Gre

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abscond

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depart clandestinely

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alacrity

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eager and enthusiastic willingness

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approbation

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expression of approval or praise

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censure

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criticize severely

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chicanery

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trickery or subterfuge

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disabuse

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to undecieve; to set right

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effrontery

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extreme boldness; presumptuousness

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enervate

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to weaken/reduce in vitality

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exigent

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urgent, pressing

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inured

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accustomed to accepting something undesirable

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obviate

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anticipate and make unnecessary

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perfidy

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intentional breach of faith; treachery

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perfunctory

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curosory; done without care or interest

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preciptate

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cause or happen before anticipated or required

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precipitate

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acting with excessive hast or impulse

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prevaricate

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to deliberately avoid the truth; to mislead

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tortuous

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winding, twistin, excessively complicated

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truculent

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fierce and cruel; eager to fight

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avaricie

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greed

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chary

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wary; cautious; sparing

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demur

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to question or oppose

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impecunious

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lacking funds; without money

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intransigent

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refusing to compromise

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inveigle

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to obtain by deception or flattery

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prenurious

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penny-pinching; thrifty;ungenerous

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quiescence

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stillness;motionlessness

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vilify

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to defame; characterise harshly

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germane

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relevant to subject at hand

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inchoate

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in an initial stage; not fully formed

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insipid

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bland

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obdurate

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unyielding; hardhearted;intractable

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opprobium

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disgrace, contempt, scorn

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pedagogy

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the profession or principles of teaching or instructing

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penury

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poverty, distitution

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platitude

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superficial remarks

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prodigal

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recklessly wasteful; extravagant;profuse;lavish

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rancorous

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bitter,longlasting resentment

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recalcitrant

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obstinately defiant of authority; difficult to manage

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specious

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seeming true, but actually being fallacious; chyishyr

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inimical

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damaging; hamrful

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probity

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adherence to the highest principles; complete and confirmed integrity; uprightness

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profligate

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excessively wasteful; recklessly extravagant

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rarefy

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to make or become thin, less dense; to refine

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recondite

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hidden; concealed; difficult to understand; obscure

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defulgent

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radiant, shiny, brilliant

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sedulous

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filigent; persistent; hardworking

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spendthrift

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someone who spends money wastefully

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trenchant

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sharply perceptive; keen

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appropriate

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to take for one's own use, confiscate

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arrest

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to suspend, hold one's atteniotn

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august

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majestic, venerable

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bent

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leaning, inclination

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brook

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to tolerate, endure, countenance

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cardinal

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major (cardinal sin)

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consequential

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pompous, self-important

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die

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a tool used for shaping

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guy

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rope, cord, cable attached to something as a brace or guide

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intimate

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to imply, suggest or insinuate

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nice

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exacting, fastidious, extremely precise

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obtain

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to be established, accepted or customary: these standards no longer obtain

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prize

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to pry, to press or force with a lever

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qualify

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to limit: let me qualify that statement

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singular

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exceptional, unusual, odd

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tender

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to proffer or offer; he tendered his resignation

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wag

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with, joker: groucho marx

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abjure

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to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid

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adumbrate

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to foreshadow vaguely or intimate; to suggest or outline sketchily; to obscure or overshadow

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anathema

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a solemn or religious curse

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anodyne

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soothing, something that assuages or allays pain or comforts

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apogee

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farthest/highest point; culmination

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apostate

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one who abandons long held religious or politlca convictions

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apotheosis

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deification, glorification to godliness, an exalted example

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asperity

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serverity, rigor, roughness, harsness

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asseverate

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to aver, allege, assert

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assiduous

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diligent, har working, defulous

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augury

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omen

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bellicos

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belligerent

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calumniate

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to slander, make false accusations

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captious

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disposed to point out trivial faults, calculated to confuse or entrap in argument

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cavil

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to find fault without good reason

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celerity

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spped, alacrity; think 'accelerate"

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chimera

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an illusion

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contumacious

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insubordinate, rebellious, contumely means insult, scorn, aspersion

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descry

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to discriminate or discern

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desuetude

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disuse

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desultory

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random, aimless, marked by lack of plan or purpose

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diaphanous

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transparent, gauzy

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diffident

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reserved, shy unassuming, lacking in self-confidence

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encomium

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glowying and enthusiastic praise; tribute, eulogy

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excoriate

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to censure scathingly, to upbraid

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execrate

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denounce, feel loathing for, curse, declare to be evil

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exegesis

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critical examination, explication

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expiate

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to atone or make amends for: pia has expiated her movie career by good works and charity

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extirpate

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to destroy, exterminate

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fatuous

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silly, inanely foolish

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gainsay

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to deny, dispute, contradict, oppose

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heterodox

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unorthodox, heretical, conoclastic

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imbroglio

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difficult or embarassing situation

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indefatigable

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tireless

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ineluctable

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certain, inevitable

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insouciant

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carefree

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inveterate

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deep roated, ingrained, habitual

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jejune

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vapid, uninteresting, nugatory, childish, immature, puerile

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lubricious

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lew, wanton, greasy, slippery

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medicant

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a beggar

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meretricious

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cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy

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minatory

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menacing, threatening

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nadir

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low point, perigee

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palliate

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to make something seem less serious

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panegyric

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formal praise, eulogy, encomium

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parsimonious

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cheap, miserly

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pellucid

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transparent, easy to understand, limped

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peroration

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the concluding part of a speech

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plangent

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pounding, thundering, resounding

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prolix

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long winded, verbose

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propitiate

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to appease, to conciliate; propitious means auspicious

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puissance

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power, strength

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pusillanimous

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cowardly, craven

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remonstrate

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to protest, object

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salutary

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remedial, wholesome, causing improvement

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saturnine

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gloomy, dark, sullen, morose

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sententious

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aphoristic or moralistic,

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stentorian

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extremely loud and powerful

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stygian

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gloomy, dark

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tendentious

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biased

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tyro

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novice

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vitiate

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to corrupt, debase, spoil

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voluble

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fluent, verbal