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burgeon
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to grow rapidly flourish
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bucolic
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rustic or pastoral; characteristic of rural areas and their inhabitants
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chary
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wary; cautious; sparing
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complaisance
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the willingness to comply with the wishes of others
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demur
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to question or oppose
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didactic
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intended to teach or instruct
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discretion
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cuatious reserve in speech; ability to make responsible decisions
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disinterested
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free of bias or self-interest; impartial
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ebullience
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the quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings
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emollient
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soothing, esp. to the skin; making less harsh; mollifying; an agent that softens or smoothes skin
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empirical
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based on observation or experiment
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enigmatic
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mysterious; obscure; difficult to understand
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harangue
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to deliver pompous speech or tirade; a long pompous speech
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hyperbole
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an exaggerated statement, often used as a figure of speech
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impecunious
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lacking funds
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incipient
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beginning to come into being or to become apparent
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inert
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unmoving; lathargic
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intransigent
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refusing to comprimise
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inveigle
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to obtain by deception
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morose
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sad; sullen; melancholoy
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odious
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evoking intense aversion
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opaque
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impenetrable by light; not reflecting light
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penurious
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penny-pinching; excessively thrifty; ungenerous
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pernicious
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extremely harmful; potentially causing death
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peruse
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to examine with great care
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precursor
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one that preceeds and indicates or announces another
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preen
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to dress up; to primp; to groom oneself with elaborate care
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prodigious
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abundant in size, force, or extent
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putrefy
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to rot; to decay and give off a foul odor
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quaff
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to drink deeply
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quiescence
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stillness; motionlessness; quality of being at rest
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redoubtable
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awe-inspiring; worthy of honor
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sqaulid
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sordid; wretched and dirty as from neglect
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supplant
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to take the place of; supercede
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torpid
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lethargic; sluggish; dormant
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urbane
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sophisticated; refined; elegant
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vilify
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to defame; to characterize harshly
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viscous
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thick; stick (noun form: viscosity)
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acumen
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keen, accurate judgement or insight
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aver
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to state as a fact; to declare or assert
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bombastic
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pompous; grandiloquent
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dissemble
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to disguise or conceal; to mislead
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endemic
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characteristic of or often found in a particular locality, region, or people
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evanescent
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tending to dissapear like vapor; vanishing
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fortuitous
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happening by accident or chance
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germane
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relevant to the subject at hand; appropriate in subject matter
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grandiloquence
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pompous speech or expression
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hackneyed
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rendered trite or commonplace by frequent ussage
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halcyon
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calm and peaceful
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impassive
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revealing no emotion
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imperturbable
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marked by extreme calm, impassivity and steadiness
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implacable
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not capable of being appeased or significantly changed
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inchoate
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in an initial stage; not fully formed
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infelicitous
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unfortunate; inappropriate
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insipid
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without taste or flavor; lacking spirit; bland
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loquacious
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extremely talkative
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malevolent
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having or showing often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred
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mendacity
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the condition of being untruthful; disshonest
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misanthrope
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one who hates all other humans
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mitigate
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to make less severe or intense; to moderate
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obsequious
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exhibiting a fawning attentiveness
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occlude
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to obstruct or block
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opprobrium
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disgrace; contempt; scorn
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pedagogy
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the profession or principles of teaching
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pedantic
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overly concerned with the trivial details of learning or education; show-offish about one's knowledge
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penury
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poverty; destitution
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pine
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to yearn intensely; to languish; to lose
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pirate
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to illegally use or reproduce
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pith
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the essential or central part
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pithy
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precise and brief
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placate
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to appease; to calm by concessions
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platitude
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a superficial remark, esp. one offered as meaningful
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polemical
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contreversial; argumentative
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profuse
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given or coming forth abundantly extravagant
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proliferate
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to grow or increase swiftly and abundantly
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querulous
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prone to complaining or grumbling; peevish
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rancorous
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characterized by bitter, long-lasting resentment
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recalcitrant
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obstinately defiant of authority; difficult to manage
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repudiate
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to refuse to have anything to do with; dissown
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salubrious
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promoting health or well being
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solvent
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able to meet financial obligations; able to dissolve another substance
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specious
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seeming true, but actually being fallacious; misleadingly attractive; plausible but fake
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surfeit
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an overabundant supply; excess; to feed or supply to excess
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tenous
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having little substance or strength; flimsy; weak
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