Large Gre Set

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Epigram

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A clever, witty statement

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Epigraph

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Beginning section of a literary text

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Expostulation

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The act of reasoning earnestly

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Simulacrum

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An image or representation of someone

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Temper

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To make less severe/tone down

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Outmoded

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Up to date

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Enmity

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Hostility towards something

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Vicissitude

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Change in fortune

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Pinnance

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A small boat

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Natty

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A neat dresser/someone who dresses neatly

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Deluge

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A severe flood

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Venal

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To be susceptible to bribery

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Abstemious

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Self-disciplined

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Ululate

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To howl

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Garish

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Overly bright and showy

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Lurid

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Vivid in color

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Perfunctory

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An action or gesture carried out with minimum effort

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Surreptitious

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Kept secret, especially because it would not be approved of

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Pithy

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concise; succinct

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Hummock

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A small hill

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Nadir

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The lowest point in someone's fortunes

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Reprise

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A repeated passage in music; to repeat

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Urchin

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A mischievous young child

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Plumage

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A bird's feathers collectively

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Beatify

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To make someone blissfully happy

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Avant-garde

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New and unusual experiments or ideas

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Artisanal

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Hand-crafted

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Perspicacious

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Insightful

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Magnate

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Wealthy/influential person

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Prattler

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Someone who talks or chats idly

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Recalcitrant

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Disobedient/out of control

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Congenial

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Friendly

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Subdued

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Depressed (also can mean controlled in some uses)

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Boisterous

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Obnoxiously Loud

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Impudent

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Someone who is presumptious

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Brutish

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Beastly

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Enraptured

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Excited

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Wan

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Pale, weak, colorless (=Pallid)

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Pallid

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Pale, typically because of poor health (=Wan)

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Fallacious

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Misleading

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Incommodious

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Causing inconvenience or discomfort

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Immured

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Confined or imprisoned

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Proscribed

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Denounced

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Anneal

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To make hard by repeatedly heating and cooling

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Defray

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To pay

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Addled

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Muddled or confused

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Choler

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Anger

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Titter

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To giggle

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Baleful

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Extreme

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Fatuous

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Silly and pointless

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Ingratiate

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To seek to please somebody to gain favor

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Potentate

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An important person

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Obviate

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To make unnecessary; to prevent

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Martinet

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Someone who demands exact conformity to rules

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Sycophant

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Someone who flatters a person for personal gain

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Deference

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Courtesy

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Husbandry

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Management of resources

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Peculate

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To steal another person's money or property

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Captious

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Overly critical and complaining

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Legerdemain

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A display of cleverness, especially to deceive others

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Entreat

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To ask earnestly

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Inchoate

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Just beginning to develop; lacking structure and organization

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Gamin

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A child who roams the street

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Overweening

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Arrogant; excessive

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Pertinacious

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Sticking to a set of actions or beliefs

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Paucity

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Scarcity

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Acrid

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Sharp, bitter; foul smelling

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Clandestine

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Done secretly

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Brook

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To tolerate somebody or something unpleasant

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Espouse

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To support or adopt

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Inure

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To accept; to habituate

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Commiserate

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To show sympathy for

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Impetuous

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Excessive haste and deliberation; moving with great force and energy

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Choleric

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Easily angered

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Perfunctory

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Done hastily and without attention to detail

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Prodigal

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Excessively wasteful

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Rebuff

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To reject someone in an abrupt manner

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Cavort

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To frolic

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Dissemble

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To pretend; to hide under a false appearance

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Credulous

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Too trusting; gullible

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Occlude

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To stop up; to cut off the flow

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Lionize

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To treat as a celebrity

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Eschew

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To shun; to avoid; to keep away from

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Promulgate

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To exclaim or issue officially

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Saturnine

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Gloomy; morose; melancholy

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Sedulous

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Working diligently and carefully

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Mainstay

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Somebody or something that plays an important role

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Largesse

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Generosity in giving

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Affectation

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Unnatural behavior intended to impress

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Prevaricate

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To be intentionally unclear in order to mislead

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Repine

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To express discontent

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Excoriate

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To criticize severely

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Augur

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To indicate by signs; to predict from an omen

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Unwonted

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Not usual or expected

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Ostensible

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Represented or appearing in one way, but not necessarily that way in reality

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Taciturn

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Reserved or generally quiet

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Recidivism

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The act of returning to a life of crime

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Expostulate

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To attempt to dissuade somebody from doing something

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Distaff

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Work or other matters regarded as the concern of women

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Compunction

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Feelings of shame and regret

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Abrogate

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To formally revoke an agreement or contract

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Flout

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To treat with contemptuous disregard

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Panegyric

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A formal expression of praise

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Inculcate

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To teach by frequent repetition

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Salacious

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Characterized by lust

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Effervescent

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Bubbling; excited

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Nostrum

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A hypothetical cure-all that may have no true efficacy

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Winsome

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Charming

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Suppliant

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One who makes a request humbly and earnestly; asking humbly and earnestly

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Propinquity

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The property of being close together

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Foible

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A minor flaw or failing

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Immure

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To imprison

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Fastidious

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Demanding, concerned with every detail

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Beget

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To make children; to cause

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Itinerant

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Moving around to find work; a person who travels from place to place

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Histrionic

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Pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial, melodramatic

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Raconteur

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A skilled story-teller

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Forfend

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To prevent something from happening

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Dilatory

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Intended to delay

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Importune

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To trouble with demands; to beg for insistently

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Palliate

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To treat the symptoms

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Cabal

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A group of people with secret purposes and meetings

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Fealty

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Allegiance or loyalty

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Proselytize

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To try and convert somebody

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Indemnify

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To insure against or pay for loss of damages

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Peripatetic

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A worker who travels around; traveling, especially for work

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Adventitious

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Associated with something by chance and not an integral part

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Raillery

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Friendly teasing

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Petulance

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The quality of being easily annoyed

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Demur

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To object; an objection

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Effluent

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Liquid waste; a stream

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Discomfit

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To cause to lose one's composure

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Diurnal

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Active during the daytime

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Sententious

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Overly moralizing

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Meretricious

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Attractive in a superficial manner but without real value

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Desultory

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Passing aimlessly from one thing to another; random

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Furtive

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Done secretly

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Redolent

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Suggestive or reminiscent of something; having an aroma

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Turgid

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Bombastic; swollen

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Wizened

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Dry, shrunken and wrinkled

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Fracas

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A noisy quarrel

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Descry

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To catch sight of

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Remonstrate

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To argue strongly against some action

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Hector

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To bully

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Esurient

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Very hungry or greedy

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Chary

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Very cautious or hesitant

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Sophistry

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A flawed argument

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Cynosure

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The center of attraction

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Apothegm

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A short instructive saying

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Apotheosis

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A paragon

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Cloy

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To sicken somebody with too much of a good thing

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Halcyon

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Calm, peaceful, prosperous

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Hapless

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Having persistent bad luck

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Specious

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Plausible but false

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Relegate

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Banish to an inferior position

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Indigence

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Poverty

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Dirge

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Lament with music

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Cogent

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Convincing

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Diffidence

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Shyness

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Equivocate

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Lie; mislead

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Mollify

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Soothe

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Obdurate

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Stubborn

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Probity

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Uprightness

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Inured

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Accustomed; hardened

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Precarious

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Risky

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Desultory

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Aimless; haphazard

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Substantiate

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Verify

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Ebullient

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Showing Excitement

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Facetious

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Joking (often inappropriately)

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Acquiesce

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Assent; agree passively

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Actuate

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Motivate

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Actuarial

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Calculating; pertaining to insurance

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Adage

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Wise saying

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Adjuration

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Solemn urging

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Adroit

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Skillful

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Adulation

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Flattery; admiration

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Advent

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Arrival

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Agog

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Highly excited; intensely curious

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Alimentary

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Supplying nourishment

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Allay

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Calm; pacify

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Alluvial

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Pertaining to soil deposits left by running water

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Aloof

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Apart

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Amble

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Moving at an easy pace

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Ambrosia

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Food of the gods

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Analgesic

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Causing insensitivity to pain

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Anathema

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Solemn curse; someone or something regarded as a curse

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Ancillary

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Serving as an aid or accessory

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Animadversion

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Critical remark

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Annals

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Records; history

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Anodyne

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Drug that relieves pain; opiate

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Antediluvian

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Ancient; antiquated

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Antic

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Extravagantly odd

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Antiquated

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Outdated; obsolete

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Aphasia

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Loss of speech due to injury

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Aphorism

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Pithy maxim or saying

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Aplomb

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Assurance; poise

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Apogee

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Highest point

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Apothegm

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Pithy; compact saying

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Appellation

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Name; tithe

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Appurtenances

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Subordinate possessions

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Apropos

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(preposition) With reference to; regarding

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Aquiline

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Curved; hooked

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Arable

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Fit for growing crops

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Arbiter

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Person with people who decides in a matter; judge

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Arbitrate

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Act as a judge

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Ardor

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Heat; passion; zeal

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Argot

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Slang

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Aria

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Operatic solo

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Arrears

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Being in debt

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Arroyo

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Gully

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Aseptic

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Preventing infection

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Askance

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Sideways or indirect look

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Asperity

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Sharpness (of temper)

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Aspersion

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Slanderous remark

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Assay

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Analyze; evaluate

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Atavism

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Resemblance to remote ancestors

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August

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Impressive; majestic

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Aureole

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Sun's corona; halo

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Auspicious

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Favoring success

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Avuncular

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Like an uncle

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Awl

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Pointed tool used for piercing

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Axiom

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Self-Evident truth requiring no proof

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Bacchanalian

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Drunken

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Badinage

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Teasing conversation

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Ballast

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Heavy object used to add stability or weight