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abate
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cease or receed
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accrue
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mount, intersify, get larger
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acrimonious
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arguementative; bitter
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affectation
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facade; fake; artificail
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apparition
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ghostly appearance
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blatant
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obvious
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callow
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insensitive, unfeeling
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candor
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honesty
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conducive
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supportive
the atmosphere was conducive to my learning |
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contemptuous
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hateful;lack of respect
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contrive
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to create in an unnatural way
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deleterious
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harmful
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dilatory
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habitually late
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discursive
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rambling
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ectoplasm
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ghostly substance
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egregious
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outrageous, terrible
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elicit
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to bring about
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epitome
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the ultimate example, embodiement
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exude
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to give off
exude enthusiasm |
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feign
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to act, pretend
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fervor
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intensity, excitement
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fetter
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to shackle something
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fortuitous
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fortune, lucky
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fractious
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to break something down, dividing (behavior)
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hauteus
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acting in a haughty manner arrogant way of acting
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haitus
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extended leave of absense
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iota
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small amount
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imperceptible
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to being able to be percieved
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impetuous
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not very patient
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impregnable
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can't be penetrated
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incredulous
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not able to believe
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ingratiate
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suck up
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innuendo
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a suggestive comment (negative)
"sexual innuendo" |
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interpose
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intrude something between two things
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irrevocable
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can't revoke
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jaded
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disillusioned, hardened to life
dull b/c of overexposure/use "jaded appetite" wearisome |
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languid
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fluidity, soft, flowy
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laudable
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praise worthy
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mitigate
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lessen the effect
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novice
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rookie
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obtrusive
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sticks out
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odium
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feeling of hatred
adj, odious |
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omnibus
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all inlclusive
"an omnibus bill submitted by legislature" |
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peremptory
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won't allow for disagreement
"peremptory command" |
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perfidy
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lack of faith
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permeable
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things that can go through
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poignant
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to the point
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precipitate
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to cause to happen
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privy
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special privilege to things that are private or secret
"i'm privy to that info" |
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prolific
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producing a lot of something
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prosaic
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short and concise, dull
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proximity
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nearness
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puntilious
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precise, meticulous
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pungent
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strong "pungent aroma"
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querulous
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quarrelsome
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reprobate
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somebody who can be cured of their ways/reformed
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reprove
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to try to make soemone bitter, scold to try to improve
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revelation
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to reveal/epiphany
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sabbaitical
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haitus that comes every 7th year
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sepulchral
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somehting to do w/ graves, burials, tombs
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soporific
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to incude sleep
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stalwart
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strong, sturdy
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subterfuge
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doing something in a roundabout way; ruse; seomthing used to evage something
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surfeit
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an abundance
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surmise
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to guess, inferance
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swank
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fancy
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tenuous
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weak, lacking in substance
"a tenous grasp of the facts" "a tenuous position, history" |
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transient
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a homeless person (n.)
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turgid
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slow moving, dense; excessively ornate, swollen, distended
"a turgid bladder" "turgid prose" |
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vapid
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empty
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verbose
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wordy
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vicarious
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secondary "to live vicariously thorugh someone"
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wheedle
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to coax, cajole very annoyingly
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winsome
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charming "winsome personality"
"winsome smile" |
