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Nomadic
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adj, wandering roving
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tribe
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Obloquy
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N. abusive, defaming language; public reproach
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loqu=say or talk
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Obsequious
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fawning, servile, submissively compliant
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Way back when women who wore sequins acted like this
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Oscillate
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to wing back and forth like a pendulum, waver
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the double l's don't leave much room to do this
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Pallid
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pale, wan
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the undercooked nasty won ton looked like this
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Pandemonium
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a wild tumult, an uproar, din
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this can be described in an easy to spell three letter word.
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Pradox
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a seemingly contradictory statement that may in fact be true: self- contradictory statement or condition
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"its a curious paradox" why my mother who says she is so good at acting played the mime in the fantastics
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Pariah
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an outcast; in india, a member of a low caste
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rhymes with a girl that you don't really like that much, so you cut her out of your life...YOU GO GIRL
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plebiscite
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a direct vote in which the whole population may take part, usually in regard to an important public issue.
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the plebians of ancient times first came up with this excellent use of deciding thingsq
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Querulous
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fretful, peevish, habitually complaining
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sounds sort of like quarrel
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Raucous
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grating in sound strident harsh
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who made all that @#$%$@
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Recalcitrant
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stubbornly resistant to authority or control
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she is so recalcitrant she won't even recalculate her answers!
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redolent
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fragrant, odorous, especially suggesting the source of smell
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her perfum made me think of red roses
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Redoubtable
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formidable, aesome, owrthy of respect
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First i doubted her, but now i give her all my respect
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Relevant
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pertininet, bearing on the matter at hand
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u know
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