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prudent
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exercising good judgement and common sense
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adj
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sanguine
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optimistic; cheerfully confident
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adj
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abhor
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to hate intensely
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verb
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diffident
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lscking confidence; quiet and shy
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adj
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ebullience
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intense and joyful enthusiam
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noun
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effusive
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gushy; highly emotional
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adj
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enervate
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to weaken the strength of
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verb
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frenetic
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wildly excited or active
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adj
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impetuous
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characterized by sudden energy and emotion; impulsive and passionate
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adj
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implacable
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impossible to appease or satisfy
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adj
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listless
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indiffernt;unwilling to act or even move ; lazy
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adj
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mecurial
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subject to rapid and extreme changes in mood; volatile
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adj
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rancorous
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hateful; marked b y deep seated ill will
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adj
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reticent
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reluctant to speak; shy
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adj
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staid
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characterized by a strait-laced sense of correct behavior
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adj
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stoic
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indifferent to emotions or pain
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adj or noun
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swagger
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to boast; to strut or otherwise demonstrate excessive pride
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verb
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tepid
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lukewarm; lacking emotion
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adj
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torpor
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laziness; inactivity; dullness
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noun
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trepidation
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uncertainty; fear
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noun
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wary
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on guard; watchful
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adj
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adage
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a wise old saying
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noun
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adamant
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extremely stubborn
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adj
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brusque
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describing a rude, abrupt manner
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adj
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candor
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sincerity; openness
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noun
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cavil
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to raise trivial objections; to nitpick
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verb
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compelling
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forceful and convincing
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adj
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didactic
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intended to insrtruct
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adj
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disparage
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to speak of in a negative way
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verb
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emphatic
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expressed with forceful speech
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adj
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facetious
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playfully humerous
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adj
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frank
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open and sincere in expression; straightforward
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adj
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fulminate
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to denounce loudly and forcefully; to explode
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verb
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garrulous
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excessively, tiresomely talkaive
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adj
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laconic
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using few words; not talkative
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adj
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lament
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to express grief; to mourn or to regret
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verb
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pegorative
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describing words or phrases intended to belittle others
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adj
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rapport
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a relationship of mutual trust and affinity
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noun
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repartee
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a swift and witty reply; a conversion characterized by swift and witty replies
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noun
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tacit
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implied but not expressed; unspoken
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adj
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trite
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unoriginal;overused
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wry
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dryly humorous, often with a touch of irony
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adj
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biased
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prejudiced
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adj
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cantankerous
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grumpy; disagreeable
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adj
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caustic
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biting and sarcastic
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adj
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contumacious
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disobedient, rebellious
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adj
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dilitory
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frequently late; extremely slow at work, causing delays
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adj
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disdain
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contempt, disrepect
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noun
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duplicitous
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habitually deceptive; lying
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adj
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fastidious
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possessing careful attention to detail; difficult to please
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adj
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glower
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to look or stare angrily or sullenly
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verb
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haughty
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scornfully and condescendingly proud
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adj
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imperious
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arrogantly domineering, overbearing
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adj
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indolent
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habitually lazy or inactive
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adj
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ingrate
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an ungrateful person
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noun
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insipid
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uninteresting; unchallenging; dull and tasteless
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adj
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insolent
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insulting in manner or speech ; rude
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adj
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irascible
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easily angered
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adj
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malevolent
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mean; having or exhibiting ill will; wising harm to others; malicious
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adj
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malice
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extreme ill will or spite
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noun
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obdurate
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extremely stubborn
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adj
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obstinate
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stubborn, especially in holding an attitude, opinion, or course of action
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parsimonious
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excessively cheap
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adj
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repugnant
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causing disgust or hatred; repulsive
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adj
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unpalatable
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not plesant; unpleasing
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annihilate
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to destroy completely
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verb
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clandestine
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secretive, ususally with regard to concealing an illegal or unethical action
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adj
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conflagration
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a widespread fire
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noun
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enmity
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deep hatredoften mutually felt by two or more people or groupe
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noun
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feral
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savage, fierce, untamed; like a wild animal
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furtive
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sneaky, stealthy
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impede
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to slow the progress of
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verb
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intrepid
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courageous; fearless
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pacify
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to calm someone down; to soothe
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verb
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pugnacious
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combative; eager and enthusiastic to fight
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ruse
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a crafty, often underhanded trick
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noun
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strategem
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a clever trick used to decieve or outwit
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noun
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surreptitious
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done by secretive means
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adj
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thwart
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to prevent the occurence of
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verb
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timorous
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shy; timid; fearful
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vilify
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to make vicious statements about
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verb
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wily
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cunning
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adj
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arbiter
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a person who decides disputed issues
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noun
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disingenuous
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not straightforward; lacking in sincerity; pretending to know less than one actually does
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adj
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egregious
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outrageously bad; clearly wrong or illegal
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adj
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exculpate
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to free from guilt or blame
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verb
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fabricate
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to concoct in order to deceive
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verb
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heinous
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hatefully evil
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adj
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incorrigible
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unable to be reformed; difficult to control;
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adj
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jurisprudence
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the philosophy or sciece if law; a system of laws
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noun
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libel
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to lie maliciously in print about someone
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verb or noun
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litigious
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prone to filing unnesscesary lawsuits
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adj
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notorious
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wildly and unfavorably known; infamous
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adj
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plausible
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credible; appearing to be true
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slander
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false charges and malicious statements about someone or to make false charges against someone
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noun or verb
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unfetter
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set free of restrictions or bonds
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verb
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vindicate
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free from blame
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verb
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