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Ill-tempered; irritable
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Peckish
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A homeless person, especially a forsaken or orphaned child
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Waif
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An atmospehere of social harmony
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Comity
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Meager
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Exiguous
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To enhance in appearance by adding decorative touches; to embellish
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Garnish
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without knowledge or intention
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Inadvertently
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A wise person
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Sapient
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Of the celestial spheres; heavenly
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Ethereal
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Pastoral
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Banal
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Vituperate
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Castigate
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Objurgate
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Vituperate
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Completely free from corrution
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Pristine
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Keenness of judgement
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Acumen
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Loquacious
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Garrulous
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Gaudy
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Tawdry
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Unmanageable
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Fractious
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Characterized by unusually early development or maturity
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Precocious
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Impetuous
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Brash
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Marked by a strong implicit point of view; partisan
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Tendent(c)ious
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Having a narrowed look; limited in perspective
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Provincial
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One who exhibits one's learning or scholarship ostentatiously
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Pedant
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Post-mortem; occuring after one's death
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Posthumous
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Calumny; catumely;Abusively detractive language or utterance
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Obloquy
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Given to the use of vulgar, coarse, or abusive language; foul-mouthed
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Scurrilous
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Gaudy
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Gauche
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Unrestrained in Emotonal motion
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Effusive
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Courageous
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Doughty
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Pretentious; showy
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Ostentatious
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poise
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Aplomb
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To eulogize; to praise highly
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Extoll
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To sympathize
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Commiserate
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Cannot be defended
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Untenable
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Listless
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Lethargic
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Lethargic
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Torpid
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Flagged
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Hebetudinous
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An austere person, esp. with regards to religious devotion
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Ascetic
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One who destroys sacred images
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Iconoclast
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Quarrelsome
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Pugnacious
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Brash behavior or impertinent disrespect
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Impudent
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Impertinent
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Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners
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To give rise to; to bring to existance
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Engender
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Habitually silent
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Taciturn
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Old
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Senescent
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Protection
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Aegis
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Elogy
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Dirge
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Elegy
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Requiem
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Threnody
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Monody
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Monody
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Jeremiad
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Approaching death
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Moribund
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To protect against damage, or injury; to insure
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Indemnify
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To embezzle
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Defalcate
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Craven
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Pussilanimous
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Abstruse
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Recondite
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One who is frugal
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Spendthrift
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Prodigal
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Profligate
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Sermon
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Homily
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A quarrelsome woman
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Termagant
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Waste parts, esp. of a butchered animal
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Offal
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Wrongly obtained
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Finagle
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A crude figure or dummy representing a hated person or group
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Effigy
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To refrain from
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Forbear
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Treachery
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Perfidy
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To exacerbate
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Pejorative
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not wise or expedient;
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Impolitic
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Reserved in manner
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Aloof
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Imperious
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Peremptoty
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A person of no importance or significance
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Nonentity
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Unearned
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Gratuitous
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A beggar
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Mendicant
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A nosy person
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Quidnunc
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A sudden outburst of emotion or action
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Paroxysm
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To consent or comply passively without protest
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Acquiesce
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Condition of pain. suffering, or distress
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Affliction
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Spacious
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Commodious
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1.)to extirpate
2.)To eliminate "E" word |
Eradicate
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To diversely distribute
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intersperse
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To bring heavy destruction
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Ravage
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Moral uprightness
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Rectitude
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a humble request for help from someone in authority; a beseechment
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Supplication
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1.)dullness;boring
2.)Obsolete;moving or progrissing slowly "T" word |
Tedious
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Eagerness
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Alacrity
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Carefree and lighthearted
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Blithe
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Strong belief
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Conviction
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False belief or opinion
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Delusion
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Contemtuous laughter
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Derision
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A burden or impediment
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Enumberance
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Appropriate to a purpose
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Expedient
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Implosive
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Impetuous
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Continually
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Incessantly
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Intelligibly;sane
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Lucid
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Feeling remorse for one's misdeeds or sins
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Penitent
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Future generations
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Posterity
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Lacking stability; subject to unknown conditions
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Precarious
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Firm or determined
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Resolute
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Showing keen discernment
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Sagacious
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A great flood
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Deluge
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Fallen into a state of disrepair
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Dilapilidated
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Meticulous
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Fastidious
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Lethargic
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Indolent
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Desire to harm others
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Malice
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Constituting of a very large, innumerable number
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Myriad
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Menacing; threatening; foreshadowind evil
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Ominous
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Dangerous
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Perilous
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Filthy or foul; morally degraded
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Sordid
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Having or reaveling no emotion
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Stolidity
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Being truly so-called; real or genuine
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Veritable
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Of questionable authorship or authencity
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Aprocryphal
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Marked by flagrant and insolent audacity
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Brazenness
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Starts with a B
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1.) Presumptuous and insulting in manner or speech; arrogant
2.) Audaciously rude or disrespectful; impertinent |
Insolent
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Uneasy and apprehensive
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Clammy
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An exhilarating psychological state of pride and optimism; an absence of depression
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Elation
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Furtive
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Surreptitious
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Malicious
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Deliberately harmful
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Exculpate
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Vindicate
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An immesurably deep chasm; a gap
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Abyss
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Offering little or no hope
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Bleak
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A vehement expression
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Clamor
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The act of conceding; the act of yielding or granting
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Concession
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To captivate
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Enthrall
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An intricate maze
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Labyrinth
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Impenetrable by light
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Opaque
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Poisonous
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Pestilential
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Undisturbed by tumult or disorder
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Placid
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A crafty stratagem; a subterfuge
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Ruse
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Lacking in emotional warmth or enthusiasm
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Tepid
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Courage and Boldness
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Valor
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Stimulating sexual desire
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Salacious
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Lacking moral discipline...esp. in sexual conduct
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Licentious
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Wicked
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Nefarious
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Sedulous
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Assiduous
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Of, relating to, produced by, or characterized by internal dissension
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Factious
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Showy
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Pretentious
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Pugnacious
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Truculent
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Pleasing
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Prepossesing
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Presenting favorable circumstances; Auspicious
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Propitious
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starts with a P
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Mutually destructive
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Internecine
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Stupid; foolish
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Insipient
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Lacking harmony
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Incoherent
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A warning or caution
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Caveat
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Contrition
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Compunction
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Exaggerably mournful
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Lugubrious
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Covetousness
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Cupidity
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Tearful
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Lachrymose
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Sloth
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Indolence
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Trite
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Hackneyed
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One who has suddenly risen to a higher social or economic class and is not yet accepted by his new peers
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Parvenu
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An important person
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Panjandrum
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Bold to the point of rudeness
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Presumptious
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To contaminate
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Taint
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A small amount
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Paucity
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Restrictive
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Abstemious
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Abundandtly provided
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Replete
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To cut short
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Truncate
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A lack of interest
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Indifference
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Unstable; insecure
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Precarious
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Indecision
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Vacillation
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Spoiled
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Marred
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To make worse
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Exacerbate
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Bold disrespect
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impudence
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Impossible to erase
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Indelible
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One who neglects his duties
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Truant
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To make impossible
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Preclude
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Implied
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Tacit
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One who saves greedily
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Miser
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gloomy
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sullen
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To make groggy or alert
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Stupefy
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Having a narrow look;provincial
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Parochial
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Cacophonous
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Strident
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To make a minor objection
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Quibble
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Equivalent in effort or meaning
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Tantamount
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Inconsistent; unpredictable
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Erratic
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Characterized by a noisy uproar
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Tumultous
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Sharp satire
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Lampoon
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Brief; concise
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Succint
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Excessive frivoluty or lightness in manner
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Levity
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One of great power in a particular business or industry
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Magnate
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To cast off or disown
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Repudiate
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Process of gerring rid of impurities
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Purgation
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Full of melancholic yearning
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Wistful
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To dress or adorn gaudily
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Bedizen
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Violent anger; a public ourburst of indignation
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Furor
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To taunt with hecklikg or mocking remarks
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Gibe
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To break out anew after a dormant period
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Recrudesce
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Boxing
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Pugilism
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Prolific
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Fecund
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To long for
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Desiderate
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To clear from alleged fault or guilt
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Exculpate
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To meditate or reflect on
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Ruminate
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The absence of pain
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Anondynia
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Recumbent
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Supine
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Coming into existence
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Nascent
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Recklessly daring
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Temerarious
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A premonition
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Presentiment
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Paltry
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Picayune
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To deny oneself
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Abnegate
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