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alacrity
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eager and enthusiastic willingness
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approbation
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an expression of approval or praise
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assuage
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to ease or lessen; appease or pacify
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axiomatic
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self-evident truth
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canonical
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in agreement with traditional or accepted standards
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capricious
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inclined to change one's mind
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censure
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to criticize severely
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chicanery
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trickery or subterfuge
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disabuse
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to make right
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effrontery
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extreme boldness; presumptuousness
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ennui
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restlessness from extreme boredom
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equivocate
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to use deceptive language with a deceptive intent
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exigent
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urgent, pressing
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fulminate
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loudly attack or denounce
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ingenuous
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frank and candid; lacking sophistication
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inured
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accustomed to accepting something less than desireable
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irascible
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easily angered
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obviate
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to anticipate and make unneccessary
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perfidy
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intentional breach of faith; treachery
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perfunctory
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cursory
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perspicacious
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acutely perceptive; having keen discernment
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prattle
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to babble meaninglessly
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precipitate (adj)
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acting with excessive haste
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precipitate (v)
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to cause to happen before anticipated
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prevaricate
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to deliberately avoid the truth; mislead
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relegate
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to forcibly assign; especially to a lower position
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solicitous
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concerned and attentive; eager
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sordid
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characterized by filth
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tortuous
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winding, twisted
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truculent
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fierce and cruel; eager to fight
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laud
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to praise highly
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magnanimity
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generously noble in mind and heart
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veracity
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truthfulness; honesty
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virulent
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extremely harmful poisonous; bitterly caustic
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abrogate
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make null or void
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aggrandize
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increase in intensity or power
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credulous
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gullible
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decorum
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polite, appropriate
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derision
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scorn, ridicule
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disparage
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belittle
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flout
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show contempt for
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garrulous
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pointlessly talkative
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glib
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marked by informality; non-chalant, superficial
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immutable
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not capable of change
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impetuous
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hastily or rashly energetic; impulsive and vehement
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inimical
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damaging, harmful, injurious
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intractable
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not easily managed
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intrepid
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steadfast and courageous
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laconic
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terse
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phlegmatic
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calm, sluggish, unemotional
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probity
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complete and confirmed integrity
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profligate
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excessively wasteful
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prosaic
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dull, lacking in spirit
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quixotic
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foolishly impractical
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rarefy
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to make thin, refine
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recondite
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hidden and concealed;difficult to understand
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refulgent
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radiant, shiny, brilliant
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sedulous
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diligent, persistent, hard-working
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spendthrift
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money waster
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tacit
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implied
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trenchant
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sharply perceptive, keen
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unfeigned
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genuine; not hypocritical
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untenable
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not viable; uninhabitable
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vexation
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annoyance, irritation
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vituperate
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censure severely
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alloy
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commingle
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arresting
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grabbing one's attention
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brook
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to tolerate, endure
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color
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to distort
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consequential
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pompous, self-important
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exact
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demand or call for
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fell
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inhumanely cruel
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flip
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sarcastic or impertinent
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grouse
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grumble
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intimate
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imply
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mince
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euphemize, lessen the severity of one's words
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nice
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extremely precise
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obtain
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to be established, customary
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occult
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mysterious
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gossamer
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light, flimsy
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ponderous
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having great weight, heavy, lifeless
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avarice
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greed, especially for wealth
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burgeon
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to flourish
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canon
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established set of principles
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castigation
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severe criticism or punishment
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chary
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wary
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contrite
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regretful, penitent, seeking forgiveness
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demur
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to question or oppose
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enigmatic
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mysterious, difficult to understand
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eulogy
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mournful poem
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furtive
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covert
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harangue
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to deliver or a long pompous speech or tirade
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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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nascent
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inert
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unmoving, lethargic, sluggish
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intransigent
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refusing to compromise
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inveigle
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to obtain by flattery
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odious
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evoking intense aversion or dislike
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penurious
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penny pinching, excessively thrifty
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pernicious
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extremely harmful
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quiescence
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stillness; motionlessness
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redoubtable
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awe-inspiring, worthy of honor
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urbane
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sophisticated and refined
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aver
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state as fact
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dissemble
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to disguise or conceal
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grandiloquence
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pompous speech
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insipid
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bland
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mendacity
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condition of being untruthful or dishonest
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obdurate
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stubborn
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obsequious
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exhibiting a fawning attentiveness
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opprobrium
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disgrace, contempt, scorn
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penury
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poverty, destitution
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pith
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the essential part
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pithy
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precise and brief
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platitude
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superficial remark
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polemical
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controversial, arguementative
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prodigal
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recklessly wasteful
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profuse
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bountiful, pouring forth liberally--profuse thanks
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querulous
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prone to complaining or grumbling
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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 authorit
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repudiate
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disown
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salubrious
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promoting health or well-being
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specious
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misleadingly attractive
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pluck
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fortitude
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pied
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multicolored
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rent
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torn, past of rend
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quail
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lose courage
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qualify
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to limit
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sap
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fool
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scurvy
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despicable
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tender
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to offer
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waffle
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equivocate
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wag
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joker
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abjure
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renounce or reject solemnly
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adumbrate
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to sketchily foreshadow
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anathema
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a curse or cursed thing
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anodyne
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healing thing
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apostate
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one who abandons long held religious beliefs
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apotheosis
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deification
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asperity
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severity, rigor, roughness
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asseverate
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aver
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assiduous
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sedulous
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augury
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omen or portent
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bellicose
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belligerent, pugnacious, war-like
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calumniate
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slander
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captious
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disposed to point out trivial faults
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cavil
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to find fault without good reason
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celerity
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speed, cheerful readiness, alacrity
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chimera
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an illusion
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contumacious
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insubordinate, rebellious, recalitrant
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denouement
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an outcome or solution, the unraveling of a plot
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descry
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discriminate, disce
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desuetude
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disuse
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desultory
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random, aimless, lack of plan
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diaphanous
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transparent, gauzy
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diffident
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reserved, shy, unassuming
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dirge
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song of grief or lamentation
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encomium
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glowing or enthusiastic praise, panegyric
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eschew
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schun
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execrate
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feel loathing for, declare to be evil
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exegesis
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critical examination``
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expiate
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to atone or make amends for
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extirpate
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exterminate
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fatuous
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silly, inanely foolish
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fractious
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irritable
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gainsay
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deny
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heterodox
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unothodox
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imbroglio
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embarrassing situation
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ineluctable
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inevitable
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inimitable
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one of a kind
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insouciant
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unconcerned, carefree
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inveterate
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ingrained, habitual
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jejune
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vapid
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lubricious
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lewd, slippery
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mendicant
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beggar
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meretricious
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cheap, gawdy
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minatory
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threatening, (minotaur)
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nadir
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perigree(low point)
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nonplussed
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at a loss for what to think
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obstreperous
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noisily defiant
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parsimonious
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cheap, miserly
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pellucid
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transparent, easy to understand
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peroration
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flowery speech, concluding part of a speech
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plangent
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pounding
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prolix
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verbose
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propitiate
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appease
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puerile
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childish, jejune, vapid
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puissance
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power
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pusillanimous
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cowardly, craven (pussy)
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remonstrate
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protest
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sagacious
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wise like sage, perceptive
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salutary
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causing improvement
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sanguine
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cheerful
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saturnine
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gloomy, dark, sullen
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sententious
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aphoristic or moralistic
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stentorian
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extremely loud and poweful
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stygian
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dark, gloomy
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sycophant
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toady
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tendentious
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biased, showing marked tendencies
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timorous
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timid, diffident
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tyro
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novice
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vitiate
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to corrupt, spoil, make ineffective
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voluble
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fluent, good command of language
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