Cresce 2.24.07 Ii

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euphoria

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a feeling of happiness, confidence, or well-being sometimes exaggerated in pathological states as mania.

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banter

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an exchange of light, playful, teasing remarks; good-natured raillery

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acrimony

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sharpness, harshness, or bitterness of nature, speech, disposition, etc.: The speaker attacked him with great acrimony.

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virtuouso

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A virtuoso (from Italian virtuoso, late Latin virtuosus, Latin virtus meaning: skill, manliness, excellence) is an individual who possesses outstanding technical ability at singing or playing a musical instrument. The plural form is either virtuosi or the Anglicisation, virtuosos. Virtuosi are often musical composers as well. During the age of Baroque music many, if not most, composers were also virtuosi on their respective instruments.

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dilettante

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1. a person who takes up an art, activity, or subject merely for amusement, esp. in a desultory or superficial way; dabbler.
2. a lover of an art or science, esp. of a fine art.

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altruist

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a person unselfishly concerned for or devoted to the welfare of others (opposed to egoist).

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renegade

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1. a person who deserts a party or cause for another.
2. an apostate from a religious faith.

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lucrative

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profitable; moneymaking; remunerative: a lucrative business.

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desultary

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1. lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected; fitful: desultory conversation.
2. digressing from or unconnected with the main subject; random: a desultory remark.

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mitigate

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1. to lessen in force or intensity, as wrath, grief, harshness, or pain; moderate.
2. to make less severe: to mitigate a punishment.
3. to make (a person, one's state of mind, disposition, etc.) milder or more gentle; mollify; appease.

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dispel

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1. to drive off in various directions; disperse; dissipate: to dispel the dense fog.
2. to cause to vanish; alleviate: to dispel her fears.

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pedant

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1. a person who makes an excessive or inappropriate display of learning.
2. a person who overemphasizes rules or minor details.
3. a person who adheres rigidly to book knowledge without regard to common sense.
4. Obsolete. a schoolmaster.

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daunt

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To abate the courage of; discourage

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contentious

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1. tending to argument or strife; quarrelsome: a contentious crew.
2. causing, involving, or characterized by argument or controversy: contentious issues.
3. Law. pertaining to causes between contending parties.

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cynical

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1. like or characteristic of a cynic; distrusting or disparaging the motives of others.
2. showing contempt for accepted standards of honesty or morality by one's actions, esp. by actions that exploit the scruples of others.
3. bitterly or sneeringly distrustful, contemptuous, or pessimistic.

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adulation

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to show excessive admiration or devotion to; flatter or admire servilely.

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sycophant

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a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.