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candid
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completely honest, straightforward
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Candace 's candidness overwhelmed her business colleagues, who were not used to such honesty.
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conjecture
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inference; guesswork
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at this point, kimaya's hypothesis about single-cell biorhythms is still conjecture: she didn't have conclusive evidence
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dilactic
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instructive
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the tapes were entertaining about didactic; they both amused and instructive children
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effusive
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showing excessive emotion; overflowing
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accepting his Oscar for best supporting sound editor, Ben delivered the most effusive speech in Academy awards history: he cried, he hugged people, he blew kisses to the audience, and then he cried some more
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euphemism
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a mild, indirect, or vague term substituting for a harsh, blunt, or offensive term
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to pass away is a common euphemism for dying
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extrapolate
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to infer or estimate by extending ir projecting known information
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seeing the wrecked bike and his daughter's skinned knees, health extrapolated that she had a biking accident
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incoherent
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lacking cohesion or connection
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Mary's sentences were so incoherent that nobody understood a word.
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insinuate
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to imply or communicate stealthily
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sean insinuated that grace stole the arsenic, but he never came out and said it
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loquacious
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very talkative
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I'm not eloquent, so I'll just come out and sat it: Bobby is loquacious and will talk, and talk, and talk
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lucid
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easily understood; clear
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our teacher provided lucid explanations of even the most difficult concepts so that we can all understand them
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rhetoric
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the art of using language effectively and persuasively
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since they are expected to make speeches, most politicians and Lawyers are well versed in the art of rhetoric
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