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ponderous adj.
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awkward; bulky; burdensome; clumsy; cumbrous; dull; elephantine; graceless; hefty; huge; laborious; lifeless; lumbering; massive; onerous; oppressive; substantial; troublesome; unhandy; unwieldy; weighty
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pragmatic adj.
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businesslike; commonsensical; efficient; hard; hard-boiled; hardheaded; logical; practical; realistic; sober; unidealistic; utilitarian
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preclude v.
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avert; cease; check; debar; deter; discontinue; exclude; forestall; forfend; hinder; impede; interrupt; make impracticable; obviate; prevent; prohibit; quit; restrain; rule out; stave off; stop; ward
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precocious adj.
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advanced; aggressive; beforehand; bold; brassy; bright; cheeky; cocky; developed; early; flip; flippant; forward; fresh; intelligent; mature; nervy; premature; presumptuous; pushy; quick; sassy; smart-alecky
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prestigious adj.
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celebrated; distinguished; eminent; esteemed; exalted; famed; great; illustrious; important; imposing; impressive; notable; prominent; renowned; reputable; respected
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pretentious adj.
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affected; arty; assuming; aureate; big; bombastic; chichi; conspicuous; euphuistic; exaggerated; extravagant; feigned; flamboyant; flashy; flaunting; flowery; gaudy; grandiloquent; grandiose; high-flown; high-sounding; highfaluting; hollow; imposing; inflated; jazzy; lofty; magniloquent; mincing; ornate; ostentatious; overambitious; overblown; pompous; puffed up; put-on; rhetorical; showy; specious; splashy; stilted; swank; tumid; turgid; utopian; vainglorious
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procrastinate v.
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adjourn; cool; dally; dawdle; defer; drag; hesitate; lag; linger; loiter; pause; poke; postpone; prolong; protract; retard; stall; stay; suspend; tarry; temporize; wait
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prodigious adj.
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Herculean; big; colossal; fantastic; giant; gigantic, gross; immeasurable; immense; inordinate; jumbo; king-size; large; mammoth; massive; mighty; monstrous; monumental; mortal; stupendous; towering; tremendous; vast
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profane adj.
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abusive; atheistic; blasphemous; coarse; dirty; filthy; foul; godless; heathen; idolatrous; impious; impure; indecent; infidel; irreligious; irreverent; irreverential; mundane; nasty; obscene; pagan; profanatory; raunchy; sacrilegious; sinful; smutty; temporal; transient; transitory; unconsecrated; ungodly; unhallowed; unholy; unsanctified; vulgar; wicked; worldly
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profusion n.
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ampleness; copiousness; excess; extravagance; flood; glut; opulence; outpouring; overflow; plenitude; plenty; prosperity; prosperousness; surplus; wealth
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