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prolific adj.
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abounding; abundant; bountiful; breeding; copious; creative; fecund; fertile; generating; generative; luxuriant; profuse; proliferant; rank; reproducing; reproductive; rich; spawning; swarming; teeming; yielding
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propensity n.
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ability; aptness; bent; bias; capacity; competence; disposition; flash; inclining; leaning; liability; partiality; penchant; predilection; predisposition; proclivity; proneness; susceptibility; talent; tendency; thing; tilt; yen
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provincial adj.
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bigoted; bucolic; country; hidebound; homegrown; homespun; insular; local; narrow; narrow-minded; parochial; pastoral; petty; rude; rural; rustic; sectarian; uninformed; unpolished; unsophisticated
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prudent adj.
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advisable; canny; careful; cautious; circumspect; discerning; discreet; economical; frugal; judgmatic; judicious; leery; politic; provident; reasonable; sagacious; sage; sane; sapient; shrewd; sound; sparing; tactical; thrifty; vigilant; wary
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pugnacious adj.
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aggressive; antagonistic; argumentative; bellicose; brawling; cantankerous; choleric; combative; contentious; defiant; disputatious; hot-tempered; irascible; irritable; militant; petulant; pushing; pushy; quarrelsome; rebellious; salty; scrappy; self-assertive; truculent; warlike
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quandary n.
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Catch-22; bewilderment; bind; clutch; corner; difficulty; dilemma; doubt; embarrassment; hang-up; impasse; mire; perplexity; pickle; plight; predicament; puzzle; spot; strait; uncertainty
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querulous adj.
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bearish; bemoaning; cantankerous; captious; carping; censorious; complaining; critical; cross; crying; deploring; discontented; dissatisfied; edgy; fault-finding; fretful; grousing; grumbling; grumbly; huff; irascible; irritable; lamenting; peevish; petulant; plaintive; scrappy; snappy; sour; testy; uptight; wailing; waspish; waspy; whimpering; whining; whiny
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quixotic adj.
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chimerical; chivalrous; dreaming; dreamy; foolish; impetuous; impractical; impulsive; romantic; starry-eyed; unrealistic; utopian; visionary
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raconteur n.
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anecdotist; narrator; storyteller; announcer; barker; braggart; bragger; commentator; conversationalist; debater; lecturer; mouthpiece; orator; speechmaker; bard; biographer; chronicler; fabler; fabulist; fibber; minstrel; poet; relator
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rancor n.
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acerbity; acrimony; animosity; animus; antagonism; antipathy; aversion; bile; dudgeon; enmity; grudge; harshness; hate; hatred; hostility; malevolence; malice; malignity; mordacity; pique; resentfulness; resentment; retaliation; revengefulness; ruthlessness; spite; spitefulness; spleen; umbrage; uncharitableness; unfriendliness; variance; vengeance; vengefulness; venom; vindictiveness; virulence
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