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opulent adj.
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abundant; affluent; copious; deluxe; extravagant; exuberant; frilly; lavish; luscious; luxuriant; moneyed; ostentatious; palatial; plentiful; plush; pretentious; prodigal; profusive; prolific; prosperous; rich; riotous; showy; sumptuous; swank; upholstered; velvet; wealthy
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overt adj.
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apparent; clear; definite; manifest; observable; open; patent; plain; public; undisguised; visible
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painstaking adj.
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assiduous; careful; conscientious; conscionable; diligent; earnest; exact; exacting; finicky; fussbudget; fussy; hard-working; heedful; industrious; particular; persevering; persnickety; picky; punctilious; punctual; scrupulous; sedulous; stickler; strenuous; thoroughgoing
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pariah n.
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castaway; deportee; derelict; displaced person; exile; expatriate; fugitive; leper; outsider; persona non grata; rascal; refugee; tramp; undesirable; vagabond; vagrant; waif
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parsimonious adj.
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avaricious; chintzy; close; frugal; greedy; illiberal; mean; miserly; penurious; prudent; saving; scrimpy; selfish; skinflint; sparing; stingy; tight; tightfisted; tightwad
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partisan adj.
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accessory; adhering; biased; bigoted; blind; cliquish; colored; conspiratorial; denominational; devoted; diehard; exclusive; fanatic; jaundiced; one-sided; overzealous; partial; prejudiced; prepossessed; sectarian; sympathetic; tendentious; unjust; unreasoning; warped; zealous
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paucity n.
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absence; dearth; deficiency; famine; fewness; insufficience; insufficiency; meagerness; paltriness; poverty; rarity; scantiness; scarceness; shortage; slenderness; slightness; smallness; sparseness; sparsity
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peerless adj.
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aces; alone; best; champion; excellent; faultless; gilt-edge; greatest; incomparable; matchless; most; nonpareil; only; outstanding; perfect; super; superlative; supreme; tops; unequaled; unexampled; unique; unmatched; unparagoned; unparalleled; unrivaled; unsurpassed
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perceptive adj.
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acute; astute; awake; aware; brainy; conscious; discerning; discreet; gnostic; incisive; insighted; insightful; intuitive; judicious; keen; knowing; knowledgeable; observant; penetrating; penetrative; percipient; perspicacious; quick; rational; responsive; sagacious; sage; savvy; sharp; sophic; wise
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perfidy n.
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betrayal; bunco; corruption; disaffection; dodge; duplicity; faithlessness; fake; falseness; flimflam; grift; gyp; infidelity; put-on; racket; recreancy; scam; sellout; spoof; treacherousness; treason; two-timing; whitewash
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