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154 Cards in this Set
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abate
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Subside or moderate
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Rather than leaving immediately they waited for the storm to ____________
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aberrant
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Abnormal or deviant
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Given the ___________ nature of the data we came to doubt the validiety of the entire experiment
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Abbeyance
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Suspended action
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The deal was held in ____________ until her arrival
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Abstemious
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Sparing in eating and drinking
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Concerned with wheterh her vegetariean son's __________ diet probied hime with sufficient protein. the worried mother pressed food on him
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Alacrity
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Cheerful promptness, eagerness
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Phil and Dave were raring to get off to the mountains, they packed up their ski gear and climbed into the van with _________________
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Amalgamate
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Combine, unite in one body
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The unions will attempt to ______________ their groups into one nation's body.
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Amerliorate
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improve
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Many social workers have attempted to ________________ the condition of people living in the slums.
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anomalus
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abnormal, irregular.
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She was placed in the _____________ position of seeming to approve procedures that she despised
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approbation
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approval
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Wanting her parents regard she looked for some sign of their approbation.
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artless
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open and honest, without guile
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Red riding hood's _________________ comment 'Grandma what big eyes you have!" indicates the child's innocent suprise at her "grandmother's" Changed appearance.
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assiduous
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diligent
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It took Rembrant weeks of ______________ labor before he was satisfied with his portrait of his son.
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attenuate
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make thin, weaken
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By withdrawling their forces the generals hoped to __________ the enemy lines.
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aver
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State confidently
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I wish to ____________ that I am certain of success.
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banal
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hackneyed, commonplace, trite, lacking originality,
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The hack writer's worn-out cliches made the comic sketch seem ________________.
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bombastic
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Pompus, using inflated language
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Puffed up with conceit, the orator spoke in such a ____________ manner that we longed to deflate him.
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anachronism
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Something or someone misplaced in time.
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Shakespeare's reference to clocks in Julius Ceasar is an anachronism, because no clocks existed in Ceasar's time.
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austere
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forbiddingly stern, severely simple, and unornamented.
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The room reflected the man _________ and bare, like a monk's cell.
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belie
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Contradict, give a false immpression
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His coarse, hard bitten exterior __________ his innate sensitivity.
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Boorish
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Rude insensitive
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Burgeon
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Grow forth, send out buds
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The the spring the plants that _________ are a promise of the beauty that is to come.
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Burnish
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Make shiny by rubbing, polish
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cacophonous
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Discordant, inharmonious
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Capricious
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upredictable, fickle
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Castigation
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Punishment, severe critism
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coda
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Concluding section of a musical or literary composition
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Cogent
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Convincing
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commensurate
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equal
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compendium
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brief, comprehensive summary
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complaisant
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trying to please
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confond
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confuse, puzzle
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contention
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Claim, thesis
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contrite
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penitent
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contentious
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quarrelsome
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converge
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approach, tend to meet, come together
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Craven
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Cowardly
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deference
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courteous regard for another's wish
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delineate
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portray, depict, sketch
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denigrate
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blacken
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deride
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ridicule make fun of
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desiccate
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dry up
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Desultory
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aimless, haphazard, digressing at random
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diatribe
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bitter scolding
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diffidence
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Shyness
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diffuse
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wordy, rambling, spread out
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dirge
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to lament with music
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disabuse
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Correct a false impression, undeceive
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diserning
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mentally quick and observant, having insight
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discrete
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seperate, unconnected
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disingenuous
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not naive, sophisticated
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disinterested
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unprejudiced
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disparage
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belittle
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disparate
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basically different, unrelated
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dissemble
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disguise, pretend
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dissolution
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disintegration, loose in morals
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divest
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strip, deprive
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dogmatic
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opinionated, arbitrary, doctrinal
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ebullient
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showing excitment
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effrontery
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shameless boldness
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enervate
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weaken
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engender
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cause, produce
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ephemeral
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shortlived, fleeting
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equanimity
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calmness of temperament
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equivocate
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lie, mislead, attempt to concel the truth
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eurdite
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learned, scholarly
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esoteric
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hard to understand, known only to the chosen few
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exigency
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urgent situation
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extrapolation
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projection, conjecture
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fallacious
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false misleading
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fatuous
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foolish, inane
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felicitous
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apt, suitably expressed
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flout
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reject, mock
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gainsay
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deny
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garrulous
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loquatious, wordy, talkitive
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goad
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urge on
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grandiloquent
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pompus, bombastic, using high sounding language
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gregarious
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social
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guileless
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without deceit
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harangue
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long, passionate, and vehement speech
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hyperbole
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exaggeration, overstatement
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iconoclastic
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attacking cherished traditions
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idolatry
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worship of idols, excessive admiration
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immutable
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unchangeable
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imperturbable
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calm, placid
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implacable
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incapable of being pacified
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inchoate
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recently begun, redimentary, elementary
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incongruity
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lack of harmony, absurdity
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indeterminate
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uncertain, not clearly fixed, indefinte
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indigence
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poverty
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inert
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lacking the power to move
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ingenuous
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naive and trusting; young; unsophisticate
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innocuous
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harmless
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insensible
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unconscious, unresponsive
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insipid
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lacking in flavor, dull
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insularity
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narrow-mindedness, isolation.
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intractable
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unruly, stubborn
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inundate
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overwhelm, flood, submerge
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inured
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accustomed, hardened
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invective
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abuse
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irascible
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irritable, easily angered
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irresolute
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uncertain how to act, weak
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laconic
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brief and to the point
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lassitude
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langour, weariness
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levity
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lack of seriousness, or steadiness, frivolity
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lucid
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Easily understood, clear, intelligible
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magnanimity
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generosity
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malingerer
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one who fakes illness in order to escape duty
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mendacious
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lying, habitually dishonest
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morose
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ill-humored, sullen, melancholy
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neophyte
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recent convert, beginner
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obdurate
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stubborn
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obsequious
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slavishly attentive, serville, sycophantic
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obviate
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make unnessesary, get rid of
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officious
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meddlesome, excessively pushyin offering one's services.
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opprobrium
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infamy, villification
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oscillate
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vibrate pendumlike, waver
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ostentatious
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pretentious, showy
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Pedantic
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showing off learning, bookish
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Penury
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severe poverty, stinginess
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perfidious
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treacherous, disloyal
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Perfuntory
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superfical, not thorough, lacking intrest, care, or enthusiasm
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phlegmatic
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calm, not easily disturbed
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platitude
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trite remark, commonplace statment,
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pragmatic
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practical
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precipitate
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rash, premature, hasty, sudden
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presumptuous
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arrogent, taking liberties
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prevaricate
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lie
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probity
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uprightness, incorruptibility
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prodigal
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wasteful, reckless with money
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propensity
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natural inclination
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propitiate
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appease
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proscribe
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ostracize, banish, outlaw
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qualified
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limited, restricted
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quibble
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minor objection or complaint
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quiescent
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at rest, dormant, temporarily inactive
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rarefied
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made less dense (of a gas)
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recalcitrant
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obstinately stubborn
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recondite
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abstruse, profound, secret
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refractory
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stubborn, unmanagable,
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relegate
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banish to an inferior position, delegate, assign
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reproach
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express dissapproval or dissapointment
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reprobate
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Person hardend in sin. Devoid in a sense of decency
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repudiate
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disown, disavow
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rescind
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cancel
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resolution
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determination
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resolve
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determination, firmness of purpose.
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reticent
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reserved uncommunicative
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reverent
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respectful, worshipful
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sage
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Person celebrated for wisdom
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salubrious
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healthful
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sanction
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approve, ratify
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solicitous
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worried, concerned
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soporific
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sleep causing, marked by sleepiness.
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specious
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seemingly reasonable but incorrect, misleading (often intentionally)
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sporadic
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occuring irregularly
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