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acrimonious
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caustic, stinging, or bitter in nature, speech, behavior
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ameliorate
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to make or become better, more bearable, or more satisfactory; improve; meliorate
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amenable
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ready or willing to answer, act, agree, or yield; open to influence, persuasion, or advice; agreeable; submissive; tractable
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amorphous
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lacking definite form; having no specific shape; formless
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buoyant
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tending to float in a fluid
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cajole
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to persuade by flattery or promises; wheedle; coax
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calamity
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a great misfortune or disaster, as a flood or serious injury
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debase
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to reduce in quality or value; adulterate
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efface
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to wipe out; do away with; expunge
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elucidate
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to make lucid or clear; throw light upon; explain
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ephemeral
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lasting a very short time; short-lived; transitory
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ferocity
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a ferocious quality or state; savage fierceness
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flourish
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to be in a vigorous state; thrive
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haughty
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disdainfully proud; snobbish; scornfully arrogant; supercilious
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impervious
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not permitting penetration or passage; impenetrable
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inane
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lacking sense, significance, or ideas; silly
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indolence
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indolent- disliking work or effort; lazy; idle
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infallible
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absolutely trustworthy or sure
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inscrutable
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incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable
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languid
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lacking in vigor or vitality; slack or slow
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malice
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desire to inflict injury, harm, or suffering on another, either because of a hostile impulse or out of deep-seated meanness
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oblique
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neither perpendicular nor parallel to a given line or surface; slanting; sloping
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opulence
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wealth, riches, or affluence
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penitent
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feeling or expressing sorrow for sin or wrongdoing and disposed to atonement and amendment; repentant; contrite
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perfunctory
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performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial
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