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open to more than one interpretation
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Ambiguous
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having or showing pleasant, good-natured personal qualities; affable; friendly; sociable
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Amiable
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without refinement, delicacy, or sensitivity; gross; obtuse; stupid
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Crass
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passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling
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Discursive
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easily managed or handled; tractable
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Docile
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to turn away in feeling or affection; make unfriendly or hostile; alienate the affections of
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Estrange
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to clear, as of an accusation; free from guilt or blame;
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Exonerate
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given, done, bestowed, or obtained without charge or payment; free; voluntary
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Gratuitous
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to form a hypothesis
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Hypothesize
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strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting, or base; righteous anger strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting, or base; righteous anger
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Indignation
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To bring about or stimulate the occurrence of
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Induce
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not easily controlled or directed; not docile or manageable; stubborn; obstinate
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Intractable
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consider one's own internal state or feelings
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Introspective
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easily understood; completely intelligible or comprehensible
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Lucid
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taking or showing extreme care about minute details; precise; thorough
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Meticulous
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a hater of humankind
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Misanthrope
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extremely liberal in giving; very generous
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Munificent
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to take and use ideas, passages, etc., from (another's work)
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Plagiarize
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spending or giving freely and in large amount, often to excess; extravagant
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Profuse
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a person who lives in seclusion or apart from society, often for religious meditation
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Recluse
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to satisfy (any appetite or desire) fully
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Sated
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to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; astonish
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Stupefy
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neatly or effectively concise; brief and pithy, as language
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Terse
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not lasting, enduring, or permanent; passing with time
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Transient
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a person who has special knowledge or skill in a field
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Virtuoso
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