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abeyance
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suspend action
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abjure
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to promise or swear to give up
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ablution
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washing or cleansing
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abnegation
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self-denial
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abrogate
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to repeal or annul by authroity
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abscond
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to get away suddenly, to avoid arrest
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abstruse
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difficult to comprehend, obscure
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abut
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to board on, to be next to
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acarpous
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effete, no longer fertile, worn out
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accretion
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the growing of separate things into one
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adduce
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to offer as example, reason, or proof
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adjunct
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something added, assistant
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adjure
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to beg
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admonitory
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containing warning
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adulteration
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making impure, poorer quality
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adumbrate
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to suggest or hint, to overshadow
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adventitious
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coming from another source and not innate
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agog
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eager, excited
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ail
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to trouble, to be ill
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alacrity
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eagerness and cheerful readiness, speed
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alloy
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to debase by mixing with something inferior
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altercate
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to dispute angrily or noisily
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ameliorate
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to improve, to make better
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amortize
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to end (a debt) by setting aside money
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antebellum
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existing before war
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antediluvian
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made a long time ago, old
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anthropomorphic
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having human characteristics
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aphasia
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loss of the power to use or comprehend words
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aplomb
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self-confidence
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apostasy
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renunciation of a religion
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apostate
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he who abandons long-held principles, religious or political
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apotheosis
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deification, glorification to godliness
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appellation
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identifying name or title
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approbation
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approval
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arabesque
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a complex ornate design
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arboreal
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pertaining to trees
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ardor
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devotion or enthusiasm
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argot
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jargon, slander
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ascendancy
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dominance
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aseptic
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surgically clean
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asperity
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roughness, harshness, ill temper, irritability
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aspersion
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slander
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assiduous
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diligent, hard-working, sedulous
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astringent
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something that draws together, penetrating or severe, substance that shrinks
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atelier
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artist's workroom
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attenuate
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to make thin, weaken, enervate
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augury
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omen, sign
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august
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majestic, venerable
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auxiliary
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helping, supporting
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aver
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to affirm, to assent, to prove
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bacchanalian
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riotous, boisterous, or drunken festivity
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bait
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to persecute
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baleful
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harmful, ominous, causing evil
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balk
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obstacle, purposely to get in the way of
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baneful
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causing harm or ruin, pernicious, destructive
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barrage
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artificial, obstacle built across a river
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bedizen
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to adorn, especially in a cheap showy manor
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bilge
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bulge in the protuberance of a cask
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bilk
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to cheat
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blandishment
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flattery, coaxing
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blithe
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cheerful, casual, carefree
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brook
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to tolerate, endure
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burnish
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to polish, rub to a shin
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cabal
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a scheme or plot, group of plotters
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cacophony
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harsh sound
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cadge
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to beg, to get by begging
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calumny
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slander, aspersion
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cant
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insincere talk
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captious
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critical
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carouse
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to drink alcohol freely
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carp
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to find fault or complain querulously
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carte blanche
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full discretionary power
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caustic
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biting, sarcastic
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cavil
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to raise trivial and frivolous objection
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celerity
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rapidity of motion or action
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chaff
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to tease good-naturedly
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charlatan
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quack or fraud
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chary
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cautious, wary
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chauvinist
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a blindly devoted patriot
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chicanery
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legal trickery, false argument
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chivy
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to tease or annoy with persistent petty attacks
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choleric
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irritable, bad-tempered
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churl
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bad-tempered person
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coeval
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of the same period, coexisting
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cogitate
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to think deeply, to meditate
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comely
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attractive
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commodious
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having plenty of space for what is needed
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compunction
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feeling of regret for one's actions
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concomitant
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accompanying
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concord
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agreement or harmony
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congenital
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existing from birth, inherent
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connotation
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suggestion in addition to
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contemn
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to scorn or despise
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contrite
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filled with deep sorrow for wrong-doing
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contumacious
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insubordinate, rebellious
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convivial
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fond of feasting, drinking and good company
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convoke
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to call together, to summon
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cornucopia
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abundant supply
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corpulent
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having a large bulky body
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countenance
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to favor or approve of
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countervail
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to counterbalance
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covetous
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eagerly desirous
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cozen
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to cheat
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craven
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cowardly
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crochet
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highly individual and usually eccentric opinion
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cupidity
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greed, lust
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dastard
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coward
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deciduous
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ephemeral, not permanent, transitory
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declaim/declamation
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to speak bombastically or pompously
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declivity
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downward inclination
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deign
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to condescend, to give
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demagogue
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person appealing not to reason
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denouement
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an outcome or solution, the unraveling of a plot
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deposition
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dethronement, depositing
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dereliction
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deserting and leaving, to fall into ruins
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descry
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to catch sight of
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desiccant
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substance used to absorb moisture
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desuetude
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cessation of use, disuse
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desultory
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aimless, haphazard, digressing at random
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detumescence
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diminishing or lessening swelling
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diaphanous
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transparent, gauzy
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diatribe
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bitter and violent attack in words
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didactic
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intended to teach, preachy
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diffidence
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shyness
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dilatory
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intended to delay
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disabuse
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to free from error
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discomfit
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to confuse, to embarrass
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discompose
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to destroy the composure of
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disconsolate
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cheerless, dejected
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discountenance
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to refuse to approve of
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discrete
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individually distinct
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disinter
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to dig up from the earth
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dissemble
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to conceal the true nature of something
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dissolute
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marked by indulgence in vices
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dissolution
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disintegration, looseness in morals
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divestiture
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taking off, getting rid of, giving up
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doggerel
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trivial, poorly constructed verse
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dolorous
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marked by misery or grief
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droll
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odd, comical
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drone
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male bee, idle person
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dulcet
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melodious, harmonious
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duress
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coercion
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dynamo
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a generator, something that produces electric current
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ebullience
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exuberance, outburst of feeling
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ebullient
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overflowing with enthusiasm, showing excitment
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edacious
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voracious, devouring
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eddy
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circular or spiral movement
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efface
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to make indistinct
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effete
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infertile, worn out, weak
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effluvia
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outflow in a stream of particles, a noxious odor or vapor
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egress
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way out, exit
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elegy
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a lament, a melancholy composition
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emollient
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soothing to the skin, mollifying
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emote
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to stir up, to excite
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encomium
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warm or glowing praise, eulogy, panegyric
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enervate
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to weaken, to deprive of strength, to attenuate
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ennui
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boredom
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entreat
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to ask earnestly
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enzyme
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catalyst
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epicurean
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devoted to pleasure
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epigram
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terse or witty and often paradoxical saying
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epistle
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letter
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epithet
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adjective
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equable
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steady, regular
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equanimity
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calmness of temperment
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equipoise
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equal distribution of weight, equilibrium
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equivocate
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to try to deceive by equivocal language
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equivocal
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having double or doubtful meaning, suspicious
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evince
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to show clearly, to indicate
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excoriation
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severe criticism
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exculpate
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to clear from a charge of guilt
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execrate
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to denounce, to detest utterly
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exigency
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emergency, an urgent situation
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exorbitant
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much too high or great
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expatiate
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to roam, to wander freely
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expiation
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ending, expiring
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expostulate
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to argue earnestly, to dissuade, correct or protest
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expurgate
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to remove obscenity, purify, censor
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exscind
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to cut out, to cut away
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extant
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still in existence
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extenuate
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to reduce the strength, to lessen seriousness, to partially excuse
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extirpate
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to destroy, to exterminate
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extricable
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able to be freed
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facile
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easily done
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fatuous
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without sense, foolish self-satisfaction
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feckless
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lacking purpose or vitality, ineffective
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fecund
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fertile
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felicitous
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apt, suitably expressed, well chosen
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ferret
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to discover by searching, to search
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fervid
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showing earnest feeling
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fetid
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stinking
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flax
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pale, a plant
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flay
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to skin, to excoriate
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fledged
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able to fly, trained, experienced
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florid
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very much ornamented, flushed with rosy color
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elegy
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a lament, a melancholy composition
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emollient
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soothing to the skin, mollifying
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emote
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to stir up, to excite
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encomium
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warm or glowing praise, eulogy, panegyric
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enervate
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to weaken, to deprive of strength, to attenuate
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ennui
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boredom
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entreat
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to ask earnestly
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enzyme
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catalyst
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epicurean
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devoted to pleasure
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epigram
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terse or witty and often paradoxical saying
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epistle
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letter
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epithet
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adjective
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equable
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steady, regular
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equanimity
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calmness of temperament
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equipoise
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equal distribution of weight, equilibrium
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equivocate
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to try to deceive by equivocal language
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evince
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to show clearly, to indicate
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excoriation
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severe criticism
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exculpate
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to clear from charges of guilt
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execrate
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to denounce, to detest utterly
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exigency
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emergency, an urgent situation
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exorbitant
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too much high or great
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expatiate
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to wander freely, to roam
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expiation
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ending, expiring
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expostulate
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to argue earnestly, to dissuade, correct, or protest
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expurgate
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to remove obscenity, purify, censor
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exscind
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to cut out, to cut away
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extant
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still in existence
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extenuate
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to reduce in strength, to lessen seriousness, to partially excuse
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extirpate
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to destroy, to exterminate
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extricable
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able to be freed
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facile
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easily done
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fatuous
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without sense, foolish self-satisfaction
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feckless
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lacking purpose or vitality, ineffective
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fecund
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fertile
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felicitous
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apt, suitably expressed, well chosen
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ferret
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to discover by searching, to search
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fervid
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showing earnest feeling
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fetid
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stinking
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flax
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pale, a plant
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flay
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to skin, to excoriate
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fledged
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able to fly, trained, experienced
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florid
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very much ornamented, flushed with rosy color
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foible
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defect of character (a person wrongly proud)
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foppish
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someone who dresses like a fop (pays too much attention to clothes)
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forensic
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belonging to courts of judicature
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foretoken
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premonitory sign
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fracas
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noisy quarrel
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fractious
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quarrelsome, irritable
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frenetic
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frantic, frenzied
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froward
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intractable, not willing to yield or comply, stubborn
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fulmination
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bitter protest
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fulsome
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disgusting, offensive due to excessiveness
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fusty
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musty, rigidly old-fashioned or reactionary
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gainsay
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to deny, to oppose
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garrulity
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talkativeness
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garrulous
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too talkative
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gaucherie
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socially awkward, tactless behavior
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gnomic
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characterized by aphorism
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grandiloquent
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using pompous words
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gust
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outburst of feeling, sudden rain, wind fire, etc
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halcyon
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calm and peaceful
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harangue
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a long passionate speech
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hardihood
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resolute, courage and fortitude
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harrow
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to distress, to create stress or torment
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hector
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to bully
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hermetic
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sealed by fusion
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heterogeneous
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made up of different kinds
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hew
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to make by hard work, to cut by striking
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hirsute
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hairy, shaggy
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homiletics
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act of preaching
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honorific
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conferring or conveying honor
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hubris
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arrogant pride
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iconoclast
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person who attacks popular beliefs
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idolatry
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excessive admiration of
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idyll
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a carefree episode or experience
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ignominious
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shameful, dishonorable, undignified, disgraceful
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imbroglio
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complicated and embarrassing situation
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impassive
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unmoved feeling, no sign of passion
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impecunious
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having little or no money
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imperious
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commanding, haughty, arrogant
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implacable
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incapable of being placated
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importune
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to beg urgently
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imprecation
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an invocation of evil, a curse
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impugned
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challenged, to be doubted
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impute
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to attribute to a cause or source, to ascribe
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incandescent
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white, glowing, or luminous with intense heat
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inchoate
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not yet fully formed, rudimentary, elementary
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incipient
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beginning
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incise
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to engrave, to cut into
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inculcate
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to fix firmly by repetition
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indefatigably
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to easily exhaustible, tirelessness
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indelible
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impossible to remove, erase, wash away, permanent
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indigence
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poverty
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indigenous
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native
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indolence
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laziness
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indomitable
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not easily discouraged or subdued
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ineluctable
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certain, inevitable
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ingenuous
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naive, young, artless, frank
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ingress
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the act of entering, entrance
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inimical
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harmful or unfriendly
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insensible
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unconscious, unresponsive, unaffected
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insolvent
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unable to pay debts, impoverished
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insouciant
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unconcerned, carefree
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insuperable
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incapable of being surmounted or solved
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interloper
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to encroach, to intrude
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interregnum
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lapse in a continuous series
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intimate
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to announce, to suggest or hint
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inured
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accustomed to, adapted
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invective
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abusive language, curses
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inveigh
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to attack verbally, to denounce, to deprecate
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inveterate
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deep-rooted, long-established
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invidious
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of an unpleasant or objectionable nature
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involute
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complex
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irascible
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irritable, easily angered
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itinerante
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to travel from place to place, to peregrinate
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jejune
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lacking nutritive value, dull, juvenile
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jibe
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to make fun of
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labyrinthine
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to entangle, the state of affairs
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lachrymose
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causing tears, tearful
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lassitude
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weariness, tiredness
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liberality
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free giving, generosity
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libertine
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immoral person
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lien
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legal claim until a debt on it is repaid
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limn
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to paint, to portray
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limpid
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transparent, absolutely serene and untroubled
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lithe
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bendable, twistable
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lope
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to move along with strides
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loquacious
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talkative, garrulous
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luculent
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easily understood, lucid, clear
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lugubrious
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mournful, excessively sad
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macabre
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gruesome, suggesting death
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macerate
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to make or become soft by soaking in water
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machination
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to plot, to scheme
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maladroit
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tactless, clumsy
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malapropism
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misuse of a word
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malediction
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curse, execration
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malefaction
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evil deed, crime
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maleficent
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baleful
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malevolence
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wishing to do evil
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malinger
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to fake illness or injury in order to shirk duty
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manacle
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chains for the hands or feet
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maudlin
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sentimental in a silly or tearful way
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mawkish
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sickly sentimental
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mellifluous
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sweetly flowing
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mendacity
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dishonesty
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mendicant
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a beggar
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mercurial
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quick, changeable in character, fleeting
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meretricious
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attractive on the surface but of little value
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mettle
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quality of endurance or courage
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mettlesome
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courageous, high-spirited
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miasma
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vaporous exhalation causing disease
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middling
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fairly good but not very good
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minatory
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menacing, threatening
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mince
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to pronounce or speak affectedly, to euphemize
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misanthrope
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person who hates mankind
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missive
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letter
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mollify
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to make calmer, quieter
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molt
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to lose hair, feathers before new growing
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mordant
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biting and caustic, incisive
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morose
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ill-tempered, unsocial
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mottle
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surface having colored spots or blotches
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muffler
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cloth warn round the neck, silencer
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mulish
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unreasonable and inflexibly obstinate
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multifarious
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varied, motley, greatly diversified
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munificent
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characterized by great liberality or generosity
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nadir
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lowest, weakest point
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neophyte
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person who has been converted to a belief
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nexus
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a connection, tie, or link
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noisome
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offensive, disgusting smell
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nonplused
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greatly surprised
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nostrum
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a quack remedy, an untested cure
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nugatory
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trifling, worthless
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obdurate
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hardened and unrepentant, stubborn, inflexible
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obfuscate
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to darken, to make obscure, to muddle
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obloquy
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abusively detractive language, sharp criticism
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obsequious
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too eager to obey or serve
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obstreperous
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noisy, loud
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obviate
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to make unnecessary, to get ride of
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occluded
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blocked up
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odium
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contempt, dislike, aversion
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odor
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smell, favor, reputation
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offal
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waste or by-product of a process, rubbish
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officious
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too eager or ready to help, offer advice
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opprobrious
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showing scorn or reproach
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orotund
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sonorous, bombastic
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ossify
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to turn to bone, to settle rigidly into an idea
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ostentation
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display to obtain admiration or envy
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overweening
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presumptuously arrogant, being a jerk
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paean
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song of praise or triumph
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palliate
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lessen the severity of
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panegyric
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formal praise, eulogy
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panoply
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a protective covering, impressive array
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paradigm
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a model, example or pattern
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parsimonious
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too economical, miserly
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pathos
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emotion of sympathetic pity
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paucity
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scarcity, a lacking of
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peccadillo
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small sin, small weakness in ones character
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pedantic
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bookish, showing off learning
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pellucid
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transparent, easy to understand
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penurious
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poor, stingy
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penury
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extreme poverty
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perambulate
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to travel over or through, usually on foot
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peregrination
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traveling about, wandering
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peremptory
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urgent, imparative
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perfidious
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treacherous, faithless
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peripatetic
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wandering
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perpetrate
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to be guilty, to commit
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perquisite
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gratuity or tip
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perspicacity
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quick judging and understanding
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pertinacious
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stubbornly unyielding or tenacious
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petrous
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like a rock, hard, stony
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philistine
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a smug, ignorant person, one who lacks knowledge
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phlegmatic
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calm sluggish temperament, unemotional
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picaresque
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involving clever rouges or adventurers
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pied
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of mixed colors
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piquant
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agreeably pungent, stimulating
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pique
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hurt the pride or self-respect, arouse
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pith
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essential part, soft liquid substance
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plaintive
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mournful melancholy, sorrowful
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pliant
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pliable,easily bent, shaped or twisted
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polemic
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aggressive attack on opinions of another, disputant
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portent
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omen, marvelous, threatening
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prate
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to talk long and idly
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precipitous
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steep
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precis
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concise summery
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preen
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tidy, show self-satisfaction
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presage
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warning sign
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preternatural
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not normal or usual
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prevaricate
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to equivocate, to stray from the truth
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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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profligacy
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shameless immorality
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profligate
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wasteful, prodigal, extravagant
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prolix
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tiring because of length
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propinquity
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nearness in time or place, affinity in nature
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propitiatory
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conciliatory, appeasing, mitigating
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propitious
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auspicious, presenting favorable circumstances
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proscribe
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to denounce as dangerous
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protean
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display great diversity or variance, versatile
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provident
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frugal, looking to the future
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pugnacious
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fond of, in the habit of fighting
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puissance
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strength
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pulchritude
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physical beauty
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punctilious
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precise, paying attention to trivialities
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pungency
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sharpness, stinging quality
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pungent
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marked by sharp incisive quality, caustic
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pyre
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large pile of wood for burning
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quaff
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to drink deeply
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quail
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to lose courage, turn frightened
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querulous
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habitually complaining
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quiescence
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state of being passive, motionless
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quiescent
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at rest, dormant, torpid
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quixotic
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absurdly idealistic
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quotidian
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banal, everyday
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raconteur
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person who tells anecdotes
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rake
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dissolute person, libertine
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ramify
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to be divided or subdivided, to branch out
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rancorous
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feeling bitterness, spitefulness
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rapacious
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greedy
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recalcitrant
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disobedient
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recompense
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to make payment, to reward, to punish
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recondite
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little known, abstruse
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recreancy
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cowardice, unfaithfulness
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recreant
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coward, apostate or deserter
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redoubtable
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formidable, causing fear
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refractory
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stubborn, unimaginable, intractable
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refulgent
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shining, brilliant
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regicide
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crime of killing a king
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renascent
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rising again into being or vigor
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repast
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meal
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reprobate
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person hardened by sin, one devoid of decency
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requite
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to repay, to give in return
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restive
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refusing to move, reluctant to be controlled
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reticent
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reserved, not talkative
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ribald
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crude, characterized by coarse indecent humor
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sagacious
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having sound judgment, perceptive, wise, like a sage
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salacious
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obscene
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sallow
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of a grayish greenish yellow color
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salubrious
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healthful
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salutary
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remedial causing improvement
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sanguinary
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cheerful, confident, optimistic
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satiate
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satisfy fully
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saturnine
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gloomy, dark, morose
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savant
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person of great learning
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scurrilous
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given to coarse language
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sedulous
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preserving
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sententious
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short and pithy, full of maxims, proverbs
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sere
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to make hard and without feeling
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serendipity
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phenomenon of finding valuable things not sought for
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shiftless
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lacking in resourcefulness, lacking in ambition
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shunt
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send from on track to another, lay aside
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simper
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to smile in a silly, self-conscious manner
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sinew
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power, chief supporting force
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sinuous
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winding, undulating, serpentine
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skiff
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small boat
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slake
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to assuage
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sluggard
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lazy slow-moving person
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somatic
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of the body
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somnolent
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likely to induce sleep, inclined to sleep
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soporific
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producing sleep
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specious
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illogical, of questionable truth or merit
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spleen
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feelings of anger or ill will, often suppressed
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splenetic
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bad-tempered, irritable
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spurious
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counterfeit
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stanch
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to stop the flow of fluid
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stint
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to be thrifty, to set limbs
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stipple
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to paint with dots
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stolid
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showing no emotion, impassive
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striated
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striped, grooved or banded
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stricture
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something that limits, adverse criticism
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stultify
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to cause to appear or be foolish
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stygian
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dark, gloomy
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subterfuge
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deception
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succor
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assistance or relief in time of distress
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