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tenuous
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having little substance or strength; shaky
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mercenary
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motivated solely by a desire for money or material gain.
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vigilant
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on the alert; watchful
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tangential
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only superficially relevant; slightly connected
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dirge
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a funeral hymn or lament
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incongruous
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lacking in harmony, incompatible
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sonorous
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producing a deep or full sound
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strident
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loud, harsh, grating, or shrill
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tumultuous
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noisy and disorderly
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dilatory
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habitually late
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redolent
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strongly reminiscent of something.
strongly fragrant of something. |
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onerous
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troublesome or oppressive; burdensome (homework)
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portent
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omen; indication of something important or calamitous about to occur
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banal
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drearily commonplace; predictable
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insipid
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uninteresting; unchallenging; lacking taste or savor.
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vapid
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lacking liveliness, animation, or interest; dull
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profundity
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great depth of intellect, feeling, or meaning
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scintillating
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brilliant
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averse
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strongly disinclined
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demure
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modest and reserved
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diffidence
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timidity or shyness
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placid
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calm or quite; undisturbed
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quiescent
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quiet, still, or at rest
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fastidious
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carefully attentive to detail. difficult to please.
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intransigence
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refusal to moderate a position or to compromise
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jocular
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characterized by or given to joking
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alacrity
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promptness in response; cheerful readiness; eagerness
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benign
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kind and gentle
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belligerent
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eager to fight; hostile or aggressive
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contentious
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quarrelsome
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flippant
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disrespectfully humorous or casual
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nefarious
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flagrantly wicked; vicious
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pernicious
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extremely or irrevocably harmful; deadly
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rancorous
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marked by bitter, deep-seated ill will
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repugnant
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arousing disgust or aversion; offensive or repulsive
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invocation
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a call for assistance from a higher power
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variegated
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having streaks marks or patches of different colors
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abstruse
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difficult to undrstand
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reticent
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wanting to keep quiet
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staid
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unemotional; serious
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gaffe
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faux pas
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potentate
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one who has the power and position to rule over others
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castigate
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to scold rebuke or harshly criticize
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vituperative
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marked by harshly abusive condemnation
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indict
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to officially charge with wrongdoing or a crime
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litigious
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prone to sue
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parity
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equality as in amount, status, or value (antonym of disparity)
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rectitude
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moral uprightness
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remiss
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lax in attending to duties
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scrupulous
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principled, having a strong sense of right and wrong
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vindicate
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to free from blame
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chicanery
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trickery
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obsequious
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fawning and servile
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sycophant
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insincere, obsequious flatterer
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extol
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to praise highly
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magnanimous
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courageously or generously noble in mind and heart
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expurgate
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to remove objectionable content before publication or release
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extirpate
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to destroy
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supplant
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to usurp the place of, with underhanded menas
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stymie
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to thwart or stump
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abase
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to lower in rank, prestige, or esteem
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deride
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to mock contemptuously
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effrontery
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brazen boldnss, presumptuousness
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ignominy
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great personal dishonor or humiliation, disgraceful conduct
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pejorative
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belittling, insulting
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vindictive
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revengeful
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ebullience
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intense enthusiasm
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exorbitant
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exceeding all bounds
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lugubrious
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excessively gloomy or mournful
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penchant
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a strong inclination or liking
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amalgam
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a combination of diverse elements
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inundate
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to overwhelm with a flood of something
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multifarious
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diverse; various
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palliative
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relieving the symptoms of something without curing it
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felicitous
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apt, admireable for something
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belie
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to misrepresent or disguise
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mendacious
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lying, untruthful
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capricious
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impulsive and unpredictable
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impetuous
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forcefully and suddenly energetic or emotional
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vacillate
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to oscillate between to things
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