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affable
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pleasantly easy to approach and to talk to; friendly; cordial; warmly polite
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commodious
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spacious and convenient; roomy
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conundrum
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riddle, the answer to which involves a pun or play on words, as What is black and white and read all over? A newspaper.;
anything that puzzles. |
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deleterious
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harmful, injurious to health
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noisome
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offensive or disgusting, as an odor
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hyperbolic
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exaggerating, using hyperboles
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ascetic
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a person who dedicates his or her life to a pursuit of contemplative ideals and practices extreme self-denial or self-mortification for religious reasons.
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malaise
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a condition of general bodily weakness or discomfort, often marking the onset of a disease. ;
a vague or unfocused feeling of mental uneasiness, lethargy, or discomfort. |
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melancholia
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a mental condition characterized by great depression of spirits and gloomy forebodings.
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