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Salubrious
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promoting health or well-being
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Salient
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prominent, protruding, conspicuous, highly relevant
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rubric
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authoritative rule, heading, title, or category
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rescind
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to invalidate, repeal, retract
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Rarefy
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to make or become thin, less dense, refine
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querulous
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prone to complaining or gumbling, quarrelsome
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Pusillanimous
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cowardly, craven
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Reconnoiter
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to engage in reconnaissance, make a preliminary inspection of
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Repudiate
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to refuse to have anything to do with, disown
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Repine
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to feel or express dejection or discontent, long for
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Rent
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torn, split apart, pierced as if by sound
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Remonstrate
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to protest, object
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Relegate
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to forcibly assign, expecially to a lower place or position
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Regale
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to delight or entertain, feast
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Refulgate
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radiant, shiny, brilliant
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Renege
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to fail to honor a commitment, go back on a promise
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Refute
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to disprove, successfully argue against
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Redoubtable
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awe-inspiring; worthy of honor
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Redolent
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fragrant, suggestive or evocative
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Recumbent
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leaning, resting, prone
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Recondite
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hidden, concealed, difficult to understand, obscure
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salacious
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appealing to or causing sexual desire, bawdy
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Reticent
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quiet, reserved, reluctant to express thoughts and feelings
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Resolute
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adamant, steadfast, determined
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Pundit
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an authority on a subject, one who gives opinions
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Punctilious
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precise, paying attention to trivialities, especially in regard to etiquette
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Pugnacious
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contentious, quarrelsome, given to fighting, belligerent
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Puerile
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childish, immature
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Provident
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frugal, looking to the future
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Recant
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to retract, especially a previously held belief
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Recalcitrant
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obstinately defiant of authority or guidance, difficult to manage
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Rebus
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riddle, a representation of words by pictures or symbols that sound like the words
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Rapacious
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voracious, greedy, plundering, subsisting on prey
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Rancorous
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characterized by bitter, long-lasting resentment
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Ramify
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to be divided or subdivided, branch out
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Rail
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to complain about bitterly
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Quotidian
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occuring or recurring daily, commonplace
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Quixotic
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foolishly impractical, marked by lofty romantic ideals
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Quiescence
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stillness, motionless, quality of being at rest
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Qualms
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misgivings, reservations, causes for hesitancy
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Qualify
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to limit
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Quail
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to shrink back in fear, loose courage
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Quaff
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to drink deeply
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Putrefy
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to rot, decay and give off a foul odor, become gangrenous
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Dissipated
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to maximize his or her own pleasure, to the point of excess
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Vitiate
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to reduce the value of, debase, spoil, make ineffective
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virulent
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extremely harmful or poisonous, bitterly hostile or antagonistic
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vexation
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annoyance, irritation
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verisimilitude
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appearing true or real
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Usury
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charging an exorbitent or illegal rate of interest
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Urbane
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sophisticated, refined, elegant
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puissant
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powerful, mighty
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Temerity
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to act rashly or without forethought
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Venal
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capable of being bought or bribed
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Vituperative
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harshly critical
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Vitiate
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to corrupt or make imperfect
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promulgate
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to make known, to announce
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Vilify
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to defame, characterize harshly
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supplant
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to take the place of, supersede
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Stint
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to restrain, be sparing or frugal
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Succor
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assistance, relief in time of distress
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supercilious
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disdainful, arrogant, haughty, characterized by haughty scorn
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specious
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seeming true, but actually false, misleadingly attractive
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Turbid
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muddy, having sediment stirred up, clouded to teh point of being opaque, in a state of turmoil
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Truculent
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fierce, scathing, eager to fight
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Turpitude
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deprivity, baseness
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Ubiquitous
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existing everywhere at the same time, constantly encountered, widespread
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Untoward
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troublesome, unruly, unseemly, adverse
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Tenuous
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having little substance or strength, flimsy, weak
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Suppliant
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asking humbly, beseeching
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Tenacity
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the quality of adherence or persistence to something valued
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Supplicant
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beggar
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Tumid
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swollen
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Tacit
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implied, not explicitly stated
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Tout
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to publicly praise or promote
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Tractable
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docile, obedient, easily led
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Transient
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fleeting, passing quickly, brief
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Tyro
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novice
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undulate
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to move in a wave like fashion, fluctuate
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unfeigned
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genuine, not false or hypocritical
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untenable
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indefenseible, not viable, uninhabitable
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upbraid
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to scold, censure, rebuke, chastise
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surfeit
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to feed or supply in excess
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sycophant
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someone who tried to flatter or please for personal gain, parasite
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Table
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to remove from consideration
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Taciturn
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not talkative, silent
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Tautology
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a repetition, a redundancy, a circular argument
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Tamp
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to plug, to drive in or down by a series of blows
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Tawdry
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cheap, gaudy, showy, tacky, indecent
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Tendentious
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biased, showing marked tendencies
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Tender
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to offer formally
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Terse
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brief and concise in wording
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Timorous
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timid, fearful, diffident
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Tirade
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loud and extremely critical speech, harsh denunciation
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Toady
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sycophant, flatterer, yes-man
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Stoic
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indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain, steadfast
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stygian
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gloomy, dark
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Stymie
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to block or thwart
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succinct
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brief, concise
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sundry
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various, miscellaneous separate
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superfluous
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exceeding what is sufficient or necessary
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solicitous
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concerned and attentive, eager
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spendthrift
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one who spends money wastefully
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sporadic
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occuring only occasionally or in scattered instances
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spurious
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lacking authenticity or validity, false, counterfit
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squalid
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sordid, wretched and dirty as if by neglect
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squander
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to waste by spending or using irresponsibly
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stanch
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to stop the flow of a liquid
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Torrid
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scorching, ardent, passionate, hurried
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Tortuous
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windind, twisting, excessively complicated
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stentorian
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extremely loud and powerful
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Torpid
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lethargic, sluggish, dormant
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Umbrage
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offense, resentment
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Turgid
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swollen, bloated, pompous, excessively ornate
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Trenchant
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sharply perceptive, keen, penetrating, biting clear cut
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Travesty
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mockrey, caricature, parody
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splenetic
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bad-tempered,irratable
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sophomoric
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exhibiting immaturity, lack of judgement, pretentious
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soporific
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causing drowsiness, tending to induce sleep
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sordid
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characterized by filth, grime, or squalor, foul
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solvent
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able to meet financial obligations
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sophistry
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fallacious resoning, plausible, but faulty logic
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supine
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inactive, lying on one's back, apathetic, mentally or morally slack
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vacillate
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to waver indecisively to sway
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variegated
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multicolored
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venerate
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to revere
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veracity
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truthfulness, honesty
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veritable
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authentic, real, genuine
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Plangent
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pounding, thundering, resounding
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sanguine
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cheerful, confident, optimistic
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depravity
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extreme corruption, wickedness
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Complicity
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participation, often in wrongdoing
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Saturnine
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gloomy, dark, sullen, morose
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Pique
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resentment, feeling of irritation due to hurt pride
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Pernicious
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extremely harmful, potentially causing death
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profligate
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excessively wasteful, recklessly extravagant
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Prodigious
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abundant in size, force or extent, extraordinary
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Deride
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ridicule, make fun of
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calumny
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a false and malicious accusation, misrepresentation
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opprobrium
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disgrace, contempt, scorn
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propitate
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to appease, conciliate
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probity
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adherence to highest principles, unrightness
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predilection
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a disposition in favor of something, preference
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proscribe
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to outlaw or prohibit
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prolific
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producing large volumes or amounts, productive
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parsimonious
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cheap, miserly
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perfunctory
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cursory, done without care or interest
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Paucity
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scarcity, a lacking of
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peripatetic
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itinerant, traveling, nomadic
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salutary
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remedial, wholesome, causing improvement
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perspicacious
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acutely perceptive, having keen discernment
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Parry
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to block, evade or ward off, as a blow
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Plaintive
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mournful, melancholy, sorrowful
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Platitude
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superficial or trite remark, especially one offered as meaningful
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Profuse
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given or coming foth abundantly, extravagant
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Prize
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to pry, press or force, with a lever
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Prosaic
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dull, unimaginative
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Propitious
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auspicious, favorable
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Propinquity
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nearness, in time or place, affinity of nature, kinship
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Polemical
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controversial, argumentative
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Petulant
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impatient, irritable
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Pedantic
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Ostentatious display of learning, excessive attention to minute and formal rules, unimaginative
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Pied
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multi-colored, usually in blotches
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peremptory
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admitting of no contradiction, putting an end to further debate, haughty, imperious
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perennial
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recurrent through the year or many years, happening repeatedly
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Jejune
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vapid, uninteresting, childish, immature, lacking nutrition
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Ethos
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beliefs or character of a group
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Desecrate
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to destroy the sanctity or beauty of a holy or solemn place, object, event or moment
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Complacency
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self-satisfaction, smugness
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Sinecure
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position requiring little or no work and usually providing an income
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Sedulous
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Diligent, persistent, hard-working
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Scurvy
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contemptivle, despicable
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Ostensible
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seeming, appearing as such, professed
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Onerous
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Troubling, burdensome
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Sanctimony
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self-righteousness, pretended piety
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Seine
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a large net hung out and dragged in to catch fish
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Sere
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withered, arid
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Seminal
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like a seed, constituting a source, originative
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shard
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a piece of broken pottery or glass, any small piece or part
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Simper
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to smirk, to say something with a silly, coy smile
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Enmity
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ill will, hatred
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Efficacy
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effectiveness
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Gossamer
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delicate, insubstantial or tenuous, insincere
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Militate
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to have weight or bearing on, to argue against
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cupidity
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greed, strong desire
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capitous
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critical, fault-finding, argumentative, quibbling
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Obtain
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to be established, accepted, or customary, prevail
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Occlude
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to obstruct or block
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disputatious
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argumentative; fond of arguing
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comestible
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something you can eat
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Debilitate
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weaken, enfeeble
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Deplore
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regret; disapprove of
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Deleterious
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subtly or unexpectedly harmful
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Duplicity
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double-dealing; hypocrisy
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Occult
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hidden, concealed beyond comprehension
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Obdurate
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unyeilding, hardhearted, inflexible
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obsequious
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exhibiting a fawning attentiveness, subservient
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overweening
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presumptuously, arrogant, overbearing, immoderate
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Obfuscate
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to deliberately obscure, to make confusing
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Ostentatious
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characterized or given to pretentiousness
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Officious
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meddlesome, pusy in offering one's services where they are unwanted
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Obviate
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to make unnecessary
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Obstinate
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stubborn, hard-hearted, uncompromising
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Obstreperous
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noisy, loudly stubborn, boisterous
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Cursory
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Casual, hastidly done
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Nostrum
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cure-all, placebo, questionable remedy
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Meretricious
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tawdry, pretentious, attractive but false, showy, having to do with prostitution
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Mnatory
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menacing, threatening
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Halcyon
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calm and peaceful, prosperous
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Excoriate
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to censure scathingly, to upbraid
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Errant
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traveling, intinerant, peripatetic
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Peruse
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to examine with great care
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Picaresque
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involving clever rogues or adventures
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Pillory
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to punish, hold up to public scorn
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Piquant
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agreeably pungent, spicy, stimulating
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Poignant
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distressing, pertinent, touching, stimulating, emotional
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Pragmatic
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practical, rather than idealistic
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penurious
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penny-pinching, excessively thrifty, ungenerous
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Penchant
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strong inclination, a liking
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Pedestrian
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commonplace, trite, unremarkable
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Pedagogy
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the art or profession of training, teaching, or instructing
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Phlegmatic
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calm, sluggish, unemotional, stoic
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Placate
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to appease, to calm by making concessions
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Pluck
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courage, spunk, fortitude
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Plummet
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to plunge or drop straight down
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Prate
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chatter, babble
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Prattle
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to babble meaninglessly, to talk in an empty and idle manner
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Precursor
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something that percedes and indicates or announces another
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panegyric
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formal expression of praise
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proliferate
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to grow or increase swiftly and abundantly
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Prolix
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long-winded, verbose
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propensity
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a natural inclination or tendency, penchant
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preempt
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to replace, to supersede, to appropriate
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prescience
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knowing of events prior to their occuring
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presumptuous
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overstepping bounds, as of propriety, taking liberties
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prevaricate
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to deliberately avoid the truth, to mislead
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proclivity
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a natural predispostion or inclination
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prodigal
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recklessly wasteful; extravagant, profuse, lavish
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perfidy
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intentional breach of faith, treachery
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palliate
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to make something appear less serious, gloss over, mitigate
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paean
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a song or expression of praise and thanksgiving
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personable
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pleasing in appearance, attractive
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sanction
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authoritative permission or approval, a penalty intended to enforce compliance
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sinuous
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winding, curving moving lithely, devoius
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slake
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to satisfy, quench, lessen the intensity of
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sodden
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soaked or drenched unimaginative, dull
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fulminate
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to attack loudly or denounce
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sap
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to enervate or weaken the vialigy of
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singular
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exceptional, unusual, odd
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Doctrinaire
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rigidly devoted to theories without regard for practicality, dogmatic
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Dictum
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authoritative statement
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Degradation
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humiliation, debasement, degeneration
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colloquial
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pertaining to conversational or common speech
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Collusion
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collaboration, complicity, conspiracy
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celibacy
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abstinence from sex
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catharsis
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an emotional release, purification and renewal
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Calumniate
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to slander, make a false accusation
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commensurate
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matching, corresponding, or proportionate in degree, size, or ammount
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complaisance
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the willingness to comply with the wishes of others
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consequential
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pompous, self important
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circuituous
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indirect, roundabout
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confluence
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coming together, flowing together
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cosset
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to pamper, to treat with great care
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capitulate
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to give up, surrender
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circumvent
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to frustrate by going around
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blighted
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impaired; suffering from a disease
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Beleaguer
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to surround, beseige, to relentlessly harass
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Biennial
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occuring every two years
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Banal
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ordinary, commonplace, trite
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Badinage
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witty conversation
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Bereft
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to be left alone and desolate
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ascendancy
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controlling influence, domination
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Affirmation
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assertion, confirmation
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Aver
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to state as a fact; to confirm or support
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Auspice
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protection or support; patronage
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Aspersion
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an act of defamation or maligning
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Ascetic
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one who practices complete self denial
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Arduous
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strenuous, taxing, requiring significant effort
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Arcane
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mysterious, obstruse, esoteric
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Apprise
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give notice to, inform
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Apposite
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appropriate, pertinent, relevant, apropos
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Apotheosis
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deification, glorification to godliness
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Apostate
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one who abandons long held religious or political convictions, a betrayer of a cause
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Antipathy
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aversion, dislike
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Anathema
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a solemn or ecclesiastical curse; accursed or loathed person
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Amenable
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agreeable, responsive to suggestion
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Abrogate
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to abolish or annul by authority, put down
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Adherent
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follower, believer, disciple
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Addle
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to confuse, to mix up
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Acrid
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harsh, sharp, offensive, pungent
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Abiding
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continuing, lasting
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Amenity
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nicety, attractive feature
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Abstract
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not concrete
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Antaean
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having super human strength
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Attrition
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gradual loss in numbers or size, wearing away
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animosity
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active enmity
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Artifice
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clever trick; cunning device
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Aperture
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an opening, hole, gap
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Aphorism
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brief, often witty saying that states a truth
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Arrogate
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to claim without justification for oneself w/o right
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Acquiesce
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assent; agree w/o protesting
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vaunt
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to brag or boast
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Inert
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unmoving, lethargic, sluggish, not reactive
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Nexus
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a connection, link, focus
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Nadir
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low point, perigee
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Nonplussed
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baffled, in a quandary, at a loss for what to say do or think
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Mettlesome
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courageous, high-spirited
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Mendacity
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the condition of being untruthful, dishonesty
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Maunder
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to talk or move aimlessly, mutter
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Mitigate
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to make or become less severe or intense, moderate
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Mince
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Pronounce or speak affectedly or too carefully, euphemize
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Labile
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readily open to change, unstable
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Lassitude
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listlessness, languor, weariness
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Iniquity
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wickedness, gross injustice
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Ineluctable
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certain, inevitable
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Intimate
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to imply, suggest, or insinuate
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Inimitable
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one of a kind
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intransigent
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refusing to compromise
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Impassive
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revealing no emotion or sensibility
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Impetuous
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hasily or rashly energetic impulsive and vehement
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Imperious
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commanding, masterful, arrogant, domineering, haughty
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Insensible
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unconscious, unresponsive, unaware
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Impecunious
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lacking funds, w/o money
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Imbroglio
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difficult or embarrassing situation
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Ignominious
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shameful, dishonorable, ignoble, undignified, disgraceful
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Importune
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to ask incessantly, beg, nag
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Inured
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accustomed to accepting something undesirable
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Intrepid
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steadfast, courageous
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Insular
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parochial, narrow-minded, like an island
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Impugn
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to attack or assail verbally, censure, execrate, deny
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Inveigle
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to obtain by flattery
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Inimical
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damaging, harmful, injurious, hostile, unfriendly
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Incipent
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beginning to come into being or to become apparent
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Inveigh
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to attack verbally, denounce, deprecate
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Impute
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to attribute to a cause or source, ascribe, assign as a charcteristic
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Impunity
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immunity form punishment, penalty or harm
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Hallow
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to set apart as holy
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Homily
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a sermon or morally instructive lecture, a platitude
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Hackneyed
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rendered trite or commonplace by frequent usage
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Grandiloquence
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pompous speech or expression
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Gainsay
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to deny , dispute, contradict, oppose
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Forbearance
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patience, willingness to wait
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Fell
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barren or stony hill; an animal's hide
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Feckless
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ineffectual, irresponsible
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Froward
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intractalbe subborn
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Forswear
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to renounce, disallow, repudiate
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Flout
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to demonstrate contempy for
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Exhort
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to incite, to make urgent appeals
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Extant
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existing, not destroyed
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Enormity
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excessive wickedness, evilness
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Edify
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to instruct morally and spiritually
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Evince
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to make clear
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Epithet
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disparaging word or phrase
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Essay
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to test or try
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Expatiate
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to discuss or write about at length, to range freely
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Esoteric
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known only by a select few
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Extirpate
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to destroy, exterminate
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Exigent
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urgent
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Extemporaneous
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improvised, done w/o preparation
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Expiate
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to atone or make amends for
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Equanimity
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composure, self possession
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Ersatz
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fake, artificial
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Discount
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disregard, dismiss
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Distrait
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distracted, absent minded, especially due to anxiety
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Dissolution
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disintegration, looseness in morals
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Discomfit
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to put down, defeat
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disparage
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to slight or belittle
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