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Oligarchy
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Government by only a small group of people
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Affectation
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Behavior, speech, or writing that is articicial or designed to impress
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Broach
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To open up a subject, often a delicate one for discussion
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Emmigrate
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To leave one's own country in order to settle permanently in another
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Ecumenical
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Concerned with promoting unity among churches
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Anomalous
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Deviating from what is standard, normal or expected; irregular, abnormal, aberrant
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Chagrin
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Humiliation, embarassed disappointment
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Canard
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An unfounded rumor or story
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Niggardly
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Stingy
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Gambit
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A device, action or opening remark, typically entailing a degree of risk
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Supercilious
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Haughty, patronizing
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Ethereal
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Heavenly, light, insubstantial
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Paltry
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Insignificant, worthless
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Infringe
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Advance beyond the usual or allowable limit
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Insipid
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Lacking flavor, vigor or interest
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Penurious
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Extremely poor, poverty-stricken
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Malapropism
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The unintentional missue of a word by confusion with one that sounds familiar
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Altruism
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Putting others before one's own self, to be self-sacrificing
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Egregious
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Extremely bad, flagrant
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Retrenchment
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Cutting down or off, reduction
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Aberration
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A departure from what is normal, usual, or expected, typically one that is unwelcome
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Quaff
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A beverage that is gulped down
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Liniment
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A medicinal liquid or salve for rubbing on the skin
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Quixotic
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Idealistic to a foolish or impractical degree
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Threadbare
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Falling apart, meager, poor, old
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Boon
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A gift or blessing
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Virtuoso
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A person highly skilled in music or another artistic pursuit
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Indolent
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Adverse to activity, habitually lazy
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Ponderous
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Slow and clumsy because of great weight
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Stricture
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A restriction, restraint, or limit
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Umbrage
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Offense or annoyance; resentment, insult, shade
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Ratiocinate
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Form judgements by a process of logic or reason
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Raze
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Completely destroy or demolish
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Asylum
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Sanctuary
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Bulwark
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Defensive wall
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Jaunt
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Excursion, trip, outing, tour, hike
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Languish
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Decay; fade away
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Pique
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To excite; arouse an emotion or provoke an action
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Castigate
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To critisize harshly
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Declaim
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To recite, announce or orate publicly or formally
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Dither
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To vacillate between choices, tremble with excitement
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Haughty
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Arrogantly superior or disdainful, proud, lofty, lordy, uppish
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Inane
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Silly, stupid, insignificant, vacuous, empty, senseless, foolish, blank, vacant,
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Misanthrope
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One who hates people
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Cantankerous
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Moody, or ill-tempered
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Edifice
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A building, especially a large, imposing one; building, structure, construction, house
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Bromide
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A commonplace remark or notion
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Scrupulous
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Metriculous, very concerned to avoid wrongdoing
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Glut
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Surplus, overabundance
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Prolix
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Wordy, verbose, lengthy speech containing too many words
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Superficial
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Lacking depth
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Capricious
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Unpredictable, likely to change at any moment
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Epigram
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A short or witty saying
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Flaccid
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Soft and limp
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Pilfer
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To steal in small amounts
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Clamber
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Climb, move, or get in and out of something in an awkward and laborious way
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Temerity
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Audacity, boldness
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Parsimony
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Extreme unwillingness to spend money or use resources
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Procure
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Obtain, get, acquire, gain, secure
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Convergence
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The joining of parts
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Mirth
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Amusement or laughter
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Abjure
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To reject or renounce
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Repartee
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A witty, ready apt reply
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Ford
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The shallow part of a river, to cross a river at a shallow part
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Rankle
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Continue to be painful, fester, suppurate
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Orifice
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An opening, as in a pipe or tube, or one in the body; such as a nostril or mouth
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Lambaste
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To assualt violently with words
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Anathema
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Someone or something to be loathed or detested
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Galvanize
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To start into sudden activity, to revitalize
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Paragon
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A model of excellence
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Idiosyncratic
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Quirky, pecuilar, eccentric
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Cracen
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Cowardly, afraid
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Bellicose
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Quarelsome, or given to fight
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Nuance
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A subtle difference or distinction
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Salacious
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Errotic, lascivious, lewd, lechery
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Dogmatic
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Statements believed but not with argument or evidence
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Debunk
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To expose as false claims
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Thereby
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By that means or because of that
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Precocious
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Talented beyond one's age
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Incensed
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Very angry
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Prosaic
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Run-of-the-mill, commonplace, unromantic
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Acuity
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Mental or physical sharpness
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Luminary
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One who has attained eminence in his/her field of work
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Millieu
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Environment, surroundings, ambiance, setting, medium
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Negligible
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So small or unimportant so as not to be worth considering
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Venerable
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Respect due to old age
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Superfluous
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More than enough, excessive
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Interstice
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An intervening space, especially a small one
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Prescient
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Having knowledge of things before they happen
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Canon
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A rule or law, especially a religious one, a body or ruels or laws, an authoritative list, the set of works by an author that are accepted as authentic
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Terse
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Sparing in the use of words; concise, laconic, succinct, brief
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Ungainly
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Awkward, clumsy, unwieldy, hulky
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Cavil
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To quibble, to raise trivial objections
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Hubris
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Excessive pride
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Amalgamate
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Combine or unite to form one organization or structure
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Incarnate
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In the flesh
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Substantiate
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To verify, confirm
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Debility
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Weakness
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Quiescent
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Motionless, at rest, still
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Quotidian
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Daily, everyday, ordinary, routine
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Incantation
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A chant
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Sumptuous
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Splendid and expensive-looking, luxurious, magnificent, palatial
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Captious
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Ill-natured, quarrelsome
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Arid
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Dry
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Hidebound
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Unwilling or unable to change because of a tradition or convention
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Pontificate
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To speak pompously
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Defunct
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No longer in existence
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Perfidy
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Treachary, betrayal
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Fortuitous
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Lucky, good fortune
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Gambol
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To skip and play about
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Nadir
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The lowest point in the fortunes of a person or generation
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Bovine
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Of or related to cattle
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Entomology
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The study of bugs
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Morass
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An area of muddy or boggy ground
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Malign
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To speak about in a spitefully critical manner
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Dulcet
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Sweet and soothing
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Limpid
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Clear, pellucid, transparent, lucid, bright
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Cabal
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A group of conspirators, the acts of such a group; a clique
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Garrulous
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To talk excessively, especially on trivial matters
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Peccadillo
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A small or relatively unimportant sin or offense
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Rampant
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Unrestrainted or violent
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Barometer
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An instrument used to measure environment pressure
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Blight
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A plant disease, destroy, blast, rust
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Hedonist
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A pleasure seeker
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Salubrious
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health-giving, healthy
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Ostentatious
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Overly displaying one's wealth
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Usury
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The practice of lending money at a high intrest rate
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Amenable
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Open to and responsive to suggestions, easily persuaded or controlled
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Pernicious
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Dangerous, extremely harmful
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Refractory
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Stubbornly disobedient
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Prolific
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Abundantly productive, fruitful, fertile
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Exhume
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To dig out of the ground, unbury
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Carp
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To complain or find fault in someone
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Homily
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A sermon
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Insouciant
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Carefree, nonchalant, lighthearted
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Calipers
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A pinching instrument used to measure the difference between two things or the thickness
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Lagniappe
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An unexpected gift or benefit
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Bourgeon
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To grow, flourish
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Acrophobia
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Fear of heights
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Zeitgeist
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The mood or spirit of the times
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Interminable
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Endless, unedning, infinite, perpetual
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Equine
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Relating to horses, horselike
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Extant
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Still in existance
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Tractable
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Obedient, polite
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Homonym
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Two words that are spelled different but sound the same
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Grandiloquent
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Using a lot of fancy words to sound impressive
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Expiate
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To make amends, to atone
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Priggish
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Very fussy, self-righteous, high-maintenance, usually refers to people
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Outre
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Conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unsual
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Bane
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Fatal injury or ruin
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Tautology
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The saying of the same thing twice; generally considered to be a fault of style
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Decorum
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Correct behavior, dignified
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Ignominy
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Shame, disrepute, disgrace
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Plaintive
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Sounding sad or mournful
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Execrate
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To curse, denounce
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Candor
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Sincerity, honesty, candor
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Equivocate
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Avoid telling the truth
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Ignite
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Arouse or excite feelings or passion
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Anomie
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Lack of the use
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Daub
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To apply carelessly smearing globs of paint, plaster, mud, etc.
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Prostrate
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Lying stretched out on the ground with one's face downward
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Fealty
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Faithful obligation to a lord, allegiance
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Blandishment
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A falttering or pleasing statement or action used to persuade someone gently to do something; cajolling, blarney, flattery
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Apposite
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Of striking appropriateness or relevance
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Stygian
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Very dark, obscure
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Vignette
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A brief evocative description, account, or episode
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Perfidious
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Disloyal
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Allay
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To lessen
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Prevaricate
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To lie or mislead
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Accede
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Assent or agree to a demand or request; agree, consent, comply, accept acquiesce
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Timorous
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Cowardly, poltroon-like
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Predileciton
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A natural preference for something
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Colloquial
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Ordinary, informal in relation to speech
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Simian
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Relating to, or resembling apes or monkeys
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Profligate
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Extremely wasteful, recklessly extravagant in use of resources
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Beleaguer
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To surround, harass, beseige
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Mendicant
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A beggar
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Clairvoyant
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Able to see the future
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Obstreperous
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Noisy and boisterous
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Portend
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Be a signal of; fortell, foreshadow, forebode, warning
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Vainglory
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Empty pride
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Buttress
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A support for a building or structure; to support
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Abject
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Extremely bad, unpleasant, miserable, mean, vile, wretched, dispicable, poor
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Immutable
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Permanent
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Prosaic
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Dull, unimaginative
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Bandy
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To pass and idea in a casual way
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Sublimate
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Divert or modify into a cultrually higher or socially more acceptable activity
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Vestige
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A last trace, remaining bit, remnant
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Whet
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To sharpen the blade of, excite or stimulate
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Fecund
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Producing or capable of producing an abundance of offspring or new growth; fertile
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Lithe
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Flexible, supple
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Plebeian
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Common, vulagr, low-class
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Potentate
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One who possesses greate power
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Transient
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Temporary, fleeting
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Aphorism
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Maxim, dictum, saying
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Pugnacious
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Quarrelsome, combative, always ready to fight
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Desalinate
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To remove salt from something
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Bequest
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Something left to someone in a will
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Elliptical
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Oval; missing words or obtuse
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Retention
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Preservation, to retain or hold on to
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Apogee
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The highest point
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Mallinger
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To fake sickness to avoid work or some responsibility
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Impetuous
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Rash, impulsive
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Auspices
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Protection, support, guardian
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Euphonious
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Pleasant sounding, melodious (opposite of cacophony)
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Mettle
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A person's ability to cope with difficulties or to face a demanding situation in a spirited and resilient way; spirit, temperment, character
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Parochial
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Having a narrow scope or outlook
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Equivocal
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Embiguous, intentionally confusing, capable of being interpreted in many ways
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Submissive
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Meek, subservient
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Dearth
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A shortage or scarcity of something
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Cartography
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The making and studying of maps
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Pellucid
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Transparently clear, limpid, lucid, bright
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Intrepid
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Adventureous, fearless
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Rebuke
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To critisize harshly
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Rancorous
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Hateful
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Abstemious
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Not self-indulgent, especially when eating and drinking; abstinent, temperate
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Germane
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Relevant, pertinent, applicable
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Lachyromse
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Tearful or given to weeping
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Espouse
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Promote
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Bellwether
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A person who assumes leadership in a position or role
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Necromancy
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The supposed practice of communicating with the dead; especially in order to predict the future
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Junta
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A small military group that overthrows the government
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Picaresque
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Of or related to an episodic style of fiction dealing with the adventures of a rough and dishonest but appealing hero
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Fledgling
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A person or organization that is immature, a nestling, offspring, greenhorn
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Suborned
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To bribe or otherwise induce someone to commit an unlawful act such as perjury (subordinate)
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Lugubrious
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Excessively mournful
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Olfactory
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Of or pertaining to th esense of smell
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Clandestine
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Kept secret or done secretively; furtive privy, surreptious
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Perspicacious
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Having a ready insight into and understanding of things; shrewd, discerning, acute, penetrating, sagacious
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Assidious
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Hard-working, ardent, diligent, busy
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Contrempts
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An unforseen event that disrupts the normal course of things; an inoppurtune occurence
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Reticent
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Restrain, hold back
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Numismatist
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One who collects coins
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Skinflint
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A mean, penny-pinching person
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Paucity
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Smallness in number or scarce
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Precarious
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Being unstable, risky
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Obsequious
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Obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree
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Philistine
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A smugly ignorant person with no appreciation for intellectual or artistic matters
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Dastardly
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A dishonest or dispicable person
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Rife
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Of common occurence; widespread
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Penury
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Extreme poverty
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Enmity
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Absolute hatred or ill-will
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Esoteric
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Intended for or likely to be understood by a small number of people with a specialized knowledge or interest
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Perquisite
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A benefit or privildge that comes from a job
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Factionalism
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The splitting of groups into factions
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Pastoral
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Used for or related to the keeping or grazing of cattle
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Tirade
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Stream of verbal abuse
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Abysmal
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Extremely hopeless or wretched, bottomless
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Conspire
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Plot, scheme, connive
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Cozen
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To trick or deceive
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Inexorable
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Relentless, inevitable, unavoidable
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Calamity
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An event resulting in great loss and misfortune
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Orator
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Speaker
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Piquant
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Pleasantly sharp in flavor; interestingly provocative or stimulating
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Obfuscate
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Render obscure, unclear, unintelligible
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Languid
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Tired or slow
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Portent
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Omen, warning sign
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Caterwaul
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A shrill howl or wailing
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Imperturbable
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Incapable of getting upset; emotionally level
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Adulation
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High praise, worship
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Largess
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A gift or money given (as for service or out of benevolence); usually given ostentatciously)
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Indignant
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Angry or insulted, especially as a result of something unjust or worthy
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Neophyte
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A novice or beginner
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Saturnine
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Gloomy or taciturn
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Cacophony
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Tremendously unpleasing sound
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Beguile
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Mislead, divert; to delude by guile or craft
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Endemic
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Native, restricted to a particular region or area, indigenious
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Paternalism
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The policy or practice on the part of the people in positions of authority of restricting the freedom and responsibility of those subordinates, much like a father figure
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Impunity
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Exemption from punishment or freedom from the injurious consequences of an action
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Polemical
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Causing debate or argument
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Construe
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Interpret, read, translate, explain, expound
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Conundrum
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A puzzle or problem
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Choleric
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Hot-tempered, quick angered
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Ribald
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Referring to sexual matters in an amusingly rude or irreverant way
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Perfunctory
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Unenthusiastic, careless
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Disseminate
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To spread or disperse
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Vapid
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Dull,spiritless
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Verdant
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Covered with green plants, leafy, inexperienced
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Avuncular
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Kind, helpful, generous, like a nice uncle
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Bowderlize
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To remove material that is considered improper or offensive, especially with the result that it becomes weaker or less than the original
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Supplicate
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To ask or beg in a humble manner
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Slovenly
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Messy or dirty; untidy, slipshod, sluttish, careless
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Daunt
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To make someone feel intimidated or apprehensive; cow, scare, frighten
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Epistolary
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Concerned with letter, through correspondence
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Censure
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To critisize harshly
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Headlong
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In a rush; with reckless haste
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Gumption
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Shrewd or spirited initiative or resourcefulness
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Deleterious
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Harmful
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Redolent
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Strongly reminiscent or suggestive of something; fragrant, odoriferous, odorous, aromatic
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Tremulous
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Shaking or quivering slightly; timid, tremulent, trembling, shaky, quavery
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Reverance
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Profound respect
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Specious
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Deceptively plausible or attractive; misleading
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Patrician
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A nobleman; a person of refined upbringing, manners and taste
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Diurnal
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Of or during the day, active in the daytime; quotidian, everyday
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Indelible
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Making marks that cannot be removed, not able to be forgotton
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Ephermeral
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Temporary, fleeting, momentary
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Tepid
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Only slightly warm; lukewarm
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Obsolete
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No longer valid
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Closefisted
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Stingy, niggardly
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Capacitor
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A device that stores energy
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Rife
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Of common occurence, widespread
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Poignant
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Evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret; keen sharp, pungent, acrid, trenchant
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Etymology
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The study of words!!!!!!
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Histrionic
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Exaagerrated, theatrical
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Desiccate
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To dry out
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Opulent
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Wealthy
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Florid
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Flushed, ornate, very fancy; usually refers to intangible things
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Ascetic
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Hermit-like, praticing self-deinal
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Subsume
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Include or absorb in something else
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Jejune
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Lacking maturity or significant, irrelevant
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Gird
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To prepare oneself for an action or an event
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Catharsis
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Purification that brings emotional relief or renewal
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Extricate
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Liberate, free, release, disengage, rescue
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Obdurate
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Stubborn, insensitve, unyielding, resistant to persuasion
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Enervating
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Tiring, weakening
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Ardent
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Passionate, enthusiastic, fiery, zealous, fervent, fervid
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Forensics
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The art of study of argumentation and formal debate
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Pithy
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Concise and forcefully expressive; terse, succinct
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Innoculate
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To protect from disease
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Uncanny
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Mysterious, extraordinary, uncomfortably strange
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Badinage
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Humorous conversation; banter, pleasantry, joke jest, raillery
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Evanescent
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Short-lived, temporary, ephermeral, momentary
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Truculent
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Fierce, cruel, savagely brutal
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Wanton
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Malicious, unjustifiable, unprovoked, egregious
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Poltroon
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A coward
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Adversity
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Hardship
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Supine
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Laying face upward on one's back
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Chimerical
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Highly unrealistic, dream/fantasy-like
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Blithe
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Carefree, cheerful
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Impute
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To attribute to someone
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Guile
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Sly or cunning intelligence; wile, deciet, ruse, craftiness, trick, deception
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Lament
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To mourn
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Patent
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Easily recognizable, obvious
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Demur
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Hesitate or object to
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Acrid
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Sharp, pungent (smell & taste)
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Recidivism
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The act of repeating an offense
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Hypodermic
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Under the skin
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Brusque
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Abrupt or offhand in speech or manner; abrupt, rough, rude, coarse, curt, harsh
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Obeisance
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Deep reverance, a bow or curtsy
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Throng
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Crowd, swarm, press, flock
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Abstuse
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Difficult ot understand
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Malleable
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Capable of being shaped or molded
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Clad
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Encased with a covering or coating
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Boorish
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Ill-mannered
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Lethargic
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Tired
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Anachronistic
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Out of date, occurring out of proper order or time
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Stand (noun)
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A group of trees
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Promulgate
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To publicly or formally declare something
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Maverick
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A noncomformist, a rebel
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Conscript
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Enlisted, drafted, or enrolled; usually refers to mandatory military service
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Mollify
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To soothe, pacify or relieve
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Mendacious
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Lying or dishonesty
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Chicanery
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Trickery, decietfulness, artific (especially in legal or political)
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Cajole
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To persuade with flattery or gentle urging
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Wary
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Watchful, alert
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Magniloquent
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Speaking in lofty and grandiose speech
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Ambiguity
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Uncertainty, vagueness
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Draconian
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Severe, harsh, cruel
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Consummate
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Showing a high degree of skill or flair; complete or perfect
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Hale
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Healthy, hardy or in good health
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Staunch
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Loyal, faithful, steadfast, trusty
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Hermetic
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Airtight, insulated or protected from outsiders
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Lionize
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Give a lot of public attention to; to treat as a celebrity
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Lose
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To be deprived of or to cease to retain something; miss, waste
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Deride
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To make fun of
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Larceny
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Theft or robbery
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Pulchritude
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Physical beauty
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Stint
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Limit, restrict, confine, skimp, scant
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Fetid
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Foul, rancid
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Capitulate
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To surrender, give up or give in
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Furrow
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A narrow grove made in the ground, to make wrinkles in the face
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Fracas
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A big fight
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Robust
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Strong and healthy
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Preempt
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To seize something by prior right
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Truckle
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To yield or bend to the will of others; to submit
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Belie
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To give a flase impression; to contradict
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Cogitate
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To ponder, meditate, to think carefully about
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Remand
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To send or order back
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Evince
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To demonstrate convincingly or to prove
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Pompous
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Slef-important; irritating
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Slipshod
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Characterized by a lack of care, thought or organization; slovenly, sloppy careless, unkempt
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Fanfare
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An ostentatious or noisy display; flourish
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Canny
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Sly, astute, prudent, crafty, witty
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Gaffe
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A social blunder, an embarassing mistake, a faux pas
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Saccharin
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Falsely sweet
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Eleemosynary
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Of or relating t, or dependent on charity
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Serendipity
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Accidental good fortune, the discovery of good things without looking for them
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Canvass
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To campaign, to seek or solicit votes, orders, etc.
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Obtuse
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Mentally dull
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Adament
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Forceful
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Glutinous
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Resembling glue; sticky
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Coterie
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A group of close associates; a circle of friends
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Importune
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Ask someone presingly and persistently for or to do something; pester, bother, molest, solicit
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Copious
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Abundant in supply or quantity
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Heresy
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Unorthodox
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Raillery
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Good-humored teasing or banter
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Analog
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A person or thing seen as comparable to another
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Moribund
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Dying
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Microcosm
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A community, place or situation regarded as encapsulating, in miniature, the characteristic features of something much larger
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Hallow
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Honor or holy
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Bibulous
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Excessively fond of drinking alcohol
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Versimilitude
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The appearance of being real or true
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Impel
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Urge, drive, push, prompt, force, compel
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Tacit
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Understood or implied without being stated; mum, mute, implied
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Semaphore
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A system of signaling, usually through the use of flags
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Exacerbate
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To make worse
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Deluge
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A severe flood
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Noisome
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Having an extremely offensive smell
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Imbue
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Inspire or permeate with a feeling or quality
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Curmudgeon
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An ill-tempered person full of resentment and stubborn notions
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Ersatz
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Serving as a substitute, synthetic, artificial
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Surreptitious
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Secret, stealthy
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Allegiant
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Steadfast in devotion
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Rapacity
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The act or practice of extorting or extracting by oppressive in justice
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Inchoate
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Incomplete; only partially formed
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Vindicate
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To clear from blame
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Despondent
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In low spirits from loss of hope or courage; depressed, dejected, despirited, crestfallen
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Thwart
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Prevent, frustrate
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Fastidious
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Hard to please
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Factotum
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An employee who does all kinds of work
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Abrogate
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To abolish, repeal or nullify
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Knell
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The sound of a bell; especially when rung solemnly for a death or funeral
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Jeremaid
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A list of woes, a long and mournful complaint or lamentation
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Bathos
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Anticlimax, dull
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Efface
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To erase from a surface; to make oneself appear insignificant or inconspicuous
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Assuage
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To soothe, pacify or relieve
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Patina
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A thing film that forms on statues
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Poignant
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Painfully emotional, extremely moving, sharp or astute
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Abet
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Encourage or assist someone to commit; instigate, incite, forment, provoke
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Meretricious
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Apparently attractive but in reality having no value or integrity; false
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Hovel
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A small dirty house, a shack, a shanty
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Voucous
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Having a high viscosity, thickness
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Tantamount
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Equal, equivalent
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Circuitous
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Indirect, roundabout
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Recapitulate
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To review or summarize, (recap)
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Periphrastic
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Indirect and circulatrory
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Hoary
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Old
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Irascible
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Easily angered or provoked, irritable
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Purview
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A range of experience or thought
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Restorative
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A revivial
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Glib
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Slick, smooth, fluent, voluble
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Apostate
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One who deserts his or her professed principles or faith
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Querulous
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Irritable
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Spurious
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Phony, false
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Turbid
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Cloudy, opaque, thick or with suspended matter; muddy, thick, feculent, roily, troubled, dim
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Erratic
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Irregular, unpredictable
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Laudatory
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Praising
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Flout
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To disregard someone or something out of disrespect
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Cogent
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Intellectually convincing
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Neologism
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A new word or phrase, the new usage of a word
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Vernacular
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Everday speech, slang, idiom
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Cynical
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Believing that people only act of of selfishness
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Conflagaration
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A great fire
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Subterfuge
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Deceptive strategy used to conceal, espcape or evade
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Jingoist
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An excessively vigilant patriot, a bellicose chauvanist, a war-mongering nationalist
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Egress
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To exit
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Resplendent
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Shinig or glowing
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Antithetical
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In opposition, contrary to
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Trek
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A long arduous journey
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Mountebank
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A person who decieves others especially in order to trick them out of their money
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Adroit
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Skillful
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Alacrity
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Eagerness
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Cortege
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A funeral procession
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Motely
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Multicolored, medley, varied, particolored
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Garbinger
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A forerunner, a sign of
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Volition
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An act or exercise of will
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Carte Blanche
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Complete freedom to act as one wishes or thinks best
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Turgid
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Tediously pompous or bombastic, swollen, puffy, ompous, bloated, inflated
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Swelter
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An uncomfortably hot atmosphere
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Loquacious
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Talkative
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Shrewd
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Clever, smart, sharp, astute, sagacious, witty, sly
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Meritorious
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Deserving praise or rewards
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Tactful
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Diplomatic, polite
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Levity
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Joking about serious matters
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Goldbrick
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To swindle, to sell something worthless as if it were valuable, to swindle
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Discomfit
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To frustrate or confuse
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Prowess
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Skill or expertise in an activity or field
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Effete
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No longer capable of effective action
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Annul
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To make void; usually refers to marraiage
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Torpor
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Dormant, inactivity
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Jettison
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To throw or cast off
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Demagogue
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Rabble-rousing leader
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Acerbic
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Tasting sour or bitter; harsh
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Eclat
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Enthusiastic approval
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Tenable
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Valid, capable of being argued successfully
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Bourgeois
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Middle class
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Casuistry
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The use of clever but unsound reasoning especially in relation to moral questions
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Prudent
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Wise
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Sagacity
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Wisdom
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Cull
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To pick out or sort out from the rest
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Wizened
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Dry, shriveled, or wrinkled
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Entreat
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Ask someone earnestly or anxiously to do something; implore, beseech, beg, supplicate, plead, pray
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Bristle
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To show irritation
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Abeyance
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A state of temporary disuse or suspension
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Untoward
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Unexpected or inappropriate or inconvenient; unfavorable, unlucky, unfortunate
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Cursory
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Hasty and therefore not thorough or detailed
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Persiflage
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Light and slightly contemptuous banter
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Catacysm
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A large-scale and violent event in the natural world
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Avarice
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Greed
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Affable
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Friendly, good-natured, easy to talk to
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Obviate
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Avoid, make unnecessary
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Malignant
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Wicked, very virulent or infectious, vicious, malicious
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Ebullient
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Bubbling with excitement, exuberant
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Glower
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To look or stare at with sullen dislike or anger
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Behest
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A command or order
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Jurisprudence
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The study of law
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Apotheosis
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Elevation to divine status; the perfect example of something
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Halcyon
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Denoting a period or time in the past that was idyllically happy and peacful; quiet, calm, peaceful, placid, tranquill
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Mellifluous
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Flowing sweetly, usually refers to sounds or voices
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Nebulous
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Vague, hazy, indistinct
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Filch
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To steal something in small quantities
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Proselyte
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A person who has recently converted from one religion to another
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Licentious
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Promiscuous and unprincipled in sexual matters; dissolute, wanton, profilgate, rakish, dissipated
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Egalitarian
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Of or relating to, or believing in the principle that all people are equal in their rights and oppurtunities
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