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131 Cards in this Set
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acumen
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keenness;insight; depth of perception
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alacrity
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eager and enthusiastic willingness
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abeyance
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suspension; temporary inactivity
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abjure
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to renounce upon oath; to avoid
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axiom
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universal principle, a given possessing self evident truth
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bucolic
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characteristic of rural areas
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capricious
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changing ones mind impulsively, erratic, unpredictable
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chary
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wary, cautious
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dissemble
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to disguise; mislead
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endemic
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characteristic of a particular region or people
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enervate
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weaken, reduce in vitality
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ennui
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dissatisfaction and restlessness resulting from boredom
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equivocate
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to use ambiguous language intending to deceive
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exigent
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urgent; pressing
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flout
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to demonstrate contempt for
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fulminate
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loudly attack or denounce
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germane
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relevant to the subject at hand
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halcyon
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calm and peaceful
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impecunious
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lacking funds
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implacable
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not capable of being appeased or changed
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impunity
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immunity from punishment or penalty
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inchoate
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not fully formed
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incipient
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beginning to come into being or become apparent
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ingenuous
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artless, frank, lacking in sophistication
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inimical
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damaging, harmful
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exscind
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to cut out/cut away
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expiation
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ending, expiring
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irascible
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easily angered
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inveigle
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to attain by deception, flatter
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timorous
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fearful, timid
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extenuate
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to lessen the seriousness of
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expedient
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a means to an end; not necessarily a principled or ethical one
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ambrosial
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extremely pleasing to the senses, divine (as related to the gods) or delicious (n: ambrosia)
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anomalous
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peculiar; unique, contrary to the norm (n: anomaly)
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antipathy
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hostility toward, objection, or aversion to
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attenuate
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weaken (adj: attenuated)
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aver
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to declare
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cadge
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to get something by taking advantage of someone
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chicanery
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deception by trickery
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corroborate
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to strengthen or support
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craven
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cowardly, a coward
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depredation
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the act of preying upon or plundering
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descry
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to make clear, to say
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disabuse
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to free a person from falsehood or error
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efficacy
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effectiveness, capability of producing a desired effect
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effluent
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the quality of flowing out; something that flows out
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emollient
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softening; something that softens
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encomium
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a formal elegy or speak of praise
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endemic
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prevalent in or native to a certain region, locality, or people
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equivocal
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ambivalent, unclear, subject to more than one interpretation
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esoteric
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intended for or only understood by a few
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fervid, fervent
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highly emotional, hot
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florid
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flushed with a rosy color, as in complexion; very ornate and flowery
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guile
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skillful deceit
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hapless
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unfortunate
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imperious
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commanding
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improvidence
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an absence of foresight; a failure to provide for future needs or events
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ineffible
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undescribable, inexpressible in words, unspeakable
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ingenious
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clever
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insensible
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numb, unconscious
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intransigent
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stubborn, unmovable, unwilling to change
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laconic
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using few words, terse
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leviathan
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something very large
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lugubrious
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excessively weighty, mournful, gloomy
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nefarious
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wicked, evil
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noisome
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harmful, offensive, destructive
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obdurate
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hardened against influence or feeling, intractable
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obviate
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to prevent by anticipatory measures; to make unnecessary
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panegyric
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a writing or speech in praise of a person or thing
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pedantic
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making an excessive display of one's own learning
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perfidious
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deliberately treacherous, dishonest
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phlegmatic
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not easily excited, cool, sluggish
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ponderous
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heavy, massive, awkward, dull
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prevaricate
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to stray away from or evade the truth
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prodigal
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rashly wasteful
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pulchritudinous
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beautiful
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propitiate
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to conciliate, to appease
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pusillanimous
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cowardly, timid, or irresolute; petty
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quiescence
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inactivity, stillness, dormancy
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rarefy
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to make or become thin, to purify or refine
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reproof
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the act of censoring, scolding, or rebuking
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sanguine
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cheerful, confident
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saturnine
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having a gloomy or morose temperment
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sedulous
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diligent, persevering, persistent
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specious
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seemingly true but really false; deceptively convincing or attractive
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tacit
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unspoken
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taciturn
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habitually untalkative or silent
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temperate
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exercising moderation and self-denial; calm or mild
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tortuous
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excessively complicated
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tractable
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ability to be easily managed or controlled
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turpitude
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depravity, baseness
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tyro
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beginner, person lacking experience
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venerate
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show great respect or reverence
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vex
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to annoy, bother, perplex, puzzle
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viscous
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slow moving; highly resistant to flow
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contumacious
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insubordinate, rebellious
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mettlesome
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courageous, high-spirited (different from "meddlesome")
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remonstrate
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to protest, to object
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truculence
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aggressiveness, ferocity
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paucity
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scarcity, a lacking of
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lassitude
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weakness, tiredness
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sycophant
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flatterer, parasite, suck up
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assiduous
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diligent, hard-working
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reprobate
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person hardened in sin; one devoid of decency
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hirsute
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hairy, shaggy
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volubility
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fluency, verbosity, easy use of spoken language
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insouciant
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unconcerned, carefree
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diaphanous
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transparent, gauzy
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raffish
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disreputable, tawdry
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vituperate
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berate, rail against, attack verbally
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sophistry
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fallacious reasoning, faulty logic
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assay
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an analysis, examination; to put to a test
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hallow
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to make holy, consecrate
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expostulate
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argue earnestly to disuade, correct, or protest
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punctilious
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precise, paying attention to trivialities, especially in regard to etiquette
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rapacious
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voracious, greedy, plundering
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coeval
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of the same period; coexisting
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sanctimony
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self-righteous, hypocritical, with false piety
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desultory
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aimless, haphazard, digressing at random
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supercilious
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disdainful; characterized by haughty scorn
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fatuous
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complacently stupid
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salubrious
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healthful
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spurious
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false, counterfeit
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recidivism
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relapse into antisocial or criminal behavior
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profligate
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wasteful, prodigal, licentious, extravagant
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recondite
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profound, abstruse, obscure
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probity
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uprightness, incorruptability
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calumny
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slander, aspersion
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penury
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extreme poverty
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fulsome
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unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech
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asperity
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roughness, harshness, hard to endure
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