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disdain
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a feeling of contempt for someone or something regarded as unworthy or inferior : SCORN
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benevolent
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marked by or disposed to doing good
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reticent
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inclined to be silent or uncommunicative in speech : RESERVED
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banal
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lacking originality, freshness, or novelty : TRITE
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apathy
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lack of feeling or emotion : IMPASSIVENESS
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taciturn
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temperamentally disinclined to talk
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deference
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respect and esteem due a superior or an elder; also : affected or ingratiating regard for another's wishes
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insipid
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lacking taste or savor : TASTELESS <insipid food> lacking in qualities that interest, stimulate, or challenge :
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disparate
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containing or made up of fundamentally different and often incongruous elements
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pragmatic
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relating to matters of fact or practical affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters
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stagnation
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to be in a state of not advancing or developing
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augment
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to make greater, more numerous, larger, or more intense <the impact of the report was augmented by its timing>
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fallacious
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tending to deceive or mislead
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virulent
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marked by a rapid, severe, and destructive course
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acquiesce
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to accept, comply, or submit tacitly or passively -- often used with in and sometimes with to
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exemplary
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serving as a pattern b : deserving imitation : COMMENDABLE
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sycophant
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a servile self-seeking flatterer
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atrophy
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decrease in size or wasting away of a body part or tissue; also : arrested development or loss of a part or organ incidental to the normal development or life of an animal or plant
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vacillate
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to waver in mind, will, or feeling : hesitate in choice of opinions or courses
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volition
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an act of making a choice or decision; also : a choice or decision made
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conciliatory
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to gain (as goodwill) by pleasing acts
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belligerent
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waging war; specifically : belonging to or recognized as a state at war and protected by and subject to the laws of war
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eccentric
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deviating from an established or usual pattern or style
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guile
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deceitful cunning
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audible
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heard or capable of being heard
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censure
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a judgment involving condemnation
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relegate
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to send into exile
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levity
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excessive or unseemly frivolity
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esoteric
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designed for or understood by the specially initiated alone
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indolence
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inclination to laziness
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discernment
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the quality of being able to grasp and comprehend what is obscure
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preclude
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to make impossible by necessary consequence : rule out in advance
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contempt
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the act of despising
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resolute
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marked by firm determination
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futile
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serving no useful purpose
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didactic
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designed or intended to teach
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ephemeral
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lasting one day only
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complacent
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marked by complacency
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cryptic
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having or seeming to have a hidden or ambiguous meaning
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efface
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to eliminate or make indistinct by or as if by wearing away a surface
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coalesce
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to grow together
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immutable
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not capable of or susceptible to change
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credulous
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ready to believe especially on slight or uncertain evidence
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amiable
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generally agreeable, being friendly, sociable, and congenial
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flagrant
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conspicuously offensive
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ambivalent
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simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action
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extraneous
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not forming an essential or vital part
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fastidious
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showing or demanding excessive delicacy or care
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mitigate
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to cause to become less harsh or hostile
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engender
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to cause to exist or to develop
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languish
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to be or become feeble, weak, or enervated
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astute
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having or showing shrewdness and perspicacity
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reprehensible
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worthy of or deserving of voiced dissapproval
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reproach
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an expression of rebuke or disapproval
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dogmatic
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characterized by or given to the expression of opinions very strongly or positively as if they were facts
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profuse
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pouring forth liberally
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ascetic
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practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline
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disparage
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to lower in rank or reputation
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deride
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to laugh at contemptuously
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lucid
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having full use of one's faculties
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extol
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to praise highly
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repudiate
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to refuse to have anything to do with
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provocative
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serving or tending to arouse to a feeling or action
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prodigal
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characterized by profuse or wasteful expenditure
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depravity
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a corrupt act or practice
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revere
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to show devoted deferential honor to
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denounce
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to pronounce especially publicly to be blameworthy or evil
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enigma
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an obscure speech or writing
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discriminate
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to mark or perceive the distinguishing or peculiar features of b : DISTINGUISH, DIFFERENTIATE
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candid
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free from bias, prejudice, or malice, marked by honest sincere expression
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provincial
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a person of local or restricted interests or outlook
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resignation
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an act or instance of giving up deliberately
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asthetic
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of, relating to, or dealing with aesthetics or the beautiful
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prosaic
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characteristic of speech and writing
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