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Aberrant |
Abnormal; different from the accepted norm |
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Abeyance
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State of suspension; temporary inaction
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Abstemious
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Characterized by a state of self-denial, particularly in the area of food or drink
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Acrid
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Bitter; harsh
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Acumen
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Keen; quickness of intellectual insight
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Admonition
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A gentle reproof
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Amalgamate
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To mix or blend together in a homogenous body
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Ameliorate
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To relieve, as from pain or hardship
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Ascetic
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Given to severe self-denial; practicing excessive abstinence
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Assiduous
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Persistent, unceasing
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Astute
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Keen; wise
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Audacious
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Fearless
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Austere
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Unadorned; severely simple
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Aver
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To avouch, justify, or prove
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Banal
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Trite; commonplace
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Blatant
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Offensively loud
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Bolster
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To support; to reinforce
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Bombastic
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Using inflated language; pompous
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Burgeon
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To grow forth; to send out buds
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Cacophony
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A disagreeable, harsh, or discordant sound or tone
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Chicanery
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Use of trickery to deceive
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Coda
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Concluding section of a musical or literary piece; something that summarizes
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Cognizant
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Aware; taking notice
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Colloquial
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Pertaining to common speech
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Consternation
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Panic
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Contentious
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Quarrelsome
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Contrite
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Penitent
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Contumacious
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Rebellious
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Craven
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Cowardly
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Decorum
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Orderliness and good taste in manners
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Deleterious
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Hurtful, morally or physically
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Delineate
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To represent by sketch or diagram
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Deride
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To ridicule; to make fun of
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Derision
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Ridicule
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Desultory
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Aimless; haphazard
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Diatribe
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Bitter or malicious criticism
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Didactic
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Pertaining to teaching
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Dilatory
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Causing delay
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Disconcert
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To disturb the composure of
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Dissemble
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To disguise or pretend
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Dissolution
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Breaking up of a union of persons
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Divest
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To strip; to deprive
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Divulge
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To tell or make known, generally of something secret or private
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Dubious
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Doubtful
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Dupe
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Someone easily fooled
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Ebullient
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Showing great enthusiasm or exhilaration
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Efficacy
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Power to produce an intended effect
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Effrontery
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Shameless boldness; impudence
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Egress
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Exit
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Elegy
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A poem lamenting the dead
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Elicit
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To extract without violence; to learn through discussion
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Embellish
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To add attractive and ornamental features
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Emulate
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Imitate
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Engender
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To produce
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Enervate
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To weaken
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Ennui
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Boredom
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Ephemeral
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Short-lived; fleeting
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Equanimity
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Evenness of mind or temper
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Equivocal
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Ambiguous
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Eradicate
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To destroy completely
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Erudite
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Very learned
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Eschew
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To keep clear of
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Esoteric
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Hard to understand; known only by a few
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Exacerbate
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To make more sharp or severe; to make worse
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Exculpate
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To free from blame
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Exigency
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Urgent situation
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Expatiate
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To speak or write at some length
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Extirpate
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To root out; to eradicate
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Facetious
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Amusing
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Fallacious
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Illogical
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Fatuous
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Idiotic
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Fervor
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Ardor or intensity of feeling
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Fledgling
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Inexperienced
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Foment
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To nurse to life; to encourage
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Forestall
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To prevent by taking action in advance
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Frugal
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Economical
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Fulminate
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To cause to explode
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Gainsay
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To contradict; to deny
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Garrulous
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Trivial talking
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Germane
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Relevant
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Goad
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To urge on
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Grandiloquent
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Pompous; bombastic
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Gregarious
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Sociable; outgoing
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Guileless
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Without deceit
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Gullible
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Easily deceived
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Halcyon
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Calm
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Harangue
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A tirade
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Harbinger
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One who foreruns and announces the coming of a person or thing
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Heresy
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Opinion or doctrine subversive of settled or accepted beliefs
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Homogeneous
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Of the same kind
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Hyperbole
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Exaggeration or overstatement
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Iconoclast
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An image-breaker
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Ignominious
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Shameful
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Impecunious
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Having no money; broke
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Impede
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To hinder; to block
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Imperious
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Insisting on obedience
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Imperturbable
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Calm
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Impervious
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Impenetrable
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Implicit
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Implied
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Importune
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To harass with persistent demands
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Impugn
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To assail with arguments or accusations
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Inadvertently
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Unintentionally
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Inane
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Silly
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Inchoate
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Recently begun
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Indolence
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Laziness
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Ineffable
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Unutterable
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Inert
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Inactive; lacking power to move
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Inexorable
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Unrelenting
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Innocuous
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Harmless
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Insouciant
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Nonchalant
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Intrepid
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Fearless and bold
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Inure
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To harden or toughen by use, exercise, or exposure
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Invidious
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Showing or feeling envy
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Irascible
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Easily angered
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Itinerant
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Wandering
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Laconic
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Brief and to the point
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Latent
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Dormant
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Laudable
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Praiseworthy
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Licentious
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Wanton
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Loquacious
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Talkative
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Lucid
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Easily understood; clear
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Magnanimity
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Generosity
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Malingerer
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One who feigns illness to escape duty
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Malleable
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Pliant
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Maverick
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Rebel; nonconformist
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Mendacious
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Untrue
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Metamorphosis
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Change of form
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Meticulous
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Overcautious
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Misanthrope
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One who hates mankind
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Mitigate
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To lessen in intensity; to appease
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Modicum
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A small amount
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Mollify
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To soothe
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Mordant
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Biting
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Morose
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Ill-humored; sullen
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Mundane
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Worldly
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Nefarious
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Extremely wicked
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Negate
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To cancel out; to nullify
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Neophyte
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Beginner
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Obdurate
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Stubborn
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Obfuscate
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To darken
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Obsequious
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Servile; ready to serve
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Obviate
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To make unnecessary
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Odious
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Hateful
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Officious
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Meddlesome
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Onus
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Burden
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Opprobrium
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Infamy; vilification
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Oscillate
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To waver
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Ostentation
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A display of vanity; showy
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Palpable
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Perceptible by feeling or touch
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Paragon
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Model of perfection
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Parsimonious
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Sparing in spending of money
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Partisan
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One-sided; committed to one party
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Pathos
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Having a quality that rouses emotion or sympathy
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Paucity
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Few
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Penchant
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Strong inclination
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Penurious
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Excessively sparing in the use of money; frugal
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Perennial
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Something long-lasting
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Perfidy
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Treachery
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Permeable
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Penetrable; porous
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Pernicious
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Tending to kill or hurt
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Pervasive
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Spread throughout
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Phlegmatic
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Not easily roused to feeling or emotion
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Pious
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Religious
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Placate
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To soothe; to bring from a hostile state to a calm one
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Platitude
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Trite or commonplace statement
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Plethora
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Excess; superabundance
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Porous
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Full of pores
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Portend
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Foretell
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Pragmatic
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Practical
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Precarious
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Perilous
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Precipitate
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Rash; premature
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Precocious
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Mature at a young age
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Prescience
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Knowledge of events before they happen
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Prevaricate
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To use ambiguous language for the purpose of deceiving
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Proclivity
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Natural inclination
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Prodigious
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Immense
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Profound
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Deep; not superficial
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Proliferate
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To grow rapidly
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Propensity
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Natural inclination
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Prudence
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Caution
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Puerile
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Childish
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Pugnacious
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Quarrelsome
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Pungent
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Stinging; sharp in taste or smell
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Pusillanimous
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Cowardly; fainthearted
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Qualm
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Misgivings; uneasy fears
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Quibble
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Minor objection or complaint
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Quiescence
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Being quiet or still; inactive
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Quixotic
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Idealistic; romantic to a ridiculous degree
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Recant
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To formally withdraw one's belief
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Recondite
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Incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding; profound
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Redress
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To set right by compensation or punishment
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Reprobate
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A sinful and depraved person
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Repudiate
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To refuse to have anything to do with
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Rescind
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To void by enacting authority
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Respite
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Interval of rest
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Reticent
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Reserved; inclined to silence
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Reverent
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Respectful
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Rhetoric
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The art of effective communication
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Rout
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To drive out; to stampede
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Ruminate
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To chew over again; to think over
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Sagacious
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Wise
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Salacious
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Having strong sexual desires
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Salubrious
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Healthful
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Sanction
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To approve
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Sanguine
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Cheerfully confident; optimistic
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Satiate
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To satisfy or fulfill the appetite or desire of
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Savor
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To satisfy fully
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Secrete
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To hide away
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Sedulous
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Persevering in effort or endeavor
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Seethe
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To be disturbed
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Seminal
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Influencing future developments
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Shard
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Fragment
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Shirk
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To avoid
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Shoddy
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Not genuine; inferior
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Sinuous
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Curving in and out
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Skeptic
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Doubter
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Skittish
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Lively; frisky
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Slander
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Defamation
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Sloth
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Slow-moving
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Solicitous
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Worried; concerned
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Sonorous
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Resonant
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Soporific
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Causing sleep
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Specious
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Seemingly reasonable but incorrect
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Spendthrift
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Someone who wastes money
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Spurious
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Not genuine
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Stentorian
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Extremely loud
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Stigma
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A token of disgrace
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Stint
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To be thrifty
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Stipulate
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To make express conditions
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Stolid
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Dull; impassive
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Striated
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Marked with parallel bands
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Strut
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A pompous walk
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Subterfuge
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Evasion
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Supercilious
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Careless contempt
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Superfluous
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More than what is needed
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Supersede
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To cause to be set back
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Supine
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Lying on the back
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Tacit
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Understood
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Taciturn
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Stern; silent
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Tangential
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Digressing
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Tantamount
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Equivalent in effect or value
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Tawdry
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Cheap
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Temerity
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A foolish disregard of danger
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Tempestuous
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Stormy; impassioned
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Tenacious
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Holding fast
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Tenuous
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Thin; slim
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Tepid
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Lukewarm
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Thrall
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Slave; bondage
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Thwart
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To frustrate
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Titillate
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To tickle
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Torpid
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Dull; sluggish; inactive
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Tortuous
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Abounding in irregular bends or turns
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Tractable
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Docile
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Transgression
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Violation; sin
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Transmute
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To change
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Transparent
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Easily detected
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Transpire
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To happen, to be revealed
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Trepidation
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Nervous feeling; fear
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Truculence
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Ferocity
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Tutelage
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The act of training or being under instruction
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Tyro
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Beginner
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Ubiquitous
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Being present everywhere
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Umbrage
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Sense of injury
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Unassuaged
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Unsatisfied; not soothed
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Uncouth
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Clumsy; dumb
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Undermine
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To weaken; to sap
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Unerringly
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Infallibility
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Ungainly
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Awkward; clumsy
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Unison
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Complete accord
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Unruly
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Disobedient
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Untenable
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Indefensible
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Upbraid
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To reproach as deserving blame
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Vacillate
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To waver; to fluctuate
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Vagabond
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Wanderer
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Vainglory
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Excessive; pretentious
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Valorous
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Courageous
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Vantage
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Position giving advantage
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Vapid
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Having lost quality and flavor; dull; lifeless
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Variegated
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Many colored
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Vehement
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Forceful
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Venerate
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To look upon with deep respect
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Veracious
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Truthful
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Verbiage
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Use of many words
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Verbose
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Wordy
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Vicissitude
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Change of condition or circumstances, generally of fortune
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Viscous
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Sticky; gluey
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Vituperate
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Overwhelm with wordy abuse
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Vociferous
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Making a loud outcry
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Volatile
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Changeable
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Warranted
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Justified
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Wary
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Very cautious
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Welter
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Turmoil
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Whimsical
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Fanciful
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Whorl
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Ring
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Winsome
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Attractive
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Wreak
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Inflict
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Writhe
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Twist in coils
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Yore
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Time past
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Zealot
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Fanatic
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Zeitgeist
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Intellectual and moral tendencies of any age |
