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dogmatic adj.
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arbitrary; arrogant; assertive; bigoted; bullheaded; categorical; cocksure; confident; definite; despotic; determined; dictative; doctrinaire; domineering; downright; egotistical; emphatic; fanatical; fascistic; formal; high and mighty; imperious; intolerant; magisterial; narrow-minded; obdurate; obstinate; one-sided; overbearing; peremptory; pigheaded; prejudiced; stiff-necked; stubborn; tenacious; tyrannical; unequivocal; wrong-headed
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dormant adj.
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abeyant; asleep; closed down; comatose; down; fallow; hibernating; inert; inoperative; latent; lethargic; lurking; on the shelf; out of action; passive; potential; prepatent; quiescent; sidelined; slack; sluggish; slumbering; smoldering; suspended; torpid
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duplicity n.
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Judas kiss; artifice; chicanery; cunning; deceit; dirty dealing; dirty pool; dirty trick; dirty work; dishonesty; dissemblance; dissimulation; double-dealing; dualism; duality; faithlessness; falsehood; fraud; guile; hypocrisy; one-upmanship; perfidiousness; perfidy; skullduggery; stab in back; treacherousness; treachery; two-facedness; twoness
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ebb v.
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allay; chill out; coast; cool; cool it; decline; decrease; diminish; dull; dwindle; go with the flow; hang easy; hang loose; lay back; let go; let it all hang out; let up; mellow out; moderate; quell; recede; reduce; slacken; slow; subdue; subside; take it easy; taper; taper off; unlax; wane
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eclectic adj.
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all-embracing; assorted; broad; catholic; dilettantish; diverse; diversified; heterogeneous; inclusive; liberal; many-sided; mingled; mixed; multifarious; multiform; selective; universal; varied; wide-ranging
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efface v.
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blot out; blue-pencil; cancel; cross out; delete; destroy; edit; eliminate; expunge; fade; obliterate; rub out; scratch out; white out; wipe out
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effervescent adj.
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airy; boiling; bouncy; bubbling; bubbly; carbonated; elastic; expansive; fermenting; frothing; frothy; resilient; sparkling; volatile
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egregious adj.
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arrant; atrocious; capital; deplorable; extreme; flagrant; glaring; grievous; heinous; infamous; insufferable; intolerable; monstrous; nefarious; notorious; outright; preposterous; rank; scandalous; shocking; stark
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elucidate v.
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annotate; clarify; clear; clear up; decode; demonstrate; draw a picture; enlighten; exemplify; explicate; expound; get across; gloss; illuminate; illustrate; interpret; make perfectly clear; make plain; make see daylight; prove; shed light on; spell out; throw light on; unfold
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elusive adj.
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ambiguous; baffling; cagey; deceitful; deceptive; difficult to catch; elusory; equivocal; evanescent, fallacious, fleeting, fraudulent; fugacious; fugitive; greasy; illusory; imponderable; incomprehensible; indefinable; insubstantial; intangible; misleading; occult; phantom; puzzling; shifty; shy; slippery; stonewalling; subtle; transient; transitory; tricky; unspecific; volatile
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