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acclivity
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sharp incline of a hill
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accolade
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award; honor
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accost
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to approach and speak to
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acne
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zits
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adroit
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skillful
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adulate
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to flatter and praise so much, its sickening
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adulterate
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to make impure
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adumbrate
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to foreshadow by disclosing only partially
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adverse
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hostile; oppposed; unfavorable
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advocate
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to urge; recommend
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aesthetic
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artistic; pertaining to a sense of what is beautiful
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affected
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fake
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affinity
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attraction
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affluent
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rich
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affray
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public brawl
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agape
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open-mouthed
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aghast
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horrified
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agile
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able to move in a quick and easy fashion
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alacrity
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cheerful promptness
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alias
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a false name
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alimentary
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supplying nourishment
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allay
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to soothe; to make more bearable
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alleged
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stated without proof
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alleviate
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to make more bearable
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allude
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to refer indirectly
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allusion
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a reference to something
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altercation
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a violent dispute
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amass
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to collect; to get a bunch of
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ambulatory
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able to walk
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ameliorate
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to improve a bad situation
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amity
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peaceful relations; friendship
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amnesia
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loss of memory
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amorphous
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shapeless
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amok
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freaked out and violently pissed off
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anthropoid
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anthropoid
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humanlike
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antipathy
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hatred; aversion; dislike
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apathetic
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indifferent; showing lack of interest
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apathy
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indifference, lack of interest
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apex
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tip; peak; summit; way up there
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appease
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to soothe; placate
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fishhead
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the head of a fish
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arbitrary
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chosen at random or without apparent reason
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ardor
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heat; passion; zeal
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askew
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crooked; off to one side
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assuage
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to ease; pacify
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astute
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shrewd; wise; observing
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attribute
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(n.) a characteristic, usually a good one
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atypical
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not typical
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audacity
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boldness
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august
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majestic; awe-inspiring
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austerity
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severity; strictness
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averse
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opposed; unwillin
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avuncular
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a funky word meaning "like an uncle"
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awry
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twisted; crooked; out of whack; askew; wrong
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beguile
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trick
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belated
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delayed; late
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bellicose
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violent; warlike
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benevolent
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kind
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berate
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to scold severly
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bereft
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lacking something needed
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betroth
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to become engaged
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biennial
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every two years
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bland
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not stimulating; dull
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blandishment
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flattery
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blighted
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ruined; destroyed; withered
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boisterous
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rowdy
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bombastic
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grandiloquent (wordy, pompous) in speech or writing
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braggadocio
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cockiness; a braggart
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brevity
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briefness
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brusque
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brief; curt; gruff; discourteous
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bucolic
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pastoral; typical of farms and rural life
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bumptious
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self-assertive
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burgeon
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to grow; sprout; flourish
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burnish
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to polish
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