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Candid

Back 1

Completely honest

Hint 1

Candace's candidness overwhelmed her business colleagues, who were not used to such honesty.

Front 2

Conjecture

Back 2

Inference; guesswork

Hint 2

At this point, Kimaya's hypothesis about single-cell biorhythms is still conjecture: She doesn't have conclusive evidence

Front 3

Didactic

Back 3

Teaching; instructive

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Effusive

Back 4

Showing excessive emotion; overflowing

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Euphemism

Back 5

A mild, indirect, or vague term substitution for a harsh, blunt, or offensive term

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Extrapolate

Back 6

To infer or estimate by extending or projecting information

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Incoherent

Back 7

Lacking cohesion or connection

Front 8

Insinuate

Back 8

To imply or communicate stealthily

Front 9

Loquacious

Back 9

Very talkative

Front 10

Lucid

Back 10

Easily understood; clear

Front 11

Rhetoric

Back 11

The art of using language effectively and persuasively

Front 12

Acumen

Back 12

Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight

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Adroit

Back 13

Dexterous, deft

Front 14

Ascertain

Back 14

To find out, add through investigation or experimentation

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Astute

Back 15

Shrewd; clever

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Circumspect

Back 16

Careful; prudent; discreet

Front 17

Disseminate

Back 17

To scatter widely, as in sowing seed

Front 18

Erudition

Back 18

Deep, extensive learning

Front 19

Pedantic

Back 19

Excessively concerned with book learning or formal rules

Front 20

Perspicacious

Back 20

Shrewd, clear-sighted

Front 21

Pragmatic

Back 21

Practical

Front 22

Precocious

Back 22

Exhibiting unusually early intellectual aptitude or maturity

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Prolific

Back 23

Very productive; producing great qualities

Front 24

Prospectus

Back 24

Formal proposal

Front 25

Rudimentary

Back 25

Basic; elementary; in the earliest stages of development

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Abstruse

Back 26

Difficult to understand

Front 27

Callous

Back 27

Emotionally hardened; unfeeling

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Convoluted

Back 28

Intricate; complex

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Disaffected

Back 29

Having lost faith or loyalty; discontent

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Enigma

Back 30

A puzzle, mystery, or riddle

Front 31

Inscrutable

Back 31

Difficult to fathom or understand; impenetrable

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Reticent

Back 32

Inclined to keep silent; reserved

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Staid

Back 33

Unemotional; serious

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Arcane

Back 34

Known or understood by only a few

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Assimilate

Back 35

To make or become similar

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Autonomy

Back 36

Independence; self-determination

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Cosmopolitan

Back 37

Worldly; widely sophisticated

Front 38

Derivative

Back 38

Something that comes from another source

Front 39

Esoteric

Back 39

Intended for or understood by only a small group

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Gaffe

Back 40

A clumsy social error; a faux pas

Front 41

Idiosyncrasy

Back 41

Characteristic peculiar to an individual or group

Front 42

Insular

Back 42

Isolated; basis or provincial

Front 43

Orthodox

Back 43

Adhering to the traditional all's established, especially in religion

Front 44

Potentate

Back 44

One who has the power and position to rule over others; monarch

Front 45

Castigate

Back 45

To scold, rebuke, or harshly criticize

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Censure

Back 46

To issue official blame

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Denounce

Back 47

To condemn openly

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Reclusive

Back 48

Seeking or preferring seclusion or isolation

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Relinquish

Back 49

To retire from; give up or abandon

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Renounce

Back 50

To give up (title, for example), especially by formal announcement

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Vituperative

Back 51

Marked by harshly abusive condemnation

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Circumscribe

Back 52

To draw a circle around; to restrict

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Contiguous

Back 53

Sharing an edge or boundary; touching