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Parochial

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narrowminded, lack sophistication

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provincial

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lack sophistication, narrowminded

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tempest, tempestuous

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aggrivating, aggresive instigator

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belligerent

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aggressive, warlike, bellicose

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oblique

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not straightforward

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credulity

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gullibility

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stridency

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irritating to hear, dissodence

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consonance

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in agreement, harmony

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antithetical

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oppossed, opposite

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dogmatic

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based on certain beliefs, opinionated

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pragmatic

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practical, based on facts

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obscure

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unknown, uncertain

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evanescent

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vanishing, becoming imperceptable

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culpable

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blameworthy

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censure

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official reprimand, disproval

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cantankerous

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disagreeable, contentious, peevish

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beacon

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a warning signal, person who warns OR inspires

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orthodoxy

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established, coming from a certain beleif

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conventional

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accepted standards, normal

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transitory

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not lasting, temporary

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conciliatory

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to appease, to try to regain, to reconcile--conciliate

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polarize

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to divide

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protean

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versatile, changing charactyers or shape, diverse

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preeminent

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superior supreme

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adjudicator

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one who settles (disagreement)

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hasten

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hurry

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beset

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to surround or attack on all sides

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imminent

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will happen soon, usually bad

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potable

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to fit, suitable for drinking

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impede

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to hinder, to retard

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prodigy

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marvelous, extraordianry talent

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Placate

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to appease or pacify-get rid of anger

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contentious

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causing strife, quarrelsome, causing controversy

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precursor

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a person or thing that predecedes, predecessor

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approbation

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approval, commendation (official)

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condescension-condescend

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inferiority

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wanderlust

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strong desire to travel

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penurious

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miserly-like a miser, stingy

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parsimony

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miserly, frugality

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pugnacious

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belligeren, quarrelsome

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rash

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foolish, acting to hastily

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virtuosity

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an appretiation of skills or a virtuoso virtuoso-person who is skilled like in arts, or anything

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stygian

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dark, gloomy

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fortuitous

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happening by change, lucky

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cogent

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convincing by clear prenentation, to the point

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pyre

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heap of wood or combustable material

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augury

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the act of an augur)prophet or one who talks a lot), a token or dedication or sacrifice, prophet

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onerous

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burdensome, obligations that outweigh advantages

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reproach

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discredit, blame censure-to find fault, reproof

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jalopy

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old automobile, lemon

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audacious

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bold (fearless, recklessly)

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placate

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to appease/pacify

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auspicious

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opportune, prosperous, propitious

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vantage

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a position or condition of advantage, an advantage or superiority

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odiom

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intense hatred, dislike

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mull

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to study, ruminate

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discern

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to distinguish

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proverbial

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using proverbs, characteristic of

proverb-common saying, adage

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pretentious

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characterized by assumtion of importance, dignity-ostentatious

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pithy

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succint, forecful and exact in expression (adjective)

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brevity

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terseness, brief (noun)

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terse

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short and concise, brusque

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precocious

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prematurely advanced, developed (a precocious child)

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kith

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group with common backgrounds, family, neighbors, acquitances (noun)

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brood

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a group of young

young chickens, for breeding

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vociferously

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noisily, clamorous

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repeal

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to withdraw ocfficially, annul, revocate, abrogate

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pathological

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dealing with diseases, a mental condition

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ebulliate

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to boil or bubble
debulliate-boil over

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proliferate

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to grow rapidly

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fomidable

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adj causing fear, apprehension because of size, power, strength

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deplorable

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being subject of disapproval, reproach
casing grief or unhappiness
something very bad

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antiquity

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(noun) ancient

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palpable

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obvious, plainly seen, touchable

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lascivious

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lewd, wanton, arousing sexual desire

that lascivious skirt is inappropriate in the office

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wanton

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several meanings---extravagant, over the top, unjustifiably, too much

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indemnify

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to guard or secure or compensate for damage or loss

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fevered

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ghly excited

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gavotte

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an old french dance

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impetuous

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rash, not though out
or
forceful (impetuous wind

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petrous

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hard, like rock

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blithe

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joyous, carefree

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insidious

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deceitful, intended to entrap

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ascribe

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to credit or assign as a cause or source; impute (exact same meaning)

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philistine

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lacking culture, very common

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consecrate

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to make sacred

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venerate

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to treat with reverence, respect

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concur

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agree

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twangy

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sharp tone or nasally voice

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mirth

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jollity, gaiety, amusement

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concur

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agree

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apropos

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befitting, appropriate

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bard

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poet (especially ancient greece)

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dowel

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lock, fastener, pin, rod, etc

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accede

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agree

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acquiesce

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agree

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assent

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agree

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crony, cronies

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friend, chum

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dichromacy, dichromat

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only sees two colors

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slipshod

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careless, seedy, untidy

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superlative

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super, extreme, exceeding

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progeny

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decendant, off-spring, deriving from something else

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exorbitant

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excessive, exceeding the bounds of custom

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proponent

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someone who proposes or is on the pro-side

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consortium, consortial

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a union, partnership or getting together to get capital resources

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procurement

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getting possession of something

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extol

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praise

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chicanery

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trickery through sophistication

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crescendo

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gradully increasing force or volume

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subterfuge

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an artifice or expedient used to evade a rule, escape a consequence, hide something, etc.

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surreptitiously

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obtained, done, made, etc., by stealth; secret or unauthorized; clandestine:

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aperture

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an opening like a gap or crack

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indelible

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marks that cannot be changed or something that cannot be forgotten, like war

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jostle

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to bump or shove, to content with

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cheeky

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insolent impudent saucy bold

the cheeky girl was the leader of teh rebellion

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meager

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lacking in quality or quantity thin or lean

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affray

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a public fight

a brawl or quarrel

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bloke

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man fellow guy

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tamp

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to press down like tamping tobacco in a cigarette

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propensity

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natural inclination or tendency

= penchant = proclivity

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conflagrate

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to cause burning

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colloquy

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dialogue, conversation

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pillage

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rob or rape

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pastiche

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an artisctic syle that mimics previous work or a callaborative taken from other works

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surfeit

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overindulgence of food/drink noun and verb

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helm

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a place of control or to steer or direct

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indescretion

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lack of good judgement (injudicious); imprudence

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purported

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claimed; alleged

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aficionado

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fan, enthusiast

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apposite

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relevant, pertinent, suitable

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centrifugal

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directed outward from the center

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centripedal

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directed towrd the center

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bellicose

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agggresive belligerent pugnacious

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adulation

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to show excessive admiration or devotion

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extol

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to priase highly, eulogize laud

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celibate

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abstain from sex and/or marraige (for religous reasons)

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analogous

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having analogy; corresponding in some particular

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affable

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friendly, approachable

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beatific

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bestwong blass, happiness or the like

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vicissitude

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change in things like the ups and downs of life, the vicissitude of life

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feigned

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counterfeit sham

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anathema

anathematize

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something loathed or disliked; cursed

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benison

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a blessing a benediction

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ardent ardency

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intense feeling fervent

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gregarious

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sociable, living in a flock, pertaining to a crowd

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castigate

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to criticize severely

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blanch

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to whiten to cooking or bleaching

to turn white by fear

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categorical

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absolute without condition

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refutation

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act of disproving

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agility

agile

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move quickly, swiftly nimble

intelligent

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altruism

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the practice of unselfish concern and to care for others

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proboscis

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related to the nose

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schadenfreude

(shad-n-foid-a)

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satisfaction over someone else's misfortune

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hoosegow

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jail (slang)

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kvetching

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chronic whining complainer

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posit

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to place, lay down or

to set as in establish (rules)--postulate

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captious

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always finding fault or negligence

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antediluvian

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very old-fashioned/outdated

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wanton

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maliciously or unjustifiably done, or lewd, lawless (woman example)

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prattle

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to babble or to talk foolishly

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amble

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slow

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churlish

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rude, boorish, peasant like manners (derogatory)

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chide

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scold

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antipathy

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a natural dislike or aversion

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capacious

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roomy, holding a lot of space

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mercurial

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flighty, unpredictable, erratic

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capricious

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frivilous, erratic, mercurial

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steadfast

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unwavering, firm in purpose of friendship, fixed, steadily directed

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antithesis

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opposite; contrast

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amalgamate

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to mix; merge combine

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conglomerate

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a clustered mass, a whole of very different mixed parts

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aphasia

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loss of speech

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volubility

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glib, lots of words, talkative

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socialism

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promoting the people ownership if the goods, wealth,vesting

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marxism

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to live in a classless society-where the rich capitalists

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capitalism

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where there is provate ownership of wealth

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carte blanche

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full authority without restriction

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baroque

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extravagent, ornamental

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ameliorate, meliorate

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to make better, improve

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emphatic
emphatical

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strong emphasis --ex "i DID say that" or clearly or boldly outlined

can be used many ways

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cadre

cad-ree

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a framework, outline or scheme

a skilled group that can structure an organization

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canonise

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to glorify to make a canon

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ecclesiastical

i cle zee as ti cal

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church like, related to clergy

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canon

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a general rule or standard--sanctify

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cognoscenti (plural)
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An expert of art, fashion ,etc--something specific

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sybaritic

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characterized by loving pleasure or loving luxury

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allayed

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1. to put (fear, doubt, suspicion, anger, etc.) to rest; calm; quiet.
2. to lessen or relieve; mitigate; alleviate: to allay pain.

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paltry

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–adjective, -tri·er, -tri·est. 1. ridiculously or insultingly small: a paltry sum.
2. utterly worthless.
3. mean or contemptible: a paltry coward.

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refectory

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a dining hall in a religious house, a college, or other institution.

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chafe

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to irritate, annoy, to wear away

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geodesic

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Also, ge·o·des·i·cal. pertaining to the geometry of curved surfaces, in which geodesic lines take the place of the straight lines of plane geometry.

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malady

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any disorder or disease of the body, esp. one that is chronic or deepseated.
2. any undesirable or disordered condition: social maladies; a malady of the spirit.

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eunuchs

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A castrated man employed as a harem attendant or as a functionary in certain Asian courts.
A man or boy whose testes are nonfunctioning or have been removed.
Informal An ineffectual, powerless, or unmasculine man.

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screed

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a long discourse or essay, esp. a diatribe.
2. an informal letter, account, or other piece of writing.

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buttress

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any prop or support

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deprave

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to make morally bad or evil; vitiate; corrupt.

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eviscerate

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to remove the most essential parts, or to disembowel

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penchant

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a strong inclination, taste for something noun

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zaftig

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pleasantly plump figure, full bodied adj

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chagrin

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to vex by disappointment of humiliation verb

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schlub

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clumsy--slang

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onus

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burden of prrof; blame; a difficult or disagreeable burden, task n

onuses pl

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ephemeral

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very short lived; transitory

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incipient

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beginning to exist or appear adj

incipiently adv

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buttress

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to give encouragement, support

a support

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callous

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hardened, insensitive

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expository

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the nature of exposition adj

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exposition

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n.
A setting forth of meaning or intent.

A statement or rhetorical discourse intended to give information about or an explanation of difficult material.
The art or technique of composing such discourses.
The first part of a composition in sonata form that introduces the themes.
The opening section of a fugue.

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fugue

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A pathological amnesiac condition during which one is apparently conscious of one's actions but has no recollection of them after returning to a normal state. This condition, usually resulting from severe mental stress, may persist for as long as several months.

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synthesizing

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complex whole; made from different parts

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unprecedented

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unparalelled, uknown before or unexperienced

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tempered

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properly mixed, or made less intese/violent

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stark

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stiff or rigid, dark, utterly/completely

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resolute

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firm; unwavering, fixed (not necessarily good)

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jape

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to joke, jest

verb, noun

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proffered

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to offer for acceptance

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jilt

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to cast aside

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palatial

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a big home; magnificent-like a palace

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baubles

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small showy ornament (of little value)

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highfalutin

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pompous, pretentious

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suss/sussing

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to study, infer, figure out verb

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egregious

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extraordinary in some bad way; glaring, flagrant

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preconize

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to summon publicly

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acerbic

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sour in taste (like leomn juice)

sever in expression

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gleaned

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to collect bit by bit

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swoon

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to faint or lose consciousness

to enter a state of erotic fantasy, ecstacy

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scrum

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british-a place of confusion and racket hubbub

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humdrum

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soliloquy

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triteness

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contempt
"breed contempt"

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trivial

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banal

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trenchant

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milieu

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parlance

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impinges

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boilerplate

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anecdotes

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pejorative

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probity

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prerarication

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phossiphile

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tgtt

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importune

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tttt

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effrontery

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noun:
Insulting presumptuousness; shameless boldness; insolence

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morass

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n-any confusing or troublesome situation, esp. one from which it is difficult to free oneself; entanglement.

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timorous

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adj-full of fear; fearful

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gilt-edged

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adj-of the highest or best quality, kind

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gimbal

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n a contrivance, consisting of a ring or base on an axis, that permits an object, as a ship's compass, mounted in or on it to tilt freely in any direction, in effect suspending the object so that it will remain horizontal even when its support is tipped (gimbals, gimbal ring)

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"hope springs eternal"

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hope is eternal

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adsorption

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to condense molecules onto a surface, but not to absorb--like some filters have a carbon filter that filters contaminants by collecting them, but not allowing them to pass

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innocuous

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not harmful, or not offensive, or not interesting

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hallmark

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a stamp or imprint signifying purity or genu

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ingenuous

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artless or naive or lacking wordliness or frank/candid

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harness

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to bring under conditions for effective use; gain control over for a particular end: to harness water power; to harness the energy of the sun.

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plenary

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absolute, unlimited--usually used like the "judicial board had plenary power"

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acrimony

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n sharpness harshness or bitterness in nature

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dielectric

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1. a nonconducting substance; insulator.
2. a substance in which an electric field can be maintained with a minimum loss of power.
–adjective 3. of or pertaining to a dielectric substance.

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anneal

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1. to heat (glass, earthenware, metals, etc.) to remove or prevent internal stress.
2. to free from internal stress by heating and gradually cooling.
3. to toughen or temper.
4. Biochemistry. to recombine (nucleic acid strands) at low temperature after separating by heat.
5. to fuse colors onto (a vitreous or metallic surface) by heating.
–noun 6. an act, instance, or product of annealing.

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envisage

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–verb (used with object), -aged, -ag·ing. to contemplate; visualize: He envisages an era of great scientific discoveries.—Related forms
en·vis·age·ment, noun

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ellipsometer

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an instrument that measures the ellipticity of polarized light, used for determining the thickness of thin films.

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termini

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termin(ay) plural the end or extremity of anything.
2. either end of a railroad line.
3. British. the station or the town at the end of a railway or bus route.
4. the point toward which anything tends; goal or end.
5. a boundary or limit.
6. a boundary post or stone.

terminus one

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adventitious

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–adjective 1. associated with something by chance rather than as an integral part; extrinsic.
2. Botany, Zoology. appearing in an abnormal or unusual position or place, as a root

ad·ven·ti·tious·ly, adverb
ad·ven·ti·tious·ness, noun

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eponymous

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adjective giving one's name to a tribe, place, etc.: Romulus, the eponymous founder of Rome.

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eponym

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noun 1. a person, real or imaginary, from whom something, as a tribe, nation, or place, takes or is said to take its name: Brut, the supposed grandson of Aeneas, is the eponym of the Britons.
2. a word based on or derived from a person's name.
3. any ancient official whose name was used to designate his year of office.

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efficacy

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noun, plural -cies. capacity for producing a desired result or effect; effectiveness: a remedy of great efficacy.

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paramour

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noun 1. an illicit lover, esp. of a married person.
2. any lover.

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segue

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gued, -gue·ing, noun
–verb (used without object) 1. to continue at once with the next musical section or composition (often used as a musical direction).
2. to perform in the manner of the preceding section (used as a musical direction).
3. to make a transition from one thing to another smoothly and without interruption: The conversation segued from travel anecdotes to food.
–noun 4. an uninterrupted transition made between one musical section or composition and another.
5. any smooth, uninterrupted transition from one thing to another.

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absolve

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verb (used with object), -solved, -solv·ing. 1. to free from guilt or blame or their consequences: The court absolved her of guilt in his death.
2. to set free or release, as from some duty, obligation, or responsibility (usually fol. by from): to be absolved from one's oath.
3. to grant pardon for.
4. Ecclesiastical. a. to grant or pronounce remission of sins to.
b. to remit (a sin) by absolution.
c. to declare (censure, as excommunication) removed.

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asynchronous

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adjective 1. not occurring at the same time.
2. (of a computer or other electrical machine) having each operation started only after the preceding operation is completed.
3. Computers, Telecommunications. of or pertaining to operation without the use of fixed time intervals (opposed to synchronous).
adv -ly

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haptic

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adj. Of or relating to the sense of touch; tactile.

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preamble

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–noun 1. an introductory statement; preface; introduction.
2. the introductory part of a statute, deed, or the like, stating the reasons and intent of what follows.
3. a preliminary or introductory fact or circumstance: His childhood in the slums was a preamble to a life of crime.
4. (initial capital letter) the introductory statement of the U.S. Constitution, setting forth the general principles of American government and beginning with the words, “We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union. …”

adj preambled

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parity

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noun 1. equality, as in amount, status, or character.
2. equivalence; correspondence; similarity; analogy.

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disparity

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–noun, plural -ties. lack of similarity or equality; inequality; difference: a disparity in age; disparity in rank.

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amble

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verb (used without object) 1. to go at a slow, easy pace; stroll; saunter: He ambled around the town.
2. (of a horse) to go at a slow pace with the legs moving in lateral pairs and usually having a four-beat rhythm.
–noun 3. an ambling gait.
4. a slow, easy walk or gentle pace.
5. a stroll.

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ad hoc

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adverb 1. for the special purpose or end presently under consideration: a committee formed ad hoc to deal with the issue.
–adjective 2. concerned or dealing with a specific subject, purpose, or end: The ad hoc committee disbanded after making its final report.

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saunter

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verb (used without object) 1. to walk with a leisurely gait; stroll: sauntering through the woods.
–noun 2. a leisurely walk or ramble; stroll.
3. a leisurely gait.


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[Origin: 1660–70; of uncert. orig.]

—Related forms
saun·ter·er, noun


—Synonyms 1–3. amble, ramble, meander

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silo

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verb, -loed, -lo·ing.
–noun 1. a structure, typically cylindrical, in which fodder or forage is kept.
2. a pit or underground space for storing grain, green feeds, etc.
3. Military. an underground installation constructed of concrete and steel, designed to house a ballistic missile and the equipment for firing it.
–verb (used with object) 4. to put into or preserve in a silo.