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Abstruse
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difficult to comprehend
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Quantum physics is very abstruse.
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Allegory
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symbolic representation
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The author used an ocean storm as an allegory for her life's struggles.
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Anterior
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preceding, previous, before
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Prepartion is anterior to good game skills.
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Approbation
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praise, official approval
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Frost Bank received approbations from the Export Import Bank.
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Astringent
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harsh, severe, stern
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The coach's astringent pracitces made a result in the team's next victory.
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Attenuate
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to make slender or then, weaken
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The early moring weight lifting attenuated my energy in the tennis match.
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August
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dignified, venerable
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The gentlemen's August reputation was a result of his generous spirit and positive attitude.
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Auspicious
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promising
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The contact was an auspicious sales lead.
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Avarice
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greed
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His avarice resulted in many people not trusting him.
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Axiom
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premise, postulate, self-evident truth
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Practice makes perfect is an axiom in tennis.
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Baleful
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harmful, with evil intentions
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Steve was a baleful parnter.
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Bastion
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fortification, stronghold
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Belie
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misrepresentation
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Benighted
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unenlightened
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Bespeech
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to beg, plead, implore
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Blandish
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to coax with flattery
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bonhomie
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good-natured geniality; atmosphere of good cheer
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Brigand
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bandit, outlaw
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Catholic
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universal, broad and comprehensive
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Circumscribe
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to encirle; set limits on, confirm
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Circumspect
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cautious, wary
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Colloquy
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dialogue or converstation, conference
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Congenital
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since birth
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Cosset
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to pamper, treat with great care
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Countermand
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to annul, cancel, make a contrary order
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Craven
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Cowardly
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Credence
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acceptance of something as true or real
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Cupidity
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greed
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Debauch
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to corrupt, seduce from virtue or duty, indulge
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Decorous
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proper, tasteful, socially correct
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Decry
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to belittle, openly condemn
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Deferential
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respectful and polite in a submissive way
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Deleterious
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harmful, destructive, detrimental
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Delineation
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depiction, representation
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Demur
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to express doubts or objections
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derogate
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to belittle, disparage
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Desultory
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at random, rambling, unmethodical
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Diffidence
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shyness,lack of confidence
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Dilatory
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slow, tending to delay
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Dissemble
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to pretend, disguise one's motive
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Doleful
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sad, mournful
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Droll
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amusing in a wry, subtle way
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Ebb
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to fade way, recede
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Efface
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to erase or make illegible
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Effulgent
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brilliantly shining
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Effusive
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expressing emotion wo restraint
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Engendered
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to produce, cause bring about
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Ensconce
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to settle comfortably into a place
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Ethos
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beliefs or character of a group
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Evanescent
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momentary, transitory, short-lived
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Evince
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to show clearly, display, signify
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Execrable
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utterly, detestable, abhorrent
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Exigent
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urgent, excessively demanding
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Expiate
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to atone for, make amends for
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Fallow
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uncultivate, unused
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Fastidious
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careful with details
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Fatuous
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stupid, foolishly self-satisfied
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Felicitous
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suitable, appropriate, well spoken
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Florid
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gaudy
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Foible
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minor weakness or character flaw
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Forswear
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to repudiate, renounce, disclaim, reject
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Fulsome
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sickeningly excessive, repulsive
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Gibe
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to make heckling, taunting remarks
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Gnostic
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having to do with knowledge
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Guile
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Trickery, deception
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Harrowing
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extremely distressing, terrifying
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Hidebound
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excessively rigid, dry and stiff
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hinterland
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wilderness
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ignominious
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disgraceful and dishonorable
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ilk
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type or kind
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Imbue
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to infuse, dye, wet moisten
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Indefatigable
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never tried
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Indolent
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habitually
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Indubitable
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unquestionable
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Inexorable
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Inflexible, unyielding
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Ingenious
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original, clever, inventive
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Iniquity
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sin, evil act
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Interdict
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to forbid
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Intransigent
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uncompromising, refusing to be reconciled
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inure
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to harden;become used to
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Invidious
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envious; obnoxious
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Juggernaut
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huge force destroying everything in its path
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Knell
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sound of a funeral bell; omen of death or failure
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Lassitude
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lethargy, sluggishness
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Legerdemain
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trickery
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Limpid
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clear, transparent
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Lugubrious
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sorrowful, mournful, dismal
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Machination
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plot or scheme
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Maelstrom
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turmoil; agitated state of mind
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Malinger
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to evade responsibility by pretending to be ill
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Martinet
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strict displinarian, one who rigidly follows rules
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Matriculate
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to enroll as a member of a college or university
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Mendicant
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beggar
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Militate
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to operate against, work against
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Mirth
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frivolity, gaiety, laughter
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Mottle
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to mark with spots
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Nettle
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to irritate
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Noisome
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stinking, putrid
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Oblique
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indirect, evasive, misleading, devious
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Obtuse
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stupid, dull, unclear
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Obviate
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to make unnecessary, to anticipate and prevent
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Officious
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too helpful, meddlesome
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Ostensible
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apparent
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Palaver
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idle
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Pall
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covering that darken or obscures;
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Panoply
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impressive array
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Parry
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to ward off or deflect
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Pastiche
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piece of literature or music imitating other works
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Paucity
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scarcity, lack
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Pejorative
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having bad connotations; disparaging
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Percipient
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discerning, able to perceive
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Perfidious
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faithless, disloyal, untrustworthy
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Perspicacious
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shrewd, astute, keen witted
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Petulance
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rudeness, peevishness
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Ply
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to use diligently, to engage, to join together
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Polemic
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argument, verbal attack
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Precipitate
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sudden and unexpected;
to cause to happen, to throw drown from a height |
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Prescient
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having foresight
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Privation
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lack of usual necessities or comforts
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Profligate
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corrupt, degenerate
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Propinquity
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nearness
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Propitious
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favorable, advantageous
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Protean
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readily assuming different forms or characters
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Prurient
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lustful, exhibiting lewd desires
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Querulous
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inclined to complain irritable
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Quiescence
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inactivity, stillness
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Recondite
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relating to obscure learning; known to only a few
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Redress
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relief from wrong or injury
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Rejoinder
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Response
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Restive
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Impatient, uneasy, restless
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Ribald
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humorous in a vulgar way
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Salubrious
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healthful
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Sanguine
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ruddy, cheerfully optimistic
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Scurrilous
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vulgar, low, indecent
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Sententious
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having a moralizing tone
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Sentient
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aware, conscious, able to perceive
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Seraphic
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angelic, pure sublime
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Simper
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to smirk, smile foolishly
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Solipsism
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belief that oneself is the only reality
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Sophistry
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deceptive reasoning or argumentation
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Soporific
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sleepy or tending to cause sleep
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Spurious
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lacking authenticity, false, counterfeit
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Staid
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self-restrained to the point of dullness
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Stoic
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having or showing little emotion
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Stultified
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to impair or reduce to uselessness
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Supercilious
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arrogant, haughty, overbearing condescending
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Timorous
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timid, shy, full of apprehension
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Tractable
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obedient, yielding
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Trenchant
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acute, sharp, incisive, forceful, effective
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Turpitude
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inherent vileness, foulness, depravity
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Verisimilitude
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quality of appearing true or real
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Vicissitudes
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change or variation: ups and downs
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Abortive
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ending without results
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Acme
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the highest level or degree attainable
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Adjure
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to appeal to
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Adulation
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excessive flattery or admiration
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Adumbrate
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to give a hint or indication or something to come
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Aerie
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a nest built high in the air, an elevated, often secluded, dwelling
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Affected
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phony, artificial
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Alimentary
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pertaining to food, nutrition or digestion
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Amity
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friendship, good will
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Animus
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a feeling of animosity or ill will
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Anodyne
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a source of comfort, a medicine that relieves pain
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Aphorism
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a short statement of a principle
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Aplomb
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self-confident assurance; poise
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Apostate
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one who renounces a religious faith
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Arrogate
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to claim without justification; to claim for oneself without right
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Beatific
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displaying calmness and joy
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Becalm
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to stop progress of, to soothe
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Becloud
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to make less visible, obscure or blue
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Beget
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to bring about
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Blasphemous
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extremely irreverent
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Blithely
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lightheartedly cheerful; without appropriate thought
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Broach
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to mention or suggest for the first time
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Burnish
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to polish; to make smooth and bright
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Calumny
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misrepenstation
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Captious
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marked by the tendency to point out trivial faults; intended to confuse in an argument
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Censorious
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critical, tending to blame and condemn
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Chary
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watchful, cautious, extremely shy
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Chimerical
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fanciful, imaginary, impossible
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Cloying
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sickly sweet, excessive
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Cogent
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convincing
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Consanguineous
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related by blood
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Contemptuous
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scornful, expressing contempt
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Coquette
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a flirtatious woman
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Declaim
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to speak loudly and vehemently
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Denizen
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an inhabitant, a resident
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Discomfit
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to disconcert, to make one lose one's composure
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Dogged
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stubbornly persevering
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Doleful
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sad, mournful
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Epochal
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momentous, highly significant
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Excoriate
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to express strong disapproval
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Exponent
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one who champions or advocates
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Extirpate
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to destroy wholly
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Feckless
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ineffective, worthless
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Fulsome
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flattering in an insincere way
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Galvanize
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to arouse awareness
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Gamely
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spiritedly, bravely
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Grandiloquence
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fancy but meaningless language
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Husband
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to manage economically, to use sparingly
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Imbibe
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to receive into the mind and take in
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Impassive
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absent of any external sign of emotion
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Imperious
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domineering, urgent
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Imprecation
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a curse
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impudent
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marked by cocky boldness or disregard for others
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Incandescent
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shinning brightly
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Incarnadine
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red, especially blood red
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Incredulous
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skeptical
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Insensate
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foolish
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Insolent
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oberbearing
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Interregnum
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a temporary halting of the usual operations of government or control
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Intimation
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a subtle and indirect hint
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Intransigent
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uncompromising
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Irascible
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easily angered
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Kismet
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destiny, fate
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laudable
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deserving of praise
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Libertine
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a free thinker, usually used disparagingly; one without moral restraint
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Lilliputian
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a very small person or thing
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Malapropism
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use of a word which resembles the one intended by has a different often contradictory meaning
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Malediction
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a curse, a wish of evil upon another
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Malevolent
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wishing harm to others
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Mannered
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artificial or stilted in character
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Mordant
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biting and caustic in manner and style
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Non sequitur
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a statement that does not follow logically from anything previously said
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Obdurate
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stubbornly persistent, resistant to persuasion
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Opprobrious
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disgraceful, shameful
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Palimpsest
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an object or place having diverse layers or aspects beneath the surface
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Pandemic
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occurring over a wide geographic area and affecting a large portion of the population
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Pare
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to trim off excess, reduce
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Pariah
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an outcast
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Patent
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Obvious, evident
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Patrician
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aristocratic
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Philistine
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a person who is guided by materialism and is disdainful of intellectual or artistic values
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Philology
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the study of ancient texts and languages
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Plaintive
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expressive of suffering or woe
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Platitudes
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over-used and trite remark
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Plucky
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courageous, spunky
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Pore
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to read studiously or attentively
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Portentous
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foreshadowing
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Posit
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to assume as real or conceded
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Precipitously
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steeply; hastily
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Prestidigitation
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a cleverly executed trick or deception
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Proffer
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to offer for acceptance
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Progenitor
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an ancestor in the direct line
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Prosaic
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dull, ordinary
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Proscribe
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to condemn or forbid as harmful or unlawful
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Puissant
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powerful
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Purloin
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to steal
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Rapt
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deeply absorbed
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Reactionary
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marked by extreme conservatism
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