology"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 183,
      "example_front": "È stato ostracizzato dai colleghi.",
      "example_back": "He was ostracized by his colleagues."
    },
    {
      "front": "inopinato/a",
      "back": "unexpected / unforeseen",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "register"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 184,
      "example_front": "Un evento inopinato ha cambiato tutto.",
      "example_back": "An unforeseen event changed everything."
    },
    {
      "front": "l'oltranzismo",
      "back": "hardline extremism",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "politics"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 185,
      "example_front": "L'oltranzismo di entrambe le parti blocca tutto.",
      "example_back": "Hardline positions on both sides block everything."
    },
    {
      "front": "gattopardesco/a",
      "back": "cosmetic (change that changes nothing)",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "politics"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 186,
      "example_front": "È una riforma gattopardesca.",
      "example_back": "It's a reform that changes everything so nothing changes."
    },
    {
      "front": "sollazzarsi",
      "back": "to amuse oneself",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 187,
      "example_front": "I nobili si sollazzavano con feste e cacce.",
      "example_back": "The nobles amused themselves with parties and hunts."
    },
    {
      "front": "compulsare",
      "back": "to consult / to pore over (documents)",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "academic"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 188,
      "example_front": "Ha compulsato gli archivi per mesi.",
      "example_back": "He pored over the archives for months."
    },
    {
      "front": "corrivo/a",
      "back": "hasty / careless (judgment)",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "register"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 189,
      "example_front": "È un giudizio un po' corrivo.",
      "example_back": "It's a rather hasty judgment."
    },
    {
      "front": "coartare",
      "back": "to coerce",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "law"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 190,
      "example_front": "La volontà del testimone è stata coartata.",
      "example_back": "The witness's will was coerced."
    },
    {
      "front": "ottundere",
      "back": "to blunt / to dull",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "psychology"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 191,
      "example_front": "La stanchezza ottunde i sensi.",
      "example_back": "Fatigue dulls the senses."
    },
    {
      "front": "lambiccato/a",
      "back": "overelaborate / convoluted",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "arts"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 192,
      "example_front": "Lo stile è lambiccato e artificioso.",
      "example_back": "The style is convoluted and artificial."
    },
    {
      "front": "la longanimità",
      "back": "forbearance / patience",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "psychology"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 193,
      "example_front": "Ha sopportato tutto con longanimità.",
      "example_back": "She put up with everything with forbearance."
    },
    {
      "front": "l'arzigogolo",
      "back": "convoluted reasoning / quibble",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "register"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 194,
      "example_front": "Basta arzigogoli: veniamo al punto.",
      "example_back": "Enough convoluted reasoning: let's get to the point."
    },
    {
      "front": "intemerato/a",
      "back": "unblemished / spotless",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "register"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 195,
      "example_front": "Ha una reputazione intemerata.",
      "example_back": "He has a spotless reputation."
    },
    {
      "front": "obnubilare",
      "back": "to cloud (the mind)",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "psychology"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 196,
      "example_front": "La rabbia gli ha obnubilato il giudizio.",
      "example_back": "Anger clouded his judgment."
    },
    {
      "front": "la querimonia",
      "back": "complaint / lament (literary)",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 197,
      "example_front": "Le sue querimonie annoiavano tutti.",
      "example_back": "His laments bored everyone."
    },
    {
      "front": "l'icasticità",
      "back": "vividness / incisiveness (of style)",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "arts"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 198,
      "example_front": "L'icasticità delle sue immagini è sorprendente.",
      "example_back": "The vividness of his images is striking."
    },
    {
      "front": "l'apodissi",
      "back": "proof / demonstration (logic)",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "academic"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 199,
      "example_front": "Il saggio manca di una vera apodissi.",
      "example_back": "The essay lacks a real demonstration."
    },
    {
      "front": "attagliarsi",
      "back": "to suit / to fit",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "register"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 200,
      "example_front": "La definizione si attaglia perfettamente al caso.",
      "example_back": "The definition fits the case perfectly."
    },
    {
      "front": "la soperchieria",
      "back": "abuse of power / bullying",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "politics"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 201,
      "example_front": "Non tollereremo altre soperchierie.",
      "example_back": "We won't tolerate any more abuses."
    },
    {
      "front": "frustraneo/a",
      "back": "futile / vain",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "abstract"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 202,
      "example_front": "Ogni tentativo si è rivelato frustraneo.",
      "example_back": "Every attempt proved futile."
    },
    {
      "front": "la sobillazione",
      "back": "incitement / stirring up",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "politics"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 203,
      "example_front": "È accusato di sobillazione.",
      "example_back": "He's accused of incitement."
    },
    {
      "front": "la speciosità",
      "back": "speciousness",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "debate"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 204,
      "example_front": "Smaschera la speciosità degli argomenti.",
      "example_back": "He exposes the speciousness of the arguments."
    },
    {
      "front": "la grandiloquenza",
      "back": "grandiloquence",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "rhetoric"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 205,
      "example_front": "La grandiloquenza del discorso nascondeva il vuoto.",
      "example_back": "The grandiloquence of the speech hid its emptiness."
    },
    {
      "front": "la capziosità",
      "back": "captiousness / sophistry",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "debate"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 206,
      "example_front": "Denunciò la capziosità delle domande.",
      "example_back": "He exposed how captious the questions were."
    },
    {
      "front": "circonlocutorio/a",
      "back": "circumlocutory / roundabout",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "rhetoric"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 207,
      "example_front": "Ha risposto in modo circonlocutorio.",
      "example_back": "He answered in a roundabout way."
    },
    {
      "front": "l'infingardaggine",
      "back": "laziness / shirking",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 208,
      "example_front": "Lo rimproverava per la sua infingardaggine.",
      "example_back": "She scolded him for his shirking."
    },
    {
      "front": "rabberciare",
      "back": "to patch up (badly)",
      "level": "C2",
      "tags": [
        "register"
      ],
      "word_frequency": 209,
      "example_front": "Hanno rabberciato una soluzione all'ultimo momento.",
      "example_back": "They patched together a solution at the last minute."
    }
  ]
}