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280 Cards in this Set
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Abeyance
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Suspended action
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Abscond
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Sneak away
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Abstemious
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Sparing in eating/drinking, temperate
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Abstruse
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Hard to understand
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Acumen
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Keen perception
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Admonish
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Warn, reprove
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Adulation
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Excessive praise
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Adulteration
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Impurification
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Aggrandized
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Widened in scope
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Alacrity
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Willingness
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Ameliorate
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To make better/more tolerable
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Amortize
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To liquidate by paying in installments
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Antediluvian
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Archaic
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Approbation
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Approval
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Artless
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Open and honest
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Ascribe
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To credit or assign as to a cause or source
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Assiduous
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diligent
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Attenuate
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Make thinner
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Augury
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Omen
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Avarice
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Greed
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Aver
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To declare as fact
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Barefaced
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Shameless
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Belied
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Proved to be false
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Bombastic
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Pompous
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Boonish
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Rude, insensitive
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Brook
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Tolerate
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Bucolic
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Rustic and pastoral
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Burnish
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Make shiny by rubbing, polish
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Castigate
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Severely criticize
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Centurion
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Roman officer
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Cogent
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Convincing
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Commensurate
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Corresponding in extent or degree
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Consternation
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Dismay that leads to confusion
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Contention
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Claim, thesis
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Contentious
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Argumentative
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Contravening
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Coming in conflict with, go against
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Contrite
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Regretful, seeking forgiveness
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Contumacious
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Stubbornly perverse
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Countenance
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Appearance. Allow.
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Countermand
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To revoke an order
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Craven
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Cowardly
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Daunt
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Intimidate, frighten
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Default
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Failure to act
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Deference
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Courteous regard for another's wishes
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Delineate
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Portray, depict
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Denigrate
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Blacken
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Denouement
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Ending
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Deposition
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Depositing, testifying, or removing from power
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Desiccate
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Dry up
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Despoiling
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To strip of possessions
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Desultory
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Aimless, haphazard
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Diatribe
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A harsh denunciation
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Didactic
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Intended to teach or instruct
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Diffident
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Shy
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Diffuse
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Wordy, rambling
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Disabuse
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Set right
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Discrete
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Separate, unconnected
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Disingenious
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Lacking genuine candor
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Disparage
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Belittle, Bring reproach on
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Disparate
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Fundamentally dissimilar
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Dissemble
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To disguise or mislead
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Disseminate
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Distribute, spread, scatter
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Dissipation
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Wasteful expenditure
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Dissolution
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Disintegration, looseness in morals
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Distend
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Expand
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Divest
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Strip, deprive
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Dogmatic
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Opinionated, arbitrary
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Dote
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Overaffectionate
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Effrontery
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Audacious, bold
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Elliptical
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Expressed economically, Ambiguous
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Enervate
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Lacking vigor, weaken
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Engender
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Cause
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Equanimity
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Calmness of composure
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Equivocate
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Lie, mislead
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Eschew
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Avoid
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Evanescent
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Tending to vanish
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Evince
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Make evident
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Exacerbate
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Violent, bitter
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Excoriate
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Denounce
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Exculpate
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Clear of blame, exonerate
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Expiating
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To atone for
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Extolled
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Praised highly
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Facilitate
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Help bring about
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Fatuous
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Brainless, inane
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Fawning
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Flattering or cringing
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Felicitous
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Apt, well-chosen
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Fervor
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Glowing ardor
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Fetter
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To shackle, put in chains
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Flag
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Droop, grow feeble
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Fledgling
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Something that is new, inexperienced
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Flout
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Reject, show contempt for
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Foment
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Stir up, instigate
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Forestall
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Prevent by taking action in advance
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Fulminate
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Denounce
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Furtive
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Marked by stealth, covert, surreptitious
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Gainsay
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Deny
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Garrulous
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Wordy, talkative
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Germane
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Relevant to the subject at hand
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Grandiloquence
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Pompous speech
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Guile
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Cunning to get something
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Hackneyed
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Rendered trite by overusage
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Halcyon
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Calm and peaceful
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Harangue
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Delivering a pompous speech (or the speech itself)
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Headlong
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Doesn't plan ahead
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Hedge
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Mitigate a possible loss by counterbalancing
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Hedonism
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Devotion to pleasurable pursuits
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Hegemony
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Dominance of one state/ideology over others
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Iconoclast
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One who attacks traditional conventions
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Idolatry
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Intense devotion to something
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Ignominious
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Dishonorable
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Imbroglio
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Complicated/embarassing situation
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Impassive
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Revealing no emotion
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Impecunious
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Lacking funds, without money
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Imperturbable
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Extreme calm and impassivity
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Impunity
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Immunity from punishment
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Inchoate
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In an initial state
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Incipient
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Beginning to come into being/apparent
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Indigence
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Poverty, destitution, penury
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Indolent
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Lazy
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Indomitable
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Not easily discouraged or subdued
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Industry
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Profession, working hard
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Ineluctable
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Inevitable
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Inert
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Unmoving, sluggish
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Infelicitous
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Unfortunate
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Ingenuous
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Artless
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Inscrutable
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Incapable of being investigated, not easily understood
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Insensible
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Unconscious, unresponsive
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Insidious
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Intended to trap or deceive
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Insipid
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Lacking in flavor, dull
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Insularity
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Narrow-mindedness
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Inter
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Bury
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Intransigent
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Refusing to compromise
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Inundate
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Overwhelm
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Inured
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Accustomed to hardship
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invective
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denunciation, railing accusation
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Inveigle
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To obtain by deception or flattery
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Inveterate
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Habitual, firmly established
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Invidious
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Hateful, discriminating
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Irascible
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Easily angered
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Irresolute
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Uncertain how to act, weak
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Jejune
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Dull, childish
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Laconic
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Brief and to the point
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Lassitude
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Weariness
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Levity
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Lack of seriousness or steadiness
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Loquacious
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Wordy
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Magnanimity
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Noble in mind/heart
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Maladroitness
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Ineptness
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Malinger
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Avoid work
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Mealymouth
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devious
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Mendacious
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Liary
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Misanthrope
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One who hates all other humans
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Miserly
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Stingy
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Mitigate
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To make less intense
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Mollify
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To soothe
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Morose
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Sad, melancholy
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Multifarious
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Diverse
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Neologism
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New word or phrase
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Nugatory
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Worthless
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Obdurate
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Unyielding, hardhearted
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Obsequious
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Showing servile complaisance
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Obviate
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To make obvious and thus unnecessary
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Occlude
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To obstruct or block
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Occult
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Pertaining to magic, astrology, etc.
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Odious
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Evoking intense aversion
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Officious
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Meddlesome
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Onerous
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troublesome
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Opprobrium
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Disgrace, scorn
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Paragon
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Model of perfection
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Partisan
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One sided, prejudiced
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Paucity
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Scarcity
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Pedagogy
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Profession/Principles of teaching
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Pedantic
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Overly concerned with details of knowledge
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Penurious
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Excessively thrifty, miserly
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Penury
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Poverty, destitution
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Perfidy
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Breach of faith
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Perfunctory
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Without interest
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Pernicious
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Extremely harmful
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Perspicuous
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Perceptive
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Peruse
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Examine thoroughly
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Pervasive
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Spreads throughout
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Perverse
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Specifically going against
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Phlegmatic
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Not easily disturbed, calm
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Pith
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Core
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Pithy
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Precise and brief
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Plangent
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Echoing loudly
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Platitude
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A superficial remark, uttered profoundly
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Pliant
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Easily influenced, yielding
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Polemical
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Controversial, argumentative
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Prattle
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Idle chatter
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Precarious
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Uncertain, risky
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Precipitate
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Acting impulsively
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Predilection
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Preference
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Preen
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Primp, dress up
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Presaged
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Presentiment or foreboding
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Prescience
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Foreknowledge of events
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Presumptuous
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Arrogant, taking liberties
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Prevaricate
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Lie, mislead
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Probity
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Integrity
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Prodigal
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Lavish
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Profligacy
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Wastefulness, extravagancy
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Promulgated
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Proclaim formally
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Propitate
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Appease
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Proprierty
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Fitness, correct conduct
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Proscribe
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Ostracize, banish; outlaw
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Puerile
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Pertaining to childhood/childish
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Pugnacious
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Likes to fight
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Pusillanimous
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Timid, diffident
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Pyre
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Dead body pile to be burnt
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Quaff
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Drink deeply
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Querulous
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Prone to complaining
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Quiescence
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Stillness, motionless, quality of being at rest
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Rancor
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Resentment
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Rarefied
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Made less dense
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Raze
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Erase, demolish
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Recalcitrant
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Defiant of authority
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Recant
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Retract (esp a previously held belief)
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Recondite
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Dealing with a profound matter, esoteric
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Redoubtable
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Worthy of honor
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Refractory
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Unmanageable
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Relegate
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Demote
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Reliquaries
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Receptacle for relics
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Repine
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Complain
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Reproach
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Disapproval
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Reprobate
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Person hardened in sin
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Repudiate
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Disown
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Rescind
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Repeal
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Reticent
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Quiet, reserved
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Reverence
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A feeling of respect and awe
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Sagacious
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Keen perception
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Salubrious
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Promoting health
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Sanguinity
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Optimisticness
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Satire
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Literary work that ridicules human vice through humor
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Saunter
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Walk slowly
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Scintillate
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Emit sparks
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Sedition
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incitement of rebellion against a government
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Solicitous
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Eager, worried, concerned
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Solvent
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Able to meet financial obligations
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Soporific
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Sleep causing
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Sordid
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Characterized by filth, grime
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Specious
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Misleadingly false (seems true)
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Spurious
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Lacking authenticity
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Squalid
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Sordid, dirty as from neglect
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Stint
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Be thrifty, set limits
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Stolid
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Showing no emotion, impassive
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Stygian
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Dark, gloomy
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Substantiate
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Establish evidence
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Supernumerary
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Extra, assistant in case of necessity
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Supersede
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Replace, make obsolete
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Supplant
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Take the place of
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Surfeit
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Excess supply
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Syncophantic
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sucking up to someone
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Tacit
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Not needed to put into words
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Tenacity
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Quality of adherence to something valued
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Tenuous
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Flimsy, weak
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Tonic
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Refreshing
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Torpid
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Sluggish, dormant
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Tortuous
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Winding, twisting, excessively complicated
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Tractable
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Docile, easily managed
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Trammel
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Restrain, catch in a net
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Transgression
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Violation of the law, sin
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Trenchant
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Vigorous, caustic
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Truculent
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Eager to fight
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Ubiquitous
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Existing everywhere at the same time
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Undergird
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Secure underneath
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Upbraid
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Scold, criticize
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Vacillate
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Waver, fluctuate
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Variegated
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Varied in appearance
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Veracious
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Truthful
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Verbose
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Wordy
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Virulent
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Extremely harmful
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Vituperative
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Abusive, scolding
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Voracious
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Insatiatable appetite for something
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Welter
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Turmoil, bewildering jumble
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Panegyrize
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To deliver a praising speech about someone
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Scanty
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A dearth of something
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Penitent
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Feeling of sorrow
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Winnow
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Remove impurities from grain via air
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Bleat
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Bah like a sheep
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Ingratiate
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Establish oneself in good graces of others deliberately
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Respite
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An interval of relief, v. to relieve temporarily
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