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Abscond
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Verb. To depart clendestinely; to steal off and hide
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Aberrant
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adjective. deviating from the norm (noun form, aberration)
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alacrity
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noun. eager adn enthusiastic willingness
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approbation
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noun, expression of disapproval
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austere
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adj. without adornment
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axiomatic
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adjective, taken as a given, possessing self-evident truth
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canonical
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adjective, following in agreement with traditional standards
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capricious
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adj, inclined to change one's mind impulsively, erratic, unpredictable
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censure
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verb, to criticize severely, to officially rebuke
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chicanery
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noun, trickery
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disabuse
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verb, to undeceive, to set right
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effrontery
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noun, extreme boldness
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enervate
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verb, to weaken, reduce in vitality
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ennui
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noun, dissatisfaction and reslessness resulting from boredom/apathy
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equivocate
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to use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent, noun, equivocal
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erudite
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learned, scholarly
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exculpate
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verb, exonerate, clear of blame
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exigent
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adjective, urgent, pressing, requiring immediate action or attention
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extemporaneous
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done spontaneously
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filibuster
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noun, intentional obstruction, esp using prolonged speechmaking to delay legislative action
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fulminate
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verb, to louldy attack or denounce
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ingenuous
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artless; frank and candid, lacking in sophistication
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inured
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adj, accustomed to accepting something undesirable
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irascible
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adj, easily angered
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magnanimity
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noun, the quality of being generously noble in mind and heart
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martial
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adj associated w war and armed forces
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mundane
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typical or concerned w the ordinary
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nascent
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adj, coming into being, in early developmental stages
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nebulous
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adj, vague, cloudy, lacking defined form
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neologism
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noun, a new word, expression, or usage, the creation or use of new words or senses
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noxious
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adj, harmful
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obviate
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verb, to anticipate and make unnecessary
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onerous
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adj, troubling, burdensome
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paean
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noun, a song or hym of praise and thanksgiving
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perennial
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an event that happens many times in a year or through the years
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perfidy
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noun, intention breach of faith, treachery
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prefunctory
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adj, cursory, done without care or interest
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perspicacious
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aj, acutely perceptive, having keen perception
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prattle
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verb, to babble meaninglessly
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precipitate
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adj, acting w excessive haste or impulse, verb. to cause or happen before anticipated or required
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predilection
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adj, disposition in favor of something
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prescience
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foreknowing of events
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prevaricate
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verb, to deliberately avoid the truth
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qualms
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noun, causes for hesitancy
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recant
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verb, to retract
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relegate
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to forcibly assign
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reticent
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quiet, reserved, reluctant to express thoughts or feelings
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solicitous
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concerned, eager, attentive
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stymie
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to block, thwart, verb.
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tortuous
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winding, twisting, excessively complicated
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truculent
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fierce and cruel, eager to fight
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veracity
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truthfulness
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virulent
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extremely harmful or poisonous, bitterly hostile or antagonistic
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waver
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to move to and fro, to sway, to be unsettled
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abate
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to lessen in intensity
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adulation
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excessive praise
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ascetic
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one who practices rigid self denial
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avarice
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greed, esp for wealth
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axiom
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universally recognized principle
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burgeon
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to grow rapidly or flourish
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bucolic
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adj, rustic and pastoral
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caustic
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burning or stinging, causing corrosion
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chary
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adj, wary, sparing
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cogent
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adj. appealing forcibly to the mind or reason, convincing
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complaisance
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the willingness to comply with teh wishes of others
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contrite
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regretful, penitent
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dearth
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smallness of quantity
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demur
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verb, to question or oppose
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didactic
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adj, intended to teach or instruct
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disinterested
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impartial
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dogmatic
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adj, expressing a rigid opinion based on unrpoved or unprovable principles
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elegy
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a mournful poem, esp. one lamenting the dead
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emollient
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adj/noun, soothing, especially to the skin; making less harsh; an agent that softens or soothes the skin
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ephemeral
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brief, fleeting
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furtive
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adj, marked by stealth
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harangue
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verb; to deliver a pompous speech, noun. a pompous speech
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heretical
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violating accepted dogma, n heresy
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impecunious
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adj, lacking funds
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incipient
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adj, beginning to coming into being or become apparent
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inert
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adj. unmoving, lethargic
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intransigent
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adj, refusing to compromise
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morose
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sad, sullen
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opaque
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impenetrable by light
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oscillation
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the act or state of swinging back and forth with a steady, uninterrupted motion
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penurious
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penny-pinching, excessively thrifty
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pernicious
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adj, extremely harmful; potentially causing death
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peruse
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examine with great care
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preen
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to dress up
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prodigious
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abundant in size, force, or extent, ; extraordinary
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prolific
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adj, producing large volumes or amounts, productive
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putrefy
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verb, to rot
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quaff
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to drink deeply, verb
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quiescence
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stillness, motionlessness, being at ease
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redoubtable
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adj, awe inspiring
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squalid
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adj, sordid, wretched
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stoic
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poised, indifferent to pleasure/pain
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supplant
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verb, to take the place of, supersede
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torpid
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lethargic, sluggish, dormant noun. TORPOR
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urbane
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sophisticated, refined
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vilify
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to defame, characterize harshly
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viscuous
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thick, sticky, noun. viscosity
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acument
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noun, keen judgment
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amalgamate
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to combine several elements into a whole
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aver
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to state as fact, verb
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bolster
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provide support/reinforcement
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bombastic
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pompous, grandiloquent
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diatribe
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harsh denunciation
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dissemble
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verb to disguise or conceal
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endemic
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characteristic of a particularly local, people, thing
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evanescent
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adj, tending to disappear like vapor, vanishing
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germane
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adj, relevant
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grandiloquence
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pompous speech or expression, noun
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halcyon
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calm, peaceful
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hegemony
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noun, the consistent dominance of one state or ideology over others
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iconoclast
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noun, one who attacks or undermines traditional conventions or institutions
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idolatrous
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adj, given to intense or excessive devotion to something
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impassive
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revealing no emotion
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impunity
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immunity from punishment
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inchoate
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in an initial stage
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infelicitous
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unfortunate, improper
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insipid
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adj, bland, lacking in spirit
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malevolent
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having or showing often vicious ill spite, or hatred
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mendacity
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noun, the condition of being untruthful, mendicant
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mitigate
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verb, moderate
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obdurate,
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adj, hardheaded, unyielding
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obsequious
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adj, exhibiting a fawning attentiveness,
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occlude
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to obstruct, block
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opprobium
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noun, disgrace, contempt, scorn
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pedagogy
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noun, the profession or priniples of teachin or instructing
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penury
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poverty, distitution
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pith
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noun, the essential or central part
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platitude
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superficial remark, esp. one offered as meaningful
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polemical
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controversial, argumentative
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profuse
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adj, given or coming forth abundantly, extravagent
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querulous
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peevish, prone to complaining
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rancorous
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adj, characterized by bitter, long-lasting resentment noun rancor
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recalcitrant
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adj, obtinantely defiant of authority
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repudiate
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to refuse to have anything to do with
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salubrious
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adj, promote healing
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solvent
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adj, able to meet financial obligations, able to dissolve another substance
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specious
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adj, seeming ture, but actually being fallacious, misleadingly attractive
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spurious
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adj, lacking validity
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subpoena
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noun, a court order requiring appearance
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surfeit
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an overabundant supply
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alloy
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verb, to commingle, to debase by mixing wiht something inferior. unalloyed means pure
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august
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adj, majectic, venerable
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bent
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noun; proclivity
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broach
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bring up, announce
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brook
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to tolerate, to countenance verb
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cardinal
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major
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chauvinist
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blindly devoted patriot
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damp
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to diminish teh intensity or check teh vibration of sound
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die
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noun, tool used for shaping
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essay
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to test or try
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exact
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to demand, call for
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fell
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adj., inhumanly cruel
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flag
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to sag or droop, to become spiritless, decline
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flip
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adj, sarcastic, impretinent
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ford
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verb, to wade across the shallow part of a river
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grouse
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verb, to complain or grumble
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guy
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noun/verb, a rope or cable attached to something as a brach, to steady or reinforce using a guy
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intimate
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to imply
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list
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verb to tilt or lean to one side
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meet
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adj, fitting proper
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mince
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pronounce or speak affectedly, euphemize, speak to carefully.
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nice
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adj, exacting, fastidious, extremely precise
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obtain
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adj to be established, accepted, or customary
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occult
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adj, hidden, concealed
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pied
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adj, multicolored
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plastic
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adj, pliable, not rigid
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pine
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verb to lose vigor ( as through mourning)
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pluck
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noun, courage
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prize
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verb. to pry, to press or force with a lever
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rail
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verb, to complain about bitterly
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rent
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torn, past of rend.
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quail
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to lose courage
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qualify
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verb, to limit
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sap
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to enervate
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scurvy
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adj, contemptible
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stand
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noun, group of trees
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steep
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to saturate or soak completely
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strut
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the supporting cross-part of a wing
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table
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verb, to remove from consideration
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tender
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verb, to proffer or offer
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waffle
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to change one's positions
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a wag
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wit, joker
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abjure
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verb, to renounce or reject solemnly, to avoid
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adumbrate
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verb, to foreshadow vaguely or intimate
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anathema
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noun, a solemn or ecclesiastical curse
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anodyne
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adj/n, soothing or something that comforts
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apogee
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noun, farthest or highest point
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apostate
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noun, one who abandons long held religious or political convictions
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apotheosis
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deification
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asperity
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severity, rigor
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asseverate
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to aver, allege
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augury
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an omen
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bellicose
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adj, warlike
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calumniate
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to slander, make a false accusation, noun - calumny - 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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verb to find fault without good reason
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celerity
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noun - speed, alacrity
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chimera
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noun - illusion
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contumacious
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adj rebellious
contumely - an insult |
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denouement
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an outcome or solution
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descry
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to discriminate or discern
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desuetude
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disuse
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desultory
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random, aimless
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diaphanous
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transparent, gauzy
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diffident
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reserved or shy
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encomium
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glowing and enthusiastic praise
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excoriate
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to censure scathingly
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execrate
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to denounce
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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 before
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extirpate
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to destroy
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fatuous
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silly
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fractious
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quarrelsome
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gainsay
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to deny
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heterodox
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unorthodox
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imbroglio
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difficult or embarrassing situation
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ineluctable
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certain, inevitable
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indefatigable
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tireless
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insouciant
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unconcerned
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inveterate
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deep rooted, ingrained
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jejune
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vapid
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lubricious
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lewd, wanton
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mendicant
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beggar
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meretricious
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cheap, gaudy, tawdry
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minatory
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menacing
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nadir
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low point
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nonplussed
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baffled
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obstreperous
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noisily and stubbornly defiant
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ossified
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rigid like a boner
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palliate
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to make something seem less serious
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panegryic
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formal praise
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parsimonious
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cheap or miserly
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pellucid
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transparent, limpid
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peroration
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concluding part of a speech
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plangent
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resounding
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prolix
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long winded, verbose
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propitiate
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to appease
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puerile
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boyish
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pusillanimous
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cowardly
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remonstrate
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to protest
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salutary
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wholesome
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saturnine
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gloomy
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sententious
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moralistic
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stentorian
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loud and powerful
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stygian
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gloomy, dark
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sycophant
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servile, hanger on
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tendentious
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biased
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timorous
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timid or fearful
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tyro
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a novice, or greenhorn
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vitiate
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to corrupt
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voluble
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fluent
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temerity
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recklessness
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a sum is divisible by 3
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the sum of its digits will be divisible by 3
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a number is divisible by 4 if
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the last two digits are a number divisible by four
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a number is divisible by 6 if
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the sum of its digits are divisible by 2 adn 3
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a number is divisible by nine if
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sum of its digits are divisible by 9
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y =
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mx + b
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what is a rule about sides on triangles
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the sides must be small than the sum of the two, adn bigger than teh difference
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what are common pythagorean triangles?
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3-4-5, 6-8-10, 5-12-13
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what are the ratio of sides in a right isosclenes triangle (45, 45, 90)
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x, x, xroute2
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What are the ratio of sides in a right 30-60-90 traingge?
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x, 2x, x route 3
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