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Category: Abbreviated communication
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abridge, compendium, curtail
cursory, syllabus, synopsis, terse |
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Act quickly
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abrupt, apace, headlong, impetuous, precipitate
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Assist
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Abet, advocate, ancillary, countenance, munificent, stalwart, bolster, corroborate,
epouse, mainstay, proponent, sustenance |
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Bad mood
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dudgeon, petulant, pique, querulous, umbrage, waspish,
bilious, irascible, pique |
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Beginner/Young
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burgeoning, callow, engender, inchoate, incipient, nascent
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Biting(as in wit or temperament)
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mordacious, mordant, trenchant,
acerbic, acidulous, acrimonious, asperity, caustic |
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Bold
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audacious, dauntless, courageous
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Boring
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fatuous, prosaic, trite, hackneyed, insipid, mundane, pedestrian, quotidian
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Carousal
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bacchalian, dissipated, iniquity, libidnous, licentinous, reprobate, ribald, salacious, sordid, turpitude, debauchery, depraved,libertine
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Changing quickly
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capricious, volatile, mercurial
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Copy
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emulate, simulated, vicarious, counterpart, quintessence, facisimile, factitious, paradigm,precursor, quintessence, simulated, vicarious
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Criticize/criticism
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calumny, decry, defamation, deride/derisive, excoriate, gainsay, harangue, impugn, inveigh, lambaste, objurgate, obloquy, opprobrium, aspersion,remonstrate, pillory, rebuke, castigate, berate
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Criticize/Cricisim
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reprehend, reprove, revile, tirade, vituperate, defamation,
denounce, belittle, calumny, diatribe, disparage, revile, rebuke |
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Death/Mourning
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cadaver, defunct, dolorious, knell, obsequies, sepulchral, wraith, bereave, demise, elegy, lament, macabre, moribund
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Denying of self
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abnegate, stoic, temperate, spartan, ascetic, abstain
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Dictatorial
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despotic, dogmatic, hegemonic(hegemony), imperious, peremptory, tyrannical, authoritarian
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Difficult to understand
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bemusing, enigmatic, esoteric, recondite, paradoxical, opaque, turbid, arcane, cryptic, inscrutable, obscure, preplexing
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Disgusting/offensive
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fetid, invidious, noisome, rebarbative, defile, odious, putrid
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Easy to understand
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cogent, limpid, pellucid, evident, eloquent, articulat
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Eccentric/Dissimilar
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anachronism, aberrant, anomalous, discrete, eclectic, esoteric, iconoclast
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Embarass
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abash, chagrin, compunction, contrition, diffidence, expiate, rue, foible, gaucherie
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Equal
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equitable, equity, tantamount
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Falsehood
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apocryphal, dissemble, equivocate, ersatz, feigned, mendacious/mendacity, prevaricate, spurious
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Family
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conjugal, consanguine, distant, endogamous, fratricide, scion, progenitor
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Favoring/not impartial
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ardor/ardent, fervid, tendentious, doctrinaire,partisan, zealot
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Forgive
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expiate, redress, vindicate, absolve, acquit, exculpate, exonerate, palliate
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Funny
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facetious, levity, raillery, riposte, chortle, drolle, flippant, gibe, jocular,ludicrous, simper
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Gaps/openings
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abatement,arperture, interregum, interstice, orifice, rent, respite, rift, fissure, hiatus, interstice, lull
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Healthy
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Salubrious, Salutary, beneficial
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Hesitate
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dither,oscillate,teeter
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Generous/kind
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clement, largess,magnanimous, munificent, unstinting, altruistic, beneficent, philanthropic
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Greedy
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avaricious,covetous,penurious,
rapacious,venal, mercenary, miserly |
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Hardhearted
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baleful,dour,fell,malevolent, mordant, sardonic, scathing, truculent, vitriolic, vituperation, truculent, asperity
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Hostile
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antithetic, churlish, curmudgoen, malevolent, misaponthropic, truculent, vindictive
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Harmful
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deleterious,baleful,baneful, inimical,insidious,minatory,
pernicious, perfidious, injurious |
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Harsh-sounding
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din,strident, cacophony, dissonant, raucous
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Hatred
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anathema,enmity,odium,rancor,
abhorrence, antagonism, antiphathy, detestation, loathing, malice |
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Innocent/inexperience
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credulous,ingenous,novitiate,
tyro, gullible, naive |
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Insincere
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disingenuous,dissemble,fulsome,
ostensible,unctuous |
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Investigate
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appraise,ascertain,descry, peruse,assay
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Lazy/sluggish
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indolent, lassitude, phlegmatic, torpid,inert, languid, lackadaisical, lethargic, quiescent, slothful
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Luck
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adventitious,propitiate,
propitious,kismet,providential, talisman, fortuitous, amulet, auspicious |
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Nag
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admonish, cavil, belabor, exhort, harangue, hector, martinet,remonstrate,reproof
hector,enjoin |
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Nasty
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fetid, noisome, noxious
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Not a straight line
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circuitious, circumvent, oblique, serrated, silde, sinuous, undulating,
askance, awry, carorn, gyrate labyrinth, meander, sidle, undulating, vortex |
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Overblown/wordy
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bombastic, circumlocution, grandiloquent, loquacious, periphrastic, prolix, rhetoric, turgid, verbose
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Pacify/satisfy
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propitiate, satiate, slake, sooth, appease, assuage, defer,
mitigate, mollify, placate |
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Pleasant sounding
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euphonious, harmonious, melodious, sonorous
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Poor
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esurient,impecunious,indigent,
destitute |
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Praise
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accolade,enconium, laud/laudatory, venerate/veneration, extol,
eugolize, aggrandize, fawn |
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Predict
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augur,auspice,fey,harbringer
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Prevent/obstruct
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encumber, fetter, forfend, inhibit,hinder, occlude, discomfort,
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Smart/learned
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astute, canny,erudite, persipcacious
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Sorrow
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disconsolate, doleful, dolor, elegiac,
forlorn, lament, lugubrious, melancholy, morose, plaintive, threnody |
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Stubborn
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implacable, inexorable, intractable,
intransigent, obdurate, obstinate, recalcitrant, refractory, renitent, untoward, vexing |
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Terse
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pithy, succint, taciturn, laconic, curt, compendious
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Time/Order/Duration
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anachronism, antecede, antedate,anterior, arachiac, diurnal, eon, ephemeral, epoch, fortnight,
millenium, penultimate, synchronous, temporal |
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Timid/Timidity
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craven, diffident, pusillanimous, recreant, timorous, trepidation
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Truth
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candor/candid, fealty, frankness, indisputable, indubitable, legitimate, probity, sincere, veracious, verity
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Unusual
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aberration, anomaly, iconoclast,
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Walking about
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ambulatory, itinerant, peripatetic
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Wandering
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discursive, expatiate, peregrination, peripatetic, sojourn, forage, itenerant
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Weaken
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adulterate, enervate, obviate, stultify, undermine, vitiate
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Wisdom
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adage, aphorism, apothegm, axiom, bromide, dictum, epigram, platitude,
sententious, truism |
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Withdrawal/retreat
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abeyance,abjure,abnegation,abortive,
abrogate, decamp, demur, recant, recidivism, remission,renege, rescind, retrograde |
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Imprecation
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Declivity
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jaunty
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lampoon
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halcyon
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puerile
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lax
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conglomerate
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amble
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carte blanche
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sociliastic
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capatilist
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carnal
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capacious
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chaste
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wanton
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bestial
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carping
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carousal
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sobriety
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bland
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anathematize
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aloof
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blanch
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catholic
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pacific
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captious
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tolerant
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punctilious
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sonata
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embezzle
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barterer
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a trader who exchanges goods for goods.
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ragamuffin
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restive
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intrepedity
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sedulous
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trepidation
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veracity
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turbid
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sententious
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celibate
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affected
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apprehend
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apposite
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cynosure
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vicissitude
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animus
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hibernal
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husbandry
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defection
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inveterate
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inured
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jaundiced
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Protean
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antonym:unchanging
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Ragamuffin
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Quell
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Puerile
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Mellifluous
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inopportune
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Affected
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Censure
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Pulchritude
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Provincial
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Punctilious
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Propitious
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Capacious
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Carte Blanche
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Captious
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Amble
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Baroque
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Dastard
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Gourmet
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Hortatory
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Inveterate
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Pulchritude
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Phlegmatic
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Guile
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Provincial
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Trenchant
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Tremulous
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Sedulous
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Sententious
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Trepidation
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Chaste
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Putative
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Puissant
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Benison
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Apposite
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Hibernal
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Antediluvian
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Carping
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Anathematize
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Animated
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Secular
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Inter
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Hibernal
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Hover
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Halcyon
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Provident
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Putative
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Animus
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Alacrity
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Cellerity
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Capacious
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Capricious
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Lechery
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Beatific
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Affluence
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Amoral
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Ellipse
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Hibernal
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Hummock
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Defalcate
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exhume
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exter
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Axiomatic
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Truculent
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Truculent
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