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244 Cards in this Set
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Apotheosis
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elevation to divine status
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Castigate
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to criticize severly
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Coalesece
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to come together as one
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cogent
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powerfully convincing
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cognizant
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aware
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Construe
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to interpret
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Delineate
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to describe accurately
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Delude
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decisive
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Despondent
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extremely depressed
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Desultory
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without a plan
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Disparate
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different
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Dissipate
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to thin out
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distend
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to swell
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Evanescent
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fleeting
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Fatalist
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person that believes future events are already set
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Flout
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to disregard something out of disrespect
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Gauche
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unskillful
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Glut
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surplus
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Hedonism
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pursuit of pleasure as a way of life
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Incense
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to make agnry
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Ineffable
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incapable of being expressed
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Lampoon
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to mock
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Latent
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present but no visible
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Malfeasance
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an illegal act
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Mundane
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ordinary
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Sporadic
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stopping and starting
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stricture
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a restriction
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strife
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a bitter conflict
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Subversive
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corrupting
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Surrogate
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substitute
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Tenet
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a shared principle
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Touchstone
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a standard
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Transient
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not staying for a long time
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Unctuous
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oily
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Unremitting
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unceasing
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Vacilatte
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to waver
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Vapid
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dull
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Vestige
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a remaining bit of something
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Vindicate
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to clear from blame
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Vociferous
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loud
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Allusion
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an indirect reference
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Anomaly
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an ireegularity
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Choleric
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hot tempered
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Congenial
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pleasant
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Equivocal
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ambiguous
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Exacerabte
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to make worse
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Fatuous
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foolish
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Facetious
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humorous
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Fidelity
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faithfulness
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Inept
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clumsy
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Inexorable
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relentless
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Inordinate
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excessive
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Insidious
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treacherous
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insipid
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bland
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Insolent
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arrogant
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Mendacious
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lying
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Nominal
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in name only
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Nihilism
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belief that there are no values or morals
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Nefarious
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evil
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Penitent
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repentant
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Pensive
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thoughtful and sad
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Peripatetic
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wandering
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Portent
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an omen
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Precedent
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an earlier example of something
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Precept
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a rule to live by
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Relegate
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to banish
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Remonstarte
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to argue against
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Repercussion
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a consequence
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Salient
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sticking out
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Solicitous
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eager and attentive
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Squalor
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filth
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Stoic
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indifferent to pleasure or pain
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Stymie
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to thwart
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sublime
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awesome
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Succumb
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to yield or submit
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Surreptitious
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sneaky
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Tautological
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redundant
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Torpor
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slugishness
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Verbose
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using too many words
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Vicarious
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experienced
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Vindicate
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to clear from all balme
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Vitiate
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to make impure
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Vitriolic
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caustic
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Volition
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conscious choice
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Abstruce
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hard to understand
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Approbation
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approval
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Bereaved
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leaved
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Censure
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to condemn severly for doing something bad
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Circumspect
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cautious
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Collusion
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conspiracy
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Contrite
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admitting guilt
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Dialectical
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relating to discussion
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dictum
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an authoritative saying
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Exonerate
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to free completely from blame
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Fecund
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fertile
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Flout
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to disregard something out of disrespect
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Fortuitous
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accidental
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Guile
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Cunning
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Hermetic
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airtight
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Idiosyncrasy
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peculiarty
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Incipient
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beginning
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incisive
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cutting right to the heart of the matter
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Insinuate
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to hint
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Inundate
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to flood
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Largess
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generous giving of gifts
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Malise
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feeling of depression
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Magnanimous
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forgiving
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Malinger
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to pretend to be sick
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Marticulate
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enroll
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Myriad
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a huge number
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Opulent
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luxurious
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Pertinent
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relevant
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Poignant
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painfully emotional
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Precipitous
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steep
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Predilection
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a natural preference for something
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Recalcitrant
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stubbornly defiant
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Reprisal
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a military action undertaken in revenge for another
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Ruminate
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to contemplate
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Scintillate
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to sparkle
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Spurious
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false
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Sordid
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Vile
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Tenuous
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flimsy
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Venal
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capable of being bribed
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Veracity
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truthfulness
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Verisimilitude
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similarity to reality
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Vernacular
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Everyday Speech
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Vicissitude
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upheaval
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Volatile
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quick to evaporate
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Apocryphal
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dubious authenticity
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Alacrity
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Cheerful eagerness
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Blatant
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glaring
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circumlocution
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indirect expression
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Burgeon
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expand
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turpitiude
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shameful wickedness
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caustic
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corrosive
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cognitivite
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mental
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conducive
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promoting
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millieu
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evnrionment
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deference
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courtesdy
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sardonic m
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mocking
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didactic
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intended to teach
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encraoch
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to make gradual stealthy
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Enormity
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extreme evil
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obsequious
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sucking up to
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erudile
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scholarly
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Farcial
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absurd
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pejorative
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negative
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fastidious
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demanding
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disperage
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to belittle
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impetuous
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impulsive
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incessant
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unceasing
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intransigent
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stubborn
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invective
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insulting
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capricious
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unpredicatable
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debauchery
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wild living
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Lugubrious
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exaggeratedly mournful
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mendicant
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begger
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obfuscate
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to darken
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obstentatious
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showing off
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recondite
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hard to understand
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Candor
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truthfulness
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munificent
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very genorous
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penchant
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a strong liking
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periphery
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outside edge
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pious
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devout
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Acquiese
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To accept
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propitious
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marked by favorable signs
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repudiate
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to reject
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scrurupulous
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strict
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reticent
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quiet
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perfidy
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treachery
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stratum
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a layer
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Enervate
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to reduce strength
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sequester
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to set apart
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trepidation
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fear
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Aberration
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something not typical
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Ardent
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passionate
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Cirumscribe
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to draw a line around
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Circumspect
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to frustrate as though by surrounding
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Compendium
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summary
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Contrived
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artifical
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convivial
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fond of partying
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Destitute
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extremely poor
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Emulate
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to strive to equal or excel
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Eqaunimity
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calm
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Expedient
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providing an immediate advantage
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Extrapolate
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to prject or deduce from something
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Fetter
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to restrain
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Felicity
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happiness
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Grandiloquent
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pompous
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Insular
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like an island
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Insurgent
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rebel
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Levity
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lightness
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Metamorphosis
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a magical change in form
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Monolithic
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massive
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Oblique
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indirect
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Parsimonious
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stingy
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Preempt
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to seize something by prior right
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Preogative
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a right or privileged connected elusively with a position
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Profligate
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extravagantly wasteful
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profuse
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flowing
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Promulgate
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to proclaim
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Propriety
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properness
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Purported
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rumored
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recant
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to publicly take back and deny
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Renounce
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to give up formally
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Respite
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a period of rest or relief
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Soporific
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sleepy
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Stigmatize
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to brand with disgrace
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Tenable
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defensible
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Urbane
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poised,sophisticated
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Venerate
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to revere
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Virulent
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extremely poisonous
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Blight
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disease in plant
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Blithe
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carefree
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Capitulate
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to surrender
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Cerebal
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brainy
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Chronic
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constant
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Collusion
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conspiracy
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Condone
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to overlook
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Contiguous
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side by side
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Cosmopolitan
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at home in many places or situations
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Cursory
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hasty
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Debilitate
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to weaken
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decorous
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proper
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Eclectic
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choosing the best from many sources
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edify
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to enlighten
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Epigraph
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a brief witty saying
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Expatriate
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to throw (somoene) out of his or her native land
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Foible
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a minor character flaw
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Foundert
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to fail
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Hersey
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any belief that is strongly opposed to established beliefs
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Impotent
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powerless
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Incandescent
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brilliant
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Languish
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to become weak
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Magnate
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rich , powerful
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Mortify
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to humiliate
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Obdurate
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stubborn and insensitive
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Onerous
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burdensome
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Perfunctory
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careless; unenthusiastic
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Prodigal
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wastefully exstravigant
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Salient
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sticking out
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Sedition
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treason
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Terse
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succint
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