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acrimony
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Bitter
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affable
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Easy and pleasant to speak to
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affluence
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A plentiful supply of material goods
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ambiguous
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Open to more than one interpretation
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candor
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Frankness or sincerity of expression
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castigate
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To inflict severe punishment on
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charlatan
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A person who makes elaborate, fraudulent, and often voluble claims to skill or knowledge; a quack or fraud.
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circumspect
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Heedful of circumstances
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debiliate
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To sap the strength or energy of; enervate.
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disparage
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To speak of in a slighting or disrespectful way; belittle.
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didactic
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Intended to instruct.
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disparate
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Fundamentally distinct or different in kind; entirely dissimilar
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enumerate
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To count off or name one by one;
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erroneous
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Containing or derived from error
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esoteric
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Intended for or understood by only a particular group:
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pedantic
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Characterized by a narrow, often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules
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petulant
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Unreasonably irritable
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refute
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To prove to be false
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taciturn
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Habitually untalkative
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repudiate
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o reject the validity or authority of
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