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Aberration

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the act of departing from the right, normal, or usual course.

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Adroit

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clervely Skillful, resourceful, or ingenious

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Antediluvian

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old fashioned

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Atrophy

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(lack off, deficient) wasting away

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Broach

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to shape or enlarge with a tool

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Buttress

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prop or support

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Confluence

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a coming together of people or things

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Corpulence

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bulkiness or largeness of body; fatness

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Dearth

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inadequate supply; scarcity; lack

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Dilatory

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tending to delay or procrastinate; slow; tardy

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Dispassionate

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free from or unaffected by passion; devoid of personal feeling or bias; impartial; calm:

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Duplicity

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deceitfulness

twofold or double state or quality

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Emulate

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to try to equal or excel; imitate with effort to equal or surpass:

to rival with some degree of success:

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Equivocate

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(unclear) to use ambiguous or unclear expressions, usually to avoid commitment or in order to mislead; prevaricate or hedge

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Extol

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to praise highly

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Garner

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(to get)

to gather or deposit in or as if in a granary or other storage place

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Histrionic

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(acting)

1. of or relating to actors or acting.

2. deliberately affected or self-consciously emotional; overly dramatic, in behavior or speech.

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Impregnable

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strong enough to resist or withstand attack; not to be taken by force, unconquerable:

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Incorrigible

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unruly, bad beyond correction or reform

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Flippant

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disrespectful , shallow

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Insipid

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bland

without distinctive, interesting, or stimulating qualities; vapid:

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Inveterate

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settled or confirmed in a habit, practice, feeling, or the like:

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Laconic

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using few words

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Lithe

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flexible

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Meticulous

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precise

taking or showing extreme care about minute details; precise; thorough

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Obsequious

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obedient, fawning

characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning

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Paragon

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excellence

a model or pattern of excellence or of a particular excellence

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Pejorative

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having a disparaging, derogatory, or belittling effect or force:

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Polemical

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controversial

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Prosaic

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dull

commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative:

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Quixotic

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romantic

extravagantly chivalrous or romantic; visionary, impractical, or impracticable

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Recant

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withdraw

to withdraw or disavow a statement, opinion, etc., especially formally.

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Savant

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scholar

a person of profound or extensive learning; learned scholar.

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Taciturn

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silent

inclined to silence; reserved in speech; reluctant to join in conversation.

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Viable

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capable of living

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Abeyance

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temporary inactivity or suspension

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Aesthete

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aesthetic

a person who has or professes to have refined sensitivity toward the beauties of art or nature

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Apocryphal

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suspicious

of doubtful authorship or authenticity

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Avarice

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insatiable greed for riches; inordinate, miserly desire to gain and hoard wealth.

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Celerity

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swiftness; speed

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Circuitous

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roundabout; not direct

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Conjugal

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marriage related

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Coterie

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close group

an exclusive group; clique

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Demagogue

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a leader

a person, especially an orator or political leader, who gains power and popularity by arousing the emotions, passions, and prejudices of the people.

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Disaffected

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discontented and disloyal, as toward the government or toward authority.

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Dissonant

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out of harmony

disagreeing or harsh in sound; discordant

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Egregious

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extraordinary

in some bad way; glaring; flagrant:

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Enigmatic

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perplexing, mysterious

resembling an enigma, or a puzzling occurrence, situation, statement, person

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Erudition

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learning

knowledge acquired by study, research, etc.; learning; scholarship

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Fatuous

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foolish or inane, especially in an unconscious, complacent manner; silly.

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Florid

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reddish; ruddy; rosey

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Guile

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insidious cunning in attaining a goal; crafty or artful deception; duplicity

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Hoary

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gray or white with age

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Impugn

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to challenge as false (another's statements, motives, etc.); cast doubt upon.

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Indecorous

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not decorous; violating generally accepted standards of good taste or propriety; unseemly.

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Intonate

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to utter with a particular tone or modulation of voice.

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Irascible

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easily provoked to anger; very irritable

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Lampoon

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a sharp, often virulent satire directed against an individual or institution; a work of literature, art, or the like, ridiculing severely the character or behavior of a person, society, etc.

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Lurid

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gruesome; horrible; revolting

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Mire

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a tract or area of wet, swampy ground; bog; marsh

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Odious

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highly offensivedeserving or causing hatred; hateful; detestable.

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Pariah

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an outcast

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Philistine

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a person who is lacking in or hostile or smugly indifferent to cultural values, intellectual pursuits, aesthetic refinement, etc., or is contentedly commonplace in ideas and tastes.

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Precicious

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unusually advanced or mature in development, especially mental development:

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Protean

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readily assuming different forms or characters; extremely variable

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Rancorous

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full of or showing rancor wickedness bitterness

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Reprobate

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a depraved, unprincipled, or wicked person:

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Stultify

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to make, or cause to appear, foolish or ridiculous.

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Tantamount

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equivalent, as in value, force, effect, or signification:

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Undulate

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wave like motion

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Virulent

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poisonous

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Acerbic

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sour in taste , harsh or severe in temper/ expression

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Altruistic

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unselfishly concerned for or devoted to the welfare of others

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Arable

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capable of producing crops, suitable for farming

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Aviary

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A large cage or house/enclosure where birds are kept

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Charlatan

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person who pretends or claims to have more knowledge or skill than he or she preserves

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Clandestine

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private or superstitious

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Contentious

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tending to argue/ quarrelsome

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Credulous

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willing to believe or trust too readily ; gullible

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Desecrate

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to divest of sacred or hallowed character or office.

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Discursive

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passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling

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Dissuade

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to deter by advice or persuasion; persuade not to do something

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Elegiac

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used in, suitable for, or resembling an elegy. Sad

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Ennui

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a feeling of utter weariness and discontent resulting from satiety or lack of interest; boredom:

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Esoteric

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understood by or meant for only the select few who have special knowledge or interest; recondite:

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Fecund

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producing or capable of producing offspring, fruit, vegetation, etc., in abundance; prolific; fruitful:

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Foible

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a minor weakness or failing of character; slight flaw or defect:

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Hedonism

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the pursuit of pleasure; sensual self indulgence

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Iconoclast

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a person who attacks cherished beliefs, traditional institutions, etc., as being based on error or superstition.

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Inauspicious

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not auspicious; boding ill; ill-omened; unfavorable.

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Indefatigable

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incapable of being tired out; not yielding to fatigue; untiring.

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Indefatigable

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incapable of being tired out; not yielding to fatigue; untiring.

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Intractable

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not easily controlled or directed; not docile or manageable; stubborn; obstinate:

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Jettison

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To throw off

to cast (goods) overboard in order to lighten a vessel or aircraft or to improve its stability in an emergency.

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Largess

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give gifts (bestow)

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Malevolent

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wishing evil or harm to another or others; showing ill will; ill-disposed; malicious:

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Opaque

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Not see through

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Parochial

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Funded by a church

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Pique

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To affect w/ sharp irritation and resentment

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Proclivity

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inclined

natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition:

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Protract

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prolong

to draw out or lengthen, especially in time; extend the duration of; prolong.

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Rarefy

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to make rare or rarer; make less dense:

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Ribald

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vulgar or indecent in speech, language, etc.; coarsely mocking, abusive, or irreverent; scurrilous.

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Supercilious

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haughtily disdainful or contemptuous, as a person or a facial expression

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Tenuous

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thin or slender in form, as a thread.

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Unwieldy

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not wieldy; wielded with difficulty; not readily handled or managed in use or action, as from size, shape, or weight; awkward; ungainly.

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Vociferous

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crying out noisily; clamorous

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Acuity

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sharpness; acuteness; keenness

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Ameliorate

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to make or become better, more bearable, or more satisfactory; improve:

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Ascetic

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simple life

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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Avow

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to declare frankly or openly; own; acknowledge; confess; admit:

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Cherubic

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ANGELIC! 👼

of or having the nature of a cherub, or an angel represented as a rosy-cheeked child with wings; angelic

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Commensurate

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corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree:

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Conundrum

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a riddle, the answer to which involves a pun or play on words, as What is black and white and read all over? A newspaper.

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Cryptic

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mysterious in meaning; puzzling; ambiguous:

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Diatribe

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a bitter, sharply abusive denunciation, attack, or criticism:

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Dissemble

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to give a false or misleading appearance to; conceal the truth or real nature of:

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Divination

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the practice of attempting to foretell future events or discover hidden knowledge by occult or supernatural means.

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Elucidate

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to make lucid or clear; throw light upon; explain:

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Ephemeral

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lasting a very short time; short-lived; transitory:

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Espouse

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to marry, to make one's own; adopt or embrace, as a cause.

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Felicity

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the state of being happy, especially in a high degree; bliss:

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Furtive

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taken, done, used, etc., surreptitiously or by stealth; secret:

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Heretic

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a professed believer who maintains religious opinions contrary to those accepted by his or her church or rejects doctrines prescribed by that church.

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Immutable

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not mutable; unchangeable; changeless

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Incipient

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beginning to exist or appear; in an initial stage:

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Innocuous

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harmless

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Intrinsic

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belonging to a thing by its very nature

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Juncture

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a point of time, especially one made critical or important by a concurrence of circumstances: