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inane |
lacking significance, meaning, or point; silly insipid
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indolence |
laziness
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infallible |
incapable of error
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inscrutable |
difficult to understand; mysterious
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languid |
slow, sluggish, listless, weak
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antiquated |
obsolete, out of fashion, no longer usable
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arable |
fit for plowing, tillable
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ascendancy |
domination, growing power
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atrophy |
to waste away; to wither
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clandestine |
secret
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malice |
desire to harm others
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oblique |
misleading
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opulence |
wealth; affulence; abundence
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penitent |
showing or feeling regret for wrong doing
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perfunctory |
acting routinely with little interest or care
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volatile |
quickly changeable; easily vaporized |
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flourish |
to thrive; to grow well |
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amenable |
open to or willing to follow advice or suggestion |
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mundane |
ordinary; commonplace |
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elucidate |
to make clear; to explain
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cajole |
to persaude and wheedle |
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calamity |
serious event causing distress |
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debase |
to reduce dignity or quality |
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effea |
to wear away |
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ferocity |
savagery |
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flourish |
to thrive and grow |
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haughty |
arrogant extrmely proud |
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emphemeral |
last a short period of time |
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impervious |
not capable of being damaged or penatrated |
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acrimonious |
sarcastic |
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amdiorate |
to make better |
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amorphous |
shapeless or no definite shape |
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bouyant |
ability to float |
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amenable |
open or willing to have followed advice |
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slothful |
lazy |
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trivia |
insignifagant matters |
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virulent |
extremely poisenous |
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volatile |
quickly changeable easily vaporized |
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verbose |
wordy or very talkative |
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cursory |
superficial or casual |
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concilate |
to reconcile, to pacify, to renew a friendship
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enmity |
absolute hatred
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derision |
scoffing at, mockery, ridicule
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excritate |
to free or distangle |