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Abscond

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To leave hurriedly and secretly.

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Aberrant

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Straying from the normal or right way.

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Alacrity

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Liveliness and eagerness; cheerful readiness

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Anomaly

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Something unusual or unexpected.

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Approbation

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To gain approval.

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Arduous

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Demanding great effort or labor; Difficult

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Assuage

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To provide relief; causing to feel better.

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Audacious

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Recklessly bold; Daring

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Austere

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Without any decoration; strict and serious in manner.

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Axiomatic

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A rule or principle that many people accept as true.

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Canonical

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Following or in agreement with accepted, traditional standards.

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Capricious

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Sudden behavior change.

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Censure

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To criticize severely; to officially rebuke.

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Chicanery

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Trickery to achieve a political, financial, or legal purpose.

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Connoiseur

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An expert on a particular subject.

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Convoluted

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Extremely complex and difficult to follow.

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Disabuse

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To make aware of the truth.

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Discordant

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Conflicting; harsh or unpleasant in sound.

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Disparate

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Very different from each other.

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Effrontery

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Extreme boldness.

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Eloquent

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Having or showing the ability to use language clearly and effectively.

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Enervate

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To deprive of force or strength; weaken

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Ennui

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Boredom arising from a lack of interest or activity.

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Equivocate

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To use unclear language especially to deceive or mislead someone.

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Erudite

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Having or showing profound knowledge.

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Exculpate

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To clear free from guilt; exonerate.

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Exigent

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Urgent; requiring immediate action or attention.

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Extemporaneous

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Done without preparation; improvised.

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Filibuster

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Intentional obstruction, especially using prolonged speech making to delay legislative action.

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Fulminate

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To loudly attack or denounce.

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Ingenuous

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Naive, artless, or innocent.

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Inured

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Able to withstand hardship; to become accustomed to something unpleasant by prolonged exposure.

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Irascible

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Easily made angry.

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Laud

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To praise or glorify.

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Lucid

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Easy to understand or thinking clearly.

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Magnanimity

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The quality of being generously noble in mind and heart, especially in forgiving.

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Martial

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Of or relating to war or soldiers.

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Mundane

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Of the world; typical of or concerned with the ordinary.

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Nascent

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Coming into existence; emerging.

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Nebulous

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Unclear, vague; not clearly defined.

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Neologism

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A newly coined word or term which has emerged into everyday usage.

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Noxious

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Harmful.

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Obtuse

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Not able to think clearly or to understand what is obvious or simple.

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Obviate

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To prevent or eliminate.

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Paean

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A song or hymn of praise and thanks.

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Onerous

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Involving great effort and difficulty.

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Perenial

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Lasting or remaining active throughout the year, or all the time.

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Perfidy

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Behavior that shows that someone cannot be trusted.

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Parody

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A humorous imitation intended for ridicules or comic effect.

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Perfunctory

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Done routinely and with little interest or care.

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Perspicacious

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Able to judge quickly and correctly what people and situations are really like.

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Prattle

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Talking for a long period of time about insignificant things.

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Precipitate

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To bring about especially abruptly.

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Predilection

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A preference for something; a strong like.

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Prescience

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The fact of knowing something before it takes place.

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Prevaricate

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To deliberately avoid the truth; to mislead.

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Qualms

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A feeling of doubt or uncertainty about whether you are doing the right thing.

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Recant

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To retract a public statement.

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Refute

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To prove wrong by argument or evidence.

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Relegate

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To put (someone or something) in a lower or less important position, rank.

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Reticent

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Keeping to yourself; not likely to draw attention to yourself; uncommunicative.

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Solicitous

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Full of anxiety and concern.

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Sordid

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Very bad or dirty.

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Sporadic

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Occurring occasionally.

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Squander

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To waste.

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Static

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Not moving, active, or in motion; at rest.

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Stupefy

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To stun, baffle, or amaze.

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Stymie

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To block or obstruct.

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Synthesis

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The combination of parts to make a whole.

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Tortuous

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Winding, twisting; excessively complicated.

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Truculent

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Quick to fight and argue.

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Veracity

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The quality of being truthful.

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Virulent

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Extremely harmful or poisonous; bitterly hostile or antagonistic.

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Voracious

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Having a large appetite for an activity or pursuit; greedy.

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Waver

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To move to and fro; to sway; to be unsettled in opinion.