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abjure
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promise or swear to give up
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abraded
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rubbed off worn away by friction
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abrogate
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repeal or annul by authority
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acarpous
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effete no longer fertile worn out
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admonitory
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containing warning
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affable
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polite and friendly
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affinity
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close connection relationship
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agog
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eager/excited
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alacrity
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eager and cheerful readiness
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ameliorate
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improve make better
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amortize
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end (a debt) by setting aside money
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aplomb
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self-confidence
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apotheosis
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deification glorification to godliness
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approbation
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approval
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arabesque
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a complex ornate design
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arboreal
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of connected with trees
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ardor
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enthusiasm
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argot
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jargon slang
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arrant
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in the highest degree
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aseptic
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surgically clean
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asperity
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roughness harshness ill temper irritability
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aspersion
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slander
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assiduous
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diligent hard-working sedulous
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astringent
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substance that shrinks
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attenuate
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make thin. weaken enervate
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attune
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bring into harmony
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audacious
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daring foolishly bold impudent
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augury
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omen sign
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august
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majestic venerable
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auspicious
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favorable successful prosperous
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austere
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severely moral and strict simple and plain
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aver
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affirm assert prove justify
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balk
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obstacle purposely to get on the way of
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barrage
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artificial obstacle built across a river
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beatify
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to bless make happy or ascribe a virtue to
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bedizen
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to adorn especially in a cheap showy manner
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bellicose
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belligerent pugnacious warlike
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belligerent
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(person nation) waging war
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bequest
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arrangement to give smth at death
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bereft
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rob or dispossess of smth (material)
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bilge
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bulge the protuberance of a cask
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blandishment
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flattery coaxing speech
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blithe
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cheerful casual carefree
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brazen
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made of brass
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broach
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bring up announce begin to talk about
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brook
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to tolerate endure
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burgeon
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grow forth send out buds
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burnish
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to polish rub to a shine
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cadge
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to beg to get by begging
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cajole
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use flattery or deceit to persuade
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calumny
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slander aspersion
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castigate
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to chastise correct by punishing
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castigation
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severe punishment
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chary
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cautious wary
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chicanery
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legal trickery/false argument
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churl
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bad-tempered person
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cloture
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closing device (in Parliament) to end a debate by voting
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coda
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passage that completes a piece of music
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cogitate
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think deeply mediate
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collusion
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secret agreement for a deceitful purpose
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commodious
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having plenty of space for what is needed
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complaisance
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tending to comply obliging willingness to please
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compunction
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feeling of regret for one's action
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concord
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agreement or harmony
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conjoin
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to join together
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consternation
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surprise and fear dismay
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contemn
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to scorn or despise
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contumacious
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insubordinate rebellious
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convoke
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call together summon
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convoluted
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complicated coiled twisted
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cordon
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line (of police acting as a guard)
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countervail
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counterbalance
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crass
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very great (es. stupidity)
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cravat
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piece of linen worn as a necktie
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craven
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cowardly
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crease
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line made by crushing white line on the ground in cricket
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credulity
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too great a readiness to believe things
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credulous
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ready to believe things
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curtail
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make shorter then was planned
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dawdler
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person who is slow waste of time
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dearth
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shortage
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decorum
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propriety properness
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decry
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disapprove of
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deferential
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showing respect
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demagogue
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person appealing not to reasons
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demur
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to hesitate raise objections
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denouement
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an outcome or solution the unraveling of a plot
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deprecate
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protest against express disapproval of
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dereliction
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deserting and leaving to fall into ruins
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descry
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catch sight of see smth in the distance
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desiccant
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substance used to absorb moisture
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desuetude
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cessation of use disuse
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desultory
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aimless haphazard digressing at random
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detumescence
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diminishing or lessening of swelling
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diaphanous
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transparent gauzy
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diffidence
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shyness
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dilate
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speak comprehensively become wider large
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discomfit
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confuse embarrass
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disconcert
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upset the self-possession of
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discountenance
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refuse to approve of
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discreet
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careful/prudent
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discrete
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individually distinct
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disingenuous
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sophisticated artful trying to deceive cunning
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disinter
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dig up from the earth
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disparate
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essentially different
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dissemble
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speak or behave so as to hide smth (in mind)
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divestiture
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taking off getting rid of giving up
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doggerel
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trivial poorly constructed verse
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droll
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jesting
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dulcet
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melodious harmonious
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duplicity
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deliberate deception
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duress
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threats to compel smb
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ebullience
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exuberance outburst of feeling
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ebullient
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overflowing with enthusiasm showing excitement
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edacious
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voracious devouring
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effete
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infertile worn out weak
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effluvia
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outflow in a stream of particles a noxious odor or vapor
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effrontery
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boldness impudence arrogance
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egress
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way out exit
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elegy
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a lament a melancholy composition
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emote
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stir up excite
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encomium
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warm or glowing praise eulogy panegyric
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endemic
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epidemic
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ensign
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flag/badge
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epicurean
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devoted to pleasure (sensuous enjoyment)
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epithet
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adjective
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equable
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steady regular
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equanimity
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calmness of temperament
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equipoise
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equal distribution of weight equilibrium
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equivocal
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having a double or doubtful meaning suspicious
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equivocate
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try to deceive by equivocal language
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erudite
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learned scholarly
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eschew
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avoid
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espouse
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marry give one's support to
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evince
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to show clearly to indicate
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evoke
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call up bring out
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excoriation
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severe criticism
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exculpate
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to clear from a charge of guilt
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exigency
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emergency an urgent situation
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expatiate
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to roam wander freely
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expedient
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likely to be useful for a purpose
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expiation
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ending expiring
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expostulate
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argue earnestly to dissuade correct or protest
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expurgate
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to remove obscenity purify censor
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exscind
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to cut out cut away
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extempore
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without previous thought or preparation
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extenuate
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reduce the strength of lessen seriousness partially excuse
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extirpate
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to destroy exterminate cut out exscind
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extricable
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that can be freed
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facetious
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humorous funny jocular
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facile
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easily done
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fatuous
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without sense foolish self-satisfaction
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feckless
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lacking purpose or vitality ineffective careless
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fecund
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fertile
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feint
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pretend
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felicitous
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apt suitably expressed well chosen apropos
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fervid
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showing earnest feeling
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fetid
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stinking
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finical
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too fussy about food clothing etc.
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finicky
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finical
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flax
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pale yellow (hair) a plant
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fledged
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able to fly trained experienced
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florid
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very much ornamented naturally red (e.g.. of face)
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foible
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defect of character (a person is wrongly proud)
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foment
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put smth warm (to lessen the pain)
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foppish
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like a man who pays too much attention to his clothes
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forage
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food for horses and cattle
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forbear
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refrain from be patient ancestor
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ford
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shallow place in a river (to cross)
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forswear
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renounce disallow repudiate
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fracas
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noisy quarrel
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frenetic
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frantic frenzied
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froward
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intractable not willing to yield or comply stubborn
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fulmination
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bitter protest
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fulsome
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disgusting offensive due to excessiveness
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gainsay
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to deny to oppose
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garble
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make unfair selection from facts
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garrulity
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talkativeness
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garrulous
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too talkative
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gaucherie
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socially awkward tactless behavior
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germane
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relevant pertinent to
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glib
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ready and smooth but not sincere
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glut
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supply to much fill to excess
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gossamer
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soft light delicate material
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grandiloquent
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using pompous words
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gregarious
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living in societies liking the company
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hack
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cut roughly hired horse
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halcyon
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calm and peaceful
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harangue
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a long passionate speech
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harbinger
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smth or smb that foretells the coming of
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harrow
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to distress create stress or torment
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hirsute
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hairy shaggy
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hoi
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polloi the masses the rabble
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hoodwink
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trick mislead
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iconoclast
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person who attacks popular beliefs
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idiosyncrasy
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personal mannerism
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idyll
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a carefree episode or experience
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ignoble
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dishonorable common undignified
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ignominious
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shameful dishonorable undignified disgraceful
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illicit
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unlawful forbidden
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imbroglio
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complicated and embarrassing situation
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impassive
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unmoved feeling no sign of passion
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impecunious
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having little or no money
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imperious
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commanding haughty arrogant
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imperturbable
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calm not capable of being excited
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impetuous
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having sudden energy impulsive thrusting ahead forceful
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implacable
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incapable of being placated unpleasable
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implicate
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show that smb has a share
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importune
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beg urgently solicit (of a prostitute)
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imprecation
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an invocation of evil a curse
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impudent
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rash indiscreet
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impugned
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challenged to be doubted
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inane
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silly senseless
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inasmuch
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since because
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incense
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make angry
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inchoate
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not yet fully formed rudimentary elementary
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incipient
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beginning
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incise
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engrave make a cut in
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incongruous
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out of place not in harmony or agreement
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incorrigibility
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cannot be cured or corrected
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incredulous
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skeptical unwilling to believe
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inculcate
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fix firmly by repetition
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incumbents
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official duties
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indefatigability
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not easily exhaustible tirelessness
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indelible
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that cannot be rubbed out
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indigence
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poverty
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indistinct
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not easily heard seen clearly marked
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indolence
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laziness
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indomitable
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not easily discouraged or subdued
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ineffable
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to great to be described in words
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ineluctable
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certain inevitable
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ingenuous
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naive young artless frank honest sincere
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inimical
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harmful or friendly
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inimitable
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defying imitation unmatchable
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innocuous
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causing no harm
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insensible
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unconscious unresponsive unaffected
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insipid
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without taste or flavor
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insouciant
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unconcerned carefree
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insularity
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narrow-mindedness isolated
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interdict
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prohibit forbid
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intransigence
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unwillingness to compromise stubbornness intractability
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intransigent
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uncompromising
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intrepid
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fearless brave undaunted
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inured
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accustomed to adapted
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invective
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abusive language curses
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inveigh
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to attack verbally denounce deprecate
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inveterate
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deep-rooted. long-established
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involute
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complex
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irascible
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irritable easily angered
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irksome
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tiresome
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irresolute
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hesitating undecided
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itinerate
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to travel from place to place to peregrinate
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jibe
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gibe make fun of
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jocular
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meant as a joke
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labyrinthine
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to entangle the state of affairs
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lachrymose
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causing tears tearful
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lassitude
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weariness tiredness
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laudatory
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expressing or giving praise
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levee
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formal reception/embankment
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libel
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statement that damages reputation
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libertine
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immoral person
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lien
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legal claim until a debt on it is repaid
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limn
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paint portray
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lionize
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treat as a famous person
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lithe
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bending twisting
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loll
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rest to sit or stand in a lazy way hang (dog's tongue)
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lope
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move along with long strides
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loquacious
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talkative garrulous
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lucubrate
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write in scholarly fashion
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luculent
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easily understood lucid clear
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lugubrious
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mournful excessively sad
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lustrous
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being bright polished
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macabre
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gruesome suggesting death
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macerate
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make or become soft by soaking in water
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machination
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plot scheme (esp. evil)
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maladroit
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tactless clumsy
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malapropism
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misuse of a word (for one that resembles it)
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malinger
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to fake illness or injury in order to shirk a duty
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manacle
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chains for the hands or feet
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matriculation
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be admitted enter a university as a student
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maudlin
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sentimental in a silly or tearful way
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mellifluous
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sweetly flowing
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mendacity
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dishonesty
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mendicant
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a beggar
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mercurial
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quick changeable in character fleeting
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meretricious
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attractive on the surface but of little value
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mettle
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quality of endurance or courage
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middling
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fairly good but not very good
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minatory
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menacing threatening
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misanthrope
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person who hates mankind
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mollify
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make calmer or quieter
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molt
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moult lose hair feathers before new growing
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morose
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ill-tempered unsocial
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multifarious
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varied motley greatly diversified
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nadir
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lowest weakest point
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nascent
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coming into existence emerging
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nexus
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a connection tie or link
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noisome
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offensive disgusting (smell)
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nonplused
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greatly surprised
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nostrum
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a quack remedy an untested cure
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nugatory
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trifling/worthless
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obdurate
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hardened and unrepenting stubborn inflexible
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obfuscate
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to darken make obscure muddle
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obloquy
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abusively detractive language sharp criticism vituperation
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obsequious
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too eager to obey or serve
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obstreperous
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noisy loud
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obtuse
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blunt/stupid
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obviate
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to make unnecessary get rid of
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occluded
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blocked up
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odious
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repulsive hateful
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odium
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contempt dislike aversion
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officious
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too eager or ready to help offer advice
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onerous
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needing effort burdensome
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opprobrious
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showing scorn or reproach
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ossify
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to turn to bone to settle rigidly into an idea
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ostensible
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seeming appearing as such professed
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ostentation
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display to obtain admiration or envy
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overweening
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presumptuously arrogant overbearing immoderate being a jerk
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paean
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song of praise or triumph
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palatial
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magnificent
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palliate
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lessen the severity of
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palpability
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can be felt touched understood
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palpitate
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tremble beat rapidly and irregularly
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panegyric
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formal praise eulogy
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parsimonious
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too economical miserly
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paucity
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scarcity a lacking of
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peccadillo
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small sin small weakness in one's character
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pedantic
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bookish showing off learning
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pedestrian
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commonplace trite unremarkable
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pellucid
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transparent easy to understand
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penchant
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strong inclination a liking
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penurious
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poor/stingy
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penury
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extreme poverty
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peregrination
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traveling about wandering
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peremptory
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urgent imperative unchallengeable ending debate
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perfidious
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treacherous faithless
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perfidy
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treachery breaking of faith
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perfunctory
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done as a duty without care
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peripatetic
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wandering
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pernicious
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harmful injurious
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perspicacity
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quick judging and understanding
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petrous
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like a rock hard stony
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phlegmatic
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calm sluggish temperament unemotional
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picaresque
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involving clever rogues or adventurers
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pied
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of mixed colors
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piquant
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agreeably pungent stimulating
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pique
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hurt the pride or self-respect stir (curiosity)
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pith
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essential part force soft liquid substance
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plaintive
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mournful melancholy sorrowful
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platitude
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a trite or banal statement unoriginality
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pliant
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pliable easily bent shaped or twisted
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plod
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continue doing smth without resting
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poignant
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deeply moving keen
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ponderous
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heavy bulky dull
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portent
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omen marvelous threatening
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precursory
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preliminary anticipating
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predilection
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special liking mental preference
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preen
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tidy/show self-satisfaction
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presage
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warning sign
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presumption
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arrogance
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preternatural
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not normal or usual
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prevaricate
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to equivocate to stray from the truth
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prim
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neat formal
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probity
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uprightness incorruptibility principle
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proclivity
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inclination
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prodigious
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enormous wonderful
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profligacy
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shameless immorality
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profligate
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wasteful prodigal licentious extravagant
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prolix
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tiring because too long
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propinquity
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nearness in time or place affinity of nature
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propitiatory
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conciliatory appeasing mitigating
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propitious
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auspicious presenting favorable circumstances
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prosaic
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everyday mundane commonplace trite pedestrian
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proscribe
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denounce as dangerous
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protracted
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prolonged
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provident
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frugal looking to the future
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prudish
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easily shocked excessively modest
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pugnacious
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fond of in the habit of fighting
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puissance
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strength
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punctilious
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precise paying attention to trivialities
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pundit
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pedant authority on a subject
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pungency
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sharpness stinging quality
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purvey
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provide supply
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pusillanimous
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cowardly craven
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putrefaction
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becoming rotten
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pyre
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large pile of wood for burning
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quaff
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drink deeply
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quail
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lose courage turn frightened
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quandary
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state of doubt or perplexity
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quell
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suppress subdue
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quibble
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try to avoid by sophistication
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quiescence
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state of being passive/motionless
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quiescent
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at rest dormant torpid
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quixotic
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generous unselfish
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quotidian
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banal everyday
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raconteur
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person who tells anecdotes
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raffish
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low vulgar base tawdry
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ramify
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to be divided or subdivided to branch out
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rancorous
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feeling bitterness spitefulness
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rapacious
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greedy (esp for money)
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rarefy
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to make thin to make less dense to purify or refine
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rebuff
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snub
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recalcitrant
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disobedient
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recidivism
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relapse into antisocial or criminal behavior
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reciprocity
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granting of privileges in return for similar
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recompense
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make payment to reward punish
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recondite
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little known abstruse
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redoubtable
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formidable causing fear
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refractory
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stubborn unmanageable untractable
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refulgent
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shining brilliant
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regale
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to delight or entertain to feast
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regicide
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crime of killing a king
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remonstrate
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to protest object
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repast
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meal
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repine
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at be discontented with
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repudiate
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disown refuse to accept or pay
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requite
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repay give in return
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rescind
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repeal/annul/cancel
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resigned
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unresisting submissive
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restive
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refusing to move reluctant to be controlled
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resuscitation
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coming back to consciousness
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reticent
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reserved untalkative silent taciturn
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rivet
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fix take up secure metal pin
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rumple
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make rough
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sagacious
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having sound judgment perceptive wise like a sage
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salacious
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obscene
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salubrious
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healthful
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salutary
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remedial wholesome causing improvement
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sanctimony
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self-righteousness hypocritical with FALSE piety
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sanguine
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cheerful confident optimistic
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satiate
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satisfy fully
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saturnine
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gloomy dark sullen morose
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scurvy
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mean contemptible
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sedulous
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persevering
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sententious
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short and pithy full of maxims/proverbs
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sere
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make hard and without feeling
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servile
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like a slave lacking independence
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shrill
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sharp piercing
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shunt
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send from one track to another lay aside evade discussion
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simper
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(give a) silly/self-conscious smile
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sinuous
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winding undulating serpentine
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slake
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to assuage to satisfy allay
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slate
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king of blue-grey stone propose criticize
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sodden
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soaked saturated
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sophistry
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fallacious reasoning faulty logic
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sophomoric
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self-assured though immature affected bombastic overblown
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soporific
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producing sleep
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sordid
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wretched comfortless contemptible
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specious
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illogical of questionable truth or merit
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splenetic
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bad-tempered irritable
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squalid
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foul filthy
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stanch
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to stop the flow of a fluid
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steeply
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rising or falling sharply
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stentorian
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extremely loud and powerful
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stipple
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paint with dots
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stolid
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showing no emotion impassive
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stygian
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hence dark gloomy
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sublime
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extreme astounding
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suborn
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induce by bribery or smth to commit perjury
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subpoena
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written order requiring a person to appear in a low court
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substantiation
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giving facts to support (statement)
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succor
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assistance relief in time of distress
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sullied
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to be stained or discredited
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summarily
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briefly without delay
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sumptuous
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magnificent
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sundry
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various miscellaneous separate
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supercilious
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disdainful characterized by haughty scorn
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supine
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lying on the back slow to act passive
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suppliant
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asking humbly beseeching
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supplicate
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make a humble petition to
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surcharge
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additional load/charge
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surfeit
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satiate feed to fulness or to excess
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sycophant
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person who flatter to the rich and powerful
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taciturn
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untalkative silent
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tamp
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tap or drive down by repeated light blows
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tangential
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suddenly changeable
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tautology
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a repetition a redundancy
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tawdry
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cheap gaudy showy tacky
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teetotal
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oppose to alcohol
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temerity
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boldness brashness intrepidness
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tenuous
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insubstantial flimsy weak
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tepid
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lukewarm
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terse
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brief and to the point
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thrift
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care economy thriving prosperous
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timorous
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fearful timid afraid
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toady
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obsequious flatterer
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torpid
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sleeping sluggish lethargic dormant
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tortuous
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devious/not straightforward
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tout
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person who worries others to buy smth to use his service
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tractable
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easily controlled or guided
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trenchant
|
forceful effective vigorous extremely perceptive incisive
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trepidation
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alarm excited state of mind
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trifling
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unimportant
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trite
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not new
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truculence
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aggressiveness ferocity
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turbid
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muddy having the sediment stirred up
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turgid
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excessively ornate swollen or bloated
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turpitude
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wickedness shamefulness
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tyro
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tiro beginner
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ubiquitous
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present everywhere
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ulterior
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situated beyond
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umbrage
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offense resentment
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underbid
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make a lower bid then smb else
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unearth
|
discover and bring to light
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unencumbered
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easy-going trifle
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unfeigned
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not pretended sincere
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untoward
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unfortunate inconvenient
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upbraid
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scold reproach
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urbane
|
elegant refined in manners
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vacillation
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being uncertain hesitating
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vagary
|
strange act or idea
|
|
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valorous
|
brave
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venal
|
ready to do smth dishonest
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veneration
|
regard with deep respect
|
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veracity
|
truth
|
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verdant
|
fresh and green
|
|
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verisimilitude
|
appearing TRUE or real
|
|
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veritable
|
real rightly named
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verve
|
spirit vigor enthusiasm
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vestige
|
trace or sign
|
|
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vilify
|
slander say evil things
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virago
|
a loud domineering woman a scold or nag
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visceral
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of the internal organs of the body
|
|
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viscous
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sticky/semi-fluid
|
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vitiate
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lower the quality weaken the strength
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vituperate
|
curse abuse in words
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vivacious
|
lively high-spirited
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volubility
|
fluency verbosity easy use of spoken language
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voluble
|
fluent
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waffle
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talk vaguely and without much result
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wag
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merry person
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welter
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turmoil a bewildering jumble
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wend
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to go proceed
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