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Abeyance
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State of suspension, temporary inaction
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Abstemious
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State of self-denial, particularly in food or drink.
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Acumen
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Keen, quickness of intellectual insight
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Admonition
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A gentle reproof
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Assiduous
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Persistent, unceasing
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Coda
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Something that summarizes.
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Colloquial
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Pertaining to common speech
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Consternation
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Panic
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Contrite
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Filled with guilt and a sense of atonement and pentinance
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Deletrious
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Hurtful, Morally or physically
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Delineate
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To represent by sketch or diagram
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Derision
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Ridicule
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Desultory
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Aimless, haphazard
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Didactic
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Pertaining to teaching
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Dilatory
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Causing Delay
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Disconcert
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To disturb the composure of.
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Dissemble
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To disguise or pretend
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Efficacy
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Power to produce an intended effect
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Effrontery
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Shameless, boldness, impotency
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Ennui
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Boredom
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Equanimity
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Evenness of mind of temper
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Equivocal
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Ambiguous
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Erudite
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Learned
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Eschew
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To keep clear of
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Exculpate
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To Free from blame
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Exigency
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Urgent Situation
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Expatiate
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To write something at length
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Fatuous
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Idiotic
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Foment
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To encourage
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Forestall
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To prevent by taking action in advance
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Fulminate
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To cause to explode
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Facetious
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Amusing
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Fallacious
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Illogical
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Gainsay
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To contradict or deny
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Halcyon
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Calm
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Ignominious
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Shamefull
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Imperious
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Insisting on obedience
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Implicit
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Implied
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Importune
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To harass with persistent demands.
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Inadvertantly
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Unintentionally
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Ineffable
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Unutterable
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Nefarious
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Extremely Wicked
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Obfuscate
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To Darken
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Obsequious
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Servile, ready to serve
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Obviate
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To make unnecessary
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Odious
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Hatefull
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Officious
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Meddlesome
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Onus
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Burden
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Opprobrium
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Infamy, Villification
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Ostentation
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A display of vanity, showy
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Palpable
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Perceptible by feeling or touch
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Paragon
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Model of perfection
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Parsimonious
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Sparing in spending money
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Pathos
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Have a quality that arouses emotion
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Penchant
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Strong inclination
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Penurious
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Sparing in use of money
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Perennial
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Long Lasting
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Perfidy
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Treachery
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Pernicious
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Tending to kill or hurt
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Pious
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Religous
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Platitude
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Trite or commonplace statement
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Perennial
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Something Long Lasting
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Perfidy
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Treachery
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Pernicious
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Tending to hurt or kill
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Platitutude
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Trite or commonplace
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Portend
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Fortell
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Precipitate
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Rash, premature
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Precocious
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Mature at a young age
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Prescience
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Knowledge of events before they happen
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Implicit
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Implied not stated
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Impugn
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To assail with arguments or accusations
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superintend
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to have or exercise the charge and oversight of : direct
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precedence
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to have or exercise the charge and oversight of : direct
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sidereal
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of, relating to, or expressed in relation to stars or constellations : astral
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rectitude
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1 : the quality or state of being straight
2 : moral integrity : righteousness 3 : the quality or state of being correct in judgment or procedure |
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angularity
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3 a : stiff in character or manner : lacking smoothness or grace b : lean and having prominent bone structure
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equivocate
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1 : to use equivocal language especially with intent to deceive
2 : to avoid committing oneself in what one says |
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equivocal
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1 a : subject to two or more interpretations and usually used to mislead or confuse <an equivocal statement> b : uncertain as an indication or sign <equivocal evidence>
2 a : of uncertain nature or classificatio |
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expostulate
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to demand, dispute, from ex- + postulare to ask for — more at postulate. : to reason earnestly with a person for purposes of dissuasion or remonstrance
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shunt
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1 a : to turn off to one side : shift <was shunted aside> b : to switch (as a train) from one track to another
2 : to provide with or divert by means of an electrical shunt 3 : to divert (blood) from one part to another by a surgical shunt 4 : shuttle <shunted the missiles from shelter to shelter> |
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Inexorable
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Unrelenting
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Hidebound
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nsrrow or rigid in opinion, inflexible oriented toward or confined in the past
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Hegemony
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leadership or dominanae of one state or ideology over others
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Idolatrous
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Intensive worship or devotion given to something
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Officious
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Meddle some, oblidging. Unofficial informal
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Immutable
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Incapable of change
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Incipient
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Beginning to come into being or to become aparent. An initial stage.
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Munificent
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liberal in giving, generous
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Excoriate
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To censure
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elucidate
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to make lucid, to throw light upon
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Enmity
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Hosility, ill-will
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exegesis
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critical explanation or interpretation of a text or portion of a text, esp. of the Bible.
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fulsome
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offensive to good taste, esp. as being excessive; overdone or gross: fulsome praise that embarrassed her deeply; fulsome décor.
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Facetious
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not meant to be taken seriously or literally: a facetious remark.
2. amusing; humorous. 3. lacking serious intent; concerned with something nonessential, amusing, or frivolous: a facetious person. |
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Flout
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To show contempt for, as in a rule or convention
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Temerity
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reckless boldness; rashness.
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Tortuous
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full of twists, turns, or bends; twisting, winding, or crooked: a tortuous path.
2. not direct or straightforward, as in procedure or speech; intricate; circuitous: tortuous negotiations lasting for months. 3. deceitfully indirect or morally crooked, as proceedings, methods, or policy; devious. |
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Tacit
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understood without being openly expressed; implied: tacit approval.
2. silent; saying nothing: a tacit partner. 3. unvoiced or unspoken: a tacit prayer |
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Pernicious
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1. causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful: pernicious teachings; a pernicious lie.
2. deadly; fatal: a pernicious disease. 3. Obsolete. evil; wicked. |
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Prolix
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Tedious, Long, wordy
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Probity
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Integrity, highest morals
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Panegyric
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–noun 1. a lofty oration or writing in praise of a person or thing; eulogy.
2. formal or elaborate praise. |
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Vitiate
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1. to impair the quality of; make faulty; spoil.
2. to impair or weaken the effectiveness of. 3. to debase; corrupt; pervert. 4. to make legally defective or invalid; invalidate: to vitiate a claim. |
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Polemical
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. a controversial argument, as one against some opinion, doctrine, etc.
2. a person who argues in opposition to another; controversialist. –adjective 3. Also, po⋅lem⋅i⋅cal. of or pertaining to a polemic; controversial. |
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Affectation
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an effort to appear to have a quality not really or fully possessed; the pretense of actual possession: an affectation of interest in art; affectation of great wealth
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Rake
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To gather together or to bring to light
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Acumen
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Keen accurate judgement or insight
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Umbrage
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–noun 1. offense; annoyance; displeasure: to feel umbrage at a social snub; to give umbrage to someone; to take umbrage at someone's rudeness.
2. the slightest indication or vaguest feeling of suspicion, doubt, hostility, or the like. 3. leaves that afford shade, as the foliage of trees. 4. shade or shadows, as cast by trees. 5. a shadowy appearance or semblance of something. |
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Dissolute
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Loosened, lax, unrestrained
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Abject
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–adjective 1. utterly hopeless, miserable, humiliating, or wretched: abject poverty.
2. contemptible; despicable; base-spirited: an abject coward. 3. shamelessly servile; slavish. 4. Obsolete. cast aside. |
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Veracity
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truthfulness
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Avarice
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Greed, esp, for wealth
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Panacea
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Cure-all, remedy
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Prosaic
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adjective 1. commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative: a prosaic mind.
2. of or having the character or form of prose rather than poetry. |
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Altruism
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Unselfish, devotion to others
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Hubris
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overbearing presumption or pride, arrogance
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Divestiture
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the sale of business holdings or part of a company, esp. under legal compulsion.
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Anomalous
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abnormal, deviationg from common general type
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Supine
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Sluggish, listless, passive, leaning or slopping backwards
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Scurrilous
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Using indecent or abusive language
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Profligate
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1. utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute.
2. recklessly prodigal or extravagant. |
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Saturnine
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–adjective 1. sluggish in temperament; gloomy; taciturn.
2. suffering from lead poisoning, as a person. 3. due to absorption of lead, as bodily disorders |
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Sedulous
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diligent, persistent, hardworking
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Slake
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1. to allay (thirst, desire, wrath, etc.) by satisfying.
2. to cool or refresh: He slaked his lips with ice. 3. to make less active, vigorous, intense, etc.: His calm manner slaked their enthusiasm. 4. to cause disintegration of (lime) by treatment with water. Compare slaked lime. 5. Obsolete. to make loose or less tense; slacken. |
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Solicitous
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adjective 1. anxious or concerned (usually fol. by about, for, etc., or a clause): solicitous about a person's health.
2. anxiously desirous: solicitous of the esteem of others. 3. eager (usually fol. by an infinitive): He was always solicitous to please. 4. careful or particular: a solicitous housekeeper. |
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Sardonic
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characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mocking; cynical; sneering: a sardonic grin.
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Extant
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in existence; still existing; not destroyed or lost: There are only three extant copies of the document.
2. Archaic. standing out; protruding. |
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Guy
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a rope etc, attached to something as a brace or guide to steady or reinforce
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Guerulous
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Prone to complaint or grumbling
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Didactic
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Intended to teach or instruct
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Recondite
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hidden, concealed, difficult to understand
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Paraquet
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1 : to furnish with a floor of parquet
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epistemology
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: the study or a theory of the nature and grounds of knowledge especially with reference to its limits and validity.
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mace
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an ornamental staff borne as a symbol of authority before a public official or a legislative body b : one who carries a mace
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extemporaneous
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1 a (1) : composed, performed, or uttered on the spur of the moment : impromptu <an extemporaneous comment> (2) : carefully prepared but delivered without notes or text b : skilled at or given to extemporaneous utterance c : happening suddenly and often unexpectedly and usually without clearly known causes or relationships <a great deal of criminal and delinquent behavior is…extemporaneous — W. C. Reckless>
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Cere
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dry; withered.
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austere
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severe in manner or appearance; uncompromising; strict; forbidding: an austere teacher.
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cleave
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: to adhere firmly and closely or loyally and unwaveringly
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perquisites
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1. an incidental payment, benefit, privilege, or advantage over and above regular income, salary, or wages: Among the president's perquisites were free use of a company car and paid membership in a country club.
2. a gratuity or tip. 3.something demanded or due as a particular privilege: homage that was once the perquisite of royalty. |
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Rebus
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a representation of a word or phrase by pictures, symbols, etc., that suggest that word or phrase or its syllables: Two gates and a head is a rebus for Gateshead.
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Peroration
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1. a long speech characterized by lofty and often pompous language.
2. Rhetoric. the concluding part of a speech or discourse, in which the speaker or writer recapitulates the principal points and urges them with greater earnestness and force. |
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dispassionate
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free from or unaffected by passion; devoid of personal feeling or bias; impartial; calm: a dispassionate critic.
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Supposition
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1. the act of supposing.
2. something that is supposed; assumption; hypothesis. |
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Forestall
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1. to prevent, hinder, or thwart by action in advance: to forestall a riot by deploying police.
2. to act beforehand with or get ahead of; anticipate. 3. to buy up (goods) in advance in order to increase the price when resold. 4. to prevent sales at (a fair, market, etc.) by buying up or diverting goods. |
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tendencious
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having or showing a definite tendency, bias, or purpose: a tendentious novel.
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leaven
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1. a substance, as yeast or baking powder, that causes fermentation and expansion of dough or batter.
2. fermented dough reserved for producing fermentation in a new batch of dough. 3. an element that produces an altering or transforming influence. |
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mollycoddle
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1. a man or boy who is used to being coddled; a milksop. –verb (used with object) 2. to coddle; pamper. |
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Prate
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To chatter or babble
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Rapacious
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voracious, greedy, plundering
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Recidivism
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Relapse into anti-social or criminal behavior
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Recreant
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Cowardly, craven, crying for mercy
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Dissolution
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Disintegration, looseness in morals
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Distrait
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distracted, absent minded, esp. due to anxiety
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Epithet
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Disparaging word or phrase
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Extirpate
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to destroy, to exterminate, to cut out to excind
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Insular
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parochial, narrow minded
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Inimicial
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hostile, adverse, unfriendly
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Flip
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Sarcastic, impertinent
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Grouse
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to complain or grumble
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Scurvy
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Contemptible, despicable
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Dyspeptic
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gloomy, pessimistic, irratible
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Inveigh
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to attack verbally, to denounce deprecate, blame
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Involute
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intricate, complex, convoluted
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Labile
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readily open to change, erratic, afloat, tittupy
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Lassitude
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listless, languor, weariness, lethargy, apathy
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Lubricious
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Lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery
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Macerate
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to waste away, to soften or wear away by excessive fasting or excessive steeping, liquefy, digest
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Maculate
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marked with spots or blotches, impure
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Meretricious
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cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy
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NonPlused
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baffled in quandary at a loss for what to say or do
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Nostrum
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Panacea, cure-all, placebo, questionable remedy, quack
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Obloquy
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abusively detractive language, sharp criticism, calumny
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Obstreperous
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noisy, loud
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Wheedle
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to coax, to persuade, often through the use of flattery or smooth talk
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Overwheening
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presumptuously arrogant, supercilious, overbearing
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Peremptory
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admitting of no contradictions, haughty, imperious
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Pillory
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to punish, to hold up to public scorn
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Plangent
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pounding, thundering, resounding, wordy/tedious
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Froward
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intractable, not willing to yield, recalcitrant
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Alloy
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to debase by mixing with something inferior
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Intransigent
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Refusing to compromise
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Churlish
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boorish, vulgar, loutish, difficult and intractable
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Episodic
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loosely connected, not flowing, logically
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Mince
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Pronounce or speak affectedly, euphemism, speak to carefully, take tiny steps, tiptoe
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Acarpous
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Effete, no longer fertile, worn out
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Fetter
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to shackle and put in chains
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Divest
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to remove or strip, esp. clothing
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Calumny
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Slander, aspersion
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Cadge
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to sponge or mooch
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Discomfit
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to defeat, overthrow, put to fight, make uneasy
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Abrogate
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to abolish annul by authority, to put down
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Arrant
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Impudent, shameless
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Belie
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to give false impression, to misrepresent
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Calumniate
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to slander, make false accusation
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Captious
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Disposed to the point of trivial faults, calculated to confuse or entrap in arguement
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Chasten
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to chastise or correct
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Contemn
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to scorn or despise
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Diffident
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reserved, shy, unassuming, lacking in self-confidence
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Descry
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to discriminate or discern, to make known
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Doggeral
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trivial, poorly constructed verse
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Depredate
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to plunder, pillage, ravage, to destroy, to exploit in a predatory manner
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Defalcate
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to embezzle or misapprobriate
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Cozen
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to deceive, beguile, or hoodwink
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Disaffect
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to estrange
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Boisterous
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rough, lacking restraint
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Edacious
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voracious, devourer
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Cygnet
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Baby Swan
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prognosticate
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Predict
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Prognosticate
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1. to forecast or predict (something future) from present indications or signs; prophesy.
2. to foretoken; presage: birds prognosticating spring. |
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illicit
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1.not legally permitted or authorized; unlicensed; unlawful.
2.disapproved of or not permitted for moral or ethical reasons. |
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Dulcet
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Melodius, harmonious
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August
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majestic, venerable
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Assiduous
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diligent, hardworking
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Exemplar
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typical or standard specimen
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Expiate
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at atone to make amends for
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Inimitable
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one of a king, peerless
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Puissance
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power, strength
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Provident
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frugal, looking into the future
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Luculent
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easily understood, lucid, clear, limpid
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Evince
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to show clearly, to indicate
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Corroborate
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to confirm to provide support and verify
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Pellucid
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Transparent, easy to understand
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Ostensible
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Seeming, appearing as such, professed
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Discretion
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cautious reserve in speech, ability to make responsible conversation
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Piquant
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agreeable, pungent, stimulating, flavorful
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Singular
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Exceptional, unusual, odd
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Artless
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without guile, natural, without artificiality
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Beatify
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To bless, to make happy. ascribe virtue to, regard as saintly
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Forberance
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Patience, willingness to wait
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Auspice
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Protection or support
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Auspicious
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favorable. successful, prosperous
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