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peripheral adj.
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borderline; exterior; external; incidental; inessential; irrelevant; minor; outer; outermost; perimetric; secondary; superficial; surface; tangential; unimportant
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peruse v.
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analyze; browse; inspect; read; scan; scrutinize; skim; study
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philistine adj.
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barbarian; barbaric; base; bawdy; blue; boorish; brutish; cheap; churlish; common; crass; crude; dirty; earthy; filthy; foul; foul-mouthed; gross; gruff; ill-bred; immodest; impolite; improper; impure; incult; indelicate; inelegant; loutish; low; lowbred; mean; nasty; obscene; off-color; offensive; raffish; raunchy; raw; ribald; rough; roughneck; rude; scatological; smutty; tacky; tasteless; uncivil; uncivilized; uncouth; uncultivated; uncultured; unpolished; unrefined; vulgar; vulgarian
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piety n.
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allegiance; application; ardor; belief; devoutness; docility; dutifulness; duty; faith; fealty; fervor; fidelity; godliness; grace; holiness; loyalty; obedience; passion; religion; religiosity; reverence; sanctity; veneration; zeal
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pique v.
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abuse; anger; annoy; confront; criticize; displease; dispraise; dump on; encounter; face; meet; offend; outrage; provoke; put down; slander; slight; taunt; vex
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placate v.
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appease; assuage; calm; cheer; comfort; conciliate; humor; make peace; make up; mollify; pacify; propitiate; reconcile; satisfy; soothe; stroke; sweeten; tranquilize
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placid adj.
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collected; composed; cool; detached; easygoing; equable; even; even-tempered; gentle; halcyon; hushed; imperturbable; irenic; peaceful; poised; quiet; restful; self-possessed; serene; still; tranquil
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plagiarize v.
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appropriate; copy; paraphrase; steal; acquire; carbon; cartoon; clone; counterfeit; delineate; depict; ditto; draw; dupe; engrave; engross; fake; forge; limn; manifold; mimeo; mirror; mold; photocopy; photostat; picture; portray; reduplicate; reflect; repeat; replicate; represent; reproduce; rewrite; sculpture; sketch; stat; trace; transcribe; adopt; assume; copy; filch; imitate; obtain; pilfer; pirate; simulate; steal; take; use; usurp
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platitude n.
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banality; bromide; buzzword; chestnut; cliché; commonplace; evenness; flatness; hackneyed term; hokum; inanity; insipidity; monotony; motto; potboiler; prosaicism; proverb; saw; shibboleth; stereotype; tag; triteness; triviality; truism; vapidity; verbiage
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pompous adj.
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affected; bloated; boastful; bombastic; conceited; flatulent; flaunting; flowery; fustian; grandiloquent; grandiose; highfaluting; imperious; important; inflated; magisterial; magniloquent; narcissistic; orotund; ostentatious; overbearing; overblown; pontifical; portentous; presumptuous; pretentious; puffy; rhetorical; self-important; selfish; showy; sonorous; stuck-up; supercilious; turgid; uppity; vain; vainglorious; windy
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